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redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

You think, wow, yeah, being invisible would be so cool. I could steal ice cream! I could skip the electronic tolls.

And sure, for your super secret spy missions and poo poo, right. It's very useful.

But - even though you can turn it on and off - you find that people see you less and less. Like at the spy headquarters, or on retreat. Like, I'm legit worried to do a confidence fall. Does anyone even know I'm here in the debate club??

It's like, what cost not to be seen?

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Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

If I was invisible I'd probably steal all your stuff

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Smugworth posted:

If I was invisible I'd probably steal all your stuff

Thanks for the pity ping Smuggy

GTD Aquitaine
Jul 28, 2004

if you were invisible light would pass through your eyes and you wouldn't be able to see, so hopefully you don't knock anything over when you're infiltrating those places

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

GTD Aquitaine posted:

if you were invisible light would pass through your eyes and you wouldn't be able to see, so hopefully you don't knock anything over when you're infiltrating those places

It's a quantum effect

wash bucket
Feb 21, 2006

Who said that!?

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

GTD Aquitaine posted:

if you were invisible light would pass through your eyes and you wouldn't be able to see, so hopefully you don't knock anything over when you're infiltrating those places

someone kick this nerd out

Internetjack
Sep 15, 2007

oh god how did this get here i am not good with computers
Top Cop
Wait, wait... what type of invisible are we talking about? If its the one where you have to take your clothes off every time, then yeah that would kinda suck. If your clothes go invisible too, then we're talking.

Jeremor
Jun 1, 2009

:amerikkka:
That movie was pretty freaky tho

Vashro
May 12, 2004

Proud owner of Lazy Lion #46
They say you are how others see you am I anything?

Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

The only thing an invisible man cannot steal is my heart

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Internetjack posted:

Wait, wait... what type of invisible are we talking about? If its the one where you have to take your clothes off every time, then yeah that would kinda suck. If your clothes go invisible too, then we're talking.

Full invisible. I'm wearing a tuxedo to the big spy event and then POOF.

Rubber Chicken
Mar 13, 2024

[IMG-CHICKEN]
Better then being hypervisible

People can see you no matter what, through walls, through your clothes, nothing can stop your nude photons

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010

How tf did someone make a thread with no title, no OP text and no user???

Quotey
Aug 16, 2006

We went out for lunch and then we stopped for some bubble tea.
you can still wear clothes and sunglasses and bandages to be seen like a real person. unless you have the kind of invisibility where clothes are invisible too. in which case, at least you don't get cold as gently caress when you're doing invisible stuff

covidstomper58
Nov 8, 2020

If I was invisible I'd be shoving gum in the predator's shoulder cannon, then I'd pour like a gallon of epoxy on a xenomorph while they are lurking somewhere motionless, they wouldn't notice it because they are all slimy already.

If you were invisible I'd put on a blindfold and demonstrate my martial arts by crane kicking you, throwing a few elbows and then karate chopping you right in the neck. I'd make sure to do it in a public place covered by many cameras so if you reported it to the police they'd pull up the footage and just see me flailing around wildly and deputize me after seeing my demonstration.

Can you still get a tan while you are invisible?

Also in full sunlight do you still cast a wavy but indistinct shadow?

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

:catdrugs:


I have the power to turn any limb invisible but it only works on cats when I stick arms or legs under a blanket.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011


When ilovebeersooomuch isn't posting, all the other goons should be asking "where's ilovebeersooomuch?" That's what I think.
If you eat something while invisible can other people see it? Like say I’m sucking down a chili dog would you all see it being chewed up and sliding down my esophagus and then churned in my stomach and then turned into poop?

pig labeled 3
Jan 3, 2007

redshirt posted:

Full invisible. I'm wearing a tuxedo to the big spy event and then POOF.

His name's Gary, and we don't need any more lawsuits, okay?

Jeremor
Jun 1, 2009

:amerikkka:
if I was invisible, I'd just sorta sit down and enjoy the day. i'd live as a trickster and a thief and sometimes an ally. Take what I please, hide it away inside of me, whether that meant in clothes that also became invisible when touching me or having to run around with my nuts out and just sorta have to hide it in my genitals probably. just kinda cupped down there as I skedaddle. I'd stay in empty rooms at fancy mansions, taking dumps in fancy toilets, drinking their fancy wine. Boy, that'd be the life, to be invisible...

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
If your invisibility also affects your clothing, how does it determine what should be included in that designation? Do watches and glasses count? What about the phone and wallet in your pocket? How many jackets can I layer on before one is considered just a jacket on a pile of other jackets? Is it just whatever the invisible person considers to be part of their outfit? Could you make the entire world invisible just by declaring it to be an article of clothing you're wearing?

