Grrl Power #1142 – Genius bar none
See? I didn’t forget that Sydney had glasses with a built in translator. >cough<
So, panel 7, I almost added “CYBERNETIC EYE NOISES” as a nonomatopoeia, but honestly, I really wanted to also add “THAT WOULD DRIVE YOU CRAZY IF YOUR EYE MADE NOSIES EVERYTIME IT DID ANYTHING” but the panel was too small.
It’s one of those weird things we accept in movies and TV. Every time there’s a closeup of a cybernetic eye, there’s some camera zoom whine or something, but I don’t think there’d be a way of shielding that noise that’s coming from inside your skull from your ears. Well, unless your ears were also cybernetic and were linked so it could mute the eye noise.
Don’t forget that Dabbler’s lower, uh… left arm… Yeah, lower left arm is cybernetic from just below the elbow. She keeps her teleporter in it, which is really just another way around to a Bag of Holding effect, but of course she also has a variety of multitools built in, because why wouldn’t she? Of course, since the teleporter links to her workshop/armory, it’s like having a really large bag of holding that also has access to a 3D Printer that’s so sophisticated that it might as well be a matter replicator. Come to think of it, it’s a little weird that Dabbler hasn’t exploited that little piece of tech more in the comic. I mean, she can just summon a burrito whenever she wants, and it’s not like succubi get fat. Well, if they live in… when was that time, like the Renaissance? Then a succubus might go rubenesque if she wanted. Really, they can look like whatever the general consensus leans toward since being sexy is their primary method of acquiring tantric energy. Succubi more skilled that Dabbler at glamors can look like specific crushes or do the “heart’s desire” spell. Dabbler can do a very convincing personal glamor, but isn’t great at using it for targeted seduction. I guess I should say, caloric and tantric energy input doesn’t effect a succubus’s body the way it would with most of us meatbags.
The “U” in USB-W stands for “Universal (For Real Tho)” but really means “Galactic” since travelling between galaxies is a big pain in the butt and no ISO has really dealt with cross-Galactic standardizations yet. By the way, just as I was posting this I found out that “ISO” stands for “International Organization for Standardization” and not “International Standardization Organization” and that really bothers me now.
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Because French is sexy, I presume?
I’m guessing Sydney learned French in school, and the glasses don’t kick in because they detect that she can translate it herself.
Similarly, the glasses could subtly work to teach her proper aim long-term, by not activating until Sudney aims close enough to a target. (Taking into account her adrenaline levels so they don’t act up in an emergency.)
Actually, I’d think they’ve had that effect anyway, by training her muscle memory. It’s not like they’re actually diverting the bullets, or repositioning her arm, after all. They’re just acting like a laser sight with automatic range compensation, and keeping track of the ammo.
Honestly, if she tried with the regular glasses, she’d probably be shocked at her improvement by now.
Well, her grouping would probably be tighter, but no telling where that group would be centered.
I did something to myself decades ago; I taught myself to walk straight after spinning myself dizzy. Hey, I was a kid. It was a thing to do.
A consequence of this, or so I think, is my balance is noticeably better when my eyes are open. I’m not falling over with my eyes closed, but I’m not casually standing there on one foot, either.
Everything Brett said plus the certification is about more than just marksmanship. There is familiarity with the gun itself (the bit where she has to learn to assemble the gun), safety and all of the rest of the departmental policy and procedure related to the carry of said weapon. Accuracy is important but there were comic panels used to show her learning about tactical awareness. There could probably be a running gag where Sydney discovers that she has learned something without realizing it.
She will also have learned how to keep the gun steady against the recoil and such (which she was struggling with when she first used her new glasses), since she’ll be able to see the bullet didn’t go where she aimed and therefore correct.
Nah, probably the inverse of Professor Farnsworth’s Universal Translator
Would Sydney stand to mess up her certifications if the aim assist glasses are found out? Or would it be treated as just another super hero gadget like any of Dabbler’s stuff? Sure hiding a useful tool like that from her team might not be great but since any alien tech on earth is going to be practically unique purpose made for it’s user stuff (except for Deus’ empire of course) and any governments trying to take and reverse engineer the glasses tech could stand to seriously screw up relations with the galactic community authorities it could make sense if they just declared that it was part of Sydney’s “power-set”
That really depends on who is doing the certification and how much bureaucracy is involved.
