Grrl Power #1130 – Pop up beat down
Occasionally some of the characters (and me) remember that Archon is supposed to be a military organization. Maxima isn’t big on all of the rigorous discipline and marching up and down the square, but I’m fairly certain that generally one does not yell at one’s C.O. If it does happen, I’d guess that mid-friendly fire is probably your best chance to get away with it, especially if the C.O. is the one supplying the fire.
I know Stalwart’s mass control claims might seem to make him more vulnerable to SuperHole’s power, but there’s some very skilled hand waving on the next page if I do say so myself.
I’m sure you’re asking, “Wouldn’t Dabbler be constantly abuzz with ‘Sweaty Shirtless Men’ grappling” notifications? The answer is yes, but it’s like tinnitus, always there in the background unless she tries to pay attention to it. Of course, if it happens to people she knows well, she gets stronger pings.
Here’s another book I recently finished that I thought was pretty good. All the Skills: A Deck Building LitRPG. It reminds me a bit of Iron Prince, only in that it’s a “Zero to if not hero then several steps above Zero” story. Unlike Iron Prince, the MC doesn’t relentlessly train like a DBZ character, but it has its own merits.
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What would have to happen for Dabbler to *really* sense a ‘Disturbance in the Force’?
Every one in the Astrodome involved in “Naked grappeling”
A whole planet swearing a vow of castice.
Chastity.
The word is Chastity.
…I don’t think you’re dumb or anything, but spelling errors like that just…..
*starts clawing the walls*
Does that mean you think the spelling error is worthy of castigation?
I don’t think she was castigating. Just correcting, not severely or harshly, and she pointed out it wasn’t to call Alekay dumb – it’s just a peeve at significant spelling errors. If anything she was also being a bit self-deprecating about it with the *clawing at the walls* part.
A bunch of people have also corrected DaveB’s misspelling of ‘shirtless’ as well. :) (admittedly it was a lot funnier because it was misspelled as a swear word which could also be a sexual kink thing by a succubus… but people point out spelling errors frequently)
I was making a pun. :) Castice/Chastity/Castigation, you see …
If anyone sees ninjas looking for me, tell them I moved to Siberia.
Doh. Sorry. I will send a ninja hit team out to you as an apology.
Since Dabbler is actually tuned to tantric energy, not “sweaty men” energy, it would have to be actively sexual, not just something that those viewing would be piqued by. Or, you know, another tantric energy user, potentially, assuming that it isn’t turned into generic-magic-energy when consumed and then stored and used in that bland generic whatever form.
Anyway, it COULD be a whole bunch of people in a room with a mountain of sexual tension between them which has not yet actually snapped, but if Dabbler just senses two men wresting, then at least one of the two of them, or possibly one or more of the viewers, strongly feels the situation is sexual (which is not the same as being distracted by it). There mere act of being naked is not necessarily sexual, and actual-trying-to-hurt-someone wrestling is not sexual in and of itself. The people involved… might change that calculus. And observers might disagree. But I have to believe it takes some juices actually a-flowin’ for a succubus to get a reading on their lay-dar (or in this specific circumstance, gay-dar).
Only if this is a passive expression of her tantric sense, if this is the result of a spell she cast and intentionally set up then it’s a different matter.
I think what she’s *really* tuned to is “sweaty men being observed by someone who finds them attractive” unless there’s something about either Suck Hole or Stalwart that we haven’t been told.
That said, based on Suck Hole’s reaction there, it feels like it wouldn’t be too surprising to learn that there’s something about his orientation that he really does not find comfortable.
In the case of Dabbler, who takes preciously little seriously, it would probably be a disturbance in the Farce.
And Sydney of course would sense distrubances in the Schwartz
Can’t weight for this guy to find out that Stalwart’s powers cancel out anything he tries against him.
Before anyone comments,Yes i did that deliberately.
I wonder if Suck Hole will try too hard and black hole himself. I hope so! But his power must include gravity immunity or he would have already spaghettified himself several times. Of course, if he could be immune to gravity, he could use that for flying or floating, and he has displayed nothing like that, so who knows.
I know she’s not there, but I was kind of wondering if Anvil might be the counter to Gravity Gus.
I think that Anvil only absorbs kinetic energy.
Uuuh, pretty sure Dabbler means shiRtless men, not shitless..
