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Poll time! You suddenly gain one of five extremely useless superpowers, which one do you pick?
40% You can turn your head 180 degrees like an owl.
10% Your teeth emit a little sparkle whenever you smile.
25% A musical cue of your choice plays when you enter a room.
17% You can communicate with clams.
6% You can see the outcome of any fedi poll before clicking (see results)
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@AppleAmps bro communicating with clams is NOT useless (it would be fun and also what if they have ancient abyssal knowledge bestowed upon them by a sea god?)

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@AppleAmps

Do you have any idea how incredible it would be to know what kind of things clams could respond to? You'd have a baseline for how one kind of invertebrate mind works.

Do they have emotional states? Do they think ahead at all? How do they see? (they have these tiny eyes and we only have dim notions of how they integrate the information)

This is frankly? overpowered.

And if I can talk to one mollusc why not another? Such as the octopus and the squid. You *know* they have the tea.

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@futurebird
I was actually worried most people would pick clams because of that same reasoning, kjsjks.

In my mind I was imagining they'd be pretty dull conversation partners. Can't believe I didn't consider mollusc gossip as a possibility.
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@FawnOverFun
Ok but think about how fun of a party trick the first one would be!
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Oh, whoops, forgot to change the poll time when I deleted and redrafted this πŸ˜”

Well, 46 people is a good enough sample size, don't be surprised if I re-run this or something like it in a week though!

RE: https://seafoam.space/objects/4411c884-7d96-48dc-be6d-8f5b6aee99b4
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Edited 24 days ago

@AppleAmps girl i’ve never been to a party

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@AppleAmps Musical cues, oh my, so many to choose from ... could it be Wagner's Valkyria? Or completely different, the Pointer Sisters' Excited? Now, which one to pick?

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@AppleAmps okay i just saw this but do i get to change the musical cue, or do i have to pick it forever right now

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@lizzie
It can't just be silence though, if you're going to a funeral or whatever you still have to pick *something*
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