Because of the availability of internet porn, I'd imagine people who peep do it for the thrill of it. There's zero thrill if you can if you have it on tap.
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2. In the DC universe, there's all sorts of different storylines such as the Russian version of Superman which has a different origin story.
Oh yeah, forgot about Red Son, or even Son of Darkseid and Speeding Bullets Superman. If we're going by the "nurture" argument for his goodness, then everyone in this thread is pretty much going to do what they want, and I believe that will inevitably end in insanity for the average person from having all that power.
I wouldn't want to have a "very realistic, nit-picking into details" conversation of this. Try to keep it simple: you are Superman-powerful (let's say as powerful as the newest movie or Justice League cartoon series) and you get no specific inherent or special weaknesses (yes, you would have sex just fine if you want). If you think you would end up being despot, then crazy or evil, that's an answer for my question.
So we get all the powers of a "realistic" version of Superman without the drawbacks?
Sweet!
As for what I would personally do after acquiring his powers...
Well to be honest, I'd be stumped.
Since I don't want to go insane from using it for my personal ends, I'd probably go online on a forum like this one and make an anonymous thread asking regular people what they would hypothetically do with Superman's powers. Then I would take their best suggestions, note down what I would probably have to watch out for, and then decide on what to do with them from there.
I participate yearly in a survival challenge in which I am dropped off in the wilderness with 1 days rations, a knife, and no other supplies, and have to find my way home. This is typically several weeks hiking from civilization.
I have personally killed several bears in the course of this challenge, with the use of snares and other traps.
Because of the availability of internet porn, I'd imagine people who peep do it for the thrill of it. There's zero thrill if you can if you have it on tap.
To be honest, I wouldn't use my powers entirely for good, and this is one of the things I'd probably end up doing at least once. It just wasn't a focus or something that occurred to me when first given SUPERPOWERS.
To be honest, I wouldn't use my powers entirely for good, and this is one of the things I'd probably end up doing at least once. It just wasn't a focus or something that occurred to me when first given SUPERPOWERS.
It's actually not that great.
If you look at girls chests, unless they aren't wearing a bra, they look nothing like naked boobs, and the sheer difference in forces on it makes you be able to guess the size (same as if they were wearing a tight shirt) but squished boobs don't look great and x ray vision gives you the outline not the color.
If you look at their butt then you see a weird underwear line depending on which they are wearing, but yeah, the squished representation is also not accurate.
For the front in male, same as bras, but for female, this is the closest to the real one, but again, depending if they wear tight stuff and if they aren't skinny, there are deformations.
What you want to do is look into an X-Ray machine. It looks really fuzzy but screws up their readings soooo much lmao!
One thing I know I'd do for sure is go to the equator and fly west at the same rate that the earth spins so I could watch a 24 sunset. I think that would be amazing. I'd also get good at photography and take amazing pictures that no one else can. I'd also go to NASA and ask them what they want me to check out in our solar system.
It depends on where you draw the line on his powers. Lets say its based on the new movie then yeah i would try to be an overly good person.
BUT.
If it was like from the older movies where he could rewind time, then i would obviously use that to my personal benefit. You would make all outcomes to best suit your needs. lottery etc.
On X-Ray vision abuse: I think this depends on the writer. Some give superman X-Ray vision, others actually give him infared vision, others allow him to see any layer he wants to see, and others still give him all of the above, including the ability to see things on the microscopic level and all levels of the energy spectrum.
Assuming you'd have something similar to the third one (the ability to see any layer you want), then there's no such thing as privacy around you anymore. If it's X-Ray or infared, it's certainly useful for detecting movement or fractures, but not very interesting, unless you're into bones or heat signatures. The microscopic one could be potentially gross unless you really like looking at viruses and bacteria.
Since we're going the "Man of Steel" route, I'm assuming the we're using the "layers" version of X-Ray vision, as detailed in this blog (may have spoilers).
I participate yearly in a survival challenge in which I am dropped off in the wilderness with 1 days rations, a knife, and no other supplies, and have to find my way home. This is typically several weeks hiking from civilization.
I have personally killed several bears in the course of this challenge, with the use of snares and other traps.
I'd want to set up some kind of system that people could use to request my services (like NASA to check out life on Europa, or whatever), but I just know that would get completely innundated and I'd feel bad about not being able to fill all the requests. Having the ability to do anything, I'd probably be paralyzed into doing a lot closer to nothing. Frustrated, I disengage and become an observer.
If I did try to help, I'd eventually run afoul of the law or the best interests of some country or other. I imagine resentment towards me would build over time and I would eventually resent everyone right back (after trying unsuccessfully to explain my point of view a few times). So we end up with me self-exiling again - and perhaps not even really considering myself human at this point.
I have no desire to rule the world, so that's right out. If I were to resort to force to change anything in global policy, I'd be branded an ecoterrorist. So really, my best bet here is to follow Captain Morgan's suggestion and just act as a giant battery to power the world. Pretty crappy way to live and not something I could sustain for long.
