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CalcII, I haven't heard that looking through stuff except maybe so few times I haven't even registered it, but I have gotten 'don't do that' many times with my buddies, and with some strangers if I look at them for few seconds, they will not want to look into my eyes again. I mean not strangers like in the street, but if I talk with someone, let's say in shops or something like that.

But, I really don't look at peoples eyes properly often anyway. I don't know, maybe I don't look into peoples eyes because I don't want to reveal myself to them. I feel sometimes very naked when I force myself to look at peoples eyes if I'm nto playing my games or so. I want to figure people out, not the other way around.

	02-04-2003 08:42									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I don't have any superpowers However, I am attractive to women, don't ask me why. I often have women fawn over me.

women who are interested in me are often intimidated.. and give up on me. As far as I know, most that I have ended up dating said its mainly because of the eye contact thing...

	02-04-2003 08:45									#33
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Not really a super power but I have an amazing gumbi face. Sometimes it looks really flushed and fleshy and sometimes it stretches back over my bones my my cheekbones really jut out and it looks that I've been living on gruel. The upshot of this is that I'm usually damn ugly

	02-04-2003 08:45									#34
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I can't be sure if someone is lying or not either, but some people give themselves up if you have the time to observe them long enough and you learn their patterns.

Hey you want to hear something weird? I dont' like looking myself in the mirror, eye to eye. I look at myself, no problems, but I don't look into my own eyes. I know it sounds crazy!

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I've got a deep voice. It gives me the power to talk real low. It also frightens small children.

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quote: Originally posted by Pekka CalcII, I haven't heard that looking through stuff except maybe so few times I haven't even registered it, but I have gotten 'don't do that' many times with my buddies, and with some strangers if I look at them for few seconds, they will not want to look into my eyes again. I mean not strangers like in the street, but if I talk with someone, let's say in shops or something like that. But, I really don't look at peoples eyes properly often anyway. I don't know, maybe I don't look into peoples eyes because I don't want to reveal myself to them. I feel sometimes very naked when I force myself to look at peoples eyes if I'm nto playing my games or so. I want to figure people out, not the other way around.

maybe.. you might be right. Im emotionally very reserved. Even if I have many friends I only have 2 people that would know me better than myself.

Its highly likely that my friends would say "I didnt know you're...". In fact, if 2 of my typical friends got together and talked to each other about me, they'd realize they dont know anything about me.

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CalcII, Yeah, something simular with me. You know I see my buddies almost daily, face to face .. and they were talking about what I'm doing, like what I do during day time, they didn't know . They have asked me lots of times, I just usually reply 'nothing much, the normal'.. Why couldn't I just tell them what I did? I don't know, well they don't know either so.... They really have to give me hell before I'll confess that I went to grocery store and got some food, made pasta and ate it and watched some tv . They know some usual stuff about me sure, but if I really think about it.. they don't know much about me. Even my parents don't know much about me. I don't like to talk about myself with anyone too much. I don't know why. I just feel like I'm giving my guns away and putting down the bullet proof vest too at the same time and shouting 'shoot me in the back if you get a chance!'. I'm not afraid of my buddies to stab me in the back or anything, I just don't feel right, I feel naked and revealed and I don't like it. I don't mind being naked for real though.
I'm emotionally super reserved. I don't cry, I don't show remorse (if I have some regrets of something I did or said, I'll do it so that it looks like I fake the apologie and not really mean it but say it because it's the thing to do, not too obviously though but so that the suspect it even if I really do have regrets!), I do laugh though, but I don't smile except with buddies, I don't show my frustration, I don't show my anger except with my buddies, I don't show if I'm sad or if I like someone. I don't know why. Maybe I feel too open.

Ok now I sound like a total freak. Maybe I'm saying this here, because here I'm anonymous so..

	02-04-2003 09:05									#38
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I also have many friends, but only few very close friends, they know much about me though, the others? Nope.. simular to you I'd suppose.

