Grrl Power #1006 – If everyone’s crying…
This page took a long time to lay out, cause I really wanted to include some dialog that I finally cut for space. Sydney starts off by saying “Didn’t Napoleon or Himmler or someone say…” and Arianna responds with “Sydney, as your public relations manager, I beseech you to never publicly quote anyone in Nazi high command. Even if they said two plus two equals four, please do not attribute them with the notion.” Her mom adds “I entirely concur.” To which Sydney says “Right, that makes sense. I… I wasn’t trying to invoke…”
But I couldn’t make it all comfortably fit. I just liked the exchange because it shows Arianna and Mom being on the same wavelength. I also assumed that bit would cause a bunch of comments about whether or not it’s appropriate to quote professional assholes even when they say something sensible. Jeffrey Dahmer might have said something very prescient and poignant at some point, but quotes are nearly as much about who said them as they are about what was being said, in my opinion. Einstein might very well have at some point in his life said “Sometimes when you fart, God rolls his dice to determine if something other than gas comes out.” But people never invoke Einstein for oddly phrased folksy flatulence wisdom. Besides, tons of quotes are mis-attributed, so really, you can probably just attribute whatever you want to whoever you want. After all, did not Galileo once say, “Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening me”?
Wearing the Cape #8 came out recently, for everyone into superhero novels. Also, WtC #7 came out a while ago, (which is unsurprising given that 8 is out, and considering how both time and numerical progression usually goes) and I think I forgot to pimp it, so check that link if you’re behind.
Wearing the Cape was my first superhero novel, and is among my favorites. It’s also the only series Sydney has had a cameo in (check the sidebar there if that is news to you).
Around the same time I read Confessions of a D-List Supervillain, which is another of my favorites, and actually does a great job of showing how an honest guy could get pushed into supervillainy.
I also read a She-Hulk novel, in which she had recently broken up with Tony Stark, and for some reason had a secret identity. Well, it was a secret so she could have a cool reveal at some point, but I remember the book being entertaining if not especially seminal.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update: Getting Proofed!
I want to keep noodling on it, but I could spend six months doing that, so I sent it off to the proofers last night. I will probably continue to tweak bits here and there while it’s getting the once over, but I expect to have it to you guys in early January?
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If I may. In le militaire we never call our unit “the squad” unless it’s actually a squad. Usually we call it “the unit” or “the command” or sometimes even “the platoon/company/battalion/regiment/division/corps”. Le Squids Maritime and the Chair Force have some different names for their formations, but they’re the only one that care what they are.
for Navy its only type of flag/ship/department like my old A.R.G./USS N.O. LPH…/OPS, mostly we identify our selves by department on ship …. we are OPS …..
Sydney is actually out of uniform right now. She is not allowed to wear ribbons and medals at the same time on a dress uniform. Its one or the other. Of course its optional to wear awards on your uniform according to regulation.
Source: I am in the Army.
Disregard my comment. I missed the comic where it was pinned on her. I am not sure how i skipped it.
Yeah, I’m assuming there is an exception for actual award ceremonies. After the actual ceremony, when putting on her dress uniform, she would be required to go with the ribbons OR the medal. Does that sound right?
I’m earnestly curious how come it’s one or the other. I’ll even except story’s from a third party if you don’t have a definitive answer.
Honestly? It comes down to the fact that the ribbons are a representation of the medal. If you look at a military Medal, and the ribbon that matches it, the striping of the medal is the same.
Uniforms come in different classes, and for most practical use, the ribbons are used as it is more user friendly in everyday use, such as if you are required to wear a Class B Uniform Basically what Sydney is wearing is Dress Uniform, which you use medals. I had been in the army for 6 years, never once had to wear the medals. Be reserved for things like meeting dignitaries and such. Class A uniforms are same as Full Dress, but use ribbons. Class B is Class A minus the jacket, and can be short sleeve depending on weather.
The first panel reminds me how important kerning is with some fonts.
And the choice of font. Ariel and its mates should be banned by law, and any other font which cannot distinguish between I and l and 1. Some of those also make O and 0 very confusable.
As long as you’re not advocating for serif fonts. Ugh! Especially with small print.
I prefer microprint fonts myself…but then again my daughter says I’m evil… hehehe.
