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I'm hoping we get to see it, and I hope it is either a madhouse of insane fun, or completely and utterly mundane. I will accept only extremes for such an event!
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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Perhaps Hugo had the metagene which was shaped by the danner formula, and so his son inherited the metagene and hence powers, without inheriting the danner formula.
The Hand showed up again when heaven was attacked by the Great Darkness. So that doesn't work, unless you'd like to explain what the guardian's illusion was doing in Heaven over in Swamp Thing. Heck, Paul could ask Constantine about that, he was along for the ride in that storyline.
According to whom? When Neron invaded the Silver City, Zuariel told him "The Presence doesn't sit on some throne in Heaven, the Presence is everyone and everything and everywhere." So if the Presence is everything, and the Source is the source of everything, One starts looking at differences that don't actually exist.
Well that's a damn silly fan theory which I was not espousing. The God Wave is attributed with creating the Speed Force, the Quantum Field, and the Glow (the emotional spectrum), along with superhumans and deities.
So unless one wants to retcon that, that would mean that the Godwave must have made the white light entity of life, and retconning it would make no sense considering the existence of the Aurakles.
The Aurakles, of whom Halo is a member, are a race made by the Source shortly after the birth of the universe, and in Darkest Night Halo's light was cutting through the black lanterns like a chainsaw through warm butter.
Since the Black Lantern's weakness is the white light or the different emotional spectrum energies being used in tandem, the rather obvious conclusion is that the Aurakles are an entire race of being made up of the emotional energy spectrum, including white, considering Halo's light powers include white light, and her origin involves resurrecting a dead body.
So if one made the Source have nothing to do with the emotional spectrum, that makes it rather hard to explain the fact that the Source has apparently made more entities out of the emotional spectrum energies than the White Light Entity has.
He specifically was in DC comics, the Roman and Greek deities went to war, despite the fact that they were metaphysically the exact same people, the war ended when the Greek and Roman deities merged more thoroughly so there would be no more "right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing," as the saying goes.
No, he definitely has the Formula.
Exactly how he got it is still unresolved.
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He used English incorrectly.
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Hmm, okay, I stand corrected.
With modification, I suppose it would be possible that Hugo had the metagene, and thanks to the danner formula it became the power to generate the danner formula, making it as part of his natural biochemistry as adrenaline and the like.
However, between "oh it turns out the danner formula is hereditary, because magic," or "Hugo considered the danner formula part of prenatal care," I think the metagene theory is the one that flies in the face of Occam's razor the most.
Oh, that reminds me, I was doing some wiki walking and was reminded of a flash villain- Speed Demon, who thanks to steroid B-19 gained superhuman speed, resilience, and strength, but despite it's cinematic performance had side effects of a more realistic nature- driving him nuts and wrecking his body.
How that works when combined with Venom, Blockbuster, or the Danner formula might be interesting, although perhaps more likely to be used
by a bad guy than Paul.
I imagine most heroes wouldn't look forward to meeting someone with blockbuster's strength and superspeed.
J Corwin
s-rank threat
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- Los Angeles, CA
I'm really enjoying this part of the story. Going back through Story Only shows how Zoat has improved over the years as a writer. He's really opening up and having some fun.
I know he's a fan of Games Workshop too, makes me wonder what he submitted to the Black Library Open Call for Short Stories. It was the last day today, I agonized over mine up to the last second.
I know he's a fan of Games Workshop too, makes me wonder what he submitted to the Black Library Open Call for Short Stories. It was the last day today, I agonized over mine up to the last second.
HogarthThree
Mostly Harmless
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I'm sure Selina would be up for another magic relic recovery run. The last one wasn't any work at all for her. And that might lead to other things too.
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Magic isn't supernatural in DC.
Which is good, because official Catholic doctrine is that there is nothing supernatural except God's miracles.
(Fallen angels are either natural or empowered by God, depending on who you ask.)
No, they're saying that people made books full of hogwash and the Church was reasonably cool with it. Just because a book contains nonsense doesn't mean it was forged.
Worm is still #2 on TopWebFiction, and #1 is Twig (by the same author.) It's objectively popular.
Unlikely, given US drinking laws.
Yeah, sometimes stories just don't "stick" in canon because later writers didn't read them. See also: Elaine Belloc.
Originally, there was this whole thing where the Source Wall was the edge of the page - literally the Fourth Wall - the Speedforce was the illusion of movement, Anti-Life was apathy, and so on.
It's become increasingly blurred over time, however - although I don't see why "the Presence is everyone and everything and everywhere" makes you think they aren't the author.
As far as I'm aware, nothing in canon has ever equated the Source and the Presence. They simply occupy a similar narrative role.
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More like this what you get for following that silly 'half plus seven' rule.
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Two corrections (for Mr. Zoat) and an observation (for everyone).
No, Daimahou is correct. "Could've" is short for "Could have" which is the correct form of the often misused "Could of." Now, if the SI personally says "Could of" despite it being incorrect grammar, then carry on as normal.
Since Selina's American, this should read theater.
It occurs to me that Holly's in a bad place right now. From the violet text, she loves Paul... but is expressing that love in the only way she knows how: physically. He turned her and Karon down for a threesome (for his own reasons) but she still feels that the only way to show him love is to have him hook up with someone. I might be barking up the wrong tree, but it seems like she can only seem to express her love for people physically, albeit by proxy in this case.