One would hope…
Nah, they don’t give any shits. That’s a different fetish altogether
Shitless allows for less messy anal.
Would you rather she like her men shitful?
Two men, one cup?
“Get off, Jerk” basically screams “use this line for dirty puns”.
A master bait for dirty puns.
I’m… going to let these ones go because ‘dirty puns’ are a sub-section of puns that do not fall neatly under ‘awful puns.’
Carry on, you word-based deviants. :)
If I write a comment regarding dirty puns would it then be a sub-missive?
Do BDSM puns count as dirty? Because I’m pretty sure we could whip up a few. Wouldn’t want to leave you suspended.
maybe they do, but they’re really easy to make, I mean, just putting skittles and m&m’s in the same dish can make for a bowlful of S&M
> putting skittles and m&m’s in the same dish
I don’t think that’s compatible with Safe, Sane and Consensual.
why not? there are chocolate Skittles
Definitely not RACK at least. Someone might be allergic.
What about offal puns? I wouldn’t want to contribute to tallow thinking.
It’s phall of possibilities.
Looks like things are going to get hot and heavy.
I’m bound to like this thread.
Might as well submit.
Pander has lifted the gag order.
*mantra to myself* I made an exception, stick to it….. Don’t murder them all….
I don’t know what your thot process was, butt here we are.
*mantra to myself* maybe murder Random Guy a little bit…
While we’re in the middle of Badly Done Sexual Malapropisms, we could still RACK up a few laughs when the opportunity crops up, though there *are* limits. Though Pander looks a bit cross so, you might want to protect yourself from these licks.
… okay I’m done, I made too many puns and double-entendres for my own good. Sunstone!
Might want to fix the text at the bottom. She says “sweaty shitless men groping”. I think you are missing an ‘r’.
And I also mistyped. She said grappling, not groping.
*Dabbler interjects* “Aha! My powers work even beyond the page!”
Yeah, the succubus making people horny beyond the page was truly unexpected xD
Dirty half naked muskler man surpise grappling another beefy man from behind. Don’t read this out of context.
I guess it should also be handwaved away how the heck Stalvart knew where to pop up from the ground on an opponent moving several times faster than a regular human.
Narrative Causality. A force stronger than the Universe.
The speed element can be explained with the element of surprise.
The “how not to be crushed” can be explained with fine control.
The ground popping is more surprising.
My best guess is the ability to control one’s mass in chunks without killing oneself.
Controlling ones own mass in the face of someone fluxing around with intense gravity powers that reduce faster than range squared likely aid one in identifying exactly where those intense gravity powers are originating.
I mean, OK, Suck Hole is certainly using point mass here, and if you treat the sun as a point and calculate the gravity a foot away from that point, it’s going to be a heck of a lot more than it is at two feet. But I think if Suck Hole were actually messing with enough gravity to do basically anything he’s done in this fight, the effects on everyone else would be pronounced. So that feels to me like either he’s cancelling it out somehow – which would also be one of those potentially position identifying maneuvers for someone like Stalwart – or it is just tapering off very fast. Alternatively, he’s not doing gravity at all, but rather some simulated gravity field, which is probably even more easy for Stalwart to pinpoint.
glad to see Stalwart getting some focus
I’d like to think there’s some good work being done to gather all the others up but they’re probably getting away with the help of the portal super. Suck Hole’s likely doing his best to stall and hold them up until that can finish up.
Typo: shitless men -> shirtless
Huh, didn’t know Stalwart could manipulate his own mass. Did I miss it in five re-reads or was it an author’s note / cast page thing?
OK, I can see it up there in the Who’s Who, but was it there originally?
I think it’s cool when there are ten different ways to be a Melee Brute. It makes brute-to-brute combat way more interesting if one manipulates their mass, one is a biomanipulating bodybuilder and a third taps into the morphic resonance field of WWF.
Go back to when he’s fighting Vehemence/Kevin and tries to pin him down.
Remember when they were fighting Kev? Wart mentioned it at least: once against Kev and again when Hiro tried to punt his nuts to the moon
I don’t remember if it was explicitly said in the comic or just the who’s who, but it is implied previously such as here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-276-its-not-cheating-its-boosting/
Ah, they do mention it more explicitly earlier in that fight: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-254-sydneys-auditing-a-class-at-acme-looniversity/
That’s one of my favorite panels, I read that first time and went huh? then it hit me, Anvil… jeez! lol Out of left field but still damn funny!
