Pick one ability

[MichaelC]

(1)You gain the ability to inflict the "Liar Liar" curse. Whoever you choose becomes completely honest and will sometimes even blurt out honest thoughts uncontrollably unbiden. This ability has unlimited range, and can even be cast on people you have only seen on TV. Only one person at a time can be so cursed, and the curse fades from one target the moment you cast it on a new target.

(2)You can decide to Benjamin Button yourself, aging in reverse. You can wait up to ten years before activating this ability, but once you do, there is no turning back, and you will eventually die once you fall below the age of viability. This reverse aging also gradually undoes any diseases that are even tangentially related to age, like most heart diseases. It doesn't affect diseases completely unrelated to age likes AIDS, however.

(3)You no longer need food, or to eliminate waste. Perfect nutrition simply appears in your bloodstream, and waste products simply vanish into nothingness. You can no longer die of waste removal related diseases like kidney failure, and indeed can donate both kidneys to science if you are so inclined. You still need to breath, but otherwise are completely biologically self-sufficient. You can still eat for pleasure.

(4)You gain the ability to spawn a 100 dollar bill in your hand once a day for the rest of your life. You lose the power if you reveal it to anyone, but so long as you keep the source of your money a secret, you effectively have a 36,500 a year source of income even if you do nothing.

[The Arbiter]

#4.

Once a day, I get to hand a stranger $100. That would make me happy. Or I can put it away and retire early or gift it to my kids.

I am ok with my health and lifespan with loved ones, so I'm out on those. The lying thing is interesting but I don't like messing with other people's free will.

[Beadle]

With 3), it’s not just eating I’d still need to be able to do for pleasure.

I enjoy going for a “waste elimination”. I consider it ‘Me Time’.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

100 bucks a day?

Make more a week than you do at some jobs, tax free.

[MichaelC]

It's not technically tax free, though the IRS would have a hell of time proving their case if you are at all cautious.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

It's not technically tax free, though the IRS would have a hell of time proving their case if you are at all cautious.

They wouldn't even notice, really. $100 a week is a rather small amount. It's in cash as well so proving that you even have it would be impossible as long as you're not stuffing them in your mattress.

[The MunchKING]

(1)You gain the ability to inflict the "Liar Liar" curse. Whoever you choose becomes completely honest and will sometimes even blurt out honest thoughts uncontrollably unbiden. This ability has unlimited range, and can even be cast on people you have only seen on TV. Only one person at a time can be so cursed, and the curse fades from one target the moment you cast it on a new target.

The trick would be does it work on some Primal Objective Truth, or is just what the victim THINKS is the truth? Because there's loads of stupid people that I would believe they believe the stupid things they say...

(2)You can decide to Benjamin Button yourself, aging in reverse. You can wait up to ten years before activating this ability, but once you do, there is no turning back, and you will eventually die once you fall below the age of viability. This reverse aging also gradually undoes any diseases that are even tangentially related to age, like most heart diseases. It doesn't affect diseases completely unrelated to age likes AIDS, however.

So you're trading an unknowable amount of future time, for a guaranteed doubling your current lifespan, barring misadventure. Not great unless it Locke-s itself back around to normal aging when you get too young.

(3)You no longer need food, or to eliminate waste. Perfect nutrition simply appears in your bloodstream, and waste products simply vanish into nothingness. You can no longer die of waste removal related diseases like kidney failure, and indeed can donate both kidneys to science if you are so inclined. You still need to breath, but otherwise are completely biologically self-sufficient. You can still eat for pleasure.

I wonder if that would mean I would lose fat-reserves until I achieved an ideal nutrient level...

(4)You gain the ability to spawn a 100 dollar bill in your hand once a day for the rest of your life. You lose the power if you reveal it to anyone, but so long as you keep the source of your money a secret, you effectively have a 36,500 a year source of income even if you do nothing.

Well that's surprisingly useful for such a minor power.

[MichaelC]

The trick would be does it work on some Primal Objective Truth, or is just what the victim THINKS is the truth? Because there's loads of stupid people that I would believe they believe the stupid things they say...

It's what they believe, but they are no longer capable of deceit on even a subconscious level, or of viewing things through "rose colored glasses", which makes what they believe as close to scientific as their available knowledge allows.

[Howard Allan]

It's what they believe, but they are no longer capable of deceit on even a subconscious level, or of viewing things through "rose colored glasses", which makes what they believe as close to scientific as their available knowledge allows.

1. Let all the politicians beware.

[Shai-Hulud]

You no longer need food, or to eliminate waste. Perfect nutrition simply appears in your bloodstream, and waste products simply vanish into nothingness. You can no longer die of waste removal related diseases like kidney failure, and indeed can donate both kidneys to science if you are so inclined. You still need to breath, but otherwise are completely biologically self-sufficient. You can still eat for pleasure.

This one here.