Pick a useless super power

[CriticalMiss]

The ability to sit comfortably for hours at a time!

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

I'd be a living. breathing key-gen. I could have online-passes for any game pop up in my head at will. One hitch, is that i can only "generate" codes that have already been redeemed/activated.

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

Basically, pick a super power that would give you no quantifiable advantage over anyone else.

Personally, I'm torn between selective wiping of my own memory (I could rewatch or reread anything for the first time every time) or having theme music play in my head and the heads of those around me. With an addition of the "KO!" sound effect if I ever knocked someone out, and hit/combo counters visible.

That'd be awesome.

The theme song thing would be amazing, and the memory wiping thing...if anyone can actually do that (I'm sure that someone in the world can) then I'm pretty jealous. I'm a big reader, so that'd be pretty sweet.
As for mine, The ability to randomly turn things in to fine clothes, and garden and household tools and appliances...that vanish when sold or used by anyone they are not intended for. Oddly specific, I know, but pretty funny. Bam, your toilet is a top hat! Kapow, your laptop is a chainsaw! Shazam, your calendar is a George Foreman!

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

The ability for everyone around me as well as myself to spontaneous bust into a musical number. I'm not gonna lie, I'd use it at least once at a convention - pony, video game, or otherwise.

That would actually be pretty sweet. The movie/play would practically write itself

 

[The Funslinger]

Geez, eleven posts in and nobody's picked background music yet? Background music, FTW!

That was essentially in the OP.

 

[Binkan]

The ability to whenever i drop a sandwich it will never land on the buttered side on the ground! that might be the best superpower yet...

 

[The Funslinger]

Slight chance this has already been posted, but I'll throw it out here anyways:

I'll go with the 75% levitation ability. Gasp at my almost levitating powers!

I'd pick one second super strength. I'd just use it on the moment of contact when punching people in the face.

 

[Tomaius]

The ability to hold my bladder for several days. Its practical without being OP.

 

[Hagi]

The ability to instantly become friends with anyone...

...on MySpace.

 

[Headsprouter]

A rage meter. When it's approaching it's maximum, it appears to everyone and starts to flash, when it fills, there's an alarm. And I rage. I don't often rage, so it's merely a trinket that lets people know when they're truly getting to me, or I'm truly in a bad mood. But seriously, how cool would that be?

 

[Mr.Squishy]

The ability to kind of 'hitch a ride' via possession - experiencing what the host does, but with no control over their body. It would be interesting to use, but not really all that practical.

Uh, you could be the world's best spy with that one, especially if you could hear the host's thoughts.

OT: The ability to cause a book/movie/tv episode/game I have already experienced before to run the way I think it should have. But the change is not permanent, reverting to its original form shortly after it leaves my presence. Not of much practical use except as a party trick, but it does mean for me, no more midichlorians, weak ME endings, or huge chunks of plot critical storyline ripped out for convenience.

Huh. I didn't think of that. I figured I'd just get to experience something like skydiving without the risk of splattering all over the ground. Plus, I'd be a shit spy, I believe.

 

[ABLb0y]

Either the ability to be invisible but only when no one's looking at you or the ability to transform into an 82-year-old Hungarian woman with a weak bladder.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Jumping forward in time 1 second at a time. <.<

 

[Psycomantis777]

The ability to change my eye colour at any time... I could scare children and drunkards, but I wouldn't be heralded the greatest new X-man or anything... That and I want purple eyes...

 

[Forobryt]

Not mine but heres 2 that a friend told me a few years ago.

The chronomancer with the ability to control time...pieces. So you can make clocks go backwards and forwards.

Or the ability to make birds fly backwards.

 

[Psycomantis777]

I choose the ability to turn Smarties into M&M's.
I'd walk around Britain slowly but surely converting all smarties into M&M's until nobody's sure what they're eating anymore! The slight confusion I shall cause will go down in history!
Muahahaha!!!

You are a monster...

 

[generals3]

My super power would be to allow others to read/look into my mind. Would make going to the shrink much easier (if ever needed) but also be used to annoy people. *goes in front of a friend* *starts thinking about nasty tentacle hentai* *activates superpower* *contemplates said friend ripping his own eyes out* *than goes to the shrink because thinking about tentacle hentai ruined myself*

 

[Therumancer]

Basically, pick a super power that would give you no quantifiable advantage over anyone else.

Personally, I'm torn between selective wiping of my own memory (I could rewatch or reread anything for the first time every time) or having theme music play in my head and the heads of those around me. With an addition of the "KO!" sound effect if I ever knocked someone out, and hit/combo counters visible.

That'd be awesome.

Well, the thing is that by definition any "power" is going to be useful in some context over someone who doesn't have it. Now granted it's easy to come up with ones that are of of such limited use that they seem kind of pointless, but that isn't the same thing. Case in point if you could project music into someone's head you could do a lot of things like that, even if it's just driving people insane (in a very literal sense). Selective memory wiping could be useful
to counter "killer memes" (old science fiction concept) and simular things, not very likely, but it does give you a potential advantage over someone who doesn't have it.

The closest I could come up with is the abillity to change a soft drink into another soft drink of the same type. Basically the power to say transmute say cola into any other kind of cola, like RC cola into Coke, or Coke into
Pepsi, or whatever. Of course that still means you have the advantage of never having to endure a brand of soft drink you don't like, unless you just really hate Cola or Orange Soda or whatever you've got out of hand.

This also reminds me of one of my favorite Xanth novels (I used to be a fan) where most of the powerhouse Magicians and Sorceresses in that world are defeated quite easily by some guy who has the minor magical talent to create a line of sight between two objects.

 

[OldKingClancy]

The abilty to be invisible but only by shouting.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Being able to travel in time. But only forward. By one second, every second.

I dunno, if used correctly it could essentially double your lifetime. You could win the Guinness record of oldest person alive.