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ooc Salem University OOC (Open)
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
The key concept here is that you can take different speeds as your zero speed reference point. For example, if you are considering a train, you can take the train as your zero speed reference point (the perspective of people sitting on the train watching the ground move past out the window) or you can take the ground as your zero speed reference point (the perspective of people standing on the ground watching the train go past). If you and a wall collide, you impart force to the wall and the wall imparts force to you. The size of this pair of forces is independent of your zero speed reference point (i.e., it doesn't matter whether the wall is moving or you are moving, you experience identical forces either way). On the other hand, if you collide with a wall you impart energy to the wall, and if the wall collides with you the wall imparts energy to you. The question of whether you collide with the wall or the wall collides with you is entirely dependent on your zero speed reference point (i.e., the question of whether you're standing still or the wall is standing still). Now, if the wall collides with you at a certain speed (i.e., if someone rips it out and throws it at you) it obviously hurts a lot more than if you collide with a wall at that same speed (i.e., if you run without looking where you're going), since walls are a lot heavier than you are and thus hit a lot harder (i.e., with more energy). In all normal situations we take Earth as our fixed zero speed reference point, but Miko is the fixed zero speed reference point of her own magic, meaning that for the purposes of absorbing the wall's energy the wall always collides with her and thus it always hits a lot harder. If she falls and hits the ground she can't nullify it with her magic because for the purposes of her magic the entire Earth is pounding into her face. In terms of force the ground doesn't hit hard, but in terms of energy - with Miko as the zero speed reference point - it's literally an entire planet hitting her. Alternatively, if that's still confusing (it's part of the fundamentals of Einsteinian relativity, so there's no shame), here's a different tack: Force is not a property of objects. Energy is. When Miko falls she has kinetic energy, but to say that she 'has force' is meaningless. When Miko hits the ground she experiences force, but to say that she 'experiences energy' is meaningless. If Miko could absorb force, she would not have to experience force upon impact with anything at all, whether car or wall or ground, regardless of whether she was thrown at it or it was thrown at her. Since energy is a property of objects, on the other hand, it makes sense to distinguish between Miko absorbing the energy of other objects and Miko absorbing the energy of her own body. If Miko absorbed the energy of other objects, she would be able to nullify the impact of other (sufficiently small) objects hitting into her (like speeding cars or ripped-and-thrown walls). If Miko could absorb the energy of her body, she would be able to nullify the impact of her hitting into other (much larger) objects (like static walls or the ground). Since Miko cannot absorb the energy of her own body, she can nullify the impact of other (sufficiently small) objects hitting into her but not the impact of her hitting into other (sufficiently large) objects. This is clearly different from the alternate Miko who can absorb force, since alt-Miko would not have to experience force upon any sort of impact. This is mostly extraneous unless Miko gets into some really weird pickles, though. Absorbing force lets her nullify fall/throw damage, but absorbing energy (assuming it's not the kinetic energy of her own body) does not. -
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Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
Wait, when she absorbs the kinetic energy of something, is that in the sense of stopping it in its tracks relative to her? Cars stop dead if she absorbs their energy and so on? Because if so, fall/throw damage would hurt her after all - kinetic energy is relative to what you take as your zero speed benchmark, and if Miko is her own zero mark she'd have to absorb an entire Earth worth of energy when she hit the ground. I got mixed up for a second thinking that absorbing forces was the same as absorbing energy - Newton's law of equal and opposite forces would mean that the force of the ground on her is identical to the force of her on the ground, making it easy for her to absorb it, but absorbing kinetic energy relative to oneself is quite a different kettle of fish, now that I think about it. I'm sure there's some way to make an infinite energy generator by absorbing and emitting kinetic energy relative to an object that can speed up and slow down, but I'll save that for the back of my envelope. -
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Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
Energy is defined as 'the ability to do work', so speaking quite generally if something can be used to do stuff it's energy. Magic is just a different form of energy (or a different group of forms of energy) to the normal ones, that interacts with consciousnesses as well as with other forms of energy. The question, then, is of what forms of energy Miko can manipulate. Heat, kinetic energy and electromagnetic energy seem to be your round-up there - they're all transmitted by the same fundamental particle (gotta love virtual photons), so it makes sense as a grouping. It appears that her manipulation consists of absorbing the energy and emitting the energy without any further control, which means that the extent of this power is being able to heat/cool things, ground electric/magnetic fluxes and discharge them, and absorb kinetic energy (which would include fall damage because being hit by a car isn't different from being hit by the ground) and presumably use it to shove things very hard later on. Am I correct in assuming that she has to be touching it to absorb it but can emit it towards moderately distant opponents? If so, this is a fairly decent power with quite clear limitations, although I must ask if I've got the full extent of it described correctly. -
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Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
'Energy manipulation' quite literally encompasses The Totality of Magic, including energy absorption. Even energy absorption alone is such a potent ability that Arid's old character had a subset of it as his only power (magical energy absorption) and was still one of the more formidable characters. This is easily Miko's most overpowered concept yet. -
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Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
Only if you do it via application of energy. You want that thing to move fast? Shove kinetic energy into it. You want to freeze it? Hold it in place using energy. Any form of speed manipulation that doesn't involve 'brute force' speed alteration has to involve some sort of time manipulation, since physical speed doesn't change without energy inflow/outflow. -
Hi sir you are a good friend <3
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ooc Salem University OOC (Open)
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
Thousands of people volunteer their bodies to science every year - being quasi-resurrected is honestly a pretty good deal compared to being pickled and dissected. At least as long as the soul doesn't quasi-resurrect along with the corpse, that is: keep spirit-summoning impossible and you have yourself an ethical-with-consent magical practice. Ech, still pretty iffy. It's pretty much impossible to counter with other powers on grounds of time being metaphysically fundamental on every basis known to man, so any implementation would be primarily concerned with nerfing it down to not-quite-as-deific levels, which is finicky for me and awfully prone to rulemongering, limit-pushing, and outright abuse. Better I think just to leave it out and save complication. -
Huzzah! Thank you very much, my good ma'am! She is a splendidly-rendered pone and I shall treat her accordingly.
