therunner he/him Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 19 minutes ago, cometaryorbit said: Oh, I think F-Steel does speed up at least perception, and WoBs do show that. I just don't think Bleeder is a good example to show that, because her brain/nervous system is dramatically non-human to start with. I'm not sure I agree that F-Steel speeds up thought, though, depending on what you mean by "thought". It speeds up perception/reaction to stimuli/muscle memory for sure, and likely 'snap decisions' - swerve left or right, kind of things. I don't think it necessarily speeds up complex thought. . . . I think they may well not be 1:1, but also and probably more importantly they're narrow. Just what you need to use the physical speed. F-steel isn't f-zinc plus all the physical stuff. There's some overlap, but it's not "everything zinc does". I can get behind that interpretation of F-steel enhancements! They would be sufficient for what F-steel does, while also not stepping on F-zinc toes (that we saw in BoM) too much.
cometaryorbit Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 BTW, the main reason I think that is this WoB https://wob.coppermind.net/events/76/#e6398 Zinc is equations and intuitive leaps, but does not improve reaction time; steel is "bullet time"/reaction time. It's somewhat arguable, but I think it's making a distinction between reacting to physical things/snap decisions vs intellectual feats. (Now, we've seen Sazed use f-zinc to predict the trajectory of something Marsh was Pushing in their WoA fight, so that doesn't make zinc useless in physical situations. But I think it'd be mainly useful for things like Pushing or bullet trajectories, vs a fistfight or sword fight's muscle memory.) 1
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