Grrl Power #1048 – Limitful cosmic power
This will definitely end well, I’m sure of it.
It’s weird to think, but Thothogoth doesn’t actually have a massive need for bars of gold. Since demons/devils/fiends are starfaring species in the Grrl-verse, then it stands to reason that basic element/mineral acquisition isn’t difficult. It seems most planets that aren’t mostly gas or ice have roughly similar compositions. Tons of silicates (if there is or was oxygen in the planet’s history), aluminum, iron, calcium, sodium, etc. And even though gold comprises only 0.000004% of Earth’s total composition, that’s still 1.6 quadrillion tons worth. (Don’t worry, I didn’t do any math this time, I just looked up percentages and stuff.) A spacefaring race that discovers a dead planet like Mars that’s even further from the goldilocks zone (demons have considerable heat tolerance, so their goldilocks zone is a little different than humans) like out in Neptune’s orbit, could crack that thing open and mine the hell out of it. Even if you’re not into planet cracking, I think once you’re in the position to mine asteroids and comets and whatnot, resource gathering becomes nearly trivial, at least once you mine enough to create a massive mining fleet. The thing is, once you have access to even a few trillion tons of a resource, I don’t really see how it maintains any market value. That’s why the majority of the technologically advanced universe uses information, entertainment and energy as the primary units of currency. For magical races, energy can mean anything from straight up electrical power to mana.
That doesn’t mean that some of the “lower” tiers of demons aren’t still into gold, virgins, or suffering. It is considerably more difficult to write a check that covers the latter two, so gold (and other traditionally precious resources) is still useful to someone like Tom, but he can just order a pallet jack full of the stuff from Astrozon. He can even justify treating it as a valuable commodity, because the shipping cost of 2 cubic meters of gold is pretty steep.
Tom just wished for a bar of gold to give Parfait something to practice on. Too bad about that audit, buddy.
Two books for you guys. Or, well, three, I guess.
Aether’s Revival 5
is out. This is the only cultivation series I’ve stuck with… not that I’ve tried too many others. The genre seems very slow paced and generally steeped in a lot of asian culture that I have trouble identifying with, like just… so much bowing. I don’t know why it bothers me, but the few cultivation books I’ve tried are like 40% people being super polite to each other? Anyway, I like AR.
That said, I did try Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin, which is cultivation, but in an apocalypse setting, no tea ceremonies or yukatas in sight. It’s… alright. I mean, it’s good – I’ll get the next book, but I’m not bursting at the seams for it.
Speaking of Blaise Corvin and also bursting at the seams and also the 5th book in a series, Delvers LLC 5 is out tomorrow! (The May 13th, if you’re reading this in the future) Delvers is one of my favorite series of all time, and is seminal isekai. At least it is to me, because it’s one of the first isekai series I read. Maybe seminal isn’t the right word, but it is one of the series I judge all other isekais against, and I’ve been waiting for this one for a while.
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…Uh-oh.
Don’t worry. I’m sure this will end well with no problems, as all things involving phenomenal cosmic power do.
There is some innate logic to that statement – after all (for all that we know) the universe still does exist. *winks*
Okay, so, I wished for a banana split and got a slightly torn banana hammock.
I wish that I did not google ‘banana hammock’ to find out what that means.
So many pictures of Borat….. :/
No, that was a mankini, not a banana hammock, slightly different abominations :P
I do not believe that mankini should be a word allowed in English.
Or any other language.
why on Earth did you need to Google it? It’s practically self explanatory
:)
Because I am smart at law and dumb on common sense for the safety of my eyes and brain.
That would indicate Parfait has some control over how the wish fails. If wishing for 1 banana split results in 1 peeled banana with whipped cream, then wishing for 3 banana splits might as well result in 3 peeled bananas with whipped cream.
2 peeled and halved bananas, 1 whole banana that is somehow cut in half inside the skin, whipped cream in two half-dishes, that are cut in half length-wise with a blob of melting ice cream on top. Unfortunately, the dish is only big enough for one serving. So basically this is a great big mess.
Aww, she’s a simple, sweet lil thing isn’t she, no wonder Dabs is willing to commit horrible attrocites for her sake.
