Originally posted by krisblaze
Help me fight and survive in the wilderness? What are the benefits of this? Fighting wild animals? Sounds like completely retarded and unrealistic scenarios.Any fight with be over in a second with telepathy.
It'd be way easier to get rich with cyberpathy or telepathy, and they would be much better for studying, assuming anyone with said powers would need that nonsense.
You are not durable by default, you can simply handle your own speed.
You somehow managed to make superspeed sound less appealing then it already was.
-The benefits are self-explanatory, they help you survive. The specified telepath would be helpless in such a scenario. There is nothing unrealistic about getting attacked by a wild animal. It happens, well, every damn day.
-One second? Wow, that's so long. The Mach 1 Speedster could end a fight in milliseconds. Another benefit thus, you save so much time in life as a speedster.
-And how do you 'handle your speed' without being more durable? Rather stupid thing to say. That's what logically has to happen for you to withstand the rigors of Mach 1. Your muscles, skeleton, nervous system etc have to be more durable to withstand the friction, and not to mention the G-forces, as it only takes a few to knock a person unconscious.
-It would be easier to get richer with telepathy and cyberpathy. Who said it wouldn't? But you are still physically nothing special and in the wrong circumstances are completely helpless using the OPs specifications.
And no, why would such a base level telepathy help you get smarter? Your brain is your brain. Just because you can control others' brains does not mean their intelligence becomes yours.
And getting smarter is always a benefit to furthering power. Being a speedster at least gives you the time you need to learn on your own.
-You somehow find the one power where you are legitimately physically superior to every single human by orders of magnitude unappealing? The rush of running faster than the wind and seeing ordinary things in slow motion is more than enough. Super speed helps you in every physical way while also being able to help you fiscally/mentally.
On the other hand Telepathy/Cyberpathy have absolute garbage range as per the OP. 360 square feet, which is the size of a living room, or a crappy apartment. And within that living room sized space you can only affect 10 humans at a time, and yet your range of influence can fit far more than 10 humans. So if you were to be assault by a large crowd, you'd be boned. Likewise any gunman can shoot you from just a few dozen yards away.
You also don't have any enhanced reflexes so you'd presumably have to take a moment to lock on to a person's brain waves before you can do anything.
You can also only affect humans, so if you are walking alone somewhere and a venomous snake bites you, you're helpless to stop it. If a bear attacks you, you are helpless to stop it. A large dog gets loose and chases you? You'd have to fight it on your own.
On the other hand the Mach 1 speedster is a few multiples faster than what's necessary to be invisible to the naked eye, so getting caught is a very low risk, and by most practical terms you are a demi-god, so there are few situations dealing with physical harm that you couldn't overcome or avoid in the first place. Even a crowd of people that could overcome this barebones telepath would be easy to beat since each person is going to be a slug relative to you anyway.
Sure, the likelihood of being attacked by a large crowd if you were a telepath operating covertly is unlikely, but again its a scenario where you'd be helpless, but a deadly animal attacking you is not impossible. Again, I like to keep myself covered for all situations just in case.
All I took that to mean is that you aren't choosing to be a meta-human in a comic story.
After all, physics may be a real world characteristic, but 'A being of great power' that grants you your chosen ability is not. He/She may very well have the generosity and foresight to cancel out the negatives of the powers.
I'll await Id's further clarifications on the other matter.
Guys, there was no power limit on the telepathy. You don't give a shit about animal attacks, because you don't need a body. There's plenty of examples of telepaths existing in psionic or astral form. There's even examples of telepathic energy affecting things physically, which bypasses the need for a "human mind." A concentrated psi-bolt would do the trick.
Even in that dumb animal scenario, the telepath is fine. That said, superspeed is still a fine pick. Just lower on the priority list.
Originally posted by psycho gundam
Meanwhile a telepath walks around with their hands in their pockets cause they have no need to run from or to anything. You get access to any place you want to go to with access to anything you want to get without effort since people can just casually hand you things like plane tickets or account codes. You can have them forget you or the event ever existed completely or give them a fake story like they do in M.I.B. Your choice.Nobody on Earth can take advantage of a telepath and there is no defense nor is there a way to prove it exists to even prosecute you for it's use. Can't say the same for the other powers.
Put it this way: Professor X is a telepath and has/had technopaths, speedsters and people that heal fast working for him
*drops mic*
Telepathy is the most dangerous power realistically. The only power that trumps it is flat out reality manipulation.
Originally posted by StyleTime
Guys, there was no power limit on the telepathy. You don't give a shit about animal attacks, because you don't need a body. There's plenty of examples of telepaths existing in psionic or astral form. There's even examples of telepathic energy affecting things physically, which bypasses the need for a "human mind." A concentrated psi-bolt would do the trick.Even in that dumb animal scenario, the telepath is fine. That said, superspeed is still a fine pick. Just lower on the priority list.
i know right? why even bother with super speed. in this scenario youre barely faster than a boeing 747, itll still take you HOURS to get wherever you want to go LOL and thats not counting all the stops you have to make for food. oh and theres the whole perception/everything feeling slow as shit thing.
telapathy is ****ing great.
Originally posted by riv6672
The telepathy choice is showing how easily powers can corrupt, and people can self destruct.
We're just responding to the situations presented. Like I said, needlessly hurting people wouldn't be on the menu for me. I just want my free food and stuff.
^^^actually, no.
The very first response to this thread was:
Originally posted by ghostman
telapathy no contest. brb go to where bill gates makes a public appearance and mind rape him into wiring my off shore accounts billions. about to die? pull a professor x and transfer my consciousness into a new body. dont like the president? have a secret service agent shoot the ***** in the face, or get close enough during the inauguration or any event she makes an appearance at to implant the thought offing herself then uploading naked pics to kmc before she does it, want free shit? just mind rape them into giving it to you. if you have no morals, this power is god.
Originally posted by riv6672
^^^actually, no.
The very first response to this thread was:Nice try though.
Nice try though.
Originally posted by krisblaze
He wasnt talking about fighting other supers.
Regardless, you can stay fairly moral with any of these powers. This idea that you have to become some evil overlord because you have powers is silly. Not even sure why people are speculating on who'd win in a fight. We'd just be living our lives here.