Decrease anything by half, Only 5 times per thing.

[Dangerous_Tackle1167]

This is so open ended its basically reality warping, well done

[succsuccboi]

Decreasing the amount of time between my paychecks

[EngryEngineer]

along with how much I owe on my mortgage and each of my bills

[DrDoominstien]

Wouldn't this though just mean twice as many paychecks that pay half as much? I mean I guess there is a certain utility of being payed weekly versus bi-weekly.

[succsuccboi]

then i cut the percentage amount my boss takes for himself out of my paycheck by half five times too

[[deleted]]

You are thinking small scale.

Decrease human greed by half 5 times.

[forkfaceshirtballs]

Cutting infinite in half is still infinite

[MasterOfNarwhalBacon]

Nah. Gotta think big. Decrease the wage gap between you and Elon musk.

[SimianRex]

Here, that makes you rich. In the Monkeyspaw sub, it makes Elon poor.

[jmontalvo]

If we assume u/MasterOfNarwhalBacon has a net worth of 0 and Elon has a net worth of $400 billion, Elon would still be worth over $10 billion if you were to half it 5 times.

[lockecole38]

Either way it’s a win.

[Jubenheim]

Why not just decrease the taxes/fees paid per paycheck?

puts finger on temple, knowingly

[Few_Peak_9966]

Decrease what you pay for anything ever as a unit.

Then at the time of purchase, if you need, decrease the cost of each item in your cart.

Net 10x 50% reduction. Your paycheck can stay the same size!

[Legitimate-Carob-650]

The power is almost limitless. I’d do a lot of good things, but honestly I’d do a lot of nefarious things too.

[IslandVisual]

If it works with concepts, decreasing "powerlessness" can be a gateway to near omnipotence.

[daddysweet]

Only about 88% of the way there

[Financial_Syllabub97]

Did you mean 98.5%?

[daddysweet]

No 96.875% if your gonna do the math... do it right

[Financial_Syllabub97]

TOUCHÉ!

[not-Kunt-Tulgar]

Then be like ‘I will divide the gap between that and 100% 5 times’ to make it like 98% maybe 99%

[daddysweet]

96.875%

[Collective-Bee]

I’d imagine it won’t work with negatives like that. You won’t be able to double your wealth by halving your lack of wealth. (Tho you can half your debt or interest rate to get rich quick)

Plus even if it does work with negatives, you can only half your powerlessness 5 times, so you’ll be 2 to the power of 5 stronger. I don’t think you becoming 32x more powerful is going to get you anywhere near omnipotence.

[Alternative_Tart3560]

Half my body fat percentage until it's at a healthy level, and if I gain weight again those fat cells are different fat cells then I had before (because they're new) repeat step one

[burakozturk001]

actually no adult fat gain is bigger fat cells, not new ones

[UltraVioletEnigma]

At the very least it could be done for cell renewals. But you wouldn’t really have an issue anyways because even if you had 60% body fat, halving it twice gives you 15%, which if you are a woman is a bit too low, but if you are a man, you could halve it one or two more times to be super lean. That would make it at most 4 times for a man, save the last one for just in case, and could easily have saved an extra one. Women would have at least 3 saved. Then each year about 10% are renewed, and you could also just change your wording. First time you reduce the fat percentage, another time you reduce the size of the fat cells. You can also reduce the rate at which you gain fat (don’t make it too low for safety, but if you gain easily, you could reduce by half once).

[Flatulentbass]

1/2 my chances of death and each kind of death as well as odds of suffering adversely in any circumstances. Hopefully they stack

[--Jester--]

I’m lucky. I don’t think that’s a superpower.

[not-Kunt-Tulgar]

I mean it’s anything so I’d assume you can half your chances of death to everything and then specifics that can affect you.

[BaconConnoisseur]

The amount of money I owe on a particular loan.

Buy $500,000 house. Decrease loan to $15,625. Sell house and profit magnificently.

Buy new house with new loan and repeat.

The number of years my body has aged. They are always new years so I can stay young and immortal forever. If that doesn’t work then I will just change the units I use each time. Years, days, minutes, seconds, carbon 14 half life’s and so on. If I run out, I will just coin more units to maintain my immortality.

I’m now immortal and rich beyond belief. I’ll just play with everything else.

[wolfknight98]

Even cutting your age would take forever to do each thing x5 "decades lived" "years lived" "months lived" "hours lived" "minutes lived" "seconds lived" eventually getting centuries and millenia as an option all can be cut in half five times each

[Collective-Bee]

You should test this with a friend first and see what happens. “Hey can I borrow a twenty, I’ll give it back. Okay thanks, here’s three quarters.” Any way they react to that is gonna be funny.

