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Conveniently that is the very next power in the list and looks much better. She checks that. 

Oh that's excellent. I love Backchannel.

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Oh good, I'm glad!
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Not like other girls is... she can see how that would be important for a lot of people but she doesn't think she wants that. It feels like that would get in the way of trying to convince people to change society. She thinks briefly about whether a power like this would let her go places where she's supposed to wear clothes without wearing them but the Notebook is already making her a custom power that might help with that.

She doesn't need people to reciprocate feelings she mostly doesn't have.

Time Enough For Love is incredible. Is there anyone who doesn't take that? She checks it.

Wow, Time Enough For Love isn't something I would have thought to ask for but it sounds amazing. Can you tell me more about how it works?

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To start with, it just stretches time a little while you're hanging out with someone in a way that's about wanting to be close to them, or get to know them, or enjoy your closeness, that sort of thing. You still get tired if you spend a long time like that, but you'll find that you have more time than you expected, and if there's somewhere you need to be afterwards, you're mostly on time to get there. When you have more people you want to hang out with like that, you eventually start being able to spend time with two different people in two different places at what would normally be the same time, and you and your friends don't get tired as much when you're together.
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Oh wow, if it makes you less tired that's even better.

She's not sure if she needs Safe At Home but she can think about that later it's definitely something she would want to have if she had spare points so she checks it.

I Can Fix Them and I Can Help Them seem pretty good as well she thinks she prefers I Can Help Them though.

What does the power mean by "Your Love" in I Can Fix Them and I Can Help Them?

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It means that the power works with people you're close to emotionally and supporting in an ongoing way in the context of a relationship or friendship.
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Hmm, I wonder if being someone's therapist can count for that. I think it would be worth it even without that but that would just make it so much better.

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I'm not very familiar with therapy but I think it's usually supposed to be a less personal relationship than those powers need. If you're okay with being more personal than usual about it though, I think it could work.
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That makes sense, I think it would be something I would need to think about carefully for each person.

Could you explain a bit more about how they're different? They have the same language about my love helping people but they seem focused on very different things. Is that a real difference in what they can help with or is the difference more in how the explanation is focused but they can help with the same things?

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They can both help with the same set of things; it's just the descriptions having different emphasis.
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So then with Nullified is there a big difference? It seems like the standards under I Can Help Them are more complicated and maybe a little broader does that override the version in Nullified or not?

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Yes, I Can Help Them overrides Nullified as far as restrictions on affecting people's minds.
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She checks I Can Help Them

Where does Inspirational get the meaning of better from? Also, is it still a guarantee with Nullified?

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The definition of better is a complicated one, but it's shared with I Can Fix Them and I Can Help Them. It has to do with what they want and what you want and what they're okay with and what you're okay with and what lets them lead a happy life without hurting people.

It's not a guarantee with Nullified; most things that guarantee things about how people will change or react aren't guarantees anymore with Nullified.
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Is I Can Help Them a guarantee then?

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It's not any less of a guarantee with Nullified than by itself, but it's not an absolute guarantee by itself because it needs the person to be on board with changing.
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Right, that makes sense. Could you help me understand the difference in who I can help with that as opposed to Inspirational?

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If your goal is to help people, I Can Help Them is probably a better fit than Inspirational; Inspirational is made in a bit of a weird shape. It's hard to describe what's strange about it, but it's not as well suited to helping people as the other two.
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Maybe I'm just using help more broadly but I feel like inspiring people is usually a nice thing to do for them. Especially if it only works when they're okay with it. I'm less sure about the people regretting hurting me and people I care about specifically. Is that what you mean by it being a strange shape?

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Yes, that's a big part of the strange shape. It doesn't do nearly as much inspiring as the points would usually indicate because a lot of that power is going into trying to make sure that specifically people who have hurt you or your loved ones get inspired as hard as possible. I might be able to make a variant that was better for your purposes, but especially with Nullified toning it down, I don't think it would be enough better to be worth taking on top of I Can Help Them unless you really really care a lot about having that kind of effect on as many people as possible.
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Alright, being able to inspire people would be nice but it looks like I'm already going to be low on points so let's hold off for now.

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Okay!
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"Well that's disappointing. I guess these powers can't do everything though."

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"You could still ask for it if it's important to you."

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"Yeah, that's a good point."

She adds a note

Note to self: Maybe ask about a more purely inspirational version if I have points.

True Love's Kiss and Eternal Love are both very good. She checks them both.

The Rescuer is not what she was thinking about doing with her life but there is a pull to it. She checks the box and writes a note.

The Rescuer would be the kind of thing I could build my life around but it would also be the sort of thing that would shape my life around it. Not a casual choice.

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