Grrl Power #1156 – Mundanity insanity
I spent about 30 second deciding what kind of car Max has. It had to be something with a fair bit of horsepower, but nothing too froo-froo, so it kind of locked her into muscle cars, and the Shelby GT-500 seemed like a pretty good fit. Considering how often she actually drives it (i.e., from the dealer’s lot to the Archon parking garage, and probably less than 100 miles on the odometer since) she wouldn’t spend a hellacious amount on a car. I think the 2010 she’s got is in the $90-100K range. She actually lets the Arc-SPARQ gear heads take it out every so often because otherwise the battery would die and the gas would break down into whatever gas breaks down into when it goes bad. That’s one thing post-apocalypse movies never address. All the gasoline left sitting in cars would be useless in a few months. Apparently it can last longer with some additives, but best case you might get a few years out of specially treated and contained gas. Yes, diesel lasts longer, but my point is that in Fallout, when it’s 20 or 40 or 100 years after you went into the shelter/cryosleep, there wouldn’t be anything running on gas, including flamethrowers. High-octane vodka, sure, but not gas. And let’s not forget most canned food only lasts a few years at best as well, so picking up a 100 year old can of beans that’s somehow not corroded through? Hell, I don’t even think the botulism in there would still be alive.
So anyway, yeah, Max owns a purple Shelby GT500 that she’s driven about 4 times.
The new vote incentive is coming along. Unfortunately I did buy Zelda, TotK, and while I partially got it because I’ve had a Switch since launch, I only have like 6-8 games for it. (If you must know, Zelda BotW, Metroid Dread, some game that’s like part Dig-Dug and part Terraria whose name I don’t recall, Cadence of Hyrule, and the rest are Jackbox games.) My point is that TotK is fun and has been taking up my evenings, but I’ll get the incentive done in time for the Monday comic.
The April vote incentive is up! As promised, it’s a Sydney pinup. Not airplane bathroom selfies, but hopefully her cuteness will satisfy.
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Nice, I didn’t know Max was a member of the 3rd Street Saints. :D
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Nice taste is cars,there, lL.C.
I’ve never heard of someone saying interminable. I usually hear the word “insufferable” instead.
Max has an expansive vocabulary, and the meaning of interminable is entirely distinct from insufferable.
Did you inadvertently make Max in the seventh panel look like a female version of Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse?
If he did thats not a bad thing. It’s metal.
ooooh, buxom woman in a Shelby Cobra? Reminds me of Gunsmith Cats.
Hahahah, welcome to the eternal torture that the rest of us face, Max. At least it wasn’t public transportation.
Max needs to re-learn the joy of quiet solitude and the peace that mundanity can bring, after a lifetime of extraordinary extra.
The salvaged food in Fallout games DOES sort of poison you, but it’s expressed as radiation poisoning.
Different games handled that different ways; in Fallout 4, you have the easy option to just simply not eat the food, and heal with medical items and fresh food you’ve hunted/grown yourself. Some versions like Fallout 76 introduced a “hunger” stat, so you HAVE to eat, toxic food or not, and use radiation curing items until you can establish a regular supply of non-toxic food.
Science fiction aside, eating of contaminated food was actually quite common in the USA before the establishment of the FDA. That was more of a fight than it ever should have been, with congressmen arguing that producers had a “right” to sell contaminated food, and consumers a “right” to eat it. Politics is the process of awful people doing awful things for awful reasons.
I’ve always favored saying politics is the greatest and most honorable adventure there is philosophy. It’s just a question how many people are despicable villains playing power games for the sake of power instead of true statesman.
Does someone need to remind Max that cars have Stereos? You’re supposed to put on some nice music and just enjoy the drive.
Here’s an NPR article that mentions some researchers testing some decades-old canned food and discovering that it was likely perfectly safe to eat. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/12/26/167819082/dont-fear-that-expired-food?t=1569502728165
I’m a little surprised Max doesn’t have a supercar (), considering supercars are about giving you just enough power to take you to the limits of your skill . . . and then actively try to murder you.
Supercars are supremely noticeable and impractical when doing anything but hot-rodding, making them completely useless for daily life. Especially for one of the world’s most recognizable celebrities, who didn’t have the choker disguise option when she bought the car.
This whole look reminds me of the girl from the Rally’s/Checkers commercial. And Rally Vincent from the Gunsmith Cats anime!
Her look is quite befitting the car she is driving!
To be fair, in the Fallout world they probably bombard their packaged food with gamma radiation to sterilize it after sealing it up at the factory. That’s how scalpels and such are sterilized after being sealed in their foil wrappers and it would work just fine on food. Gamma rays would go right through the cans since it takes about an inch of solid steel to stop them.
She could totally wrap her field around that car and fly it. I can’t imagine the temptation.
This. This right here is why I’d want super speed or teleportation if I could pick my superpower. If just takes so long to go anywhere with traffic and streetlights etc, I feel like half my day is wasted travelling.