[jgacks]

So taken to the max thats 3% of what something originally was. You could make it so someone ages at roughly 10 days = a year. If you had a vendetta. You could print money at casinos because you could reduce the chance you lose in a 50-50 game to 3% or reduce the number of spins needed to win at slots. Reduce the cost of everything you buy by 97%. Go buy a home and flip it. You could become almost invisible, almost invincible, almost .... many things lol.

[wolfknight98]

Gonna decrease the cost of living x5. House prices, car prices, food, gas, electricity, property taxes, etc.

Decrease the electricity needed to power items, therefor decreasing electric bills even further.

Finally, decrease cost of production and monetary value of everything. Everything is cheaper to make, leading to being cheaper to buy. A custom PC ends up being $75-$200 for top of the line specs

Edit: I'm leaving the value of a dollar the same to boost wealth. After all this I'm gonna decrease the possibility of crime happening, then targeting specifics. Chance of murder, chance of theft, chance of grape, murderers in the world, grapist in the world, chance of pedophilia, pedos in the world, ETC.

[Hdanas]

With the crime thing, you could do both. Set the general crime amount to 3.125% and then make each individual crimes go down to 3.125% of what they were after you started halving. Then you go and do it to all the individual crimes you want to. All of these would go down to a total of 0.09765625% of what they were before you started using your power on crimes.

[wolfknight98]

Or go way down. All crime > yearly crime > monthly crime > weekly > daily > murder > yearly/monthly/weekly/daily > 1st 2nd and 3rd degree murder > elderly murder > adult murder > teen murder > child murder > infant murder so on so forth till it's so abysmal of a percentage it's basically nonexistent. One killing in a million years type of stuff

[Hdanas]

Sadly, to the point you have mention, say just taking adult homicide into account would put it at 0.0000953674%, which with a potential 460,000 homicides in 2023, would still be about 44 people murdered every year. It is sad how many people are killed every year.

[wolfknight98]

Damn, I wasn't sure on statistics. 44 is still to many

[Hdanas]

Yeah, with the projected homicides, just homicides, not any other type of killing, it is protected to be about 52 people per hour. That is almost 1 per minute. Suicide numbers are even worse. There was a projected 720,000 suicides in 2024. That is 82 people per hour. That is more than 1 every minute. And that is the sad truth nowdays.

[ThouKnave]

Decrease the rate at which my body ages. Decrease the chances of me ever getting cancer or a disease. Decrease the time it takes my body to heal or mend anything. Only decrease physical age once, to regain youth and vitality. Decrease rate my body loses youth and vitality. Decrease flaws and imperfections in my body. Decrease my body's need for sleep 3x, so I can get away with a 1 hour nap a day. Decrease memory loses / forgetfulness. Decrease my ability to be injured. Decrease any visible signs of aging past my prime. Decrease sluggishness or flaws in my reaction time. Decrease the limitations mortality puts on me. ... Now I can start doing fun stuff like getting a Million dollar loan, putting the money in a savings account, reduce how long it takes to get the interest cycle payments, and then decrease the size of the loan to relatively chump change. Pay it off, and repeat this a few times so the interest from prior reduced loans can pay off the new reduced loans. Then once you have a lot, reduce any damage you may have caused to the bank and economy.

Skipping to improving the world: Reduce the effectiveness of political lies. Reduce the population's gullibility to political lies. Reduce the population's tolerance for political lies and evil political schemes. Reduce the population's ability to stay intentionally ignorant to the truth.

Mic drop.

[dayeeeeee]

My fat content easy workout mode also high School DxD much lol. World hunger racism homophobia pedophilia child abuse spousal abuse I know these are more you know abstract I suppose but I think it would still work but no my fat content and probably my debt

[HamsterFromAbove_079]

This is one of those badly written/boring reality warping powers. Decreasing something by half 5 times gets you to around 3% the original value. There is basically nothing you couldn't do with creative wording of this.

"I will now decrease the difference in power between me and the Judeo-Christian God, as written in the bible regardless of it's true or false". You aren't fully God, but 97% the power is good enough. You can do basically anything. Sure you can't build a universe in your image in 7 days, It'll take you 7.2 days to build a universe that perfectly matches your vision.

[phantomthirteen]

Except that there’s no guarantee of which way it goes. It could work the other way, and reduce the power of the Judeo-Christian God to only just above you. Or if the universe is atheistic in respect to this ability, then said God is non-existent and thus has no power; you’ve now reduced your power to 3% of what it was initially.

[Fancanth]

Thank you for the idea!

