It's more like tea with Dagon; the Ophidian is Cthulu: Paul is just her emissary.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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It's more like tea with Dagon; the Ophidian is Cthulu: Paul is just her emissary.
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Ah, but I'm sure you'll agree that there weren't any deathrays or spandex anywhere that was going down throughout any of that period. Just good ol' fashioned capitalist evil.
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Untrue. We put it right where it belongs....drowned in the depths of the ocean.
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Because Oh El is an idiot who drinks tea despite not liking it.
And there are hundreds of different blends of tea, if he never found one he liked is because he never desired to look. Plus tea is an acquired taste.
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That or if you're from the south you drink it sweetened and with ice along side a meal, or because of the weather, or you're just thirsty.
Though imagine the if or when the media gets wind of how the government and the League more or less escalated over poor communication, especially if the reason why Konvict was imprisoned in the first place were unjust since he seems to be the Honorable Warrior type of person, Hardcastle at worst gets fired or at least demoted and assigned to remote location/ lesser position. Plus this experience reinforces how squishy Green Arrow and Black Canary arrow since with Icon or Flash there to save them they would have ended up dead or horribly injured, also Icon should definitely look into more protective tech or see if magic could give him a boost either directly like the Danner Formula or indirectly since that's both times we've seen him in a fight and he gets bloodied.
Though imagine the if or when the media gets wind of how the government and the League more or less escalated over poor communication, especially if the reason why Konvict was imprisoned in the first place were unjust since he seems to be the Honorable Warrior type of person, Hardcastle at worst gets fired or at least demoted and assigned to remote location/ lesser position. Plus this experience reinforces how squishy Green Arrow and Black Canary arrow since with Icon or Flash there to save them they would have ended up dead or horribly injured, also Icon should definitely look into more protective tech or see if magic could give him a boost either directly like the Danner Formula or indirectly since that's both times we've seen him in a fight and he gets bloodied.
Lubaf
Cat in a washing machine in space?
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I hate to be That Guy, but I need to be That Guy here: This paragraph needs more sentence breaks, and maybe a few paragraph breaks, because we have entered the dreaded WALL OF TEXT Zone.
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Luc "Runonsentencesarebadmmmkay" French
Okay, what is this? Is it just a meme about attributing quotes to somebody who didn't say them?
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Doubtful. Raging, impotent comic general's never seem to get in trouble. Or stay in it rather. As a life long Hulk fan I can inform you that Thunderbolt Ross has almost certainly caused as much, if not more, collateral damage then the Hulk himself.
Fucking hell I hate Ross....especially when they try to go all noble demon on him.
Hestia&theCourt
Turns out we're plural too.
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He likes signing his work with an idiosyncratic and topical signature.
Xelloss
Mad Doctor
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- France
The sock-juice Americans drink doesn't deserve to be called coffee. Just sayin'.
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- Somewhere out there
Hey, Starbucks has done a pretty good job of popularizing real coffee here.
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But I should have tried anyway!
At minimum, "Google Translate" but I think it would scan better as "English, so they use Google Translate".
Greenie
Prince Charon
Just zis guy, you know?
Yeah, I think once this gets back to his superiors, it's going to go badly for General Hardass. Even if I agreed with him (and I don't think he's completely wrong, I just think that individual circumstances matter a lot when deciding who should deal with what supervillain), this was a dumb move.
4rt1ll3ry
Transhuman Cyborg in progress
Real coffee should be mostly milk and cream. Anyone who says they like their coffee black doesn't drink coffee to enjoy it.
The_Letter_K
Certified Character
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As someone who dislikes tea categorically, I'm personally willing to acknowledge that there's a tea flavor out there I'd like, but the chances of me randomly stumbling upon it are relatively low, and I can just drink things I do like instead of subjecting myself to distasteful flavors in the meanwhile. Every tea you brew is a much larger time investment than most other drinks, too. It's a waste in multiple ways. I still try new flavors when they're offered, but that's my own propensity towards new experiences, and not really a common reaction.
Regarding "acquired tastes", I've always been wary when people recommend bashing my head against something until my brain chemistry changes enough that I start to enjoy it. Seems a bit off.
