Grrl Power #1046 – Four on the force field
In panel three, Dabbler really means that altering someone’s mind without their consent is illegal. Super powers are new enough to the public that things like psychiatrists with mental powers aren’t really a thing yet. There’s definitely been uses for mental powers in the past, whether it’s a super, or a vampire from the Twilight Council helping out a soldier with PTSD and the like. (There’s also less sanctioned but still official uses for it like flipping a spy’s allegiance or Secret Service super bodyguards keeping all manner of foreign mental influence away from key personnel in the chain of command.)
That said, most supers (and supernaturals) with mental powers working for the government are part of Arc-DARK or various other intelligence agencies. The consensus is that the American public will be okay if big strong hero smash car on bad guy, but would lose their collective shit if one of Arc-SWAT’s field agents named “Z. V. BIHMP” (Zero Violence Because I Have Mental Powers)” walked up to a rampaging criminal and said “You should surrender yourself and cooperate with the authorities.” and the bad guy said “Okay.”
I know the question you’re asking. Can Sydney’s shield cut stuff when it pops into existence, and did she almost do something really horrendous to Dabbler and Parfait? Well, it can cut through water, certainly. Solids? Honestly I haven’t decided. Maybe it’s one of her power ups. If she can’t, that would mean that someone could zip tie her ankle to a chain link fence and she wouldn’t be able to raise her shields. It would be a temporary state of affairs as she could laser or lighthook the fence in short order, but it opens up a number of tactics that could be used against her.
So, I don’t normally talk about my birthday because I like keeping focused on the comic, but I thought this one time I’d indulge. First off, my birthday is May 4th, which means I was born under the sign of auspicious nerd cred. My birth year… was 1972. Which means I just turned 50. Yeah… I’m at least as shocked as you are. That sounds fucking old to me, too. I mean, apologies to anyone older than me, but 50 is one of those milestones that I think everyone agrees officially makes someone “an old.”
I don’t know what 50 is supposed to feel like, but I definitely don’t feel it. If you’re suddenly picturing some white-bearded grandpa in a straw fedora and a Hawaiian shirt gingerly bent over a drafting table, you can just knock that off right now. Still have a full head of (brown) hair, and no conspicuous wrinkles. The only thing that’s starting to hint at my age is a little more gray in my goatee. I’m not going to pass for 30, but 40? Eh, maybe.
The thing that makes me feel a little better about suddenly being 50 is remembering that Tom Cruise is 60. He was 52 in Edge of Tomorrow, 53 in M:I; Rogue Nation. Or maybe a year younger in each depending on when they were filmed. My point is, the dude doesn’t look fucking 60. Sure, actors have professional fitness coaches/consultants, and some of them get a little nip and tuck here and there. Still, it makes me think that 50 maybe isn’t so old. Also, Keanu Reeves was 50 when he made John Wick. Kate Blanchett was 48 as Hela in Thor: Ragnarok, and she was hella fine in that. Anyway, if I sound defensive, it’s because 50 still sounds old to me.
But let me tell you why being 50 is actually pretty cool. Being born in 1972 means I was 5 when the Atari 2600 came out. When you’re 5-10 years old and neither you nor anyone else has ever played a video game before, they were amazing. Well, some of the games were. The lack of a “seal of quality” on the 2600 library did doom the console because there was some shit game for it. But some of them were definitely fun. Nowadays? Have you ever played a collection of those retro games? Even with the spark of nostalgia on my side, they held my interest for about 5 minutes apiece. The point is, I got to grow up with the video game industry, alongside the Commodore 64, the Amiga, the Apple IIgs, the X86 PC Clones. Ah, good times. Especially when Sound Blaster came along and made it so PC’s could do more than beep. Star Wars: Dark Forces on a Sound Blaster 64AWE was the business.
