Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?

You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not.

There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too. You would also have the ability to know if the place would be safe to teleport to, so you wouldn’t teleport and get impaled by an icicle or teleport inside a wall and get your insides filled with concrete or something.

Personally, I don’t know which one would I pick. Invisibility would be awesome for pranks and stuff, but teleportation probably would be more useful for everyday life.

southsamurai,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah, teleportation solves way more real life problems than invisibility does.

Invisibility in the real world, for a civilian, is really only good for pranks and crime. Which isn’t exactly a bad thing, but teleportation can do all of that and more.

Tedesche,

You could use your invisibility to become the most effective citizen journalist in the world though. Get footage of Exxon execs scheming with politicians to fuck the planet or get world leaders on tape dismissing the Geneva conventions, that sort of thing.

AeroLemming,

You could do that just as well with teleportation, possibly even better depending on what security measures you need to bypass. Teleport in, plant a bug, dig through their computer for anything incriminating, teleport out.

Of course, obtaining evidence in this way makes it illegal to use in court, but that doesn’t really matter because the people you’re after will never be taken down in court anyway.

Tedesche,

Of course, obtaining evidence in this way makes it illegal to use in court

That’s why I said citizen journalist. Exposing corrupt people in the news is a major step towards criminal court, and even if there is no case, public opinion can be swayed and that’s a death sentence in many ways.

uberkalden,

You could in most cases so the same with teleportation

Gamerman153,

Assuming they don’t have access to thermals…

Tedesche,

Good question whether or not invisibility extends to the infrared and ultraviolet spectra. That’d be pretty clutch.

PDFuego,
@PDFuego@lemmy.world avatar

I’m struggling to think of any situation in which invisibility would benefit me personally. Teleportation would save me over an hour a day of driving to/from work alone, plus hours at work itself, fuel & vehicle maintenance costs just about disappear, world travel becomes something possible to do any time of any day on a whim, you could do anything.

fruitSnackSupreme,

Have you thought about moving closer to work?

kent_eh,

world travel becomes something possible to do any time of any day on a whim, you could do anything.

I feel like Greek food for lunch, suddenly appears at a cafe in Athens.

Maybe some chocolate for dessert, pops into Switzerland for a moment , then back home in time for my kid’s soccer game.

Lemminary,

Does the teleportation come with a bampf noise or do I have to carry my own bluetooth speaker and a button? This is make or break for me.

qyron,

Do I sense Nightcrawler vibes?

Tedesche,

No, that super sense wasn’t one of the options.

qyron,

The best teleporter ever created, regardless the drawback.

Lemminary,

Yes! Although someone requested an Elderman sound and now I want the sound effect to be customizable via an app.

Mostly_Gristle,

I want the H2G2 Krikkit robot teleportation noises: the sound of 100,000 people saying “WHOP!” when you appear, and 100,000 people saying “FOOP!” when you disappear.

AeroLemming,

I only want teleportation if it makes me sound like an Enderman!

Got_Bent,

I seem to be alone in that I see teleportation as a great way to travel all the time without ever having to set foot on a plane again. The time and money saved would allow me to visit with distant friends on the regular.

applebusch,

And move to a cheap spacious house in the middle of nowhere, ideally somewhere absolutely beautiful. You could work anywhere you want and never need to actually live there. You could also become the first person on every planet and moon. I’d probably try to get nasa to pay me a billion dollars to be on call to teleport anything they want to anywhere in the solar system.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Teleportation. Doesn’t matter if you can see me when I can just pop in and out in an instant.

Snorf,

If you can pop in and out fast enough then you can be there and not be there at the same time.

seanziepples,

Wear clothes that cover your identifying features

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll teleport to where you can’t see me. Checkmate legtards

Thorny_Insight,

Invisibility.

I don’t know why but I love the feeling of being able to watch people without them knowing about my presence. I spend a lot of time in nature and intentionally dress to blend in and I love that often when I hear/see people near me I can just stand there in plain sight and they still often don’t notice me.

RogueBanana,

I don’t know if this is creepy or cute but uh keep doing but not next to me

Asudox,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

What if he’s already invisible and saw you typing this comment?

onevia,
@onevia@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Teleportation is the queen of all powers. Invisibility can be basically mimicked with quick teleportation work if needed.

