Grrl Power #556 – Sydney’s Eleven
I’m at the point where Sydney is with most TV and movies, in that I’m constantly on the lookout for the tweest (cough), the twist or the betrayal or whatever antagonistic thing the protagonists are going to have to deal with for the rest of the episode. It’s obnoxious even though I get an “I knew it!” moment when it happens, it makes me annoyed that the characters in the show didn’t see it coming, like any time the good guys bring the thing the bad guys were after onto their ship or into the base and don’t immediately suspect it of being some sort of Trojan horse and place it under round the clock observation with machine guns and flame throwers pointed at it.
Of course making your characters really paranoid and security conscious presents a real challenge to the writers, because the bad guys then have to outsmart that behavior, and at some point the bad guys plans become so convoluted they may exceed the audience’s ability to understand what’s going on, or require the bad guy to have a such a crazy ability to predict human behavior and thus plan things so far ahead that it would need to be supernatural to be believable.
Of course, in a world with supers and supernaturals, who knows what’s possible?
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So this story came across my FB feed. I’m almost tempted to say someone made it up after reading this comic. It was in a listicle about weird food requests that servers have experienced.
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1. Never too spicy
I had a lady tell me it was impossible to make the dish too spicy. When I told the cooks they took it as a personal challenge.
I don’t remember what they put in it, but I do know that someone ran to a grocery store for another ingredient. It was literally the spiciest thing I have ever smelled. Just being an arms length away from it for 30 seconds while I delivered it had me coughing and treats steaming down my face. Guests at nearby tables complained about the smell; just so much capsaicin in the air that people 15 feet away were uncomfortable.
But…
She ate everything. She ate every single bite and then scraped up the remaining sauce and ate that too.
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Heh, Maybe the comic is set in the future, rather than the past…
I saw that too and just like you thought of this comic, although it’s most likely real. There are people who really are that insanely interested in spicy stuff like that.
Are you purchance the same Nightmask from the Classic Marvel Forever site?
Judging by Nightmask‘s link, I would guess that to be the case (any name in orange indicates a link you can click on).
My brother-in-law is a Vietnam veteran and his career field was demolitions. He was involved with (and probably too close to) so many demolitions that he completely lost his sense of smell for over 20 years. Factually there was nothing he could smell. Naturally this diminished his ability to taste as well, though I’m not sure the Unmaker wouldn’t still have been too hot for him. Does make me wonder if the person in this story and maybe Sydney also have damaged senses of smell, though.
Finally, about 25 years ago, my BiL started gradually getting his sense of smell back. The first time he realized he could smell something? “Hey! I smell chocolate!”
Heat tolerance and sense of smell have no connection but that’s exactly why those with impaired nostrils (or even tongues) get so into fiery food. It’s a “flavour” that makes meals interest without relying on a sense of taste or smell.
In the case of astronauts, they also develop a taste for strong flavours like garlic as their tongues are only partially dulled from the extra blood flow to the head. Sriracha makers, Huy Fong, are very proud of their place on the ISS.
Astronauts also have to deal with sinus congestion since all fluids flow to the head more easily.
I suspect that this comic is based on real-life events. Who is the REAL Sydney Scoville? Please stand up.
Oh good grief I’m not letting my mind try to recreate Eminem’s “Slim Shady” as “Will the real Sydney Scoville please…”
*groan* I had almost purged a Pony-themed version from my head…
oh heck, best way to deal with an earworm is to inflict it on someone else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ths3ddc19EI
Hey dave, Are you aware that there is an anime named Grrl Power?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grrl_Power
Damn. Hope that doesn’t keep this comic from getting it’s own animated series.
The actual name looks to translate to something like “Leave it to the Dolphin” but a lot of anime dubs seem to take crazy liberties with the title. In this case it makes a lot of sense to do so but the title they chose seems like a really odd choice.
This comic is about girls with powers, that animation is simply about a group of girls who do odd jobs.
It would surprise me if he did not, it used to get the top hit when googling “Grrl Power”. Long since surpassed by a much more popular website.
Yeah, it used to place higher than the comic if you googled “grrl power” which… I don’t recall if I did try googling it before the comic went live. I think it was only after it was up for a few weeks that I started thinking about SEO stuff. I’ve never seen the anime though.
Don’t worry anyway …. the name ‘Grrl Power’ is not trademarked in the US anywhere. There WERE two trademarks for it, but one’s been abandoned since 2000 and the other has been cancelled since 2010. Plus neither were for animation or cartoons or comics. I believe the abandoned one was for a clothing line, and the cancelled one (due to section 8 requirements) was for adult-oriented entertainment. Don’t know if that was for anime though.