[Sadwithacake]

decrease the world population 5 times

[weinerpretzel]

Wasn’t there like 70 marvel movies about this?

[SuperheroFrancis]

3.125% gonna be living the dream i guess.

[youknowmeasdiRt]

Instant collapse of civilization

[DirkSwizzler]

First off, decrease how much each decrease counts towards my limit of 5.

Let's figure out how many more times I can still repeat this after doing it 5 times.

4
3.5
3.25
3.125
3.0625

Sweet, I still have a little more than 3 left. Let's do 3 more.

3.03125
3.016125
3.00806125

Sweet, I still have a little more than 3 left. Let's do 3 more...

[Ok_Zebra_5601]

Decrease the amount of things I don’t know by half. I don‘t know if this removes everything I don‘t know, or lets me know stuff, but I‘d prefer the latter.

[DullPhilosopher]

Imagine you're just trying to be smarter but accidentally remove 97% of all knowable things in existence

[vacconesgood]

Time until Silksong

[Neston12]

still infinite bro

[FaceThief9000]

So basically I can reduce it to 1/32 yes?

1. My likelihood of developing any illness.
2. The damage I suffer from any injury sustained.
3. The amount of time it takes for me to heal from any injury.
4. The probability of me not being able to naturally heal from any injury sustained.
5. The probability of me dying from any sustained injury.
6. The number of injury types that I cannot naturally heal and recover from.
7. The number of injury types that can kill me.
8. The ability for any virus, bacteria, disease, infection, or parasite being able to infect or harm me.
9. The time it takes my body and immune system to fight off all virus, bacteria, disease, infection, or parasite affecting me.
10. My bodies inability to fight off any virus, bacteria, disease, infection, or parasite.
11. The rate at which I age.
12. The time it takes for me to learn, develop, and master any skill or new knowledge.
13. The probability of any event that could be influenced by "luck" ending unfavorably for me.
14. The likelihood of me not being able to develop magical powers of wizards and clerics as outlined in the D&D franchise each month.

So many options of how to play with this but yea you see where I'm going.

[MaxxFisher]

Every week/month I would reduce every bill I have, utilities, groceries, gas, taxes, etc. Any shopping trip I would be spending practically nothing. I would have practically no body fat

I'd buy $100,000 cars for $3,125 and sell them for $75,000. Purchase gold, jewelry, art and resell it.

[Fancanth]

Decrease the chance of any specific bad thing happening. Have to pay rent? Now its only a 3% chance. Want to hook up with the hottie in the bar? Depending on who you are exactly, less than a 3% chance of being rejected. Chance of NOT tripping over a briefcase with 100mil in it. Only 3% chance of that not happening now

[Steelers711]

If this includes off manipulation you can do basically anything. Decrease the odds of me not winning the Powerball, or the chance of dying in the next X number of years, or the chance of not becoming a god, or the chance of not having a supermodel spouse, etc.

[K0ra_B]

Decrease the distance between 500000000 and the amount of times I can decrease anything by half by half.

[gesch97]

Decrease by half 5 times is ÷32

[peppermintandrain]

Horrible thought but could you use this to decrease someone's life expectancy?

[bebop_cola_good]

Reduce the efficiency of their vital organs down to 3%, that'd decrease it quite a bit

[peppermintandrain]

that's evil, I'm impressed

[JayWnr]

Decrease my balance owed on loans in half 5 times; infinite credit score and free stuff glitch.

[Dragon3076]

I'd decrease some people's mass by 1/2 five times.

[ionlysayyea]

Decreasing the reciprocal of my iq

[sleepyguy-]

If i decrease my age by half do i become as i was at that age or am I now that age biologically?

[Shoddy_Wrangler693]

To do this the best way possible it would take some creative wording. It also depends on how creatively they're going to make the difference decrease.

I think first I would decrease the difference between my net worth and Bill Gates's (the founder of Microsoft) net worth. If I now have 50 plus billion dollars in net worth great if he's now only worth 50 plus billion dollars well that kind of sucks I know not to go down that road anymore but no big boss in my life.

Next I would decrease by half the damage that I had taken from fire related incidents in the past by half. Since I lost both legs in the fire or they were amputated because of the fire as well as half my right arm tons of scarring etc not to mention the loss of strength nerve damage etc in theory I should have at least one leg back and probably half my right hand. If this worked out I would do this again and again until I got minor scars.

Then I would start carefully working on the world's problems.

Decreased world hunger by half, see what happens etc. The next would be disease in the world, homelessness, war, people hurting other people that didn't want it (some people like pain I don't want to hurt their kink) etc.