For “light” stuff, eg fora like this one, yes sans-serif is the way to go. But anything instructional or educational, maybe like DaveB’s blog posts, then serif all the way. The big difference is that serif has been found to enhance memory and understanding, but at the cost of slowing down the reading a bit. Sans-serif mostly enhances reading speed, but with notable exceptions which are the I1l/O0 offenders.
Oddly enough, have you noticed these composition boxes don’t use Ariel? I’m too lazy to looksee which font is being used, but it should also be used in the displayed comments.
FWIW, my goto fontset is Verdana/SegoeUI/Lucida Console/Comic Sans/Andale Mono for sans-serif, and Georgia/Galliard/Bodoni Book/Tiepolo Book/Times New Roman for serifs. Verdana and Georgia were designed by Microsoft especially for on-screen work. I think Andale Mono might have been designed for on-screen as well.
It is sadly true that many web designers like to reduce their font sizes too far. Not everybody enjoys zooming in to get a good reading experience, since that usually screws over the page layout. The best recipe is to set the font size 1 up from what you think is acceptable, then it will be the right size.
Different organisations have differing style guides and presentation policies.
I tend to follow whatever the client’s directions are, tbh. Unless there’s some particular reason why a deviation might be necessary. Otherwise they tend not to pay me.
And you can bet your gonads the client has not even entertained the thought of a system analyst… In total spite of the absolute fact that an analyst will save him/her/it several tonnes of dineros.
Most of my clients are 1/2-person startups, and maybe the odd few <50-strong SMBs, so a systems analyst is usually an unfeasible entertainment.
Also, I've seen situations where an external consultant is brought in, and their first recommendation to the company is to get rid of the consultant.
Oh yes, I’ve seen it. And that’s where you get forms with signature space in the bottom 1 inch of the page… Have youse any idea how irritating that is? And those forms with tiny short spaces to put things like adresses? Web pages that will _only_ work with the latest (read: “last night’s build”) Chrome* browser? Or worse, bottomless pages that won’t let you see useful info like Contact/Privacy/ToS ? Or Social Media link cupboards carefully placed hanging off the side margins to hide useful product info, and no visible retract button?
And we won’t talk about software that “must be run from Admin ‘cos permissions”, and the Office Manager running his station directly from the server…
Yes a SA’s or SD’s fees can look frightening, but they can usually be written off on tax, and will absolutely save money.
* I will never have Chrome or any other Qt/Webkit browser on any box I control. They are flat out security risks since there is no way to lift the hood and secure them properly.
Comic sans is the only font you need.
The original PAC-man game was originally supposed to be called PUC-man because of the shape of the character. Then the company realized that it was possible for a vandal to take a black marker and change the P to an F on the side of the console.
*This* exchange is why officers have required reading.
Last panel looks like a squirrel that got its nuts stuck in a latice.
The whole deleted segment with worries about quoting nazi command is really just falling into the Reductio ad Hitlerium(/-ius) fallacy. Basically the fallacy comes into effect when anything is declaimed because it was also related to an infamous person or concept, especially the titular Hitler, when it is not actually relavant. For example, saying that ‘since Hitler had a moustache, all moustaches are evil’ would be falling into this fallacy, but saying that ‘genocide is evil because Hitler did it’ would not since the two are related and relavant (although in that last example, the argument is somewhat weak anyway… oh well).
Except Hitler was neither the first nor the last to commit genocide. Therefor, the deed of genocide is as attributable to him as is the wearing of not just any type of stach but specifically a Charlie Chaplin Moustache, which has become a strong taboo precisely because Hitler had one fo those…just as in some countries, the name Adolf has become near enough outlawed and you would be hard pressed to find anybody at all anywhere in the world with the family name “Hitler”..and there used to be thousands of them…
Case in point, Andrew Jackson, President of the US did it to the Cherokee Nation.
Actually, Jackson didn’t attempt to commit genocide on the Cherokee Nation–ethnic cleansing yes, and quite successfully (ignoring a Supreme Court ruling in the process), but not genocide.
going by the definitions of Genocide, yes he and the US government did.
Andrew Jackson also got rid of the National Bank, so while he did screw the indians over in a big way, he’s not 100% Hitler because he ushered in a time of unprecedented growth for our nation with that act.
Hitler also founded Volkswagen. And rebuilt Germany from the Great Depression.
So.. No. Jackson’s still literally just as bad.
@DoughH I would like to know your definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing, specifically a disambiguation.