Although my legs would probably atrophy from lack of use, lol. Why walk to the kitchen when I could blink there and get a sandwich and blink back in no time at all?

SpaceNoodle,

Why visit the kitchen at all? Just teleport that sammich straight into the tum-tum.

Also, what’s the king of all powers?

onevia,
@onevia@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Queen is superior. At least in chess… and life 😉

SpaceNoodle,

And rock and roll

onevia,
@onevia@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Love it!

boomer478,

Also, what’s the king of all powers?

Having money

key,
@key@lemmy.keychat.org avatar

And teleport it back out after the stomach cramps start!

LanternEverywhere,

Time control is the pinnacle of superpowers. Most aspects of every other super power can be achieved or closely appreciated with full time control.

onevia,
@onevia@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Interesting view point. I would have to consider whether time still passes for the user of the power? If you freeze time for everyone else, do you still age? And if so, I would still take teleportation over that as travel would be instant vs “appearing” instant to outside perspectives.

SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT,

Teleportation. Invisibility is a nice gimmick (until you accidentally leave it on and get hit by a car, that is).

Teleportation isn’t just incredibly convenient, depending on the distances you can travel in one hop it’d also save you a lot of time (skip your commute, instantly travel to a nice vacation destination and back), and it’d be a money maker (fastest courier in the world).

Even if it was just line of sight, being able to easily reach places that are normally hard to reach or require extensive detours would be helpful. Even just crossing a busy street without having to wait for the traffic light would be a nice thing.

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I would teleport to Japan to eat all my meals. So much good food for so cheap.

key,
@key@lemmy.keychat.org avatar

With the stipulations given here (no limits on where, and ability to know if it’s safe) you could teleport to what astronomers speculate are earth-like planets. Grab some samples, head home, repeat. Maybe win the Nobel Prize for discovering extraterrestrial life.

Given that, it feels a bit one sided against the other option that would let you perv a locker room or get trapped in a bank vault when you trip a non-visual sensor.

Tippon,

If you could teleport anywhere, you could demonstrate the power to your region’s space agency and get them to build a pressurised container or suit that can go with you.

Teleport to the moon and grab some rocks for a billionaire to make some money, then teleport to Mars and repair the broken rover. Take whatever samples the space agency wants,or transport some materials there ready for the first settlers.

This is just the standard stuff. Once you start using your imagination, there’s not much of a limit :)

Mnemnosyne,

As others have said, invisibility versus teleportation is way too lopsided in favor of teleportation. Even if we’re talking perfect ‘you cannot be detected unless you bump into something or otherwise reveal your own presence’ invisibility, it’s still not good enough to compete with teleportation. Especially with S-tier teleportation like described there.

You’d have to really beef up the invisibility side to make it more fair. Maybe instead of just invisibility, go full incorporeal, with the ability to have gravity affect you (or not affect you) however you want, relative to whatever reference frame you want (be very careful with this) and the ability to make any part of yourself incorporeal or corporeal without it being all of you. Even then, I’d have a bit of a hard time picking this over teleporting.

Or go with the Invisible Woman’s powerset, that’d be a pretty solid other option versus that teleportation. At that point I would actually have a hard time choosing, cause that is some nice teleportation, but Sue Storm’s powers are pretty high tier as well.

mosiacmango, (edited )

Force field bubbles are wild. I bet you could use them as transportation as well. Just explode one under your feet and catch yourself with them when you land.

At a minimum you could make bridges that would let you walk/run/ride/drive though the air or across water. Still great for travel.

RIP_Cheems, (edited )
@RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

Depends on the situation. On the one hand, you can choose to teleport and go anywhere instantly and be able to save time, money, and get tasks done faster. On the other hand, you could choose invisibility to avoid Carl the office dickhead and prank the shitty hr department.

Feathercrown,

Teleportation 100%. I could be anywhere on Earth, at any time. Invisibility is super cool but its most practical applications are kinda weird tbh. Being there without people knowing is basically always a privacy violation.

reddig33,

Teleportation. I love to travel, but I hate the airport.

intensely_human,

I’d pick invisibility if it came with some mechanism to keep people from running into me.

I attract way too much attention in public and I’d like to be able to go out and walk around without all the attention.

GrayBackgroundMusic, (edited )

Teleport. Could make so much money. Could advance science, depending on range.

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