The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Ryujin]

This is an example of where powersets can be of limited use if they don't come with additional powers that allow their use to be adequately controlled and moderated. Like, if you have superstrength but not superresilience, you may have sufficient raw power to flip a car, but if you try it you'll likely rip your own arms off instead.

In this instance, having the ability to use telekinesis down to the quantum level is of limited use if you don't also have senses capable of examining your surroundings at those levels of detail.

The one thing that so many people forget about super strength is that it doesn't give you super inertial load. Try to flip a car and you'll likely just throw yourself three blocks down, or neck deep in the street.

 

[CleverNickName]

The one thing that so many people forget about super strength is that it doesn't give you super inertial load. Try to flip a car and you'll likely just throw yourself three blocks down, or neck deep in the street.

Engineering school destroyed my ability to appreciate comics.

"Whatever, Superman. If you tried to lift a truck like that, you'd just tear the bumper off. Use the proper lift points, sheesh."

 

[Thomas Shey]

This is an example of where powersets can be of limited use if they don't come with additional powers that allow their use to be adequately controlled and moderated. Like, if you have superstrength but not superresilience, you may have sufficient raw power to flip a car, but if you try it you'll likely rip your own arms off instead.

In this instance, having the ability to use telekinesis down to the quantum level is of limited use if you don't also have senses capable of examining your surroundings at those levels of detail.

Of course, arguably that just means, that in practice, you don't really have those powers at those levels. If they can't be functionally applied, are they really there?

 

[Thomas Shey]

The one thing that so many people forget about super strength is that it doesn't give you super inertial load. Try to flip a car and you'll likely just throw yourself three blocks down, or neck deep in the street.

No, what people assume is that it does do that, because its treated that way virtually everywhere. The other way is just a weird selective realism in a situation that already has discarded normal physics and biology out the get-go.

 

[Scribe]

The one thing that so many people forget about super strength is that it doesn't give you super inertial load. Try to flip a car and you'll likely just throw yourself three blocks down, or neck deep in the street.

Aka: The failure of the Halfling Strongman.

 

[trappedslider]

Group of friends take over Nashville hotel for hours after no employees were found

Three friends go into a Nashville hotel after a late night of partying to find no employees. So, they decide to help out a little, or a lot.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Cadence]

A: "And so, I'm going to talk about composition of dishes with and without recipes."

B: "But that ignores how important storing the ingredients is!?!?!? Without that we might just keep getting rotten veggies like all the people who don't store them up where the customer sees them keep giving me!!! And so how you put the dishes together is secondary."

A: "But that's not the part I'm talking about here..."

B: "I always get moldy fruit served to me!!!"

 

[trappedslider]

Can get him a bacta tank for that burn?

 

[MarkB]

Engineering school destroyed my ability to appreciate comics.

"Whatever, Superman. If you tried to lift a truck like that, you'd just tear the bumper off. Use the proper lift points, sheesh."

I remember being bothered by that even as a kid, seeing Christopher Reeve's Superman catching or lifting huge objects by one flimsy edge. As I recall, they did try to justify it in the comics at one point, as him having a sort of touch-telekinesis that lets him extend his flight power around the object he's lifting, but it's a very after-the-fact sort of justification, and of course you never see it being exploited beyond just excusing the physics.

 

[trappedslider]

you know sometimes i'm glad i'm not as smart as others or i'm i have a high suspension of disbelief