What do you think when you look at yourself in the mirror, closely and hard? I don't do that myself.

also the lying part, if you want to figure them out, I found it easier to listen the tone and watch body language closely and facial expressions. Not so much what they say. The preparing part is essential, you can see it coming many times like you said. Some people try to be over confident, not to give themselves up, but they're the easiest. They then use body language and stuff they don't use again, when they're building themselves up. Also many people who are talking to bunch of other people, right after preparing part they start looking for others reactions, ready to do damage control or save themselves with another lie or what ever if he sees their reactions are not perhaps buing it. It happens fast, but you can see it coming many times. And when they start doing damage control after noticing groups reactions, it's done, and success. Some people are very hard to figure out though, old people in general are tough. Kids are easy, and adults varies.. You can spot someone has learned body language and facial expressions, like making their communicating better, and that it's not very natural, or that thery have learned it. They are hard to figure out sometimes, since they're constantly messing up with the messages they would be naturally sending..

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thats not what i had exaclt in mind, but i can kinda agree with you on some parts. What I was referring to was that my friend's circles are soo segregated that among those groups they have no idea whats happening when Im hangin with the other group. Sometimes i feel like jekyl and Hyde cause some of my friends are soo different. (yet i fit into both )

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I can infuriate people with just a few words.

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quote: Originally posted by Pekka I also have many friends, but only few very close friends, they know much about me though, the others? Nope.. simular to you I'd suppose. What do you think when you look at yourself in the mirror, closely and hard? I don't do that myself.

i think Im damn sexy.

	02-04-2003 09:18									#42
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good for you.

Now that I have spoken about this, I might know why I play my games often.. basically I want to figure people out, who they really are, and not reveal myself. If I succeed in it, I get perversed good feeling about it, because they have revealed their cards and I can play any game with them from that point on having better start. Or at least that is what I would like to think. Maybe I'm just a big perv .

But I'm not this weird as it might sound! I'm a nice guy! I makes little babies crying go away!

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quote: Originally posted by Tassadar5000 I can infuriate people with just a few words.

so can I, but im trying to lean towarda "I can make people laugh at my stupidity with few words." instead of anger part.

I'd rather have people laughing than infuriated.

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Making people laugh is valuable asset though. You can avoid certain things by making them laugh, and they forget about it and move on to another thing. Everyone can do it, but only few can do it very good so it actually works . It's valuable weapon to have.

	02-04-2003 23:06									#45
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I have amazing self control.

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quote: Originally posted by Tassadar5000 I can infuriate people with just a few words.

I can infuriate people with one image.

	02-04-2003 23:22									#47
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I have incredibly bad luck, does that count?

	02-04-2003 23:37									#48
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The only "Super Power" I have is:

Sometimes (Very seldom), I see very short "movie-clips" about the future (Always seen from my own eyes)... I have yet to see something useful, the only things I have seen is things like: Me eating with familily (nothing new about that ), but at one point, one of those people at the table suddenly changes topic, to something unexpected, but still I know what topic they change to, even though there's no way I could have known...

To bad I don't realize it before 4 seconds before it happens, so it's pretty unuseable...
And whenever I realize it, I also knows exactly which date I got the "preminition"...
For 5-10 years ago, this happened alot, but not that often anymore...

Would be nice, if I actually could "use" this "power" to something useful (Like picking lottery numbers )


... oh, and about the "babies stops crying" thing:

I have that "power" too... it's works most of the time... It works on all babies (well... babies - kids about 6 years old), except for one: My niece (The only niece I've got)

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quote: Originally posted by Willem I have incredibly bad luck, does that count?

That would count as an Anti-super-power...doesn't it? I've got a lot of those Anti-super-powers...

My bad-luck-anti-super-power works mostly when playing cards:
I always gets the worst hands ever. I have often looked at other people's hands, when others are playing cards, and notices, that everytime they say they've got a "bad hand" (Is that the words?) I often thinks: "Wow... how they manage to get such good cards"

The funny thing is: I still manage to win 50/50

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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl...&node_id=803059 - Staring down babies .

As for my own weird superpowers... sorry, don't have any. Boggling people down in the chat by geeking out is not counted, after all. I do know one guy who says he sometimes just understands other people's feelings and thoughts completely in flashes, and a couple of Yellowist psions (a guy named Myriad at http://www.psipog.net , for example), though. The former isn't really even so weird... well, except that he has blue hair and he's been the president of a group of flying islands a couple of years ago. Nowadays he likes to crossdress as a female member of a nonexistent humanoid species named after a unit of measurement (well, at least he does this in his forum posts).