I know that it's often the theme here that heroes are morons and villains are just misunderstood, but assuming things went as they did in the comics, they wouldn't have to rely on penny-ante shit like 'resisting arrest' or 'unlawful border crossing' to charge him with.
Konvikt picked up a cop car to examine it, after which a terrified rookie cop shot at him... doing bugger all to the Superman-grade invulnerable guy. After which, Konvikt assaulted the cops because of something to do with honor, despite knowing they were lawman, and seemed pretty close to killing someone.
Any prosecutor who can't find some honest crimes to charge (if he wants to) out of this sequence of events doesn't deserve his job.
... of course, things might have gone completely differently here.
I drink coffee for medicinal purposes, as a caffeine delivery system. Tea is for enjoyment... and if you don't like tea, you either just haven't had the right kind or you haven't had it prepared properly (and if your only real experience with tea is grocery store-level tea bags, almost certainly both).
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He walked toward a line of police cars while being shouted at in a language he didn't understand. Then they shot him in the head.
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Stupid irregular language.
And I thought he was referring to Konvict!
One of Constantine's great grandfathers was with the British Army in India. Nearly got sacrificed by a group of Thuggees.
I'm very sceptical of things that are referred to as being 'acquired tastes'. It's like saying 'if I pour enough shit down your throat eventually you'll stop being aware of how horrible it is'.
Thank you, corrected.
The SI doesn't know.
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While I do in general agree with the sentiments expressed about "acquired tastes" I will point out that there are some cases where it actually is valid -- something like sushi where you might be turned off by the idea of "raw fish", or like durian where the smell is offputting but the fruit itself is tasty, or anything where the texture isn't what you expect -- or, really, any food where the taste doesn't line up with one's expectations based on the appearance/name/background of the food.
You learn to get past the instinctual reaction that doesn't actually reflect on the quality or flavor of the food, and you can not just tolerate it but even enjoy it.
You learn to get past the instinctual reaction that doesn't actually reflect on the quality or flavor of the food, and you can not just tolerate it but even enjoy it.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
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Konvikt is strange and monstrous to Humans, the Ophidian is strange and monstrous to most people...there's a lot of "sitting down with the terrifying Other" to go around.
I missed one:
Konvikt's
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On the subject of acquired tastes.
That said, I like whiskey, coffee, tea, mustard, onions, mushrooms, spinach, etc. when I didn't like them the first time I tried them, and I don't regret the change.
However, acquiring a taste for fecal matter might have more severe health problems than caffeine, alcohol, and food.
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
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He lands somewhere, and is immediately attacked by people. The next people who show up don't try to deescalate, they're trying to kill him as well.
I refer you to rules 1 and 2.
Rule one: If they're trying to hurt you, then they're dangerous.
Rule two: If you think something might be dangerous, then act like it is.
It doesn't matter that they aren't currently using weapons that can kill him. They're trying to, and he may believe they'll find a weapon that can.
For the prosecutor to try and charge him, first they've got to arrest him. To do that, he's got to give a fuck about stopping for these people who are trying to kill him. The JLA weren't able to do so in Trinity. Certainly not at the start. Paul has removed him from the violent situation and deescalated. If anyone's to be charged, it's General Fuckup Hardcastle.
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Much more likely that he would take up a career as a rights activist; if he dislikes the situation he found himself in, and possibly hated the people involved in causing it, enough then he might want to react to it on a existential level, or possibly someone may want to leverage his desires into doing it if he doesn't mind.
Well seeing as scry ward can be put into a water mark on a brand of paper...
Most tea is a traumatic experience.
I'm going to dispute your oppinion in the minds of everyone reading this of getting a taste for anything being a good idea, via a fallicy and out of a whim of spite, by reminding them and you that this is the internet, and thus that you can probably find statistical information on the above thought.
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Not really. Get bag of tea, add hot water and you are done. You have like twenty different blends of tea in bags in the supermarket alone.
Is actually faster that brewing coffee. Of course there is coffee in tea bags too but it doesn't taste the same.
Maybe if you burn your tongue.
I used to find eating honey a traumatic experience because it tastes so horrible.
But yes Oh El is still an idiot for forcing himself to drink tea just to mentally ramble how horrible it is.
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