12-14-2004, 03:36 PM
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#61 | | Din Älskling
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| The ability to control time at will.
You would look invisible. Could travel quickly and if used correctly would be virtually undetected by others.
Bored, wham 300 years in the future. Feeling homesick? Wham return to the past.
Want to read a good book stop time cold in it's tracks.
Be kind of creepy though. You couldn't learn to play a piano with time stuck like that. Sounds would be broken into their discrete waves.
Of course, I could get a 2 hour a day workout in, read a couple novels, finish writing a couple books. All in the same day, or infinitely small period of time. Hope they have good regenerative therapy in the future.
Of course, I'm assuming that the time control is brought about by a field generation so that my cells decay at a somewhat normal rate and aren't "stuck" to the temporal period in which they currently reside.
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12-14-2004, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bokken Elemental: Wolverine, as I recall, stated at one point that he weighed over 300 pounds as a result of the adamantium. He trained constantly to be as mobile as he was; I guess the assumption would be that one day we'd just receive said super power. Learning how to use and live with it would be another thing entirely. | Hmmm... good point. With the ability to regenerate at the rate Wolverine does one would think that developing muscle should be pretty easy since your muscles would heal and strengthen at an accelerated rate as well.
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12-14-2004, 08:23 PM
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| If you had the ability to control time, you wouldn't have to worry about money either. You could just pop into the future to see what next week's lottery numbers are or to see what's going to happen on the stock market & invest accordingly. | |
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12-14-2004, 08:25 PM
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#64 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by SäbelFechter If you had the ability to control time, you wouldn't have to worry about money either. You could just pop into the future to see what next week's lottery numbers are or to see what's going to happen on the stock market & invest accordingly. | Yes, there are many benefits to dominating time.
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12-14-2004, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Jeebus Originally in a foot race between the silver age Flash and Superman, Superman was written in as winning, then they realized that's all the Flash has. If they made him the second fastest man on the planet then he would really have drifted off into obscurity right then and there. Superman may have gotten the shaft on winning the race, but hey, he has lots of other titles, Man of Steel, Man of Tomorrow. Flash only has the one. | Superman and The Flash have raced three times, the first two were cop out ties, the third, Flash won.
EDIT: Not to mention that The Flash is one of the few men who is generally considered to stand a chance, or even beat, Superman in a fight (I think the list goes Captain Marvel, The Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, and one other...) Quote: |
Originally Posted by Elemental True, but I thougth it was cooler when Batman did it in "The Dark Knight Returns" | Yeah, it was, but I've never been a fan of Batman beating Superman. Batman might be smarter than Superman, but Superman could, before Batman even SAW him, fly up to Bats, pick him up, fly him out in to space and hurl him into the sun.
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12-14-2004, 11:35 PM
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#66 | | No, your mom's a lemur
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| Definitely shapeshifting. It is by far the most practical power. If you want muscles, BOOM, you have muscles. Want to be invisible, BOOM, you're a fly on the wall. You could do anything, be anyone, be Brad Pitt and therefore as RL says, fork all the women you want. My power OWNZ! Boo Ya! | |
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12-15-2004, 04:21 AM
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#67 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by ReverseLunge Actually I could land right between a beautiful woman's legs and fork her at the speed of light | One suspects that this is already the case with you, RL...  | |
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12-15-2004, 04:49 AM
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| I would have the ability to have whichever superpower I desired.
I broke the system *dances* | |
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12-15-2004, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Pancakes I've never been a fan of Batman beating Superman. Batman might be smarter than Superman, but Superman could, before Batman even SAW him, fly up to Bats, pick him up... (etc.) | As I see it, Superman is the equivalent of a "natural" athlete. He's never had to train to develop his physical abilities; he just shows up and wins.
Batman, in order to even come close to competing at that level, has had to devote every minute of his life to honing his meager gifts. He can't afford to rest or take a break. He's got to have contingency upon contingency in place (Kryptonite rings on hand, hi-tech developed, blueprints memorized, support staff trained, etc.).
