{"id":27549,"date":"2015-06-26T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27549"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:02:01","slug":"arkham-asylum-ep9-jazz-hands-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27549","title":{"rendered":"Arkham Asylum EP9: Jazz Hands Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0vIWRAffaZk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0vIWRAffaZk'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad Josh was the one who brought up the subject of what Ivy &#8220;eats&#8221;. Saved me from having to ask the question.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I don&#8217;t REALLY need an explanation for where Ivy gets her energy. In fact, I think it&#8217;s good if they don&#8217;t try to explain it. It&#8217;s not a problem here because it doesn&#8217;t come up. If there was a plot point where the warden took away her food, or if she got the power to escape because someone left her too close to a grow lamp, then we&#8217;d be obliged to think about this stuff. The game doesn&#8217;t explain it, and it doesn&#8217;t matter, because fighting her never comes down to directly controlling the energy intake of her physical body. <\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t mind discussing the idea of how she sustains herself. It&#8217;s a bit of a fan-wank, like asking &#8220;which superhero would win in a fight?&#8221;, but it&#8217;s harmless and fun and sometimes leads to interesting or unexpected conclusions. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure other people have done this over the years, but let me have a go at it:<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say Ivy does photosynthesize, but she&#8217;s also carnivorous via the plants that eat people<span class='snote' title='1'>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/105\/\">an awful lot of calories<\/a> stored up in the average person!<\/span>. (The Harley Quinn DLC in Arkham Knight explicitly shows Ivy&#8217;s plants eating cops.) She taps into these huge networks of building-sized plants and soaks up the solar power and calories while she&#8217;s on one of her rampages<span class='snote' title='2'>Undercut somewhat by the fact that these rampages usually happen at night, but shut up.<\/span>. That gives her lots of power to be ambulatory, grow more plants, produce spores, and whatever else she&#8217;s trying to do.  Then Batman comes along, foils her plans, and they stick her in a tank with no access to plants. From there she&#8217;s living off whatever she&#8217;s got stored in her body. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I&#8217;m so glad Josh was the one who brought up the subject of what Ivy &#8220;eats&#8221;. Saved me from having to ask the question. For the record, I don&#8217;t REALLY need an explanation for where Ivy gets her energy. In fact, I think it&#8217;s good if they don&#8217;t try to explain it. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-27549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-batman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}