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DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Side effect: but, every time you do, it causes you to have an eight-hour-long, extremely intense psychedelic experience.

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  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    how come this guy gets to have two superpowers?

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    • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Slow down time enough that I trip for 8 hours and it’s only been a minute. Awesome

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• crapwittyname@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But special relativity still applies. So you can only do this by traveling at nearly the speed of light away from or towards your target. Travelling this fast is a separate power with separate side effects, and you don’t have it.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Read 'The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Wormhole / time dilation causes the troops to experience time differnetly from the folks back on Earth. every time they return from a mission, decades or even centuries have passed.

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    • crapwittyname@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds like hard sci fi… My absolute favourite! I will actually take this recommendation as soon as I’ve finished Every Version of You by Grace Chan (which I also recommend btw)

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The humble shroom trip:

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Requires large amounts of reaction mass and plenty of space.

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• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You are also affected.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is the only side effect on this comment that doesn’t try to invalidate the power.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can’t actually change time, just your perception of time. Your muscles don’t move any faster. If someone is throwing a punch at you and you slow down time, you can appreciate the fist moving at your face for an hour of your slowed-down time, but you still can’t dodge the punch. If you speed up time, you still need to eat, sleep, and perform other bodily functions. So, instead of getting hungry every few hours, you get hungry in what feels like seconds. And, since you don’t have super-speed, you need to slow time back down again so you can eat.

  It might still be a power worth having, but it’s not as awesome as it might seem at first.

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It would be great for raw reaction time, granted you’d still have to wait for your body to catch up.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Would your reaction time change? Maybe the neurons in your brain would be going at super speed, but maybe your peripheral nerves would still be slow. So, the time between hearing something and the signal getting to your brain would still take ages. Or, the light would hit your eyes, but it would be a long time before that was processed into a signal your ultra-fast brain could use.

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      • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You can’t actually change time, just your perception of time.

        If you can’t even think while freezing time, then your “side-effect” is just complete nullification. Not much of a side-effect.

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• Lumiluz@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It affects your aging by 1,042x as much as the speed used. Careful, or you’ll either become dust or Benjamin Button yourself.

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