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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 6 hours ago

Because they can charge more for the bigger toy, obviously.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe they should start a club.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 8 hours ago

Spider-man had a spiderbuggy that could drive up walls and hop between buildings, later used more practically by Deadpool, who can’t innately do any of those things.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 19 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

For picking up chicks. Dude may be the fastest man alive but no lady gonna give him the time of day unless he got a sweet ass ride.

He doesn't need a motorbike for that.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Godspeed! You sweet ass ride.

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

They also ain't calling him back because of how fast he is.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The man can vibrate every part of his body, just saying.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, vibrate through molecules. Doubt they have fun with that.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago

People bring this up a lot, but given the way his body works he can probably reload and go again. His partner would drown in jizz.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I am not a bright person, either that or my flavor of autism names me take everything too literally. I was looking at the bike for like twenty seconds trying to figure out what was wrong with it. Then it dawned on me. 🤦‍♂️

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I feel ya. In the end I just concluded I don't know enough about motorbikes to see what the problem is

[–] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Warframe recently added bikes you can use in normal missions. The player character already has acess to like a million other movement options that are way better than bikes in practically every environment. It makes good noises though!

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Satisfactory added in a cybertruck that can only turn left an has square wheels that aren't matched to each other!

Useless things can be fun!

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 75 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

he gets tired sometimes ok

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wants to save money on food.

[–] TheUnsungRooster@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

In a lot of Flash canon, his metabolism is/was insane. That might have been before the Speedforce took root as the extradimensional power source.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago

my bro ain't aging very gracefully

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (6 children)
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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Shouldn't Flash be faster if he used an actual bicycle?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if it could physically tolerate being pedaled that quickly

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

His body and everything else around him can handle it, so why not a bike? Like at a certain point, he'd be accelerating fast enough to just step out of his shoes and costume from his leg movement. Though he's often shown going from a standstill to moving faster than your eyes can follow, which should probably leave his clothes behind.

Probably bits of his body, too. Like the iterarions of him that could hit or exceed the speed of light are moving fast enough that running into air would probably feel more like a cement wall, plus a bunch of ionization effects just from the sheer friction.

There's that ask xykd about a baseball being thrown at some high portion of c and iirc, the conclusion was that everyone in the stadium and in some radius of it would die and that was just for a baseball. A full person would be an order of magnitude bigger. Even The Boys didn't quite get it right in their premiere, it would have been more violent than just his gf getting vapourized (though not sure that guy was going close to c, so it might not be "everyone within 100m of him dies when he runs", but he wouldn't need to run into someone to affect them at "just" faster than you can follow with your eyes).

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Speed force. That's it. There's a magical power called the speed force and I don't know the details but the bottom line is it lets then handwave literally anything related to going fast.

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

My understanding of most Flash material is that he runs fast but then meets villains who run faster so then they have a fast-off and then the Flash unlocks new fast-ness to be faster than the villain. This keeps happening until they are basically breaking space-time.

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

He also bought a van once, but that was when he was single and it was for uh... other stuff.

[–] D06M4@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

Superman would like someone to hold his beer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uKwzhY_HzU

[–] boobs_@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago (10 children)

Not being an expert on the lore, I'd be willing to bet it exists solely for merchandising

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Dude probably just gets tired of running everywhere.

[–] YonicTonic@sh.itjust.works 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

He can run around the world in a second, but the catch is he has to run around the world.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

And if he's able to react and avoid running into things, it means he's experiencing more time, so that 2 seconds might feel more like the normal amount of time it would take to run that far.

And hopefully his reaction time increases with his speed, otherwise every 2 seconds would seem like they are long enough to run around the world in.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago

He enjoys the sensation of driving,

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (9 children)

I imagine that his perception of time is also affected when he uses his super speed. Yes, he can run from one side of the continent to the other and back in a fraction of a second. But from his perspective, he just ran nonstop for an entire month.

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