So ideally I'd like to limit this inquiry to those who have no or at the very least, very little experience with shaping let alone coding psi (aside from gathering it) and who have never been exposed to their depiction or a description of what psi is aside from having some sort of connection to feats such as telekinesis but well given the vast amounts of tutorials out there this may be a tall order. My ideal is that if you were to gather psi from the environment without the intention to do anything else with it and just let it be without coding it, without any preconceptions, given time and enough data points we should eventually be able to find some sort of trend in terms of how psi when gathered without any other form of coding, if gathering it does count as some sort of code, naturally behaves.
Instructions: Gather psi from the environment without doing anything else to it (including drawing it into yourself) and observe for about half a minute. Do not repeat this. Now note what, if anything, happened.
Note* If for some reason you find yourself pulling in the environmental psi into your body as though it were as natural as breathing, please wait for the time being. Your input will be appreciated in a different poll, thank you very much.
This poll will last for 2 weeks.
-- Edited by uwu on Thursday 30th of October 2025 11:33:46 PM
Hmm. I wonder if the reason why this poll didn't end up having any votes was primarily due to most members (and I suppose guests as well) just not being in the crosshairs of whom this poll was meant for. I mean, I did mention that I wanted to limit this inquiry to those who have no or at the very least, very little experience with shaping let alone coding psi (aside from gathering it) and who have never been exposed to their depiction or a description of what psi is aside from having some sort of connection to feats such as telekinesis.
I suppose this limitation must've excluded the entire community which is to say, no one was really qualified to answer since in order to be qualified what you needed was lack of experience (that or for whatever reason instead of drawing psi somewhere outside of the body most of you were drawing it inside, which would've also disqualify you). Of course as mentioned the ideal was to try and figure out a common ground to how psi naturally acts and behaves when simply gathered with no other code. Psi has been described as many things, presented with various depictions, some more common than others. The only thing we know about psi is that it is described as the energy which enables feats such as telekinesis, telepathy and the such. Aside from being the fuel for psychokinesis and other similar phenomena we don't actually know that much about how psi naturally operates or what it's properties are. Sure, there are depictions of it when we consider the psi development tutorials though the question is, just how accurate are those depictions when it comes to portraying the natural properties of psi? For example, if you wanted to make a psi-ball, would you have to specifically code in the "ball" part or would the simple gathering of psi cause it to naturally form into a ball? When you have your psi-ball does it remain unaffected by gravity due to having some kind of antigravitic properties meaning you don't really need to pay attention to it or even code it in in order for your psi-ball to remain unaffected by gravity or is that also another code you need to implement? is the gathered psi blue or is it more accurate to describe it as rather clear? These things we don't know and while it is unlikely that our data will only have consistent themes, what we can gather however is trends. Let's say that 100 people voted. 10% voted that the gathered psi remained rigid while 30% said that it remained fluid, 70% said that it sank while 30% said that it floats upwards, etc etc. From this rather small sample size of 100 we could garner the following observations;
Assuming this trend holds true, it is reasonable to state that when left on its own without any coding, gathered psi tends to fluctuate being being rigid like a solid to being fluid and vice versa or it has a 60% of exhibiting those properties with a 30% of remaining fluid and a 10% of remaining rigid. We could also say that gathered psi is naturally prone to sinking (70% chance) with only 30% of it floating upwards. Sure, in this hypothetical none of these % are 100% but what matters more is their trend. As more data is gathered we should eventually see the ratios either even out or that some observations are clearly more common than others which is to say that psi naturally has the tendency to take on those traits. In the case where the ratios instead even out we could say, perhaps the mere act of simply gathering psi without the intention of coding it causes the psi to take on a random code(s) automatically. We also should not dismiss the possibility that psi may behave differently for some. Indeed, some struggle with making a psi ball whereas for others making the psi-ball comes as naturally as breathing and dare I say it, some may even find it to be impossible.
{sigh} Perhaps I should just make the next poll not as limiting.