No, Daimahou is correct. "Could've" is short for "Could have" which is the correct form of the often misused "Could of." Now, if the SI personally says "Could of" despite it being incorrect grammar, then carry on as normal.
Since Selina's American, this should read theater.
It occurs to me that Holly's in a bad place right now. From the violet text, she loves Paul... but is expressing that love in the only way she knows how: physically. He turned her and Karon down for a threesome (for his own reasons) but she still feels that the only way to show him love is to have him hook up with someone. I might be barking up the wrong tree, but it seems like she can only seem to express her love for people physically, albeit by proxy in this case.
BlackLantern2814
Hello darkness my old friend.
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- Earth
Can't he get Construct Lanterns for that? Okay, Praexis demons wouldn't work, but Morrow seems fine to me.
Construct Lanterns are better.
Excuse me?! Lantern Stewart is a perfectly fine chap, I'll have you know
Shipping levels are fine, they are just on wrong ships.
Xelloss
Mad Doctor
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After seeing the 80's, the 90's, and part of the 00's doing the whole "It's the Xth season and the scenario still crawls at a snail pace in regard to the main(s) character(s) romantic development", I must admit I'm not into that past a certain point. At first it's funny, but quickly it becomes exasperating.
Go P!Paul, you can do it !
Go P!Paul, you can do it !
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[x] The shipping is funny, but it may be reaching its jump he shark moment. Up until this exact chapter I wasn't too concerned, but the ship-tease is real here (unsurprising for one called 'date night', but just in the last two updates we've had four (five if you count Holly and Karon separate) ship teases shot down in a row.
I think Zoat's having fun with it, and I trust him to not overdo it, but hopefully it will be at least partially resolved by the end of this arc.
I think Zoat's having fun with it, and I trust him to not overdo it, but hopefully it will be at least partially resolved by the end of this arc.
But see, this thinking right here is exactly the problem. "Ship tease" and "character interaction" are not the same thing. One is a subset of the other, and usually a pretty vapid one at that. If anything, the part that annoys me most about the ship-teasing is that it's eating up all the other character interaction.
daimahou
Hear... Feel... Think...
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He is making fun of them Americanizing his proper English grammar.
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Shoot.
It was.
Thank you, corrected.
Holly's spent her life in bad places. That's.. being worked on.
It's more or less resolved at the one year point, then confirmed as resolved once he gets back to Earth. Though it is pretty obvious what's going to happen well before that.
daimahou
Hear... Feel... Think...
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"There mus always be a...
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...That's not what moral relativism means, at all. Like, I don't want to start this again, but I hate that particular and common misconception. Of course most moral relativists think their personal moral beliefs are ethically superior to Nazi ones, that's why they adopted their personal beliefs.
A moral objectivist says "Nazi morality is wrong, all decent people agree with me and the universal truth itself backs me up". A moral relativist says the exact same thing and only skips the "the universal truth itself backs me up" part.
The common "There's no absolute moral truth, so I will consider all moral systems ethically equal" parody of relativity is one possible results of moral relativism, yes, but a very, very uncommon one. "There's no absolute moral truth, so I'm going to build/adopt a moral system that I think is the next best thing to absolute truth or close, one based on my reason, level of natural empathy, philosophical beliefs, culture etc and will think the resulting system is ethically superior to most other moral systems" is usually the most common result.
That might make having a relative moral system look like having a much weaker foundation than objective morality, if objective morality's foundation wasn't equally eroded by the fact that there are many competing "true objective moralities" for you to have to choose the right one from, so either way you are making a gamble.
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Harking back a few pages...
Crumblers AREN'T as useful as drills in general. Drills have this big advantage of preserving the stuff they bore out. Now, if you don't care about it whatsoever (for example, if you're making a tunnel), sure, crumble away. But if you're mining -- that is, if your explicit goal is to find stuff mixed in with the rock and extract it -- then crumbler tech is the exact opposite of what you want.
I mean, unless you can modify the tech to only affect silicates. That might be nice for mining. (EDIT: This would also be less likely to be immediately lethal.) But we don't have any concrete evidence right now that such a modification is possible.
(This is also the reason that TNT isn't worth using for its intended purpose in Minecraft. It's far better suited for combat applications or automated machines.)
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Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
I was more thinking of drills like those used in drill presses, home appliance drills, and things like that, not really tunnel boring drills. If you can make a device that can near instantly make a perfectly regular cylindrical hole in any common material, then there's really no need to use a drill press or similar devices. If the crumble effect can be made into a plane, that replaces saws as well. For most occasions, you don't really care about the wood or metal shavings you get from a drill or a saw, and in industrial industries you could save a fortune in lubricant.
If nothing else the crumbler tech would be a godjumpedupelementalsend for waste disposal.
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because one way or another lies come back to bite us. Heh, love having Paul get a taste of his own medicine.
Maybe; I'm reminded of an old line, "waste is a resource in the wrong place". What's waste to one person can be useful raw material to someone else, or important to the ecology. I recall an old Star Trek novel that included a civilization that used a variant on the transporter to make their waste just "disappear", and as a result after centuries of use their world was slowly dying because so many elements vital to life weren't there anymore.
Plus, in a parallel universe, another version of their world was nearly dead, because that's where all that pollution had been teleported to. What actually happens to stuff crumbletech makes just vanish? We don't know; nor do we know the consequences of large scale use.
I couldn't remember if it vanished or if it was merely broken down to its constituent atoms/molecules. If the former, more research is required. If the latter, just... go to down on a landfill.
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