Grrl Power #383 – Talk nerdy to me
Hope everyone got some good drops this Xmas, and hopefully everyone can follow this page ok. I’m not great at time transitions, and you can’t do the crossfade in a comic like you can on TV, but it’s supposed to be like an hour of Sydney and Leon chatting from panels 2 to 4.
After I drew this page it occurred to me that if Leon’s going to drag his gear out to the lounge in order to support his terrible posture, why wouldn’t he just use the big screen? I considered changing the setup, but then Sydney’s dialog wouldn’t make sense as written, so instead I threw something else up there. Multitasking is where its at.
Hearing people talk about DOTA2, LoL or any other sort of MOBA is like when people start getting really analytical about football. It is its own world with its own vocabulary. Really, most things are like that though. People can get some down and dirty talk about Photoshop techniques, programming, 3D modeling, wood turning or whatever and really leave those not in that particular clique in the dust. MOBA games are famously new player unfriendly though, partially because the games don’t hold your hand at all, partially because the communities can be as bad or worse than Xbox live, and partially because the moment you start playing, people assume you know all the vocab and acronyms. It baffles me as to how they are so immensely popular, honestly. They’re fun games but there’s a massive hump to get over at the beginning. Anyway, don’t worry if you have no idea what Sydney and Leon are going on about in panel 2. I promise it’s legit.
I had to rewatch Star Trek into Darkness to make sure I had Leon and Sydney’s banter correct for this page, so now I can say I have suffered for my art. That movie was… fine on the first viewing, but man, the refrigerator logic was strong with this one. It was one of those movies that you walk out of the movie talking about with your friends, and instead of talking about how cool or clever it was, everything someone says punches another hole in the writing and by the time you get to your car you realize it was hot, lens flarey garbage.
Pink fairy armadillos are real, and surprisingly cute.
Here’s the link to the new comments highlighter for chrome, and the GitHub link which you can use to install on FireFox via Greasemonkey.
“Holy pink fairy armadillo dicks”…
It’s sad because I play LoL and not Dota 2, so the characters in Panel 2 were lost on me. Darn, lol.
As a Riki-mainer I feel like I should be offended, but on the other hand you’re not exactly wrong.
Isn’t Riki’s pretty viable in competitive now? There’ve been a lot of changes since this strip came out, this might have even been before the rework in 6.86…
You can’t do a video crossfade, but you CAN slip in a very narrow panel that simply says “1 hour later”.
And… Yes, a lens-flared mess of photography can COMPLETELY screw up an other wise decent film. I wish they would have realized that during the actual shooting of the movie. (OR in the editing, when they actually added MORE lens flare… for extra stupidity.)
Personally I feel that the changes in the room, from panel to panel, convey the passage of time well. At some point all the electronics have been dismantled. Sydney is seen sitting in various different spots, which is not something which normally happens in a short space of time.
Plus each time, Sydney is sitting that much closer to Leon. Which, with what we know of Sydney, would likely take some time, for her to let down her barriers. And the final clue is that, near the end of the process, Sydney has removed her shoes.
Time has passed and Sydney is chilled.
Sydney invented terapedos. Huh.