Speaking of Star Wars, that also came out when I was 5. I don’t recall seeing it in the theater, but I do remember seeing Empire. That’s less important than the overall influence that Star Wars had on science fiction in general. Before Star Wars, sci-fi was… well, kind of boring. Yes, Star Trek first aired in 1966, and definitely had a major impact, but other that there was Doctor Who and… a bunch of stuff like Flash Gordon. Not the one with the Queen soundtrack either. It was mostly a bunch of black and white stuff that made space look like basically any other job, only it involved a lot of foil and clothes dryer tubes. But man, after Star Wars came out? If you make a habit of watching bad movies, (or MST3K/Rifftrax) you know that you can gauge a movie’s real success based on the number of terrible rip offs that get made after its release. Jaws? Yeah, there’s a lot of bad shark movies out there. Alien rip-offs are practically a sub-genre of their own. But you know who the absolute king is? Yeah, mother fucking Star Wars. You think Battlestar Galactica would have gotten made without Star Wars? Or Starchaser: The Legend of Orin? (So many of you are like, “the fuck is that?”) or Prisoners of the Lost Universe, or Starcrash or you get the idea. The point is that it changed how people thought about sci-fi, and it changed everything that came after it.
So yeah, my formative years were filled with Piers Anthony and Dragonlance novels, Chris Claremont X-Men, Atari, Commodore 64’s, and Nintendo, Stars both Trek and Wars, the tail end of the Cold War, post Moon-landing America (when it was still majorly on people’s mind and not “something my parents generation did with fucking slide rules”), Robotech (yes, the Harmony Gold version, but it was fucking amazing), and slasher films where actors were covered in real fake viscera and not fake digital gore. I’ve lived through porn being a thing you sneak a look at if you have a friend who knows where his dad kept his Playboys and/or Hustlers to the BBS era of watching a single picture of a naked lady load literally one line of pixels at a time to unlimited HD porn all the time everywhere, and lived through 5.25″ floppy disks and Bill Gates saying that 640K of RAM is more than anyone needed, to “Ug, this Ipad only comes with 64 gigabytes of storage and doesn’t even have an SD Card Slot.”
Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer to be 20 because it’d be a lot more likely I’d still be around to check out the PlayStation 21, but it is what it is. I don’t ever pine for “the good old days” like a lot of proper old people, but being alive when computers basically weren’t a thing to where we are today? From there literally being maybe 13 TV channels to “all media ever on instant demand?” From print porn to omniporn? It’s been an awesome ride so far, and here’s to another 50 years (when I’m sure I’ll insist I don’t look a day over 90.)
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Like sister like sister :P
Seems to me, Parf was more suggesting to give Sydney confidence in her current appearance
Honestly, that’s the direction I thought she was going. And if Sydney is willing, that’s totally a thing I’d like to see happen.
Yeah, and it’s admirable on Parfait’s part. But I totally get why Sydney’d be less willing to let a demon screw around with her mind than get magical breast implants.
Heh, we are almost the same age (a week or two younger than you, actual date is redacted :P ) and had most of the same experiences as you (taking in different countries of course), but it was the Atari 800XL we had (with a fully working copy of ET and a Star Wars cartridge), we still have the Atari and even got a replacement some time ago (the buttons on the tapedeck broke off of the original)
As for Star Wars, had a friend whose younger sister was named Leia (she was born before it came out), and she got teased about it as kids do
Why even just glamour, like.. they have fancy alien tech with nanobots and stuff.. .. getting slightly bigger boobs doesn’t sound like it’d be particularly hard for Dabbler, if Sydney really wanted
Why stop with that. If you’re using something like an implanted hard-light projector, with physical feedback? They could be adjustable for the occasion, and inclination.
Let’s not forget that Dabbler has already given Sydney a genital-size-altering potion to facilitate her sexual encounter with her space furry boyfriend. I don’t think actual size alteration via magic or science is beyond Dabbler’s ability. But maybe she’s got a body positivity thing going on and would rather Sydney become comfortable with how she is naturally rather than go down that route. Or maybe the process isn’t as safe as it sounds… “like magic” might sound easy, but what if it has an effect on the subject’s personality as well as their physical size?
There’s bound to be a big difference in psychological effect between the Potion of Compatibility and any technomagical Up-Cup, however it’s achieved. Both confer physiological alterations, but one is deliberately transient while the other is probably permanent. If the target change is achieved as an effect of even more body tinkering, as opposed to the application of an external reagent, that’ll also affect how it’s perceived.
heck Lambe had on hand during the New York scene a device her friend whose name I forget off the top of my head used to repair her after being hit into a sign by Brick House or whatever the tank’s name was; and had to tell him not to give her tail in the process.
so at least some species have body modification as an option in their first aid kits.
