Yep, links two portals to each other. Place one over a dangerous area and one below someone, they fall. Boom, a weapon. However, it's also a very useful tool for transportation purposes.

Yes. It could technically be a weapon if you placed a portal up high, and another on the ground under someone.

In Portal 2 there's a multiplayer mode. It can definitely be used as a weapon when you quickly swap out the portal exit so that your companion falls to their demise.

There are some fun community levels where you can race against a friend and there are all sorts of traps you can trigger/set if you plan it right.

in the game there are not ppl alive anymore, but you use it to "dispose" a lot of angry turrets and eventually get the endboss to hurt themselves.

You can instantly turn anything into a weapon and you can instantly drop the floor out from anyone and drop them from the highest point you can reach.

Yes. It's a weapon and a tool like an axe is a weapon and a tool

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

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

So it must have at least two batteries, right?

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.

Can you see it's means it is from my point of view?

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.

You sound like a hoopy frood

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

It did. It’s a 90s movie from Matt Stone and Trey Parker about a Mormon that becomes a superhero genre pornstar. At the time it was funny as fuck, but haven’t seen it in years to know if it still stands up or not.

Which is a portable version of the Excessive Machine (Orgasmotron) from Barbarella.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_(Film)

Be your own reach around

I shouldn't feel bad for just using it to reach the fridge from the sofa.

But the trays are all wet.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Lazy Gun was based on science but it was so advanced no one new how it really worked. The theory was it was moving things between parallel universes. The tech was developed before civilization collapsed and the knowledge was lost*. The issue was also that it would self destruct when someone tried to disassemble it trying to figure it out.

*Against a Dark Background happens in a solar system outside of galaxy. The civilization there is trapped with no way of reaching other stars. They colonized their entire solar system thousands of years ago and since then are stuck in a cycle of growth and collapse with many artifacts from previous high points still present.

Then I choose the pistol (given the name Rimpoche by an AI Bhudda) from Redrobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. It provides target identification, auto-aim and sarcasm.

Maybe I don't want it faster and cleaner...

It was in the first season, like I said it was rarely used but when Kovacs bought it they gave it a solid introduction.

The problem with misclassifying transporters as "non-weapons" is largely down to Starfleet and the sum entirety of its personnel being blithering idiots with the tactical prowess of a beached flounder. Even taking into account all the caveats and technicalities of how and when transporters could or couldn't be used in canon, the combat utility of such a thing is criminally overlooked.

Myriad are the times when it is apparently perfectly feasible to beam onto the enemy ship, or vise-versa, to engage in merry yet largely ineffective laser beam battles in the corridors wherein practically nobody hits anybody because in the 31st century everyone forgot how to put sights on their guns.

Or, you could just use your transporters to set them up the bomb. You have got a bomb, haven't you? I'm sure your replicators can make you one. Or you could just pull the pin on a torpedo and then park it on their captain's lap.

Have the Scary Dogmatic Aliens boarded your ship? Beam their punk asses out into space. Preferably sans their clothes, especially if your transporter chief is any good.

Sustained some battle damage but your transporters are still working? Just start nicking spare parts from your enemy's ship. Warp coils, antimater injectors, computer consoles, any or all of their guns... I'm sure you can think of plenty of things you could do with some extras of. Or, and I'm just spitballing here, precisely however many square meters of their hull can fit on your transporter pad. Like, maybe the bit of it that separates their bridge from the vacuum of space.

Etc., etc. The possibilities really just suggest themselves. With the technology available in the 'Trek universe, space battles should be significantly shorter, much more chaotic, and an awful lot more interesting than they're ever depicted on screen. Basically once anyone's shields are down it should be an out and out prank war, one with lethal stakes that are decided by whoever's engineers are the most creative and/or vindictive, and who can type the fastest.

That's before even getting into the wrinkle that photon torpedoes are supposed to travel at warp velocities. Faster than light. There's no need to even bother to put warheads in the damn things, antimatter based or not. The impact energy alone should be able to core a planet, if only anyone on the writing staff could be trusted to do the math.

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

Uhm, okay?

E: took me a while for the reference 🫠

If we can walk through walls, why don't we fall through the floor?