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[dwarfguy2]

you are some sort of UNDEFINED OMNIPOTENT ETINTY. you are in a VAST EMPTY INFINITE SPACE. you have INFINITE UNLIMITED ABILITY. you feel like you should MAKE YOURSELF DEFINED AND THEN MAYBE MAKE STUFF IN THE SPACE.

[Criptfeind]

Define yourself as powerless dwarf. Die.

[dwarfguy2]

you wish to KEEP YOUR POWERS. you give yourself the APPEARANCE OF A DWARF, though. you also stop capitalizing random stuff.

[Ultimuh]

Grow a beard made of an eternal flame that cannot be extinguished.
Also you have eyes of molten magma and a really horribly putrid beer breath.

[Criptfeind]

Make a rock so big even we cant lift it.

[dwarfguy2]

you do both of these things. you also make the rock the center of the universe.

[Criptfeind]

Lift the rock.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Make a giant platinum mug. Engrave upon the mug an image of the First Rock.

[dwarfguy2]

you lift the rock that not even you can lift easily. you then celebrate by drinking from your giant mug.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Create a giant glob of booze to put in the mug, so we have something to drink.

[Criptfeind]

What what? Damn rock! Make a rock that you cant lift at all.

[Ultimuh]

Stop listening to that silly voice, you can do ANYTHING!

[Criptfeind]

Is making a rock that you cant lift not a thing?

[LeoLeonardoIII]

No, silly. See, when it comes to difficulties, it is most difficult to create, less difficult to alter, less difficult to destroy, and easiest to move.

This means if you put 100% of your capacity into creating a rock, it will take somewhat less than 100% to move it. Simply because moving something around is easier than creating it.

We could create a little table for this, perhaps something like:


Action   Difficulty
Create   x1
Alter    x0.9
Destroy  x0.2
Move     x0.1


This isn't something I'm just making up for the game by the way. You try making a pad of paper, writing in it, setting it on fire, and throwing it across the room. See which is more or less difficult.

It breaks down a little when you talk about things that are difficult to move. For example, a sand castle. But altering or destroying it is still far easier. A hole in the ground is also pretty difficult to move

But we're talking about a discrete object here, like a hammer or a teddy bear.

[Criptfeind]

Ten peaces of paper are way easier to move than one is to make.

Anyway the point I am trying to make is we are not omnipotent, maybe omnipresent but not omnipotent. Because ∞x1 and ∞x.1 are the same.

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Sorta, but we are not getting into that.