>> Yeah. I freaking soft-balled the implications, by making ONE statement of comparison for each item. I didn't belabor the point at all, when clearly laying out the full comparison could have been called for. <<
True.
>> You know... This makes me wonder if Kraken and the Marionettes might team up to take out YOUR little problem group, since they're exactly as law-abiding as they wish to be, BUT contain incidents much, much better. <<
Or if not both, likely one of them will, sooner or later. The Spectrum have no fucking brakes even after the Undertaker killed some of them.
>> ACCIDENTS cause more super-villain incidents than deliberate Haboob-style terrorism, <<
That may be true. Most supervillain actions are discreet. You're more likely to get away with a crime if nobody knows you did it. Flashing your ass at the law just attracts attention that makes your job harder, and people with a strong work ethic rarely become supervillains.
>>with aggressive behavior from white-cape soups or idiots like Andy Tanner causing even MORE than that.<<
Definitely true, and some cities are starting to realize that harassing supervillains raises the damage quotient.
But then you've got people like Stan who are just really good at making sure nobody gets seriously hurt.
>> Which basically means that most villains understand HOW to fleece sheep. You never hit them too early, or leave them without resources, and you wait for them to get fat, complacent and fluffy before doing it again, but don't use the same cropping pattern because it'll affect both the fleece and the sheep. <<
Exactly. It also highlights the difference between people who want to fleece the sheep, and people who want to have mutton for supper. A majority of crimes are nonviolent ones. A majority of even the violent ones do not end with death or dismemberment. Most supervillains just want to fleece the sheep. The whackjobs are comparatively rare.
As opposed to some other worlds, which now has me imagining someone slipping a copy of The Big Yellow Workbook into the Gotham City asylum. A month later, Bats wanders in curious as to why nobody's broken out of the cardboard prison recently and taps on the glass.
The Riddler mashes the book against the glass and goes back to his worksheet.
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Re: GAH
Date: 2015-07-28 10:48 am (UTC)True.
>> You know... This makes me wonder if Kraken and the Marionettes might team up to take out YOUR little problem group, since they're exactly as law-abiding as they wish to be, BUT contain incidents much, much better. <<
Or if not both, likely one of them will, sooner or later. The Spectrum have no fucking brakes even after the Undertaker killed some of them.
>> ACCIDENTS cause more super-villain incidents than deliberate Haboob-style terrorism, <<
That may be true. Most supervillain actions are discreet. You're more likely to get away with a crime if nobody knows you did it. Flashing your ass at the law just attracts attention that makes your job harder, and people with a strong work ethic rarely become supervillains.
>>with aggressive behavior from white-cape soups or idiots like Andy Tanner causing even MORE than that.<<
Definitely true, and some cities are starting to realize that harassing supervillains raises the damage quotient.
But then you've got people like Stan who are just really good at making sure nobody gets seriously hurt.
>> Which basically means that most villains understand HOW to fleece sheep. You never hit them too early, or leave them without resources, and you wait for them to get fat, complacent and fluffy before doing it again, but don't use the same cropping pattern because it'll affect both the fleece and the sheep. <<
Exactly. It also highlights the difference between people who want to fleece the sheep, and people who want to have mutton for supper. A majority of crimes are nonviolent ones. A majority of even the violent ones do not end with death or dismemberment. Most supervillains just want to fleece the sheep. The whackjobs are comparatively rare.
As opposed to some other worlds, which now has me imagining someone slipping a copy of The Big Yellow Workbook into the Gotham City asylum. A month later, Bats wanders in curious as to why nobody's broken out of the cardboard prison recently and taps on the glass.
The Riddler mashes the book against the glass and goes back to his worksheet.