I thought he was controlling his density, currently it would be at the Manga Protagonist Level.
Restaurant brawl.
He stomped on V’s foot and said he was as heavy as the space shuttle. Then again while fighting Hiro.
I’ll tell you what, Dave, your art is on point here. Some especially great work with everyone’s faces.
Stalwart’s especially. That quiet “by the way, I can still do a thing” confident look is perfect.
He was listening to his radio, so he heard her wink in panel 5.
Starwalt really is looking like bruce willis there.
Yippy kye yay motherfucker
Stalwart also makes we think of Phil Coulson got teleporter merged with a body builder.
Wart’s not a porter though…
No.. I mean like in “The Fly”, two things merged together. Because Phil isn’t that tall or well built.
Oh, thought you meant merging a body builder with a teleporter
Coulda just said merged without mentioning the means :)
Or even, Coulson and a body builder had a child together, and Wart was the result :)
Somehow my brain is insisting that ‘coulson’ and ‘teleporter’ are equivalent to The Doctor and the Tardis, and now I’m fixated on the idea that merging them both with Stalwart would mean he’s bigger on the inside.
Thank you for saying that! I was thinking his face looked just like Phil Coulson’s in that last panel. . .with a different haircut, of course.
Does Stalwart kind remind anyone of Phil Coulson, except super jacked?
Well, thanks for that. Now I can’t unsee it.
Exactly the type of comment I was looking for. I couldn’t help but read him with Agent Coulson’s (Clark Gregg) voice.
I thought Dabbler runs on that “lust aura”, so she’d only get pinged if someone was turned on by the grappling sweaty shirtless men. But maybe you’ll just have to handwave that one a bit harder.
Dabbler herself gets turned on by the grappling sweaty shirtless men. Ergo, the lust aura gets a ping.
I imagine Vehemence’s speech for all the different ways his violence power-up makes him stronger, could be adapted to Dabbler. “You get turned on looking at me, it makes me stronger. I get turned on looking in the mirror, it makes me stronger. You look at your teammate and file away the mental image for later, makes me stronger.” Someone with better writing skills than me should make a more thought out attempt.
Dabbler herself gets turned on by stairs.
her pants/skirt are the ultimate low security area.
I’d breach that.
I do believe that’s the point, or is it socket in this case?
There is someone nearby who can see the grappling sweaty shirtless men…
Syd, you know how Dabbler is, she has a sixth sense for these things.
Knowing Dabbler it’s more likely to be the 69th sense that tingles.
Given how Dabbler likes to mess with Maxima, I’d go with a permanent clairvoyance spell so she can spy on Max whenever she wants. Just for times like this.
Porno sense … tingles!
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-338-bawdville-act/
(last panel)
Umm…. I take issue with dabber’s assertion that they are “sweaty shitless men grappling”.
She doesn’t know if they’re shitless.
Well, good odds that Sucky is currently shitless after a zombie grabbed his leg
You know, I wouldn’t expect that Dabbler would be especially aroused by someone who just soiled themselves, but then again, she’s aroused by a lot of things that don’t arouse me. So, I guess, more power to her.
Succubi have an extremely broad palate
In addition to Stalwart’s ability to control his mass, there’s Sydney’s “feather fall” passive from the flight ball. Among other things, it would mean gravity has a lesser effect on her than it would on others. So she could, in theory, lay a beatdown on Supermassive (aka Suck Hole) as well.
Wouldn’t her passive stop once she’s on the ground? She’d probably have better luck with florb and shorb. Then just smack into him at mach 3.
Called it. Stalwart’s ability must have the secondary that he can withstand the weird effects a large shift in mass would generate.
Me too :)
This sounds more plausible to me than he’s reducing his mass to near zero. Reducing mass to near zero would likely approach a limit of his power and be difficult. He looks like he isn’t even working hard at holding onto Suck Hole. That suggests he’s simply shrugging off the gravity like it doesn’t matter to him.
He’s probably this confident because he was feeling the effects of Suck Hole’s gravity around him but not actually him.
I had been on the “Stalwart is changing his mass to do this” side, but you’ve convinced me. Add one to your “changed somebody’s mind on the internet” counter.
Another character finally getting to fire their Chekhov’s gun. Not to be confused with a Cherenkov gun, which would necessitate Dabbler summoning her space snail.
