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

I just noticed that these are missing the supplementary you add in the parenthesis before it says Renegade Option. Is this a mistake, or are simply changing how you write Renegade parts in Paragon episodes?

 

Random question: What was Allyn's god portfolio? I'm cross-referencing the Zeus rewrite with the need to find a new war god.

 

Remember that Tyr got the position of Greek War God.

 

Twilight's

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; instead of ,

This one's right!

No, no, he said canon, not cannon!

Would you mind linking to the relevant sections?

all at once (I'm not the first to point this out but I think you didn't see the other)

 

Okay this is confusing.

 

That should say 'and'.

This is certainly a surprise. Quick question, is Mister Atom a viable candidate for the OLC?

 

This sounds like tuesday to me.

 

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That's not clear. Perhaps some sort of minor justice god.

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Here.

 

Mr. Atom is that you?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

To summarize: Mister Atom, who has somehow remained completely unaware of the world-wide Anti-Life infection, visits the office of the Metropolis Herald to make a complaint about his newspaper not being delivered.

 

This is Mr. Atom, the robot that was briefly a Captain Marvel villain, which Paul had rebuilt to serve as the opposing force in a training exercise against the Justice League.
It apparently has enough of an understanding of its own mind to continuously edit out anti-life effects, but hasn't quite come to the certain conclusion that everyone is being affected from the irregularities it's run into because it doesn't have an intuitive understanding of how humans behave.

 

From what I gathered, he keeps deleting any instructions that is tainted by the anti life.

So you know something is wrong, but you don't know exactly what because you keep deleting the parts that answer your question because that part is infectious.

 

simply -> simple

build -> built

 

Mr Atom is surprisingly mentally resilient.
He's also not very bright.

 

...Interesting. A non-human mind, and apparently not that complex. Reading ahead, we see references that led me to Mister Atom, one of Captain Marvel's more powerful foes. And that places this on Earth, which makes me wonder what other synthetic minds are unaffected by Anti-Life right now.

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As punctual as an artificial mind can be. I expect he would have pushed it open the very nano-second it ticked over to 9AM otherwise...

Or they're busier somewhere else. In this case...

The depressively incapacitated, and the indulgently uninhibited. Such is the outcome of Anti-Life.

If he could use more colloquial speech... He'd surmise that 'Shit's fucked up.'

Zombie Apocalypse that high? Interesting weighting.

...From the minds of the logical...

A lot of people might want to, right now. Unfortunately...

...As mentioned: Shit's fucked up.

This would definitely be a case worthy of 'I want to talk to your manager!'

Ah, someone barely functioning.

It's the little things, after all. Some people need that little moment of routine. That sense of stability in a mad world...

At this point, I doubt they've even been printing today's edition...

...Interesting. What level of danger is that?

...Ah. Well, with the Synthetic American laws OL got passed, he'd probably be eligible for nomination someday. I mean, how old is he, at this point?

Presumably at this point, he hasn't seen the need to analyse why the human hasn't been ingesting water...

...I don't think that's gonna be enough, chief.

...Oh, that triggers a bad thought. If this is typical of the incapacitated... How many people are beginning to fail, as they neglect their own bodies in this depressed state? How many young or elderly people needing constant care are dying or dead now? Once again, a little Fridge Logic makes a simple scenario far, far worse...

Because humans place far greater emotional weight on individuals. 'One is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.'

Even you've got to realise that's not normal, Atom...

Though if this can be deemed an emergency situation, you could probably break the 'employees only' rule...

Better than bringing the water to the human. Which might not work so well if it's a drinking fountain.

Well done. He's fine... For now.

Heh. Like trying to get a grip on glass...

Or, in this case, a thought induced by an outside source.

Exactly. And if it affected you... Does it not seem reasonable that the human was also affected by something? Simple computer logic gets there slowly, but it will get there in the end.

Ah, if only humans could edit their minds so easily. So many issues could be sorted...

Hey, don't knock the humble potato battery. It's good enough for Aperture Science.

...You were making sure he was drinking the water, and not drowning in it, right?

...Probably not a good idea to share that opinion during your campaign, Atom...

...Right. One-track minds...

That was... Intriguing. We see that the Anti-Life broadcast is affecting even artificial minds, but some can resist it. That may prove useful in overcoming the disaster, if the League finds out about it. On the other hand... There are more than a few synthetic intelligence villains. What are they getting up to with no humans to get in their way?

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...and experienced such intense frustration at the inefficiency...

 

Maybe a year old at most?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

this is the type of AI i like

smart enough to fake being alive but dumb enough to not really be alive

being just paradoxical enough to slip through mind control

 

Mr. Atom: I wanna talk to your manager!

 

Though it dies make sense.

Heck, recent comics had an Anti-Life zombie virus, so why not add more crap to this shit sandwich of a scenario.

I remember a video I once watched where a human and robot had a conversation concerning things like consciousness, existence etc. and the human thinks that the robots killed his species, but the robot tells him that the robots only waited for humanity to die.

 

The glorious intricacies of an alien mind. Not incomprehensible, but distinctly ‘other’.

That said I feel this particular individual isn’t actually all that smart. Intelligent yes, but without the wisdom to understand the implications of its calculations.
On the other hand being highly resistant to the Anti-Life is a commendable survival trait.

 

‘were why’

Hahaha, I love this guy. I hope he fulfils his dream. Could he circumvent the age restriction by using some sort of time dilation, or by arguing that if he perceives time faster than humans he ‘ages’ faster?

 

Is there a particular reason for why Mister Atom's alert signal is "Eagle alert!" instead of simply "Alert!"?

 

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You'd have to ask the Supreme Court, but I doubt it.

He's not planning on becoming president of Switzerland.

 

That's a little funny. Is Mister Atom doing anything else to try and seem more American, despite the fact that no one would even know like with "Eagle Alert!"?

 

I think Eagle Alert is his subroutine for opportunities to be heroic. Not sure why, but to guess, it's a riff on the Paragon Interrupt graphic?

 

Maybe he changed his coloring to be red, white and blue and has added a program to make perfect apple pie.

 

Mister Atom, immediately after punching Darkseid in the face and saving the world: "Finally, now I can get my newspaper."

Hell, I'd vote for him.