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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)

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Empiricist2 said:
So obviously the SI can't butt his head against the problem until he can make a barrier to block the tsunami, but that's not an orange way of thinking. How about using shiny toys to solve the problem?

We know that there have to be plenty of artificial gravity generators in his tech database, and he has plenty of ways of generating electricity. How about making a gravity generator with as large an area of effect as possible with the gravity pointing towards the tsunami, then feed it power from bleed torsion generators?
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It would probably take too much time to fabricate; ring manufacturing is fast but not instantaneous. With foreknowledge of the exact problem he could have probably done better.

Another possibility that occurred to me was producing large numbers of cold generators and creating a temporary ice wall. Which again requires manufacturing time.
 
Empiricist2 said:
That's.. boring. 75% of the interesting part of a power ring is the need to be emotionally invested in what you're doing, and getting yourself into the right state of mind to use the ring. For example, would this story be improved if the SI never had to learn anything about himself to use his ring, never had to care at all about what he was doing? I don't think so.
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It's DC Comics. They made outstanding comics during 1987-2011, but they haven't really done anything good since. Their Animated works are outstanding, but you really shouldn't expect anything good from their comics.
 
The Source 16 exists, but for reasons that might come up it's a fairly deist sort of uberdeity.
 
Empiricist2 said:
Speedy (who seriously needs to choose a new name)
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I'm, I'm pretty sure he wears power armor, has cool Paultech, and goes by Arsenal. Unless I'm very confused.

Avernus said:
Another possibility that occurred to me was producing large numbers of cold generators and creating a temporary ice wall. Which again requires manufacturing time.
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To quote a president: you're wrong. Paul is in fact capable of generating cold guns out of avarice and orange light.
 
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SirKaid said:
Levi's 30 feet tall. That's what, three stories? He's a bit oversized for the picture but not by all that much.
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HadesHerald said:
Double check if I'm wrong, but his shoulder is level with what I think is the 4th story, which puts him at around 40 tall (again, may be wrong here)
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Check the buildings around him again. Each of those windows? That's one story. Looks like the building he's pushing over is ~5 stories tall or so, and it barely comes up to his hips there.
 
Saw some comments about gods showing up... that's not going to be workable.
Their strength when they're manifested in the world is, IIRC, relative to how many worshippers they have.
 
Krain said:
Saw some comments about gods showing up... that's not going to be workable.
Their strength when they're manifested in the world is, IIRC, relative to how many worshippers they have.
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Nope. As stated in All His Engines, they don't get weaker. More distant, perhaps, but if one turned up it would be at full force.
 
Aabcehmu said:
I wonder if Paulphidian could assimilate Oceanus.
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Probably not considering his ring fails against magic and I think a titan would be pretty magic heavy. It would probably connect and then do the thing where there is no progress, or Just be completely ignored all together.

Edit: just noticed you said Paulphidian. My bad, to amend I think it would either be a tie or a curb stomp with the snake winning.
 
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readerdreamer said:
I wonder though, how Willpower can function as Enlightenment, and how this alignment would last. I mean, Paulphidian primarily functioned by doing whatever they wanted, but Willpower?
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Willpower enlightenment would mean that you would do nothing unaligned with your will. Every impulse you have is either willfully selected for, or willfully selected against. You would become, in effect, an idealized version of yourself, never straying from the identity you have chosen for yourself -- consciousness ruling over instinct and reflex at all times.
 
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Coda said:
Willpower enlightenment would mean that you would do nothing unaligned with your will. Every impulse you have is either willfully selected for, or willfully selected against. You would become, in effect, an idealized version of yourself, never straying from the identity you have chosen from yourself -- consciousness ruling over instinct and reflex at all times.
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That does sound awesome.
You can see why the guardians went all in.
 
RichardWhereat said:
It's a new thing in DC comics. Phantom Corps. The ring does anything you want it to, doesn't care who its owner is, or their emotional state.
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From what I've seen online, it's not a Corps, it's just one ring. It also shifts which emotion it's using to what emotion you're feeling, which shifts how you think as well, and it causes you to explode if you wear it for too long. WHY would you give that to Batman?
 
Krain said:
Saw some comments about gods showing up... that's not going to be workable.
Their strength when they're manifested in the world is, IIRC, relative to how many worshippers they have.
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Only in Vertigo continuity, which as Zoat has mentioned (again) is not how he's doing it.

In New Earth continuity, the gods get their power from the Source's Godwave, the same power that power rings, speedsters, and quantum users tap into, and the source for pretty much every superbeing in the entire universe.

As for example, the storyline in which the Kryptonian goddess of cold, death, and fear, freed from her prison decades after Krypton's explosion, had the energy to travel to Earth and beat the living daylights out of Superman.

Or the Mad God, who, logically, ate all his worshippers when he ate his entire galaxy.

Well except in Vext, but like I've mentioned before, it's not like DC writers care about continuity. And doesn't make sense in Vext, since he predates the fall of man.

In Prime Earth continuity, I understand that it was established that the Olympians had three sources of power. 1- Worshippers. If that falls through they move to option 2- The Fates. If something happens to the Fates, they move on to option number 3- Olympus itself.
 
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Cornuthaum said:
So.

It's nice that the US eastern seaboard is safe, but ...

What about literally everything else that touches the north atlantic?!
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The barrier extends to central and south America as well as up into Canada.

Bermuda's probably fucked.
Empiricist2 said:
Opened?
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Thank you, corrected.
Aabcehmu said:
I wonder if Paulphidian could assimilate Oceanus.
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Yes, eventually, but not quickly enough to be useful.

This is usually the answer to 'can the SI assimilate difficult target'.
 
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Don't know why I wasn't following him already.
 
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