Hiding a tool such as that from an operational team is not a good thing, no. Hiding it from higher ups might very well be. Especially if said higher ups work (legally or not) for people who only want to make money and to hell with everyone and everything else. People like, say, Apple, Samsung or a certain orange haired loudmouth. (You KNOW he would steal them and break them trying to make money. Then he blame someone else when he cannot fix them or make any money. It is what he DOES!)
Deus at least has more sense than THAT.
Archon brass should definitely be made aware of her glasses, they are a major potential security issue. It’s not like Archon has been super strict about conformity so there’s not really much risk of Sydney losing them, she just might be told not to wear them on deployments or in secure areas.
And if she opts to let anyone reverse engineer them, Archon / DoD would easily be the top bidder. Assuming they didn’t just invoke national security to prevent her from sharing with public companies.
Like Twitter and presidents? One photo quick share could mean catastrophic problems.
It’s just like the way the brain works. You can’t unsee information. And we don’t have time technology.
I’m wondering if the glasses aim would work if she’s shooting from the hip, would the point of aim still show? Because that would be a huge benefit in hostage situations, being able to draw and aim without it being obvious. It wouldn’t have been any help in the situation she was in in the comic Dave linked about the glasses’ translation ability because she didn’t have her gun with her, but in normal situations it might have helped.
Panel 3 no choker, panel 4 has choker
Those are missing very, very often.
It’s Dabbler. She can blink out her choker.
… And everything else she’s wearing ;)
Also panel 1
I would have expected the glasses to have wireless connectivity to upload a new language definition.
Space hackers modifying the language files would be to easy a way to mess up important interspecies relations.
That and wireless would likely mean wireless internet as well, You have seen how horny cora and her crew are, do you think giving them access to private, undetectable, hands free porn is a good idea? let alone the alien teenagers?
People need to remember that wireless is not always a good idea
Wireless connectivity of some sort has been demonstrated, since she gets texts from Frix. However any maintenance should be done via a physical connection, for both security and engineering reasons. Firmware integrity is vital and much, much harder to interfere with when physical access is required, and doing everything wirelessly requires a larger power supply which can make the form factor too bulky.
What does the “W” in USB-W stand for though? ‘Wow that’s tiny!’ ?
The W stands for “We *almost* made this wireless.”
I’m not sure needing to get *that* close to someone wouldn’t stop Dabbler hacking it anyway.
20 letters down the alphabet from USB-C.
More like Toslink probably.
And since each progression takes exponentially longer, W is a very advanced protocol indeed.
Does it though?
I was under the impression that A and B came at the same time, with one for hosts and the other for appliances/devices. Your printer has a USB-B port, but plugs into one of your computer’s USB-A ports, using a cable that has a male of either connector, one on each of its two ends.
Off the top of my head, there have been, at least, 4 standards that all use A, and some variation of B. USB 1, 1.1, 2, and 3, with 3 having a modified B port, (a pair of stacked squares, instead of a single stacked square), and more conductors in both the A and B port, (hidden, in a row of 5, behind the first row of 4, on the A port), while 1, 1.1, and 2, all used the same 5 conductor, or 4 conductor+ground, pattern.
From my understanding, USB-C is most different for using the same connector on both sides; host and appliance, and for having appliances that can also be hosts, such as with modern cell phones. It’s also smaller, faster, has more conductors, and is reversible in the standard itself.
So, really, it seems to me that we jumped from A/B, which has been around since at least the early 90’s, to C.
Still, with only 2 datapoints, can we REALLY say that the next total overhaul will be about twenty years after the current one?
I mean, if we can, with such little data, then the W standard could be as far out as, oh, (position(w)-position(c)=29, 29*18=522), 522 years.
Well given the computer technology advances roughly on the basis of Moore’s law. I’d say about 40 years conservatively.
