the most useless uses for useful powers

[Pathfinder]

If you use cadmium to store breath while smoking pot...would you also store the buzz??? (this is actually not useless...I'm just curious)

In my opinion you would end up choking before being able to test the theory. When you store breath you hyperventilate. I think that would be rather problematic while trying to take a drag off a joint or bowl. 

 

conversely the question could be applied to bendalloy which lets you store nutrition. would drinking a beer while storing store the buzz? I think not, since the description states nutrition, and I view that to mean calories. Though would that still take your liver to task?

Edited December 11, 2014 by Pathfinder

[hoidhunter he/him]

In my opinion you would end up choking before being able to test the theory. When you store breath you hyperventilate. I think that would be rather problematic while trying to take a drag off a joint or bowl. 

 

conversely the question could be applied to bendalloy which lets you store nutrition. would drinking a beer while storing store the buzz? I think not, since the description states nutrition, and I view that to mean calories. Though would that still take your liver to task?

Well it would certainly be fun to try...

 

Anyway...up vote for acknowledging my obviously flawed logic.

 

AND...use massive emotional pushes and pulls on everyone around the crazy homeless person with a tinfoil hat, further encouraging their paranoid delusion. (by the way...does anyone else find it hilarious that on scadrial, wearing an aluminum hat ACTUALLY prevents people from controlling your thoughts?) 

Edited December 12, 2014 by hoidhunter

[18th Shard he/him]

Hemalurgically spiking yourself and then putting the spike back in yourself.

Burning copper on a non-invested planet.

Storing weight when you have a half-lashing up.

Awakening a computer to "post useless powers on the useless powers thread on 17th shard"

Burn aluminum when you have lerasium burning.

[hoidhunter he/him]

Using emotional allomancy to make your co-workers argue with you...just because you're bored at work. (by the way...I'm bored at work...and wish I had emotional allomancy)

[hoidhunter he/him]

(Not to double post...but separate idea) burn atium to beat someone in chess...

[king of nowhere]

(Not to double post...but separate idea) burn atium to beat someone in chess...

that would not work. you only see a few seconds into the future, so you can see your oopponent's move only after you made yours. even if you could see it before making your move, if you're skilled at chess you're already seeing several moves ahead, so seeing his next move won't tell you anything you don't know already. by the time you see the surprise, it will be too late to do anything about it.

So, burning atium to try to win at chess would be even more useless.

iit could at most help a bit in speed chess; then, many times you are expecting your opponent to make a certain move, and since time is short you are moving your hand to make the next move even before the opponent has completed his. sometimes, the opponent makes a different move, but you are already too set in your course and keep making the move you were pplanning. atium would fix that.

iit would be extremely useful in internet speed chess, because there you have the option of fastmove: when your opponent has the move, you can play a move, and once the oopponent has moved, if the moved you made is a legal one, it will be played automatically without decreasing your time. it will be played even if it is a disastrous move, so you can only use it when you are absolutely sure what your opponent is going to play, or when it doesn't matter at all. but if you have atium you can fastmove  every time, and you will never run out of time.

 

on the other hand, burning atium+durluminium should let you know whether a certain mmove is winning or losing. but probably you won't be able to understand why,, or at least you won't remember it once you finished the burning, so you'd have to burn every few moves to keep on track.

[Kobold King he/him]

Use Lightweaving to conjure a floating upvote button when someone in real life says something you agree with.

[Voidus]

Use Lightweaving to conjure a floating upvote button when someone in real life says something you agree with.

Or an edit menu so you can edit>undo those horrible moments.

[Lord Tavash Shar]

Using a Shard Blade to make a sandwich.

[hoidhunter he/him]

Using a Shard Blade to make a sandwich.

Would you like your sandwich with or without spren?

[Lord Tavash Shar]

Would you like your sandwich with or without spren?

 

Dead Spren "Sandwich"

[hoidhunter he/him]

Use and Atium + Duralumin burn JUST to shut down someone's proposed theory on 17th shard...

Edited December 24, 2014 by hoidhunter

[Kobold King he/him]

Use the Progression Surge to grow mistletoe in strategic locations.

[Fatebreaker he/him]

Edit3: Use lightweaving to make the illusion of a bench in a park. Then watch people fall down when they try to sit.

 

This is in fact the most usefull use for lightweaving I can think of.

[hoidhunter he/him]

This is in fact the most usefull use for lightweaving I can think of.

Touche'...what about...use lightweaving to make the illusion of a bench in a park and then try to sit on it yourself?

 

by the way...kobold king gets an upvote for xmas spirit...

Edited December 26, 2014 by hoidhunter

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Soulcast normal coins into gold, than use it to buy thousands of vials of Aluminum.

 

Soulcast atium into quinoa.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

USe a soulcasting Fabrial to change your soulcaster to a pot of grass.

[The Great and Powerful Og]

Lightweave traffic lights to make them green.

 

Use the surge of friction to make sliding doors open smoothly.

[hoidhunter he/him]

take your garbage into Shadesmar and leave it there.

 

forge your self into someone who didn't eat taco bell for dinner to get rid of your stomach ache (I really wish I could do this right now)

 

use the surge of friction instead of lube while...well...I propably shouldn't say...

[Kobold King he/him]

take your garbage into Shadesmar and leave it there.

 

forge your self into someone who didn't eat taco bell for dinner to get rid of your stomach ache (I really wish I could do this right now)

 

use the surge of friction instead of lube while...well...I propably shouldn't say...

 

Use Feruchemical copper to permanently forget the last line of that post.

[hoidhunter he/him]

Use Feruchemical copper to permanently forget the last line of that post.

If we commonly spoke in person...you'd need a REALLy big copper mind...nothing like a terrible joke to break up the monotony of every day life...

 

...on that note...keep a coppermind just to remember all the inappropriate jokes you've ever heard...

Edited January 2, 2015 by hoidhunter

[Fatebreaker he/him]

Use the Surge of Adhesion to stick "kick me" signs on people.

[hoidhunter he/him]

Tap scent from a tinmind to figure out who REALLY farted.

[mail-mi he/him]

Tap scent from a tinmind to figure out who REALLY farted.

 

Genius

[natc]

hmm . . . forge soulcasted fire back into a stick?

 

Can one actually stamp a ball of fire?