Super powers

"If you had a super power, what would it be?"

It is a question that is repeated many times, but when you really think about it, you find that that people generally fall into three camps:

1) Invisibility (or, I can see girlz nekkid)
2) Flying
3) Time Travel/Manipulation

Personally, I think if you choose invisibility, you are just a perv. (note: I'd prolly choose it).

If you choose flying, you are just throwing your super power away. You can already fly you idiot! Just have to be in an airplane. That'd be like saying 'I'd like to be able to move at speeds approaching 60 miles per hour'. Duh, get a car.

Also, flying is impractical. You couldn't fly very high...you'd pass out from oxygen deprivation. If you went too fast, the g-forces involved could tear your fragile human body up. You'd have to constantly deal with outdoor weather, and you'd probably get a bird and/or insects slamming into your face all the time.

Screw that, flying is a dumb choice.

Time travel is an interesting choice, but you basically couldn't go backward, for fear of doing all the bad things you see in time travel movies. Which leaves your only option going FORWARD in time, which would kind of suck because...what if the future sucked? Say you go 100 years in the future...everybody you know is dead. Maybe you could visit your great grandchildren or something, but they aren't going to know you, nor are they going to believe that you are a time traveling dude from the past. They will just laugh and blast you with their Omega-43 handheld proto-cannons.

So basically picking time travel is only for people that want to commit suicide by proto-cannon.

No, my pick for a super power is simple: I want a cheat code that gives me unlimited ammunition, weapons, health, armor, and lives. But for real life.

Up up down down left right left right B A Select Start.

I could sell the weapons/ammo/armor for a living. With unlimited supply, I'd be rich in no time.

I'd live forever. And even if I didn't, I'd just instantly 1up on death.

I can't perceive any downsides. If I finally got bored with my eternal life, I could just flip the power switch and my game is over. Or just hit reset and try again without the code. Though honestly, I'd probably get fed up and just enter the code again. I think life has limited replay value, with a few exceptions.

I'm not going to do a silly blog-person type thing and ask that you comment with your preferred super power. I'm going to do the opposite. What is the stupidest super power you can think of, depicted in television or film?

Here is a list to choose from.

Comments

2 Responses to "Super powers"

Jac said... January 5, 2010 at 7:44 PM

This: Body part substitution
Ability to replace one's limbs or other body parts with those of another.

I mean...wtf??

I'd take telekenesis everytime.

Unknown said... January 6, 2010 at 8:53 AM

This is what you post to keep yourself awake at work...
You are such a geek.
;)

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