I’d have to go into full prankster mode.
Travel to some larger city. Do a full faceplant into the sidewalk off a skyscraper and then get up and walk off.
Then when someone asks how I did that… “Oh, I’m wearing a jumpsuit.”
My guess is along the lines of :
“When exposed to a force or stimulus that would normally cause injury or pain, you experience the pain that would normally be caused by the resulting injury until the force or stimulus is removed, up to the the amount of pain caused by the breaking of an arm.”
So if you get shot, you momentarily feel the pain of a bullet wound as the bullet bounces off, but if you get your arm caught under a boulder, say, it’s going to feel like a broken arm until you get the boulder off.
Lol. This sounds like something you’d read in an old DC horror story. The first thing the guy does is sit down at ground zero of a nuke site.
Cut to one hour later where the guy is found dead because you can’t breath plasma.
The other angle to this hero thing, is that you’d be perfectly vulnerable to torture. Or you’d face shock and other mental trauma from dealing with the hero stuff.
Well, if I’m feeling the pain as if I was injured, than I’m not exactly “impervious to injury”, right? Technically, no damage might be done, true, but it’s not like there are no side effects to sticking my hand in a fire.
So… considering I’m still feeling the pain, there’s very little that I would actively do differently.
That’s why I’d try to avoid too much public attention. I’d rather not spend decades being tortured in someone’s lab, and of course needing air, I could be killed very easily.
Bring a pool noodle to a gunfight. Win that gunfight.
I’d kick that genie’s ass.
I would travel by jumping from roof top to roof top.
And out of airplanes, and off bridges.
He said you have to breathe- the Falls could hold you under.
I’d get one of those wingman flying suits. I’d also paraglide into extreme air. It’d be a lot of fun if you eliminate the fear of death.
does this include damage from drugs and the like? if not, take huge amounts of painkillers to get rid of the “you still feel pain” factor
Since this thread has been bumped, am I immune to harm from things like radioactivity, poison, extreme heat/friction?
Maybe it depends on the break? I broke my arm when I was 13, and the pain wasn’t particularly bad. Looking at my arm and seeing that it bent in a place it normally didn’t was more of a cause for freak-out than the pain was.
I would kick the shit out of every ass hole I came across, I would hunt grizzly bears with no gun, I would pull wild lions tails, the list is just endless.
If I’m immune to radioactivity, I could wander into the Fukushima reactor and do anything that needed doing in there to limit the scope of that continuing disaster. If I can handle extreme heat, I’d do a Major Tom (the Peter Schilling version, that is) since I wouldn’t burn up on re-entry, or be harmed by my sudden impact into Earth’s surface. (I’d need sufficient air to get me down to the altitude where I could breathe again, of course.)
I’d start using a motor cycle as my primary mode of transportation, maybe take up a few extreme sports such as free climbing, but other than that I’m pretty happy with my life as it is so I wouldn’t make too many changes.
Now this is somebody who is thinking! Identify the weakness, eliminate the weakness!
Bravo!
So. I am really impervious? Can’t get physically hurt? That means I can’t get diseases, particularly adult social diseases. I could go on a tour of the third world, stopping at every single brothel and come back unscathed. I could literally fuck my way through the seedy underbelly of every society on every continent.
While in Columbia I could snort primo coke off the tits of a high class call girl. In Thailand I would… uh, I probably would not come home.
Fuck it. Let’s find out how awesome a heavy hit of good heroin really is.
This could be a really nice super power. Think of the possibilities! A hedonist’s dream come true!
Hunt up George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney and punch them in the face. And go back and kick Karl Rove in the crotch.
To me, pain is a bigger disincentive than harm. I probably wouldn’t change much about my life. If I didn’t have to be drug free for work, then I’d probably do a lot of drugs.