Getting somewhat repetitive with these rants.
Has Grayven told Sunset about the Unmen? Always helps to know there is someone worse off than you.
Would have thought Awakening would help with that.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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Has Grayven told Sunset about the Unmen? Always helps to know there is someone worse off than you.
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"Zho! You wish to become a Pony, young lady?"
He doesn't know that it would work properly on a Wilsonian Pony.
She'd probably end up looking like a Changeling. If she was lucky.
Worse; Awakening has a pretty good chance of locking her into her present form, which she does not like.
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Yes, because just what Renegade path needs, more adding new powers to New Gods.
Anyway, I was thinking that thinking cap research might go faster if they contrasted and compared to the other psychic amplifiers out there.
Mento- Presuming he exists, since it doesn't really look like the doom patrol is wandering around, his helmet provides telekinesis, telepathy, but causes paranoia and dementia.
If the thinking cap doesn't cause paranoia and dementia, then that could help figure out how they reduce sanity.
Then there's Brainstorm's stellar helmet, which augments the brain using collected stellar energy, which as far as I can tell basically lets Brainstorm do whatever the hell he wants (for example, he once took the JLA's powers and gave them to random people, he also once physically fused the Flash's legs together), but causes deluded thinking.
Rossum
Not a Cyberman
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Personally, I kind of figured that Equestrian ponies are basically fey or fairies. I mean, they live in an alternate universe, they have magic (even the ones that don't cast spells), and they pretty much explicitly act like the stewards of their world doing everything from changing the seasons, moving the clouds, telling the animals when to move and hibernate, and controlling the celestial bodies to allow night and day to happen.
If the DC universe has two planets full of New Gods running around and awakening someone into godhood is as easy as pointing a Father Box at them, it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to call Shimmer "A magical creature from another dimension. Back home, her kind used to act as stewards for their planet's ecosystem until they hit the industrial revolution and automated most of it. She stepped through a one-way portal, got turned into a human, and now she's studying the magic we have here."
I mean, I'm a fan of MLP, but even I can see it getting pretty awkward for a magical being from another dimension showing up on Earth and introducing itself with the same name we use for nonsapient beasts of burden. Especially since ponies from Earth and Equestrian ponies are so vastly different physiologically. Again, it would be like a bunch of humans running around calling themselves orangutans, even when it's very clear that they don't have long arms adapted to swinging through trees and and can't hold stuff with their feet.
~People are hanging around Metropolis when the sky darkens and a bunch of alien ships show up.~
General Zod: People of Earth! I am General Zod, supreme leader of... the Bunnies!
Grayven: *spits out his coffee*
General Zod: Yes.... that's right! Tremble in fear! My people have been star-hopping through the galaxy for years ever since our home planet of Rabbitupiter imploded under mysterious circumstances.
Flash: What was that?
Superman: *blinks in confusion and then pulls out a tablet showing a picture of the glyphs for his rocket telling the history of his people. He squints at one symbol, turns the page upside-down, and his eyes widen in shock as his mind gets blown.*
General Zod: But this is the perfect planet to rebuild our empire and this city looks like the perfect site for New Bunnieopolis! *places a flag with a giant carrot on it* Surrender to us now, or prepare to have your hopes crushed under the lucky feet of your new Bunny overlords!
Kryptonian Soldiers: *holding plasma rifles and hopping around through the streets, causing earthquakes* Hippity-hoppity! Hippity-Hoppity!
Batman: I wasn't prepared for this.
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Is this how Guy's actually spelling it in his head? I would have expected a nickname for Grayven to be spelled "Gray".
IMO, lowercase m for interjecting a thought into another sentence, but it would also be defensible to add a full stop.
"League" (like many mass nouns) is always singular in American English, but it can be treated as plural in British English. So yes, it IS a transatlantic thing.
...really? Huh. The extra rules you guys decided to break really are completely arbitrary, aren't they?
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Actually if you're going to go for kryptonians as animals, the superman equivalent from the Justa Lot of Animals is Supersquirrel.
An alien armada surrounds the Earth, sending a signal that no one can understand.
Batman slows it down, and suddenly the alien message is understandable in a fast, high pitched voice that would fit in perfectly as the fourth Chipmunk "I am General Zod of Krypton, all your nuts belong to us!"
For anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about Starro and Superman visited a universe inhabited by cartoon anthropomorphic animals, thanks to Superman and Starro several of them were mutated into superheroes by meteorite fragments. Captain Carrot, the leader of the Zoo Crew, works on the Justa Lot of Animals comic book, so imagine his surprise when he meets the Just a lot of Animals.
Then again they also interacted with Oz and Wonderland.
I'm now picturing Paul as Snake Lantern on either Earth C or Earth C-Minus.
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This one's not exactly arbitrary. Kind of like how we pronounce more of our r's because of the form of the word, our treatment of mass nouns allows the form of the word to determine its behavior. The word is structured as singular, so we treat it grammatically as singular.
So really, it's less that we've broken a rule and more that we've established a more consistent rule.
Maybe someday American English will finally do away with that ridiculous count vs. non-count distinction that most variants of the language are still stuck with, but the academics on both sides of the pond will fight back against that as if their lives depended on it.