That… was actually brilliant wordplay, rather than a terrible and evil pun.
Who are you and what have you done with brichins? :)
Everyone has their off days, I’ll try not to let it happen again. ^_^
I think I might grudgingly have to give you a ‘Get out of Ninja Hit Squad Termination One Time’ card (non-transferable).
I’d never transfer that – or use it. That’s going in a frame on my office wall.
Ohhhh, oh I know this one! Stalwart usually *increases* his mass to, for example, become as heavy as a space shuttle. But I suspect he’s now *decreasing* his mass to the point where he doesn’t have enough mass to be affect by gravity a whole lot. Even if Suck Hole is making everything in the area weigh a thousand times what it normally should weigh, Stalwart can simply drop his mass to a thousandth of what it normally is, thus counteracting the effects. This won’t fully negate the gravity powers, and Stalwart may very well be vulnerable to sudden changes before he has a chance to adapt, but the fact that his body can endure having the mass of a space shuttle would suggest to me that these sudden changes won’t do much physical harm to him. Even with his powers off, increasing the gravity a thousandfold on Stalwart is just a Tuesday night sparring session for him. But this surprise grapple may be all Max needs to end this quickly before Suck Hole figures out a way to counter.
Well, we don’t know the details of his powers, so we can’t rule out that he’s setting his mass at zero.
That being said, wouldn’t even a completely massless object still have gravity exert the same force on it? Zero mass just means you’re not exerting gravity on other things, not that gravity doesn’t effect you. Photons are massless and still are affected by gravitational wells exactly the same as everyone else.
I’m just assuming Stalwart and/or Suck Hole don’t have a full understanding of the physics behind their powers, and Stalwart is just lucky that they work in such a way as to make his power relevant against Suck Hole.
Something that turns massless should suddenly travel at the speed of light. See Isaac Asimov’s short story, “The Billiard Ball”.
>”Something that turns massless should suddenly travel at the speed of light.”
Meh, that’s the theory, but I don’t buy it, if only because there’s no particular reason for it to fly off in one given direction than another.
What about flying off in all directions at the same time? Conserves momentum, and if energy is also comserved, a giant explosion is what we would expect to happens if mass suddenly turned into energy.
It’s not it suddenly moving, but everything else moving away from it, and it no longer keeping up. The planet is rotating, and revolving around the sun, and the whole galaxy is spinning, and moving away from the center of the big bang… Everything is moving very, very fast, and it just doesn’t feel like it because gravity holds you in a certain reference frame. Absent gravity, you would leave that frame very quickly, one way or another.
You are right that massless objects would still be affected by gravity. Light is a famous example. Its massless, but it bends to the gravitational forces of our sun and black holes.
There’s a few theories about that, wherein all energy translates to mass in some way (you know, there’s that one famous equation) and so photons would not be massless but of negligible mass for most intents and purposes… most being the operative word, as a disturbance of the Sun’s calibre – or of a black hole’s, for that matter – is out of that category. Of course, when we theorise gravitational pull as spacetime deformation that appears to change the direction of straight lines… there are other possible things.
Gravity exerts the same acceleration on objects of any mass. A lighter Stalwart would be affected by less force, but he would be equally easier to accelerate because he’s lighter. His benefit in this situation would be that he holds on to SM, so he can use his strength to hold himself in place, rather than having to rely on his inertia.
Massless objects are affected by gravity, but not at a level that matters in the case of suckhole.
His gravitc control can’t do serious time dilation and that is literally the level that would be needed to seriously affect stallward.
That’s pretty much exactly what I was thinking: Suck Hole changes gravity, Stalwart adjusts his mass in reverse so that his weight remains the same.
If he has that little mass Goomba can just throw him off. There’s also the issue of the discussion about metal Varia from earlier, he’d be in the opposite situation and have no strength.
Except his grip isn’t determined by his mass. It’s based on muscle strength.
And I’ll wager that isn’t affected by his mass altering ability.
If Supermassive Suckhole throws Stalwart around using his gravity/space bending powers, Stalwart just has to increase his mass again and Suckhole gets dragged along for the ride. Probably.
Suckhole would need to somehow break Stalwart’s grip first, and we’ve not seen that level of fine control from him yet. It could happen though.