And from what I’ve seen after a cursory search on TEAS, any other trademarks for logos with the name Grrl Power have been inactive for some time.
So in the event that DaveB wanted to make this an animated series, there shouldn’t really be any problem far as I can see (in my opinion as an attorney who does primarily intellectual property law – mainly patents, trademarks and copyrights :) ).
Who ever heard you could trademark a title? I haven’t.
you can even trademark/copyright a soup can design
(Ask Andy Warhol)
He he. It always amuses me when someone questions a copyright lawyer about her field. Me especially.
By the way, referring to Pander, as the lawyer, not myself. Just to head off the weird line that people’s minds seem to go down on making that statement. How come none of you can picture a panda as a lawyer‽
Thought that would be obvious… lawyers never see things in black and white.
Yeah, they only see things in shades of green (or what ever your local currency is coloured :P)
It drives me up a wall when people conflate copyright, trademark, and patent. Lawyers often do more than one of them because the *needs* overlap, but they are entirely separate areas of law.
It’s like how the makers of Candy Crush Saga copyrighted “candy” and “crush” and “saga”. Kids React copyrighted the word “react”.
Maybe it’s “just a container of tentacles and disappointment.”
Points for the reference, though I can imagine a situation report: “Yeah, there were tentacles, but they were, you know, boring. Just kinda slithered around a bit and that was it.”
some believe this is connected to the weed burning in the can
When the login for opening the door is requested we will find out than Ingsol’s security code is ‘PASSVERD’.
I approve of this comment.
Ditto.
If Ingsol wasn’t feeling particularly creative at password creation time, I bet it’s something like “ParolaLuiIngsol”
Romanian for “Ingsol’s password” according to Google Translate.
That… sounds fairly creative to me (thought it was a variation on ‘Bela Lugosi’ at first :P)
Doesn’t Max’s hat have the same pattern as the one engraved on the stone that holds The Master Sword inside the Temple of Time?
No that’s the symbol of a full bird colonel. Which she actually shouldn’t be wearing since last I checked she was a lieutenant colonel which has a silver leaf for an insignia. So unless she’s been promoted that means she’s impersonating a superior officer.
Ahh, that sounds like something important for DaveB to know. He does not military, so such nuances can slip by in error.
This could be a variance in the rank style for archon lesser of the rank black sewn and pin while higher gold sewn and silver pin. Not all military branches use the same emblems.
Um… no. Not unless it’s a variant on the standard rank pin.
Because I was in the Air Force. I’ve met colonels. And I guarantee you the Air Force eagle does not look anything like that.
My assumption when I saw it was that it was an Archon or Arc-SWAT logo. I remember we have seen their motto, but could not recall if the same was true for any organisation/unit insignia.
Actually it’s supposed to be closer to the Zelda logo. That’s not official Archon headgear, it’s just a hat she likes. The one person on the team who outranks her doesn’t care. It’s not like she wears it with her dress uniform.
in the USAF, the hat normally has a large eagle, front and center. for enlisted folk, the eagle is in a circle, for officers, it isn’t.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0642/7853/products/us_air_force_cap_devices_grande.jpg?v=1413840937
Wonder just how much that is because Sydney outed her as a closet nerd, and told her to be proud about it, and this is Maxi’s way of easing back into it :D
It’s not the Hyrule crest from Legend of Zelda, nor is it the US Army cap insignia for colonel.
The US Army cap insignia for colonel is an eagle with a “Captain America” shield on it’s chest and clutching a bunch of star-tipped arrows in it’s talons.
It could be Archon’s own insignia for lieutenant colonel, because they aren’t really military and are a separate force again (I think DaveB described them as “gendarmes”) or they couldn’t operate in force on US soil.
Glad to see that the US military are adopting superhero insignia.
*wags tail cheekily*
That is like saying that the Marines are not really military, i.e. it is not correct. Archon has equal status with all the other branches.
Army —> Land
Navy —> Sea
Airforce —> Air
Marines —> Land and Sea
Archon —> Land, Sea, Air, Space and Other Dimensions
That would be me actually. Dave has not confirmed the term yet, but it is the internationally recognised term for ‘a military force which is permitted to undertake civilian police duties’. As opposed to military police who only have jurisdiction over military personnel and crimes relating to military matters (such as those occurring on a military base).
It is interesting to note that the English-speaking countries are notable in being in the minority which do not have gendarmes (when you look at the amount of blue on the relevant map).
You have that the wrong way around. Archon are the only branch specifically allowed to operate on US soil (although others are too as the comatose opossum law specifically stipulated those which are not allowed to, thereby meaning others can).
