Seems to be that way, maybe this is supposed to be a morality story about thinking might makes right.
If he doesn't know something that obvious.
Being a (successful) gymnast requires an exceptionally good kinesthetic sense. It requires exceptionally good control over your body. It requires awareness of your environment, physical fitness, and discipline.
Wildbow is a competent writer. He always had a solid baseline level of skill, and he's been getting better as he gets more experience. Being competent doesn't mean that everything you write is going to be good, especially when you have that much volume on that kind of schedule, and it also doesn't mean you can remember absolutely everything you've previously established. And long-running serials are harder than novels. You can't (easily) go back and make changes if you realize you've made a significant mistake or change your mind, and putting yourself on a schedule means you have less time to review. Having that much content to deal with also means that (in absolute terms) there's going to be more bad parts.
The common thread across his work is the constant escalation. If having things steadily get worse and worse is something you don't want to read, then you probably won't enjoy the others. If it's just the characters and the setting, his other stories are distinctly different and it might be worth at least taking a look.I've never touched any of Wildbows other works, my logic being that if I couldn't bring myself to finish Worm then I probably won't enjoy the others. Also I'm lazy
Il consider it and it's been a very long time since I've read Worm I might enjoy it the second time round but I've got loads of different books and comics I'm going through right now so on the back burner for now.
Plurality is the largest minority, not the loudest. Being the latter doesn't automatically make one the former.
He didn't actually take any private data from law enforcement.
That's the only thing he changed. The big controversy is that he'd been too subtle in Worm in conveying that Amy had raped Victoria, which resulted in fanon that Victoria's condition as a Cronenberg was due to a healing mishap, despite the text explicitly saying that the healing process hadn't had any complications. This fanon subsequently resulted in Amy being heavily woobified by the readers, often shipping her with Taylor because lesbians. Since it came in the aftermath of the Browbeat retcon, which I personally believe could've been handled just by saying that Browbeat died offscreen in Gold Morning, more than a few people have reacted poorly to a revelation that, to them, feels like a retcon.
How? Power rings are well above anything Tinkers should have. Power rings are ridiculously advanced even by comic book standards, I'd be surprised if anything can fully stop a power ring.
You mean how did he know about easily accessed publicly available information?
Yes actually we do know how powerful power ring AI's are.
You are truly underselling the capabilities of a power ring, unless dragon is super paranoid and has crap ton of varying defences on her systems. Getting into her systems via a power ring is not going to be difficult even if it has to result in brute forcing it. If you mean the actual intelligence of the ring ye it's not sapient like a true AI but it's more powerful then dragon ever will be.You mean how did he know about easily accessed publicly available information?
Yes actually we do know how powerful power ring AI's are.
And the answer is, not very.
In fact, they aren't even really an "AI" so much as, well, to put it in Mass Effect terms, a virtual intelligence.
And while sure it can brute force things, or use physical access abuse to get past various types of digital defenses, against a digital AI you would basically see some code roll it's eyes and throw up a firewall that basically just no-sells it.
Power rings have been hacked by random muggles before. Multiple times. Not only by people like Batman, but aalso random people angsty about their wife dying. Which describes both Sivana and the other random muggles who wasn't even super powered. Heck on this story, Sivana and co have hacked them multiple times.
Dragons tech while advanced isn't anywhere near as advanced as a power ring, she doesn't have access to the entirety of the knowledge that the Entities have that's just nonsense. Also the examples you mention people like Sivana? They're not really representative of the average person since they're basically comic book super geniuses. Half the shit they make is centuries at the very least ahead of what anyone else has.
Yup, Power Rings might be advanced hardware wise, but software wise, at least by the standard of a civ that can build real, non-insane murderbot AI, they are kind of pathetic.
Probably a side effect of a race advancing so quickly and not having many people who can take them only early which probably resulted in them being complacent on just never feeling like they'd have to focus on software. Also the Manhunters weren't "pathetic" unless I'm getting my continuity wrong their software was fucked with by Krona, who you know is also another maltusian who knows how all their tech works. Also having raw willpower running through their bodies probably hasn't helped in the whole creative thinking section.
I don't know who James Palmer is but a quick search isn't showing me anything, it was probably a case of the user being stupid or DC writing being fucking awful, ie. PIS. You could be right though but Power Rings are bullshit levels of advanced so who knows really.
All Mr Zoat has to say is that this's a Worm AU, and he's Golden...
lmao, sounds dumb but I'll check it out. I haven't read any of the recent stuff with Simon baz, I think I read some of the phantom lantern stuff but I am fucking tired of so many greenies on earth, so many other colours and they keep throwing more greens. Fucking lazy writing.