Strange/Useless powers.

[ApSciLiara]

Oh, that is now my favorite GM response to people who wish for flight.


... That can be very powerful. What kind of "manipulation" did you have in mind?

Raising or lowering its temperature by 0.00000000001 Kelvin

 

[the_j485]

*cough* splitting the atom *cough*

Splitting an atom does give a fuck tonne of energy, IF YOU SPLIT ENOUGH! Splitting one wouldn't be that great, it wouldn't even be detectable.

 

[Sleepyscumbag]

Assume they all explode at once. If I could do more at once at a time, that would go outside the parameters of the power. Even if I could do each one several times a second, even a thousand, the explosion would barely be noticeable.

You never specified an amount of time, only "at once". To me, "at once" is an instant. But yeah, combining 5000,00000000000000005000 U worth of atoms isn't that powerful in itself.

 

[the_j485]

Actually, that number of atoms would blow up a sizeable chunk of a town, if not up to a city.

 

[Sleepyscumbag]

Actually, that number of atoms would blow up a sizeable chunk of a town, if not up to a city.

That's because you're reading it like an American. In Europe, we use commas instead.

 

[the_j485]

That's because you're reading it like an American. In Europe, we use commas instead.

I'm british myself, that's how we do it.

 

[LivingAngryCheese]

I'm british myself, that's how we do it.

The rest of Europe don't, I am British but I study other languages

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

*cough* splitting the atom *cough*

Thats not how any of this works.

 

[ApSciLiara]

Thats not how any of this works.

Wrecked.

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

The power to lick cats without getting cat hair on your tongue (but not mouth)

 

[Bashful Giant]

The ability to read minds - but only whilst asleep.

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

The ability to read minds - but only whilst asleep.

That would actually be pretty cool

The power to create current gen video game consoles but they are worthless.

 

[Bashful Giant]

Freezing all of time and space.

If someone could actually do this, they'd soon pretty damn soon, as the particles forming the air wouldn't move.

Though that's less a pointless superpower as an exceptionally impractical one.

 

[Sleepyscumbag]

The power to create current gen video game consoles but they are worthless.

Just go make the dogestationbox and you're good.

 

[keybounce]

How the hell can that be so powerful?

Lets see. Change an atom inside a molecule, and change the molecule.
Change some H's into O's, and let them pick up extra H's, so you get OH's where they should not be, or worse, molecules that should not attach suddenly do attach.

Change a bunch of sodium, or calcium around, and muscles stop working right.

Fine tune it, and maybe a small heart-shaped muscle stops.

Yea, being able to do fine work on a small scale ... heck, IBM would hire you for small-scale computer design.

 

[the_j485]

Lets see. Change an atom inside a molecule, and change the molecule.
Change some H's into O's, and let them pick up extra H's, so you get OH's where they should not be, or worse, molecules that should not attach suddenly do attach.

Change a bunch of sodium, or calcium around, and muscles stop working right.

Fine tune it, and maybe a small heart-shaped muscle stops.

Yea, being able to do fine work on a small scale ... heck, IBM would hire you for small-scale computer design.

Pretty sure we're talking a SINGLE atom here.

 

[ApSciLiara]

Pretty sure we're talking a SINGLE atom here.

Yeah, I said that one page ago... and the only thing you can do is manipulate its vibration in order to change its thermodynamic energy by 0.0000000000000001 Kelvin

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

Yeah, I said that one page ago... and the only thing you can do is manipulate its vibration in order to change its thermodynamic energy by 0.0000000000000001 Kelvin

Kelvin is celsius+273

So -273.000000000000001 celsius?

 

[ApSciLiara]

Kelvin is celsius+273

So -273.000000000000001 celsius?

No, not to that temperature, by that temperature. So take the current temperature and add or subtract 0.000000000000001

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

No, not to that temperature, by that temperature. So take the current temperature and add or subtract 0.000000000000001

Ah

But that is still adding or subtracting 273 celsius then.