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    I would love to have a barrier for bad news.
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    Imagine if the GITP Forum was a superheroes headquarters internet forum and all the members in this forum have superpowers. What do you think of this idea?
    Are you implying I don't already have inhuman Charisma? *swishes hair*

    Quote Originally Posted by Tvtyrant View Post
    I have a character for a story I have been working on whose super powers are being invincible and being able to phase through matter. He kills off a lot of the world's leaders before a teleporter sticks him on the moon forever.
    I've been working the other end whenever I use superpowers, everything's incredibly specific and under a strict 'one person one power' policy. And they get to the level of 'launch any object in your hand directly away from your center of mass with a force of 20kN', which means how you use your power matters more than what it is in many cases. It's slow going, as I tend to need to add more specifics to powers that start to become game breaking (the one teleporter I have has to get into a vehicle before they can exit any other vehicle in the same 'system', and even that's causing problems).

    But the fun part has been working out the implications of literally one in a million people having a power, and having no duplicate powers. It makes the rare superpowered conflicts relatively weird until somebody just resorts to mundane means.
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    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
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    How about a Jovian Uplift stuck in a Case morph? it makes so little sense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
    Are you implying I don't already have inhuman Charisma? *swishes hair*



    I've been working the other end whenever I use superpowers, everything's incredibly specific and under a strict 'one person one power' policy. And they get to the level of 'launch any object in your hand directly away from your centre of mass with a force of 20kN', which means how you use your power matters more than what it is in many cases. It's slow going, as I tend to need to add more specifics to powers that start to become game-breaking (the one teleporter I have has to get into a vehicle before they can exit any other vehicle in the same 'system', and even that's causing problems).

    But the fun part has been working out the implications of literally one in a million people having power, and having no duplicate powers. It makes the rare superpowered conflicts relatively weird until somebody just resorts to mundane means.
    I never even implied that. It's you're trying to make a joke, then you've failed to make me laugh.

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    Are you implying I don't already have inhuman Charisma? *swishes hair*
    I swooned.
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    It's you're trying to make a joke
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    I have the power to have all the powers I want.
    Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    I swooned.

    So.... how's that Grammarly working out for ya?
    It good. Not perfect but good. I feel like that I missed a couple of errors though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfTangible View Post
    I have the power to have all the powers I want.
    Yeah, well my Power=Current×Voltage!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
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    How about a Jovian Uplift stuck in a Case morph? it makes so little sense.

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    Well I know the moderators and the admin will have superpowers of a deity or perhaps overdeity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
    I've been working the other end whenever I use superpowers, everything's incredibly specific and under a strict 'one person one power' policy. And they get to the level of 'launch any object in your hand directly away from your center of mass with a force of 20kN', which means how you use your power matters more than what it is in many cases. It's slow going, as I tend to need to add more specifics to powers that start to become game breaking (the one teleporter I have has to get into a vehicle before they can exit any other vehicle in the same 'system', and even that's causing problems).

    But the fun part has been working out the implications of literally one in a million people having a power, and having no duplicate powers. It makes the rare superpowered conflicts relatively weird until somebody just resorts to mundane means.
    A major part of the story is they aren't super heroes, they just think they are. Life is a sentient organism (think big biological computer with life forms as parts) that is essentially divine. In ancient times Earth was repeatedly invaded by aliens so Gaia gave some humans super powers and immortality to fight them. These are where our gods come from, all of which died once the aliens were gone and Gaia rescinded her powers. The supers are tearing things up, not realizing their existence is because another fleet is coming into the solar system.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
    Yeah, well my Power=Current×Voltage!
    Resistance is futile!
    If less than one ohm.

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    We must never forget that with great power comes great energy. Or little time, I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tvtyrant View Post
    A major part of the story is they aren't super heroes, they just think they are. Life is a sentient organism (think big biological computer with life forms as parts) that is essentially divine. In ancient times Earth was repeatedly invaded by aliens so Gaia gave some humans super powers and immortality to fight them. These are where our gods come from, all of which died once the aliens were gone and Gaia rescinded her powers. The supers are tearing things up, not realizing their existence is because another fleet is coming into the solar system.
    I've still not worked out the full backstory for my 'supers', it's not really the point of the story and the supers themselves don't care. As far as anybody knows they just appeared one day, and can work out on which one.

    It was probably a Tuesday.

    Quote Originally Posted by SZbNAhL View Post
    We must never forget that with great power comes great energy. Or little time, I guess.
    Look, it's as my grandma said. 'If you want great power be prepared for a shock from the massive charge'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
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    My power is to have all the powers I want.
    My Avatar is Glimtwizzle, a Gnomish Fighter/Illusionist by Cuthalion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AMFV View Post
    My power is to have all the powers I want.
    That's my power already.

