blind_assassin wrote...
I find the people who pick time control/future sight and mind control/mind reading to be somewhat shortsighted. You'd most definitely go insane after a given amount of time. Knowing what everyone around thinks all the time would be so depressing you can't even imagine it. Building a meaningful or trustful relationship with anyone would be impossible since any slight thought they have against you wouldn't be a secret at all.
Time control would be even worse since you'd know what would happen all the time. That's pretty much the point but you'd lose interest in everything. You saw Keira Knightley have sex for the 50th time? Whoppity doo. No one could surprise you and eventually you'd become so bitter and jaded over world politics no one could stand you. Lots of people become pissy and intolerable after 40 years; 600 would isolate you from everyone.
I agree with the mind control thing. I was thinking about it earlier and that would get old really fast. I'd trade that out for being able to heal/revive people.
As for the time control thing, I doubt that'd bother me, I wasn't really thinking about time travel so much as being able to slow/stop time.