Like the ones from Oblivion?

what does it do?

Does the GCU Grey Area from Iain M. Banks' The Culture series count as a weapon?

I know I can't use it, of course, I wouldn't want to. I just want it to have fun. Right now. On Earth.

I'm sure it'd find plenty of ways to enjoy itself...

Gravity Gun from Half-life 2
Ravenholm was a brilliant tutorial for that thing!

You can shoot yourself with the Q2 version of the BFG 9000. It would shoot lasers from the plasma ball at all enemies in range. Unfortunately, if an enemy happened to be behind you when you shot the thing, the laser didn't care that you were in the way.

Freaking love gerwalker mode.

It's called a gun, so I vote yes.

Is that Meat Fucker?

Why not pick a borg cube instead?

Yes Grey Area is called meat fucker by the other ships

It makes you happy, like heroin does

Yeah, I didn't realize it for a while as well. The multiplayer has its own whole storyline of what happened before GLaDOS took control.

Right after I've watched Interstellar first.

I was thinking of editing and making what I wanted more clear but honestly overnight sorta became a free for all. for what I was looking for personally it was something one person could carry and use that was a weapon of technology that like we would recognize as technology and not fall into advanced so much it seems like magic. given that yesterday someone said it and I was like that really is beyond scope.

Nah, huge limitation that it only works on walls painted with moon dust. Even without that detail, the surface needs to be flat and judging by the main characters height, roughly 1m x 2m. Those details really limit its functionality outside the enrichment center.

I think it’s a stretch of the prompt, but someone else said the deathstar. If that’s allowed I’d take the SDF1 itself. But really it’s for that main reflex canon. In the Robotech TTRPG the stats for the main gun was something like “destroys everything in its 1 mile wide path for 10,000 miles” no defense measures work.

It's got to be something more exotic than simply dumping energy into the target until it turns to vapor, otherwise there would be horrifying explosions of steam and guts and molten rock, instead of a soft hum and the disappearance of the target.

But the trays are all wet.

Then explain the ending of Portal 2. What flat surface exists on the moon?

Unless they operate on different physics than our universe currently does, there's no way around it. Energy is energy, it's the currency of the universe.

Judging by the moon landing pictures, most surfaces on the moon are roughly flat especially in the dusty areas.

The games are also a bit inconsistent about what happens when the surface moves. Sometimes the portal fizzles out, and on rare occasions it doesn’t.

Nerve stapler / punishment sphere

Persuadatron - a short range weapon that fires a small dose of chemical which renders the target totally open to suggestion. When hit, victims momentarily turn blue, lose all free will and follow the agent who fired around the mission zone like sheep. Civilians are always open to persuasion...

I choose to believe the vaporize function is actually a one way transporter beam. It digitizes them into the phaser and just deletes the file instead of sending it somewhere to be rebuilt.

If you have a couple drinks first it's still decent

I teally wish we got to see more of that thing in the show! It's such a stupidly over powered and unique gimmick to not immediately become his signature sidearm and I don't think he ever uses it after the hospital scene.

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It's kind of like saying a missile is a means of transport, not a weapon.

I know only 2 kinds of missiles, both are built for very specific purposes. No good general example ...

That's a good theory! The development of one could have led to the other. A beam that remotely disassembles something to its subatomic particles without an explosion would have been a necessary part of transporter development, regardless of which was invented first.

Fair enough 👍

I think maybe you should have also included no cosmic items as well. It sort of overlaps with sci-fi and magic.

Then I choose the blaster/laser sword from the Ulysses cartoon. I mistakenly thought it also had the shield but I think that's a separate item.

In the book, the character more lugged it around rather than walked, but did move it under his own power. As far as plausibility, it didn't seem to me overtly against the laws of physics, as in, you can deliver a lot more kinetic energy to a target than with a conventional gun since it's spread out over a longer Δt, and the real thing would indeed need a lot of cooling water.

Portal gun or gravity gun from Halflife

Deathwand from Hyperion. Very useful...

I just love the sound they make.

I would be a menace to society with that

A MAD-3R Marauder. The single best all around Battle mech ever put together.

A comment above lists a star trek phaser doing similar things, however the zap looks cooler and make a cooler noise

My friend quotes/mimics Neutered Man often to hilarious effect.

The HL2 multiplayer set to gravity gun only was so fun. We called it "pie fight" since it was 3 Stoogles style chaos. The only thing missing was that you couldn't use a person's previous body to kill them. I so wanted to yell "stop hitting yourself" as I bashed someone with their own corpse.

The lesser version is called Rohypnol. It's already used by exactly the people you would normally expect to use a Persuadatron in this world to do exactly the things one would expect such people to do with/to their victims.

Reason from the book Snowcrash. It's essentially some highly advanced smart minigun that fits in a suit case. Mostly so I can say something like "I'll make them listen to Reason" before I use it.

So one practical question is, can you effectively 'lie' to the gun? That is, can you forcibly "believe" for a moment (within your own mind) something which you want to project onto a target with the gun? Or does the gun read only your unfiltered, unconscious beliefs? Is there any discretionary control?

Also, notably, the Point of View Gun does not work on women, so there would be some practical limits to your menacing.

Yeah, but it was cool in Syndicate.

Are you so critical of all the other weapons people are nominating? Like the disintegratiaton?

24th century Type II phaser, specifically the ones introduced around 2373. Very multi-purpose, moreso than the zat from Stargate. ;)

But I i just want to go ridiculous firepower and over the top cool factor, any number of weapons from Ratchet'n'Clank would do.

Oh god! 🤣🤣🤣

it's also a very useful tool for transportation purposes

Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

You need the boots, though, otherwise it's very easy to accidentally go splat.

Disintegrators are probably perfect for making toxic waste disposal much easier.

I'm fairly certain Holtzman suspensors attract worms. (As do Holtzman shields.)

With the harvesters it doesn't matter much because the harvesting itself attracts them, but if you want to move around in Arrakis and don't want to find your vehicle eaten when you come back for it, it's probably better for it to use some mechanical means of flight, and ornithopters are probably less noisy than propellers, rotors, or jet engines. Also more capable of handling sandstorms.

It takes the target out by inducing an orgasm.

idk about flat but it's 100% covered in moon dust.