Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25615397-20160301032615/@comment-29564364-20180323154204

@DYBAD Sorry for the wait. I first had to calm down from the rage induced by the utter dishonesty throughout your later replies to me. You point at me for having a power set that violates the rules while yours that you claim is orders of magnitude stronger doesn't? This double standard right here is incredibly dishonest, which you should remember from our last discussion in Omnipotence's comment section I have an extreme aversion to. You also seem to forget that context matters: Preemptive Adaptation users should not attain almight in a setting where almighty opponents should not exist while Transcendent Power Replication is a potential Nigh-Complete Arsenal of abilities maxed out (a.k.a. almighty/omni powers) using Ability Transcendence in a setting where 7.5 billion people get two powers each. Heck, you even said «At this point you are basically facing Ajimu Najimi (minus the almighty abilities) [...]» I am baffled by the amount of mental gymnastics you must be doing to say that you basically have Complete Arsenal with "maxed out" powers, yet still insist that you don't have any almighty power, which is an obvious contradiction that reason can't possibly deny. And lastly, there is further dishonesty in your complete dismissal of the other points I've made in a previous reply which I'll reiterate here in the occurrence that you simply forgot about them: AlphaTheHD wrote: DYBAD wrote:

I could argue that Ability Transcendence frees Enhanced Power replication of its weaknesses and countermeasures, meaning it would effectively bypass power-levels, immunities and evasions. I'd love to hear what arguments you have, especially in regards to bypassing power-levels without bordering on Indeterminacy.

What's certain is that the combined onslaught of billions maxed-out abilities would instantly atomize your derisory defenses into oblivion and back ^ ^; Adaptive Power-Level: "Users can spontaneously and quickly increase their power-level to match those of superior opponents and overcome excessive hardships."

In other words, a "combined onslaught of billions [of] maxed-out abilities", which by the way, is against the "No Absolute powers" rule, would be met with the combined resistance of billions of maxed-out defenses ( which I acknowledge is equally against the rule ).

Now try to honestly imagine the kind of ludicrously over-the-top giga-combos you could make with that many (maxed-out) powers at your disposal, including at the very least thousands of enhanced intelligence, power intuition, tactical analysis and similar abilities.

I'm sorry to spoil your fun, but the odds of your fairly good defense withstanding that kind of offensive is a flat 0% ^ ^; At this point you are basically facing Ajimu Najimi (minus the almighty abilities), and it would take a massive amount of bad faith to pretend that a couple non-almighty powers could possibly stand a chance against an opponent that overwhelmingly superior. Again, Adaptive Power-Level. If you really do have Absolute Intelligence (a.k.a. maxed-out Enhanced Intelligence), which is also forbidden, then you'd know that overwhelming me is not the way to go. [...]

DYBAD wrote: Wait a second... so what you are saying here is that your "power" actually contains all the others powers ? And that it can freely grant you any of them at any moment ? Doesn't that effectively make it an almighty ability, basically an automated (Self) Ability Creation on steroids? Which already qualifies by virtue of unlimited empowerment. Yes, Preemptive Adaptation by itself can potentially grant me access to most any power, but not all at once and under certain conditions (unless I somehow find myself in a position where I'd need all of them at once). As to unlimited empowerment, I'm not going to gain Cosmic Manipulation just to stop a truck that's about to hit me when simple Impact Immunity would suffice, just as I won't get any almighty power if I don't face almighty powers, which shouldn't happen because it's forbidden by the rules.

Almighty Powers : Powers that either directly or indirectly create, control, manipulate, shape and reshape, everything and anything." I am sorry to say, but your over-the-top Preemptive Adaptation is most definitely an almighty power [...] By this definition, your own Enhanced Power Replication-Ability transcendence combo (a.k.a. Almighty Replication) classifies as almighty in a setting where everyone gets two superpowers (context matters).

[...] thrice as much with Programmable Power ("something may potentially threaten me in some way" [read : always] => gain every power in the book"). Where have I said I would gain every power in the book under an circumstance of lesser magnitude than facing an opponent who has every power in the book?

"Omni powers, meaning to have all powers, or all of certain kind of power." => "Again, Preemptive Adaptation already counts all adaptations." Then it appears I have expressed myself poorly because Superior Adaptation is the Omni power of adaptations (just look at the Also Called section), not Reactive Adaptation.

Turns out your beloved power set is inherently null and void, and has been from the very beginning. And so is yours in light of your own arguments.