You actually nailed it as far as military decorum is considered. Bullets don’t recognize rank, so once they start flying it’s rare to find a competent leader who expects the full rigamarole of customs and courtesies. A private’s still not usually going to get away with ordering a colonel around, but nobody wants to wait for “Colonel Leander, ma’am” Before the relevant “friendly fire” or “DUCK!” callout
I was right I was right I was right right right!
I was right I was right I was right right right!
I was right I was right I was right right right!
I was riiiiiiiight! I was right right right!
(was sung to the theme of the Long Ranger as a callback)
Hmm, I always thought you were a bit left.
> Hmm, I always thought you were a bit left.
Like she said, she *was* right, now she’s left because she left the right’s bubble, right?
‘Not all there’ is still ‘a bit left’.
Relative to what?
Or are you talking about her handedness?
Okay,after a while,everyone should physically toss Pander out of village alongside Brainy Smurf…! ;)
Nah.
1) They like me! They really really like me!
2) They wouldnt have anyone to drive nuts with terrible puns if I was thrown out of the village.
3) I’m nothing like Brainy Smurf. I don’t wear glasses, I’m not blue, I’m a humanette, and I wear a shirt (sorry guys). Clearly completely different. I’m also slightly taller than 3 apples high. I’m at least 7 apples high.
We do really like you, even if you misunderstand our intentions, but I always pictured you more like 5 apples high.
About how Stalwart would be the way that Maxima would win this fight due to his ability to manipulate his mass. :)
Umms, a lot of people mentioned Wart having a part to play and using grapple attacks
So, which one are you claiming personal credit for?
Whichever was the most eloquently stated one.
That remains to be seen, we still don’t know what’s happening.
It could be the case that Stalwart used a different effect than you predicted. (Reducing his mass instead of increasing it, for example, or his power simply blocks SM’s effect on his body.)
It could also be the case that Dave has misunderstood something about physics again, and the whole thing doesn’t make sense. I’m especially interested in inhow Stalwart managed to grab SM who has superspeed.
The answer to that question is probably “Surprise!”
Doesn’t help, because SM is already moving so Stalwart can’t spring a trap on him because he can’t predict where he will be.
He was clearly not moving at superspeed at that moment since he was busy using his gravity powers to throw tocks at Maxima.
He can be seen running in the background in panel 5.
Except that looks like a throwing stance to me, not running. There’s also no visual effect to make it look like he’s moving all that fast in that frame.
As such, I’m thinking the way this worked now is that he has been moving around the battle field rather erratically, but he paused here to focus on aiming his gravel attack. And he just happened to pause on top of where Stalwart was lurking underground. So, hello Suck Hole, meet Mr. I don’t care you suck, I’m a just hold you here.
That works, but it’s worth pointing out that it’s blind luck on Stalwart’s part then, bypassing the most difficult part of fighting Supermassive – actually connecting your attack.
Also Supermassive’s foot was clearly flat on the ground. That doesn’t look like he was running at all.
He was throwing rocks via gravity at Maxima, then Stalwart grabbed his foot from below. That’s not blind luck. It’s looking for an attack of opportunity during a fight and taking it. Strategy.
Coming up in the right place to do that is blind luck.
If Stalwart can change his mass… then once he figures out which way SM guy uses gravity to move, then he sets his mass such that it will attract SM guy for his grapple.
Not blind luck. SM was distracted with fighting Maxima.
No, he had to come up in the place where SM happened to be standing. Since he can’t predict his movements, that’s luck.
That is clearly NOT him running – it’s him throwing.
Having tocks thrown at her is why Maxima’s so ticked at this time.
“It could also be the case that Dave has misunderstood something about physics again”
With normal physics there would need to be two objects with mass for gravitational pull. SM does it with only one object with mass, therefore making the formula for gravitational pull very wonky and it should not work in general, so why would we be so lax on SM’s wonkiness and not on Stalwart’s?
“I’m especially interested in inhow Stalwart managed to grab SM who has superspeed.”
Probably the same way that Maxima, who also has superspeed, got some fear vomit on her shoe.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-47-at-least-her-boots-are-waterproof/
Maxima wasn’t ready for fear vomit.
Supermassive wasn’t ready for underground Stalwarts who can’t be crushed by his gravitational pull.
> SM does it with only one object with mass, therefore making the formula for gravitational pull very wonky
You can just plug in the strength of the gravity field as a constant (we do this in physics all the time) and get Force=mass*gravity where gravity has dimension m/s^2. That works with physics, in the “superpower gets a defined exception, everything else follows from physics and is consistent with it” way.
