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Kurieg posted:They suddenly go flying off at a right angle to the surface of the earth and splatter on the nearest building? Turning off gravity wouldn't do that. That'd require screwing with inertia and momentum relative to the Earth.
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Kurieg posted:Right, but your inertia and momentum is trying to go in a straight line, earth's gravity is what's keeping you in a circle. Kinda yes, kinda no not at all. Gravity keeps you oriented towards the earth's center of mass, but it's not what's keeping your rotational velocity from flinging you into the sky - that's your existing inertia and rotational velocity. To give the obvious example, the force needed to keep you going the same direction as the earth as it rotates around the sun is obviously weaker than gravity by a lot (source: gravity , so in a worse case even if it stopped working you wouldn't be moving away from the earth any faster than gravity was already keeping you adhered to the planet, and would actually be moving much more slowly than gthat. I could probably dig up the actual math on this, but I'm not that invested. You'd drift a little rather than being completely motionless, but you could counteract that by holding onto something if nothing else. RPZip fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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quote:I guess it's kind of impressive that McFarland's just going to stick to his guns on this terror and fear thing, considering that before a couple weeks ago just about no one would have taken the claim that creatures such as "dragons, krakens, and griffins" primarily evoked Fear as opposed to Wonder/Awe seriously. They can rewrite some of the fluff but there's no way they were going to dump the entire concept of the book. They'd have to rewrite all of the mechanics and start from step 0 rather than rewriting some of the fluff sections and mostly leaving the mechanics (Nightmares, etc.) alone.
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Wales Grey posted:The original Beast Stereotypes made it sound that Beasts liked to hang out with Changelings because they're easy to bully. Now they come across as groupies looking up to their kinship-senpais. Does that still contradict every possible game mechanic for satiety? Can they really get away with only feeding once every few years?
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MonsieurChoc posted:I'd play a game about philosophers fighting each other using their philosophies as super-powers. Bloop
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quote:* Of course, Zak claims that 1) the account wasn't pretending to be the real Appelcline, it was named that "as a joke", and 2) the account wasn't him, it was a friend of his. And that friend was using his computer, which is why you need to unban my World of Warcraft account because it wasn't me who yelled all those slurs into trade chat.
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Attorney at Funk posted:Yeah, the point is it doesn't scan for there to be a Wizard Gland that someone could just remove, since that runs counter to everything else in every CoD line including Hunter (namely that in CoD, dualism is true and the soul is real). So we're left to conclude that either the wizard lobotomy is more grievous than the book presents, or it's got some kind of magic of its own behind it. Obviously an icepick to the dome will stop someone casting spells just fine. It doesn't really need magic behind it unless I've drastically missed something about Mage. The description notes that it's targeting the areas of the brain that contain the 'reflexive memories' that you use when casting spells and shorting them out, rather than removing the Wizard Gland. The more developed these memories and how widespread they are (Gnosis and Arcanum dots), the harder this is to do without also hitting other memories. It's also worth noting that you can still get those skills back, you just have to redevelop them from scratch rather than relying on your previous experience. There isn't a Wizard Lobe but there are specific parts of the brain that usually control things like reading, writing, listening to music or playing music. It's not that far out there to say that imposing your will on the world in the way a Mage does activates specific parts of the brain. The surgery burns out the brain's muscle memory (see: reflexive memories) for those actions. It's definitely still slightly crazy but it doesn't need actual magic behind it.
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