Oh yeah. Assuming my sense of cold was numbed down, I’d be going for ship wrecks and eating all the abalone & lobster I could. Heck, I might see if Great White tastes any good.
Man, after that nightclub fire you would think those guys had gone through enough!
I think I would take invincible. But I am not sure how the OP rules really work. What kills you at 90? The old gypsy’s magic wears off? I guess we will go with that. And is it a Highlander/Wolverine type thing where you can get hurt but everything heals and nothing actually kills you? What does a nuke do? Vaporize you and then your ummm…vapor kind of comes back together ala T2? If it is this kind of thing then that is not as fun, but I would still take it. As for getting captured I think I would keep some C4 and a detonator on me. I am not saying where, but since I am not eating there is a convenient place to, err, stick it. If my body is not capable of injury at all, as others said, I think the pain aspect would be more of a pressure thing and not hurt too much. And I think you can learn to ignore pain.
If I were invincible, what happens if I need to have my appendix taken out?
Of course, all problems accounted for, there’s ample room for amusment and income…
Invincible. Even invincible with pain is pretty damn good. How would that work though? Like Wolverine’s healing factor? If you’re proof against beheading and burning, then it either heals close to instantaneously or you never get badly injured in the first place. Either way, very temporary pain is no big inconvenience in return for what you get.
Invisibility is much more limited. You still make sound, you still smell, and you might be detectable by other means than visible light. Radiated heat in particular would be a problem.
Know those burglar alarm sensors? They work on heat detection. No going around the facilities after everyone’s gone unless you can disable the system without setting off alarms. Night vision systems? See into the infrared. You won’t be able to get into a military base at night if someone gets suspicious. This comic and and the following one are pretty good demonstrations of why just being undetectable to one sense is pretty worthless.
Sneaking around is going to be a lot harder than you think because people won’t unconsciously make room for you like they do when they can see you. You’d be bumping into people who moved unexpectedly all the time. Even being invisible, you’d have to be a ninja contortionist with spider-man reflexes to be around even a moderate sized group of people indoors without causing problems or being detected, and outdoors you have the same problem with crowds and cars. Even out in the country, many animals will know you’re there because of scent and sound, which will alert any humans you’re trying to follow if they have any woodcraft.
Let’s run down the checklist:
Requires you to be naked to work? Invisible - yes; Invincible - no.
Can be ruined by a cough or sneeze? Invisible - yes; Invincible - no.
Pointless in the dark? Invisible - yes; Invincible - no.
Useful when you’re alone? Invincible - yes; Invisible - no.
Useful in a car accident? Invincible - yes; Invisible - no.
Useful in a fight with a blind guy? Invincible - yes; Invisible - no.
Invisibility no question. Epic shenanigans.
Like this?
I’m torn. I’d like to be invincible, but I’m not the adventuring type. I’d like to be invisible for the voyeuristic pranks if nothing else, but not being able to be killed sounds appealing.
I’ll take invincibility. I think.
OMG, you’d attack a blind guy?! :dubious: Bad form, Bad form…
I’d take invisible. Like, if you could just switch it on and off.
It would just be funny to trick people and that. But would you tell anyone?
You could be a really sucessful criminal…
With invincible, sure you might always win fights, but does that mean you can’t die? Ever? Or does it mean you keep living until you die in your sleep??
What if you got depressed and wanted to kill yourself but couldn’t? Or say you were in a car accident and you walked out of it fine but everyone else died. You feel so guilty…
Just for this, I’m switching my answer to “invincible,” for the express purpose of punching every blind person I see.
ETA: I will also quip, “Hah! Betcha didn’t see that one coming!” as they lie on the ground.
I remember a story where a guy who was invincible needed a shot and couldn’t get it because the needle couldn’t penetrate his skin.
But here the OP makes it clear that “invincible” means you can’t be killed in any way, which presumably includes disease, drowning, etc. It would really suck to get buried alive or dropped into the ocean with cement shoes though.
As cool as invisibility sounds, it would have limited application unless you could also move silently, avoid leaving footprints or setting off alarms, and so on.
If invisibility meant I could go virtually anywhere unnoticed I might prefer that; otherwise invincibility would be much better.
invincibility would rule out the possibility of suicide. Not that I’m suicidal but one day I might be. (Afterall, life is shit. I might decide to indulge in the ultimate rest as long as there is no-one left to be devistated by my death)
Invisibility is also a bit difficult to contemplate, because I would constantly be thinking that even though I’m invisible people would somehow know I was there. I have a very acute sense of self-consciousness like that.
You win the thread.
Invisible.
For one, I’m not going to go invisible at a time when a car is coming at me. That’d be just a super idea.
Sure, I can be detected by heat sensors, but not many places have that kind of actual security AFAIK for everyday use. And sure, people could hear me, but they can’t see me. People are, on the whole, pretty superstitious and if they saw a pencil floating in midair, they’d freak and think I’m a ghost anyway. No skin off my nose, they won’t know I’m a real person.
Go into a bank/jewelry store, hide in the corner, wait until everyone’s gone, take what I want, hide until the daytime, then leave.
Of course that’s assuming anything I hold/take is invisible too. And if not, well, invisible anyway. I don’t like pain and stay away from it when possible in any case. Sure I could go deep-sea diving, and lack of oxygen won’t kill me, but having my lungs screaming for air after only a minute or so? That’s not fun.
I’m sure with invisible there’s lots of creative ways to use it if I put my mind to it.
I think I’d go with invincible. I am having a hard time coming up with uses for invisibility that are not ethically questionable. But, being invincible, I could pretty much live my life as normal.
Anyways, what are some ethical reasons for invisibility? Everything I can come up with would be an invasion of privacy, at the least.