We can do it with current earth technology. Any size you want.
Dude, I feel your pain.
I’m 45. A lot of my co-workers are in their twenties, or even their late teens. I talk about things that happened before they were even a gleam in their Daddy’s eye.
Atari, corded phones attached to the kitchen wall, no seatbelt laws, lawn darts, drive-in theaters, Knight Rider, A-Team, products without factory seals. I remember Return of the Jedi when it actually came out. All of my younger colleagues look at me like I’m an alien from a distant planet.
All I can think is ‘How do they know??’
Fun fact (I learned about a month ago): In the first season, KITT was played by 4 modified Trans-Ams (Hero, Backup Hero, Stunt [with interior roll cage and skid plate] and “self-drive”) and a dune buggy dressed as a Trans-Am which did most of the jumps. Near the end of recording the first season, GM had train derailment that damaged a bunch of Trans-Ams, many of which were repaired enough to be used on TV and then had to be crushed after the show stopped production.
At 63, I not only feel his pain, I feel your pain, and that guy over there’s pain…
May 4th, 1977, here.
And only one person made a Star Wars joke when wishing me a happy birthday yesterday.
Hey, if nobody wished the 4th to be with you?
You can make today ‘Revenge of the 5th’….
Revenge of the 5th is what sometimes follows when my birthday falls on the Bank Holiday weekend (excluding the Bank Holiday Monday itself).
I felt your pain when you said ET Game….
She did not grab the magic track ball. It flew into her hand. New? The bubble size is variable — covered a bunch of people on that other planet — so its AI does not damage people who are not very hostile when it comes up. And its force field is opaque it seems to a certain yawn demonic magic. Exposure to more boyfriends might convince her that not all men have the same preference on her issue.
She’s always been able to slightly control her balls with her mind, it’s how she figured out what Greenie does: she panicked, desperately needing air, and Greenie fell into her hands and provided the bubble of air
I’m of the impression that the air ball did that of its own volition, as she was clearly trying to grab her oxygen hose and the ball went out of its way to go into her hand. (#541)
You can see that between panel 1 and 2 the air ball moved out of the orbit the rest of the balls were in, towards her hand.
She also wasn’t panicking when that happened, she was calmly recovering her air mask as a trained diver ought to do immediately.
Also, side note, Greenie is the alien waitress that Dabbler zonked.
No, that’s Jeanie, it’s on her name tag (knew someone would bring that up :P )
I’m well aware of that, but that’s a fake cover name anyway so I chose the more amusing name Sydney gave her.
My guess is when thinking needing air, the life support ball was summoned to her hand. Triggered/linked to her reflexive thoughts like an appendage. And those reflexes do not account for Math moving her leg into the path of an orb. The Orb itself in that case has no self volition avoid impact with her body when her thoughts were encouraging it to impact Math’s body.
Ouch on both the squished boobs, and the new trench landing.
I hear AARP has good benefits, particularly the insurance rates. Seriously, I’m close and I’ve discussed it with my mother in law.
Happy birthday! :)
I don’t think “fortitudinous” quite means what Parfait thinks it means? Unless in succubus lingo it means “able to overcome having been hypnotized”.
It’s actually pretty impressive that she could continue to think in the background and actuate one of the orbs despite standing there drooling. Have the orbs given her some level of resistance to mind control, without anybody realizing it?
Fortitude? Doesn’t that cover shit like ‘strength of will’? Which should give a boost against hypnotism (may not stop one from being hypnotoaded, but would give a boost on being able to ‘snap out of it’)
It refers to resilience against adverse effects, but those could be either mental or physical depending on context. Don’t think I’ve seen ‘fortitudinous’ used as a shorthand for ‘strong in fortitude’ before, but it makes sense.
Fair enough.
If Parfait is anything like Dabbler, English may not be one of her first dozen or two languages. Let’s give the adorable girl a break.
Eh, Sydney popped up the force field small and grew it to smoosh and push them over. That also explains why they got knocked backwards.
