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Today: a short yap about computer hardware:
Damn I love the AM4 socket its so upgradable yay, bought a Ryzen 9 5900X for our old desktop soon to be homelab and so excited for it.
Computers are fun! (and expensive)
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What standard superpower would you want? You’re all trans or questioning, you all get shape shifting by default so we’ll put that aside so we can give the other super powers a chance
Just noticed we all failed this task because “standard superpower” could also be meant in a geopolitical sense and none of us picked the USSR.
Probably something flashy like being a flying brick (heh), or telepathy/telekinesis (obviously too different powers but very often bundled together).
But Cypher’s ability to understand and speak all languages (including body and coding) would be pretty, just travelling talking to people. Also working to preserve dying languages etc. Also would combine well with shape shifting too I guess for infiltration.
gravitational stuff. i guess it would let me fly, but mainly i just wanna float in a position that’s maximally comfortable for my sore body, and casually place my laptop and drink and stuff in the air beside me.
I will protect those who cannot protect themselves
Does shapeshifting include into inorganic materials? If not, I’d want moddable / interchangable cybernetic limbs.
Otherwise, I’d want that thing that… I think it’s Taskmaster that does it? Being able to replicate technique just by observing it.
I think I’m gonna go with not needing sleep, like I’m just perpetually well-rested even if I haven’t had any shuteye in eight years, and all the physiological and psychological effects of sleep deprivation are gone.
I think this power would ideally include the ability to fall asleep on command just to pass time, though, and not needing to see natural sunlight to stay mentally well, otherwise it would probably just be torture.
save states would be sick and would save me so many miscommunications. but tbh i wouldn’t be able to avoid save scumming my entire life
boring cheat answer: reality warping
Like haruhi suzumiya, gotta keep you entertained so you don’t unmake the world out of boredom
too late, i’m turning everyone’s blood into LSD
Mind control
Upside: perfect mind control
Downside: of only your own mind
(still pretty dope though)
Tbh that would already be life changing for me lol
So, fast-working Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
If we’re talking generic superpowers, telekinesis. It’s got near infinite utility.
A nonstandard power that I’ve often thought about having though is an 8th day of the week. It exists for nobody else but me and the people I let into it. Everyone else ceases to exist for the duration, but I’d be able to interact with anything I want in the world as I please. I’d be able to pull off alot of crazy shit.
Move some shit on the day and it stays moved on the next?
Could do some ghost pranks.
Well uh, you see. It would essentially make all security meaningless.
Would you age 8/7 times as fast as everyone else? Or is it a pause on aging too?
Pause on aging
trash cat communication
(also extends to skunks, foxes, crows, rats, keas and bears, basically any critter that will loot your trash can for snacks)
I talk to the ravens and crow all the time, I got a half decent gutteral caw. At least I thought I did until I swear to god they started mocking my caws back to me
Teleportation sounds fun.
I wanna bamf all over the place.
Bzap
all my friends are online and scattered all over the globe so… teleportation
that and like, super hacking and shit
One of these days I’m gonna run a worm ttrpg for my friends (as in the really long web serial worm by noted homophobe wildbow), I’m definitely gonna have a self insert character who’s a tinker that only works with tech other people have kind of abandoned or moved past. Like, instead of usb ports, all her shit connects with scsi and vga, her networks all use token ring, prolly owns a lisp machine, has her own versions of dos and os/2. That kind of shit.
I like the mage ttrpg Virtual Adepts who more or less hack literal reality to cast spells, including like fireball (they aren’t so good at that aspect though)