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2016-07-11, 01:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-07-11, 06:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
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2016-07-11, 06:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
Yeah, I've worked in the field full-time for the past two years. I don't need telepathy to know how much pain some of these animals are in and that euthanasia is the best option to make them feel better. And anyway, euthanasia is performed under sedation/anaesthesia (to varying degrees, depending on what drugs that vet likes to use). You wouldn't be able to pick up any thoughts or feelings at that point.
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2016-07-12, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
Last edited by KillingAScarab; 2016-07-12 at 09:55 AM.
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2016-07-15, 09:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-07-16, 07:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'd like to see a spoof of Ghost Rider where instead of "the devil's bounty hunter" he's the devil's actuary or something like that
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2016-07-16, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
That reminds me of a book I've read (I think it was by Ray Bradbury) where Martians were telepaths and because of that, if one of them was hallucinating, the others would see the same things. So they couldn't be convinced of anything extraordinary: seeing the evidence doesn't prove it's not someone else's delirium.
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2016-07-18, 01:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Link? I forsee a distinct lack of success finding this by searching for the phrase "Top Ten superpowers", "Top Ten police procedural", or any similar phrase :p
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2016-07-18, 10:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2013
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Last edited by Rater202; 2016-07-18 at 10:10 AM.
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2016-07-18, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
In the webcome Grrlpower, it's noted that many supers can and do get jobs in industry or other areas, since that is so profitable. Hence, government-hired supers are paid a lot due to competition from private industry. Especially when superstrength is a partially telekinetic power, so it doesn't break stuff (you can lift a car without it breaking in half).
I think Dinosaur Comics (Qwantz) had something about how powerful Poison Ivy could be if smart, fixing the environment, ending world hunger, etc. Might've been another comic, but I think it was them.
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2016-07-18, 01:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well for a bit of mundane activity, the Flash could do a couple of things.
A: Work in a power facility where he runs in a machine at super speeds for X amount of time and that kinetic energy is used as a renewable power source. Ex: Like a rodent on the wheel thingy
B: Be a Delivery boy
C: Be the guy who picks up coffee/take out at a business.
D: Or similar to A he could just sit and vibrate inside of an area and have the heat then power a highly efficient heat engine.
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2016-08-14, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2016-08-15, 06:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
So, kinda in 5e DnD, you can technically make a 3.5 mile long line of peasants, make them hand off a spear to the other, the total time would be equal to 6s making the projectile travel 3.5 miles x 6 seconds. This equals out to mach 3, or 420d6 damage.
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2016-08-17, 09:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
No it doesn't. In 3.5, it deals 1d8 damage plus the final peasant's strength bonus, with a -4 penalty on the attack roll because the peasant isn't proficient with spears. I'm certain it does something similar in 5e. You can't mix game mechanics and physics like that. Even if you could, I'm not certain how it's relevant to the thread.
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2016-08-17, 09:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm quoting this this in the Guns in medieval fantasy thread.
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2016-08-21, 03:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
Someone with the power to create illusions could make money by providing special effects for movies* or theatres.
*assuming the illusions show up on camera."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2016-08-22, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I can't help but think that super speed would be helpful in all sorts of computer fields, from data entry to sysadmin. See as fast as your monitor's refresh rate allows, and type as fast as the switches on your keyboard can take it.
Of course, you may then need a healing factor for the resultant carpal tunnel syndrome.
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2016-08-22, 11:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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The "Hole in the Ozone Layer" has about as much to do with the Solar Wind as the price of Swiss Chocolate has to do with the energy intake of the LHC. The "Hole in the Ozone Layer" is caused by a weather pattern over the South Pole during the Australian winter. Ozone (O3) forms in the upper atmosphere when UV light breaks apart O2 molecules and then more UV light hits said monatomic oxygen and creates Ozone. Ozone is, for various reasons, unstable and decomposes over time. Because the atmosphere over Antarctica is in darkness for 3 months and the weather keeps the same upper atmosphere in said darkness, Ozone breaks down and does not reform. The "Hole in the Ozone Layer" is a natural phenomenon that has existed about as long as there has been a continent on the South Pole.
Now, there is a class of incredibly inert chemicals, called Chloro-Floro-Carbons or CFCs, which breaks down in the upper atmosphere and speeds the decay of ozone. They were used for a variety of things as a wonder chemical (due to their incredible inertness) for 20 - 50 years before their effect on ozone in the upper atmosphere was discovered. After it was discovered, most of the world agreed to drastically reduce their use and the "Hole in the Ozone Layer" has since returned to its normally scheduled perturbations.
Now, Storm's powers have lots of mundane utility. The ability to call a rainstorm at will is about as close to the perfect power to promote world peace as things get.
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2016-08-23, 12:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
Is there any downside to Storm's powers? Like, if she created a powerful enough weather effect, she could lose control?
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A father taken by time, a brother dead by my own hand.
With this work behold my grief, in Stone and shifting sand.
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2016-08-25, 05:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Using Superpowers for Mundane Work
She can create too powerful effects for her to control them, yes, but more importantly her powers don't escape the Butterfly effect. Any drastic local changes her powers could make can have global repercussions. So in order to get perfect weather, always, everywhere, she needs to be in total control always, everywhere.
"It's the fate of all things under the sky,
to grow old and wither and die."
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2016-08-31, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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