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- Hampden Park
Eh, alright then.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
This is why I spend most of my time over at QQ. This forum and spacebattles both seem weirdly, proudly, repressed, and have a very enthusiastic mod community when it comes to this stuff.
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- Canada
But where would we get our daily dose of american puritanism if it wasn't for their dedication?!
Dannered humans may need a bit more food but their need for medical care and emergency services would drop as well. It's easier to break things but it's also easier to build things when everyone can juggle steel girders. Crimes against property go up, but murder rates go down since everyone is really hard to kill without specialized training or gear. Financially speaking they break even in the short term and gain in the long term since everyone is now more capable.
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- Somewhere out there
It's mostly a sense of fear, really. Erotic content triggers a whole slew of annoying requirements on its own, thanks to things like laws meant to keep erotica away from children. Erotic content with underage subjects is actually ILLEGAL in some jurisdictions, even if it's fictional. Even if the site is hosted in a jurisdiction where fictional such depictions aren't unlawful, it could be a legal risk for some USERS to access the site if that kind of content is hosted ANYWHERE ON IT, regardless of whether or not they actually consume it.
If you perceive pride, it's not pride about being censorious -- what you're actually seeing is an attempt to keep the attitude positive and nonjudgmental surrounding a sensitive subject. The SV staff is explicitly trying not to disparage any of its users, not even accidentally. It's ALSO trying to head off the free speech arguments that invariably turn up when an Internet forum does something censorious. What they're proud of is their site and their community.
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- Argentina
We still let over a third of the food produced go to waste. And we actually produce more food nowadays than a decade ago.
So yeah, food wouldn´t be one of the big problems.
So yeah, food wouldn´t be one of the big problems.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
I was of the same opinion when this subject came up a long time ago, but someone pointed out that the increased stamina would have a large effect. Being really strong doesn't help most people in developed countries, but having a more active metabolism and better stamina would mean that people would still have the energy to do stuff even after a gruelling day at work.
Aside from the magical stuff, he can transmute most of it pretty quickly from orange light. Maybe not his armor, but I think he could make most of his weapons really quickly.
Good to know.
First of all, population growth rates are slowing in basically all developed countries, and I believe are even negative in Japan. America would have significantly less population growth if it wasn't for so many people immigrating in.
Second, I don't believe nutrient shortages are actually an issue. The most common limiting agent for plant growth is sources of bioavailable nitrogen, which is already made industrially and is a large part of how we can sustain as many people as we do. If you can disregard energy concerns, which in a world where thermodynamics defying power generators are a thing is probable, food production could go up even more.
Ultimately I don't think food shortages will become an issue either IRL or in story. Water shortages, maybe, and something else might cripple distribution chains, but we should be fine on food.
Suffocation still works perfectly well. Not something easy to do in a fight, but strangling someone can kill them regardless of their objective strength. It's possible to drown someone in a bowl of water, for example.
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- Earth, 3rd rock from the Sun
The benefit of being instinctively more healthy and harder to injure would be a boon to society, especially among the poor; that would be a source of stress you simply would not need to worry much about.
There would also be changes in agriculture and construction even among 1st world nations. Tractors and such take quite a bit on money to keep in operation. If you have superstrong, superdurable, construction workers and farm hands, I see implements designed for their use bring brought in if they are cheaper then maintaining all the construction equipment. And if they are developed in the 3rd world, they could easily be imported to America to save money.
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- Somewhere out there
That actually makes the problem worse, not better. The growth rates are slowing in the places where food is plentiful, but improving food supply and distribution will INCREASE the growth rates in the places where it previously was not plentiful. Africa's growth rate is such that its population is expected to be 2.4 billion ON ITS OWN by 2050.
Feeding Africa BEFORE improving other quality-of-life metrics there will only serve to cause a population explosion.
I'm not positive about there being a nutrient shortage; that's merely my speculation about where the problem might lie.
If there IS a potential nutrient shortage, hypothetically speaking... You're correct about that being the limiting agent for plant growth, however the limiting agent for the expansion of agriculture is real estate. Plants are fairly particular about growing conditions -- moisture, temperature, wind, soil, and yes nitrogen -- which means that any individual crop has geographic restrictions on where it can grow. There's just not enough room to grow enough feedstock for enough cattle to feed the whole world as much meat as first-world citizens consume, which means that the solution will include changing what first-world citizens eat as we uplift more third-world regions.