I agree that the Batman-beats-Superman conceit is silly on its face. Just doesn't make sense, all things being equal. And that's why the comic book writers never make all things equal: the product would be ended three pages in. So Bats usually has a plan worked out, or Superman isn't up to par because he's got a cold or under psi influence or whatever. Is that a plotting "cheat" trick? I don't think so, because it reflects their inherent natures -- Batman preps; Superman doesn't.
Regardless, though, Batman's victory is always more satisfying. Batman IS the common guy who has to keep working his @$$ off. He's you and me. ... If they were fencers, I'd be cheering for Batman every step of the way. | |
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12-15-2004, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata One suspects that this is already the case with you, RL... | or most definately not... 
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12-15-2004, 12:23 PM
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#71 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by Victor
I agree that the Batman-beats-Superman conceit is silly on its face. Just doesn't make sense, all things being equal. And that's why the comic book writers never make all things equal: the product would be ended three pages in. So Bats usually has a plan worked out, or Superman isn't up to par because he's got a cold or under psi influence or whatever. Is that a plotting "cheat" trick? I don't think so, because it reflects their inherent natures -- Batman preps; Superman doesn't.
Regardless, though, Batman's victory is always more satisfying. Batman IS the common guy who has to keep working his @$$ off. He's you and me. ... If they were fencers, I'd be cheering for Batman every step of the way.
| I think it was on the Justice League cartoon, they were going through Batman's utility belt and he had kryptonite in there. I forget who it was (some woman) asked what it was for and he smiled and replied "Just in Case".
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12-15-2004, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by esskreemr You would look invisible. Could travel quickly and if used correctly would be virtually undetected by others.
Bored, wham 300 years in the future. Feeling homesick? Wham return to the past.
Want to read a good book stop time cold in it's tracks.
Be kind of creepy though. You couldn't learn to play a piano with time stuck like that. Sounds would be broken into their discrete waves.
Of course, I could get a 2 hour a day workout in, read a couple novels, finish writing a couple books. All in the same day, or infinitely small period of time. Hope they have good regenerative therapy in the future.
Of course, I'm assuming that the time control is brought about by a field generation so that my cells decay at a somewhat normal rate and aren't "stuck" to the temporal period in which they currently reside. | If you're talking about the problems with things like sound being stuck in time, then you really couldn't do anything. Try to read that book of yours, you'll break it - by turning the page in no time, you're moving it infinitely fast. | |
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12-15-2004, 02:33 PM
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| For my power I want to be abel to read minds it could be useful in fencing. And I could just look at someone and know what their thinking about. Flying would also be nice.  | |
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12-15-2004, 02:47 PM
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#74 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by Soldier If you're talking about the problems with things like sound being stuck in time, then you really couldn't do anything. Try to read that book of yours, you'll break it - by turning the page in no time, you're moving it infinitely fast. |
That's why I'm hoping for a "field effect". Otherwise, I would have to acquire clothing sources anytime that I shifted.
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12-15-2004, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by esskreemr That's why I'm hoping for a "field effect". Otherwise, I would have to acquire clothing sources anytime that I shifted. | Ironically you would lose time. If you could just make time around you change but couldn't make yourself younger or older you would actually live a shorter life relative to those around you. You might have experienced 75 years of life, while those around you have only experienced 70. The numbers would of course change based on how much time you spent outside the normal flow of time.
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12-15-2004, 03:20 PM
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#76 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by Black Jeebus Ironically you would lose time. If you could just make time around you change but couldn't make yourself younger or older you would actually live a shorter life relative to those around you. You might have experienced 75 years of life, while those around you have only experienced 70. The numbers would of course change based on how much time you spent outside the normal flow of time. |
Speed it up equalize the "time debt".
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12-15-2004, 04:04 PM
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| or a time machine sorta like thing.
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12-15-2004, 04:59 PM
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#78 | | Din Älskling
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Originally Posted by HillBilly or a time machine sorta like thing. | No, someone could take it from me. It must be an innate ability to manipulate time to be of any practical use/impractical use.
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12-15-2004, 05:44 PM
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| like an invisible ,weightless, physically transparent time machine
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12-15-2004, 09:04 PM
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#80 | | No, your mom's a lemur
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| Or you could like be a shapeshifter, and change into something that change the innate laws of physics, like a black hole, or a cosmic string. | |
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