[Shit, he doesn't think there are any esper teleporters who can match that. If they did they'd be level 5, for sure.
... Though, he isn't actually sure if there are any level 5 teleporters. It's not like any of the level 5s really interact with each other.]
So familiarity plays into it, even if you can still teleport somewhere you've never been before. Have you ever fucked up a teleportation really badly before? Into a wall, something like that?
Espers are still subject to shit like stress and panic, like you are, apparently. There might be other similarities, but an actual scientist specializing in this crap would be a lot better at finding them.
Yes. Once something's whitelisted though, I don't need to think about it. It's not like I'm constantly having to do the calculations to stop reflecting oxygen so I can breathe.
[He only has himself to blame, for making assumptions and not explaining it to begin with....]
Okay, math lesson: no it fucking isn't.
A vector is the quantity you use to represent something, anything, that has a magnitude and a direction. There are tons of different kinds of vectors: a car's acceleration is a vector, your body weight is a vector, the velocity of an airplane taking off is a vector.
An object with vectors isn't limited to something tangible, either. Forces like gravity, and magnetism have vectors, even though you can't reach out and touch them. The size of an object doesn't matter, either. Molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide have vectors, and so do entire goddamned planets.
By altering something's vectors you can speed it up, slow it down, or change its direction. That sounds like dogshit, but it has a lot of uses. For our mission I can't change the density of some heavy piece of equipment, but I can alter its vectors upwards so it's easy to lift.
That's how I cracked the floor in that building when we were training. I can alter the vectors in my body to be stronger and faster than I look, but the kinetic forces involved in pushing myself off that hard broke the ground. It's along the same lines as you punching a window and causing it to crack, except all I did was tap my foot to start moving.
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Date: 2023-05-04 01:07 am (UTC)... Though, he isn't actually sure if there are any level 5 teleporters. It's not like any of the level 5s really interact with each other.]
So familiarity plays into it, even if you can still teleport somewhere you've never been before. Have you ever fucked up a teleportation really badly before? Into a wall, something like that?
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Date: 2023-05-04 03:37 am (UTC)no never into something
ive gone to the wrong place a few times tho
like the other planet thing was a complete accident but I was a little panicked at the time
[He's not bringing up the Tahiti Incident.]
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Date: 2023-05-04 12:58 pm (UTC)I see. I guess there's probably a little similarity there, but otherwise your ability to teleport seems completely different from the esper version.
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Date: 2023-05-04 04:11 pm (UTC)[Luckily he is very good at understanding physics intuitively.]
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Date: 2023-05-04 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-05 03:42 pm (UTC)can't say id be super excited to have a scientist run tests on me
have spent my whole life trying to avoid that actually!
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Date: 2023-05-05 06:50 pm (UTC)[He isn't joking.]
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Date: 2023-05-06 05:09 am (UTC)why the interest in my portals anyway?
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Date: 2023-05-06 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-08 01:27 am (UTC)[The important question.]
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Date: 2023-05-08 02:16 am (UTC)Your teleportation has a much more clear visual cue to it. When an esper teleports you blink and they're gone. There's a lot less aesthetic to theirs.
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Date: 2023-05-08 04:01 am (UTC)even when I do direct teleportation I throw my sword
which looks siiiiiiick
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Date: 2023-05-08 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-08 04:47 am (UTC)soon as I get it working again ill show you
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Date: 2023-05-08 02:48 pm (UTC)That was all I wanted to ask, anyways.
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Date: 2023-05-09 02:48 am (UTC)that reflection thing
you told us not to touch you while you had it on but what would happen if we did?
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Date: 2023-05-09 03:23 am (UTC)Bare minimum, you'd break your arm.
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Date: 2023-05-09 04:05 am (UTC)what about carrying stuff out?
will you be able to with your power on?
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Date: 2023-05-09 04:16 am (UTC)[There are options that aren't 'shut off his entire reflection,' thankfully.]
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Date: 2023-05-09 04:33 am (UTC)is that like a conscious thing you have to do?
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Date: 2023-05-09 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-09 05:13 am (UTC)so could you like
smother somebody?
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Date: 2023-05-09 05:15 am (UTC)Do you not know what vectors are?
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Date: 2023-05-09 05:28 am (UTC)its a word they have characters in scifi movies say when they want them to seem smart
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Date: 2023-05-09 05:58 am (UTC)Fucking hell.
[He only has himself to blame, for making assumptions and not explaining it to begin with....]
Okay, math lesson: no it fucking isn't.
A vector is the quantity you use to represent something, anything, that has a magnitude and a direction. There are tons of different kinds of vectors: a car's acceleration is a vector, your body weight is a vector, the velocity of an airplane taking off is a vector.
An object with vectors isn't limited to something tangible, either. Forces like gravity, and magnetism have vectors, even though you can't reach out and touch them. The size of an object doesn't matter, either. Molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide have vectors, and so do entire goddamned planets.
By altering something's vectors you can speed it up, slow it down, or change its direction. That sounds like dogshit, but it has a lot of uses. For our mission I can't change the density of some heavy piece of equipment, but I can alter its vectors upwards so it's easy to lift.
That's how I cracked the floor in that building when we were training. I can alter the vectors in my body to be stronger and faster than I look, but the kinetic forces involved in pushing myself off that hard broke the ground. It's along the same lines as you punching a window and causing it to crack, except all I did was tap my foot to start moving.
Does that make sense?
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