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

Vanishingly unlikely.

 

is B.O.T still Canon?
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ARGH!
why did i bring that hot mess up? its in my brain now!

the end of their supprisngly/out-of-charicterly-good series is literally the only regret i have about the Death of the Devi- errr, 4Kids

 

Yeah, I admit that the main draw of blue rings is that the qualities required for good blue usage are different then for orange rings, and would substantially help with recruiting more lanterns, since Dox already said that they were having a problematic bottleneck in recruitment. It's probably just on the list of 'things that should be done eventually', rather than something more immediate. (And I guess the improved stability for mortal races, a slightly different set of esosteric high level techniques, and so on)
Hm... If FTL telekinesis is really *that* rare, it's actually totally possible to equip the fleet with it (if my theorizing is right, anyways).
I mean, the thinking cap alone can't do it, but Paul did mention that he has the schematics for ship scale TK amplifiers from alien races, so I would think that such a rig could probably serve to outfit the fleet with an uninterdictable FTL system.
(Or maybe it doesn't work that way?)
Even if it doesn't work that way, the basic tech is probably worth considering spreading, since it is reasonably high tier for a wide variety of things and probably mass manufacturable.
(I'd also include a bit about genomorphs and using them in the fleet, but there intellegent creatures, and I'm unsure how possible it would be to simply make unnetworked non-sentient genomorph stuff that could work for that sort of thing).
(EDIT: Apologies, I'm bad at avoiding double posting)

 

We kept our VHS collection far longer, only really getting rid of it when we no longer had a VHS player that would play. I mean, why would you want to buy the same movie twice if you didn't have to? And unfortunately modern media is more about new releases. Or just likes some movies better than others. Like I keep seeing Weird Science on TV from time to time. But My Science Project, a similar movie from the same time period I have been on the lookout for on TV, but have not seen available for years. Remember a movie called Maid to Order about a socialite whose fairy godmother unpersoned 'It's a Wonderful Life' style her to teach her a lesson, and never I see it anymore, it is always Maid in Manhattan. When was the last time you saw The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu?

I feel like some of the old 80's (and even 90's) movies my old VHS collection I am never even going to be able to see again, because they have been forgotten about or buried under all the movies that have came out since then. And I had the original Star Wars trilogy box set from before Lucas went crazy smelling his own farts and decided to 'fix' the theatrical versions. There were like three boxed full of the old stuff I liked, and I can't even remember most of the contents. Man, now you got me all depressed.

Yes. They were called video cassettes, or video tapes, or just videos, or even just cassettes. You usually knew what they were talking about by context. Like Transformers episodes were of TV shows, so the cassette being an audio cassette doesn't make a lot of sense most of the time. (although book and audio cassette combos meant to be used in tandem were a children's product that existed way back then)

The tape was the magnetic strip the media was recorded on, and the cassette was the case housing it (as opposed to just a rolled tape spool in a canister like that used to have with movies, both home and big screen)

 

Yeah, but it's still a lot of fun even so. Try to imagine being a sane scientist in this universe.

 

When he said it was a 2 sided casette, I assumed it was an audio drama, especially since there were apparently transformers audio cassettes, where the casette itself was a transformer.

 

Who keeps count? What do they do with that answer?

 

In context, it means it doesn't count as warranting a Like. You may note that Mr Zoat gives Likes to corrections posted by readers, and that the person he was responding to do not receive a Like from him on their post.

 

So... fuck the Alignment?

 

In praise of Eros for Xor chapter, when?

 

With a baseball bat. Wrapped in barbed wire. Set on fire.

 

Wow, and that's a GLC allied polity?

Although, compared to what Earth countries get up to...

 

Largely courtesy, though, since Lantern Rings are significant force-multipliers.

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Yeah, whoever designed him back in the day must have been on the good drugs...

As if a hardened criminal would obey the law. I expect anyone without Xor's sense of honour would have been gone in five minutes flat.

Sheesh, some races, taking the quick and messy route to FTL.

It's not a walk down to the corner shops...

Kind of awkward if the cops recognise him...

Preferably with your fists?

... ... I suppose it makes a twisted kind of sense... But that's not cool.

Quite reasonable of him...

And hope nothing explodes yet.

Seriously, that's all kinds of messed up, man!

 

Honestly, the GLC doesn’t really seem to interfere in anything except interstellar attacks / alien invasions. Anything local, from genocides to wars, to unethical experimentation, and even the planet who cut out the eyes of their women, would likely be considered local politics and outside their jurisdiction, except if a galactic- level threat is already involved, like with Sinestro. It’s one of the things OL is trying to change with the OLC, which might become problematic if they try to exert too much control and shut down all the planets that cut out women’s eyes.

 

I see what you did there.

 

Wait, so how old is Xor?

 

This conversation does not make sense to me. The alternative to asking for a normal body is death? Or the alternative to maturing faster than humans is death?

 

From how I understood it, their body transfer tech is imperfect. If he'd switched to a normal body on mustering out, he might not have survived the process, or suffered side-effects.

 

It refers to the fact that he wouldn't have been very old when he was sent into combat for the first time. If he had not mastered his body he would have died.

 

When Paul spoke of maturing faster than humans, he meant physically. Xor responded as though he were speaking of mental and/or emotional maturity.

 

Xor doesn't know.

 

I took a VCR to our local e-waste recycling centre exactly a week ago.

 

Well how long was he in the military? That would let us guess what the lower bounds would be.

 

No stranger than the insides of a human gut. Or mitochondria.

 

All of those examples are single cells. This sort of tight integration usually happens very early in a species' evolutionary history. You wouldn't get tightly integrated symbiosis at a macroscopic scale normally in evolution, because by the time you'd get to large multicellular life, they'd already be too specialized to autonomy to integrate cleanly.

 

Lichen then perhaps? That's the result of a fusion between a fungus and an algae.

 

We shouldn't really complain about the 'aliennes' of the aliens, usually they are just pallet swapped humans with weird quirks and mono-cultures, or humans with animal parts put on; we should embrace this one that even the Illustres can't understand or explain at a simple glance unlike Tamaranians or Thanagarians.

I mean, maybe it's a weird evolution between what in his planet was a Man'o'war and a highly specialized type of fish that were so successful in their symbiotic life that eventually the species became extremely co-dependent and finally the fish part of the organism achieved sapience due to a higher level of protein intake. But that's just guessing at best, maybe it's even weirder and that's great, more aliens should be as biologically weird and that way we don't subconsciously think about how we might pork that (or maybe that's just me and influence of Star Trek?).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o'_war

Though the parts of this one are all the same species I think.

 

They are, according to that wiki page anyway.

A somewhat closer arrangement to that alien would be giant tube worms- They have no digestive system, they are dependent on symbiotic bacteria which provide chemosynthesis. So a life form that has another form of life acting as vital organ substitutes.