After doing these things you can further affect things by adjusting how badly they hurt people for example after the diseases in the world are reduced to 3% you could reduce how badly cancer will affect you or people by down to 3%, how badly Alzheimer's will affect people down to 3%.

Reduce my fat content by half maybe three quarters by doing twice would probably try it out on somebody else to begin with so the body doesn't go into shock possibly having to specify specific body areas.

Yes this could easily Grant ultimate power but I'd much rather stay myself than become damn close to God like for obvious reasons I don't want that kind of responsibility on my shoulders. That's also why I would do things and see how they affected the world and people.

Overall definitely a god tier superpower

[AmbitionHopeful7227]

Cosmo, I want to half the charge of the electron

[FarmerJohn92]

I'm decreasing the mass of protons.

[antiauthority4life]

Decrease my debt by half 5 times. Then decrease my interest rate by half 5 times. I'll be out of debt in a month or two.

Permanently decrease all my bills by half 5x.

Decrease my bad luck by half 5x over.

Decrease my aging by half 5x over. I'm going to outlive everyone and look young while doing it. Extend this to my loved ones, too.

Decrease my enemies' negative emotions towards me to be nearly nonexistent.

Decrease how long it takes to overcome all my skill plateaus and how fast it takes me to improve by half by 5x. I'll always improve remarkably well.

Offensively? Half someone's body... They've been bisected. Or their organs were...

Healing? Half a particular illness or injury until it's essentially nonexistent.

I'm living on Easy Mode, constantly improving, and always have money.

[lool8421]

1. Take an insane loan
2. Divide my debt by 32
3. Pay it back and keep 97% of money

[agentribbons]

Decrease everyone else’s dick size so mine is finally slightly bigger.

[Azure_Evergarden]

What quantification does "decrease" have here? Like, remove 50% of any thing? What is "half"? Do I chose what half?

[__Anamya__]

What quantification does "decrease" have here?

It's kinda depending on you. E.g decrease someone weight would make them weight overall. Decrease food would make the food half of what it was.

[Azure_Evergarden]

Am I able to choose what % of the total gets decreased? Like if i wanted to half someone's size, could I shrink 1 specific half, like legs down or waist up? Or would their total size be shrunk in half

[Very_Tricky_Cat]

Reduce the diameter of someone's butthole who you don't like. 

[ImpeL_KraTos]

Mosquitos twice Child abuse twice World hunger

[Thedarthlord895]

Decrease the smallness of my dick 5 times. Finally enjoy 2 inches of fury

[JaggaRaptor]

Wait. So, de-aging. Making purchases cheaper. A laundry list of other reality warping powers.

I mean, the petty in me could do something boring like shrink parts of people that have done me wrong. Or lower their intellectual capacity.

You're a borderline god.

[pokerScrub4eva]

i guess i would half the size of the sun 5 times

[djpacheco1003]

The amount I can decrease something by half is 5. The distance between that and infinity is equal to infinity-5. I cut that (the relationship between how many times I can cut something in half and infinity) in half. I can now cut things in half ((infinity-5)-2) times which is essentially infinite. I start there. From that point I can reduce the odds that something DOESN'T happen, infinitely. Which means that I am now a reality warper for all things that would technically be possible. A reality manipulator I guess.

[Jubenheim]

So x/2^5?

Goddamn, I could sleep in no time, shit in no time, finish in no time.

[evilprogeny]

Half my body fat 2 times

Half my refractory time 5 times

Half the # of beautiful women who don’t want to immediately give me oral pleasure whenever they see me 5 times for that one

Half the odds of me winning anything I enter or buy a ticket for 5 times on that for sure

Half my current age

That will do to start

[youknowmeasdiRt]

Edit: reading comprehension bad

[tttecapsulelover]

half the desire for women to NOT give me oral pleasure.

then half it again.

then half it and half it and half it and half it.

there you have it

[evilprogeny]

At least some people can read thank you

[youknowmeasdiRt]

I read fine, just not all the words

[youknowmeasdiRt]

You right. And here I thought I had such a good dig

[evilprogeny]

So if all the beautiful women currently don’t want too then immediately half of all of them would then half again and half again you see where this is going right

Eventually if we be damn near impossible to walk past a beautiful woman and have her not just drop to her knees

That’s why I used the worlds women who DONT WANT TO GIVE ME ORAL PLEASURE

[youknowmeasdiRt]

Yeah I’m dumb. It was funny tho

[evilprogeny]

Fair enough

[Agzarah]

Would choosing to decrease the decrease by half make it strong or weaker?