29 levels. 20 years for the first level, 10 years for the second level, five years for the next level etc. You’re halfing the distance with each iteration. Yeah about 9 iterations within a month or so. Also got to figure how long it takes to get to the market wants the technology has been fleshed out
Moore’s law is about increase in numbers(specifically of transistors per chip size), not iterations.
USB describes both connector shapes and data transfer protocol, but remember that USB’s mass adoption in the late 90s was a replacement for dozens (perhaps hundreds) of proprietary shapes/protocols over the previous 40+ years – far more than 2 data points. And there are still 14 different connector types within that specification, with the latest and best (USB-C) not reaching the market until 2017 – 20 years after the original format. And 5 years later, it still isn’t ubiquitous in spite of many national laws banning proprietary cables, e.g. the EU is forcing Apple to give up their highly lucrative lightning connectors.
Now that extremely high transfer speeds and a very convenient form factor are nearly universal, what’s the impetus to upgrade to USB-D when it’s invented in a couple years? And progressively fewer and fewer gains to be had with E, F, G, etc, placing their adoption farther and farther apart. Just like the abandonment of Betamax, VHS, and laser disc was very rapid, but DVDs are still alive and kicking in spite of Blueray and even streaming.
Presumably the letter grade is the design iteration version. The current latest one for Earth is USB-C
Probably it stands for the same thing the USB-A, USB-B and USB-C letters stand for: alphabetic sequence of connector standards.
It’s not really a w; it’s a lower-case Omega, indicating that this is the ultimate USB.
“Wizard” probably. It’s a magic connector that adapts automatically.
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ISO from Greek ἴσος, equal. I think that is a good name for a standards organisation.
Yup, I just got back from checking where it came from – I thought it was the abbreviation from some other country, but their website set me right by pointing out the the International Organisation for Standardisation had decided to go for an international standard designation for their organisation instead of a localised acronym – which makes a lot more sense now that I think about it.
SI -> International System (of units) is another fun awkronym.
SI is French: Systeme International.
ISO isn’t though, if ISO were French it would be OIN.
I think both acronyms are originally from French, in which the words are reversed.
If they had called it IOS then Cisco and Apple would have been all up in their grill.
Yeah I know, 1947 (ISO) as opposed to 2000 (Cisco) and 2010 (Apple) it just amuses me.
And yeah using an acronym would have created language problems. See: OIN in French, Italian, Spanish, etc and what I think is a backwards N then CO in what looks like rooskie for examples.
So just use a tradename, ISO -> equal
It was explained in Futurama as being a dead language.
Like Queen’s English?
It’s a little hard to believe that Dabbler wouldn’t have an adapter for any insertion
I see what you did there…
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What! No Wi-fi interface?
Using a wireless interface to change settings, especially firmware, is a massive security risk.
The glasses HAVE wi-fi, but so does my PC, and I can’t change the firmware settings over wi-fi.
More proof that France does not actually exist. I knew it.
sure it does, but it’s spelled Frantz, and only Coneheads are actually from there
“J’avais déjà bien roulé ma bosse et tabassé ton père Anglais*, quand tu n’était qu’un regard lubrique dans ses yeux” France aux USA si les pays étaient doués de parole
* la guerre de cent ans 1337-1453 – en fait cent seize ans – c’est termine par une victoire Française…
It’s like a teenager saying to a middle-aged man, you’re old… After all French is more spoken ( 270 millions speakers 80 millions native speakers ) than Japanese about ( 128 millions native speakers only)..
Lots of people speak Klingon too but I know that Worf is actually actor Michael Dorn. You can’t fool me. I’m onto you people with your so-called ‘France.’
France. heh. It was always such a tall tale I’m amazed anyone ever believed in it in the first place. :) There are so many mistakes in the lore that they should have had a proofreader look over before publishing the story.
Yeah so we have a fancy way to say eggs on toast. ala French toast.
Btw, since it’s okay to put maple syrup and powdered sugar and French toast, can we also do it on scrambled eggs and fried chicken?
French toast is more than just “Eggs on Toast.” Eggs and Toast is its own thing.
(The fact that so-Called “French Toast/Fries/etc” are actually Belgian is besides the point).
