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  1. Blackshard

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

    Probably the right reaction, yes. Make a strange suggestion, get a silly result, best not to be around to get the blame.
  2. Blackshard

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

    Presumably? They probably wouldn't have been able to ascend without doing so, but given that the context of the last time they were on-screen was "everyone else who knows you three already has a pretty good idea of what your special talents are, and they're just waiting for you to figure them...
  3. Blackshard

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

    Head guy? Unclear; relative status among Dominators is rather opaque, outside of caste distinctions. This was Biotechnologist, who sounds like a mission-relevant specialist, which may or may not translate to leadership in this context. Shipwright seems like the engineering specialist, which...
  4. Blackshard

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

    Sure, most SLBMs could technically launch from a land-based silo, but there's no reason to have gone to the extra trouble to make a ballistic missile capable of being fired from underwater if you weren't going to launch it underwater. "Not vice-versa" was the point here; ICBMs don't fit in and...
  5. Blackshard

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

    No. The Trident is an exclusively submarine-launched SLBM, while an ICBM would be something like a Minuteman instead. The US experimented with ALBMs and found them unsatisfactory, and attempts to strap a Minuteman onto an aircraft for air launch proved technically possible but somewhat...
  6. Blackshard

    XF2 transition feedback

    It lives! As mentioned in the pre-transition testing, new styles are a high priority for me. The default dark theme is kinda ugly, and the default non-dark themes are eye-searing. I hope it won't be too difficult to incorporate some pre-existing XF2 themes?
  7. Blackshard

    QQ downtime for XenForo 2 implementation

    And it's back!
  8. Blackshard

    XF2 testbed now available

    Ugh, I somehow hadn't noticed that. Yeah, that definitely needs to go, or at least become an option that can be toggled off.
  9. Blackshard

    XF2 testbed now available

    I don't care for the available themes (Dark is too light of a grey, Light is too eye-searing)... but XF2 is pretty mature and has plenty of themes available for it, so that's just a limited testbed implementation thing. I assume that some nicely dark option will be added before the release, and...
  10. Blackshard

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

    Since that first meeting, Poa'ul seems to have been pretty careful not to show off the ring as being relevant or important. Maybe someone would catch on if he was doing newbie Green Lantern theatrics, like brandishing the ring and making it glow brighter whenever he does anything, but it'd be a...
  11. Blackshard

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

    Much better; that's nearly all the gold ever mined by human civilization, which is far more straightforwardly impossible.
  12. Blackshard

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

    That's not actually all that much gold. The US Federal Reserve has more than eight thousand tonnes of gold, they can afford to spend a couple percentage points of that on a spaceship. It might be a 'loop in the President for approval' kind of conversation, but they can afford it.
  13. Blackshard

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

    That's an improvement on both counts. In a democracy, the bureaucracy moves at the speed of slow... but under feudalism, it moves at the speed of a tired and ornery mule. Mostly because said mule is required to carry tax papers by the wagonload, up and down winding dirt roads to the capital. If...
  14. Blackshard

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

    He's not talking in orange quotes, so it's not best snek. Presumably this universe has some other Avarice-aligned entity that can approximately fill the role.
  15. Blackshard

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

    Pretty neat interaction here. Always nice to see different cultures interacting such that both are acting completely reasonable by their own standards, but want different things, yet neither is portrayed as wrong. A more typical portrayal would be "these wicked heathens insist on carrying out...
  16. Blackshard

    Charm Learning Shard (Worm/Exalted) (COMPLETED)

    Tend to agree. Slippery Slope did the E88!Taylor thing well, since it started with a very in-character Taylor Hebert and had her react realistically to Nazi recruiting (in the process serving as a valuable demonstration of how a vulnerable person can be radicalized). Charm Learning Shard, by...
  17. Blackshard

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

    They're locking the door to the Badlands, so there'll be less crossover between it and the real world. They're doing it for the good effects on the real world, but that goes both ways; less corruption in the real world, less energy flowing to the Badlands, less for the worms to eat, and that...
  18. Blackshard

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

    The Demon Constantine appears to have put up a magical disguise almost good enough to fool Paul's empathic vision.
  19. Blackshard

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

    I expect Aphrodite to be highly motivated to seduce and placate her husband, now that he's King of Olympus. I wouldn't expect Hephaestaean will go for it, though the temptation of a sex goddess in bed is certainly up there. If this story was on the other part of QQ, I'd expect to see her stay on...
  20. Blackshard

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

    There are all kinds of remote viewing options, and many gods with an interest in this. If Eris doesn't have popcorn, it's only because she had a more creative idea for a fight-watching snack.
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