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If you had to choose one superpower that you could never turn off, what would it be? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Easy: Max out luck. Literally no downsides

[–] Agent641 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

You luckily have an abbreviation in your DNA that means your tellemeres don't shorten. You can't age. You reach 87000 years old. Humans have gone extinct. You are trapped alone on a dead earth. You try to shoot yourself but the gun misfires. You jump off w cliff, but a sudden updraft catches you and you land safely. In this multiverse, luck is now objective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

meh. Id be optimistic that an alien ship would pick me up to experience even more amazing things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I luckily found a way to end myself in that scenario or I luckily never experienced that in the first place and had a wonderful life. Luck very subjective to the person that's why there's no drawbacks to it

[–] brygphilomena 2 points 10 hours ago

I think defining luck could be weird. Is it lucky to not die when I want to? Or lucky to do so in a more humane, less painful or instantaneous way?

[–] LouNeko 1 points 15 hours ago

Luck is not an infinite resource, meaning that when ever you get lucky, somebody else won't. So you'll actively will siphon luck from people around you. Good luck with the loneliness, no pun intended