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    Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfTangible View Post
    That's my power already.
    I use my power to TURN HALFTANGIBLE INTO A CHICKEN.
    My Avatar is Glimtwizzle, a Gnomish Fighter/Illusionist by Cuthalion.

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    I have the power to strip anyone of any power they have.
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    I use my power to TURN HALFTANGIBLE INTO A CHICKEN.
    I turn AMFV into a chicken but better than him!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    I have the power to strip anyone of any power they have.
    But you're one of the few that has power around here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DataNinja View Post
    But you're one of the few that has power around here.
    And it's damned hard to consolidate it if all y'all go around getting all these others powers!
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    Wow.
    That took a very sudden turn for the dark.

    I salute you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DataNinja View Post
    But you're one of the few that has power around here.
    We let him think that.
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    Holy **** it's a good joke!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    Holy **** it's a good joke!!
    Thanks. I don't remember where I got it from.
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    I have the power to have all the powers I want.
    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
    Yeah, well my Power=Current×Voltage!
    watts that you say?

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    I've been working the other end whenever I use superpowers, everything's incredibly specific and under a strict 'one person one power' policy. And they get to the level of 'launch any object in your hand directly away from your center of mass with a force of 20kN',
    N=F, but N=/=E, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Insane Jeenyus View Post
    N=F, but N=/=E, right?
    I work in NI, so yeah. I haven't worked out how many Joules it outputs, but because it works over a fraction of a second it's pretty low (hench the force being in Kilonewtons).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
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    Holy **** it's a good joke!!

    I threw up today v_v
    Oh
    I hope it is nothing serious. Get well soon!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Iruka View Post
    Oh
    I hope it is nothing serious. Get well soon!
    Finally remembered to respond to people talking about this.

    Don't worry it's fine I just have a weak stomach for things. I'm okay!

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    Every now and then, my job throws me an interesting curveball which spins a little further than anyone would have expected. We have a test rig for running certain specific tests on a specific subcomponent shipped from abroad in order to make sure they're not faulty. No one knows what it does in anything but very broad terms, and there is no documentation whatsoever. Furthermore, it can only be run from a single laptop which we can't update for compatibility reasons and can't hook up to the rest of our network for security reasons. In fact, the only thing we have is the source code. In Visual Basic. Dating back to before .NET. And there's basically no separation between GUI and back-end code. Drek.

    Having toiled away at this code for a week now, though, I'm starting to get a hang of the general structure, but that also means I'm starting to uncover the truly atrocious programmer sins. The greatest evil, found to day, is an enum1. This enum described a memory address, and all names would describe a value in the high millions. This enum was used for one variable in a subroutine I was interested in, and that variable was assigned... a "1". There's no 1 among the defined names for this enum, nor is 1 a valid memory address. And it's just passed into the still unexplored murky depths of the program, so I don't know how it's used either. If this would have been some murky backwater file, I would just have declare the code to be bugged and assumed it wasn't ever executed, but this code is called all the time. My mind is boggled.

    Unrelated to this evil, I showed my boss the code for these tests, and he forbade me from mentioning it to my friends, because if it got out we have to work with Visual Basic, he would never be able to hire anyone again. I tried to blackmail him into giving me a pay raise, but he didn't fall for it.

    1For the non-programmers, an enum (or enumeration type) is a way to say specific numbers mean specific things, so you can use the name instead of the number in the code, thus increasing readability and reducing the risk of errors. For example, I could make the months of a year an enum, so instead of using "1" all over the place to mean January, I could just write "January" and the computer will resolve the value for me.
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    Well I threw up just now. Looks like I'll be calling in sick tomorrow.

    Running myself a hot bath to help me feel better, get clean and stop feeling like a terrible person for being attracted to my friend. Hopefully I can manage one of the three.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelphas View Post
    So here I am, trapped in my laboratory, trying to create a Mechabeast that's powerful enough to take down the howling horde outside my door, but also won't join them once it realizes what I've done...twentieth time's the charm, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
    Well I threw up just now. Looks like I'll be calling in sick tomorrow.

    Running myself a hot bath to help me feel better, get clean and stop feeling like a terrible person for being attracted to my friend. Hopefully I can manage one of the three.
    Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

    Depending on the causes of your stomach upset, you may want to consider the various things that have worked for me over the years:

    • Carbonated water
    • Candied ginger
    • Benadryl
    • Avoiding certain foods
    • Choosing smaller containers to drink whiskey from


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