Conversely, I suspect the handwaving on the next page will go into phyiscal detail about how Stalwart worked around SM’s power, and that may or may not turn out to get the physical details right.
> Maxima wasn’t ready for fear vomit.
Supermassive wasn’t ready for underground Stalwarts who can’t be crushed by his gravitational pull.
Maxima was standing still back then, Supermassive was running around in combat. It’s not even about his reactions, he should simply be moving too fast for Stalwart to realistically intercept him.
“You can just plug in the strength of the gravity field as a constant”
Um… how? Two objects are CENTRAL to the formula. You can’t just make up a constant as one object. That’s not how the formula works.
Gravitational Force = (Gravitational Constant × Mass of first object × Mass of the second object) / (Distance between the center of two bodies)^2.
Or simply:
force(underscore)gravity = G × M × mseparation^2
Don’t blame me:) – blame Isaac Newton. That’s how the formula works, and that’s how gravitational pull works. Two objects pulling at each other and the one with the greater mass pulls more than the one with the smaller mass. If you change one aspect if it via Supermassive being able to manipulate gravity, then you might as well expect that Stalwart can as well, via his being able to manipulate mass of one of the objects.
> Um… how?
I literally told you how. F_g=m*g.
> then you might as well expect that Stalwart can as well
Yes, we already know Stalwart can manipulate mass and/or gravity. What we don’t know yet is whether the specifics of what Dave thought up make sense.
You’re using the equation for acceleration, which is a simplification of a specific type of situation of one mass being orders of magnitude greater than the other mass, whereas Pander refers to the general equation for gravitational potential between 2 masses. There are lots of different equations for the various properties of gravity. Probably none of them are right once you consider the superion component being applied by SM.
> You’re using the equation for acceleration, which is a simplification of a specific type of situation of one mass being orders of magnitude greater than the other mass
It’s for a gravity field with the source abstracted away. This applies to “the source is a super power”, whereas Pander’s equation does not.
I’d expect the superion field to do something, maybe a few things, but then physics will take over again.
To be fair I did not come up with the formula for gravitational pull. Isaac Newton did.
But you’re the one misapplying it.
Newtonian physics is not how it actually works. It’s an abstraction that’s close enough at most of the scales we normally deal with.
I’m pretty sure Newtonian physics is rather close to how it actually works, given there are several laws of classical mechanics and motion based on Newtonian physics.
Unless you’re trying to argue about newtonian mechanics vs quantum mechanics? But i’m not sure what that has to do with this thread.
The thing about super speed is if you are caught or contained in someway. you’re just a normal (if not twitchy) person. Granted there is always to over come the trap, but it takes time that you don’t have in a fight.
Zombie!
Or maybe just a trapdoor spider (honestly, not sure what would be worse… maybe a trapdoor zombie spider?)
I was lucky enough to see a trapdoor spider in action once. It was like Boom! Snatch! Gone! At least with a zombie you might see them coming.
Canadian Trapdoor Alligator? (Randy Milholland invented it, but D&D made it canon in their Monster Manual.
How about the Redneck Trees?
Canada does have a lot of trees….
If you’ve never been to Tennessee,
The link didn’t work so …
https://somethingpositive.net/comic/redneck-trees-for-your-d-d-game/
I’m guessing this is some kind of Zora-Ramsy situation from epithet erased?
I like how Stalwart just gets stuff done, I bow my head to his combat abilities.
About Max not being into the rigorous discipline,maybe once in a great while she’ll get everyone to put on their “Sunday best” just to impress a bunch of “pencil pushers”?!?
Well, they do have an official uniform (we saw it during the Graduation ceremony)
She’s into discipline, but she’s not fanatical about it (Dabbles wants to help her with more discipline-play ;) )
Stay away from that trapdoooooor, ’cause there’s something down there.
BuurrrrK!!
Dave, got one a bit fore you: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B6Q9QBK7/ref=ku_mi_rw_edp_ku
Focuses on a monster trying to slowly work their way up after focusing heavily on the character focusing on improving himself. Also, has zero isekai elements which get… tiresome.