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- USA
Yes and no. The IRL term for this is actually dendrophile.
Empiricist2
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- Baton Rouge
That's specific to trees though. Not about plants in general.
Family Day (part 14)
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- Hampden Park
25th April
10:25 GMT -6
"But I can't-"
Humanoid made of space. DC don't own Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys which leaves…
"-take you to him-"
Sheeda. The Huntsman. I think I remember him killing a group of unpowered heroes and… Throwing them through time? I know he also got his arse kicked one on one against fricking Stargirl, so I wouldn't be too worried were it not for the fact that he's replacing local gravity with his own body.
"-because I don't know-"
But I am worried. Which is why I create construct armour around myself and Beautia just in time to intercept the luminous green energy beam fired from between his eyes.
"-agh!"
The armour is being abraded as I fly rapidly away from the doorway, pulling Beautia with me. The beam bends around the opening of the door, maintaining contact for a good half-second after she's out of his line of sight. Ring, local gravity?
Attraction to 'Huntsman' is now five times Earth gravity.
Oh wonderfu-.
There's a tremendous bang as the wall to the store room crumples in on itself! Through the gap I see the material of the wall floating next to the Huntsman, falling to the floor with a crash as he lowers his right arm.
"SIVANA. WHERE IS HE?"
"I just told you-!"
Armour.
I don't have my armour! Gah! Railguns! And.. I don't have any ammunition. Errr… Quick, fabricate…
I fire a short volley of Crumblers and… Were the Sheeda like fairies as far as vulnerabilities go? I don't remember. I think that the Sheeda-Sheeda looked a bit like Dark Eldar, so even if they are I'm not sure it would apply to him. Ah, what the heck. Cold iron and silver tipped rounds are added to the volley and… Every single one is a negative impact.
"-he isn't here!"
"I don't think he's going to listen. Do you know if your father was storing any-" The Huntsman fires another bolt of luminous green as we fly towards the lift shaft. I interpose a construct shield which appears to hold. "-gravity manipulation devices?"
"I haven't been here since I was eleven!"
"Oh."
"Maybe if we could just explain that whatever my Father did-."
"Beautia, I've been doing this for a while now and sometimes? Supervillains just don't want to listen to the voice of rationality."
"Yeah, he's kinda got a point. I've been a supervillain for a while now myself-"
Beautia looks around. "Junior?"
"-and sometimes you just get total tunnel vision. Ah, yeah, we've got internal communications from the hab area. Do you know what that thing is?"
"Not completely sure. I don't suppose your father's work contained any reference to 'Sheeda' did it?"
"Ah… No. We think he was working on some kinda time travel. He wanted to go visit the future and-."
"How far into the future?"
We fly past the number '3' painted on the wall. Four more to go…
"If I coulda found that out, do you really think I wouldn't just have opened another portal?"
"Okay, but, a little way, or a long way?"
"Junior, give me that." There's a bang just off the microphone. "Hello again Orange Lantern. Doctor Sivana here."
"Georgia, there's no one here called 'Sivana' who isn't also a doctor."
"But I have more doctorates than anyone else. Therefore-. Hey!"
"Magnificus to Orange Lantern."
The '5' flies past. And then goes past again in the other direction. Huh? "Go ahead, Magnificus." I look down and the Huntsman looks up. Flecks of paint are cracking off the walls to orbit around him in a miniature dust cloud. I flick both hands out to the side and release the Praexis swarm, who immediately fall towards the bottom of the shaft.
"Waaaaaaahh!"
A couple land on the Huntsman's head and scrabble to stay on.
Praexis Swarm.
The '4' goes past.
Consume.
"Yay! Foooooooood!"
Beautia looks at me in alarm. "What are those?"
"Demons bound to my service. Magnificus?"
"Do you have anything that can affect that creature?"
I glance down. A couple of Praexis Demons are attempting to ingest his horns, though I'm not sure how much good that's doing. I can't tell what he's made of. "Pass."
"Father had some rather precise gravity measuring devices in warehouse three. If you can reactivate them we might be able to assist you. Otherwise… You're the superhero. If you want to just take a swing at.. whatever it is."
Beautia looks at me. She's not properly scared yet, but I can see the yellow worries bubbling up. "Then you can put me down somewhere safe first."
"No fear. If we're the only people around I'd rather get all the information I can before running in blind." Ring, list of gravity manipulation devices.
Compliance.