So ultimately, use of my powers ends with me disengaging from the world and becoming an explorer for my own curiosities. Assuming I thought it through before going public, I'd probably just hide them completely, for use only in emergencies to protect myself or people close to me (and maybe occasionally in the middle of the night to go check something cool out ;)).
I would restructure the financial sector of the government and our public school systems simply by persuasion after exposing my nature. In addition, I would turn my powers into profit. There is no reason for me not to do so. That said, I suppose I wouldn't really have a secret identity.
Edit: Though it would be amusing to fly around and do what I do in a morph suit.
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I would restructure the financial sector of the government and our public school systems simply by persuasion after exposing my nature. In addition, I would turn my powers into profit. There is no reason for me not to do so. That said, I suppose I wouldn't really have a secret identity.
Beat me to it.
I would first invite individual news sources not aligned with corporate media to record me disabling, disposing of, and otherwise annihilating all medium to large scale weapons.
Then take everyone in power who is corrupt - let us give it three months of super vision to determine who really is corrupt and probably while doing the above weapon destroying - and collect them in chains in a globally televised public place and allow society to determine their punishment. I would carry out that punishment.
Then I would insert myself as a global dictator and eradicate individual government. I would dictate that all former military budget be divided between education and scientific research for the betterment of humanity. Put into place humanistic and scientific leaders. Let's get to work on lab-grown food sources to end world hunger, 'free' energy, interstellar space flight, and terraforming technologies that would allow the human race to rejuvenate this planet short term and spread between galaxies long term. I'm not saying we aren't working on it now, but consider the difference in speed of development if you took half of the Wikipedia estimated military budget over the top 15 countries in the amount of 1.753 trillion dollars and immediately dumped it into scientific study. Then eliminated the cost of material by providing access to exotic resources on a massive scale from off world sources through the use of my super powers.
What is the other half of that 1.753 trillion dollar doing? Education, disease treatment, and nourishment for every child on earth. Divide the resources up by population as opposed to by originating country. Just as soon as you started making real strides in scientific development, an entire generation of brilliant thinkers with real education emerge into the workforce globally. Think of the advancements we could make then. Add to that an elimination of borders so young people with a mind for (just one example) genetic manipulation can traverse the globe without bureaucratic bull**** and start working in labs designed for their field. Kids that were born to starvation or war in 'third world' countries being educated and nourished as if they were born of the same background as current Harvard graduates within 3 years of my suddenly emergent super powers.
Let's not forget that if you provide the world with high speed internet access, you don't need trained educators everywhere. You can use existing educators that have a track record of creating brilliant minds to allow the entire world's youth access to similar tools and training by way of internet streaming of lectures, computer graded assignments, etc.
We would also need some sort of interstellar communication (maybe lasers?) so I could travel outside of our solar system to find new planets that we could terraform once the technology was there but still be able to communicate with earth. Maybe even install terraforming robots, once they exist, on the planets without existing life that I find in the goldilocks zone that have liquid water. That way the ground work was laid for interstellar flight once technology caught up without the need of scouting missions which would give us a few more generations of technological development and a plethora of places for an undoubtedly expanding population before we become a truly intergalactic species.
Once the ball is rolling and successful advancements start emerging in a fraction of the time frame we currently experience; as well as an end to hunger, war, and oppression; I would like to think the world would quickly fall into place as a global society of humans no longer divided by religion, race, geographic location, or economic means.
Eventually I will become obsolete as a dictator and be able to explore the cosmos freely, which is the ultimate goal, but without having to worry about my species eradicating itself through wars over resources and religion.
Because of the availability of internet porn, I'd imagine people who peep do it for the thrill of it. There's zero thrill if you can if you have it on tap.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Oh yeah, forgot about Red Son, or even Son of Darkseid and Speeding Bullets Superman. If we're going by the "nurture" argument for his goodness, then everyone in this thread is pretty much going to do what they want, and I believe that will inevitably end in insanity for the average person from having all that power.
So we get all the powers of a "realistic" version of Superman without the drawbacks?
Sweet!
As for what I would personally do after acquiring his powers...
Well to be honest, I'd be stumped.
Since I don't want to go insane from using it for my personal ends, I'd probably go online on a forum like this one and make an anonymous thread asking regular people what they would hypothetically do with Superman's powers. Then I would take their best suggestions, note down what I would probably have to watch out for, and then decide on what to do with them from there.
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How well do you do against one?
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To be honest, I wouldn't use my powers entirely for good, and this is one of the things I'd probably end up doing at least once. It just wasn't a focus or something that occurred to me when first given SUPERPOWERS.
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It's actually not that great.
If you look at girls chests, unless they aren't wearing a bra, they look nothing like naked boobs, and the sheer difference in forces on it makes you be able to guess the size (same as if they were wearing a tight shirt) but squished boobs don't look great and x ray vision gives you the outline not the color.