Sorry for the delay, Outlook was bouncing my notifications to my spam folder. I define genocide as the deliberate killing of most if not all of a particular racial, ethnic, cultural, or religious group. Ethnic cleansing is the forced removal of a racial, ethnic, cultural, or religious group from a particular territory.
In the case of Jackson, the very fact that we speak of the Trail of Tears indicates that he was engaged in the latter rather than the former.
The US Government did it, against my ancestors.
Odd factoid. The reason the American Revolution took so long to get off the ground was the refusal by the Africans and American Indians to join in. Both of those ethnicities realised that they would be far better off under British rule, thus the Revolutionaries found it necessary to start a campaign of prejudicial propaganda agaist them.
That is necessarily untrue. If you HAVE ancestors then it was at most attempted genocide.
Its still genocide even if the people performing it fail at the goal. Genocide is taking action to destroy, in part or in whole, a religious, ethnic, national or other group. This can include both killing, but also taking measures to intentionally destroy cultures(Such as taking children away, or mass castration/sterilization).
By that logic, the Nazis also did not commit genocide because Jewish people are still around today.
In the same manner I’m convinced that the NAZIs (unintentionally) seriously boosted the fight against discrimination.
Explanation:
The NAZIs discriminated a lot(surprise), while failing to try to conquer Europe.
During their fight to keep their homeland the allies needed a reason to condemn the NAZIs in their propaganda to their people and since the NAZIs had discrimination deep and openly at the core of their being it was a good place to attack, but it doing so would also mean needing to convince people that discrimination is bad(otherwise you’re just telling people how amazing the enemy is) and staying less bad than the NAZIs(otherwise they will side with them as the lesser evil), so after WWII the allies had intentionally conditioned big portions of the populace to have a great disgust for discrimination and brought those who supported it in into hiding in fear of being associated with the loser.
This allowed for a great head start of all kinds of anti-discrimination movements.
I think I explained that distinction badly. How I mean, is that the genocide was directly related to Hitler being an infamous, evil figure. His moustache is associated with him (as various people have mentioned below), but as a result of his notoriety otherwise, not causing it. Any figure who commited genocide could logically be compared to Hitler, perhaps as a way to point out flawed reasoning. Comparing a figure who has a similar moustache to Hitler, for no other reason, would have no logical leg to stand on. Pretty similar to an Ad Hominem attack, but via comparison. TvTropes has a page essentially about this under ‘Hitler ate Sugar’.
Makes you wonder how J Jonah Jameson managed to pull off having the Charlie Chaplin Moustache without a lot of negative consequences attributed to his facial hair choice.
Although I do think Captain America once did scowl at him long enough that J.J temporarily shaved it off. After Cap had just about enough of J Jonah Jameson calling Spider-Man a menace.
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Why do you think J Jonah had a Hitler mustache, it was to invoke a Hitleresk image, to reinforce his Hitleresk personality.
Thats the thing though – JJ does NOT have a Hitleresque personality at all. It seems weird, since Jameson is not actually a bad person canonically. He is a huge supporter of mutant equal rights (which is the exact opposite allusion holocaust-wise re: people like magneto. He is actually very protective of Peter later on, even when his life is threatened to turn Peter into the green goblin in the movie, he actually is very sympathetic to Peter in the comic and actually hired him because he knew about his uncle’s death and thought “the kid just needs a break,” he is against the superhuman registration act, is very pro Avengers, etc
He just is a jerk to spider man in particular to an obsessive degree. Mainly because he doesnt trust him.
It seems weird to give him a Hitler moustache but portray him as ”actually not very evil when you take a closer look” given how Hitler is an example of ABSOLUTE evil.
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Was Jonas doodling Spidey or Deadpool?
Nah. But Deadpool does have a crush on Spidey. He’s obsessed with him and admired him to an incredible degree because of Spidey’s morals and wants a full-on bromance with the friendly neighborhood wallcrawler. :)
Spidey does NOT share the same feelings for Deadpool because Deadpool kills people.
He’s written fanfics about it. Deadpool I mean. Deadpool’s written fanfics about their unrequited bromance. Deadpool also loves when people confuse him for Spider-Man. He has stolen Peter’s costume (and webshooters) on more than one occasion. Usually in a misguided attempt to protect Spidey from people who were trying to kill him. By trying to kill the people who were trying to kill Spidey.
