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Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins

Day Man posted:

Stop time when an armored truck is making a delivery, swipe a bag of cash. Use cash to play casino games or buy scratch off tickets or something.

That's what I was loving planning, I figured armored truck robberies fit under the umbrella of bank robberies

I got to get this poo poo in order real quick because I've just learned about some incredible powers I possess after the simple, almost certainly unrelated act of consuming 20 grams of p. cubensis mushrooms and breathing 85% n2o for the past hour.

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BoonyPC
Feb 19, 2007
I've always imagined doing this for basketball or golf, just chuck up a shot and freeze time to make it go in, best sportsman in the world

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Day Man posted:

Have a trusted loved one go to Vegas and bet against the Patriots with a bunch of stolen cash. Meanwhile, you buy a ticket to the game. When Tom Brady is being tackled, stop time, then go on the field and demolish his knees with a tire iron.

If the team you bet on is still losing, repeat with other star players until they aren't losing anymore.

Well I think my way of forcing fumbles and dropped passes might be better and a LITTLE BIT NICER!

Day Man
Jul 30, 2007

Champion of the Sun!

Master of karate and friendship...
for everyone!


BoonyPC posted:

I've always imagined doing this for basketball or golf, just chuck up a shot and freeze time to make it go in, best sportsman in the world

If you become famous like that, people will analyse the videos of your impossible shots and prove that something funny is going on.

Day Man
Jul 30, 2007

Champion of the Sun!

Master of karate and friendship...
for everyone!


OctoberBlues posted:

Well I think my way of forcing fumbles and dropped passes might be better and a LITTLE BIT NICER!

Deflate this, Tom! :redhammer:

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord

OctoberBlues posted:

Well I think my way of forcing fumbles and dropped passes might be better and a LITTLE BIT NICER!

Encourage death of forums enemy: A OK.

Get a little rough in time stoppage manipulation schemes: hold on there bud, that's just wrong!

Pitdragon
Jan 20, 2004
Just another lurker
you idiots have got this money making idea all wrong. see now what I would do is go pay for something that only costs 5 dollars, but i would pay with a 20, then when the cashier is counting out the change to hand it to me I would stop time and swipe it from them, then start time again and begin waiting patiently for my change and when they realize what happened and go to get my change again i would just stop time and swipe it again before they could hand it to me, soon all the money in the till would be mine!

checkmate

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Kuato posted:

Encourage death of forums enemy: A OK.

Get a little rough in time stoppage manipulation schemes: hold on there bud, that's just wrong!

My morals may not make sense to you, but at least I am steadfast and consistent.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Sleep in probably.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

Sleep in probably.
I don't know if anyone said this yet, but this is the biggest and most obvious advantage of the power.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

a hole-y ghost posted:

I don't know if anyone said this yet, but this is the biggest and most obvious advantage of the power.

It's actually not too bad as far as accumulation either. You could sleep in for 2 hours every weekday for 17 years and still only be 1 year older than you would otherwise be.

But really you're probably not going to be going to work anyway if you could freeze time so it shouldn't matter.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
yeah I like how you're given a god power and your first reaction is cool I can sleep a bit more before I gotta get to work smdh

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

OctoberBlues posted:

It's actually not too bad as far as accumulation either. You could sleep in for 2 hours every weekday for 17 years and still only be 1 year older than you would otherwise be.

But really you're probably not going to be going to work anyway if you could freeze time so it shouldn't matter.
I wonder if you'd age slower by being well rested all the time as well.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
I like sleeping.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
i would freeze and unfreeze time back and forth constantly so it looked like the whole world was stuttering

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Moridin920 posted:

yeah I like how you're given a god power and your first reaction is cool I can sleep a bit more before I gotta get to work smdh
freezing time to take a couple hours to sit down and let anxiety attacks pass

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?
Yeah sleep in and never be late for anything again.

I have simple needs. I think Id save a lot of money just shoplifting items with my pause powers and using my spare cash for rent/bills. There'd be a lot of waiting for people to open locked doors and then pausing time to get to where you need to grab merch.

Also I think I'd use it to sneak into gigs and movies or secure areas.. weird private houses and stuff.

But what if because you are technically moving so fast that anyone you touch is instantly hurt by it? If you can't influence objects then would you need to be naked or face being trapped in your immobile clothes? If oxygen isn't flowing in the air then could you accidentally poisom youself by replacing all the oxygen in a room with carbon dioxide as you breath??
What if you freeze time to mess with some guy but suddenly he slowly turns to face you???

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Shoehead posted:

But what if because you are technically moving so fast that anyone you touch is instantly hurt by it? If you can't influence objects then would you need to be naked or face being trapped in your immobile clothes? If oxygen isn't flowing in the air then could you accidentally poisom youself by replacing all the oxygen in a room with carbon dioxide as you breath??
What if you freeze time to mess with some guy but suddenly he slowly turns to face you???

We're assuming the same magic that gave you powers accounts for this somehow.

Except that last guy who is immune to my powers, in which case my immediate reaction is to kill him lol because there can only be one.


Then I'd probably forever see the whispers of movement from the corner of my eye every time I froze time and would slowly go insane


\/\/\/\/ n deaf cuz sound vibrations not traveling

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Shoehead posted:

Yeah sleep in and never be late for anything again.

