• Bwaz@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 小时前

    I guess I choose Denmark or maybe Portugal. Having USA and Russia being superpowers has been real shit.

      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
        11·
        12 小时前

        Haha imagine trying to explain that to people.

        “I have a superpower, I can speak to animals they just can’t speak back”

        “But everyone has that superpower, I can do that too”

        “Yeh but I’m actually really talking to them, like in their language that they can understand”

        “How do you know?”

        “…”

        • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
          5·
          16 小时前

          I mean, you can ask an animal to do some arbitrary action specified by the other person, and then the animal (hopefully) does it. This side effect isn’t great, but it definitely still leaves some real usefulness.

          Telling my dog as I go to the garage, “I’ll be back in literally one minute.” and being understood would rock.

          • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
            11·
            15 小时前

            But the thing is, if they do the thing you asked in a way where it’s noticeable that they only did it because you asked, then they are signalling to you that they understood, which is a form of communication and the word used was “communicate” with animals.

            • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
              4·
              14 小时前

              First, the use of “communicate” in the original superpower description is presumably referring to communication that couldn’t happen without the power - and the side effect uses the same term. As it stands, my dog can tell me she understands I intend to walk her by jumping off the back of the couch and being excited at the door.

              So if the superpower only refers to novel communication, I’d interpret that to mean anything more than I could reasonably communicate to my dog, and more than she could communicate to me (confirmation of understanding).

              If the side effect, despite using the same verb, actually renders animals LESS able to communicate with me than they already can, that seems an especially uncharitable interpretation.

              Alternatively, I can ask the animal to wait until I was out of the room before performing the action for the third party. At that point, only that third party would end up communicating having seen the comprehension/performance.

                • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
                  1·
                  11 小时前

                  I appreciate the sentiment, but probably not. The genie would just scoff af my argument and say nothing was guaranteed to be “fair” about the situation. My only saving grace in talking about it here is that fellow humans are more likely to share a similar base point for reasoning.

      • laranis@lemmy.zip
        4·
        10 小时前

        Do I know the song automatically? Or like, do I have to defeat someone in single combat to get to learn the song?

        • benagain@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          9 小时前

          “Oh, and a chocolate croissant, please, thanks! … and uh, I’m so incredibly sorry about last time,”

      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
        3·
        16 小时前

        Thankfully my people know how big a nerd I am, so I actually have been gifted an ocarina. I’m ready. Now, what’s the song for my doctor’s office, again?

        • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          24 小时前

          1 at a time wouldn’t get you a noticeable amount of energy for a bomb (stuff is radioactively decaying around you already right now). A scientist might make some use of it, but with control of only 1 atom at a time they’ll struggle to build really any molecule as I imagine most intermediate molecules would break apart as soon as you “let go” to grab the next atom.

          • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
            4·
            24 小时前

            Depends on what “time” is in case of one at a time. Is it plank time, or is it as fast as I can think the command.

            Even if nothing can be achieved by controlling it, just being able to feel/see the atoms means I can figure things out as a scientist. Finding how atoms are arranged into molecules, proteins etc are super helpful

            • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              18 小时前

              I assumed as fast as you can think the command for each one.

              I agree with feeling being useful for feeling around; I’m happy with the power having some value.

              • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
                1·
                7 小时前

                I had an idea I wonder if the energy thing can be salvaged. Like uranium to lead happens naturally and the energy is too little from a single atom. But we don’t have to do things naturally. If I’m controlling the atom itself, maybe I can just split all protons and neutrons from the uranium at once, then I have a bunch of free particles that can go collide with other atoms and start a chain reaction.

                I think most powers, even with limitations, probably is going to be useful once we know the clear limits. Maybe not the one that need so much energy and the results are random so you can fail and not be able to try again.

      • Coriza@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 天前

        When I first started playing Ragnarok Online, there was this one item, aí believe it was something like bat wings, that was really valuable and when you used you would teleport to a random place in the same map/sections. I thought it was a shit item, but soon enough I understood that its power was to run away from problems when you are low on health.

        So I think it still is a good power.

      • benagain@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        2 天前

        Random place WITHOUT obstacle detection or height limit makes this risssky… 😆

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            15 小时前

            I think the odds of ending up within sight of the earth are basically 0. The universe is a big place.

            • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
              2·
              15 小时前

              Depends on the range. If 10 feet, you’d survive most falls, but still bury yourself a portion of the time. 100 feet, probably dead. 200 thousand miles? Space sucks without an appropriate suit.

                • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
                  1·
                  11 小时前

                  Please elaborate, because there’s a at least a couple different things you could be referring to, and I’d rather not write something out on the wrong topic :)