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There was once a story where some magic using schoolgirl cultists summoned ‘The person who Deadpool loves most.’ Or specifically, “Deadpool’s heartmate.” I think in order to resurrect their teacher.
And they wound up summoning a VERY confused Spider-Man who was not sure why he was suddenly teleported into a room full of cultists… and Deadpool.
https://comicnewbies.com/2017/01/26/spider-man-is-deadpools-heartmate/
Deadpool decided this was scientific / magical proof of their eternal love.
Association fallacies are the basis of human thought. The human brain is basically just an association machine. You can get really complex, conditional behavior out of building and weighing associations, and tying those to inputs and outputs.
Napoleon was a product of his time: now you don’t even need a ribbon…
Napoleon Bonaparte original quote in French was :
« Les Romains avaient des patriciens, des chevaliers, des citoyens et des esclaves. Ils avaient pour chaque chose des costumes divers, des mœurs différentes. Ils décernaient en récompense toutes sortes de distinctions, des noms qui rappelaient des services, des couronnes murales, le triomphe ! Je défie qu’on me montre une république ancienne ou moderne dans laquelle il n’y ait pas eu de distinctions. On appelle cela des hochets ! Eh bien ! c’est avec des hochets que l’on mène les hommes. »
in english
“The Romans had patricians, knights, citizens and slaves. They had different costumes for everything, different manners. They awarded all kinds of distinctions as rewards, names that recalled services, wall crowns, triumph! I challenge anyone to show me an ancient or modern republic in which there were no distinctions. We call them rattles! Well ! men are led with rattles. ”
It’s an answer to the original critisim of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur) etablished by himself in 1802 by Théophile Berlier who as deemed military decorations as rattles and ribbons unworthy of a republic…
And “Legion d’honneur” was not only a military award nowaydays it was about 93 000 “legionaries” (2017) and about
650 active military personnel , 650 military veterants and 2 200 civilians decorated per year.
Legion d’honneur is a military and civilian award since it’s creation for purely military French award it’s the Médaille militaire (English: Military Medal) awarded to soldiers and NCOs…Legion of Honour is generaly pefered for civilians and comissioned oficiers…
My two cents about it…
It was said not that long ago that by the time he was forty every Frenchman had gonorrhea and the Legion of Honor
French population (2020) 68 014 000
Legion d’honneur living recipients 93 000 (est.) – some are forgeiners exemple: Anthony Sadler, Aleksander Skarlatos, Spencer Stone (US) and Spencer Stone (UK) for the 2015 Thalys train attack –
It’s less than one for six hundreds eighty …
Yes you could own the legion d’honneur by friends in higth place like any distinction …
And jokes about frenchmens are comon among americans…
But for gonorhea du to french healtcare I could assure something , we are far bellow in number and severity than US and is national health issues.
Simply as Frenchman for US resident sarcasm and contempt I’ll say:
“Je me les sers moi-même, avec assez de verve, Mais je ne permets pas qu’un autre me les serve.”
“I serve them myself, with enough zest, But I will not allow another to serve them to me.”
That saying was from a while ago from an Austrian a generation older than me, It was more about perceived corruption cheapening the value of the award and making it as common as an STD.
In response to Dave’s comment about quotes being as much who said it as what was said, I have a quote…
Einstein-“There’s something to be said about relatives, it has to be said, it can’t be printed.”
Personally, I prefer to be called an “xbox achievement fanatic”. Though, I do not take offense to this characterization.
Honestly there is little difference between himmler and Napoleon.
Napoleon seem to have gotten away with being a professional asshole by people only remember the meme about his height.
Napoleon, was of normal height, of when he lived!
Yes 1,69m (about 5’7″) for Bonaparte.
He was born in 1769…
He was definitively not anti-semite…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_and_the_Jews
Don’t made comparaisons, betwen a 19th century arevage ruler ,19th century was grim – Napoleon was not worse than Alexandre Ier of Russia and George III was also his enemy – and a caricatural real-life vilain.
He was a military dictator but US had funded military dictators against an elected president … -for exemple 1973 Chile –
That’s what makes it a meme
It all came about because of the position of the eye-holes he had placed into the wall he used to spy on Josephine (the reason it being so low was because he sat on a damn chair while perving!)
