LIMITATIONS:

  • Flight – Cannot fly faster than 48 kph/30 mph.
  • Speed – Cannot move faster than the speed of sound or run on penetrable surfaces (e.g., water). Super speed is not restricted to running.
  • Telekinesis – Cannot lift more than 2,270 kilograms/5,000 pounds. Cannot use power on your own body.
  • Invisibility – Must be conscious to remain invisible. Your clothes become invisible when you do.
    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      As some that lived where I had to drive everywhere I wanted to go for all my life, then moving to NYC for 5 years and relying on public transportation, I’m not sure which is better, they’re both really fucking annoying.

      Driving: this traffic sucks

      PT: It takes me an hour to go 4 miles every day, assuming the subway is on time and nothing decides to divert itself, or any of the 10 other things that happen on a weekly basis.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    372·
    10 months ago

    Telekinesis is a lot more versatile than people make it out to be. Yeah sure I lift heavy things with mind but also I can

    • nuclear fusion and fission (depending on the amount of force I can inact and its precision)
    • pull air from a room or someone
    • use pinpoint force to shatter and break things
    • fly by lifting something below me (if you want to allow that)
    • compress gasses into a liquid or liquids into a solid, possibly also weather control
    • heat objects by rapidly moving their molecules (if you allow that sort of precision) therefore allowing for combustion as well
    • call lightning by manipulating ions in the atmosphere
    • possible light manipulation and production if you moved electrons up and down energy levels or rapidly heat certain materials
    • hell you could do fire bending if you compress the oxygen and add some sort of powdered fuel then heat it
    • create magnetic fields by compressing and aligning electrons in a substance
    • fucking compress air to make the sharpest blade known to man and use it as a wind shear or just throw telekinesis sharpened metal at people idk
    • you could fuck people up if there is even enough dust in the air, just use telekinesis to hold the dust in place. Guarantee you they can’t beat 22,246N of force, so suddenly all those tiny particles cannot be moved by them.

    Most of these ideas can also be used for strictly non combative purposes but I think if combat when I think of superpowers. With enough understanding of the world around you very subtle manipulations that require very little amounts of force/energy when done rapidly in combination with each other can have drastic effects.

    Telekinesis is an absurd power if you don’t put enough limitations on it

    22,246N is a lot of force if you use it right. Granted I have not done the math on this because I don’t feel like it but I guarantee that some of these would be possible and even 1 would be absurd. I would give a no to nuclear fusion though, probably not that.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      You forgot the best part: grab something when you’re too lazy to get up and get it or after you just sat down and realized that you need something across the room.

    • GCanuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Jesus. You said angry. /s

      And here I was just going to use telekinesis to manipulate the ball in a game of roulette.

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        I’m a physics major and my passion for it started from overanalyzing superpowers. I was always super frustrated by how underutilized telekinesis was.

        There was this book when I was a kid called quantum league that looking back was just pretty ok and not super scientifically perfect but it placed the idea of using telekinesis in an atomic sense. I don’t think it ever got a sequel because I remember being frustrated that it clearly left on a cliff hanger and I’d check every year only to be disappointed.

        I just checked and it still doesn’t have a sequel

        • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Do you have any other book recommendations? Although I dislike the trope of the application of actual scientific knowledge, as characters get very OP very quickly, I love seeing characters using yhe scientific method to figure out what they can or can’t do.

          Quantum League

          I looked up the book description, and a strong sense of deja vu hit me at the word “actuator”… I think I’ve read this book before.

          Currently reading Industrial Strength magic by Macronomicon, and it scratches this itch for me, but waiting for chapter updates, even when daily, is so painful.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Use telekinesis to make a carpet fly, bend the light waves around it to cloak it and ride it. There, you are fast as hell, flying and pretty much invisible.

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        It would probably take a lot of concentration but it wouldn’t be impossible. Good luck seeing where you are going without the photons though. I’m certain you could let some in but it would be very difficult to stop them from bouncing back out at that point.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Pretty much everything you mentioned falls under the OP “hella kinesis”.

      Telekinesis is being able to levitate cookies and small cats.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      I suspect this would be a one item at a time. I know hard to define what one item really is but I am thinking of some notion of a limited amount of mental capacity to focus on the object you are manipulating. So I suspect there would be a difference between applying a force to a cube at a single point vs trying to apply thousands or millions of tiny little forces on many objects

    • Chriswild@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Two of the other powers are in some ways worse than not having powers. Flying slower than you can drive a car is pretty pointless unless in extremely nice situations. Then running near the speed of soud could cause you permanent damage to the ears or eyes just from pushing through the air.

      Invisibility is fine but mostly useful for nefarious purposes. But theoretically you could get a form or invisibility through telekinesis if you can control photons. You probably wouldn’t be able to see or hold it as long without suffocating but it’s something.

