Mundane Utility: Difference between revisions

** Similarly, in the official manga ''Strange and Bright Nature Deity'', Youmu unsuccessfully tries to convince Marisa and Reimu to stop collecting ghosts in jars and using them as air conditioners.

** Eirin is an [[Time Abyss|absurdly old]] super-genius that invented a potion for immortality, as well as who knows what else. After the events of ''Imperishable Night'' she used her abilities to open a clinic, providing medicine for youkai and humans.

*** In ''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red'', an official illustration for Aya's article on a party at Hakurei Shrine (the "Night Parade of One Hundred Oni Every Four Days") shows Yukari using one of her portals as a '''chair'''.

** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnkQ3kozyhw Touhou Soccer]'', where the girls unleash their unbelievably powerful magic/world-crushing [[Kamehame Hadoken|energy beams]]/RealityWarper powers/whatever... to play ''soccer''. Yes. Whatever they're using for a soccer ball, it must be ''goddamn invincible''.

* In ''[[Half-Life]] 2'', Alyx says that the Gravity Gun was originally designed for handling hazardous materials, but they mostly use it for heavy lifting. Gordon later repurposes it [[Improvised Weapon|as a weapon]]. It also makes a pretty mean mine sweeper.

** Of course the very first thing Gordon uses it for is playing fetch with Dog.

** In ''Portal 2'' we have the Propulsion Pudding originally marketed as a dietary aid, speeds food through your stomach before it can be digested. Removed from the market when it was discovered that digestion plays an important role in the eating process, namely breaking down food into easily absorbed pieces BEFORE it is violently expelled from the body. Repulsion Pudding was removed from the market for similar reasons. Both of those could probably be used for real advances, if Apeture Science wasn't utterly incompetent at making anything useful.

** ''[[Portal 2]]'' features a meta-example in one of the game engine's new features, "world portals", which can link any two areas just like standard portals but are meant to be placed in mid-air, integrate seamlessly integrate with the environment, and can have standard portals shot through them. The result: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xFbRecjKQA crazy non-Euclidean geometry] similar to what late '90s engines were capable of. What did Valve use it for? Building maps in chunks during early development instead of having to make everything line up. Those maps were all eventually rejiggered back into a coherent Euclidean whole except one, which involves a room that's slightly [[Bigger on the Inside]], but just barely.