Grrl Power #442 – Fablupus
I’m still vacation, but I’ll be back Friday. I’m posting this from my phone cause I don’t trust the open wi-fi at the hotel, https or no. Hopefully I don’t screw anything up or get too many auto concubine errors.
Ingsol raises a fair question really. Sydney does seem to have an effect on those around her. Of course the actual 4th wall penetrating reason is that it’s funny if she’s just super disarming. In canon, there’s probably no aura involved. Probably. The idea of a stupidity aura is pretty amusing to me, or even better, an intelligence vampirism field. Some super who is more intelligent the more people he’s around. When the team needs to invent something really complicated like a stargate or a time traveling thong, they buy him superbowl tickets. Of course everyone in attendance gets a few IQ points shaved off for the duration, but, well, not to dump on sports fans too much, but who’d really notice, am I right?
In Sydney’s case, it might make more sense if she was a reverse concentration vampire. She gets more distracted the more people are around. Oh, wait, that’s how regular ADHD works. Ok, maybe she leaches concentration from others, but, instead of benefitting from it, the extra concentration just gets beamed into space.
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We have seen lust power and chaos power: maybe she work with sillyness…
She draws power from confusion. She’d be the most powerful force ever!
It wasn’t “Chaos” that fueled Vehemence if that’s who you’re talking about. He got stronger through exposure and acts of violence.
And yes, Sydney drawing power from silly and confusing antics would fit her pretty well.
Harlequinic energy? Pagliacic energy? Puckian energy? Maybe Sydney’s the first one to wield it so she gets to name it. . .
Cuteness aura!
I wonder if these werewolves can as they say in “The Howling” “bust-and-regenerate? They may look dead but bam, three days later they’re as good as new. (Which includes regrowth of organs and limbs.)
Concubine. Collection of women whose sole purpose is to act as sexual relief from your existing wife or significant other. harem. So what’s a concubine error?
• Finding out, when the lights go on, that you are making out with one of the harem eunuchs.
• Calling “Tuesday” “Thursday” and thereby pissing them both off.
• Failing to get a refund, on your mail-order “virgin concubine”, despite expecting a different gender.
I’m dying…. This was so much better than pointing out that he doesn’t get the joke….
:-)
Mind you, rather than thinking Harmon did not get the joke, I just took it as being a deliberate misinterpretation, for comedic effect. I do the same myself, often enough. As such, I was just likewise ‘playing it straight’ and running with the gag.
Or maybe spending all week with “Monday,” because that’s the best day for just staying in bed.
I like how the wolfman just can’t even deal with syndy. I strongly suspect he is not at all used to being on the receiving end of this kind of social bafflement.
Weirdness and fear are strong weapons.
Don’t underestimate their power, I for example use it daily and have beaten many foes.
That said it’s not an easy technique to learn nor an ultimate.
The technique requires the ability to empty the mind of most to all wordly influence and can be beaten by some of the higher users of acceptance and social curiosity.
Ooo, just realised that it was Mr Barkley who said “Of course it can!”
Indeed, which is why, in the penultimate frame he is doing the Blue Steel look.
Mind you, I find it hard to envisage a stuffy wolfy like Barkley sitting down to watch Zoolander. But, clearly, he did catch the reference. I didn’t myself mind, not without the community-provided explanations.
perhaps Mr Barkley has kids and they subjected him to it.
lord knows i wouldn’t have the first clue about a lot of pop culture things if my kids hadn’t explained it to me. did you know Dragonball Z is supposed to be the superman story? and Digemon is just Pokemon on pc.
now i sound like an old idiot ill just be over here. * walks off to corner *
No, Dragonball is Monkey King, or “Journey To The West” (or was it East?)
‘Son Goku’ is a dead giveaway
Daniel here.
Yeah, it’s “Journey to the West”, That little fact amused me growing up in that I live in WESTern Australia…
LOL Son Goku & friends making a pilgrimage to come to Perth… :P
Grew up watching the “Monkey” series made in the 70’s (have most of the series on DVD and VHS, both sets are missing a couple episodes, and not the same ones either :()
The nature of monkey was… IRREPRESSIBLE!!! :D
Now that would be a meeting of the (s)ages: Sydney and Monkey, but would the world survive? Would Maxi’s blood-pressure remain within the normal limits? Would totally love to see Ari attempt to spin something positive out of it (if she doesn’t simply curl up in a blubbering ball in the corner of a padded room at the simple idea of it :D)
There is a modern film of it, which plays up the horror angle of it. Plus there is a new series. Both have different actors, and styles, but are very good in their own way. Each episode in the series is really long though, so I only watched the first few. But will go back, to watch the rest, someday. When I am in the mood for a marathon session. To watch a few more.