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Yeah but they said the speed thing isn’t limited to just running so you could probably piss at nearly the speed of sound which is pretty cool except for the possible urethral obliteration. Assuming that doesn’t happen then it’d be pretty cool

  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    10 months ago

    Let’s see…

    • Flight - Seems pretty useless to me if you can’t go over 30, you couldn’t easily fly to other countries for example.
    • Speed - Reminds me of all the times I missed my train by literally two seconds but bumping into people while running inhumanly fast would be even worse IMO
    • Invisibility - I don’t know what I’d do while invisible. Spy on others? Pull shitty pranks? Not really. I guess crimes but I’m not that kind of person.
    • Telekinesis - Pretty overpowered compared to the rest, being able to lift/manipulate up to two tons with your mind sounds incredibly useful
  • Snailpope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    Invisibility - bank robbing, free movies, tasting expensive food right in the kitchen, hiding from people I know in the grocery store that I don’t want to talk to, ect.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      hiding from people I know in the grocery store that I don’t want to talk to, ect.

      I thought I was sure I wanted telekinesis, but you make a compelling point.

      • 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        You can grab the moisture in the air and arrange it so that you become effectively invisible to those around you.

  • TheSlad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    Telekinesis would be the most useful, but flight is the most fun.

    Question about Telekinesis: can you use it on something that you are standing on or strapped onto?

      • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
        4·
        10 months ago

        I mean, okay, relatable, but people with superspeed rarely seem to be suffering for using it? I suppose w could be talking about bounded speed, where you get access to superspeed but have to train for it…

        • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          In invincible there is a guy that lives so fast everything in his life is too slow so he can’t concentrate in anything. I guess you can turn this superspeed on and off.

          I’d much rather prefer the invisibility because I can just go to a bank and take some bills, put them in my mouth and launder them later. I don’t want to be rich, just live confortably

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        But OP said it isn’t isolated to just running.

        You could eat super fast, too. Maybe even shit super fast and shoot people with it. A hot dog eating contest could make you a living LMG.

  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Flight > Speed. Just get yourself a wing suit and you have free horizontal velocity, and a path over basically any obstacle.

    Telekinesis doesn’t seem to have a range or speed limit. This minor oversight has disastrous consequences.

    Invisibility is just invisibility, but it has a niche. I could think of a few uses, most of them unethical.

    I might pick flight, though. It might encourage me to actually go outside.

    • Persen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Or for invisibility asocial(autistic) niche. I would love to walk around, not being scared of misscomunication.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    well, since terminal velocity of a falling person is around 150mph, does that mean I can gain speed falling, then turn on my flying powers to slow down/maneuver? If so, then flight.

    If not, then telekinesis.

  • forty2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    I think telekinesis is the way to go.

    • You can only fly so high before the cold or lack of oxygen get you.
    • Poo is technically not part of me, so you’d see shit floating around when the rest of me is invisible.
    • Speed is only good until you need to turn, and i see no mention of an adamantium skeletal system.
    • Moving all kinds of shit with my mind? I’ll be over here not jerking off with this empty velvet glove
  • foyrkopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    Telekinesis. It’s not even a context

    Telekinesis (especially at the “multiple tons” level) is an extremely flexible tool, a weapon, and a defense. There’s an endless amount of creative stuff you can do with it.

    It can also still be used somewhat discreetly which is important.

    Flight would probably be the most fun, though.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Agreed on all points.

      But let’s face it, we’re really going to use it primarily to fetch a drink and some chips without getting up.

  • Nougat@kbin.social
    10·
    10 months ago

    Telekinesis. Build a platform, stand on platform, lift platform.

    Now I get flight along with it, and without the speed limit.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    101·
    10 months ago

    Telekinesis, for sure.

    Even if you can’t use it on your own body, it’ll work against the ground. And 5,000 pounds of thrust will get you going pretty fast. So that covers both flight and speed.

    Or does telekinesis make me gain 5,000 pounds? If so, then maybe flight. lol

    • KinNectar@kbin.run
      4·
      10 months ago

      Most depections of telekinesis do not exert an opposing force on the user, in other words the force is exerted in an arbitrary vector from an arbitrary point in space. That means you could compress a hole in the ground under you but not levitate at all because the force doesn’t act on your body. If it did act on your body lifting 5000 lb would crush your bones to dust.

      As other people have pointed out a better option is the “magic carpet ride” or more desirable “flying motocycle” angle, where you Exert force on an object and it moves you as it normally would when pushed or pulled by any other force. I personally like the “infinite parasailing/paragliding” angle as it is possible to do without immediately being noticeable as strange by the public, and it requires less mental effort since you are still using lift for upforce.