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This seems to have been overlooked, although now I think "Some time" is more likely since it's probably "Some time in the past".
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Deciding not to treat a group as more than one individual might be consistent, but it's also ignoring what the words mean. But whatever.
...and I have no idea what this is referring to.
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It's not ignoring it at all. It's just treating the group itself as the subject of the sentence instead of treating the members of the group as the subject. British English HAS the same rule, but it permits relaxation of it in order to specify that the members were acting in parallel instead of the group acting as an undifferentiated unit. American English sees no reason to permit that relaxation, because it's basically never ACTUALLY true anyway unless it really was completely unanimous.
Sometimes it's called the much-many distinction. It also applies to less/fewer. You can have "much water" but you have "many animals." You can meaningfully say "three animals" but "three waters" means something completely different. It also applies to less/fewer. In theory, it's based on whether you can count it or not (hence "count vs. non-count"), but in reality it's just arbitrary -- "sand" is a non-count noun, but you could certainly count it if you wanted to. And worse, "fruit" is a non-count noun and that's just ridiculous! You have to say "three pieces of fruit" because "three fruits" means something else. And then "data" is just a mess; it's TECHNICALLY a count plural noun (the singular is "datum") but it's also a non-count plural noun (you have "much data"), but it's also considered a singular mass noun!
Losing the difference between "less" and "fewer" is probably going to happen sooner than the rest of the unification of the two noun classes, but like I said, you can be sure that "educated" people are going to complain about it being "incorrect" regardless of how the language evolves.
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Americans do spell the colour you get when you mix black and white with an "a" making it "gray" (as opposed to the British English "grey"), so if Guy's basing the nickname off of Grayven's skin colour then he ought to spell it "Gray."
The easy way to remember it is that in America it's grAy and in England it's grEy.
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As an American, I can say it's nowhere near that simple.
Over here, we actually consider both spellings correct and synonymous, and it's regional which spelling is more common, instead of being an American English vs. British English distinction.But assuming Guy knows how "Grayven" is spelled, it seems more likely that he'd simply truncate it, regardless of how he spells the color word.
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Thank you, corrected.
We change them whenever the foreigners figure them out.
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No. You'll know I've done that when Grayven punches out Hordak and ends up responsible for raising the infant Princess Adora.
Make. Me.
daimahou
Hear... Feel... Think...
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I don't think you have the guts.
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Grayven is perfectly capable of getting as many guts as he wants.
That explains SO. MUCH. No wonder this language is a mess!
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You seem to be having trouble with the concept of threats, there, you're not supposed to threaten to do something that would be awesome.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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You could write a really ridiculous update with as much crack stuff as you want, post that in this thread, then post the actual update in the story only thread. Would be funny until people figured it out.
"Turns out it always causes mild headaches when used for more than 48 hours continuously, so we tossed it."
You see, that's the beauty of disembowelment. You can get more than you have currently.
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"You're not going out dressed like that young lady! Where's your gun?"You seem to be having trouble with the concept of threats, there, you're not supposed to threaten to do something that would be awesome.
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Heathen!
How could you confuse the sublime flavor of Cheesecake with a Marzipan Merringue layer cake!
And to think people called you the Cake Man once. :lol
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"But that doesn't make any sense!"
"...I'll add, 'mind controls you into not wanting to use it' to the list."
"Huh."
"Really, I should have thought of it earlier. Naturally a telepathic device made by a supervillain would have something like an 'ignore me, I'm not important' effect built into it. No wonder the old Justice Society never smashed it or anything like that."
OK if you think she's ready, but make sure you explain it should actually cover her whole face and while you're at it steer her away from capes.
I'm not sorry at all.
:lol
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Oh I was thinking about ways to gain telepathy in DC comics that could be duplicated.
There's the Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt way, in which one learns to unlock the potential of their mind and generally get to act like you're in a wuxia movie. Also, it can also provide superspeed as his Kingdom Come version shows, so add that to the ways Wally can enhance his speed.
On the downside, the monks who taught Peter only did so because they erroneously believed he was the prophesied chosen one, so not only is it something that takes awhile, but finding a teacher is going to be difficult.
A more Paul-ish way though is through Vril, which Neptune Perkin's grandfather, Arthur Gordon Pym, learned from the apparently pre-human Dzyan, an energy source that when harnessed can be used to power machinery, telepathy, telekinesis, longevity, shapeshifting, mutation, explosive force, and who knows what else.
There's the Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt way, in which one learns to unlock the potential of their mind and generally get to act like you're in a wuxia movie. Also, it can also provide superspeed as his Kingdom Come version shows, so add that to the ways Wally can enhance his speed.
On the downside, the monks who taught Peter only did so because they erroneously believed he was the prophesied chosen one, so not only is it something that takes awhile, but finding a teacher is going to be difficult.
A more Paul-ish way though is through Vril, which Neptune Perkin's grandfather, Arthur Gordon Pym, learned from the apparently pre-human Dzyan, an energy source that when harnessed can be used to power machinery, telepathy, telekinesis, longevity, shapeshifting, mutation, explosive force, and who knows what else.
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