‘French toast’ isn’t eggs on toast, it’s toast soaked in eggs (basically, beat the eggs, then soak the toast in the mixture, then fry the result, then slather tomato sauce all over it :) )
‘Eggs on toast’ is something else, and if that is what you have been told your whole life, then you have been told wrong your whole life
Sacasm
Ok, I could understand that, after all you’re from the land of geographically and historically impaired…
Did you could answer to theses simple questions ?
What has happened in 1066 ?
Middle age is from when to when ?
When Charlemagne was crowned emperor ?
For history
Who where the permanent members of un security council ?
List the countries who own a nuclear aircraft carrier…
The name of the capital of North Korea ?
For geography
If you could answer it without google or another search engine, you’re more adept at history an Geography than an average american but no more than an average European.
Due to the very low bar of american geographical and historical knowledge the fun of your remark Pander is a form of gallows humor.
“Did you could answer to theses simple questions ?”
Sure thing.
“What has happened in 1066 ?”
King Harold died at the Battle of Hastings.
“Middle age is from when to when ?”
For most guy’s they usually say it’s when they turn 40, but with life expectancy rising it’s probably older now.
“When Charlemagne was crowned emperor ?”
800 AD, in Rome.
“Who where the permanent members of un security council ?”
The US, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom. :) Just those four countries. They usually say P5 because it’s P4 and one for good luck. Definitely not five permanent members – don’t believe the hype. :)
“List the countries who own a nuclear aircraft carrier…”
Only the United States. No other countries. Nope. Not a single other country ha a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Not a one. USA! USA! USA!
“The name of the capital of North Korea ?”
Pyongyang
btw I meant guys, not guy’s. Autocorrect strikes again.
Ok it’s a problem.. Yous live in alternate truth…
For 1
Incomplete his adversary was a vassal of king of of France, Guillaume le bâtard
For 2
historicaly middle ages is between 476 and 1492
For 3
Charlemagne exact…
For 4
France is P5 member
For 5
France had one CATOBAR nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle 261.5 m (858 ft) overall , propulsion: 2 × Areva K15 pressurised water reactors (PWR), 150 MWt each
“For 1 – Incomplete his adversary was a vassal of king of of France, Guillaume le bâtard”
Technically you just said what happened in 1066, not tell me everything that happened in 1066. I told you something that did happen in 1066.
“For 2 – historicaly middle ages is between 476 and 1492”
Technically you did not say middle ages, you said middle age.
“For 4 – France is P5 member”
France does not really exist.
“For 5 – France had one CATOBAR nuclear aircraft carrier”
France does not really exist.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
+1 internet for you getting what I was throwing down by saying technically several times. :)
I can answer most of those from memory, in spite of my cultural handicap as an American. But the average European isn’t better at history or geography on a global scale, they just live in an region with a bunch of small countries and well documented histories.
Few Europeans know the history of anything before they colonized it, such as Asia or pre-colonization America (north or south continents), let alone the specifics of the subregions of any given county. Say the US, which is a single county but bigger than the entire EU. Nearly all 50 states (plus a couple of our 5 populated territories) are bigger than any given European country (of which there are 44), and all of them have multiple native peoples with histories going back thousands of years. How many Europeans could even list all 50 states, let alone tell you something meaningful about them individually?
Europeans (and to be fair, every other nationality) are actually terrible at applied geography. I lived next to several national parks and worked with international tourists frequently, and it was depressingly common for them to pull out a map (pre-smartphone era) of the entire US with a few landmarks circled, and start planning impossible day trips because for their entire life experience “a country map” represented a space 3-4 hours across by car.
Several actual plans included starting with Times Square right after breakfast, swinging by Niagara Falls before heading to the Grand Canyon for the afternoon, and watching the sunset on the beach in LA. For non-Americans, in case it’s not clear from the context, that road trip is not remotely possible in a day, and would even be fairly strenuous to fit into a whole week if you insisted on stopping for things like sightseeing and sleep.
Americans of course do have the same spatial problem planning similarly-scaled trips abroad, e.g Lisbon to Moscow is roughly the same drive time (though less distance). But Americans generally have a sense that traversing 8+ countries in the same day isn’t feasible.
I blame the Mercator map projection for perpetuating the massive skew towards Eurocentric worldviews.