Jeff did get it correct that they are a separate force, as in not an off-shoot of one of the others (like Marines were originally part of Navy, and Air Force part of Army)
Contact poison on the activator pads.
Apparently none of these people have ever played a good campaign of Killer.
Or they did, but didn’t put it on each pad, so Ingsol, being dead, wouldn’t count, and neither would anyone immune to poison, a ghost, dead/undead/mechanical.
But there are things which can affect each of them adversely by touch. You are correct that they would not be ‘contact poison’ per se though. For instance holy water on Ignsol’s pad and for the blue guy… pinky poison?
The drow’s clothing design (armor?) does look very reminiscent of the armor pattern worn by one of the elves in the swamp near Mordor, though.
the swamps near mordor … now there’s a place one really truly does not simply walk into.
No, one does not simply walk out of the Swamps of Mordor, walking in isn’t a problem
Hey Dave, have you been able to get onto Kill Six Billion Demons? I’ve been trying all day and can’t get on. It says ‘forbidden’.
I am getting the same. Checking out the 6BD Wiki there is a comment there that it was down, and showing “Forbidden” 16 hours ago.
Got the same error
Abaddon said on twitter that he’s been having (unspecified) server problems. The server has been changed to a new provider, but obviously hasn’t had the full setup transferred yet. Here’s the current comic, in case you can’t wait for the site to come back up.
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Dear God i hope its a trap and when it springs shut a goldfish kinda alien, or whatever, screams… you guessed it :)
“Its a trap!”
“Its a goldfish kinda alien, or whatever!”
*dives for cover*
my brain inserted “…it springs shut on a goldfish kinda alien…”
image of a squished koi popped up…. eeewwwwwwww
don’t be koi it’s friendly….. or sushi either way eeh
I noticed that Sydney’s not bothering to wear the headband anymore?
She hasn’t worn it since the Mars Incident
Yea, Krona’s power was unable to replicate its magic. That is the way we will be able to tell the original Sydney from the reset copy we see above.
wow, I totally missed that little detail. thx
Well, just found Grrl Power and several other good webcomics had entries on the “Bad Webcomics” Wiki.
I say “had”, because it’s past tense now. ;) not their smartest idea to make it a wiki.
good for you defending the Honor of Grrl Power!
not only that, i blanked about 200-or-so pages on the place, and left webcomics that actually, you know, DESERVED to be there (there’s at least one where the author thinks Rape is funny, plus two more that’re neo-nazi or just plain racist propaganda), or had actually thought-out reviews on them that actually took the time to explain just what was so bad.
out of hilarity, i got a talk message from a guy who wanted me to voice my opinion on the forums instead of vandalizing their site…and he led off with “Hey, bitchfist.”
he also hilarious points out “this is a wiki, so you’re not really doing anything but annoying us!” …which… honestly was kind of the point i did it. those dickwads on that site don’t even know the definition of “constructive criticism.”
i laughed my ass off when i looked at their review standards and one of them is “LEAVE OUT PERSONAL BIAS” ..which is pretty much the opposite of what 99% of their reviews are, given the amount of either Furry-bashing, Racial-bashing, Homophobia and/or Bigotry i saw…. not to mention about 30 of them were pretty much just there because they’re adult-themed webcomics and had fanservice and sex in them, omg!
funny thing the guy who messaged me doesn’t realize though. the last backup they did of the site was about three years ago.
I saw the review years ago and started to write a reply. But realised, given that practically every point was obviously flawed, that the reviewer was so clueless that they either had no critical skills or it was a parody website and the content was deliberately bad for amusement sake.
Glancing through a few other examples did not resolve the issue. Either it was an unfunny parody site or an untalented review one. Neither of which have any interest to me whatsoever, so I got bored and left it.
Best bit is i got a talk reply from a guy that says “it takes literally seconds to undo the ‘damage’ you caused.” I replied to him with ‘seconds add up.” i checked the update history. he’s spent about a half hour now undoing page blanks now and he’s still not finished.
OR MAYBE the ploy is really a double-blind, so you see the trap and say ‘ooh, it’s a trap’ and then do SOMETHING ELSE, which triggers THE REAL TRAP! And then, you see the trap going off, and you deploy countermeasures, but the countermeasures HAVE ALL BEEN ANTICIPATED AND PLANNED FOR and trigger THE REAL-real trap, which you find a way out of, but it’s all a CLEVER DISTRACTION to keep you away from THE REEALL PLAAAN, which is SOO INSIDIOUSSS…
*Syd collapses in a puddle of confusion*