Let's say a magical entity witnessed your suffering as an inkwell and decided to grant you a superpower to help you in your life. They offer you to choose between these two powers, and they guarantee not to judge you for how you will use them and not to interfere:
1. Probability Manipulation: You know the vidya quote 'Nothing is true. Everything is permitted' Through this ability reality bends to your will. As long as something is reasonably possible it will happen when you will it to happen. You can win lottery then accumulate enormous wealth through high risk high reward trading(though not drawing too much attention too quickly would be wise). The key is however it has to be possible you can't just make money rain from the sky, but you can command lightning to a specific place. As long as you are not truecel tier ugly you can encounter and meet a Becky who will show interest in you. For example if you are 5'7 you can find a rare woman who will be okay with that height. 5'1 however you might be out of luck. This ability greatly helps you survive as well, avoid any disease, gunshots will miss you(unless point blank probably), if a thug is trying to attack you in the street you can make them stumble, fall and lose consciousness before even landing a punch. It will also help you with getting the best out of any cosmetic surgery, though again it is limited to boundaries of what is possible, you just can't transform into a GigaChad if you are truecel. Extremely improbable things like making meteors rain from the sky are beyond your capabilities.
2. Perception Manipulation: Through this ability you control sensory inputs inside the brains of people around you. You can make them hear, smell, see, taste or feel touched by anything. You can overwhelm them with sensory inputs until they lose consciousness even. You can alter your own perceptions as well(you are guaranteed to never lose the track of what is real and what isn't by the magical entity) but something will always feel off if you try to lock yourself into a complete fantasy world. You can look like 6'6 GigaChad, literal 10/10 and get ONSs with pretty much any woman. However this ability only works when you are near people, let's say around a kilometre radius. If a girl takes a selfie with you and looks at it near you she will see a GigaChad, when she returns her home at the opposite city block and looks at it however, she will see who you truly are. I can't see much way how you can make money through this ability personally, magic shows(with making sure that nobody is filming), or gigolo for rich women perhaps(remember you can alter your own perception of her as well)? You can protect yourself against many threats through this ability as long as you see them coming, you can pretty much disable any person attacking you by overwhelming their senses but if someone decided to kill you in sleep for example, that might constitute a problem. So try not to make too many enemies if you choose this.
Which one would you pick and why?
1. Probability Manipulation: You know the vidya quote 'Nothing is true. Everything is permitted' Through this ability reality bends to your will. As long as something is reasonably possible it will happen when you will it to happen. You can win lottery then accumulate enormous wealth through high risk high reward trading(though not drawing too much attention too quickly would be wise). The key is however it has to be possible you can't just make money rain from the sky, but you can command lightning to a specific place. As long as you are not truecel tier ugly you can encounter and meet a Becky who will show interest in you. For example if you are 5'7 you can find a rare woman who will be okay with that height. 5'1 however you might be out of luck. This ability greatly helps you survive as well, avoid any disease, gunshots will miss you(unless point blank probably), if a thug is trying to attack you in the street you can make them stumble, fall and lose consciousness before even landing a punch. It will also help you with getting the best out of any cosmetic surgery, though again it is limited to boundaries of what is possible, you just can't transform into a GigaChad if you are truecel. Extremely improbable things like making meteors rain from the sky are beyond your capabilities.
2. Perception Manipulation: Through this ability you control sensory inputs inside the brains of people around you. You can make them hear, smell, see, taste or feel touched by anything. You can overwhelm them with sensory inputs until they lose consciousness even. You can alter your own perceptions as well(you are guaranteed to never lose the track of what is real and what isn't by the magical entity) but something will always feel off if you try to lock yourself into a complete fantasy world. You can look like 6'6 GigaChad, literal 10/10 and get ONSs with pretty much any woman. However this ability only works when you are near people, let's say around a kilometre radius. If a girl takes a selfie with you and looks at it near you she will see a GigaChad, when she returns her home at the opposite city block and looks at it however, she will see who you truly are. I can't see much way how you can make money through this ability personally, magic shows(with making sure that nobody is filming), or gigolo for rich women perhaps(remember you can alter your own perception of her as well)? You can protect yourself against many threats through this ability as long as you see them coming, you can pretty much disable any person attacking you by overwhelming their senses but if someone decided to kill you in sleep for example, that might constitute a problem. So try not to make too many enemies if you choose this.
Which one would you pick and why?