Also: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BNLRCYY4/ref=ku_mi_rw_edp_ku MC wants to be a high end wizard king, getting himself stuck dealing with damned plebeians. Little bit of ‘magic world thousands of years after the tech world fell’ going on, but it’s mostly just there to give the intelligent system a chance for references and puns.
yeah, she’s not regular Army, but she, and they act more like SOG/SF/Recon soldiers they have a chain of command, to be sure, but everyone knows what to do, the only baby ducks that need supervision are the of the recruits, of which Varia is one. but even that’s not totally accurate, because everyone’s power gives them the power of a brigade, and each of them is the absolute master of their ability, there’s no old salt that knows how to do their job better than they do.
So all command is really there for is administration, training, support, command, and control and since the units are small, the individuals are smart, healthy, and motivated. You don’t have near the nightmares you have in regular armed forces.
Coordination? That’s another important command function, and doubly important when your teammates have such a diverse set of capabilities, some of which may even be above your security clearance or you may not have been thought to have need to know about them, except now it’s being used.
The guy has a big SM on his belt buckle. When he goes to prison they should call him Suck Man, not Suck Hole. Just saying…
“I wanted a one on one showdown with Maxima! Quit treating this like professionals, and start respecting the time honored traditions of letting our pride get in the way!”
Maxim 15: Only you can prevent friendly fire.
43. If it’s stupid and it works, it’s still stupid and you’re lucky.
I’m not sure how to reconcile that with maxim 20.
Even stupid people have the desire to win.
Grappling for the win! Now break all of his bones before he plot-contrivances himself out of the situation.
If he’s making himself dense enough to that Goomba’s not pulling him, how is he not sinking into the ground due to his immense weight? Also, based on the density discussion about metal Varia isn’t he stronger than Maxima?
The ground is also pretty dense, and distributes weight outward at roughly area=depth^2. Ran through the calcs on a previous page, but even at the weight of the shuttle he wouldn’t sink more than a couple inches into stable soil.
I think his belt buckle should have a BD in front of the SM but that’s another story…
I expected something like that, Stalwart had a good reason to power dive into the fight, and now we know. And here’s the rub, IF suck hole tries to gravity Stalwart and he hangs on to suck hole, they both get pulled down under the ground. Or if Stalwart uses the extra weight to pin the ass on the ground, Max will have a chance to rag-doll the guy and end the fight. I’d love to see that suck hole to be repeatedly slammed into the ground like what the Hulk did to Loki! I loved the part where Hulk slammed him 3 times, Lifted him up a moment, decided “He’s still twitching” and did it once more, then walks away like it was nothing.
Well, there are military organizations and then there are other military organizations. America, Brits, and most nations have a fairly rigid rank and formality. Then you have the Israeli military. Oh sure, if they’re in a formal setting or on parade it’s all snap to, yessir, nosir, saluting and so on. Outside of that on normal operations and in the field it’s pretty much on a first name basis. Formality of rank is irrelevant, rank is only important as to who is in command and who is subordinate. You’ll see officers, NCOs and privates joking and and smoking all together. But, they are among the most professional and well trained troops in the world.
When EVERYONE is trying to kill you? You quickly get good, or get dead. Israel got GOOD.
Best apartheid child murderers and land stealers money can buy, by far.
And the ugly face of Jew hating antisemitism shows up. Don’t really think we need that here.
There’s only two options, huh? Either Jews are the source of all evil in the world, or they’re all perfect angels who never do anything wrong.
Jews have been bizarrely and unjustly persecuted, but that shouldn’t prevent us from recognizing when they themselves hurt others. And Israel isn’t all Jews. It is possible to criticize Israel without it just being a cover for antisemitism.
No there’s more than two options and many shades of grey. But when I see someone unjustly using loaded terms such apartheid, child murderers and land stealers I call it as I see it.
Apartheid – how’s that compares to the surrounding countries and the Mid East in general. Name any Muslim country in the region where Jews have any legal representation. Israel’s Knesset has representatives of just about all religions including Arab Muslims.
Child murderers – Israel takes great pains to avoid civilian casualties especially women and children but when Muslims set up their rocket launchers next to hospitals and schools unintended bad things are going to happen when counter battery systems return fire. Hamas makes no such distinctions and could care less about civilian casualties.
Land grabbing – Jews have been inhabiting that region for over 4,000 years. Long before Muhammad did his his Islam thing. There has never been a nation or state called “Palestine “ just a vaguely defined area in that region bearing that name. When Jews began moving to what would again become Israel, for the most part they bought land from the locals with hard cash. As far as land captured when through battle, I don’t know of any nation who’s given back so much conquered territory.