My Vibe on that is that Himmler, Hitler, Goebels and their entire Ilk are part of the history of my people and country. And however hard my country and the world have had to pay for their misdeeds, and no matter how ashamed of them we might be. I will not deny any part of the history, heritage and responsibilities of my people, and will quoute them where and when it seems fit to me.
Which is why I like Germany. It owns that shit happened.
The US goes out of its way to whitewash that it’s done horrific and/or stupid crap. Or takes credit for winning Wars it was barely a part of militarily (WW1, for instance, which, really, no one won and they were only in for 7 months at the very end. It lasted for FIVE YEARS).
Yayuh, it tewk you Eurotypes fohr ‘n’ half yee-ahs ta not git nowheres and then us Freedumb-loving tahps came in and kicked ay-us! Wrapped ta whole t’in’ up in a few months. Yee-haw! [fires guns in the air]
(Subtitles: Yeah, it took you Eurotypes four and a half years to not get nowheres [regionalism for ‘anywhere’] and then us Freedumb-loving types came in and kicked ass! Wrapped the whole thing up in a few months. Yee-haw!)
As an American who desperately wants to be proud of my nation but is finding it harder by the day, I apologize for the bullshit attitude of a loud minority of my nation. I promise, we’re not all like them.
Might I suggest an amazing system of checks and balances in the trias politica as something to be proud of.
Do not misunderstand me there’re many pieces of your governmental, electoral and republican system that I see as simply bad, but the checks and balances are the best in the world I know of.
Checks and balances for every decision one party makes from the side of both of the order branches that require just that extra jump.
Lawmaking: the president can veto a law(which can still be overruled by the house with an overwhelming majority, so the president doesn’t get any ideas), the courts can declare a law unconstitutional when assisted by the lower courts and the people.
Fast decisions: executing power can decide, but can be stopped by an unrelated third party appointed by the parliament(parliamentarian).
Appointment of judges: both parliament and the executing power who are both seperatly kind of elected have to agree on a judge when in need of replacement.
Judgement of other powers: the executing power can be punished at all(good thing, because normally this isn’t even an option), the lawmaking power is controlled by its size, the presidential veto and the constitution).
Sure there is room for improvement like increasing transparency in the executing power, moving the military judgement to a separate side of the judging power instead of letting the executing power handle it themselves and backing the presidential veto and pardon with a decision of the high court, but all systems have their faults and the American system is the most airtight I know.
The only problem being that most of those checks and balances are imaginary — they only work as long as the affected officials accept them. Without any enforcement method, the whole thing falls apart as soon as someone decides not to cooperate.
which we have seen definite proof of them being ignored, out voted, people being fired whose job it was to bring them up, individuals choosing the members of their own jury and having a say on what evidence can be used against that this system of checks and balances is utter BS, a lie the entire time to make the people feel more comfortable under what is effectively an aristocracy cosplaying as a democracy.
Yes. Unfortunately, collusion between branches and a populace unwilling to make them pay for it is the enemy of checks and balances.
A great pity that “Freedumb-loving tahps” couldn’t be bothered to man whatever passed for the Foreign Affairs office on a Sunday. This was very disconcerting to the Japanese Embassy who were desperately trying to tell the US government what was going on before it went on…
The big problem was, it is incredibly difficult to keep in mind that the USA is at least 12 hours BEHIND the rest of the world, sometimes 18 hours… The Japanese Government reely reely wanted to tell the US government BEFORE, not AFTER.
Bravo!!!!
Pendrake I praise you attitude
Has a french history buff , I’m ashamed , by the attitude of about 15%of Frenchmens
They deny warcrimes done by French Republic in colonies, and are apologist for Vichy Regime’s.
Vichy Regime and coloboration was not a brigth period of french history as colonialism…
And for French assholes I’ll make a quick list..
Royals
Charlemagne slauther of Saxon people and for bonus he could be counted also as a German.
Louis the XIV absolute monarch , religious perscution… but made France a superpower for a time…
Charles X anachronistic asshole responsable for the colonization of Algeria – to piss of Turks –
WWII
Pierre Laval a real life grima wormtongue , nazi Swindle
Jacques Doriot former comunist made the PPF the genuine french facist party
René Bousquet nazi swindle organized deportation of French jew including children.
Post WWII
Georges Thierry d’Argenlieu amiral – former free french – but a racist asshole one of the responsible of indochina war.
Raoul Albin Louis Salan general – former free french – militaristic racist responsable for widespread torture in Indochina and Algeria , attempted a coup d’état in 1961 against French governement.
