Sure, for a Green Lantern. You can't channel the orange light and then not do the things you want to do.
He mostly tries to avoid thinking about it. He has no particular desire to punch the ghost of Hitler, and is a practising Catholic.
Cool article. I like the sound of these internal deities.
I feel like even with Paul's stunted genre awareness he should realize how horrible of an idea these things are in a comic book universe.
Pretty well.
Zero. That's something that you work up to. If they met her away from Themyscira things might be a little different in the short term, but even the libidinous Amazons have learned not to metaphorically shit where they sleep.
Ooh, food plains. I like those better than flood plains. Almost as much as a 'z' in civilizational.
It's thought that Jack the Ripper cause the start of what became forensic sciences, would we be 50 year behind if he hadn't killed all those people?
Now I'm curious as to how many people genuinely worship the OLC and/or Paul specifically both on Earth and in space.
And this is what people should think of when you talk about Power Rings being Awesome. The power, with enough motivation, to completely reform buildings into new things is pretty damn crazy. Yet most people just go 'make glowy gun'. Sure, variance in functions of the Rings, but still...
Hub City architecture at its finest, eh? And all the money to deal with that no doubt went into the pockets of people other than the ones who would get paid to clean it up...
So he instead has giant glowing balls of concrete and metal and plastic floating around him? heck of a show, if nothing else.
And that is a reasonable feeling to have when you see someone reshaping reality with nothing more than a little desire and a 'magic' ring.
Eh, I doubt he'd want to build old-fashioned coal, gas or nuclear power plants.
I mean, he's mostly been busy trying to stop Humanity from stupiding itself out of existence, or stopping alien wars, and assorted related things...
I mean, compared to the giant cake thing, a power plant isn't exactly newsworthy... After the first couple of days, anyway.
And I'll bet at least one was Knight-tech cosmic converter tech. Or maybe Vandal Savage just kept that under his ass, sitting on it out of spite.
Especially the inevitable studies and naysayers that scream 'it's not safe!' and insist coal and nuclear are perfectly fine...
And other than a few hypercognitives, can barely understand the scientific principles behind it, no doubt. And that's his big sticking point. He needs people to be able to make it themselves.
And what he hates, he cannot make happen. Not without forcing some serious cognitive dissonance on himself...
It'd be a golden age... Until he left and the machines started breaking down with no-one able to fix them.
...More than the Anti-Life already has, anyway. I expect Ploutos is back in place now, stopping foolishness.
Don't go twisting his words like that, ma'am.
Extreme measures sometime find themselves needed. But usually they get rescinded afterwards.
The modern world is only three meals from total chaos, and all that. Disrupt something simple like that and things get tense.
And boy, the Anti-life was definitely that. Hopefully humanity learns the lesson it taught them and does things a little smarter. Of course, there are powers working against that sensibility.
Man, he really gets detached sometimes when he's like this, huh?
Sadly true. Once they have a comfortable position, people won't try to disrupt it, be it a comfy chair or a civilisational-level practice...
Though to be fair, the world's governments are still trying to get their feet under them, some more than others.
Again, grabbing the wrong end of the stick, ma'am. What he wants, is for humanity to not have to rely on a handful of people to handle their shit for them.
Probably the first time some parts of the city have had that much power in years.
As he pointed out, people are lazy when they're content..
Yeah, but at what price?
Certainly a contributing factor, maybe? History is just too complex to pin that sort of thing to single events. Even he admits that in his own point...
And there are people out there who would worship him at this point. There's some in the DCU who worship Superman, after all...
See, that's the question you should ask. Not 'why would you not do this thing?' But rather, 'Why wouldn't you do this thing?'
I wonder if Ted will have to send people out here to look after it, or if he'll hire locals to do that. More likely the former while he sets up the latter...
It's in our nature, these days...'led'
'there'll be'
I'm guessing part of the risk is that allowing people that experience means some of them could learn to bypass any such ring AI limitations. I think it's something Batman and Atom would need to approve.
Providing temporary aid won't make someone a villain.
They absolutely do. Get mad they can't stay, that is. If the disaster relief structures aren't torn down, they will stay in use until they are literally falling apart; this is a known and active phenomenon across the world. People do move on with their life in the wake of a disaster, but most do so as a last resort. If you'd like to see a practical example, look at the number of complaints leveled at FEMA in the wake of a disaster - there is always some segment of the population that is angry they didn't get more help, rather than being happy they received help at all.
They are where the food comes from.
Thank you, corrected.
FEMA being terrible at disaster relief doesn't really affect my argument.
People should be worried about basic survival. It's pretty much the most important thing there is, and without a lot of people dead, it becomes a lot more difficult to keep the society as the whole focused on creation and preservation of institutions that ensure basic survival.
And that is entirely your fault for providing the device but none of the manuals or textbooks that go with it.