Are they perfect, no but what country is? Better behaved than any of their surrounding neighbors and they have no such mission to eradicate any other country unlike Iran.
The more I see of what’s going on there, the more I’m unabashedly sympathetic to the people of Israel (though not necessarily condining of the state’s actions). Because that’s a much simpler proposition than trying to disentangle the ratfuck of shades and issues that’s going on there. Down to people deliberately moving there to be a thorn in the state of Israel’s side. Couldn’t find a spot in any of the four bordering countries? Really now.
Bharda’s motivation is likely a bit different: There’s a goodly few people there that like to misbehave and then complain they’re being oppressed. Indeed, teach their children to do exactly that, too. And there is a contingent of people who have a hard-on for “oppressed” people, that they then too like to shout loudly about. Which is what happened here: Indignant shouting. Politically motivated but not ment as subject of discussion. Just a loud position and an assumption of being right and righteous.
I’m thinking that just because the state of Israel purports to represent Jews, we shouldn’t excuse the genocide it’s committing in Gaza. But maybe that’s just me, maybe responding to rocks with rockets, targeting civilians and hospitals and forcing people with constitutionally less rights to destroy their own homes or make them pay for someone else to destroy them is all normal. I don’t think it is though. I really don’t think it is. I think that making people have one of two passports depending on origin and religion, which will affect where they’re allowed to live, what health care they receive, where they’re allowed to go… is apartheid. “But other places do too” want to be congratulated on sucking for not being the only ones to suck? Yeah there’s anti-Semitism. No, criticising the deadly choices of the increasingly fascistic state of Israel is not automatically anti-Semitic. A lot of it is called “look at the people being slaughtered and stop pretending it doesn’t happen”.
If you want to “stop people looking away” you’re going to have to do more than just accuse. You’re going to have to prove. And then you’ll find that “even human rights lawyers who have been deeply critical of Israeli policy and actions in Gaza and the West Bank say the genocide term doesn’t apply.”
Like the guy who penned the legal opinion that Israel commits the crime of apartheid. So instead of picking a position defensible by (let’s assume for the sake of argument, well-informed) legal opinion that Israel commits one crime against humanity, you instead choose to pile on unfounded and indefensible accusations just to have bigger, badder words to hit the state with.
So you and yours are committing propaganda, specifically the big lie, by taking one opinion, using it as an accusation, piling on a bigger yet unfounded one, and repeating that as a package ad nauseam as if it were fact.
So I think you’re full of it with your accusations. It’s popular in certain circles to do that, but it doesn’t make it true. It makes it inadvisable to take your word for anything.
That was more Rhodesia.
It should be remembered the IDF is consistently REACTIVE to shit that gets shot at them. Iran and a couple other Muslim states have given weapons to Hamas for years.
It’s a clusterfuck of a situation. And always has been.
Rhodes didn’t fucking steal land, he was given the worthless land by the king, then after spending decades making it into the bread basket of Africa, Mugabe and his butt-tickler cronies decided they wanted it back (and then trashed it within a few years)
It’s not always about strength, but playing rock paper scissors lizard Spock. Or knowing enough about your skills and powers that you have more than just rocks. No?
Prime recruits for WWF if you ask me. (I refuse to call them WWE, they were “World Wrestling Federation” for a long time, and were MUCH better known than the World Wildlife Fund.)
I call them WWF, because I so like the idea of the World Wildlife Fund hosting scripted wrestling matches. I mean, honestly, the World Wildlife Fund has always been much better known than the wrestling people. Also, respecting them and especially paying for anything they produce encourages them to continue hurting themselves and others with their toxic show behavior that some people follow as if they were good role models.
It could be both. They should should merge and form joint ownership of the acronym to give the people what they want, and the people want televised cage-fighting pandas fundraising for endangered species.
Ethical considerations aside, how about a Wrestling Wildlife Federation?
Yeah, you can see t-shirts of a panda wielding a chair on another panda
Haha. Yeah, I’ve seen those.
Both with a chair and into a table. Nature is beautiful.
I think “JESUS BOSS YOU NEARLY KILLED ME” is pretty forgivable in most situations when it’s true.
So it’s over in the next page? Okay. Guess this had to end sometime.
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