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  1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

    Ok, hypotetical scenario time, everypony. Let's talk about superpowers. The situation is this: You have ONE superpower, without limitations (please exercise common sense) nor any kind of exhaustion or drawback for using it. You're fighting a war against a country, without an army, just with that one power. Choose one and explain your course of action.

    Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:01:43 UTC from web
    1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

      @nerthos Spontaneous party power.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:02:47 UTC from web
      1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @thelastgherkin And how are you ging to win the war with that?

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:03:33 UTC from web
        1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

          @nerthos With Pinkie Pie powers you can sing songs and throw parties and convince the enemy army, soldier by soldier, that they should stop fighting and become a chill dude. You're bound to get to the headquarters sooner or later.

          Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:05:46 UTC from web
    2. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

      @greydragon412 Lol.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:04:32 UTC from web
    3. Firestorm Firestorm

      @greydragon412 # !Daring_Doo

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:05:36 UTC from web
    4. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

      @greydragon412 Meh, the problem are complex security devices, like heat detection.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:06:11 UTC from web
    5. A Big Pony A Big Pony

      @nerthos i would be Diplomacy Man and would find a rational way out of the war without violence.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:06:34 UTC from MuSTArDroid
      1. Firestorm Firestorm

        @abigpony And in doing so, cause the war in the first place.

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:08:11 UTC from web
        1. A Big Pony A Big Pony

          @firestormdangerdash you don't seem to realize how good diplomacy works.

          Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:36:47 UTC from MuSTArDroid
          1. Firestorm Firestorm

            @abigpony I tried diplomacy on a five year old once. They ended up with my wallet.

            Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:38:19 UTC from web
            1. A Big Pony A Big Pony

              @firestormdangerdash there's your problem.

              Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:39:25 UTC from MuSTArDroid
      2. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @abigpony Hmm... an interesting choice xD

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:10:17 UTC from web
    6. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

      @greydragon412 The steaks are high.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:09:23 UTC from web
    7. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

      @nerthos I personally would choose teleportation. Not of myself, but of things surrounding me. I would just teleport any attack against me to the enemy country. Due to my poor knowledge of geography, and the difficulty of aiming in seconds with only the mind, I wouldn't be able to target specific locations. Bullets and such wouldn't really be a problem to neither of the parties, but an ICBM or other weapon of mass destruction... Well let's just say it could either hit a desert or a main city. Eventually the country would surrender because of the massive loss of resources and civilians.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:09:27 UTC from web
    8. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

      @greydragon412 Yeah, sure xD

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:09:53 UTC from web
    9. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

      @nerthos Time Travel. Go back in time and painstakingly guide the evolution of the rival power in such a way that they are no longer my enemies.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:13:02 UTC from web
      1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @ceruleanspark Okay, that's a good idea. I wouldn't risk time travel, though, because a change could end up causing harm to my side too, or to my very existance. For example erasing crime would backfire on me because I wouldn't met my best friend without thieves.

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:15:11 UTC from web
        1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

          @nerthos You said no drawbacks, so I assumed paradoxes would be self-resolving.

          Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:16:09 UTC from web
          1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

            @ceruleanspark Yeah, true. You would control the flow of time in such a way that it would only affect your objective.

            Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:17:07 UTC from web
    10. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

      @nerthos I think we all know my power would be transforming others into living plushies.

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:13:47 UTC from web
      1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

        @toksyuryel You're taking the whole plushie thing to a... weird level.

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:15:37 UTC from web
        1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

          @thelastgherkin You haven't been paying enough attention if you think it wasn't at that level from the very beginning.

          Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:16:42 UTC from web
          1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

            @toksyuryel These two things are related.

            Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:18:10 UTC from web
            1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

              @thelastgherkin I've been like this since before ponies, and I've been very open about it here whenever the subject came up.

              Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:20:20 UTC from web
      2. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @toksyuryel Not really original, but oh well.

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:16:13 UTC from web
        1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

          @nerthos It's what defines me, and is a genuine goal I have for my life. I sincerely believe the science to make it possible will exist in my lifetime.

          Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:18:06 UTC from web
          1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

            @toksyuryel I think of all the mentioned options, yours is the most outright evil of them. Obliterating the senitence of any enemy, turning it into an inanimate object.

            Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:19:38 UTC from web
            1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

              @nerthos I never said they would be inanimate. In fact I specified "living".

              Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:25:15 UTC from web
              1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                @toksyuryel Oh, didn't see it. Still, how would that be possible? Plush cannot sustain life.

                Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:25:59 UTC from web
                1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                  @nerthos I believe it can, and that the technology which makes it possible will exist sooner rather than later. As to the exact means? Well if I knew that, I'd be in a lab working on it right now instead of posting on RDN.

                  Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:28:43 UTC from web
                  1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                    @toksyuryel Theory and technology are unrelated most of the time, that's the reason why I cannot regenerate completely nor live indefinitely, even having developed working theories about such things, because there's no way today's technology could even get close to what I need to implement those changes.

                    Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:30:48 UTC from web
                    1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                      @nerthos How can you say they're working theories if you can't test them? All you have is a hypothesis until then.

                      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:33:12 UTC from web
                      1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                        @toksyuryel They work in a theorical enviorment. But there's no way modern medicine could modify a body in such a way without killing it.

                        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:34:14 UTC from web
                      2. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                        @toksyuryel Basically every single cell in the body must be modified at the same time to override regeneration codes, as a first step.

                        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:35:46 UTC from web
                  2. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

                    @toksyuryel Just explain to me how the heck that makes physical sense.

                    Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:31:31 UTC from StatusNet Android
                    1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                      @redenchilada Like I said, if I could explain it I'd be *working* on it rather than posting on RDN.

                      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:34:06 UTC from web
          2. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

            @toksyuryel #

            Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:19:55 UTC from StatusNet Android
    11. Cthulhu Fhtagn Cthulhu Fhtagn

      @nerthos My 1st choice: Absolute knowledge. 2nd choice, being able to manipulate time without any consequences on me. For example, I'd stop time for one year to put clown clothes on the ones that try to attack me, and still be 14. It'd be just for the lulz. Imagine that a guy has Coulrophobia. He'd be so scared of himself, he'd commit suicide (?)

      Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:20:55 UTC from web
      1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @cthulhufhtagn Hm. I assume the "dead time" wouldn't affect your body, effectively freezing it's state whilst allowing you to act and record memories of it.

        Tuesday, 28-Aug-12 11:22:27 UTC from web
    12. Matt Matt

      @nerthos Invincibility because I can walk in and beat up their leader

      Tuesday, 19-Mar-13 01:08:29 UTC from web
      1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

        @mariotra The problem with invincibility is that dropping molten lead on top of you and throwing the newly made statue into a river would effectively keep you imprisoned forever. I see somebody has been redashing old posts.

        Tuesday, 19-Mar-13 01:55:49 UTC from web