Swinging or Flying?

[Untilteld]

if you don't have buildings, web zip on the streets!

 

[Fried Gold]

if you don't have buildings, web zip on the streets!

Or, y'know, fly.

 

[November Rain]

swinging but it wouldn't be for a mode of transport rather than recreation...

the joy is in manipulating the high gs, that's why people like rollercoaster rides...

this is somewhat negated with flying since ultimately, you're always safe and there is no sense of danger.

 

[Fried Gold]

swinging but it wouldn't be for a mode of transport rather than recreation...

the joy is in manipulating the high gs, that's why people like rollercoaster rides...

this is somewhat negated with flying since ultimately, you're always safe and there is no sense of danger.

Yeah, but, you can fly, y'know, a superpower? How that is less cool than a glorified rollercoaster ride, I'll never know.

 

[Jerry!]

Some people like to be XTREME!

 

[November Rain]

Yeah, but, you can fly, y'know, a superpower? How that is less cool than a glorified rollercoaster ride, I'll never know.

flight and superstrength are probably the worst two superpowers out there and they've been completely glorified.

ultimately, they lack imagination and both are pretty useless on their own...

take this analogy. You are granted the ability to fly, but without superspeed you are destined to fly at walking pace for the rest of your days.

how is that fun?

and again with the people who wish for superstrength, it won't help if the first person who sees ou on a rampage stabs ya because without durability, it's pretty much kinda useless in everyday life.

oh and there are tons of experiences that are better than many bonafide superpowers.

are you trying to tell me that you'd rather be able to simply fly than have iron man's armour because it isnt a bonafide superpower?

trollocks.

 

[Eggyman]

I'd go for swinging, but I live in Manchester, UK, and there aren't that many high buildings to swing from -- there are a few, but not so I could swing all over (most of the time I'd be swinging off of lamp posts lol). So flying it is, unless I move to New York before I get these powers ha ha.

 

[britrogue]

Flying all the way!

 

[Fried Gold]

take this analogy. You are granted the ability to fly, but without superspeed you are destined to fly at walking pace for the rest of your days.

WTF You can't just add your own stipulations. Okay, you can swing, but you can only fire 2 feet of web.

 

[Fried Gold]

I'd go for swinging, but I live in Manchester, UK, and there aren't that many high buildings to swing from -- there are a few, but not so I could swing all over (most of the time I'd be swinging off of lamp posts lol). So flying it is, unless I move to New York before I get these powers ha ha.

Yeah, there's the Hilton Hotel... and that's it

 

[November Rain]

WTF You can't just add your own stipulations. Okay, you can swing, but you can only fire 2 feet of web.

nah that is different because that is imposing a regulation on the ability itself not the means you can use it with.

i've made no restrictions on your ability to fly, you've made the assumption that you also have superspeed with it.

but the two don't go hand in hand.

now if i said you could only fly to a certain height, that would be similar to your limitation on webbing firing.

 

[Untilteld]

with swinging you'll have that adrenaline rush, unlike flying, where your somewhat safe.

 

[Eggyman]

LMAO, this is a conversation right out of Clerks.

 

[Fried Gold]

i've made no restrictions on your ability to fly, you've made the assumption that you also have superspeed with it

No, said you could only fly as fast as you could walk. Which is nonsense. Realistically, you could say that you can only fly as fast as you can run, which I would accept would over swinging, as you'd be screwed if you were in suburbia.

Also, you could virtual swing with flying, as you could fly, then stop and allow gravity to take over, only to resume flying at the last moment.

 

[Fried Gold]

with swinging you'll have that adrenaline rush, unlike flying, where your somewhat safe.

Surely you're more safe holding onto a rope/webbing that holding onto nothing at all?

 

[November Rain]

there's very little difference between walking and running. My point was to say you can move as fast as your body does on ground to give the impression of flight without the extram means of propulsion.


with that stop-start flying, you won't get the extra g forces, especially if only flying at 'running speed', the extra gs would come from the added centripetal forces based on the moments (force x distance) generated from a somewhat pendulum swing of varying arcs and whatnot.

let me reiterate.

the forces felt on the body while on a swing are very different to the forces you get simply by falling.


Ultimately, you've regressed your superpower to a mere mode of transport. you've taken function over fun. There are plenty of ways to get through surburbia. HOwever to pick an experience you couldn't duplicate over a practical means of transportation seems kinda....pointless.

even if i could only web sling once a year, it'd be so much more worth it. I'd be like an urban snowboarder waiting for my 'snow' to fall.

 

[Fried Gold]

HOwever to pick an experience you couldn't duplicate over a practical means of transportation seems kinda....pointless.

Correct, so why pick swinging? You could duplicate that. You can't duplicate flying. With enough effort and planning you could recreate the thrill of swinging, whereas flying is pure fantasy.

 

[November Rain]

there is no way to duplicate free reign swinging in all directions.

but at least you get get a glimpse of what it could fee like through thrill rides and generally other means...

this has given you the 'taste' factor as you can imagine how it would feel like, as well as the excitement and the danger aspect of never truelly being safe.

there is absolutely nothing at all to base the experience of flying on, how would you know you'd even enjoy it, or how to do it, or how long you could do it for, for that matter?

 

[Fried Gold]

there is no way to duplicate free reign swinging in all directions.

But that isn't the power you're choosing? By defualt, swinging would dictate that what you are swinging from would be attached to something, be it a building or a post or something. That's a glorified rope-swing.

It doesn't really matter how long you could fly for, whether you enjoy it or not etc because YOU CAN FLY

That's reward enough in itself.

If you have to be sold on the idea of flying, I feel sorry for you.

 

[zenile]

Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself.
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
It should've been somebody else.

Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.

It's like a light of a new day-,
It came from out of the blue.
Breaking me out of the spell I was in,
Making all of my wishes come true-.

Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.

Great show

 

[November Rain]

actually the power i'm choosing is the ability to shoot webbing and web lines, the swinging itself is a byproduct of the power, not the power itself.

and let's say i'm not gifted with teh acrobatic prowess of spidey by default, i could learn those acrobatic skills at a circus and it would allow me to then start off moderately but then achieve the swinging similar to that witness in new york by spiderman.

it is a glorified rope swing.

Flying is ultimately glorified swimming through a gas instead of a liquid if you want to break it down.

 

[zenile]

If I could fly, then I could fly around the world counter-clockwise and turn back time....and stop myself from marrying my first wife [BLACKOUT][/BLACKOUT]

 

[The Amazing Spider-Man]

Swinging would be about a million times funner, however the ability would be useless where I live. I'd be restricted to swinging from power lines which would just be bad.

Flying it is.

I can't help but feel a little disgusted with myself right now.

 

[Kelly]

Swinging would be about a million times funner, however the ability would be useless where I live. I'd be restricted to swinging from power lines which would just be bad.

Flying it is.

I can't help but feel a little disgusted with myself right now.

When you are up in the air flying, that will be a distant thought.....

 

[redmarvel]

I already can swing , so the answer for me is flying. (oh and your wrists and arms get really tired after a while too)