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Excuse me while I add this to the Questionable Quotes thread...
Thank you, corrected.
Since they're older than twenty years, Nazis.
I have been thinking on why i find normal OL so dull and its because he seems like a budget Dr Manhatten to me, nearly emotionless, overly powerful, some both able to navigate all situations with ease yet coming off as completely socially inept. Grayven on the other hand feels so much more real because hes deeply flawed and constantly has to overcome situations often brought upon him by his own hubris, while on the other hand OL has situations brought upon him by external factors and he can even die and just come off as a bit "miffed".
I was thinking more of epidemics that wiped out measurable chunks of people - things like death of vitamin deficiency and diseases like polio and flu. Though that might have happened earlier, now that I think of it.Not even close. UK infant mortality in the interwar period was around 6%, I doubt Germany was much higher.
That's what experimenting on "undesirables" is for.
Why would they bother? They'll just take a few bits of choice land when they want it and ignore the rest. Africa is really huge, Sudan alone is the size of Germany, France, Poland, Italy and the UK combined
As long as the native population stays out of the way where they don't have to deal with them they aren't going to care too much.
Maybe after a while they might start doing some sterilization here and there as they move inwards and take more land, but that'll be decades later.
Zoat mentioned that the paragon no longer has a completely human mindset while the renegade has one, albeit maybe a bit unusual, though not to the extent of the paragon.
The renegade probably go his mindset from gaining the soul of Grayven and Zoat quoted someone that said that gods were essentially just people.
Jeans are generally made of cotton, and I'd assume they also count as trousers, but I think I take your meaning. Something like this? I'd have thought you'd want something closer fitting for a work site, but on the other hand it does look like it'd help keep cool in the heat.
I'll only point out, loggers don't clear fell.
With the only exception being plantations.
There's no value to logs under a certain age, you can't get any wood from them, so loggers will only take the oldest trees, usualy about 1 in 10, once per year, in any given section of forest, then won't be back to that section for 10 years or more.
Clear felling is almost always to set up farmland.
Should that be "if he turns up to see what happened"?"And what are you planning on doing if he turns up to what happened to it?
About two weeks. I'm going to Livestream it.
Thank you, corrected.
Honesty: Wonder WomanYes!
Please tell me their will be a fetch quest to gather the Elements of Harmony on Earth?
"Wonder Woman who represents Honesty! Superman who represents Milk-Toastness! And Batman who represents the Spirit of Edginess!"
Not yet, unless you count those two chapters in which future Paragon was there. After this episode, we are going to have two episodes of ponies.
Ah, Sweet family fun with the Frees. A good break from the misadventures of Cake Man and Nazi girl.18th March
12:39 GMT -5
"How is she getting on?"
On the other side of the living room Cassandra and Barda are playing Ludo. I think. Board games don't appear to have been a major part of either of their childhoods, Barda lacks the patience for abstract instructions and we're still not totally sure if Cassandra can read. Dice are being rolled and pieces are being moves, but-.
Good to see she's settling in nicely.Scott smiles fondly at his adopted daughter. "She's much better at engaging with us directly, now. She still tries to hide if we creep up on her, but other than that…"
Cassandra looks around, and… She doesn't smile as she sees me, but there's a sign of recognition in her eyes and she doesn't tense up.
Which, given her father's treatment, must feel like heaven.I smile and kneel down, fingers ready for signing.
"Hello Quiet Girl. How are you?"
Not hurt not hungry not tired.
Loving their names for the Frees. Perfectly accurate."Do you like it here with Escape Man and Big Woman?"
Escape Man hide escape.
Be glad she was so willing to help, at least.I frown interrogatively at Scott, who looks a little guilty.
"The first time she saw me do my escapology act, she didn't realise that it was a trick. She tried tearing the stage apart to get me out."
Gee, mommy Barda, feeling a little left out?"Escape Man is very good at escaping."
Barda scowls at me over her daughter's head. "You're ruining my concentration. Don't you have a check up to get to?"
Given her current state, she'd likely become the New God of Ninja.I nod as I stand and let Scott lead the way to his science basement.
"You decided not to Awaken her?"
"Given how messed up her development's been already, we didn't want to risk making things worse."
Ah, New Genesis tech. so quick and painless.I nod as he opens the door for me, then I walk in and take my accustomed position on the scanning bed. Scott plugs his Mother Box into the head of the bed and a moment later-
Ping!
-we're done. And from the look on his face it isn't good news. I… Get a decidedly unsettled feeling starting up in my stomach.
