Grrl Power #1043 – Two lates don’t make an on time
Terre is short for terremoto, which is Portuguese for Earthquake. Oh, and since I can’t keep her hair consistent, I guess the blue coloring is dynamically swirling about.
I guess the crowds watching the match dispersed quickly. Actually that makes sense if they’re at a military base. A commanding officer might sanction observing a super fight for educational reasons, but would also get everyone back to work the moment it was over.
If a wizard is never late, nor early, arriving precisely when they mean to, what happens if more than one wizard is attending the same event? You know who you’d think would never be late but is a shocking amount of the time? Time travelers. Marty McFly? Too late to keep Doc Brown from getting shot. Doctor Who? Constantly arriving after some major shit has gone down. Bill and Ted? Uh… actually I think they mostly arrived on time. Been a while since I’ve watched those.
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you always hurt the one you love, the one you shouldn’t hurt at all…
embarrassing the person to someone they are interested in is the parent’s job. we have years of pent-up frustration at the little blighter (first impressions and all) that need to be expressed by teasing remarks precisly when firing back is just not possible.
that being said I suspect Anvil has seen this kind of thing before and is waiting for a chance to respond. probably depends on how charmed she is. however, it is a bit early for co-ed showering, especially group co-ed showering. absent some high level interference those two will not be able to go into that shower as just the two of them.
I love how Sydney immediately went into “always expecting ninjas pose“
Well… I mean…. always expect ninjas.
Even the fashion kind.
Those Spanish inquisition ninjas? Brrrrr!
In particular the Spanish inquisition ninjas. Brrrrr!
Well, he is red so she isn’t wrong, he’s just not a ninja (as far as we know, he might be a demon overlord with a minor in japanese theatric stealth arts).
And the spanish inquisition that no-one expects is clad in a single color red. And black.
Among the colors that the unexpected spanish inquisition brandishes are (but not limited to) red and black.
And they might or might not be ninjas.
Tom is not the sneaking around kind of guy. He is more into dramatic entrances and boastfull monolouges. Part of the job as a fiend overlord I guess.
It’s kind of hard to be a ninja when you start at 3 stories tall and can grow from there. Tom did try once. When he was a kid. He disguised him self as an infernal tree. All the devilish kids knew almost automatically. It was his distinctive maniacal laughter that gave him away.
Well, no-one ever saw a 45 foot ninja, so it’s entirely possible that they incredibly good at stealth.
See this guy knows what’s what in the ninja biz.
Ultraman Ninja, 45 foot ninja from space.
You know why you never see the ‘black suit’ ninjas? Because you’re too busy watching the ‘big red’ ninja at the other end of the field! Sometimes the best path to stealth is someone else being very unstealthy.
Especially the fashion kind.
Cheekbone!
And yet she dropped her shield to do it… her instincts still need some refining.
A force field is no protection against ninja.
Only the correct defense pose is.
I notice now that Sydney had let Dabbler out by panel 3, so I guess she actually didn’t drop it when Tom portaled in, she just failed to raise it again. See what I get for posturing defensively.
Her “always expect ninjas” pose works even better since the Orbs bonded to her. Since both hands are being held up, the Orbs she mentally calls for have less distance to reach her hands. Sydney can use the Orbs a few precious nanoseconds sooner…
something
rebuttal
Nonsequitur.
Pointless comment
pointless comment reminds me of something partially related to the page, plugs own works with a link
Amused but verbose statement, followed by praise of Deus.
Pun.
Insult of punner.
Completely unhinged comment with no basis in reality
Futile attempt to make commenter understand logic and reality.
Expression of bitterness at the state of the world.
Note of Thread hijacking for some unrelated purpose.
(Thanks for the laugh)
Endless rant on “humiliation” because of completely misunderstanding the reason for laughing.
Warning of further punishment, ninja outreach.
Dad Joke
Even worse dad up-pun-ship
further pun-ish-ment
Totally reasonable assassination attempt by comically ineffective ninjas
Attempt to start thread about ninja themed puns.
Doubling down of aforementioned jovial-themed threat.
GI Joe ninja reference..
More pun-ish-ment
amazement at thread direction and specificity.
Fuel for the punfire.