Yeah, have seen the first episode of the 2010 show and came across a link to “Monkey King 2” film
‘Horror angle’? What ‘horror angle’? o_O
I checked the trailer, that is not the one I saw. I won’t stipulate the name (partly because I can’t remember it, and partly because it did not jump out in a brief search for it), or specify why, as that would provide spoilers.
Keep in mind the american translation of dragonball did turn goku into superman, even up to making his dad a scientist. They didnt think american audiences would adapt well to his original character so they basically translated it all into goku being a superhero of sorts.
Monkey King was a superhero!!
Yeah but he was an asian superhero. According to the bigwigs here in america, goku had to be like superman to be popular here, so they altered his english translations. The american version of goku is very different from the japanese version.
Never saw anything ‘Superman’ in Dragging Balls, maybe because was already familiar with Monkey King (or maybe simply because not American)
What are these Dragon Ball Z and Digemon’s you speak of? Kids… puppies…. what are… ? Oh damn… don’t have any.
My Jack Russel doesn’t seem to be into those either.
Competitive fighting for Gremlins that you keep in a Bag of Holding. The second Gremlins movie anyway. There, all of those references are over 20 years old. It ‘should’ make sense.
Ooh, thank you very much. All is clear now. :-D
Digimon is a tamagotchi inspired, deus ex machina fuelled chosen one story aimed at lonely nerd kids while Pokemon is all about proving your worth through competition and OCD badger baiting. Not the same thing.
Oooh, thank you, it makes much more sense now.
thank I needed this laugh today LOLOLOLOLOLOL
OK – sooner or later the other penny is going to drop, and Sydney is going to remember a conversation with Dabbler where Dabbler mentioned something about sex with furry sapients – will she have the nerve to then ask Dabbler if Dabbler may have done it “doggy-style”? And drop Gregor/Barkley’s name?
*dresses like Psy* Dabbler werewolf style!
I can’t even say anything about this particular strip…other then that it took me eight different tries to type this sentence without any typos…FUDGE!…Nine times trying to type this without….FUGAZI!…TEN times….
Damn atuo-cert I nveer use the tinhg. If my peas bumble I gnat to be ale to cooshe the crroect rod, not be socend-gusseed by smote internal minache!
This is no time for excuses, Scotty. Full power to shields!
“not be socend-gusseed by smote internal minache!”
Ah ha! Now we know it’s all messed up! If it had been truly “correct,” it would have said “infernal,” not “internal.”
Anyone else remember none too many comics ago when Sidney admitted to having a subscription to a website that caters to those who would find Mr. Barkley there sexy?
Actually some variation of a confusion field makes perfect sense. Consider likely reasons for the Orbs to have been made in the first place – darn good chance covert ops of some sort are involved. If people agree with you and/ or get confused by you your mission (whatever it is) stands a much better chance of success.
One of the GURPs magic compendiums had an item which was very much like the Dr Who gizmo, in that it provided whatever identification the person challenging you would be most likely to expect, to explain whatever you are up to.
To give it game mechanics though, they required a reaction roll, by the person confronting you. A critical failure indicating that the document over-stretched the claim, to a ridiculous level. Meaning the reader realises it was totally bogus.
By contrast, a critical success did exactly the same thing, yet the reader bought it!
There was an old gaming joke about Batman having an “Area Effect Intelligence Drain” to explain how when he was with the Justice League he was the man with all the ideas even though he was standing in a room with super intelligent aliens and brilliant scientists who did perfectly well in their own solo adventures.
Concentration garbage disposal aura.
Sucks in ordered thought, grinds them into a gooey paste, and adds the carnage decoction to the pile of randomness.
Thus increasing the power of the aura.
I thought the comments highlighter must be lying, but it is telling the truth.
I think it needs to be updated to add ” and Sundays suck.”
” and Sundays suck.”
Because that’s when we have to wait for Monday updates.
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Hahahahaha-*gasp* My god Sydney, XD
There’s one from the point of view of an alien on Earth whose boss actually does leech intelligence from others; ‘Xenoforming Earth’ by Tom Gerencer. A being named Remsee “consumes ambient intelligence”. Remse is a Wiee — “a form of life evolved entirely from hand puppets”.
For those who’ve read it before, it’s the short story with “standard issue, pychoactive, prepaid calling acid”.
I dunno, I don’t think Superbowl attendees would have enough IQ points to spare for something like that.
Darn, I wanted to see Gregor do ‘sexy wolf’ not that he is t sexy
Gracie Allen left people kind of bemused, with no magic aura. And for much the same reason as Sydney
maybe one of the unknown orbs is a low grade orb of confusion, like from spongebob