Contemporary
Eric Zemmour – professional troll – a french Alex Jones with intelectual prentenses… Specialized in historical Falacies, macho and built like Woody Allen ,also a pro-military douche – he avoided military service by fake health issues – but praised a proclamation by senile former military oficiers threatening of military coup…
Those who ignore history will repeat the mistakes of the past.
MY country seems hell-bent on erasing history because it hurts feelings and exposes the crimes of the current regime.
Of course if we payed attention to history… we’d know what we’re doing isn’t going to work.
Dumbass Americans, I swear. :P
Don’t conflate, me with them!
Add to that that the current State of the US is literally the same as it was in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War.
Honestly, if Americans had just LISTENED to Washington when he said “Don’t form Political Parties,” they wouldn’t be in the shitter right now. And could possibly have avoided the Civil War altogether. Maybe.
Galileo didn’t say that.
Pretty sure it was Frederick Nietzsche.
People overlook him because he’s just a poor boy from a poor family.
meh, easy come, easy go
But, however, Beelzebub _does_ have a devil put aside for him.
Only if the date goes well
I actually found this site from Wearing the Cape. I have read the entirety of Grrlpower and enjoy it very much. I keep hoping you will do a novelization like Phil and Kaja Foligio did with Girl Genius. If you do, please make sure it goes on Audible so I can listen to it as well.
Also “Repercussions” (Oct 30, 2019) is WTC #8 I am pretty sure “Joyeus Guard” is number 9 and it just came out earlier this month
After getting a better look at Sydney’s dad, I have a question. Does Richard Branson have a twin brother (or a clone) we don’t know about?
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Nappy’s wars had the effect of stripping France of about a million men.
What’s weird is that people like Beethoven knew that people die in wars, but Napoleon was admired anyway. Because of the wars. In spite of the killing.
Beethoven only changed his mind when Napoleon completely capitulated to his fascistic tendencies and made himself emperor of France. “So he is no more than a common mortal! Now he, too, will tread underfoot all the rights of man [and] indulge only his ambition; now he will think himself superior to all men [and] become a tyrant!”
By that point (1804) Napoleon was just 35 years old, and had led campaigns in the war with Italy and Austria, and against Britain in north Africa. He had won the first campaign, and lost the second disastrously.
I like that Sydney knew this quote, and how she interpreted it. I’m a little less happy about Maxima’s full on patriotism push.
Also Napoleon was wrong. I don’t know anyone who went to fight in a war and did it for a ribbon.
The original quote was
« Les Romains avaient des patriciens, des chevaliers, des citoyens et des esclaves. Ils avaient pour chaque chose des costumes divers, des mœurs différentes. Ils décernaient en récompense toutes sortes de distinctions, des noms qui rappelaient des services, des couronnes murales, le triomphe ! Je défie qu’on me montre une république ancienne ou moderne dans laquelle il n’y ait pas eu de distinctions. On appelle cela des hochets ! Eh bien ! c’est avec des hochets que l’on mène les hommes. »
in english
“The Romans had patricians, knights, citizens and slaves. They had different costumes for everything, different manners. They awarded all kinds of distinctions as rewards, names that recalled services, wall crowns, triumph! I challenge anyone to show me an ancient or modern republic in which there were no distinctions. We call them rattles! Well ! men are led with rattles. ”
It’s an answer to the original critisim of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur) etablished by himself in 1802 by Théophile Berlier who as deemed military decorations as rattles and ribbons unworthy of a republic…
It is only weird if you value human life higher than anything else. The moment you consider the option that some things are worth more (like honour, duty, justice, love, profit, pleasure, whatever), then the idea that people can know death and war happen while not being hypocrites is not unusual at all. In fact it becomes quite common place.
If we want to upgrade ARCHON gear what would you guys do?
I suggest:
Standard gear:
gass masks, guns, gass grenades(yes it’s illegal for military to use gass. Can someone come up with a legal way to take down physically impervious supers that’s not punch harder), super grade handcuffs,
super gear
sturdy spandex for amorphous to allow for more resistance to kinetic attacks.
Achilles gets heavy gear with a lot of friction to not get easily shoved aside.