Dramatic increasing of fees due to unamused state.
Agitated exclamations of frustration taken as amusement for the pun-fueled rabble.
Star wars reference
offering of baked goods.
Evil laugh.
Stealth pun because ‘ninja’.
They arrive precisely when they mean to.
So they mean to arrive at different times.
Even if ‘mean to’ is ‘I arrive now, so this is when I mean to’
(aka drawing the bulls-eye around where the dart lands)
Apparently you Humans have built a robot which moves a dartboard so you always get a bullseye, no matter where you throw the dart in its working area. I’m getting that kinda feeling from the whole “I am arriving now so this is when I meant to get here” thing…
https://youtu.be/MHTizZ_XcUM
Before looking I know that the person is either Mark Rober or the guy behind stuff made here
Its Stuff Made here guy. He started with a basketball hoop you almost cant miss, then the dartboard, then a trick shot pool cue and the most recent is an auto aiming bow & arrow, all of which are driven through a motion capture / object tracking camera setup that a vendor sent him to do cool things with.
The video is from Mark Rober, according to the profile name. I don’t know if Mark Rober is the “Stuff Made Here” guy, I just know that thing probably won’t help me with my game, I need a lot of practice…
Mark Rober made the dartboard but is more of a general maker. The ‘Stuff Made Here’ guy (Shane) did the basketball hoop and dozens of other great auto-aim / automation projects.
I seen that! WTH real life cheats now? jeez….
Hackers can kiss the darkest part of my…. soul?
LOL
That was mean of Terre. Don’t cockblock when you are supposed to wingman.
Nice to see that friendly fiend Tom again.
Agreed.
However, I do think grabbing the Shield – and Pew Pew orb would have been more effective in case of shenanigans.
Mmm, this was a reply to All-Purpose Guru.
Evidently it got misplaced.
Heh, Dabbler pronounced a restraining order on her night stalker, then got foiled because he had a training order to be there –it cancelled out. I soooo want his last name to be Riddle…
As a Portuguese native, “Terre” is what?! The Portuguese word for Earthquake is “Terramoto”. Although is possible that in Mozambique, ppl use a specific slang for Earthquake. I know for a fact that Brazilians have a specific slang language that we don’t have.
Well you know how kids are getting all creative with names now-a-days. Next thing they will be using emojis….. Oh no…. I just started something didn’t I.
Oh well take that DMV and all gov, corp and other antiquated database systems … I hope ya choke on it.
Close enough try car indexes NULL & VOID
https://youtu.be/_c1am8NSx_s
Meh, XKCD visited this topic 10 years prior with little Bobby Tables.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/327:_Exploits_of_a_Mom
Around that time there was a guy who legally changed his name to ‘3ric’. He started getting multi-million dollar invoices for his phone, bank, etc because their systems couldn’t handle names containing digits, so running reports against his account (mistakenly) paired with all the NULL and invalid entries.
Brazilian here, our word for Earthquake is “Terremoto”, but if I had to guess I would say people in Mozambique would use with an a like the Portuguese. Either way, I gotta say calling someone “Terre” as short for “Terremoto” seems a bit odd in Brazilian Portuguese. It’s not wrong in any way, it just doesn’t sound right.
FYI, short names here are usually just the first syllable with a tonic vowel, like Lu for Luciana or Fê for Fernando.
Sometimes we double the first syllable, like Fafá for Fátima or even Lulu for Luciana, it’s just a matter of preference really.
When the name starts with a vowel, we can also drop the vowel and use the next syllable, so Eduardo can be Edu, Du or Dudu. Abigail can be Abi, Bi, Bibi or even Biga.
We also have some specific shorts for names starting with Maria, like Malu for Maria Luíza or Madu for Maria Eduarda.
And sometimes we use initials, like PH as short for Paulo Henrique.
Besides these short names, we also often use diminutive or augmentative forms, like Carlinhos or Carlão for Carlos.
That explains the nickname of someone I met a couple months ago! Well… not really, her first name has no relation to her nickname. Also, she’s Chilean so it might be different.