Your post makes me think of some of my friends from Italy. :) You see, I have a few friends from outside the US who stay by me when they’re in the States, and it’s been something I’ve needed to explain MORE than once.
A lot of Europeans I’ve met, including several friends of mine, do not seem to comprehend how large the United States is. They have asked me about going to the Statue of Liberty one day, then Disneyland the second day.
I asked them if they meant Disneyworld (which is in Florida, which would still not be a one day drive – I’ve done it in 3 days and ONCE in two where I basically didn’t sleep and traded off driving with a friend). Which would have already been quite a feat. But no. They meant Disneyland. In California. Which they thought would be a semi-long drive. They didn’t understand that it’s almost 2800 miles and not something I could drive in a day, and that most people would fly there from NYC. They also didn’t realize why I don’t fly back to Hawaii regularly to see some of my relatives, or how long a flight it is, since it’s actually a big trip to plan more than once a year or two for me.
(I also have some friends from Sydney Australia understood this concept though, since going from Sydney to Perth was sort a comparable concept, even though NYC to Disneyland is an even further distance)
While it is technically possible to drive NYC to Disneyland in just over a day, it’s not the sort of trip most people have in mind.
Even when they were driving 110 mph, the fastest it took them was 25 hours 39 minutes. :)
I am Canadian and have had similar experiences. My brother’s wife has a lot of relatives in England (her mother was a war bride), and a group of them came to visit. They had trouble handling the fact that the drive from the airport we picked them up at was a 3.5 hour drive to my brother’s house, and most of the drive was through untouched forest, and the fact that we do similar drives routinely. For them a drive that long would take them through several countries when travelling in Europe. Even more entertaining was the first time they saw a bear in the wild.
@daveB That different word order for ISO is due to English to French translation since that is where the organization is based now. Fun fact the ISO3166 Document is the one all country codes are based on, and those codes were used to generate the Internet Top Level Domain Registries.
Those codes are used to generate the national Internet Top Level Domains. Generic Top Level Domains like .com, .edu, .org, .info, etc. are maintained separately.
The French abbreviation for ISO would be OIN(Organisation internationale de normalisation). You might be thinking of SI.
It would mess up her certification, yes. It would probably be enough to allow her to carry and use a gun on the field contingently, but if those glasses broke and she had to use a spare, she wouldn’t have the aim that her teammates are expecting. To be an effective member in any situation, they would require her to keep practicing (probably with and without the special glasses) until she was able to reliably hit her target without the glasses’ aim assist.
There’s always the PPO option, at least for situation where that is an option.
Pretty sure they don’t want Sydney using her own ordinance at the firing range though.
Frankly though, if her glasses break and her orbs aren’t available, that’s already are rare enough situation that one has to wonder how much time should really be invested into training her for it.
I am betting these glasses are far more durable than normal glasses.
Yeah, fairly sure that was what Cora originally did to the glasses, making it a smart-glasses was an added extra
To be fair, the glasses could be lost in another way, like knocked off to somewhere unrecoverable.
Maybe it has GPS tracking like an Apple airtag. :)
If panel 7 almost had “cybernetic eye noises” the eye would need to be blue wouldn’t it @DaveB ? Just started a re-read and Dabbler took out her Blue Cybernetic Eye at the restaurant before the first big brawl.
Shes also in disguise now, so the eye is whatever colour she wants it to be.
Even in disguise, her eyes remain the same right-green left-blue
Should’ve added to the ‘translated from French’-‘a language spoken by French people and some Canadians.’
Also,what would happen if Max and the other higher ups learn about Sydney’s “enhanced” eyewear???
Most, if not all, of them would want one.
At least I would if I was in their position, but that might just be me projecting
Quebecoise isn’t really French. It is French Adjacent.
French Add accent.
Dabbler discovers that the Sans Cullottes visual function is turned off, which by default turnd of French translations.
Problem is that while it will translate French now, all French will be pantsless.
