Grrl Power #220 – Bondage to go
Oh noes, is this the end for Silent Shadow/Mach the Knife? Let’s face it that what Archon is going to wind up calling him since he never declared his name. We’ll see if that keeps him down.
Dabbler’s grasp of technobabble is pretty good considering the holes in her vocabulary. I’ll just say once she had a baseline in English down, she boned up on her science and math terms.
I have to be careful with Dabbler’s gadgets. She’s been adventuring around for a while and she has a lot of toys, but I don’t want to give her a gadget for every situation, a sort of Deus ex Gadgeta situation. Really, those little bondage pods would be quite effective against many of the villains at the battle now. The easiest excuse is to say she gets really focused on building the gadget itself, but bored when it comes to making the ammo, so she usually only has 2-3 shots for anything.
Here’s an entirely NSFW thing for you guys (though the page defaults to a SFW mode at first). Someone has made a kickstarter for adult stuff, and Fred Perry is using it to try and fund a naughty tactics game. Basically if you like Final Fantasy Tactics but wish it had naughty interstitials, then this is probably worth checking out. The site is called Offbeatr, make what you will of that, but their set up is a little different. Projects posted there have to be voted on before they can enter the funding stage, I assume as a way to gauge interest and elevate the cream so to speak. So here’s the link, like I said, NSFW. Tactics Elemental.
I’m at A-kon starting today. The con isn’t open till Friday but I volunteer and help transport guests and stuff, so I’m not sure how much internet access I’ll have before Sunday. I have a Friday panel at 2:30, Humor-Based Webcomics 1: Humor in Story. In case you can’t make it, I’ll be wearing a Grrl Power shirt, (at least on Friday) and I’ll probably be hanging around for some of the other webcomic panels, and I’ll wander by the Antarctic Press table quite a few times. It would be cool to have a meetup for lunch or dinner one night with people. I’m not sure how to organize that. Best I can figure is to post updates to Twitter, and here on the page during the con.
The Gynostar saga continues, but Rebecca’s taking the reigns back. We discussed how the story would resolve after my contribution was over but I’m still eager to see her take on it.
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Isn’t “Super Bullet” a type of anal vibrator? I think I recognize the name of it.
Yay. Finally the normal sunny weather has returned! We have been getting some abnormally wet weather, in the immediate locality. Sixteen hours of torrential non-stop rain in the worst instance. It tore a chunk of tarmac out of the main road, nearest to my house, about 20 foot on a side. Deposited it a couple of hundred yards down the hill. Which, itself, took out a road sign, complete with the concrete it had been set in!
Most of the roads have suffered some damage. Plus gravelled tracks have been washed away completely. Be it thickly laid, properly layered (coarse layers blow, finer ones above) and heavily compacted, or not. Leaving gulleys and crater-like holes. In places so deep you could literally use them as trenches. Standing in them you would not be visible from ten foot away. Some of them are so big, you could literally drop cars in them, and not touch the sides.
One taxi, parked outside it’s owner’s house, near the river (a small stream most of the time, when not dried up), could not even be seen for a day, until the waters subsided enough to expose it. His neighbours, friends of mine, had been in the process of waterproofing their cellar. Anticipating something lesser than this mind. But the work had not finished. So when the two meter wall of water washed down the valley, and took away their 4×4, it left a meter of water in their basement.
Happening so fast that they had no time to get anything out. So they lost practically everything that was stored down there. Including a couple of freezers of food and a collection of period world war one books. Which, aside from being a valuable collection, held particular sentimental value. They, and other folks, lost fences, gardens, gravelled drives and whole crops of vegetables. Plus it looks like the main road bridge has been undermined, but hopefully the emergency repairs will hold and it will not collapse.
Now the crisis management is over, we are all breathing a collective sigh of relief, and will be trying to help each other enjoy the summer. For now though, my only dilemma is whether to go out for nice day-long walkies? Or to stay in and catch today’s update?
Nooo, the decision is too hard!
Glad to hear ya’ll are still there. Too much rain and not enough rain are making a mess of things. Enjoy the sunshine first, it seems to playing limited engagements in the South and East.
Hmmm. Proximity sensor eh? Wonder if that will detect the energy (magical or not) part of Sword´s blade construct before it cuts it in two. All depends on how the prox sensor is designed i suppose. Would be a first if one of Dabblers things didn´t work quite as intended. Or something.
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This is getting weird, is my gravatar blocked or something?
Appearantly not.
Anywho: On topic: I’m starting to feel a bit dumb for not wanting to think about every aspect of the comic and how it would not work in real life, or how much of a Deus Ex Machina someone would become. I just like the comic for what it is :)
Don’t worry about it – if you just want to enjoy yourself then do so.
I for one like thinking, rethinking and analysing fictional stories for three reasons:
1. Their link to reality, if you can spot it, can be seriously revealing in regard of current social, political and technological incidents and developments.
2. Part of what is todays fiction is tomorrows reality, and therefore gives us a taste of what is to come.
3. I like writing fictional stories myself which is why I know how hard creating and evolving a plot is, making analysing the work of other creative minds highly interesting. DaveB’s character oriented and driven story, which still is rooted notably in reality and rich of witty humor, is both a real juwel and a true delight to follow.
I agree with you on the last part: it’s a real juwel and a true delight to follow.
But I see some people (not here) who are trying to put an underlying meaning to every comic they read.
And I don’t like that personally.
Like this:
Author: “The curtains were blue”
Reader: “Wow, I really feel the depression that the author is trying to set”
Author: “The fucking curtains are just fucking blue!”
Same goes with people who try to point out errors in logic, because it can’t be done in a real world.
Those are just the people I would like to give a high five…in the face… with a chair.
But here, I see teriffic comments and I’m like… why the fuck didn’t I think of that?
Why am I just going: “HURR DURR COMICS!!! HAR HAR HAR” ?
Well, thats just the beauty of being human: We may have a lot in common, be we still all are at least a bit different. Different taste, different thinking, differnt ticks, … is what makes us who we are.
The reason I read those comments is exactly because there a things to be found I would never have thought about myself, and I participate sharing my thoughts and take on things because I know that there are people who may value those in turn. :-)
Heh, I don’t think I would mind being at the kind of party Dabbler implied :P