or you could just eye-beam him to win and take his girlfiriend, but i'm betting if your eyes glow in a club you don't have to worry about the common parking lot showdowns to begin with....haters will respect you for the simple fact you could microwave them with a glance.
Hand beams: you point your hands down at the ground and fire maximum burst to get super-jump and flight powers.
Eye beams: you point your eyes at the ground and fire maximum burst and you blow your feet off and get whiplash.
Hand beams: you can give people you don't like super-hot handshakes and they don't know wtf is going on.
Eye beams: let out a carefully timed burst to give your headbutt that extra boost during a fight.
Hand beams: when being shot at by an armed gang, duck behind a wall and safely fire back while staying behind cover.
Eye beams: when being shot at by an armed gang, duck behind a wall and stay there, because if you try shooting back you'll get shot in the head.
Hand beams: during a fight at night in the dark, move your arms around and use just one fist at a time to confuse your enemy as to exactly where you are.
Eye beams: during a fight at night in the dark, fire your eyebeams to let the enemy know exactly where to shoot to take the headshot.
Hand beams: you fire up your glowing hands and can pick up hot frypans with your bare hands.
Hand beams: you walk around with your coffee mug in your hand keeping it nice and warm, while the eye-beam guy's coffee gets cold unless he keeps staring at it.
Hand beams: during winter you make roasted almonds and popcorn in your hands.
Eye beams: you try to make roasted almonds and popcorn in your hands but you just burn your hands.
Eye beams: you are blasting something with your eye-beams when a friend walks up and says "hello". Instinctively you turn around to answer and blow their head clean off. You are arrested and charged with manslaughter.
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Eye beams I think would normally be a lot more useful. When robbing a bank for example, you could carry the money AND be able to fend off the police with your eyes. Also they would be handy if you were restrained. Anyway you look at it, eyebeams are more versatile because they still allow you the use of both hands.
The only downside really is how fragile the eye is. 50% of your power could be taken by a stray shot from a Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB gun with a compass in the stock.
1. Hand beams allow you to shoot in multiple directions simultaneously (like in front and back at the same time).
2. Hand beams allow you take cover better while fighting.
3. Eye beams are much accurate (if you can see the target then you will hit the target)
4. Eye beams come out faster (One can possibly get shot before they raise their hands to shoot hand beams).
With that said, Hand beams are better when fighting the government (tanks and police) and eye beams are better when defending yourself against a single opponent pointing a gun at you.