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How to exit neovim.

A lot of people are saying immortality, but keep in mind that doesn't necessarily include being unaging or invincible. You could age into a decrepit mummy or break your spine and live your life as a paraplegic.

I would like the ability to remove other people's superpowers, please, and thank you

I would want Susan Storm/Violet Parr's invisibility/force feild thing. You can kind of fly with it

Super man's powers

I would want to be able to switch bodies with people like in Freaky Friday, but I would want to control who and when.

Gaining energy going social activities not losing it

To know how my actions will affect the future and the brainpower to process the shear endless possibilities. The longer the time frame is the more powerful it gets.

Could go a bit like a butterfly effect: I know if I get a croissant this morning the store will run out and the assistant of some hedge fond guy won't be able to get him one. So, he's grumpy all day and crashes the marked.

More direct: I know how I have to throw the dice to win at the casino, which numbers I have to pick for roulette or the lottery.

Wandering into Fort Nox because I know when and where the guards are.

Brute forcing every password with the first try.

Knowing basically everything because, let's say the time frame is a week, there's a future in which I choose to read any one book, article or paper in that time and I know what's is in it. Everything not written I can get out of people. Get it through asking them, drug, seduce, or torture them without actually doing any of it because it's enough that there's a future where I could do that. Of cause I could just guess and see in which future I was correct.

With a timeframe of a year I could tell scientist what they would have achieved in that year with unlimited funding and leapfrog any discovery that way. Which could get continued ad nauseam, day one I tell them what they would have achieved after a year, day two I tell them what they would have achieved after a year with the knowledge of day one, etc.

Would make for a very boring super hero movie though. Solving all the problems before anyone even knew that there's one. Dispose all the problematic world leaders without getting caught and pulling all the money out of the stock market to solve world hunger.

Ability to give people taste buds wherever I think is funniest at the time

Local area forced telepathic group chat - everyone in range can hear the surface thoughts of everyone else in range all at once

Have the ability to make people poop on command. Can be great for helping and for being bad.

I may be really weird for thinking about this despite a lot of people throughout humanity thinking about it, but the ability to manipulate someone's age, mentally and/or physically. I mean things like turning someone who is robbing me into a child who isn't strong enough to hold the gun or making an absolute drama queen who peaked in high school have their body match their mental maturity.

Before anyone calls it weird, you name a major animated cartoon that aired on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or Disney and there's a good chance they have what I consider the stock "age regression/progression" episode. For whatever reason those episodes really stuck with me considering I'm thinking about them to this day.

Honestly? Dr. Manhattan level atomic mastery. Because, if we're essentially talking wishes here, what's better than being your own unfettered genie, essentially? 🤷🏼‍♂️

To always have the right amount of change in my pocket

Don't really want to be rich, just always have enough

You know how some people have photographic memory and memorize everything they hear once for their entire lives?

I want the other side of that coin where I can look at something or think about anything for a while and immediately understand entirety of it.

Not formal understanding with all the equations and chemistry at atomic level, but more like someone explaining the equations and chemistry of it to me should "click" intuitively.

It would be really fun to go around learning random subjects.

Flying, i always had a fantasy about just beibg able to fly superman style, fast, slow or just floating

I want to know how and what to say to other people to convince them to do what I ask. So like not full manipulation or mind reading but like social engineering turned up to 100!

Flying, no question.

Assuming I can't have omnipotence I'm gonna go for the power to read minds when I want to. It'd be majorly helpful.

One trip time travel to a specific date with no new knowledge other than the details of one specific event.