As something of an expert in these matters (check the username), you folks are about to get a painful reminder of how little input the Butterfly Effect needs to completely mess up your dreams.
This, on the other hand, gives you the old “try, try again” necessary to win!
I’m not following the defeatism, here.
Why are time stamps and security cameras going to flesh you out if you’re invisible? If you work weekdays, commit your invisible crimes on the weekends; I was at home all day watching the Twilight Zone marathon, you’d say, if the authorities ask, which they won’t, because, really, why would they? And then your hours just get a lot more flexible once you stop needing a day job.
To see a short while into the future, like up to an hour or so. Useful for gambling, avoiding disasters (or minor inconveniences), spoiling movies…
Can I split the difference on that?
If I get, say, intangibility, I could bill myself as the world’s greatest stage magician: lock me in anything, I’m the best escape artist this side of Harry Houdini; put my lovely assistant in a box, I’ll pass a sword right through her; have local bricklayers build a wall Stage Left while I’m doing all that other stuff Stage Right, the show ends with me walking through it; everyone takes notice, but nobody can tell it’s for real.
(Heck, any competent backstage crew can levitate a woman; that’s why a performer has to pass solid hoops around her to sell the no-strings effect; I’m just a guy who can intangibly wave intangible hoops around her – real showy-like, as if I were doing some kind of trick – shortly after you examine 'em and pronounce 'em solid.)
Oh no, not again!
I’d like healing power. Just enough to keep someone alive to get ti the ER, say, that otherwise would have died on the way. Healing comepletely would get detected. Just enough power could help keep someone going until EMT’s arrived, while you did CPR on a victim.
I can’t find all the numbers. Maybe BobLibDem can come up with better news, but the Preakness payout on a 6-3 exacta ($2) was a princely $4.
The opening line at Churchill Downs was Alydar 6-5, and Affirmed 9-5, so the exacta for that might have been a little higher.
The SEC needn’t be a problem so long as you use the power gradually, discreetly, and intelligently. If you can magically cause any given company’s price rise or fall, you want to win most of the time but not all or even almost all of the time–and of course you should also avoid any connection with officers or board members of the companies you’re profiting from. It’ll take you a while to get rich rich, but you won’t seem to be doing anything illegal or unfair.
And of course don’t tout your ability as anything other than mathematical analysis and your gut.
Even better, you’ll know when people are just starting to get suspicious of you, so you can back off! You’d know exactly how far to push it when, say, playing poker.
It’d be a little like combining invisibility with “detection sensing.” It’d help you not give the game away.
That’s why I though as a kid: if the Planeteers were evil, “Heart” would be the best power, keep your stupid “Wind.” “If you really cared for me, you’d give me those Twizzlers for free.”
Sort of like Kobal2’s suggestion, I’d go for video game style save/load, preferably allowed if I die or “game over,” and with infinite/a lot of saves.
Seeing to the future or being able to rewind X minutes would also be useful, like Next, but not if you got into an Ozymandias-style “I did it thirty-five minutes ago” where reloading the last two minutes is not enough. I’d save like, once a year onto ones I wouldn’t save over, and then revolving ones every day or so. And of course I would constantly reload saves that contain boobs.
I’d like to be able to know in full detail what all a person’s turn-ons and kinks are just by looking at them. Would make going to an amusement park or a fair an entertaining experience.
My super power is extremely advanced personal hygiene but I just hope nobody ever notices.
The ability to make anyone standing within a 100 yards of me tell the absolute truth. Can you imagine this during elections? In a courtroom? Wow. I’d actually look forward to jury duty.
I’ve always thought it would be cool to attain and retain the contents of any book merely by holding it to my head for, say, 20 minutes (can’t make it *too *easy).
Walking encyclopedia, that’s me.
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Avoiding disasters? :dubious:
Your power is similar to mine but one hour is too short. I like 24 hours better. Wouldn’t want to figure out 10 minutes into my 2 hour flight that it was going to crash in an hour.
Can’t you just buy an iPhone and bookwark Wikipedia ? 
Or you can memorize books by reading them once or memorize scenes by briefly looking at them already in real life. The catch is that you have to usually have moderate to severe autism.
There was a short story of someone with ( a power, watch, ?) that would replay the previous two minutes. Guess where he wound up?
Yeah, I’d go with mind control.
Commute too slow? Everyone up ahead of me decides it’s time to pull over to check their cellphones.
Politician I hate is ahead in the polls? All of a sudden he feels compelled to hold a press conference to discuss the Top Ten most embarrassing and/or criminal things he’s ever done.
Bad guy tries to mug me? He feels a deep need to throw his gun in the river and go admit all of his misdeeds to the cops.
A celebrity becoming especially irksome? Time for her to let slip to a reporter how she really feels about some very touchy segment of American society.
[Clark Kent]
Just a minute, mister. Just a minute. Now, I realize, of course, that times are tough for some these days, but this isn’t the answer. You can’t solve, uh, society’s problems with a gun.
[/Clark Kent]
[Mugger]
You know something, buddy? You’re right. I’m gonna turn over a new leaf.
[/Mugger]