with firestorms power you have to be intimately familiar with the molecular composition of what you're making or it will fail. doubt I could master that in 24 hours.
for me it would either be quicksilvers speed or dominos luck.. for personal gain. was thinking about henshaws power, but I don't think a human mind could process that much info, especially just starting out.
Xavier TP. With my withdrawn mortgage offset and mortgage redraw I'd get into a 12 hour high stakes poker match. Knowing exactly what cards my opponents had I "know when to hold em, know when to fold em". Then head to the stock exchange with my winnings . Courtesy of TP reading everyone there I'd have ALL insider knowledge before purchasing any stock. I'd know all companies that are about to have take ove
Yeah, I was thinking the same. 24 hours is a small window when you're starting with absolutely zero practice or knowledge.
With technopathy, I'd be too afraid I couldn't hide everything I did in time. All my assets could be chalked up to system errors the next day, with everything being returned to the owner or otherwise corrected. Assuming I even get that far.
1, 2, and 3 seem like the only viable options in my view. And even Batman's intelligence is iffy, as you don't have the resources to actually make use of it.
Then again, I'm thinking from a lazy person's perspective.
Originally posted by Bentley
Given how data works and the fact you don't have previous knowledge on how to master your abilities I don't think you can reliably give yourself fortune, papers and properties without leaving a bunch of traces of manipulation. It's really not much better than selling rhodium in the black market.
But the way Hank does it, he just....asks a computer to do it, iirc. He doesn't actually understand how the Source Wall works, for example.
So if I went to an ATM, I could just ask it to give me money and erase all record of it, for example. Obviously think bigger - rigging share/commodity prices (so Astner gets nothing for his rhodium), title deeds, new identities etc etc.
Re: Re: You gain one of these abilities for 24hrs... What do you do?
Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
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See that's why I wanted Xaviers TP.
Every fictional representation of a TPer when inexperienced just gets thoughts unfiltered. So sitting at a poker table your going to get the thoughts of the poker players or spectators looking at the hands whether you want to or not. At the stock market your going to get the unfiltered thoughts of every broker and the info they've been given.
It's not like I've chosen to mind rape some big financial person to transfer me all their money. I've picked the easy thing you can't help but get without training/control.
Originally posted by Bentley
By the way, how many hours went through before Henshaw actually used his technopathy in any significant way during his first appearance after his initial accident. For all you know it was two days and you can't pull that crap ever
Weeks, I believe. In comic issues it was only 2, but after transferring his mind into the computer, he took weeks to come back and build a body for himself.
Originally posted by beatboks
See that's why I wanted Xaviers TP.Every fictional representation of a TPer when inexperienced just gets thoughts unfiltered. So sitting at a poker table your going to get the thoughts of the poker players or spectators looking at the hands whether you want to or not. At the stock market your going to get the unfiltered thoughts of every broker and the info they've been given.
It's not like I've chosen to mind rape some big financial person to transfer me all their money. I've picked the easy thing you can't help but get without training/control.
But I think the point was that it was EVERY single thought.
And Xavier has global level TP - so you're going to get cdtm and carver in there as well.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
But I think the point was that it was EVERY single thought.And Xavier has global level TP - so you're going to get cdtm and carver in there as well.
brainwave Jnr has planetary level TP but in the issues showing his youth and his inexperience he still was only bombarded with local minds.
the same is true for most other inexperienced telepaths in fiction. the power level they show after they develop their power isn't what they are capable of when they first start using it. its like a muscle you have to develop its ability to do the stronger things.
inexperienced in the first 24 hours of having Xavier's TP you wouldn't even have city level capability. You haven't worked out that TP ability enough to hae developed it
Originally posted by beatboks
brainwave Jnr has planetary level TP but in the issues showing his youth and his inexperience he still was only bombarded with local minds.the same is true for most other inexperienced telepaths in fiction. the power level they show after they develop their power isn't what they are capable of when they first start using it. its like a muscle you have to develop its ability to do the stronger things.
inexperienced in the first 24 hours of having Xavier's TP you wouldn't even have city level capability. You haven't worked out that TP ability enough to hae developed it
Whereas I thought when Galan said Xavier level, it was as he was now i.e. super powerful.
even local minds would be too much, I reckon. I can't even do more than 2 conversations at once, let alone 5 or 10 or 30 unfiltered thoughts all simultaneously.
Re: Re: Re: You gain one of these abilities for 24hrs... What do you do?
Originally posted by beatboks
See that's why I wanted Xaviers TP.Every fictional representation of a TPer when inexperienced just gets thoughts unfiltered. So sitting at a poker table your going to get the thoughts of the poker players or spectators looking at the hands whether you want to or not. At the stock market your going to get the unfiltered thoughts of every broker and the info they've been given.
It's not like I've chosen to mind rape some big financial person to transfer me all their money. I've picked the easy thing you can't help but get without training/control.
You'll be overwhelmed by the "voices" in your head and go insane.