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I heal very quickly and hardly ever get sick, and when I do get sick it is very mild. This may not seem so unusual, but I didnīt always have that ability. I used to have normal health and healing. But then I came across some good information about the placebo effect in science books and articles. I started thinking how odd it was that people could heal themselves just by thinking they were being healed. Then I figured that if people just thought they were healing, they wouldnīt need any medicine at all for minor injuries and illnesses.

Soon after this I noticed an increase in my health. Apparently this science had worked itself ito my subconscious as I studied it, so I somehow learned to heal myself. Once I noticed this, I learned that it worked, which reinforced my belief in it. I can now heal minor injuries and get rid of headaches and other pain simply by thinking about healing.

Not too long ago, I tripped, twisted my ankle, and slammed the knee of my other leg against the door quite badly, so the leg wouldnīt support any weight or move without hurting a lot. Something in the knee was sprained pretty badly. 24 hours later, the major pain had reduced itself to a minor twinge and I had regained almost all function in the knee, and 24 hours later the injury was gone comepletely.

A funny thing is that I once took one of those silly online quizzes: "What is your super power?" and the answer it gave me was "Regeneration" even though there were almost no questions about health in real life.

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I think what you call superpowers is a load of BS

the thingy with baby might just has to do something with chemistry in your body etc, and I too can hear the TV on when I'm in another room, simply because a weird sort of noise emanates from it when it is turned on, nothing special

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I can hear voices on the TV when the TV is not even turned on!

	03-04-2003 01:21									#55
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This is certainly a weird one, but I seem to have the power to blow out street lights. (no, not by shooting them).

It's more enhanced when I'm on foot or on a bike, but still works when I'm driving.

Statistically, the bulbs should last for a loooooong time, since they're expensive as hell to replace. I've had several nights where I've killed three as I get within about 30-40 meters range and look at them.

On average, I'll kill one every two to three days, always when I'm close, always when I'm looking in it's general direction.

The really weird part about it is I've never seen one die at any real distance, and you know these things don't get changed out the next day - I very rarely come across one that's out, they just die when I approach.

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quote: Originally posted by Richard Bruns I heal very quickly and hardly ever get sick, and when I do get sick it is very mild. This may not seem so unusual, but I didnīt always have that ability. I used to have normal health and healing. But then I came across some good information about the placebo effect in science books and articles. I started thinking how odd it was that people could heal themselves just by thinking they were being healed. Then I figured that if people just thought they were healing, they wouldnīt need any medicine at all for minor injuries and illnesses.

For me it's: I almost never get sick, but when it happens, I take a long time to get well again (well... for me, at long time is a week)... the funny part is: Everything I eat, is unhealthy food (You know... Pizza, burgers, chocolate, etc)... don't take any vitamins or anything, seldom going for a work, seldom meets the sun... oh, and I don't work out, don't go to any kind of sports, or anything... and I'm not fat... not even close

	03-04-2003 01:28									#57
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My superpower: Incredibly average.

My wife, however, can't wear watches with metalic backs or the watch will die in less than a week. Her sister is the same way.

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I usualy get a joke in a movie very quickly. And I can often anticipate what will happen next. I would swap that for flying undrground though.

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quote: My wife, however, can't wear watches with metalic backs or the watch will die in less than a week. Her sister is the same way.

My watches die... I've killed 8 in a month... they cease working, or fall apart, unless it's very solid digital watches.

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quote: Originally posted by Frogger I have the ability to win at odds/evens, rock-paper-scissors or other such games a disproportionate amount of the time. The better acquainted I am with the person I'm playing against, the better I do. I drive my girlfriend crazy. The last time we played I was 50/50 for the first 6 goes, and I then got the next 20 in a row.

Same. Except I usually start off 6-0 or 11-1 or 15-2, but end up doing 50-50 after a while.

In rock paper scissors, people generally start with rock or scissors. Now suppose they start with rock and you start with paper, giving you the win. They will disproportionately choose "scissors" next. There's some sort of subconscious impulse to choose the thing that would have won last round if one loses. However it depends on the person a lot.

Anyway, I'm not going to further ramble.