r/AskScienceFiction

The other devices(like phones, other tablets, computers, etc) are shown as not being alive whereas the Lilypad is alive. What makes the Lilypad an exception?

How well did the Rule of Two work? Was Palpatine more powerful than his predecessors? Was knowledge lost? Like surely with only two individual Sith, there is a huge risk that a Master could die prematurely.

Indeed whats stopping an Apprentice shanking the Master in his sleep before hes fully trained/at full power?

I’m replaying FF7 again and finding it weird that Shinra would send Sephiroth on a mission that held significant importance to his conception. Was it just Hojo’s hubris? Maybe just a gross oversight?

Curious to know what you all thought!

So, with orcs, they have their weird not reality warping but reality warping. What do the Krorks get cause its clear they were super technology advanced, so what was it doing for them?

Their main assault rifle uses 7.62x51mm NATO rounds, that's like if someone pulled up to a combat zone today with a flintlock.

I did a few stupid things, and long story short, some Tiger Claws are after me. I just wanna delta out of the city.

I heard that it's possible to hire mercs when you are in need. I'm holed up in a motel and am afraid to go outside. I heard there are fixers in the town who can find help for gonks like me. How do I reach one? I have a couple hundres of eds, hopefully that would be enough.

As the title.

Across the entire Marvel multiverse I know there are individuals who can suppress mutant powers, there was a timeline where Magneto invented a device that would turn people into unstable mutants, and some universes have Mutant Growth Hormone that grants temporary powers. But what about an individual who can just turn anyone into a superpowered Mutant with a random power via touch or something similar?

Has such an individual ever existed? If, not how would they likely be treated by their fellow Mutants and what could they do with their power to help the Xmen?

By similar, I mean supernatural creatures that can convert regular humans into one of them.

Demons or angels don't count here. Im talking about creatures that used to be regular humans, before they were turn into monster.

I ask this question because of this one Blade comicbook I can't remember. Where a huge chunk of the population get their "supernatural creature X-Gene" activated, and they start tuning into monsters.

At the end of Endgame, Tony takes the stones from Thanos and disintegrates him and his army. But Thanos only starts disintegrating about 1 minute and 19 seconds after Tony snaps. So, during the lets say 1 minute and 10 seconds, if Thanos somehow got his hands on all the Infinity Stones, could he have nullified Tony's disintegration "spell" and preserved his existence in reality?

What kind of dangerous situation would he possibly be able to protect them from that they couldn't handle on their own, when they were just supposed to cross a terrace to open a door?

In the end, they got into 4 somewhat problematic situations along the way, with 2 of them not solved but rather caused by Nagisa's presence, and only 1 being somewhat dangerous to the girls themselves, which Nagisa wasn't even around for, as they sent him away as a distraction.

(1) That insecure rich kid who was pestering them because he wanted to hook up with Nagisa, which wouldn't have happened in the first place if he wasn't there, and wasn't really dangerous but just slightly annoying.

(2) Some older guys who were harassing the girls but obviously would've been no actual threat to them, even if taking them out might have been more noticeable than they would've preferred, but Yada easily scared them away with a Yakuza coin she got from Irina Sensei (note: the automod apparently doesn't like what everyone in the show actually calls her).

(3) Some actual Yakuza member whose attention the rich kid accidentally caught by doing a stupid dance trying to impress Nagisa, who was only ever a threat to the rich kid, and Okano only bothered to quickly take him out so he could serve as a distraction for (4) some random resort employee guarding the door they were supposed to open.

So in the end, they made all that noise about Nagisa being supposed to protect them, only to send him away as a distraction for basically the entire mission, and they even found it acceptable to send Kayano, the smallest girl of the group, halfway back all on her own in order to fetch him so he would vaguely lend a "male hand" with the guard, that eventually wasn't needed either, when they were almost done.

Nagisa himself even acknowledged that they did everything on their own anyway and complained about why he had to dress up then. Now maybe they were really just looking for a flimsy excuse to put Nagisa in a cute dress, as teasing him about how girly he is was a common theme.

Except it was Karasuma Sensei who originally claimed that the mission was "too dangerous for girls", for some reason, and I don't see what reason he would've had to humor such shenanigans given the situation, so he actually should've had something in mind how a single boy in disguise could've possibly been helpful here, but I don't see what it is?

Many toys, especially those with preexisting stories, may not know they're toys, believing that they are as they were written.

Multiple iterations of Buzz know about star command and Zurg while unaware they are toys, Barbies and Kens have an instinctual connection and Barbies act like their outfits, in Toy Story That Time Forgot all Battlesaurs know their tribe's history for why they're fighting each and can sing their own theme song verbatim. Woody is a toy that's been passed down, most likely brought from when his TV show was still on the air but he doesn't know anything until he meets, his "friends" and they show him the TV show and the merchandise, merchandise that once decorated Andy's room. Why doesn't Woody know all of that already?

During slow motion we see him just walk around normally from his perspective. But to walk around normally gravity would need to also be increased to his perspective. If it's not then the moment he steps and pushes off the ground he'll just float much like when he pushes people and things they start to float. Unless he has an increase personal gravity ability speedsters shouldn't really have a proper slow mo scene like this right?

Edit:

I think I explained this poorly. What I'm trying to get at is at super speed, from your perspective gravity will actually be very slow and be very bad at keeping you at the ground since the STRENGTH of gravity has not changed. To move at super speed you must exert a lot of force on the ground, not just horizontally but vertically as well. Since you still need friction. Speedsters if they don't have some other secondary power that pushes them down at super speed they will just fly up when they take a step since they're exerting so much force on the ground normal gravity won't be able to keep them down. Think of it like an F1 car but without the aerodynamic wings applying down force. From a super speedsters perspective gravity will feel weaker without some kind of magic speed force keeping the laws of physics the same at super speed.

so in the first movie they said that they captured the alien shuttle that crashed in rosewell on 1947. the first movie takes place in 1996 so they had the shuttle in their possession for almost 50 years but nothing.

then by the second movie after the events of the first movie which takes place in 2016 just a mere 20 years later they reverse engineer the alien tech that drastically improves the baseline human tech. they got hover planes, hover vehicls, orbital planetary defense networks etc.

so why the bigger jump from 1996-2016 than 1947 to 1996?

what do you think?

And i mean the most notorious type of antihero.

Seeks to do good but uses non heroic methods to do so and has no qualms about killing or using extreme violence

if you were forced to be thrown in a zombie apocalypse, and you have to be a zombie, which one would you choose
Crossed, TLOU, or else

put in mind you have to live the AVG age of the zombies you choose, and don't focus too much about wether this counts as a zombie or not, we're talking about deeply-infected humans