Originally posted by D_Dude1210
I meant to say that you cannot prove/disprove the sciences/logic/rules behind the lasso. We all know that it has been used as a catch-all plot device on many occasions and I DO understand what you're trying to get to here. My point is that to make this lasso admissible as a strength feat but to deny the use of Thor's hammer hitting feats as strength feats is a biased double standard as the two are extremely similar in how they are used. Allow neither or both.And like I said, the hammer has very much the same qualities. Like I said, allow both or neither.
Since the same can be said for Thor's hammer then we are in agreement that BOTH their feats are admissible as strength feats?
My point was simply that the introduction of "magic" into the equation makes the feat unreliable and, thus, inadmissible. Due to that point, I found that the long explanation on the possible rules/laws governing the lasso to be irrelevant. Tho, I will say that you came up with a very well thought of and put together post.
I apologize, and I admit, I'm guilty of coming up with long posts myself. Just that I feel a lot of the items you posted were purely your theories on the relative laws that govern a comic book item and such theories shouldn't be used as a point in a debate unless you can prove the factuality in them.
Let's agree on one thing: The use of real world physics in comics is moronic, correct?
(Something weird is going on with this post --hopefully this posts correctly)
1: The flaw with comparing Mjolner with Hestia's Lasso is that the former can enhance/empower physical assaults (though some argue against that, I think the counter-arguement is fatuous), while the latter has *never* enhanced the power of its user(s), in any interpretation since the Post-Crisis reboot, *except* for the *perception* of enhancement given in a handful of cases, which is a misperception of what occured (Zeuodin has posted a number of scans relevent to this). Now, personally, I don't care about it, conceptually, except that the arguement about the lasso is being used to "cheapen" Diana's feats, and that is just *cheap* fanboism, as I (at least) haven't held any Mjolner feats (even though they do have an effect) against the "Thor" side of the debate... which is bizarre, for me, as I have been saying Thor is stronger the entire time...
2: I can tell by this response that you are probably confusing me/my posts with MORE than one other poster, in concept at least, which is funny to me (not laughing at you, but the situation...)
3: Like I have been saying before, comic physics and real world physics should be distant cousins -- they can get married and have kids, as far as I am concerned, with no birth defects 'cus they ain't really anywhere near related...
4: Oh, and no -- these are not "theories" about the lasso I am posting, but the average of simple observation of many instances over the past 20 years; I have no ability to scan, so I am crippled in that regard for my arguements, but like I said Zeuodin has made several posts/links that go along with what I am saying, and I know (at least for myself) that the lasso acts in the manner I described (or doesn't act that way, at all, if the writer isn't "going there" in terms of the story; note though, that that doesn't negate the "not enhancing anyone's effective strength" concept -- it has *NEVER* done that, so I stand by my point with that...)
You apologized, which is more than I seem to see anyone around here do, so I more than apologize for any confusion or whatnot that my posts have made -- Shake on it? 🙂