Buggy123
I trust you know where the happy button is?
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You're all stupid.
There. I said it. All of you are completely failing to understand the reality of the situation: there isn't a Watsonian explanation. There can't be. Countless comics, written by hundreds of different authors over the course of a decade? You think they actually agree on a quarter of the stuff a power ring can do?
Fucks sake, there are some comics where green lanterns can make constructs strong enough to pull planets, and then another where they're defeated by banana pudding.
Yeah yeah, yellow weakness bla bla. Except when there isn't one, or except when it's wood, except when...
Face it, you can't talk about the general capabilities of rings. Conceptually, that question is meaningless.
It's like asking "what is the human race's favorite brand of orange sherbet?" You can't give an answer, not because you can't find a brand that some people favor, or statistically compare how many people like a specific brand, etc. You can't give a answer because the question is a paradox. There isn't a single favorite brand. There's a brand that might be a statistical favorite, but the question is asking "which brand, specifically, is the favorite of everyone on earth?", and you literally cannot answer that correctly.
That? That's what you're asking. You're trying to answer "What can power rings do?". Not "What can power rings do in X installment?", or "What is a power that a majority of authors give to a power ring?".
You're asking what all power rings can do, and then in order to avoid coming to the immediate answer of "everything, except nothing, unless it's made of wooden yellow and it's a tuesday on a leap year" you're all dismissing specific outliers based on a set of contentious and arbitrary rules.
Knock it off.
There. I said it. All of you are completely failing to understand the reality of the situation: there isn't a Watsonian explanation. There can't be. Countless comics, written by hundreds of different authors over the course of a decade? You think they actually agree on a quarter of the stuff a power ring can do?
Fucks sake, there are some comics where green lanterns can make constructs strong enough to pull planets, and then another where they're defeated by banana pudding.
Yeah yeah, yellow weakness bla bla. Except when there isn't one, or except when it's wood, except when...
Face it, you can't talk about the general capabilities of rings. Conceptually, that question is meaningless.
It's like asking "what is the human race's favorite brand of orange sherbet?" You can't give an answer, not because you can't find a brand that some people favor, or statistically compare how many people like a specific brand, etc. You can't give a answer because the question is a paradox. There isn't a single favorite brand. There's a brand that might be a statistical favorite, but the question is asking "which brand, specifically, is the favorite of everyone on earth?", and you literally cannot answer that correctly.
That? That's what you're asking. You're trying to answer "What can power rings do?". Not "What can power rings do in X installment?", or "What is a power that a majority of authors give to a power ring?".
You're asking what all power rings can do, and then in order to avoid coming to the immediate answer of "everything, except nothing, unless it's made of wooden yellow and it's a tuesday on a leap year" you're all dismissing specific outliers based on a set of contentious and arbitrary rules.
Knock it off.