That’s why Dabbles needs to get her away from Sydney as soon as possible!
It was a nice planet while it lasted.
“Whatthecra…Sydney! What happened to the planet?!?!”
“We, uhhhh… wished for world peace.”
“SYDNEY. WHAT DID YOU DO.”
“We.. uhhh.. wished for it three times.”
“SYDNEY!!!!! WHERE IS THE PLANET?!?!”
“It’s… uhhhh… at peace.”
We joke but I can see that as an actual conversation taking place. :)
Ah, Sidney always aiming for loopholes. This is gonna end well.
Sydney, why are you not asking about those rules first? You are a gamer and rules lawyer!
This is the incident that MADE her a rules lawyer?
Terre’s needling of Kito is simply hilarious.
Still don’t know if they are siblings, or childhood friends, certainly not just colleagues brought together by evil warlords
I’m assuming just friends who work together for Deus, along with that Alari from earlier.
They kind seem more than just ‘friends who work together’, specially with that comment about the ‘clogged firehose’
Friends make fun of each other sometimes? Including if they’re complaining about how they don’t have a girlfriend alllll the time. :)
Yes, but not friends they have only met three months ago (or less)
Galytn (and its new miitary) has been built over the past decade. Why do you think they’ve only met 3 months ago or less?
Limitful cosmic power…. itty – bitty living space?
It’s still bigger than a $2000 per month Manhattan apartment.
Sydney: the rules lawyer
Or it will fail to the third power.
Either way, fun assured.
Large amounts of ice cream of various flavors, gallons of whipped cream, ditto flavored syrups, tiny dishes flying everywhere while people are slipping on the leftover banana peels and getting completely inverted and landing on their heads with a perfect 3-scoop banana split landing next to them.
that much youthful exuberance? no, you’re stuck like the rest of us. I just hope some of whatever’s happening will taste good to Yorp. our Lawyer is too deep in rapture to act proactively (and her ninjas are ‘comically ineffective’) so we will have to settle for her suing after the fact. lets just hope there’s some good scenery. and physics. defiantly physics.
I imagine Parfait’s hair actually looking like she was under water.
Also slightly annoyed Sydney was distracted by the wishes to not finish asking about her hair :(
Sydneys personality is mostly about being easily distracted.
Sidney, stop damaging people by coming up with better ideas of how people could use their powers on the spot than they have with much more time to think about it.
However, there are reasons why people like Thothogoth would want to have a pile of gold in reserve. The way I heard it on his pilgrimage to Mecca Mansa Musa crashed the gold market of Egypt and it took a decade for it to recover. Being rich is a superpower after all.
Parfait had her wish power for just a few days.
Ah the three rules of wish magic.
1 – it will backfire – example ‘I wish for X’ and then recives X along with a charge on their credit card.
Wish is made, but also is a waste of a wish.
2 – If not backfire then twisted being wrong, yet fulfilling the wish. Example ‘I wish for X’ then receives X only because a someone they cared about died.
Wish is made, but at a painful cost
3 – If not above then mistake – example ‘I wish for X’ and then receives Y.
If the top three rules do not apply to your wish Plot Device then expect that the final wish ends in ironic punishment or wishing that the wishes had never been made.
So when you get a wish maker… Hope for number 3 because at least that gets you something even if you bang your head against the wall after the wish was made.
you would still need the basic resources for building materials. Iron, aluminum rare earths ect.
battle fleets don’t just appear with a wish
If you get actual magic involved, they probably do, that’s kind of the point a wish. Making a battlefleet out of nothingness is no more difficult than whipping up a fully-furnished palace complete with staff, and that kid with the ring and the lamp got his no problem. I suppose there’s some hard questions about where the crew for your ships are coming from (did we just create life, or divert souls from some reincarnation waiting room, or magically kidnap and brainwash a bunch of random people, or something worse?) but the ships themselves? Easy peasy for a proper wish-granter.
This sounds like a great way to be doused in whipped cream and pureed banana by accident.
I’ll take it.