Maxima gets comically oversized gear to contemplate Maxima’s function as aggro queen(enemies tend to target Max opening themselves up to potential attacks from the team) and a lot of highly effective sacrificial protections, such as (She is mostly vulnerable to surprise, so her protections mostly function to protect her from surprise attacks) layered hardened steel armor, oxygen tank and gass mask,
Jiggawatt starts carrying capacitors around
Ren should wear ear pods that play thrilling music when a battle starts
Heatwave should carry a ammo with water instead of nitroglycerin, so she is the only one that can fire it and so she can fire it hard
Halo should be fully coaxed in their non-Newtonian fluid, so a surprise hit does as little as possible, while still allowing for normal movement(I assume she is safe in mr. Bubble, but very vulnerable outside, so the primary goal is to make her safe outside of it not effective)
Harem mostly benefits from lighter clothing and a tradeoff between mobility and armor(she can teleport, so moving is not that important) my solution would basically just be giving her a set of Harem shaped metal pods in different poses whose fingers she can move in combat and otherwise just normal military attire.
Stallward is strong and durable and often fights supers, so give him an arsenal full of neat tricks to take people down.(stopping rifle, sleeping gass, carbon fiber handcuffs, taser, knife, flashbangs and a hardened steel bat,)
Hiro can make himself heavier than Stalward and is also seriously strong and durable, so I think he can have heavier throwback than Stallward, so certainly some kind of turbo rifle and a force multiplier like a hardened steel bat or brass nuckles.
Math gets non-kinetic precision tricks like sleeping pills, flashlight, etc.
Varia probably just equips like harem and helps her with her job.
Jabberwocky being a budget more armor focused vesion of Math gets the same gear.
Anvil gets her hair in a helmet and gets covered in oil to counteract the Vehemence trick.
Dabbler mostly gets to equip herself although bullet proof goggles might help.
I’m not sure if there are more team members or better ways to equip them, suggestions are always welcome
Thought they were outside, what is with the skylights reflected in Junior’s eyes?
it is just the white spot used to represent glare in cartoon eyes being split up and wavy to help emphasize that her eyes are all dewy from tears.
No, look again, those are definitely six-pane skylights
it is more tightly packed than usual, but clearly meant to be cartoon/anime sobby eyes
https://previews.123rf.com/images/salenta/salenta2006/salenta200600050/148728639-sad-anime-face-manga-style-big-blue-eyes-little-nose-and-kawaii-mouth-tears-in-her-eyes-hand-drawn-v.jpg
Yeah, know what they are supposed to be, was just wondering why they were the skylight windows
For the exact same reason why there are jagged blue lines around her face and shoulder: It is a two-dimensional symbolic representation of a four-dimensional expression of an emotional state.
Maxi has the reflection light in her eyes as well, was just wondering why DaveB specifically chose skylight window for the last image
Wasn’t a huge deal
Damn, it’s dusty in here…
while not directly tied to today’s page, the on-going alien super civilizations looming in the background (of various tiers *regardless of mine, Kardashev’s, of Dave’s tiers* brings up this thought process.
I was having a conversation today (offline) about a possible fallacy in how we view aliens. We think of things like *humans are to them as chimps, lemurs, mice, insects, amoeba* ect.. depending on the difference in technological, mental, and physical complexity. So we assume they will treat or regard humans the way humans treat these things. However on the closer scale humans *other than interacting with other human socioeties* don’t have a comparison for interacting with non-human sapient species with advanced tool use who build towns and what not, many of these aliens provided humans aren’t their first contact may do this regularly so how they really think of other sapient species can be vastly different than how humans think of chimps or parrots or dolphins ect…
on the extreme end with the super advanced ones who are basically the galactic empires or even higher the masters of space and time or whatever the *humans are as insects, amoeba, bacteria, ect…* there is the fallacy, we are assuming they will think like humans. Yeah assuming they will think of humans the way humans think of these small things is just projection, an inverted anthropomorphism to a more complex life form rather than less complex one. Moving the goal posts from amoeba to human to human to Amana/Chousin/Abstractives/First Ones, whatever, it is assuming they will have the same outlook on life around them as humans imagine human beings would if they were that powerful *also ignoring the inaccuracy that just because there is this massive gap doesn’t mean you literally would be regarded the same as amoeba anyway*.
Projection and metaphore are the early steps of understanding a new concept.
The first time you see a car, you might think “a car is like a house, it protects people from the weather when they sit in it.”
The second time it is rolling down a hill, so you think “a car rolls like a ball.”