My sisters age(ish) roughly. It ain’t easy being old. Oh and love the smash, served them right. And oh, I no want to be tom. TV PARTY TONIGHT! 5lb blocks of cheese, bags of groceries…
Wow, I didn’t realize we were so close in age. About to turn 49, so I can totally relate. I now understand why I get a lot of your humor so well. Well, Happy Day-After-Your-Birthday-when-everyone-actually-wishes-you-happy-birthday!
Oof. That’s another point for Sydney. Casually using her shield to clobber Dabbler for a second time.
@DaveB is that forTitudinous? I think you missed a “T”.
For TIT tudinous to be exact.
“Foritudinous”? I suspect that should be “Fortitudinous”, but even that doesn’t really seem to fit.
It means “brave” or “courageous”. “Willful and belligerent” is not remotely synonymous.
It’s not about being synonymous, Dabbles is simply being rude (but accurate) in describing Sydney
Yeah, but Parfait then says “Isn’t that the same thing?”
Then that just means Parf is wrong about a word in a language she is not familiar with
I mean, what does the shield do currently when she has her feet on the ground?
When she is flying it is kind of egg-shaped around her body, but if it did that while grounded it would by definition get a chunk of earth from underneath her inside it…
Does it actually dip into the earth to finish the egg shape, or just terminate at the surface (leaving a vector of attack from underneath) or does it press hard up against the ground and form the full bubble lifting her shoes a few microns of the ground in the process?
And what happens on an uneaven surface like grass? Does it give the grass a mowing, or press it all flat to the ground beneath her?
Have we ever seen Sydney walk with her feet on the ground and the shield active?
To prevent leaving a shallow trench behind her that small volume below her would have to…
A) Be whitelisted to enter and exit the shield perimeter.
B) Unform/reform the shield hundreds of times a second redefining the active area.
In regards to force fields cutting objects may I remined you of the wood blocks during the launch of the spacecraft in The Explorers.
That would be great for subtractive 3D printing. A cutting tool that doesn’t wear out.
What’s that called? Milling? CNC? There’s a video somewhere of a Space Shuttle pump being made.
I seem to recall Sydney has moved around on the ground with Mr Bubble active at least a few times – the parking lot fight, the Mars factory… Not going down the rabbit hole to look, but I believe the shield went flat against the ground and not into it. Flat surface in both instances though… presumably it would also conform to a rough surface so she can interact with the ground as usual, but there would have to be a curvature limit or you’d get some really dumb edge cases.
I suspect the rule is that it doesn’t smoosh objects unless Dave wants them too, and stays in an easy-to-draw shape.
Maybe it just blocks energy, including kinetic.
Harem couldn’t teleport through it when Sydney was on the ground after Shadow Boxer hit her, which to me suggests that it’s still a total wrap when she’s on the ground, since a gap would presumably allow the teleportation to work. Whether it deforms to match the surface or selectively allows the ground through can’t really be said though.
However, my opinion is that it works more like she THINKS it OUGHT to work. It’s normally centered around her, but she can move to the side inside of it without issue, so I’d say it simply intersects the ground without doing anything to it because she thinks it shouldn’t do anything to it.
Parfait may have asked a really good question. But I do love how Sydney manhandles dabbler sometimes.
Belated happy birthday. 50 isn’t so bad. I turn 56 in five days. I am as old a person can be without definitely being a Boomer, and have dim memories of every moon landing. We even interrupted class in grade school to watch one of them – guess it must have been Apollo 16 or 17. Our first “game console” had faux-wood paneling. I saw Star Wars in the theater three times, and the line to see it was wrapped around the building three deep on the first occasion.
That said, pre-Star Wars scifi wasn’t all dull. Often hokey, but not dull. There was always plenty to read, but if you want to talk films we had Westworld and its sequel, Soylent Green, all the original Planet of the Apes flicks, A Boy and His Dog (still one of the better post-apoc movies), Logan’s Run, Rollerball, Damnation Alley…or if you want brain-melters, crazy shit like The Man Who Fell To Earth, Zardoz, and the Russian adaptation of Solaris. No, not the Battletech arena planet, that wasn’t even invented yet, the Stanislaw Lem novel. Star Wars brought a ton of money into film and TV scifi and raised expectations for SFX, but there was watchable stuff before it came along. Just a lot less of it.
“… my birthday is May 4th …”
So *that’s* why Questionable Content has “May 4, 2022 9:07pm” on today’s page?