There is a difference between slang and a dialect, if the whole country speaks with consistent differences from European Portuguese, then that would almost certainly be a dialect. Granted, I know extremely little Portuguese, whether I’m talking to a Portuguese person or a Brazilian, so it could just as easily be a case of Dave made a mistake as it could be that the word is spelled differently in Brazil.
Heck, there are a LOT of words in English that are spelled differently in American English vs British English, and there are even subdialects within those, like the African American dialect (I can never recall the word for that when I need it, sorry), and a few regional dialects within Britain, and that’s before getting into all the OTHER dialects, like Scots dialect, Irish dialect, Australian English. I think Canadians mostly speak with the American Dialect, but I could easily be wrong, they might just be incredibly similar or possibly television hasn’t given me the most accurate representations, as I have never been to Canada and haven’t spent significant amounts of time around the few Canadians I have met. I do listen to a lot of music from Newfoundland, but that’s music AND a region with it’s OWN dialect IIRC separate from what most of the rest of the country does.
Canadian English is an odd mix of British English and American English, with some French, and Native American thrown in for good measure. A boot is something to go on your foot in bad weather, not a place to put stuff in your car. We keep the “ou” vowel pair, when the same words in American English lose the “u”; e.g. Favourite, Neighbour. We pronounce the last letter of the alphabet as “zed”, not “zee”, despite most of us growing up on American Sesame Street, so “zee” is creeping in. French shows up more often than in American or British English due to the Quebec influence.
In Brazil, earthquake is “terremoto”. I don’t remember any slangs for this word..
No no, he’s saying the name they’re using for her, Terre, is short for her full callsign, which is Terremoto, which means Earthquake.
Just like Jigawatts instead of Gigawatts
in fairness to The Doctor, their time machine is sapient and generally will, to paraphrase the Doctor himself, land them where/when they need to be, if not always where they want to be.
Ok. Am I the only one who thinks it looks like Kenya has a bit of a lazy eye in the first panel?
Her right eye seems to be looking straight ahead, while the left one seems to be trying to do a close up study of her nose.
(Side note: Terre reminds me of myself when I was younger with how I would simultaneously “wingman” and “cock block”/”clam jam” my friends when they were clearly trying a little too hard to attract someone. Mostly to see how said friend would cover and how fast, while seeing how their intended “conquest” would react. A couple of my friends learned how to take what I’d say and use it in their favor, while most… didn’t.)
Tom is back…!
That was an easy event since all the demon-ish troops Deus was using I just hope for everyone’s sake it was just a trade agreement otherwise Deus will be entering into the evil side of the anti-hero gig big time!
I notice that Kito and Terremoto don’t have character tags and Who’s Who flags. Now is that a sign that DaveB just hasn’t got round to it yet, that they’re one-off characters who wouldn’t be worth the effort – or that there’s a big reveal to come from one or both that would fundamentally change their tags-and-flags?
Or maybe that is just what Dave want you to think?
A Butt? That’s the best “Earthling” name you could come up with? Consult with Sydney on her name calling during the bank robbery. I’m sure she can help you figure something out.
Yeah, but all the other appendages and body parts she could think of, she rates quite highly.
yes, however much of Sydney’s names are unprintable. also this is a complex situation. its possible she doesn’t want to use her more well done insults because Tom isn’t that bad in her eyes.
this isn’t going to start a flame war is it?
It’s probably a little better to insult Tom with some very low level indications. Sydney on the other hand on full auto swearing mode distressed nuns and made some tough sailor cry, can you imagine what that could do if focused and aimed at a demon?
It’s probably bad enough to shock a demon with statements about bodyparts he doesn’t have that will be compared to things he doesn’t know about and then moved into directions/places he doesn’t want to know about.
Like moving his nadgers to a small mountain village in Sweden where the sun doesn’t shine. It’s very depressing i’ve heard.
The difference between industrious and wise?
Industrious you arrive to work 30 min beefore work.
Wise you arrive to work 5min before the boss does.
When two wizards attend the same event, you get all sorts of false accusations of lateness and so on. If the building is still there afterwards (and still made of its original materials) consider yourself very lucky.
Kito looked taller over the last few pages, I thought he was nearly Kenya’s height.
Really liking that a super with (presumably) seismic powers has a hairdo with moving, alternating waves.
