Grrl Power #1114 – Asset accounting
In order of desirable pretzel condiments:
- Gross ballpark nacho cheese.
- Yellow mustard.
- Yummy fondue made from cheese not designed to normally exist in a semi-liquid form.
- Alfredo sauce.
- Whole grain mustard.
- Whole grain mustard AND Alfredo sauce – Yum!
There’s a separate category for stuff like cinnamon and frosting and caramel drizzle. There’s an argument to be made for dessert pretzels, but that’s really only one step away from a dessert bagel, and that’s just weird. If you want something doughy and twisty and sweet, get a funnel cake or a tiger tail (twisty donut.)
I hate that I keep forgetting that Varia has a pronounced Bostonian accent, because honestly, in short word bubbles, there’s only so many opportunities for it to come up. Words that end in an “R” sound change into an “ah” sound, basically. There are some flavors of Bostonian that actually add an “R” sound, like “pizza” can become “peet-zer” but there’s a limit to how thick of an accent you can write out before it starts becoming illegible. Written English just doesn’t have enough explicit ways to demark certain pronunciations to make it feasible. Maybe if we used umlauts and accent graves and that little sickle thing on the bottom of “C’s”, then maybe it’d be possible, but we don’t. And so I forget that she has a Boston accent since it sometimes won’t come up in several pages of dialog.
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The wristbands are an obvious question. Anything from a tracker to a stun bracelet to a bomb, or all of the above. They could BE the purge option. Also the bandaged right arm seems to be common among prisoners too. Perhaps a recent implant, such as a tracker or poison injector (purge option!)?
Yeah, noticed the bandaged arms as well
Simple trackers no doubt, an easy thing to remove if the bad guys can’t respond to the alarm. Bad thing is if it have a poison injector built in, if the “guest” tries to leave…
If they were leaning into the supervillain thing, they could be some kind of low-profile hand amputators, with a chunk of piano wire around the wrist and something in the buckle that will reel it in.
But honestly, that’s more creative than I’d expect from a bunch of mooks who mistook kidnapping civilians for a good idea.
I’m willing to guess it’s a “If we can’t have you, no one can!” type of thinking, so loping off a hand wouldn’t stop them, they could still escape if not for the bleeding issue. Think of the home arrest ankle bracelets, and how big they’d have to be to contain a motor strong enough to cut bone and a battery, anyone would notice that. I’m sure they put in the IFF pellets like the one’s they put into dogs and cats, hence the bandages.
Why not just use her magneto powers to bend the bars?
Neither of them has magneto powers. I’m assuming you’re talking about jigawatt who has electric powers, not necessarily magnetic ones.
Varia does, when touching Jiggawatt. I would have guessed that her magnetic powers weren’t strong enough to bend the bars… but if she can lift 35 tons with them, she should be able to bend them.
Varia was moving steel girders with the mag powers while Jiggawatt was hugging her middle when they were helping out after the first super fight, but these puffed up rich bitches might have them made of something she can’t bend. These “guests” are all supers of some level, so normal steel might not be up to the task with some of them.
Moving something with magnets is not always the same as bendering the same thing
Weightlifters may be able to lift several hundred kilos of weight, but they are not able to bend the bar
Bender Bending Rodriguez would like to have a word with you.
He doesn’t use magnets though
Neither do weightlifters.
You’ve never watched the power-lift competitions have you? By time I was 17 I was dead-lifting 400 lbs and could bend 1/2″ rebar bare handed. (damn I’m old…)
Do we actually know for certain that all the prisoners are supers? Varia gets powers off non-supers too. And it’s already established that Archon has to tailor its prison cells to the super they hold, obviating easy mass confinement.
(Also remember that even when Varia is touching a super, the power she gets is only usually related to theirs – Ren for instance turns her into some kind of lightning golem, very different from his own “super adrenaline”.)
They certainly don’t look muscular muscular enough for supers, although it might be malnourishment.
“These “guests” are all supers of some level, so normal steel might not be up to the task with some of them.”
I doubt they’re supers. They don’t have the super ‘physique.’
Harem vs Anvil, Ren vs Kevin. The criteria is beautiful to the person and or culture and no body hair. We also have yet to determine or be told rather if Krona is a super, if so the physique thing either was an early guess by experts to retcon and possibly just means healthy and/attractive by the individual’s standards.
Don’t forget Mini George Lucas
Ren is not as big as Kevin, but by normal human standards he’s still a big, very muscular bloke. Harem, as well, is quite unusually muscular for a woman. All supers are very muscular, which doesn’t really fit western beauty standards for women.