It would make more sense for the shield to expand outward from Sydney’s body, pushing away all unwanted objects. So no to barrier cut, but yes to barrier shield bash.
It doesn’t displace everything though – she has air in the shield, even though we know its impermeable as she has to refresh the air periodically. Perhaps the energy field starts to form just a bit smaller than the selected size and snaps out into final position.
I feel like Beware the Wonder Bra by Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society would be appropriate here.
I tried to look it up to see what you’re talking about but can’t find it. Got any links?
So, that shield and solids. The shield is a sphere when Sydney is flying, but she can use it while standing on the ground. Is the sphere underground, cutting the ground? or is it adapting to the shape of the ground? Don’t tell me you never thought about that in the last 12 years.
Re: shield cutting things
Can’t say I’m particularly a fan of a defensive power being turned offensive like that, even if it would be a realistic consequence provided the formation of the shield can overcome the relevant intermolecular bonds. Pushing (like is done here) makes sense enough.
But come to think of it: how does the shield not leave huge gouges in the ground? Perhaps the same principle can apply here, in that the shield can’t actually form “through” things and just forms “around” them?
This was my thought as well. The shield is clearly capable of deforming around obstacles, so she could probably form the shield over the zip tie and then you still can’t get at her. Also, if you’re in a position to zip tie her, tie her hand/fingers closed so she can’t use her orbs at all.
My assumption was, given the level of tech, it coexisted with whatever matter was there when formed in some kind of strange n-th level tech superpositioning. My thinking for this was that when formed on the ground it would need to protect from attacks coming from underground or otherwise exist with a very obvious and glaring weakness, and cutting or otherwise displacing the ground every time would be impractical.
Though I hadn’t initially given it much more thought I suppose if that was the case it would have to do some form of filtering or analysis on what matter was currently intersecting it and selectively let it pass such that Sydney could form it while on the ground and still walk around or fly off with it up.
Ah the good old days.
always remembered fondly until you actually try to play Tank on a simulator.
I almost missed my HS graduation when Return of The Jedi came out on the same day.
The literally magic bra would be banned in a week by old white men who would call it some form of cheating.
This is why this comments section needs an upvote system.
There have been real-world relationships complicated due to one party or the other altering their appearance. This one of a man divorcing his naturally-ugly model wife turned out to be a hoax, but some divorce cases where the cost of augmentation was claimed during the settlement.
Nah. Most of them wouldn’t care. Many would return use it. And it would sell so well the opinions of the ones who cared wouldn’t matter. Consider everything from the corset to the Wonderbra.
With as slow as the government can be when enacting laws, I actually wonder if they’d be that fast in enacting a law that says it’s illegal to use powers on people’s minds.
Depends on who gets to their mind first (or can even find it… )
A happy belated birthday to you then, kind host! I’m right there with you. I hit the half century mark at the end of next month, so all of your landmarks are the same road map that got me to here.
And I’m with you on “it sounds old, but I don’t feel old”. Not sure if that’s based on a firm grasp on my current state, or just abject denial, but I think of how I remember my grandparents, or parents at this age, and I feel like I’m ahead of that curve. That said, I’m doing what I can to stick around long enough for that last Game of Thrones book, and Half- life 3 to come out. I’ve got my cryo-pod iced down, just in case, though…
Its ok brother! I turn 49 at the end of this month and the big 50 next year. 50 is the new what…40ish? I remember 50 being ANCIENT when we where young and now…I have young children. For my 50th next year we are going on a week long live aboard dive trip. Live it up! I don’t think 50 will be bad as 40…besides everything hurts a bit more.
I think, the shield cutting through stuff should only be possible intentionally, even if it is a future upgrade and not possible now. Seems like a plausible safety feature to put in a device like this. And i think it should also be easier to handle for you?
Dude, about 5 years older and I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, 50 was a milestone, but I didn’t feel different. As for growing up with out technology and then, BAM, here it is, has been an awesome experience. I was 10 when Star Wars came out and I was blown away. My how far we’ve come since then. I just wish Lucas would allow the release of a remastered 4k version of the original theatrical print of Star Wars (as well as ESB and RotJ). I would pay good money for those. But, anyway. Happy Birthday and hope you have another 50.