Oh it was an <i.accident, was it? I’m sure the involvement of a Succubus (or even two) was entirely coincidental…
this will be said by the general. Maxima should be present but is undergoing advanced dignity therapy.
mr x will cloak himself in silence and proceed to giggle a lot.
Same, alt text. Same xD
Could she wish something about the orbs? Like where they come from, who made them, how they work…
Tra la la … la la-la la!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA
how long does it take to re-repress a memory again? Always found them creepy as F.
Then you won’t want to know about the movie
and these guys will be the result of Sydney’s wish for three banana splits. sigh, put it on the I need therapy pile.
Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger had something like this (Page 54).
Material is easy to get.
Energy from Zero-Point generators is nearly free.
Labor is done by machines and robots.
Ideas is the only thing left.
“Ideas is the only thing left.”
“YOU DON”T EVEN HAVE THAT MUCH”- universal telepathic gestalt consciousness
Hello, fellow Internet Hivemind node.
This conversation is just Banana’s. ( Meanwhile, Sydney gets a banana tree sapling and an ice-cream maker)
https://multimedia.bbycastatic.ca/multimedia/products/500×500/125/12533/12533415_1.jpg
and possibly this machine
They manage to get the banana split, but it won’t stop screaming.
How would Parfait look in the genie costume similar to what Barbara Eden wore in I Dream of Jeannie?!?
Underage?
Wouldn’t cream about making a pun about it. Now I better split before the ninjas arrive.
this looks like a cold thread. let us churn together.
Butter get a move on and peel out before they slip up behind you.
Dessert-ing the puns? Never!
Pander will be on top of serving up a whipping for the bowl lot of us, I’m going to peel off.
I’m sure its already too late. let us enjoy these desserts while they last.
It would be our just desserts and a cherry on top of Panders’ esteemed career of being a bowl of sour grapes.
Ninjas for you as well Random! NINJAS FOR ALL OF YOU!
You do realize that the more of them you send out at once, the weaker they each will be, don’t you? Law of Inverse Ninja.
You three. Palm, brichins, and Ro, the usual cohorts! All of you. Ninjas! Ninjas for all of you!
We are the triple treat of sweet puns. Always ready to serve seconds.
https://c.tenor.com/Ulcycle6NNsAAAAC/im-watching-you-robert-de-niro.gif
we need a fourth so we can present hot cross puns. (pander is usually cross)
We stack the puncakes high.
careful Pander will have a stack overflow.
You three pun-making miscreants take way too much pleasure in this.
*icy stare*
Miscreants, I tell you.
The commentary reminds me that in the Star Wars universe, there was actually a press release that the destruction of Alderaan was due to the “malfunction of a mining station designed to extract mineral resources from planets unfit for settlement”. This was done after the first Death Star was destroyed and they couldn’t use it as a terror weapon, but it caused a lot of fear because people wondered what kind of experimental devices the Empire might be making near them…
Spilt them… split them… split them!!! Those two combined are bad (in a funny way because of shennanigans and hijinks).
fission has awful repercussions. fuse them instead, then the hotness grows.
I thought Sidney is vegan. Or is she vegetarian and can have ice cream?
She’s a peskyterran: won’t eat anything cute or with a face
And, vomit-ly, there are non-dairy ice creams (although, how you can call it ‘ice cream’ without the cream, have no idea, probably the same way morons say ‘almond milk’ instead of ‘nut juice’)
“Almond milk” is just marketing, otherwise people wouldn’t know what to do with it.
If you actually look at non-dairy “ice cream” packaging, none of them actually contain the words “ice cream”. In fact, before *light* “ice cream” became an acceptable term, Breyer’s wasn’t allowed to call their “frozen dairy dessert” ice cream at all because it had too much air whipped into it.
In short, for the purposes of marketing, ice cream actually has some rather strict definitions.
The fact that they’re discussing getting a banana and a bowl of whipped cream without Sidney pointing out that she would want vegan ice cream suggests that she’s not considering any alternatives in this little thought exercise.
And if you’re going to steal jokes from Jack Whitehall and make them no longer funny, maybe try one that’s not his single most famous bit.
Who the fuck is Jack Whitehall?