"Dropping to level three. Beautia, get the door open." I shove the armour construct containing her into the doorway, then take up position in the middle of the shaft and create a gravity pulse projector construct. It's essentially a form of crowd control device designed to knock a group of people over. I target his chest just as he gets tired of the demonic assault and starts lashing out with his luminous face beam again. Three Demons shake and disintegrate before one gets to his face and starts sucking the beam at the source. Unlike when they sucked at his body this appears to be giving it a power it can use. The Demon begins to swell as I take aim and fire.
The Huntsman brings both of his hands up and grabs hold of the Demon slobbering at his forehead and there's a crack as space bends and the Praexis Demon is shredded. A moment later my pulse strikes the Huntsman in the chest. No noticeable effect, save that it's gone back to ignoring the Demons to focus on me. Okay, turn it up from crowd control to something a little more potent. My construct grows to anti-tank missile launcher size as I fire again. This time a thin cloud of blue wafts off his epidermis a fraction of a second before his green beam blasts through my construct barrier and pierces my construct gun, wrecking it.
"I'm in!"
"Go go go!"
Beautia charges through the doorway, running inside the warehouse. I try an orange energy pulse on the Huntsman (to no effect) before following her and hitting the door close button behind me.
And then I see the giant robot.
10:25 GMT -6
"But I can't-"
Humanoid made of space. DC don't own Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys which leaves…
"-take you to him-"
Sheeda. The Huntsman. I think I remember him killing a group of unpowered heroes and… Throwing them through time? I know he also got his arse kicked one on one against fricking Stargirl, so I wouldn't be too worried were it not for the fact that he's replacing local gravity with his own body.
"-because I don't know-"
But I am worried. Which is why I create construct armour around myself and Beautia just in time to intercept the luminous green energy beam fired from between his eyes.
"-agh!"
The armour is being abraded as I fly rapidly away from the doorway, pulling Beautia with me. The beam bends around the opening of the door, maintaining contact for a good half-second after she's out of his line of sight. Ring, local gravity?
Attraction to 'Huntsman' is now five times Earth gravity.
Oh wonderfu-.
There's a tremendous bang as the wall to the store room crumples in on itself! Through the gap I see the material of the wall floating next to the Huntsman, falling to the floor with a crash as he lowers his right arm.
"SIVANA. WHERE IS HE?"
"I just told you-!"
Armour.
I don't have my armour! Gah! Railguns! And.. I don't have any ammunition. Errr… Quick, fabricate…
I fire a short volley of Crumblers and… Were the Sheeda like fairies as far as vulnerabilities go? I don't remember. I think that the Sheeda-Sheeda looked a bit like Dark Eldar, so even if they are I'm not sure it would apply to him. Ah, what the heck. Cold iron and silver tipped rounds are added to the volley and… Every single one is a negative impact.
"-he isn't here!"
"I don't think he's going to listen. Do you know if your father was storing any-" The Huntsman fires another bolt of luminous green as we fly towards the lift shaft. I interpose a construct shield which appears to hold. "-gravity manipulation devices?"
"I haven't been here since I was eleven!"
"Oh."
"Maybe if we could just explain that whatever my Father did-."
"Beautia, I've been doing this for a while now and sometimes? Supervillains just don't want to listen to the voice of rationality."
"Yeah, he's kinda got a point. I've been a supervillain for a while now myself-"
Beautia looks around. "Junior?"
"-and sometimes you just get total tunnel vision. Ah, yeah, we've got internal communications from the hab area. Do you know what that thing is?"
"Not completely sure. I don't suppose your father's work contained any reference to 'Sheeda' did it?"
"Ah… No. We think he was working on some kinda time travel. He wanted to go visit the future and-."
"How far into the future?"
We fly past the number '3' painted on the wall. Four more to go…
"If I coulda found that out, do you really think I wouldn't just have opened another portal?"
"Okay, but, a little way, or a long way?"
"Junior, give me that." There's a bang just off the microphone. "Hello again Orange Lantern. Doctor Sivana here."
"Georgia, there's no one here called 'Sivana' who isn't also a doctor."
"But I have more doctorates than anyone else. Therefore-. Hey!"
"Magnificus to Orange Lantern."
The '5' flies past. And then goes past again in the other direction. Huh? "Go ahead, Magnificus." I look down and the Huntsman looks up. Flecks of paint are cracking off the walls to orbit around him in a miniature dust cloud. I flick both hands out to the side and release the Praexis swarm, who immediately fall towards the bottom of the shaft.