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The Navipone is exceedingly smol - may I haz? (EDIT: if the random picker chooses someone other than me for the Navipone, I would also like to throw my hat in the ring for the tribalpone, as she is very cute as well)
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Fun cost-saving tip!
Some of the more astute among you may have noticed that most commercials for expensive things now advertise using pure numbers instead of actual prices! For example, a new car that should be advertised as costing $19,999 is in fact advertised as costing nineteen-nine-nine-nine by a fast-talking voice! This leads to the exciting conclusion that if you can induce the manifestation of pure numbers in the real world you can exchange one 19 and three 9s for a brand-new automobile instead of using the sorts of numbers you have to work for! Even more excitingly, pure numbers primarily manifest conceptually in your mind, which is part of the real world, implying that if you can satisfactorily describe the concept of a pure number to the automobile seller you will in fact have conceptually duplicated the pure numbers in question from your mind to theirs, thus fulfilling your role in a contractually binding exchange of goods in the eyes of economic law! Conclusion? If you talk to a car seller about maths for long enough they'll eventually give you a car to make you go away.
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ooc Salem University OOC (Open)
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
I'm about two thirds of the way between legally deceased and the very model of a modern major general. Which direction the proportion lies is left as an exercise to the reader. Considering the actual faculty of the last version of the RP, insanity is something of an unofficial job qualification. As long as it's mild enough to stay on the right side of the Admins and keep the students at least half a step from psychological trauma, the world is your lobster. Jilted by politics and genre transitions - what a way to lose a job. I can see why she might be disillusioned after a slap like that. That would make an interesting counterpoint to what Ley and Dru were like with their ludicrously wealthy families. They might not be able to strike at the University directly but they would be quite the opponent if Salem was involved in a high-profile incident. I don't think so, actually. Blood magic is prized in medical contexts, mind influencing could be used in consensual therapeutic/counselling contexts, and time travel isn't a power up for grabs. Unless you have something in mind that couldn't possibly be put to good use in any context, I would think that there's a time, place and ethic for all powers - although some are certainly more dangerous when misused. -
> 55-hour week
> 40-hour previous week
> supervising 20-meter boreholes being drilled from daybreak until dusk every day
> gashes head on corner of open window as i arrive home after finishing the last one
> aggressively sleep-deprived, blood clotting in hair, dirt coating all exposed skin and sweat coating all clothed skin
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Actually, dying quickly is awfully hard to do compared to how they make it look in the movies. The easy type of death is getting a gut gash that turns septic and kills you slower than a spit-roast rotation. If you don't have access to a hospital your options open right up.
It has in fact been 10-11 hours a day, five days last week and four days the week before due to a local holiday excising what would have otherwise been another day of grind. The job gets ludicrously busy during this time of year due to all the Large Developments that start booting up after Christmas. My boss was talking today about a new job he's taken on that encompasses something like 200 hectares of land, so it's going to get worse before it gets better.
The drillers don't go down the hole, fortunately, since the hole is only about 10cm across. They do a lot of lift-and-carry for the drilling rods but they're all beefy blokes and take it in stride pretty smoothly. One of them was casually chatting to me about the jobs where they have to drive their tractor drilling rig onto a barge with a hole in the bottom in order to drill 200 (yes, 200) meters straight down into the seabed over a span of about 6 days per borehole. Apparently some folks pay them hundreds of thousands to do holes like that to analyse the rock strata beneath various regions of ocean that have never been geologically explored before.
My job primarily entails hand-drilling boreholes up to 5 meters per hole and up to 4 holes a day. Secondarily it entails processing the dirt data from these holes into a format not stained with mud. Quite beneficial for both my muscle tone and my typing speed, which certainly assists in typing replies like this one.
