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Be amazingly good at football. 20 million a year in wages and sponsorship deals? Yes please! | |
A photographic memory. That would have made university a hell of a lot easier. | |
Eternal life. Don't say it isn't realistic, those jellyfish have it. | |
Those jellyfish cheated god, now they must pay for their hubris. Big stupid jellyfish. | |
Deep meditation techniques, of the level that normally take a lifetime to learn. | |
Well i'm planning on learning programming, so it would be handy if that knowledge was just zapped into my brain. Alternatively, i'd like have some kind of creative skill. I don't care if its musical or artistic or whatever, but it would be nice to be able to make something and be proud of the fact that its not a pile of crap. | |
University degree. Currently working on Computer Engineering, so I'd probably grab something else too. It'd be nice and easy to get all the knowledge of the one I'm working on, but since I'm planning to do it anyway it would be best to get a completely different one free. Then in the end I'll be even more knowledgeable =D | |
The ability to upload any skill into my brain from a computer database and to know everything about it instantly. Matrix anyone? | |
Being able to sing or play guitar, drums or something else would be great. | |
Merge my brain with computing substrate...I believe that this will be fairly possible within the next few decades. Alternatively, a better memory than the current one I have, or maybe just more motivation. | |
Nooo! If I'm not the only one cheating by memorising the textbooks, then people may realise what's happening. Curse you Daystar for stealing my dream gift! May you forget where you put your keys. If that's not an option, I'll go with a martial art. I'd like Aikido but pretty much any would work. | |
I've always wanted to learn Russian, German, Japanese, Mandarin and a few other languages but the only courses in high school were for French and Spanish and I find the romance languages to be boring. So the ability to speak other languages than English would be nice. | |
The ability to manufacture my own food. Then I might exercise more. Photosynthetically, I mean. | |
To have legendary guitar playing skills. | |
Be adept at math at a P.H.D level, but not super-adept because I'd still like to smoke weed and not win Nobel Prizes. | |
To be gifted with hyper-intelligence. To be more specific, to be able to learn many, many subjects and ideas extremely easily and quickly. | |
The ability to alter my perception of time in a manner that I believe the world is going by in slow motion, similar to what many police officers have reported experiencing in gunfights. Only, you know, I can do this whenever I want. | |
The ability to draw like a boss. Everyone says I'm good at drawing because the best they can do is stick figures...so their perspective is off. | |
Because I'm lame, I would say to be really, really good at parkour, not really to make money or anything like that, I would just love to show off. | |
Enough strength that 99% of people would not be able to stop me. Although, I'd rarely actually hurt people, I think, I'd just use it to intimidate people. *at bank* I'm going to talk to the manager Either that, or the ability to attract women. Something I lack COMPLETELY. | |
To quote an awesome song, "Who wants to live forever?" To outlive everyone you love, to have no possible way to die, to outlive the end of the world as we know it? Not thanks! I mean, what if, for the sake of argument, a meteor struck the earth and caused you to get blown into space? You'd be hurtling through space forever with no hope of escape! OT, I think I'd like superhuman hearing. It would make listening to music infinitely more pleasurable. | |
Probably a vastly superior intellect, it would make learning new things easy so I wouldn't even have to study or put any effort into classes, also it would probably make it so I could get some recognition in whatever field I went deeper into. | |
Superior intelligence and wisdom. Just think, you could take the same path Mr. House did: synthetic immortality! Invent a bunch of awesome stuff, make enough money to build your own money-vomiting fortress and just work from there! | |
This guy knows where it's at. | |
Being good enough with my voice and an instrument to be able to mimic other singers exactly. Vegas here I come! | |
camouflage. Cameleons can do it, why can't I? | |
The ability to dance, any dance. Break dance, river-dance, ballroom dance, all of and to be able to do it the best there ever was. This would also come with the ability to do back flips because back flips are needed for dancing. I was gonna say be able to seduce any woman in the world but this is basically the same thing. | |
Ability to focus on an idea so much that when I choose to write it down, it's immediately publishable. supposedly this is how Kurt Vonnegut wrote his novels. | |
I would enjoy an increased amount of skill in my artistic (music, visual and performance) skills. It would be awesome to be a Quintuple threat. | |
This, but I would prefer to have greatly increased lung capacity. | |
And lots of brain damage. I would rather be really good at playing the stock markets, or being a entrepreneur, or computer programing, or simply the ability to be Bill Gates, or even being really good at a sport that isn't likely to leave you with brain damage. | |
To have retroactively lived my entire life at 1 mile plus of altitude (and having exercised a lot more) | |
One? Only one? It'd have to be dancing or beatboxing. Both for fun. I don't want to suddenly be good at something I want to do in life, that would be boring and unfair. | |
Crazy hacking skills. | |
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There are lots of threads asking what superpower would you want the most - so for curiosity sake, I'll ask - What ability would you want to gain that is already possible? Maybe to master a particular instrument? Know a language? To be really good at a sport? A university degree (not just the certificate but all the knowledge as well)? No flying or invisibility or anything like that, something real.
For me it would to be fluent in Afrikaans - I have my reasons ;) Second choice would be to have an awesome singing voice.