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((Let me put it this way: I'm pretty sure I could make a perpetual motion machine with a few kinetic amps and--especially with the output heat and light--use it to generate electricity.))

It actually would be really easy since you only have to wipe it off once in a while.

You're assuming that it's solid gold.
It's not. It's gold weave. Solid gold furniture would be pretty uncomfortable.

((Edit: if i design a modified heavy gauss cannon that fires 1 meter long tungsten rods is anyone opposed to me actually using it?))

((Depends. What's your bonus to skill and will it be anywhere near anyone I care about?))

Quote from: BFEL on September 13, 2013, 08:18:39 am

((Well its worth noting I came up with those before really seeing more then the initial description of the KA. The "terminal velocity" thing was born from poor understanding at best.
Piecewise seems like a pretty damned intelligent dude, he seems to have thought all this through and left relatively little room for cheating physics ))

((the fuck are you on about? the orbital drop will work exactly as you think it will, hell a tungsten rod between 1 and 10 tons in weight (cant remember the exact number) dropped from orbit is enough to reduce an entire island to nothing but a smoldering lump of molten slag... putting a kinetic amplifier on the end would vaporize half a continent.))

((Let's check the math...
Assume "orbit" is about 200 km, a pretty low low-Earth orbit, and that we have a 5-ton weight. Assuming Earth gravity, it will take about 143 seconds [someone check my math]; ignoring air resistance, this leads to a final velocity of about 1,400 m/s. With 5,000 kg behind it, the final force is seven million N. Squaring that gives us 49 trillion N, which is probably enough to smash half of the crust to bits...
You know, this is a lot more fun than my physics homework. I wonder why.))

Quote from: Unholy_Pariah on September 13, 2013, 08:26:15 am

Quote from: BFEL on September 13, 2013, 08:18:39 am

((Well its worth noting I came up with those before really seeing more then the initial description of the KA. The "terminal velocity" thing was born from poor understanding at best.
Piecewise seems like a pretty damned intelligent dude, he seems to have thought all this through and left relatively little room for cheating physics ))

((the fuck are you on about? the orbital drop will work exactly as you think it will, hell a tungsten rod between 1 and 10 tons in weight (cant remember the exact number) dropped from orbit is enough to reduce an entire island to nothing but a smoldering lump of molten slag... putting a kinetic amplifier on the end would vaporize half a continent.))

((Not really. I think some tests were run in VR. The issue is that the mechanism behind the squaring of the force loses efficiency as the amount of force increases. Which is why it says "up to square". With a Rod From God scenario, the kinetic amplifier loses most of the added energy in the form of light and heat, creating more of a conventional explosion, and barely adding 50% to the overall damage. At least I think that's what happened, unless my memory is mistaken.

Stapling more amplifiers on to strike all at once does give better results though. Additive, not exponential, but still.))

((Well that screws up my calculations.))

((More specific...))
His cloths seem distinctly average?

Um...unless your superpower is like Nice Guy's, "average" is not a good answer to "more description".

Even Ashley isn't as oblivious as this.

((I'd imagine that there is an element of denial.))

Quote from: RangerCado on September 12, 2013, 10:48:27 pm

"wh-wh-what... w-w-with... m-m-m-me...?" Selina is really confused.

She just... stares at her for a couple seconds. Then she pulls out Yuri's phone, manipulates it for a moment, and plays a song.

((...Do I want to know what that song is?))

"Not exactly nice for 'maker of the universe', you know?"

((Yet another way she's like the Judeo-Christian God.))

((also she's undead how the fuck does that even.))

((How does the (female) shell of an incarnation of Death Incarnate impregnate another woman?))

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"Hey Nim, if ya want you can head back to the hotel room, watch some tv, get room service, that sort of thing."[/color]

Nimue nods and goes down to the hotel room. She sits on the bed, turns on the television, and orders room service. She stares at the channel the television was on and doesn't eat.
She's very literal.

"Aw..."

-Present-
Darnos notes the flyers, but instead goes and gets something to eat.

[87+74+19+21-50]
Darnos flies out a window.
"C'mon, it's lots of fun! WHEEE!"

((Its a space magic powered postage stamp that takes the impact force imparted on its back then squares the force and fires it out of the front.
It does not give you one of hercules arms, only his knuckles.))

((Oh. That's what I thought it did. So my flight plan could still work...))