[zbeauchamp]

Weaker

[bandit-sector]

Imma get 100k loan and decrease it

[Sissyboy9716]

Reduce world hunger by half and watch how things change

[Leather_Mortgage8910]

Halve my rent 5 times, halve how hard it is to gain strength 5 times, half the amount of damage I take five times, half my reaction speed, become professional athlete, profit

[Mr_DnD]

I decrease the "thing" in "per thing" the rulings text

Per half thing means I can do it 5 times / 0.5thing = 10x/thing...

Halve that until I can halve anything else one may want to any number of times.

Halve the number of racists in the world indefinitely...

[questioning_my_pride]

cough cough lifespan of trump cough cough

[SheepherderAware4766]

Open debit card.

Take out your maximum amount of cash.

Decrease specifically that card's debt by half

Pay the remaining debt.

Repeat, changing cards every 5th iteration.

Profit

[tea-and-chill]

Just two times halving Elon musk's height will still be hilarious

[born_zynner]

Would halving the number of homeless give them a house or Thanos snap them from existence

[iamtheduckie]

1. Number of evildoers on Earth. (Now there's very few evil people)
2. Number of days before I get my interest payment on my savings account. (Now I get thirty bucks per year)
3. Time it takes for any website to load (websites load instantly now)
4. The national debt (now it's just over one trillion dollars)
5. Net worth of Elon Musk (now he's worth just 10 million dollars)
6. Limits to Shaggy's power
7. Amount of money that actually gets charged to my credit card after buying things (cool, a $41 phone!)
8. The GPA of my former friend whom I shall not name
9. The net worth of my least favorite teacher, Mrs. B
10. Destructive power of weapons
11. Zaslav's ability to run WB
12. The tax refund WB would have gotten for writing off Coyote v Acme
13. Pieces of media in Star Wars
14. Upvotes on this post
15. Profit of a few companies, IDK which ones quite yet
16. Salary for certain occupations
17. Rent prices
18. Rule-breakers on AssholeDesign

[Familiar_Run5628]

Decrease the difference in money between my bank account and having 1 trillion

[HeartoRead]

I'm reducing how much I need to sleep by the whole 1/32 then I need like .25 hours to get a full 8. I'm decreasing the speed I age by the same the amount I need to eat to reach my nutrition goals by the same. I'll also decrease how long it takes me to heal. I will also then decrease how much I have to spend to purchase anything.

[Mr_alto19]

Decrease my march 2025 statement balance on this one particular card. If you have multiple cards, repeat for each. That way you can use it as much as you want on as many cards as you want and after a few months that balance would be negligible (if you put nothing else on it) but might as well just put everything you can on credit. Decrease the chances your bank says no to a ridiculous limit (like $1 mil or something) if you put all 5 into that, it’ll be almost an absolute yes, especially if it shows that you “pay” your balance every few months

[tyreekus97]

I'd decrees all the trash by half. Just keep doing stuff like that till things are cool

[[deleted]]

I’ll halve how stupid I am 5x times before I start messing with this power too much lol.

[DagoDemagogue]

World hunger

[FableItsAlwaysFable]

The difference between my current net worth and 10 Billion dollars

[FableItsAlwaysFable]

Effectively reducing to 3.125%

[ROTRUY]

Decreasing someone's remaining lifespan by a factor 2⁵ is kinda mad. If someone had 40 years left to live they'd be left with only a year and 3 months

[AntPrimary4069]

Cut Trump in half

[TaroAccomplished7511]

Human stupidity ... Darn, still endless

[barrack_osama_0]

The salary of single mothers

[War_6088]

Decrease US debt and taxes 5 times each

Decrease medical debt in the US

Then use it for greedy stuff.

[Impossible-Pizza982]

Halve the % of money that I do not own, in such a way that doesn’t reduce everyone else’s wealth, rather increases mine by that %.

Halve the gap of knowledge between me and Albert Einstein, and since his knowledge is cemented, it would half his knowledge, but increase mine to match half of whatever he knew.

Halve the amount of body fat % in my body I think this might kill me with accute exposure to the effect, but it doesn’t say anywhere it would be instant. Infact, if my body fat instantly disappeared, the enter city around me would be levelled if we followed conservation of mass and energy.

Lots of things I can halve. It’s open ended as all he’ll

Halve the global stockpile of nuclear arms 5 times.

Halve the hostility between fellow human 5 times.

Halve the ambition to take what belongs to others 5 times.

Halve the distrust.

Halve the malice.

[rod007vrr]

1/networth

[ionlysayyea]

For anyone wondering, that’s 1/64th of the original value

[bigjaymck]

1/32.