If it's the type of invisibility that only affects your body, what about the moisture and dirt on your skin? What about piercings, implants, and tattoos? What about the food in your stomach? Could you lay a permanently invisible poo poo on the sidewalk? Would it make a wet spot on the ground or is the water it contains also invisible?

I'll answer your questions after you answer mine, OP.

covidstomper58
Nov 8, 2020

It's like a baggy that covers you. It even covers chunky vapors, visible ones, not smellable ones.

no pubes yet sorry
Sep 11, 2003

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

You can turn Invisible off on Steam

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
The Invisible Manson: It's a movie about how Charles Manson volunteers for medical research while in prison for increased privileges and time off his sentence.

Only after he becomes invisible and escapes does anyone question the wisdom using him as a test subject for such an experiment.

The Visible Sam: Invisible Manson 2: Invisible Manson escapes to NYC where he uses his invisible status to control the Son of Sam.

Invisible Manson vs. Jeepers Peepers: Jeeper Peepers (From the Jeeper Peepers franchise about the man whose irradiated eyes unintentionally gave him super vision powers) discovers he's the only person on Earth who can see the Invisible Manson and has to team up with a skeptical FBI agent to reel in the cult leader.

Internetjack
Sep 15, 2007

oh god how did this get here i am not good with computers
Top Cop
I think it boils down to the question of if the invisibility is an all-encompassing aura that shrouds you and your clothing etc, or if its just your physical body. Aura: yes. Body-only: no.

Busters
Jan 24, 2014


That's why you need a monster mask.

In a monster mask you could take a bath
In a monster mask you could do some math
In a monster mask you could have a beer
In a monster mask you could volunteer

But could you ever meet a girl and tell her that she means the world?

Everyone feels like a monster sometimes.

Moai Ou
May 18, 2004

WE LOVE SHOOTING GAMES!


Fun Shoe

posted:

You think, wow, yeah, being invisible would be so cool. I could steal ice cream! I could skip the electronic tolls.

And sure, for your super secret spy missions and poo poo, right. It's very useful.

But - even though you can turn it on and off - you find that people see you less and less. Like at the spy headquarters, or on retreat. Like, I'm legit worried to do a confidence fall. Does anyone even know I'm here in the debate club??

It's like, what cost not to be seen?

Uhh, who posted this thread?

Busters
Jan 24, 2014


Moai Ou posted:

Uhh, who posted this thread?



*GULP* is this thread a g-g-guh-guh-ghost?

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

yeah but think about how many people you could watch taking a dump without them knowing

Busters
Jan 24, 2014


Toxic Mental posted:

yeah but think about how many people you could watch taking a dump without them knowing

oh man, imagine people watching you take a dump without seeing you.

just like a crowd of terrified and dumbfounded people watching turds appear out of thin air. or thick air. just air.

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

being invisible would kick rear end i cant think of a single downside

The Loin King
Feb 16, 2017

Check out this goddamned cat
redshirt, we know who you are

we all decided you suck a looooooooooooong time ago

calm down

Dumb Sex-Parrot
Dec 24, 2020

Crime: Posting cat sixers
Punishment: TRUMP approves
stealing things as the invisible man but need to hide them in the folds of my body

Bonerland Hitman
Jun 29, 2003


INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE


Introduction

1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
If I could turn invisible at will I would show that poo poo off as much as possible and conversely become the most famous and visible man in the history of the world. If you achieve any other result with your newfound and idiosyncratic invisibility powers, you're a loving idiot. "Boo hoo I'm so lonely now that I can do the coolest thing anyone's ever been able to do." Shut the gently caress up and get out of my sight.

Cornwind Evil
Dec 14, 2004


The undisputed world champion of wrestling effortposting

covidstomper58 posted:

If I was invisible I'd be shoving gum in the predator's shoulder cannon, then I'd pour like a gallon of epoxy on a xenomorph while they are lurking somewhere motionless, they wouldn't notice it because they are all slimy already.

Neither of those creatures use traditional sight or possibly even have it. The Predator uses various forms of heat detection, and Xenomorphs might not even have any eyes at all: there's never been a precise stated canon method for how they detect things, but theories have ranged from smell to echolocation to sensing motion and/or heat themselves to sensing electrical signals like sharks do with their Ampullae of Lorenzini organs to a form of synesthesia where they literally 'hear' smells that let them form a sort of topographical map in their heads. With those two you'd probably be better off with the ability to be absolutely silent.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003


Predators use regular eyesight + a sensor package

Zazamoot
Apr 2, 2005
Being invisible would open up all sorts of opportunities for crime and perversion and super-heroics, but you could also become like the world's best puppeteer.

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Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

beach side
Check out this 1985 Twilight Zone segment, "To See the Invisible Man", which predicted social credit (from Season 1 Episode 16):

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xhvnk

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