Also why are you encouraging me to kill my grandmother
you are surrounded repeat you are surrounded place the teacup slowly on the ground and put your hands in the air
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I'm pretty sure most hands are fleshy and can't drill through solid rock on their own. Or at the very least, if it was just you out there in the field doing that, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have hands left to type with.
Like, just you drilling holes, that would take ages! Surely they're not asking for both physical labor AND MATH from ONE DUDE! That's inhumane. … Inbeing? Inhuwater? … That's just Unwatery!
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I can't drill through rock with a hand auger but that doesn't stop them getting me to drill through dirt with one. It only takes two hours to drill a 5m hole if it's half-decent dirt.
Physical labour actually makes doing maths easier in a sense - working the body out in the field is perceptibly good for the mind too. Plus all the pretty chirping birdies and such are quite relaxing for one's mind.
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all brewed drinks are technically soups
change my mind
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hi sir i have a question
the earth is inside the sky
but if we are living earth
and breath is living sky
is the sky inside the earth too
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Did you know! The difference between sauce and jam (jelly for y'all illiterates) is not determined by their constituents (sweet or savoury) or their method of delivery (squeezed or spread), but in fact by their method of manufacture! Sauces are made by liquefying ingredients before combining them, whereas jams are made by mashing up solid and liquid ingredients into a sort of sumptuous slurry!
As such, 'chocolate sauce' is indeed a sauce despite being sweet, tomato sauce (ketchup y'all) is a sauce even when stored in a jar and spread with a knife (people do this), and marmalade is in fact a sauce due to being made via liquefaction of ingredients! In fact, if you shake a can of baked beans until it all mushes together into tasty mulch, you have yourself a technical jam!
SpoilerDisclaimer: The above status update is unrepentant fabrication in its entirety. If you were fooled, duped, or otherwise bamboozled, your penance is to spread this story across the internet to enrage cuisine pedants.
Also, if knowledge was power I'd be a street magician.
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I.R: Incoming Rant, Topic: Hearthstone
Duality commented on Widdershins's blog entry in Widder's Wider Wanderings
*loyally attempts to dissuade you from playing games you hate* -
If you ever need help with pickup lines I've got your back
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on a scale of glabrescent to scabrous how would you rate your skin
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Amicable salutations to all, and welcome back to this episode of Household Hacks for the Household Hack!
Household hack! If you put hinges on both sides of a door it opens twice as smoothly! It's also doubly resilient to would-be burglars trying to unscrew the hinges to break in!
Household hack! If you slice thin layers of chalkboard and soak them in cooking oil overnight, they will take on the properties of paper! Add food colouring for customisable colours!
Household hack! Sponges left by a sink are always moist, regardless of how hard you squeeze them out and independent of atmospheric humidity levels! Exploit this fact to create a handy household machine to extract unlimited water for renewable fusion energy!
Household hack! Several clauses in the Geneva Convention allow concealed-carry guns for the purposes of playing Monopoly, overriding all conflicting laws in signatory jurisdictions!
Household hack! Testifying 'This testimony is untrue' causes the automatic dismissal of any legal case against you! Proven effective against firearm prosecutions from my last game of Monopoly!
Household hack! The White House information systems have a critical vulnerability that can be exploited with this programme! Use with caution to avoid the suspicion of federal agents!
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ooc Salem University OOC (Open)
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
If that's what she wants and she's sufficiently talented in those areas there doesn't seem to be much reason why she couldn't be doing something like that already. At any rate, magical study doesn't require many microscopes and there's not much application for algebraic geometry, so she should be fairly safe from such scenarios either way. In fact, if she's genuinely sufficiently smart, talented, and passionate, she could quite believably be already living a contented life chasing her martial-metal dreams while teaching some form of magic on the side as a stable salary job to keep her bank account on the right side of zero - unless her parents are somehow suppressing her even in adulthood, although in this case that would border on illegality. -
ooc Salem University OOC (Open)
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
Anything she devotes special focus and effort towards independently of any external motivation. Intellectual types usually have plenty of weird hobby-projects going on in the sidelines. -
ooc Salem University OOC (Open)
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
Subjective meaning an issue where it's not outright illogical to take either side. One that's open to opinion and interpretation. E.g., instead of the issue of whether she's doing satisfactory work given her abilities, the issue of whether her magical master project is ethical. She could be doing dodgy magic or even stuff that's traditionally been forbidden. -
ooc Salem University OOC (Open)
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Everfree Planning, OOC & Discussion
She works in magic theory rather than applied magic? That'd probably net her some general disappointment, especially if her magic is of half-decent power. Otherwise I can't think of many logical reasons for what appears to be a generally illogical stance for people to take (easy on the 'god-like', though). Is it not possible to tweak her ire to focus on a more subjective issue?