Krona is not a super, with we’ve been told both by her and word of god, the latter with an explicit reference to body type:
“She’s also not a super, as you can tell from her physique.”
I was talking about Varia, when touching Jiggawatt.
three problems with bending bars
one: alarm or trap trigger by physical, magical and/or other “super type” trap althoe jubby has electronic covered.
two: noise of bending may alert with out there being a “trap” device
three: bars may be nonferous metal or non metal in witch case magnetic powers are a bust …….
1) The point of freeing the prisoners is so they are not harmed/killed when ARC-SWAT goes in for the assault. Bending the bars or otherwise destroying or making the prisoners able to get through the bars is a necessary first step.
2) They already killed the two Teds guarding this area.
3) It’s more likely than not that the bars are made of steel. Especially if no one’s said it isn’t in the comic, which no one has done yet. S o chances are the bars are steel, since bars are typically made of steel. Anything else is an assumption based on nothing, whereas the assumption that the bars are made of steel is based on what almost all bars in all prisons and jails and cages and zoos are typically made of for the majority of civilization.
Steel is strong, versatile, cheap and easily available. There’s a reason our civilization uses it for almost everything.
You’d need a specific reason to use something different.
This is correct as well.
Except honey.
And milk.
And eggs.
And maple syrup.
Actually, I’m pretty ok with secretions…
I truly would hope that chickens dont SECRETE eggs. :)
No, they MENSTRUATE the eggs
On second thought, the eggs are clearly ovulations, ‘ovum’ being Latin for ‘egg’
Can’t we just say they ‘lay’ eggs like normal people say it? :)
You mean… like a layperson would say?
Dangit … ju- just… Dangit!!!!!!
I would argue that the amount of boiling required to get maple syrup as well as the fact that it is harvested by driving a pipe beyond the bark means that maple syrup cannot properly be called a secretion.
A dessert bagel is called a DOUGHNUT, and they’re awesome.
bagels are baked. doughnuts are fried. (the fried butter is extra.)
I think the point is that dessert bagel is at the very least an oxymoron. Although I have enjoyed flavored bagels of that type, that doesn’t make it less wrong. They should have a separate name, and then note that they are a sweet version of bagels.
bagnut, dougal, baked fritter, butterknot
Bagels are boiled then baked. :)
true- thus bagels are not donuts even if they have cinnamon, frosting, and other sweet things. many bagels even have cream cheese. Boopa’s even wraps a bagel around a small sausage. they are very very good. (you do live in the fort worth area right?)
I live in NYC. The birthplace of true bagels. My mother lives in the DFW area though, and I will be moving there soon.
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I have no clue how, but I feel almost certain that, somehow, that bird radar will end up saving their hides. Maybe they could ask Sydney what her knowledge of tropes says will end up being the most useful.
Seeing how DaveB likes to subvert the tropes, whatever Sydney says would be the most useful will be the one thing they never get, not to forget that Sydney is currently closeted in Africa
Sydney will defeat the boss by luring them outside and dumpinga bag of Cheetos on their head, because all of the birds are seagulls.
Fuck seagulls, they are pigeons of the oceans, magpies will dive bomb your head, and not even a helmet will save you!
Had one do that too me, once. After a bout 5 mins of it I batted the damn thing out of the air with my hand, it lost interest real quick.
I have to admit, Varia’s one hell of a tactical asset. There’s literally no way for the opposition to prepare for her that I can think of. Even if they prep for the powers they know she can get from her teammates, there’s no practical way to be ready for what she might get from literally anyone else present.
Would could actually work against them: if enough word gets out about what Vahriah is capable of, she might become a Top Priority for future attacks (what? you think these idiots will be the only ones?)
Sure is a good thing ARC-SWAT is a government organization that can plan for that sort of shenanigans, huh?
“Spontanious Mustard Generation” sounds like the name of some indie grunge band from the mid to late 90’s
The whole mustard / pretzels thing sounds perfectly gross
have you never had mustard on a hotdog that’s on a bun? Same Principle, but without the meat
Secreting pretzels is getting filed firmly under ‘body horror’.
how is butter not on that condiment list? thats the proper addition to a lye pretzel, assuming they know how to make the lye pretzel correctly
Is that mustered generated everywhere. Cause I’m sensing a icky sticky under where situation here. Oh right she gets instant control know how.
Next chapter….