Perhaps it’s not color but her “energy” that’s moving across her hair? Will it go flat and black if she runs low? Stay tuned and find out! (snickers off mic)
I am picking up on a Samson vibe here.
Head Cannon head canon accepted.
The whole “A wizard is never late” thing always irked me, like we had a time we ALL agreed to meet here and the rest of us had to sit around waiting for YOUR self-important butt for THIRTY MINTUES, saying you “arrive precisely when you mean to” just means you’re a dick who CHOSE to waste our time for some cockamamie power move that doesn’t even WORK. We might be able to accept it if you had a valid excuse, like your car broke down or something, but YOU MEANT TO does not, in fact, make you look BETTER, JEFF!
I’m a wizard. Steve’s a wizard. We both showed up on time because WE have respect for the schedules of our colleagues and want the project to be done by the deadline without having to rush! I swear, Jeff, if we have to carry your LAZY butt on one more assignment, by the all seeing eyes of zZaloryxz THERE WILL BE A PROBLEM! And you do NOT want a problem with ME, do you Jeff?
At which point Ridcully raises an eyebrow at the Dean, and you find your dinner seat moved as far away from the buffet as possible within UU, and your research grant Under Audit…
The hint that Tenure is for life and that the Thradithional Ways to get it may be frowned upon nowadays, but that they have not been, actually, rescinded may be dropped as well.
Dabbles knew what was up (or down?) in panel four :D
“Oh, and since I can’t keep her hair consistent, I guess the blue coloring is dynamically swirling about.”
There’d be legions of women willing to sell their very soul for a colour wash like that, so….
It should be noted here that the ability to quietly and QUICKLY disburse after the fun is over is a survival trait common to all military crowds.
Mass punishment is a very real thing in the military, but it cannot hurt you if you were not there when it happens.
Bill and Ted were very nearly late, because Ted forgot to wind his watch. Even after reminding himself to. That would have been very embarrassing.
The Flash was late all the time, it was a running gag.
Oh dear, now you’ve stepped in it. Better shoe yourself out quickly.
Never! or at least not til I run out of puns.
Nice to welcome another quick tongue! You have sole responsibility when the ninjas are sent by those who are more straight-laced.
I guess i will have step lively while remaining grounded. That will be a hard road to hoe. Do you have any
(wing) tips? I am afraid the ninjas will sneaker up on me otherwise.
good good. let you puns flow. then come join me. we have pastries tonight. behold the power of the hot cross pun.
Also, @ Grikath reg, people selling their souls for good looks I recommend reading Sluggy Freelance 98-09-27.
Terremoto makes the best boom boom and makes earth move. No doubt the reason she is popular with everyone on base??
Love anvil’s expression in the first panel. Aww.
But Marty McFly isn’t REALLY a time traveler… he’s a sidekick. There’s a video out on the web somewhere of Doc saving Marty a couple of times. And HIS timing is perfect… because he knows how to go back to before the event, after it’s already happened, and fix it (which is good, cause Marty should have died at least twice).
I know, I know… Doc tells Marty not to do stuff like that because it risks the space-time continuum (or something like that – it’s been years for me too), but notice that this DOESN’T prevent Doc from doing it. Or did you really think that Doc, Clara, and the boys showing up at that exact moment was accidental and not something that couldn’t have been done with another Western Union delivery. That’s Doc checking that nothing else went wrong…
The mixed bathing area is also a concept used in the Magellan webcomic?!
Anyway,Sydney would avoid that type of area,wouldn’t she?!?!?
as long as the partition is respected she might go. she is a master of the towel.
A sex wizard is never late, nor is he early, he always cums precisely when he means to.
Ew.
Hmm, Tom wants to see some super power sparring, could we be seeing a set up of Tom vs Sidney contests?
well set up the artillery training targets.
You underestimate the ability of enlisted to stay around and look at interesting things.
Depends on how interested they are in staying enlisted…
I wonder how Thothogoth’s face is feeling since Max started her flex test on it?
Does the Demon Tom know the Enchanter Tim?
Is it my imagination, or has Kito lost about 6 inches of height since we first met him? He seemed significantly taller than his friends at that point.