Force is force, but it’s funny how mental force bothers people more than physical force. Maybe it’s because they can better understand how to resist physical force. I’m guessing most people are stronger physically than they are mentally.
I had a speech professor that discussed the “untrustworthy” stigma around being an effective (persuasive) speaker.
If you are an even better speaker, you can use that distrust to get them to fill in some blanks that you’d never get away with if you did it yourself.
heh heh heh
Or the shield could go through solids already there without disturbing them. It could also warp around them automatically, either keeping them inside the field or excluding them. It would be funny if the shield snapped back into shape after that moment, either bouncing something away or making it unbearable close inside.
Man talk about true to how things are over time. Star wars rocks! Even if they did high jack our birthday (May the 4th be with you). And we share a birthday at that. and I mean month, day, and year! You have a great comic look forward to 50 more years!
I think Sydney’s assault was a little unfair to Dabbler. Xuriel was actually defending her right to her state of mind by point out that attempting to change her mind would be a crime. And what does she get for her trouble? Force field to the face and boobs. Not cool, Sydney.
She was still being a jerk about Parfait hypno-boobing a straight girl though, and discussing boob envy in front of her.
I don’t think she was being a jerk about it. She was being proud of her little sister. Being a jerk would have been more along the lines of encouraging her to do stuff like that, or suggesting that maybe Sydney wasn’t as straight as she seemed or passing some other untrue or unfair judgement on Sydney.
Why glamour? If Sydney really wanted bigger boobs, she can just get implants. With what she makes now, plus having a healer on the team, recovery would be quick and she can easily afford it!
I’m guessing it just hasn’t occurred to her yet. After her time slip, they’ve been keeping her pretty busy to catch up with the rest of the trainees.
Overall though, I’m rather quite surprised this hasn’t come up before, like when Sydney met Krona. Is Bust Size an easy-to-edit parameter?
I could see Sydney being envious and a bit insecure, especially in the presence of the supers, without actually wanting to make any permanent changes. Not that Sydney would ever go on a rant about something.
Gotta say Dave, for me 51 is pretty much like 41, just with some light arthritis pain. And when I see pics of folks our age who look well, old, I wonder what’s the deal? Neither my wife or I (or you apparently) look like graybeards (graying yes,,,) or wrinkled seniors. Kinda think most of GenX has aged much more gracefully than previous generations. Or some of the 50-ish folks I see who look old are (or were) terrible hateful a$$hats and that ages you.
You’re only as old as you feel. That’s why I’ve started feeling 93.
But as someone born in the ‘60s don’t you young people make me shake my cane at you!
Foritidinous against hypnoboobs? More like for-titty-nous am I right?
smack yourself right now! roll for pun damage (d12 at least!)
smack yourself right now! take d12 pun damage!
I’m in a dicey situation now! But I’ll roll with it.
Don’t make the DM break out the bucket of d12’s!
don’t worry, I’ve loaded your save.
So many heavily armed ninja are going to visit you ….
these ninjas… where do you get them cracker jacks? illegally imported kinder eggs? they seem a little insubstantial.
oh, your using an Ender 3 to make them….
I hire them. But work quality isnt what it used to be :(
you need to stop hiring from Lego
She is welcome to send more Lego my way. I would take that as an encouragment.
On the shield side, you actually already decided. The shield forms arround solid objects. I say this because otherwise 1. Sydney shield wouldn’t have formed in many places she’s used it or 2. She would have been taking chunks out of roofs, the ground, the road, etc.
I am almost POSITIVE DaveB has discussed that shield having a safety feature which prevents dissection people, etc, and probably forgot that he did since this would have been years ago. When I find it I’ll post a link.
I’m a few months shy of my 70th birthday so I’ve seen and experienced a few more things in those additional decades.
We lived in Anaheim, CA when Disneyland opened in 1955, about 2 weeks before my third birthday. My first real memory of going there was for my fifth birthday, but I’m sure we must have gone before then because… Disneyland!
Watched the original Star Trek series in first run. Absolutely hated all of the monster/horror movies of the ’50s and ’60s because I had an overactive imagination and I was sure the giant ants or blob or triffids were going to come get me. I had to be concerned with getting drafted and sent to Viet Nam so I enlisted in the Navy before I could be drafted and put in a muddy foxhole.