Mr Zoat
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Thank you, corrected.Next is living quarters, on the grounds...
Next are living quarters, on the grounds...
(plural mismatch)
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Thank you, corrected.Next is living quarters, on the grounds...
Next are living quarters, on the grounds...
(plural mismatch)
Maybe they reverse-engineering a Standard Template Construct for Space Marines?Hah, it's always a little funny when something gets discussed at-length between chapters, and then there's inexplicably a paragraph or two discussing it in the next chapter. Crazy coincidence, innit?
That aside, that's a interesting point about War Hound biotech. It is a bit out of left field compared to everything else. Ought to be interesting to see when OL gets to the room where the magic happens (and his stealth is immediately compromised by something no one expected).
The Long gun was a game changer (and almost a game ender) specifically because it could bypass every form of interdiction FTL by creating sort of gravitational "tunnel" around the shot. There is no defense against it aside from hiding or leaving the galaxy. That's why the UNS never used the thing. Anyone they didn't immediately destroy would have built their own once they knew it could be done. Then it becomes a prisoner's dilemma scenario where the guy with the itchiest trigger finger wins.Hmm, fair point; combat might be a sort of mix between long range and short range, with heavier weapons limited to shorter range. But that would also be kind of strange; if long-range lasers and railguns are so ineffectual across that entire distance that both sides can close to the point where extremely short range, see-the-whites-of-their-eyes weapons are useful... why carry the railguns and lasers?
Of course, the solution could just be "they don't", and so the FTL weapon is basically a artillery gun capable of picking off targets beyond any other effectual weapon range. And that's sorta how its described, I suppose.
But even then, don't you kinda have the opposite problem? Do you know what a military force without artillery facing down a force with artillery is called? 'Holes'. If we're going by Schlock, the Long Gun just about changed the game as much as the teraport.
Maybe they happened upon an some alien species tissues and made a bunch of clones.Maybe they reverse-engineering a Standard Template Construct for Space Marines?
Admittedly, it's not a perfect example. But it is a good way to demonstrate just how much a even-longer-range weapon can shift the paradigm.The Long gun was a game changer (and almost a game ender) specifically because it could bypass every form of interdiction FTL by creating sort of gravitational "tunnel" around the shot. There is no defense against it aside from hiding or leaving the galaxy. That's why the UNS never used the thing. Anyone they didn't immediately destroy would have built their own once they knew it could be done. then it becomes a prisoner's dilemma scenario where the guy with the itchiest trigger finger wins.
When you have a scenario where offense is so much more effective than defense, the only way to actually have a stable society is draconian control over who gets to build weapons.
I'd argue that mother/father boxes 16 are, on average, more useful to an average user than a power ring, especially a green power ring. Sure, in principle, a power ring can provide more utility to a top level user who has perfect understanding on the emotional spectrum - I am fairly sure that, at this point, Paul could probably do Grayven's divine awakening with only a power ring and his own soul sight / understanding of orange light / his own soul structures. But to a rookie, or even just average mortal user, mother / father box is probably more useful than a power ring.
The Long gun was a game changer (and almost a game ender) specifically because it could bypass every form of interdiction FTL by creating sort of gravitational "tunnel" around the shot. There is no defense against it aside from hiding or leaving the galaxy. That's why the UNS never used the thing. Anyone they didn't immediately destroy would have built their own once they knew it could be done. Then it becomes a prisoner's dilemma scenario where the guy with the itchiest trigger finger wins.
When you have a scenario where offense is so much more effective than defense, the only way to actually have a stable society is draconian control over who gets to build weapons.
Soul manipulation for sure (divine awakening and such), communication between each other, at least some manner of hacking / control of technology are what we definitely saw in this story. If we go by DC wiki... Everything that a power ring can do, and possibly more.
Worse, honestly. Nukes have travel time and limited targeting, and there are reasonably effective countermeasures. By my understanding, if nuclear war broke out, most of the nukes would be intercepted before they hit anything; it's just that between the few that weren't, and the fact that some of the countermeasures are themselves nukes, things wouldn't be very pretty afterwards.
I stop halfway out of the wall as I see a child of perhaps… Five? Sitting motionless on a futon in the corner of a bare room. Her head is tilted slightly towards the floor and she's… Just… Staring blankly.
Concerning. I wonder if that condition is normal for their subjects...
Ah, sorry, my bad. I didn't realize that.
He's a empath and his powers are always on, so he probably checked well enough just by looking at her. From what we've seen of Anti-Life, it's usually pretty obvious....Paul has thought to check for the presence of Anti-Life, right?
Yes, but making a game like that isn't a quick business. Not if you're doing it properly. They're still doing basic concept and storyline work at the moment.Mr Zoat : Has there been any progress on that Vega cluster video game? Sort of interested in how that turned out.
No, Leonard Snart would start shooting at this point as well.
Among the members of the Justice League, only Batman, Hawkman, and maybe Hawkwoman and Major Atom would have the objectivity to do what Paul did. This honestly makes Paul seem like the more effective hero sometimes. He's not going to hesitate to do what's necessary, but only does it when it's necessary.