"Waaaaaaahh!"
A couple land on the Huntsman's head and scrabble to stay on.
Praexis Swarm.
The '4' goes past.
Consume.
"Yay! Foooooooood!"
Beautia looks at me in alarm. "What are those?"
"Demons bound to my service. Magnificus?"
"Do you have anything that can affect that creature?"
I glance down. A couple of Praexis Demons are attempting to ingest his horns, though I'm not sure how much good that's doing. I can't tell what he's made of. "Pass."
"Father had some rather precise gravity measuring devices in warehouse three. If you can reactivate them we might be able to assist you. Otherwise… You're the superhero. If you want to just take a swing at.. whatever it is."
Beautia looks at me. She's not properly scared yet, but I can see the yellow worries bubbling up. "Then you can put me down somewhere safe first."
"No fear. If we're the only people around I'd rather get all the information I can before running in blind." Ring, list of gravity manipulation devices.
Compliance.
"Dropping to level three. Beautia, get the door open." I shove the armour construct containing her into the doorway, then take up position in the middle of the shaft and create a gravity pulse projector construct. It's essentially a form of crowd control device designed to knock a group of people over. I target his chest just as he gets tired of the demonic assault and starts lashing out with his luminous face beam again. Three Demons shake and disintegrate before one gets to his face and starts sucking the beam at the source. Unlike when they sucked at his body this appears to be giving it a power it can use. The Demon begins to swell as I take aim and fire.
The Huntsman brings both of his hands up and grabs hold of the Demon slobbering at his forehead and there's a crack as space bends and the Praexis Demon is shredded. A moment later my pulse strikes the Huntsman in the chest. No noticeable effect, save that it's gone back to ignoring the Demons to focus on me. Okay, turn it up from crowd control to something a little more potent. My construct grows to anti-tank missile launcher size as I fire again. This time a thin cloud of blue wafts off his epidermis a fraction of a second before his green beam blasts through my construct barrier and pierces my construct gun, wrecking it.
"I'm in!"
"Go go go!"
Beautia charges through the doorway, running inside the warehouse. I try an orange energy pulse on the Huntsman (to no effect) before following her and hitting the door close button behind me.
And then I see the giant robot.
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Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
How can he fabricate Mageslayers? Thought they had to be enchanted to do anything special to magic things.
Those energy pulses did not live up to what they were made out to be.
Typos:
Doesn't he need Atlantean help to fabricate Mage Slayers? Or has he found a way around that?
"doing"
PostwarGryphon
Traveller of Planes
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- Australia
... Why is Toyman on Venus?
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- Hampden Park
When I first wrote this section I forgot that he didn't currently have access to his normal stores. Missed changing that bit.
Thank you, corrected.
Couldn't you have waited a few months to bring this up so that we could have all speculated wildly about how Paul unconsciously tapped Orange Soul Magic in a fit of desperation? You take all the fun out of it, Emp.
Always nice to end things on a high note.
They are effective normally, but this guy seems to be pretty physically weird whether he's really a "universe" or not.
Scholar of Time
Master of Lurking
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- Born of Sands, Raised in Shadow
Seriously. I saw that I only had an half hour to wait for your post to show up....so I stayed up. Grr. Please be an extremely successful professional writer; I'd rather not lose all faith in humanity.
Scholar of Time
Master of Lurking
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- Born of Sands, Raised in Shadow
Please to be remembering his previous dates - currently, his most successful interactions have occurred during or as a result of conflict.
Theory: OL is, in fact, an entity from Worm.
Theory-theory: OL may technically qualify as an entity from Worm due to his Ophidian lend-lease host situation.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
I'm... Fairly sure someone else pointed it out as well. And I would have forgotten.
I mean, I do have one or two things I mean to bring up at some point or other, but that's neither here nor there.
Also, I totally called this:
Yes, but they didn't do all that much against the Star Hunters either, and they only did ok against Kanto. I get that the things he uses them against are generally pretty tough, but still.
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- madison
I vagary remember that show, I recall it was actually pretty good.
downside of being free enofgh from narrative conventions to be able to upset the status quo, it means if you go up against a godlike creature with little narrative importance your going to have more trouble than a main character who's power is an odd weapon choice and questionable fashion sense.
well at least he's self aware enofgh to acknowledge it.
because of course there would be giant robots. its a mad scientists storage warehouse.
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