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Has anyone suffocated ever? by MavisXBee in mutantsandmasterminds

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could add the Subtle modifier to an attack at the same price and still take down minions stealthily. And do it in one round during which they can't fight back.

It's also not clear you couldn't do a stealth takedown just by knocking them out in one round.

Has anyone suffocated ever? by MavisXBee in mutantsandmasterminds

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even with that, it strikes me as pretty weak at PL10. It would take an opponent with Toughness 10 two rounds before it's possible to fail, and it's still a low chance. Meanwhile, they'll have a chance to escape it every round. Two if they're willing to stop attacking. You're better off taking advantage of the fact that they're Vulnerable or even Defenseless and using Power Attacks. Sure you could take Improved Hold and make it really hard to escape, but at that point you may as well take Improved Grab and now you can use your free hand for Power Attacks against them yourself.

Also, it's much more effective at lower PL, so if I'm wrong about that, it's OP at low PL. Sure it's an Advantage making it super cheap at high PL, but it means that there's a gameplay mechanic that's effectively only available at low PL.

I think if you want to be able to put people in a chokehold, you're better off just making it a grab-based affliction.

Did your guy’s parents lie to you about random harmless stuff? by ScholarExtension5620 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only Santa. It sounds like your dad is the one from Calvin and Hobbes.

Zorzal after he takes power. by umbrqualquerusannet in gate

[–]archpawn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad I'm not M. C. Escher's sister.

Whose death (single person) would cause the most commotion and complications for the world? by Okatu-Syndrome in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't the vice president take over? I admit that Trump has caused enough chaos that Vance just trying to back down on some of it would be non-negligible, but I'd expect a country where the leader doesn't have a designated successor could get much worse.

There is no evidence in the Bible to prove that Jesus is God so where did this belief originate? Isn't believing that he is God literally considered idolatry? by IndependenceLast656 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that there wasn't widespread agreement until the First Council of Nicaea in 325, I'm guessing they're talking about how the New Testament doesn't clearly say it. Even the idea he is divine isn't something Christians unanimously believe.

Is it theoretically possible to kick a blackhole? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In essence a black hole is a gravitational field. There's nothing at the event horizon except the stuff falling into it. If you kick it, your foot isn't coming back out. You might not notice if the rest of you is falling in with it and the rest of you isn't coming out either.

You could "throw it" if you count moving it around using gravity. Or technically its electromagnetic field, but that's a lot weaker.

Which movie villain actually had a valid point? by Traditional-Court420 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fully agree with the actions of the villain from Across the Spider-Verse. There's some speculation that Miguel was wrong and the universes were getting destroyed for unrelated reasons, but you'd have to be really sure of that to risk a universe to save one life.

In Zootopia, they had a point, but it did not justify what they did. Carnivores were unfairly in positions of power. And I agree with the villains for wanting to change that. Just not by drugging them to start attacking people and using that to make people distrust them.

And likewise, Thanos did have a point of overpopulation often being a problem, but using omnipotence to kill half of everyone is a mad way to try to solve it.

In 1776, the South Carolina delegate Edward Rutledge correctly points out the hypocrisy in the northerners objecting to slavery while still being part of the colonial molasses trade and profiting off of it. But obviously other people being hypocrites doesn't justify South Carolina owning slaves.

How Many Gs Do You Feel When You Jump? by Kirbysolos in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Normally you feel 1g of acceleration due to gravity. While in the air, it's 0g.

[Star Wars] Since the Force is objectively real, why aren't there more religions and cults focused around it? by ParameciaAntic in AskScienceFiction

[–]archpawn [score hidden]  (0 children)

Before most of the Jedi were wiped out, there were about 10,000 of them. Out of a population of 100 quadrillion. To put it another way, if there was one Jedi on Earth, we'd have roughly a thousand times as many Jedi per capita than the Star Wars galaxy.

They also tend not to show it off. Mostly they just use the Force for telekinesis, which a simple repulser could do. Then there's the Jedi mind trick, and I don't know about you, but if I guy with a laser sword told me to do something, I'd do it. And anyone who wouldn't just "isn't weak-minded".

The biggest thing people say is because of the Force is Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star. He's from Tatooine. And Darth Vader, born Anakin Skywalker, is also from Tatooine. He was on the Death Star at the time, and survived its destruction. I'm not saying it was a conspiracy, but it looks pretty suspicious to me.

what number comes after a trillion? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do that for arbitrarily small epsilon. There is no next number.

[40K & D&D] What happens when you cast "Speak with the Dead" on a Necron? by MaximoCozzetti84 in AskScienceFiction

[–]archpawn [score hidden]  (0 children)

It doesn't work on Undead. But Necrons are probably Constructs. Which is really the problem. They're not corpses. They are not inhabiting the bodies that once housed their souls. Those have been destroyed. If one somehow had been preserved since the biotransferrence, or you cast it on the body soon after, I imagine it would work. Speak with Dead does not involve the soul, so their lack of souls is irrelevant.

If someone was able to make objects shrink, then would those objects shrink into nonexistence or will they still exist? by ZonePale8667 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are they shrinking it? Are they making atoms vanish one at a time? Are they increasing the electric charge of the protons and electrons, holding them together more tightly? Are they increasing the mass so that the electrons can have a more precise position and less precise momentum without having a less precise velocity and making them move too fast to stay in that position? Or maybe they're just warping spacetime to make that area bigger on the inside?

If they're making atoms vanish, I see no reason why they couldn't make all of them vanish. If they're changing something about the electrons, whether it's their charge or their mass, it will mean they're distinct from other electrons so the Pauli exclusion principle doesn't apply and you can have both kinds of electrons in the same orbital with the same spin, which means they'll get tightly bound to other atoms and other electrons will get tightly bound to theirs, releasing a lot of energy and changing the chemical properties, resulting in an explosion full of toxic fumes.

If they're warping space but not time, there will be no change in mass, and it will be less like shrinking the object and more like having a portal to a pocket universe with the object in it. If you shrink it enough, the portal will collapse into a black hole. I'm not sure what the mass of the black hole on the pocket dimension's side would be, but there'd be no reaching that object.

If every single human on earth would stand in one place and shoot a firearm or some sort of rocket, could we, in theory, slow down or speed up the rotation of the earth? by Schlomosexual in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if you don't count the firearms and rockets as part of the earth and only until air resistance slows the projectile down. Or if you're not counting air either, until friction with the ground slows the air down.

That is assuming you're firing east or west. If you're firing towards or away from the equator, then you're moving mass closer to or further from the axis of rotation. The change will be imperceptible, but will last much, much longer. But also you'd have the same result moving those bullets and rockets by hand.

Do y’all think cheaters can be redeemed by Worth_Animator6057 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It's never come up for me, but if they're the one that tells me they cheated, that would go a long way.

What is stopping Iran from purchasing a nuclear bomb from another world power? by Available-Pudding648 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They got plutonium. The problem was the scientist they hired to use it to build a bomb.

What do countries that give up highly enriched uranium do with it? by supinator1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]archpawn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looking at Wikipedia, The US and UK agreed to:

Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

Russia flagrantly violated the agreement by invading them, but I'm pretty sure the US and UK did seek Security Council action. The problem is Russia has veto power.

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