I doubt it's going to make the imminent bad news any easier to hear..."So… Not getting a lolly, then."
Scott shrugs, and makes an effort to smile.
"You can have a lolly if you want."
Using the Anti-Life for anything is a bad idea. And now you have confirmation of it.I nod. "Yeah, that makes it less fun. I'm… Guessing that using the Anti-Life fragment against my alter ego wasn't a good idea."
"Whether it was a good idea or not isn't the point." He sighs. "The good news is that the cage I built is still mostly there. It's a bit looser, but as long as you don't try using it again the fragment isn't going to get free."
I don't know, has he been lurking in dark rooms, listening to Emo music or dressing in more black than usual?
Mr Nosy Parker can go jump in the lake. I doubt if he knew anything he'd tell them, and If he learns anything new, it's going right into the same place as everything else.I think for a moment.
"No. But then.. I'm not sure I would."
"You're the longest surviving living Anti-Life vessel other than Darkseid. Everything Mother Box learns from you is new. I'm actually a little surprised that Metron hasn't turned up to take a look at you."
...That doesn't sound good at all."Would it help if he did?"
"Ah… I doubt it. He might not have seen another vessel last this long before, but he hasn't seen one having a complete breakdown before either."
No, not good at all. So far past Not Good, it's looking at Good from the far side.I purse my lips, then raise my eyebrows.
"'Complete breakdown'."
"The Anti-Life Equation fragment is… Merging, with the interior of the cage."
Bugger.Oh.
"I.. don't know exactly what that means. But if I had to guess-."
"It's inserting itself into all of the emotions we used to make the cage, and will gradually… Corrupt them?"
Don't say Highfather, Don't say Highfather..."Either that, or adapting so that it will be able to affect people with a strong emotional reason to believe that life isn't always painful."
"I.. don't suppose that you've had any luck working out how to get rid of it, have you?"
Dammit! And I doubt Darkseid would remove it either. He'd probably be pleased to see it fitting into Grayven's mind so well.He looks down, exhaling sharply through his nose. "Your father or mine?" "Tyranny or Monarchy?"
"No." "Neither."
Let's not get into the other stuff, especially in the continuity whose name shall be mocked."I know that asking Darkseid isn't a good idea, but Highfather-."
"Dumped you on Apokolips. Fuck him."
Yeah, very much channelling the Old Testament style."As the one who got dumped, I've got a whole lot more reason to be mad at him than you do. And while I don't have any great desire to speak to him… He could fix you."
"He could blast me to the Source Wall with his staff."
Besides requesting a six-point Harmony strike on his posiition?"That's why I'm not insisting." He leans back against the laboratory wall behind him. "Bottom line? I don't think you're in immediate danger, but this is only going to get worse."
"Yeah."
"It's gradual, but it's ongoing." He shakes his head. "I can't tell when it's going to change you.. radically, or if we'll even notice." I nod solemnly. "Do you have some other way of dealing with this?"
Not like there are any other sapient equines running around, you know... Unless previous MLP Generations are different planets... <Shudder>
It's not like it's fatal. Probably more pleasant than say, Nanoha's Beams of Befriending.
In other words, could the cure be worse than the disease?"Yes. Their knowledge of thaumaturgy is basic to say the least, but the background magic level on their world is so high that high end artefacts just sort of.. turn up."
"And you don't think they'll have any side effects?"
And that's just the canon effects..."It's more that I don't think those side effects will be worse then the Anti-Life Equation." I shrug. "I'm pretty sure that Sunset could undo petrification, I have boom tubes in case of banishment and if it strips me of my other power as well and.. turns me back into my adolescent form…" I shrug again. "That should only take me a few months to fix. I wasn't planning any heavy combat in that time anyway."
Twilight Sparkle might be willing, but would Celestia?"That's… Surprisingly trusting of you."
"Scott, they're.. ponies. I've heard Sunset tell a lot of stories about her people, and I can't see them responding to my desire to cleanse myself of an Anti-Life fragment negatively."
Too true. Whatever works."You know that the Anti-Life Equation isn't the only way to mentally change one of us with magic, right?"
"I'll survive becoming the New God of Cultural Victory. The universe won't survive Darkseid getting the Anti-Life Equation."
That would be hilarious."And what are you planning on doing if he turns up to what happened to it?"
"Get the ponies to shoot him."
That's a lot of maybes..."After you come back."