According to ZZ Top, a Sharp Dressed Man doesn’t require pants.
the term sans-culottes is a misleading one culotte in 18th century french could be translated as “silk stockings”
this type of garnement was associated with nobility …
A sans-culotte wear a pair of trousers if they where male…
And about noble an insult in french:
“Tenez, Monsieur, vous n’êtes que de la merde dans un bas de soie.” Napoleon to Talleyrand…
UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time in English and Temps Universel Coordonné in French. You might notice that neither of those form the acronym “UTC”.
*claps and laughs* Good job Kenya!!! Amazing zinger against Syd. I am glad she is rubbing off on you.
Succubi more skilled that Dabbler at glamors can look like specific crushes or do the “heart’s desire” spell. Dabbler can do a very convincing personal glamor, but isn’t great at using it for targeted seduction.
But Dabbler has done that before.
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It’s from reacting to the amaze-balls. The orbs. It’s because the nth are just French
Don’t you hate it how every time you swallow, you have to listen to it? Or chewing! Or any mouth sounds, basically. And sometimes, breathing. You sometimes breathe loudly through your nose, and it JuSt DriVeS YoU CRaZy!1!!
Nah. If the eye made noises, you’d learn to tune them out pretty quickly. No cybernetic filtering required. It’d only become an issue when those sounds CHANGED, which would probably indicate it’s time to take the eyeball to the shop.
Yup, but those times when you do become aware: like right now, you feel your tongue just sitting there in your mouth, a big squishy slab of wet meat! It’s practically choking you! Yikes! Fortunately, the awareness subsides into the usual background fairly quickly after some D*ck on the internet stops calling attention to it.
Your eyes do make noise! It’s just really quiet and you tune it out.
Your blood pumping through your veins also makes a noise, but it’s also really quiet and you tune it out.
My ears have been ringing since 2001 when the truck killed me (don’t ask, long story) and I hear it even in my dreams, and it interferes with my actual hearing. So yes bionoises can be heard and they do sometimes cause problems.
Well, what sydney hears in the second panel translates to “why you want good evening cheese before many [medieval explosive siege device, literally meaning “loud noise” and hailing from an old word meaning “fart”]”, which most probably is not what is actually being said.
I think translator may simply be malfunctioning and provide french words Sidney actually has heard or read before (as for the petard, remember she is an RPG nerd), instead of translating anything.
I read it as “Why do you want evening cheese before a lot of farting?”.
…. it’s surprising how those random French words almost make a coherent sentence.
Didn’t we see Dabbler do “Heart’s desire” twice now? The first time early on when she was show-casing her talents to Sydney and turned into a Star Trek Orion after “eeny meeny miney moe”ing to see who’s secret lust she would turn into. And the second time when interrogating the country bumpkin, and she turned into a buxom country gal with a lisp (and it was specifically called out that she had a lisp because that was something the guy was into for some reason)?
Three or four times. I strongly suspect her current form is one for one of the police officers. Whether it’s for the Captain or the “Lioness”, I’m less clear on.
And then, you should probably count the blonde and the Orion slave girl as two separate, although close in time, uses of the ability.
Yeah, wasn’t the blonde for Sydney?
Being as tall as Anvil is, with such long legs, she has to be seated either by a main door, or maybe an over-wing emergency exit. Otherwise her knees are going to be obscuring the message on her t-shirt.
Given her income as a high-level Archon officer, she probably just bought the seat in front of her as well and had it removed.
Making her certify without her alien tech glasses only makes sense if they think she’ll lose them in the field, but if she loses them in the field, she would also have lost regular glasses in the field, and you really don’t wany Sydney handling a gun if she doesn’t have her glasses on.
Yeah, that is almost as bad as her forgetting her meds.
Almost…
“Wy woult you want good evening cheese before lots firework”
I think that Apple would have gifted Kenya with a pair of wireless AirPods Pro. That white cable is so 2014.
… Because this is still set in 2011 (or is it still 2010)?
Coulda gone with “Six Million Dollar vision effect” for panel 7
Good ole Steve Austin (no, not the Texas Rattlesnake… millennials! )
Just me, or does panels 9 and 10 remind anyone of the Sarlac? or maybe a Graboid?
well THANKS DAVID. my head hurts that they are even allowed to use ISO when its IOS… ffs.. it was there first!… so many iso’s that i am aware of from MSDS to product specifications…. god damnit david.
