• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 天前

    Even with a cooldown or something like that, a real world ‘blink’ ability, even of just 7 inches, would be utterly devastating in hand to hand combat, as well as potentially in ranged/armed combat as well.

    Just imagine scenes from John Wick but also, every 30 minutes, he can just ‘blink’ up to 7 inches to dodge or connect a punch, kick, grab, close range shot, move just a bit further into cover, closer to a magazine needed to reload, etc.

    Granted, you would also have to be very careful to not uh, Philadelphia Experiment / phase shift into a fucking wall or some other person or something.

    A 7 inch ‘blink’ takes Keanu Reeves a step from John Wick… toward Neo, this would be completely ‘broken’ in the hands of a skilled and trained fighter, even if they can only use it once a day, as a kind of ‘ultimate’ or w/e.

    Like uh, try hand to hand fighting someone in Cyberpunk 77, with yourself set up as close to a plain jane human as possible… up against a melee fighter with sandevistan.

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      21 天前

      Forget combat, how many times have you nearly missed slipping and falling while climbing stairs because of imperfect foot placement?
      Well, for when you actually and up being in a bad enough position to slip, you get to save yourself, positioned perfectly for the next stride.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 天前

        Thats honestly a very good thing to point out as well!

        Stairs, or hiking/walking on any kind of broken terrain… fucking snow, ice…

        Yep, there’s a whole ton of more situations where a blink ability could be very practically useful.

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          21 天前

          How many times have you been about to eat shit, and thought “If only I could fall an additional 7” and really just fuck my day up"