"Depends on what he does." I shrug. "He can destroy the Earth whenever he wants. You know that, I know that, the League knows that. If I do destroy a fragment and if he does destroy the Earth in retaliation… The universe still comes out ahead. Or maybe the preparations I've made so far are enough." "Anything we do could set him off and I refuse to live in fear."
The Guardians might well give him a medal. Reluctantly of course, because that would mean they were wrong."Then I guess the ponies are your best shot." He quietly snorts with amusement at the idea. "Make sure your Mother Box monitors the whole thing. If this works… This could change everything about how Apokolips and New Genesis deal with each other."
"If Apokolips can be purified by pony magic, that still leaves hundreds of billions of Lowlies to relocate and a planetary civilisation to rebuild. But… Yeah, it would be an improvement." I stroll past him and pull on the door handle. "So fingers and hooves crossed."
"I.. don't suppose that you've had any luck working out how to get rid of it, have you?"
He looks down, exhaling sharply through his nose. "Your father or mine?" "Tyranny or Monarchy?"
"No." "Neither."
"Depends on what he does." I shrug. "He can destroy the Earth whenever he wants. You know that, I know that, the League knows that. If I do destroy a fragment and if he does destroy the Earth in retaliation… The universe still comes out ahead. Or maybe the preparations I've made so far are enough." "Anything we do could set him off and I refuse to live in fear."
So Paul is dealing with a Nazi and Grayven about to get involved with a bunch of ponies, so are the other alternative Pauls/OLs dealing with the rest of the 4chan boards? I feel really sorry for whoever get stuck with /d/
check-up? IIRC this is usually hyphenated.
You in the US?They only take the big trees. but they trample down and kill all the smaller trees bringing the big equipment in to take down the ones they want. They clear out entire sections of forest leaving the broken fallen trunks of the ones they didn't want all over the ground. If you ever seen a wooded property after the trees were sold off , you would know this as I do.
Pretty sure that should be 'moved'.
I don't know if that has been seen before. We know he can see emotions, and more then that, see into the specific details and root causes of that emotion.Small wafts of fear, but it's all… Failure to deliver penalties and danger to his crew. I'm not seeing any sign that he's worried about us. Which means that if there's any kind of put-up job going on that he almost certainly isn't part of it. Which is nice.
Also, I thought unmarketable trees were useful for fieldworks. I remember seeing a mining show where the trees in the area were used by depositing the limbs and underbrush in the routes the construction equipment used, and whole tree logs laid down over muddy unstable ground to make it solid enough to be driven over safely. Zoat mentioned hauling in rock chips at great expense, when the 'unusable' limber and foliage is right there for the 'exploitation'.They only take the big trees. but they trample down and kill all the smaller trees bringing the big equipment in to take down the ones they want. They clear out entire sections of forest leaving the broken fallen trunks of the ones they didn't want all over the ground. If you ever seen a wooded property after the trees were sold off , you would know this as I do.
This is frighteningly possible. Intentionally making sure the episode before the April Fools episode is something controversial and divisive content he know will have detractors, so the Equestria episode will feel like a comparative breath air, instead of getting bashed by the pony haters like the last time it happened.
It's never lupus is a trope, but all the (TV) doctors have still heard of lupus.If I lived in a world where various supernatural critters were real, I'd probably learn what they are even if I wouldn't have any interest in them in the real world.
Yes!
Please tell me their will be a fetch quest to gather the Elements of Harmony on Earth?
"Wonder Woman who represents Honesty! Superman who represents Milk-Toastness! And Batman who represents the Spirit of Edginess!"
Thank you, corrected.
They don't have all that much to do with one another. Scott certainly doesn't work for him or consider himself to be a New Genesis citizen.What is the relationship between paragon Scott and Izaya like?
I know that they both talked and have contact, but is their relationship live one of superior and subordinate or something else right now?
Scott would have good reasons to be angry with Highfather, though I am sure he accepts it may have been necessary to give him up.
I don't.. think it is.I don't know if that has been seen before. We know he can see emotions, and more then that, see into the specific details and root causes of that emotion.
BUT! When that has been done previously, it was seeing the specific details and relevant vision in the context of their Avarice. Here is getting pertinent details on the Fear based parts of the emotional spectrum, not Avarice. I think that is new.
It can't be done by a normal Lantern.Zoat, is this something conventional Orange Lantern Corps users can do with a ring (an Ophidians Eyes Advanced Technique), or is this something more personal stemming from his Enlightenment?