Actually, the accusation of "one-trick pony" might have a bit of credibility here: draining OL's rings might be a perfectly reasonable tactic for the Light to go with, but if it keeps happening then narrative and entertainment value have been sacrificed on the altar of realism, and we'll have to start asking ourselves why OL doesn't use the same level of boring-but-functional pragmatism in response. From there, either we end up with arguments that Paul is failing to up his game in the face of a serious ongoing threat to his ability to contribute, or we get arguments that having him just use accelerated perception, followed by a barrage of weapons fire and then slapping power-nullifying collars on any enemy combatants before they've even finished processing the sudden fusillade of schizotech ordnance and orange light is starting to get old.
And yet, I would read that story, because it would make sense. If you think you need to be comic book dumb to have a good narrative and entertainment value, maybe stop reading this and go read the New 52 or something? I hear they made it
Super Extra Comic Book Dumb, just for people who think the way you do...
Oh please, it's been 8-9 months and he's still a shitty human when he doesn't even need to look different or do any change that would make his continued well being ring dependent and yet he hasn't improved his body. We've had this discussion a few times already and it's quite obvious Zoat is unwilling to make him take the logical choice for some reason.
Thinking Cap that can even make anyone Psychic without needing to add brain grafts. Enuff said. You could even run it through the Rings tech database to miniaturize it and integrate it into your skull so it is always there. Somewhere along the lime Zoat decided he hated even reversible trans-humanism. Bad Zoat, no Cake for you!
Lanterns. They've got like, one major weakness and that'S their ring charge. When you have not only the knowledge of that weakness, but also the means to exploit it, you do that or you get wrecked. And when you do that, you better do it well. And that's what'S happened here.
They are also not that great against magic. Which Satanus both is, and is an expert on. Do he probably buddied up to Dark Druid to learn how to magically drain power rings for a double whammy.
If the SI didn't know it, why would be be mentioned? This story is virtually all first person, after all.
Zoat, you are kind of being a prat here. He was not asking OL, he was asking
you, about author of the story and fellow thread member, about things that were mentioned in the thread. Of course OL goes not now, he is not a participant in the thread. And Satanus joining the Light was mentioned here before.
The problem is that it's still dull as dishwater, and indicates a shift in the story's internal logic towards "pragmatism and efficiency outweigh all other concerns, including narrative"
You realize what you are basically saying is, "Hey, you know thus story we are reading that is about what happens when a SI comes to DC with a power ring, and starts disregarding the stupid comic book tropes to try and actually improve things, I think we should stop doing that so it can have more comic book style illogical decisions that are completely divorced from common sense."
Not really a fan of that at all. OL
should fight his battles intelligently, and if his enemies have a method that counters him, they should use it like a crutch until OL devises a counter to it, and it he does not, it should continue to be a problem. Like the wards, magic being partially OCP to the rings programming. And is continually countering him, and will till he wises up and puts more effort into finding a ward breaker that can work with the ring. (Like Assimilating the Spear of Destiny, you
know you want to OL)
When he was just manifesting Shock Crowns on peoples heads I had no problem with that. I do sort of have a problem with him not doing that anymore when it worked, but I assume that is because his high end opponents wised up, all that battles that
could have been solved by him simple shock crowning everyone
simply did not happen, because instead of sending mooks against OL that he could effortlessly defeat, his enemies realized that would be dumb, and did something else with their resources, like making it more likely OL would just
not be there to effortlessly thwart the plan while it was in motion.
Kind of amusing how he is always drained juuuuuust to below that number when you think about it.
I admit it would be nice if some time when his charge was drained or getting low he could just say,
"Hold down the fort for 30 seconds OK guys,
" and did just teleport to the lantern to recharge.
