RockSlide Gets No LOVE!

[CantThinkOfAName]

Be in a real X-Men book

 

[PhotoJones]

Maybe he means being like them in that they can turn their powers on and off.

 

[Varient]

I don't get it either. What can Colossus and Iceman do that Rockslide is supposed to be able to do?

Both of those two swap out materials when they bring there powers up on line.

Colossus replaces flesh with "living metal."

Iceman has a "two tier" power.

He has the choice of covering himsself in ice,... or becoming Ice depending on what he's doing.


I would think that is Rockslide can swap out and form bodies from different materials,... that they could cut him some slack and have him learn to be "human" ala Colossus and Iceman.

 

[PhotoJones]

Both of those two swap out materials when they bring there powers up on line.

Colossus replaces flesh with "living metal."

Iceman has a "two tier" power.

He has the choice of covering himsself in ice,... or becoming Ice depending on what he's doing.


I would think that is Rockslide can swap out and form bodies from different materials,... that they could cut him some slack and have him learn to be "human" ala Colossus and Iceman.

I like how Varient equates mutant powers to inventory screens in video games.

 

[Roughneck]

Rockslide cannot switch between a human form and a rock form.....It could be argued that he once could, but now there is no hope, unless he would also possess the power to turn rock into flesh...because his initial body is long gone..

though Iceman did once extract moisture from his teammates to form a new body, as he was only a head at the time, and from that moisture he made a new body of Ice and can convert that back to flesh.....****ing Austin.

 

[Varient]

I like how Varient equates mutant powers to inventory screens in video games.

how so?

Should be somewhat amusing.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

I don't think Rockslide has the EXP points to get that yet. Maybe if he gets a power stone

 

[Varient]

Rockslide cannot switch between a human form and a rock form.....It could be argued that he once could, but now there is no hope, unless he would also possess the power to turn rock into flesh...because his initial body is long gone..

though Iceman did once extract moisture from his teammates to form a new body, as he was only a head at the time, and from that moisture he made a new body of Ice and can convert that back to flesh.....****ing Austin.

That's where I got the idea.

If Iceman can build a new icebody from scratch just using available moisture,.. then convert it to flesh,....

 

[Roughneck]

Yes but that was incredibly stupid.....

I mean, say some guy makes an Ice Sculpture of a hot chick....Can Iceman turn that to flesh?

 

[PhotoJones]

how so?

Should be somewhat amusing.

"Swap out materials" and "bring their* powers up on line." Are you reading comics, or playing Halo?



*corrected the misspelling.

 

[Varient]

"Swap out materials" and "bring their* powers up on line." Are you reading comics, or playing Halo?



*corrected the misspelling.

The one person shooter?

(smile)

My refs for those phrases are way older than some Videogame,.. I'm talking Heinlien, Zelany, and Niven now.

All three of those writers were the FIRST to use those phrases in their Science Fiction.

They have been used in the MILITARY for a bit too,... (Swapping out and Bringing *blank* up online.)

Meh,... interesting how you try to limit me to what you know and

experienced.

V.

 

[PhotoJones]

I was unaware the phrase "swap out materials" could be traced back to three different science fiction writers.

Have you taken the medicine today, Varient?

 

[Varient]

I was unaware the phrase "swap out materials" could be traced back to three different science fiction writers.

Have you taken the medicine today, Varient?

Sigh.



Have you read those three? If so,.. this convo doesn't have to happen. Have you served ANY military time? That too would make this convo Moot.


There seems to be an awful lot that you choose to be unaware of.

 

[PhotoJones]

Sigh.



Have you read those three? If so,.. this convo doesn't have to happen. Have you served ANY military time? That too would make this convo Moot.


There seems to be an awful lot that you choose to be unaware of.

I don't think you actually read what you type, dude. You're claiming that the phrase, "swap out materials" was coined by three different people. Can you honestly not see how that doesn't make any sense? Where would the proof of that be? Did they all invent it at the same time? Was it a collaborative effort? Seriously, dude. Get some help.

 

[Varient]

I don't think you actually read what you type, dude. You're claiming that the phrase, "swap out materials" was coined by three different people. Can you honestly not see how that doesn't make any sense? Where would the proof of that be? Did they all invent it at the same time? Was it a collaborative effort? Seriously, dude. Get some help.

I think you have served no time in the military,.. and don't read much science fiction.

I can see we are back up against that wall you have about concepts that you can't wrap your brain around.

Here,.. one last try:

When you see Star Wars,... and they say "Make the jump to Hyperspace" they are leaning on the writings of dozens of Science fiction writers that have used those words or words similar to them to describe FTL travel.
Now,... I can say that Isacc Asimov and Ray Bradbury, And again Heinlien were the first of those dozens to coin the phrase,... but you can't understand "how?"

Can't help you.

Heck,... the Game you accuse me of pulling from was ripped off from concepts written in a number of books by Larry Niven ALMOST THIRTY YEARS AGO. Probably why I don't play,... they do a crappy job of doing "ringworld" justice.

V.

 

[Varient]

Yes but that was incredibly stupid.....

I mean, say some guy makes an Ice Sculpture of a hot chick....Can Iceman turn that to flesh?

I'm sure if Bobby could "make women" from ice,.. he would.

My spin on that is that he's something similar to what they say rockslide is,.. sentinent energy that can make a body as needed for itself sort of like Julian May's "Jack the Bodiless" in her Galactic Mileu series.

