Grrl Power #1083 – Glace pour te rencontrer
Galytn does have a lot of supers per capita, (Don’t worry, we’re not going to spend the next 300 pages meeting them all, hah hah.)so putting out a giant fire is going to be less of a challenge for them than it would be for a lot of countries. After all, most of them don’t have to bring a 600 gallon tank of water with them over potentially broken roads. Some of the ones that do can just carry it.
Hmm. That makes me wonder if a country that’s in the middle of building infrastructure would take supers into account. Like, instead of Superman having to rip a water tower out of the ground to upend it on a massive fire (thereby causing probably more expensive damage than just letting the local burrito stand burn down), maybe Galytn has water towers with giant handles on top and a big level that will close off all the pipes going in and out of the thing, and also detach it. Like the top of the water tower is actually just a big portable bucket.
Well, probably not. Stuff like that is definitely on Deus’s “nice to have” list, but the number of supers currently in the world who could actually make use of a system like that are incredibly rare. Yes, there are “S-Tier” supers like Maxima and Sydney, but overall, the average super in the Grrl-verse is closer to Spider-Man level and not Thor level. Crazy, bespoke infrastructure like transformer water towers is a real premium unless you can justify being able to actually use it.
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I can’t wait for Sydney to find her ship’s log.
she will find it around Christmas/New Years. the story will be comforting.
“Oh dear. To shreds you say….”
“Dabbler, what’s this section that’s still covered in symbols?”
“That’s a common data screening technique, it’s basically a combined censor bar and classification level – it blocks the actual text for anyone who shouldn’t see it. The meta description for this particular tag translates as.. um… sort of a cross between ‘permanent psychiatric trauma’ and ‘oh the humanity’, that can’t be right? Want me to bypass it?”
“…I think we’d better not.”
What does it mean when Sidney says she can ‘eighty-six’ the fire? Is that a military code for something?
“Eighty-six” is American slang, reportedly coming from the soda fountain industry, originally meaning “something that has run out”. Then it became a verb meaning “to run out of something”, and then colloquially “to kill something”.
She’s saying she can get rid of the fire.
I honestly thought that was contextual, given the….well….context.
Alright. I get that Sidney’s a bit of a nerd, but isn’t that reference a little dated/obscure even for her?
No, its used frequently in action movies, especially if she grew up watching anything from the 1980s and 1990s and early 2000s, which are readily available to watch. and still used by some older individuals as well.
that’s the thing with modern slang, thanks to every movie and tv show ever made becoming increasingly available and the internet and international viewings we are seeing major mixes of past and international slang circulating, and even changing randomly it seems….like yeet was a thing for like three years it seems and now seems to be fading already, and I heard someone call someone else a turkey like last week.
I must be in vastly different corners of the internet than you since yeet is still very much a thing around my parts.
I meant offline
Interestingly, I hear yeet all the time as a common synonym for toss (yeet that out of here) but I’ve yet to come across a reference to eighty-six even in modern action movies. Maybe its common usage is area specific? Like you’ll hear it more around military areas than urban ones.
Not really. It’s pretty common slang overall.
Maxwell Smart was Agent 86, and that show was from the early 60’s. Oh, hell, nevermind.
It also means to ban, to get rid of.
I dont know about that. Season three of eighty six has been greenlit.
If eighty six hasnt been eighty six’d then is eighty sixing something… >>>>
Im sure Sydney is nerd savy enough to know about that and adhd enough to have a sydney moment if someone was to claim to only be aware of the series and question the way she used it given the series is ongoing.
… what series?
Faust is joking. He is quite humorous.
Why do I hear that in Rogal Dorn’s voice from “What if the Emperor Had a Text to Speech Device?”
I think Dave is under estimating Spiderman by a wide margin…
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Rogal Dorn? Really? I don’t hear that at all. When I read it, I hear Door’s voice from Hunter: The Parenting
I meant for it to be more in the voice of Teal’c.
We still use it in food service all the time. It’s an indicator that we’ve run out of something and have to remove it from the menu
It’s funny because I actually just came across a reaction video about a restaurant skit where they had an eighty-six next to an order for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and they were panicking because they couldn’t make one peanut butter and jelly sandwich let alone eighty-six of them.
I can definitely see Metropolis investing in that, though…
I can image a frame in the next comic. The fellow who had said nothing gives us a line of Shakespeare, a line from a French poet to be named (in the original language), and a line from one of the flowery Russian writers…in Cyrillic.
Transforming would be difficult.
Break away and easily repairable not so much. It wouldn’t be too hard to ensure structural integrity while allowing for a water tower to be ripped off a building by a super without much damage. The real issue is creating a place they can grip it that won’t then destroy said structural integrity, given that most supers with super strength (at least in comics) don’t have tactile telekinesis that holds the integrity of what they’re grabbing together when they want it too. I would suggest a simple series of steel cables that hook together over the top of the thing. Maybe there’s a large hook/handle coming out of the top and when you pull it the cables come out from the top as well. When the structure is pulled upward, the structure is designed to release it from the tower. Good for supers and helicopters to pick them up and grab them, making for useful firefighting even without a super present.
Obviously a little fictional. But fictionally functional. Or functionally fictional. One of the two.