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Nepsotic 04-13-2013 02:30 PM

It's not exactly multiverse travel, though, is it?

Running low on cash? Grab some from an alternate you.
Want some more of your favourite salty snack? Alternate universe. Also ponies.

It's the ultimate power. Want immortality? Well, I'm sure there's a universe out there that can make you immortal.
It's basically the "If you had one wish, wish for infinite wishes" of superpowers.

Mr. Bungle 04-13-2013 02:39 PM

That seems like way too much of a hassle. I'd rather just sit in my living room and duplicate shit with my brain than travelling through the fabrics of reality.


...as cool as that sounds.

Oddey 04-13-2013 03:14 PM

Actually, if you could hop through other realities, how would you be able to find the right reality to jump to, besides trial and error? Would they all be laid out in a nice easily sorted out pattern? Or would they all just be in a huge line, and you'd have to guess which one had what you were after?

Wings of Fire 04-13-2013 03:17 PM

If you're going to ask about the mechanics of a single superpower then a million more questions spring themselves into existence.

Just assume 'It works. Deal with it.'

Varrok 04-13-2013 03:35 PM

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Need some quick cash? Dupe some twentys.
That'll result in larger inflation and will piss people off
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Running low on beer? Dupe 'em.
Your liver would end really poor
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Want more of your favourite salty snack but are running low?
Actually, much salt is unhealthy too

MeechMunchie 04-13-2013 04:19 PM

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Need some quick cash? Dupe some twentys. Running low on beer? Dupe 'em. Want more of your favourite salty snack but are running low? Well, sir, you can dupe that.

Oh, I thought you meant duplication in the "Perform a twenty-man bank heist... on your own" sense.

Mr. Bungle 04-13-2013 04:22 PM

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That'll result in larger inflation and will piss people off
Well I'd do it with subtlety, of course. It'd be my own personal, secret power.

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Oh, I thought you meant duplication in the "Perform a twenty-man bank heist... on your own" sense.
Nah, that would cause way too many complications. Twenty me's would be a horrible idea, we'd all end up dead, guaranteed. I'm talking duplication of any physical item you can find.

MA 04-13-2013 05:30 PM

the ability to learn at lightening speed and soak up all information perfectly without ever forgetting it. that would mean i could read/listen/watch how to do something, then do it successfully first time, every time. with everything. in other words, the ability to do everything i know perfectly and competently every single time, never forget how to do so and only ever have to learn anything once.

MeechMunchie 04-13-2013 05:37 PM

I'd like to be able to play any song on any instrument... as long as the song originated in a video game.

Jordan 04-13-2013 05:52 PM

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Duplication, guys. Think about it.

Need some quick cash? Dupe some twentys. Running low on beer? Dupe 'em. Want more of your favourite salty snack but are running low? Well, sir, you can dupe that.

You could even end world hunter. Think of the possibilities!

as cool as this is, i probably wouldn't like to have it. i sort of see it as an easy way to become successful, and could easily be abused if you got out of control. i'd still like to be able to live a normal life while still being able to do cool shit that doesn't give you a massive advantage. i suppose you could say that about any super power i guess.

Nate 04-14-2013 03:12 AM

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Maybe if there was like, a hibernate for a few hundred years function, so you could just catch some Zs during the boring parts.

Yeah, but what about when humanity evolves in to something dissimilar to yourself? Or when humanity is wiped out, leaving you on a bare rock to entertain yourself for the billions of years until the sun explodes, leaving you floating out in space for several more billions of years until the universe rips itself apart?

MA 04-14-2013 06:12 AM

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Yeah, but what about when humanity evolves in to something dissimilar to yourself? Or when humanity is wiped out, leaving you on a bare rock to entertain yourself for the billions of years until the sun explodes, leaving you floating out in space for several more billions of years until the universe rips itself apart?

Sudoku? helps pass the time.

WolfensteinOdess 04-14-2013 11:18 AM

Fly

Bullet Magnet 04-14-2013 11:30 AM

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I think if it's all the same to you guys I might just choose to spit acid. Shapeshifting is simply more trouble than it's worth.

Good luck with those cavities.

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It's not exactly multiverse travel, though, is it?

Running low on cash? Grab some from an alternate you.
Want some more of your favourite salty snack? Alternate universe. Also ponies.

It's the ultimate power. Want immortality? Well, I'm sure there's a universe out there that can make you immortal.
It's basically the "If you had one wish, wish for infinite wishes" of superpowers.

Firstly, you might expect that alternate you would use his own multiverse jumping to come beat you up.

Secondly, depending on the number of universes, you would expect this to have happened already anyway.

Nepsotic 04-14-2013 12:52 PM

It's the multiverse, simply steal money from a you who doesn't have multiverse travel.

Mac Sirloin 04-15-2013 12:08 PM

My problem with duplication is that if I had a dream where I decided to make a hundredthousandmillionbilliontrilliongazillion hamburgers, but did so in real life it would create a gravity well and peel the skin right off the universe.

MeechMunchie 04-15-2013 03:49 PM

Just duplicate another universe

Nepsotic 04-15-2013 10:34 PM

You won't be able to travel to it, though.

Crashpunk 04-16-2013 01:04 AM

The ability to Teleport to any place, as long you obviously know where it is. I might of said that just because I'm sick of using the bus.

Phylum 04-16-2013 01:20 AM

Try living in Adelaide.

If I had a superpower it would be the ability to make buses, if not all public transport, run on time at will.

MeechMunchie 04-16-2013 11:27 AM

Would that include the ability to delay services and make people you don't like late?

Or take some of the tension out of that last-minute airport dash.

Varrok 04-16-2013 11:33 AM

I've always wanted to be able to lick my own elbow

DarkHoodness 04-16-2013 11:37 AM

Dislocate your shoulder.

Nepsotic 04-16-2013 12:18 PM

Or your head.

MeechMunchie 04-16-2013 12:25 PM

Cut off your arm.

STM 04-16-2013 01:45 PM

Remove some ribs. It won't help you lick your arm but I need some ribs for something...

Vyrien 04-16-2013 01:56 PM

Ribs for his pleasure.

Wings of Fire 04-16-2013 02:02 PM

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Remove some ribs. It won't help you lick your arm but I need some ribs for something...

You want to make a woman in Varrock's image?

Varrok 04-16-2013 02:06 PM

Doesn't everybody?

Wings of Fire 04-16-2013 02:16 PM

No.