He has been evaporated and come back,.. his "self" has "teleported" miles in an instant by using water as a conduant.

This points to bobby being a composed of an energy that binds itself to h2o.

V.

 

[PhotoJones]

When you see Star Wars,... and they say "Make the jump to Hyperspace" they are leaning on the writings of dozens of Science fiction writers that have used those words or words similar to them to describe FTL travel.
Now,... I can say that Isacc Asimov and Ray Bradbury, And again Heinlien were the first of those dozens to coin the phrase,... but you can't understand "how?"

Then prove it. Show me something that statesthe phrase "swap the materials" was created by three different writers. Show me something that states Asimov, Bradbury and Heinlien all used the phrase, "make the jump to hyperspace". Can you prove it?

 

[Kitsune]

Ah, well ignore what I said if it turns out he was human at some point. He could be one of those wonky mutants who're different from birth instead of puberty, though.

I'd feel sorry for his mother... talk about passing a stone...

 

[PhotoJones]

Was he born that way?

 

[Sloth7d]

Who the **** is Rockslide?

A pokemon move that always ****ing misses.

 

[PhotoJones]

A pokemon move that always ****ing misses.

Two points for a funny post, minus one point for knowing a Pokemon move.

 

[Varient]

Then prove it. Show me something that statesthe phrase "swap the materials" was created by three different writers. Show me something that states Asimov, Bradbury and Heinlien all used the phrase, "make the jump to hyperspace". Can you prove it?

SMH at you for not reading what I wrote.

The Science in Science Fiction, edited by Peter Nicholls (London: Book Club Associates, 1982), p. 72:
Hyperspace is the science fictional name for the ‘other space’ used in such short cuts. The word was invented by John W. Campbell for his short story “The Mightiest Machine” (1934) and unashamedly stolen by hundreds of writers since. Today, hyperspace is part of science fiction’s standard furniture — solving all those awkward problems of travel to the stars…
Just so you know,.. Campbell "discovered" Heinlien And Asimov who wrote BOOKS using it.

I used the word "coined", and you say "created". I say "that have used those words or words similar to them to describe FTL travel", and you demand the exact words "make the jump to hyperspace."

Sigh.
You have not served in the military and you don't read science fiction.
(Or if you do,.. it's none of the old stuff.)

You have just shown me that you won't read to see for yourself but instead will keep going around and around like you have a clue on things you have not done.

Peace - I'm going home. (I'm At work - not going to sit at my desk and argue with you.)

 

[Varient]

BIO:

Origin
Even before gaining his mutant abilities, Santo was well described as a bully. His mutant ability, then was ultimately appropriate considering his outlook on his peers. .


Powers
While always a large and strong child, when his mutant powers manifested Rockslide became larger and is made of craggy, grey organic rock.
Comments follow,..

Bio sez he's standard Marvel Mutant,... Human until Puberty.

The bio said before his mutant abilities manifested he was a bully so he must have looked human.

He's an exact rip off of Ben only crappier. Even the wrestling thing?

Plus mutants get depowered and repowered like every other day. It's not nearly the situation Ben has. Reed Richards has devoted a huge amount of time helping ben and nothing because he has cosmic powers. Mutant get depowered all the freaking time. I'm sure if he wanted to he could become normal again.

Was he born that way?

NO HE WASN'T.

(chuckle)

 

[PhotoJones]

SMH at you for not reading what I wrote.

The Science in Science Fiction, edited by Peter Nicholls (London: Book Club Associates, 1982), p. 72:
Hyperspace is the science fictional name for the ‘other space’ used in such short cuts. The word was invented by John W. Campbell for his short story “The Mightiest Machine” (1934) and unashamedly stolen by hundreds of writers since. Today, hyperspace is part of science fiction’s standard furniture — solving all those awkward problems of travel to the stars…
Just so you know,.. Campbell "discovered" Heinlien And Asimov who wrote BOOKS using it.

Yeah, and? Basically, you just pwned yourself by finding something that states that the term "hyperspace" was created by some guy named Campbell. That's not Asimov, Bradbury or Heinlien, like you originally said. Also, that's not the phrase, "make the jump to hyperspace" which is also what you originally said. And just so you know, this is what you said. Not me.

I used the word "coined", and you say "created". I say "that have used those words or words similar to them to describe FTL travel", and you demand the exact words "make the jump to hyperspace."

Nope. You're the one who put the quotation marks around "make the jump to hyperspace" first and you're the one said that it was three writers who specifically "coined the phrase". Funny, but you haven't shown me anything about that phrase. The only thing you've shown me is a term. And the term apparently wasn't even created by who you originally stated it was created by. Haha.

Sigh.
You have not served in the military and you don't read science fiction.
(Or if you do,.. it's none of the old stuff.)

You have just shown me that you won't read to see for yourself but instead will keep going around and around like you have a clue on things you have not done.

Peace - I'm going home. (I'm At work - not going to sit at my desk and argue with you.)

Serving in the military or not has nothing to do with your wild statements about the origins of words, they're meanings and whether or not they are in fact words, to begin with. That's a laughable argument. And I DID read your excepts. They make enough sense. The funny thing is your continued ability to not make sense, though. Either that, or contradicting yourself every step of the way. But, whatever. Peace.

 

[Tropico]

I would think that is Rockslide can swap out and form bodies from different materials,... that they could cut him some slack and have him learn to be "human" ala Colossus and Iceman.

Why?