Originally posted by StyleTime
You said it was line of sight. It's not, which is why I posted that. And there's still more examples of that.It's possible she was just being cheeky by calling them doubloons. It's pretty clear that is what she's referring to in-comic though.
She lost it in a fight with robots that were impervious to all her weapons. She used her luck to save herself while the robots and ship were destroyed. Her power does have limits, but we won't be fighting robots in real life while gambling.
It's actually been hinted that Domino is wealthy, multiple times. She is an extraordinarily greedy, thrillseeking person though, and would still generally pursue money regardless.
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I was going to bring up Domino "summoning" a meteor to support the lotto idea, but it really doesn't matter. Let's throw the lotto ticket out.There's progressive jackpot slot machines like The Megabucks that have minimum jackpots of 10,000,000$. There's several of these types around, with people winning even 40 million at a time.
Considering her powers can do this to slot machines, it shouldn't be too hard to take home a pretty big sum over 24 hours.
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She's looking down into the water in your scan.
What do you think is meant by line of sight?
Got any scans of her luck working behind her?
How about away from her?
Progressive line slots are linked machines over multiple locations. The game supplier might have linked machines in a dozen sites each taking 3% of what is waged to add to the total jackpot. Her luckbwould have to effect more than the machine she sees to get said jackpot. It's outside the range of her powers to accomplish that. Your scan of her affecting slot machines isn't a progressive line one.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
I'm still mystified why being unlucky in love (if applicable; she seemed to do ok with Colossus) is an issue with beatboks. It's only for 24 hours, why would that matter?
It's another example of her luck having limitations. Its not all encompassing, it has falibilities. Shit goes wrong for Domino as often as it goes right. Let's take for example her 3 issue mini from 97 (only one I could lay my hands on quickly). In issue one she's attacked by a guy in jesters costume with energy whips. Jerbluck allows her to dodge and bail. As she's heading to the rooftops she's thinking unless that guy has stilts for legs I'm clear. Whatta u know, the guy has stilts.out of sight her luck was bad it then turns around again while she's facingnhim. In issue 2 she uses a pin pad to access a facility but can't get in, why didn't her luck just make the code she keyed correct. She fights Ldy Deathstrikee and the battle turns either way a fee times. She throws some grenades at Lady DS that she knocks away. Dominoblostbsight but when she regained they bounced back and lander under deathstrike. Domino just looks down at them as they explode and luckily gets shielded from the blast by Deathstrike. It goes back and fourth this way several times. Dominoes luck isn't a no limits fallacy. It has limits that have been shown over and over.
I like how we all assume Xaviers power needs time to get used to but Dominoes luck doesn't. No, instead with that power we know how to control right off the bat.
so play high stakes table games instead. you'll win every time.
the caveat is that the casino will 100% ask you to leave (ie ban you) after you hit a few major jackpots, so you'd ideally need to be in a place where you could bounce from casino to casino, like vegas or atlantic city.
that would be a very easy way to become a multi millionaire in a day. for instance even dana white made $7 million in one night by playing blackjack in vegas. with domino's powers you'd be able to easily do the same, and faster.
Originally posted by beatboksdifference is that her luck is far more passive than xavier's tp, and requires a lot less active control to use successfully.
I like how we all assume Xaviers power needs time to get used to but Dominoes luck doesn't. No, instead with that power we know how to control right off the bat.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85that brings up another question i had about this thread.
Plus, what constitutes 'line of sight'is pretty ill-defined, I reckoned.What if she sat in front of a computer watching stock trades? Or a betting website with global sports?
say, after amassing tens of millions gambling or whatever, you watched the stock market for a bit and came up with several "hunches" as to where you could invest the money you won in order to massively expand on your new fortune.. would you retain that knowledge after the 24 hours has elapsed so that you could continue building your fortune afterwards?
Originally posted by beatboks
She's looking down into the water in your scan.
What do you think is meant by line of sight?
I'll respond to the rest after I get home to my computer.
Originally posted by beatboks
I like how we all assume Xaviers power needs time to get used to but Dominoes luck doesn't. No, instead with that power we know how to control right off the bat.
Xavier's telepathy would require passive defensive walls that take years to develop, or at least a good teacher. You'd likely just go insane and not even have a chance to use it.
Originally posted by beatboks
Got any scans of her luck working behind her?
How about away from her?
Here, she literally can't see.
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As for far away events, there's these --
Sage contacts Domino to go help Wolverine, except Domino's luck had already "told" her to start running in that direction. Wolverine was fighting on a beach while Domino was inside a building at a party, and had zero knowledge of what was happening to Wolverine.
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Domino "summons" a meteorite to kill a villain. The first page is the opening, possibly suggesting an asteroid impact happened millions of years ago just so Domino could do this.
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Data files -- When her squad needed to find someone, Domino literally just pointed at a spot on a map and said she had a "good feeling" about it. It worked.
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Sure, we don't know how much direct control she truly had over the meteorite, and she has the map right in front of her in that example; however, it's clear her powers can take into account far more than just her line of sight.
Originally posted by beatboks
Progressive line slots are linked machines over multiple locations. The game supplier might have linked machines in a dozen sites each taking 3% of what is waged to add to the total jackpot. Her luckbwould have to effect more than the machine she sees to get said jackpot. It's outside the range of her powers to accomplish that. Your scan of her affecting slot machines isn't a progressive line one.
Even if we disregarded that, she still has even more options to make it work lol. As I put in the other post, she can just go to the casino she feels good about, and can get the winning machine.
Originally posted by beatboks
It's another example of her luck having limitations. Its not all encompassing, it has falibilities. Shit goes wrong for Domino as often as it goes right. Let's take for example her 3 issue mini from 97 (only one I could lay my hands on quickly). In issue one she's attacked by a guy in jesters costume with energy whips. Jerbluck allows her to dodge and bail. As she's heading to the rooftops she's thinking unless that guy has stilts for legs I'm clear. Whatta u know, the guy has stilts.out of sight her luck was bad it then turns around again while she's facingnhim. In issue 2 she uses a pin pad to access a facility but can't get in, why didn't her luck just make the code she keyed correct. She fights Ldy Deathstrikee and the battle turns either way a fee times. She throws some grenades at Lady DS that she knocks away. Dominoblostbsight but when she regained they bounced back and lander under deathstrike. Domino just looks down at them as they explode and luckily gets shielded from the blast by Deathstrike. It goes back and fourth this way several times. Dominoes luck isn't a no limits fallacy. It has limits that have been shown over and over.
You're also confusing bad luck, with a neutral situation. When her power is "off", she's just returning to the normal probabilities every person has. It's not actively giving her bad luck.
Most of these are battle related anyway. We won't be fighting anyone irl, so it's not like someone will be there to nullify our lucky outcomes.
Originally posted by beatboks
In issue 2 she uses a pin pad to access a facility but can't get in, why didn't her luck just make the code she keyed correct.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
That map example is akin to giving her a list of stocks and her choosing the right one....
We don't even need to leave the house to try to make luck work. It might actually be easier.
Again, as a noob with the power, I doubt I'd win every time. But I wouldn't really need to.