If you look at their butt then you see a weird underwear line depending on which they are wearing, but yeah, the squished representation is also not accurate.
For the front in male, same as bras, but for female, this is the closest to the real one, but again, depending if they wear tight stuff and if they aren't skinny, there are deformations.
What you want to do is look into an X-Ray machine. It looks really fuzzy but screws up their readings soooo much lmao!
Source: I have x-ray vision.
BUT.
If it was like from the older movies where he could rewind time, then i would obviously use that to my personal benefit. You would make all outcomes to best suit your needs. lottery etc.
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Assuming you'd have something similar to the third one (the ability to see any layer you want), then there's no such thing as privacy around you anymore. If it's X-Ray or infared, it's certainly useful for detecting movement or fractures, but not very interesting, unless you're into bones or heat signatures. The microscopic one could be potentially gross unless you really like looking at viruses and bacteria.
Since we're going the "Man of Steel" route, I'm assuming the we're using the "layers" version of X-Ray vision, as detailed in this blog (may have spoilers).
How well do you do against one?
I'd want to set up some kind of system that people could use to request my services (like NASA to check out life on Europa, or whatever), but I just know that would get completely innundated and I'd feel bad about not being able to fill all the requests. Having the ability to do anything, I'd probably be paralyzed into doing a lot closer to nothing. Frustrated, I disengage and become an observer.
If I did try to help, I'd eventually run afoul of the law or the best interests of some country or other. I imagine resentment towards me would build over time and I would eventually resent everyone right back (after trying unsuccessfully to explain my point of view a few times). So we end up with me self-exiling again - and perhaps not even really considering myself human at this point.
I have no desire to rule the world, so that's right out. If I were to resort to force to change anything in global policy, I'd be branded an ecoterrorist. So really, my best bet here is to follow Captain Morgan's suggestion and just act as a giant battery to power the world. Pretty crappy way to live and not something I could sustain for long.
So ultimately, use of my powers ends with me disengaging from the world and becoming an explorer for my own curiosities. Assuming I thought it through before going public, I'd probably just hide them completely, for use only in emergencies to protect myself or people close to me (and maybe occasionally in the middle of the night to go check something cool out ;)).
Edit: Though it would be amusing to fly around and do what I do in a morph suit.
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Beat me to it.
Then take everyone in power who is corrupt - let us give it three months of super vision to determine who really is corrupt and probably while doing the above weapon destroying - and collect them in chains in a globally televised public place and allow society to determine their punishment. I would carry out that punishment.
Then I would insert myself as a global dictator and eradicate individual government. I would dictate that all former military budget be divided between education and scientific research for the betterment of humanity. Put into place humanistic and scientific leaders. Let's get to work on lab-grown food sources to end world hunger, 'free' energy, interstellar space flight, and terraforming technologies that would allow the human race to rejuvenate this planet short term and spread between galaxies long term. I'm not saying we aren't working on it now, but consider the difference in speed of development if you took half of the Wikipedia estimated military budget over the top 15 countries in the amount of 1.753 trillion dollars and immediately dumped it into scientific study. Then eliminated the cost of material by providing access to exotic resources on a massive scale from off world sources through the use of my super powers.
What is the other half of that 1.753 trillion dollar doing? Education, disease treatment, and nourishment for every child on earth. Divide the resources up by population as opposed to by originating country. Just as soon as you started making real strides in scientific development, an entire generation of brilliant thinkers with real education emerge into the workforce globally. Think of the advancements we could make then. Add to that an elimination of borders so young people with a mind for (just one example) genetic manipulation can traverse the globe without bureaucratic bull**** and start working in labs designed for their field. Kids that were born to starvation or war in 'third world' countries being educated and nourished as if they were born of the same background as current Harvard graduates within 3 years of my suddenly emergent super powers.
Let's not forget that if you provide the world with high speed internet access, you don't need trained educators everywhere. You can use existing educators that have a track record of creating brilliant minds to allow the entire world's youth access to similar tools and training by way of internet streaming of lectures, computer graded assignments, etc.
We would also need some sort of interstellar communication (maybe lasers?) so I could travel outside of our solar system to find new planets that we could terraform once the technology was there but still be able to communicate with earth. Maybe even install terraforming robots, once they exist, on the planets without existing life that I find in the goldilocks zone that have liquid water. That way the ground work was laid for interstellar flight once technology caught up without the need of scouting missions which would give us a few more generations of technological development and a plethora of places for an undoubtedly expanding population before we become a truly intergalactic species.
Once the ball is rolling and successful advancements start emerging in a fraction of the time frame we currently experience; as well as an end to hunger, war, and oppression; I would like to think the world would quickly fall into place as a global society of humans no longer divided by religion, race, geographic location, or economic means.
Eventually I will become obsolete as a dictator and be able to explore the cosmos freely, which is the ultimate goal, but without having to worry about my species eradicating itself through wars over resources and religion.
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