Was mostly making a play on the fact couldn’t remember how to spell that word, and the fact she is an annoying (aka pesky) Earthling (aka Terran)
So who/what is going to audit Tom? The Infernal Revenue Service?
Panders accounting Ninjas.
I can only wish that my ninjas were so feared.
NONE OF YOU WOULD EVER PUN AGAIN JUST FROM THE THREAT.
good point you might like the chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtqBt3RbZfs
I do not like that I like this song for its cleverness.
her voice is so pretty. unlike this chick who is just scary. (no puns though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkHqUwa4zg
though that may be the song.
I don’t recommend the Accounting Ninjas. They always leave a trail of deduction in their wake.
The scales of justice have been balanced.
Fuck, I was gonna make that joke
So Sydney’s read Half Magic, neat!
One of the best kids books ever
My first thought.
I bet her dad read it to her.
I was looking at ‘SABRINA ONLINE’ and noticed her Little Sister had a ‘Do’ exactly like Sydney’s. Of course, her sister Sabrina made a Negative comment. Thought Dave and Schwartz may know each other, and this was a friendly jab.
Actually… that whole ‘Go for higher and stop when you reach your real target’ was something Piers Anthony *boo! hiss!* used in one of his Xanth books
Nice to see Terre’s hair has been made canon :D
Prepare for random body parts of Bingo, and. Fleegle and Droopers drooper
for cultivation, you should try beware of chicken. they just took down the first couple years of the serial to put it up on Kindle.
“Plentiful resources” merely means supply exceeds demand. Demand can *always* increase!
What is likely to happen however is that people stop caring what sort of matter (=energy) they have and it becomes simply a matter of quantity.
Information remains the other major currency (but much harder to price/commodify)
Entertainment is just specific kinds of information… well unless you actually mean *services* but those are definitely not a currency but something you trade for currency.
Fiat currency of course is also information (in a specific place)
The problem with intangibles like ‘information’ and ‘ideas’: who do you pay? How do you prove who is the originator of either? Once they are ‘out there’, how do you control access to either of them?
The answer of bitcoin seems tot be:
Make something with informarion that van be traced by the information that birthed it, bit don’t tracé the information itself.
About the author’s text segment….
Our currency is printed on paper-like material but the value isn’t in the paper.
Gold coins to a demon might be something similar.
(Someone is about to use the word ”fiat”.)
Also….
If it weren’t so rare and expensive gold would be great for plumbing, electrical wiring and food wrap.
That look of concentration on her face is utterly adorable….
There’s a web comic about an arcane community college…
Letitia Cromwell – Community College Witch
https://hentaiactiontheater.thecomicseries.com/comics/55/#content-start
Put on your armor against Murphy’s Law, grab your Shield against Checkov’s Gun, & put in your earplugs against the resulting Wilhelm’s Scream.
As an engineer I will say there is no defense. Murphey is as inevitable as entropy. that being said turn those nuts a little harder.
Not on the first date…
You can turn your own nuts
someone’s gotta keep the bolts in line.
*Dives for a foxhole*
*fills foxhole with oobleck*
face this like a person with dignity.
Don your Armor vs. Murphy’s Law, grab your Shield vs. Checkov’s Gun, & put in your Earplugs vs. Wilhelm’s Scream that’s sure to follow.
There’s Victorian scifi that involves space explorers finding a whole (large) planetoid of more-or-less pure gold out in the Belt. Britain (because of course it’s a bloody Englishman who finds it) changes over to the silver standard to the vast amusement of the rest of the world, then reveals its find, dumps a million+ tons of gold on the market all at once, and tanks the world economy so they can…I don’t know, dominate the world even more? Something like that. On the plus side, having plenty of gold lets people use it for actually useful stuff – it’s pretty much imperishable, easy to work, and IIRC a good conductor. But now British Imperialism is propped up even longer, which doesn’t seem like a good tradeoff to me – but I’m from the colonies that kicked their asses out in the late 1700s, so what do I know?
Anyway, yeah, spacefaring civilizations shouldn’t put much value on minerals, even fairly rare ones. That’s part of why you see so much Unobtainium BS in scifi. If you try to act like gold or uranium or even rare earths are all that precious you wind up looking like a dope.