I have simple needs. I think Id save a lot of money just shoplifting items with my pause powers and using my spare cash for rent/bills. There'd be a lot of waiting for people to open locked doors and then pausing time to get to where you need to grab merch.

Also I think I'd use it to sneak into gigs and movies or secure areas.. weird private houses and stuff.

But what if because you are technically moving so fast that anyone you touch is instantly hurt by it? If you can't influence objects then would you need to be naked or face being trapped in your immobile clothes? If oxygen isn't flowing in the air then could you accidentally poisom youself by replacing all the oxygen in a room with carbon dioxide as you breath??
What if you freeze time to mess with some guy but suddenly he slowly turns to face you???
Yeah, also you'd be blind because the light isn't moving.

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
Wouldn't shock me if OPs scheme somehow resulted in the death of the universe.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?
One day there is a man in the distance when you freeze time, silently staring at you and whenever you freeze time again he has moved a single pace forward.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Shoehead posted:

One day there is a man in the distance when you freeze time, silently staring at you and whenever you freeze time again he has moved a single pace forward.

stop that steven king poo poo you're unsettling me damnit!

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins

Moridin920 posted:

stop that steven king poo poo you're unsettling me damnit!

That seems pre-Steven King, it seems like something from EC comics or something else that made Steven King cry as a child

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?
I dunno I think about how incredibly quiet it would be in frozen time. With no one moving. Like the second anything went wrong or moved or made a sound I'd be the gently caress outta there. I'd cry I think. I'd be way too paranoid to be in between time on my own

Ema Nymton
Apr 26, 2008

the place where I come from
is a small town
Buglord
Do the ultimate Homura cosplay

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Ema Nymton posted:

Do the ultimate Homura cosplay
What does that mean. And choose your words carefully.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

a hole-y ghost posted:

What does that mean. And choose your words carefully.

That's the ape that got shot for looking at a white baby, dummy. I think it would be in bad taste myself.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

That's the ape that got shot for looking at a white baby, dummy. I think it would be in bad taste myself.
No that's Haribo :rolleyes:

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

I'd go to a supermarket, mall, mega church, or anywhere with a lot of people. I'd disrobe everyone, paint them like the warriors in Braveheart and arm them with bows, axes, etc.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
go to wall street and spend a few weeks killing everyone wearing a suit

Dignity Van Houten
Jul 28, 2006

abcdefghijk
ELLAMENNO-P


Imagine the look on your face when you freeze time to play a sick prank on some jackass coworker by pissing in their mouth, then you unfreeze time unaware that the kinetic energy of 8 ounces of your urine moving a few feet in less than a nanosecond is so great that it vaporizes the atoms in the air and creates a thermonuclear explosion with the strength of a million supernova right in front of your body. The amount of energy released would create an extinction event and wipe out all life in the solar system, and your stupid coworker would be dead

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Kuato posted:

Wouldn't shock me if OPs scheme somehow resulted in the death of the universe.

bonus

Michael Bayleaf
Jun 4, 2006

Tortured By Flan
a whole lot of timerape

90s Solo Cup
Feb 22, 2011

To understand the cup
He must become the cup



Spend an entire timestopped day picking $5 and $20 bills out of random frozen people's pockets and wallets.

Go home, unfreeze time and spend the proceeds on weed, coke, pizza and hookers.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Tubesock Holocaust posted:

Spend an entire timestopped day picking $5 and $20 bills out of random frozen people's pockets and wallets.

Go home, unfreeze time and spend the proceeds on weed, coke, pizza and hookers.
Or if you want a guilt-free version of this, enter peoples' houses and pull the $5 and $20 bills out of their couches, laundry, and beds.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
Pull every fire alarm at once.

edit: Actually, no. That's a danger. I'd probably just chicken out and figure out a way to cheat at XBox Live.

JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Aug 31, 2016

clam the FUCK down
Dec 20, 2013

I'd trade my super power to freeze time for the ability to possess other humans. I'd love to be able to live alongside someone in their mind and feel their feelings and listen to their thoughts. Occasionally I would take over. When I get bored I would just switch to the next human.

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

OctoberBlues posted:

Anyway, would you do good things? Bad things? Robin Hood type things that could fall into a grey area?

Anyone with that power is going to do bad things.

If you don't have some rich rear end in a top hat's stuff by the first day of having that power, you've used it incorrectly. Come on, you know you want to clean out Donald Trump or something.

Lord Binky posted:

a whole lot of timerape

Why not just be surrounded in groupies once you reveal your infinite wealth and God like powers?

Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Aug 31, 2016

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

William Stoner posted:

I'd trade my super power to freeze time for the ability to possess other humans. I'd love to be able to live alongside someone in their mind and feel their feelings and listen to their thoughts. Occasionally I would take over. When I get bored I would just switch to the next human.

If I had that power I'd probably just spend my time jumping around politicians and making them reveal all their bullshit on the news and retire. You could clean up the whole government in a month and move onto the next one.

See, you can be good with a total evil power

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CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LIcOFvWqjk

smh if you wouldn't become a superhero

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Aug 31, 2016

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