Ahah, French is so full of irregulars verbs and grammatical exceptions even alientech can’t keep up with it! Glad we’re not the only ones – and I know for a fact French people themselves occasionally have a hard time with their own language! :D
Try English sometime
Just to point out: grammar is difficult in french, and so is conjugation (plus the whole silent letters deals). But tenses uses and pronunciation are a lot easier than English (“Should I use present perfect, present perfect continous, past simple or past continous when writing a past sentence?” or “Is it present continous or present simple?”; “cough, tough, bough, through and though” “Bear should be pronounced like beer but is pronounced like bare”. Also homonyms… French also has homonyms but it’s often so different in meaning that it’s difficult to mix them; that’s no the case in english, I mean, “two” and “to” are words used everywhere)
That’s nothing, try Navajo. As I understand it, there’s basically no such thing as a regular verb. Languages tend to get more complex over time if they’re only spoken by a relatively small group who almost all learn the language as children.
Question: Did you mean to use random french word or did you google translate? Because as a french speaker:
1) “Voulet” doesn’t exist. It’s “Voulez”
2) “Petard” is written “Pétard”
3)”Pourquoi voulez vous bonsoir fromage avant beaucoup petard” doesn’t mean anything (I mean, “bonsoir” means “Good evening”). I can agree that african french is a bit different from european french (like the differences between canadian french and european french), but here, it’s just random word. If you give me the english sentence, I can give you the translated french sentence
I think the whole point is to show Sydney’s glasses can’t translate French, so I believe the nonsense is deliberate.
Is this a Freudian slip? “IF YOUR EYE MADE NOSIES”
I bet Dabbler’s eyes are among the nosiest in the universe. :-)
Also I love how a device with Babel Fish levels of translation skills fails to translate French. There was a similar joke in Not a Villain where their software translated languages from all over the world, but failed to translate the German dialect used in Switzerland. XD I just have a soft spot for these kinds of over-the-top jokes.
Small art whoopsie.
Dab’s Blue-eye/Green-eye switches sides from the first panel (Green Left) to Green-Right on every succeeding panel.
No, first panel is wrong (her cyber-left eye is blue), but panel 7 is wrong
My acktually people’s! I am so glad I’m not crazy ehehehe! I may be slightly crazy..
No, because when Professor Farnsworth created a universal translator, it only translated every other language into an incomprehensible dead language.
Hello!
“Bonjour!”
CRAZY GIBBERISH!
I always assumed the “cybereye camera whirr” effect was us hearing what the character with the eye heard, because the eye is in contact with their skull, which transmits the noise better. Imagine the difference between what it sounds like when you eat potato chips compared to when somebody sitting next to you does. Yes, you can hear it, but it doesn’t overwhelm your ears like it does when it’s coming through your bones.
So, you might be able to hear somebody else’s cybereye if you were close enough to kiss each other, but otherwise it’s effectively silent.
So technically ISO doesn’t stand for anything. It’s not an acronym. It’s a short form name decided on by the International Organization for Standardization themselves. They do this because if they used acronyms they’d have different acronyms in different languages and that’s not standardized at all. There’s actually a little blurb about it on their “about us” page (https://www.iso.org/about-us.html) about halfway down on the right side of the page.
ISO isn’t an acronym at all. It’s from the Greek, isos. Hope that helps.
with how she trained with glasses, she already should have stance and reflexes sufficient for firing more or less ok even if she removes the glasses. Which mean she could try to train without glasses, in order to be sertificable without them and no longer having to hide (and also covering possible weakness)
Your eyes absolutely do make noises every time they do anything! It’s just very quiet and you often can’t hear it about the sound of your blood.
And, you know, the sound of everything else going on around you. You need a pretty quiet room to hear your blood.
or putting a seashell to your ear. That’s what you’re hearing when you do.
the noise is ‘squik’.(but it’s in italics). you’re welcome
A few years back, our local museum set up a ‘quiet room’ of sound baffles The sound of your blood pumping is like hearing the seashore off in the distance. Coming out of the room is like getting hit with a wall of sound, but it’s just the same background sounds you normally tune out.