Arguably, what you need is a mad scientist game designer.Yes, but making a game like that isn't a quick business. Not if you're doing it properly. They're still doing basic concept and storyline work at the moment.
No, Leonard Snart would start shooting at this point as well.
Not sure if the period is intentional given the sentence structure of the two sentences.Humans get all sorts of weird abilities. Other species don't, as a rule.
Clarification, Why?Renegade Xor's ship never malfunctioned. He's in prison right now.
Why? She is currently safe in the room, while you do what needs to be done. Which as not been shown on screen yet, but I assume is a reprisal for the attack, followed by a marooning?
For once it actually was intentional.Not sure if the period is intentional given the sentence structure of the two sentences.
Nothing you say here is untrue. It was a knock on from a knock on, but the SI changed something the Renegade didn't.Clarification, Why?
I though both versions started out the same, except renegade had a worse day at work. So absent butterflies, things should be the same between realities. And since neither OL or Grayven had interacted with that civilisation at that point, both versions should have had an accident before reaching their destination.
Having been abused as a child, Leonard has a very limited tolerance for that sort of thing.Why? She is currently safe in the room, while you do what needs to be done. Which as not been shown on screen yet, but I assume is a reprisal for the attack, followed by a marooning?
The SI would have to care a great deal more about them as individuals in order to do that.If I might make a suggestion? Instead of wasting wasting some planets resources marooning them, OL can deage someone. Why not deage (especially and specifically the brains) anyone he would have marooned, so they can then be put through the neural pruning/brainwashing process that needs a young robust brain?
Hm... did Grayven go asteroid mining at the beginning? Who went asteroid mining more? Maybe that's what caused the butterfly effect? (for example) Since he reduced the mass of the asteroid, it altered it's flight trajectory, and it didn't get into the way of the ftl jump Xor's ship did.For once it actually was intentional.
Nothing you say here is untrue. It was a knock on from a knock on, but the SI changed something the Renegade didn't.
Having been abused as a child, Leonard has a very limited tolerance for that sort of thing.
The SI would have to care a great deal more about them as individuals in order to do that.
Nothing you say here is untrue. It was a knock on from a knock on, but the SI changed something the Renegade didn't.
Hm... did Grayven go asteroid mining at the beginning? Who went asteroid mining more? Maybe that's what caused the butterfly effect? (for example) Since he reduced the mass of the asteroid, it altered it's flight trajectory, and it didn't get into the way of the ftl jump Xor's ship did.
Thank you.It's obviously unreasonable to expect Mr Zoat to have mapped out every variation between every iteration of the SI's various continuities besides the primary Paragon and Renegade ones
My original point was to provide an example of a possible butterfly effect. For example, Grayven might have wanted to take out his aggressions on some more asteroids, or some different asteroids, etc... Essentially, whatever different thing they did should probably be a while ago, and while they've obviously done a lot of things that have repercussions, this is the first "moment of chaos" where a whole bunch of external circumstances could have come together, and depending on if they got lucky or unlucky, they could have changed canon in very unpredictable ways. Like having a meteor crash land on Earth, or moving where an special object would have originally been, etc... It was an attempt to provide a sci-fi handwavey reason for something that may have caused an early butterfly effect in space.
My original point was to provide an example of a possible butterfly effect.
It's obviously unreasonable to expect Mr Zoat to have mapped out every variation between every iteration of the SI's various continuities besides the primary Paragon and Renegade ones
So.. couldn't you have said that at the beginning,
You don't have to create a step by step path of how the timelines diverged but the original response made it look like you had decided on a reason in this case"Renegade Xor's ship never malfunctioned. He's in prison right now. I haven't mapped out the exact reason why.'
Yes, I could have said that, but since I do have an explanation for that I would be lying.So.. couldn't you have said that at the beginning,
You don't have to create a step by step path of how the timelines diverged but the original response made it look like you had decided on a reason in this case
It looked like said reason was either spoilers to something that would be told later, or that we should go through the story-thread to figure out the difference ourselves
SOFT SUBJEC--er. I mean. *cough* It's a shame that mad designers are so much rarer than mad engineers.
I think it's more likely to do with Paragon summoning the orange rings. Asteroids really don't have a lot of influence on stellar scales. The whole reason they're asteroids in the first place is that they're too small for their gravity to have a visible effect on themselves, much less on the space around them. But summoning the orange rings was an interstellar effect.Hm... did Grayven go asteroid mining at the beginning? Who went asteroid mining more? Maybe that's what caused the butterfly effect? (for example) Since he reduced the mass of the asteroid, it altered it's flight trajectory, and it didn't get into the way of the ftl jump Xor's ship did.
Filthy Xenos wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.Maybe they reverse-engineering a Standard Template Construct for Space Marines?
War Hounds are a lot stronger than unwanked Marines.Maybe they reverse-engineering a Standard Template Construct for Space Marines?