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[Enzo]

So: If you had to pick a theme/motif for all your powers to be focused around, what would it be? Assume that if you can't justify a power via maotif association (ie. sand manipulation could give you shape-shifting and invulnerability but not super speed) I'd choose electricity, though I'd want it to be blue-tinted rather than yellow. Bundled up with the whole lightning bolt shooting stuff I could get flight out of that as well, or maybe boosted-jumps. And contact damage.

Smoke. Intangibility, flight, obfuscation, suffocation, and a thematic excuse to smoke cigars and look totally badass at all times.

As for a singular superpower, Healing Factor. I could skydive without a parachute and wrestle sharks and all sorts of cool shit. It's not like I'd be out there fighting Nuclear Man or anything. I just want to know what it feels like to streak a sports event on fire.

Actually, that sort of brings this derail FULL CIRCLE. If you had an improbable superpower, would it be YOUR DUTY to use it to help people? With great power, and all that.

[Retro]

Actually, that sort of brings this derail FULL CIRCLE. If you had an improbable superpower, would it be YOUR DUTY to use it to help people? With great power, and all that.

Wow. I can't believe we came this far.

If you have a secret identity I guess you can get away with not giving a crap, but superpower use is largely up to the super-powered. If we're talking improbable, I'm reminded of this Shovellor quote from Mystery Men, god bless that movie: "Lucille, God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well."

[MetalSlimeHunt]

But that would mean....holy shit....

We derailed this thread so hard that we swung around the Earth and ended up on the rails!

[RAM]

Hypothetical situation.

Let's say that we have a surgeon. The best surgeon in the world. Good enough that his being at work every day unquestionably saves lives every day that he's there.

Does this surgeon have the right to the right to take a vacation?
The right to retire?

But what if by *not* doing those things, he'll push himself to exhaustion or a heart attack?

 Do we have an obligation to seslf-sacrifice, even if it's obviously for the greater good? At what point, during a good life, has one earned rest, not having to worry about the world anymore?

To be honest, my philosophy is merely that I am the most important person in the world to me, and I expect the same of everyone else.

I don't think that earning it is relevant, if you want to live in a certain world then you should support it. If the surgeon likes the idea of a world with time off then they should take some time off, but they should also accept that the world's greatest police might be off-duty when all of the surgeons children have been kidnapped and shouldn't begrudge them for it. Just as they should accept that the GDP will fall as the rest of the population is taking time-off. If, on the other hand, the surgeon feels that the best possible resources should always be available, for the right customer, then they should accept the implications of that too. Of course, life will never be fair, desire will always outweigh resources, so your goals are going to have to make sacrifices...

I would be immortal, just sit back and watch the world burn...

[Cheeetar]

I would be immortal, just sit back and watch the world burn...

And then sit there for millions of years because absolutely nothing has happened after everybody killed everybody else.

[HideousBeing]

So: If you had to pick a theme/motif for all your powers to be focused around, what would it be? Assume that if you can't justify a power via maotif association (ie. sand manipulation could give you shape-shifting and invulnerability but not super speed) I'd choose electricity, though I'd want it to be blue-tinted rather than yellow. Bundled up with the whole lightning bolt shooting stuff I could get flight out of that as well, or maybe boosted-jumps. And contact damage.

Smoke. Intangibility, flight, obfuscation, suffocation, and a thematic excuse to smoke cigars and look totally badass at all times.

As for a singular superpower, Healing Factor. I could skydive without a parachute and wrestle sharks and all sorts of cool shit. It's not like I'd be out there fighting Nuclear Man or anything. I just want to know what it feels like to streak a sports event on fire.

Actually, that sort of brings this derail FULL CIRCLE. If you had an improbable superpower, would it be YOUR DUTY to use it to help people? With great power, and all that.

So, like this guy? (one piece)

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[Enzo]

FUCK YEAH.

Smoker is a total badass.

[Josephus]

This thread

It went to a strange place.

[Armok]

I genuinely feel bad about this, because I know   beating up on people makes Toady angry.  But some of these are just too   gob-smackingly outlandish to let go.  I'm only human.

I genuinely feel bad about this, because I know beating up on people makes Toady angry.  But some of these are just too gob-smackingly outlandish to let go.  I'm only human.

I justify it to myself with the concept that Armok's a masochist and gets off to it.

He does bring the worse out in all of us, though.

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Actually, only the first 2 or 3 posts by me in this thread were serius, after that I gave up and have just been messing with you and entertaining you.

Superpower: Omniscience. For every reason imaginable really.

[sonerohi]

Still going with gravity. Because fuck Cthulu's battleship stone (which sounds sweet) if the gravity pulls it down.
Battleship stone.

[ChairmanPoo]

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Actually, only the first 2 or 3 posts by me in this thread were serius, after that I gave up and have just been messing with you and entertaining you.

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[Armok]

It's not trolling, trolling isn't funny, and much less subtle.

[smigenboger]

You still didn't answer any of the questions, so if you aren't trolling, and you don't have an answer to back anything up, you're just a silly goose.

[Pathos]

It's not trolling, trolling isn't funny, and much less subtle.

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I wish I had the superpower to take a really long time answering a simple question, then turning the answer into an extended anecdote/story but everyone would listen and forget what they were doing.
My powers would be provided by a magical fez, smoking jacket and briar pipe.