The third time the engine is running and you smell the exhaust and feel the heat of the engine so you think “a car is like a fire.”
Maybe why we keep describing aliens as humans is simply because we haven’t met them often enough.
and that projecting can be a real problem that can bugger up later imaginations if they provide something just too simple or too tantalizing.
*cut and paste of another conversation where evidence that the Kardashev scale has merit was brought up because someone made some observation based on it that type 3 civilizations don’t exist because they don’t match the Kardashev scale, which I find to be a culturally and possibly individually biased scale that even expanding from has problems due to this being in the ground work.
2016…someone entertained the idea that a galactic level civilization would actually blank out or move stars or whatever in 2016…
*sigh*
I personally find the Kardashev scale grossly inadequate and most likely inaccurate given new discoveries in energy usage since it was proposed giving rise to the possibility that a more complex civilization may not even need or have any desire to blank out entire stars and galaxies or move suns around for whatever reason. That looking for such things as signs of advanced civilizations would be like showing a man from 1890 a photograph of a modern town and them declaring it is no more advanced than their time because they don’t see any of the sci-fi stuff their then current dime novels proposed would exist in the future.
at least the wikipedia gives a one sentence mention of proposing other metrics of civilization besides raw power usage. But people keep holding onto this scale as if it were some grand epiphany on the identifies of alien civilizations and detecting them.
okay, can we at least entertain the possibility that maybe a Soviet astronomer in 1964 may have incorrectly judged how advanced civilizations would approach energy usage, and maybe just possibly had a cultural bias over emphasizing the amount of work/energy a civilization puts out/uses as a determination for how advanced the civilization is. As well as despite doing the math not a real mental image/comprehension of the vast differences in energy between these three scales.
I know that others have expanded on this for inbetween points, adding to it, and putting other criteria alongside energy usage. But at its base this this, and it is a pretty narrowly focused and most likely inaccurate view of how advanced civilizations would interact with the universe around them. Especially when one takes the specific requirements of some tasks, view changes in real world technology over even small amounts of time as technology advances, and testing the practicality of these large scale projects, and not only what people are looking for to detect them, but also if science even has the instruments to even detect what advanced cultures may actually be doing.
Subtle technology, that photograph example above would not tell the scientist from 1890 anything about fuel efficiency in cars, modern electrical safety and distribution methods that differ from 1890, the internet, cellphones, current batteries in tech such as cellphones, medicine, prosthetics, robotics, ect… they would see the same streets, phone lines, and while the cars would look different and more of them, they simply would miss due to a lack of context and such a distant view the real advances beneath the surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
I understand your point there Dave, that you were trying to make a *very* bad example but I do want to be that pedantic ash-hole and say the following even though it misses the point entirely, “Actually, Einstein was very very very against the notion of God playing dice. To the point of religious fervor in fact. The later half of his life was basically spent trying to *disprove* the base notions of quantum mechanics because they offended him so vehemently. However, he was a Scientist through and through and we know much of what we do about quantum mechanics because of his rigorous research.”
I wanted to share it cause Einsten basically trying to disprove a theory, only to find supporting evidence, AND STILL RELEASING IT, is perhaps the most badass thing a scientist can do.
We need more scientists like him, unfortunately, we get too many who will supress information if it counters their beliefs or ideas
who?
curious which scientists are suppressing their findings (as opposed to politicians suppressing them, or media spreading BS headlines to grab people’s attention), so who exactly who is an actual scientist *not a practicing nurse, arm chair media personality, ect..* but an actual scientist who is hiding their findings because it counters their personal beliefs.
or is this just people are claiming they are doing that to spread ignorance and make people doubt scientific research.
People are complicated. The upshot is that even the most evil people ever to disgrace our planet weren’t entirely evil. E.g. Hitler loved animals, especially dogs, and probably would have been a card carrying member of the NASI society for the provention of cruelty to animals.
Since this is the case, suggesting someone is like Hitler is irrelevant unless the similarity between them is tyrannical, homicidal, genocidal dictator with goals of world domination – or anything that was a precursor to that (e.g. euthenasing imbeciles, book burning,
dehumanizing segments of the population etc.)
Hate to pick the knit DaveB, but sub-panel in panel 1, Syd is missing her flight wings(low res for sure -not sure on high res)
The DutyPrideHonorblongata is know to be especially inflamed and sensitive at military graduations.