Grrl Power #1282 – The speedening
Maxima allows an absolutely non-military amount of casual interaction on her team. In fact most people who start reading the comic even a few hundred pages back might not realize that Arc-SWAT is a military outfit at all. Or know what Arc-SWAT is, come to think of it. That said, only Anvil and Peggy could probably get away with saying “Well, la-dee-da.” to her, and that’s in private. The minimal discipline she maintains includes discouraging razzign up the chain of command.
Dabbler’s stream must be extremely wide-angle. I don’t think women can really see their own boobs if they’re looking straight ahead. I mean, maybe if they’re wearing something push-uppy and have at least a medium amount to push up, and even then, they’re probably just at the periphery.
Also, using someone’s eye as a camera would be obnoxious. People blink, their eyes dart around, even more than they realize. If you scan your eyes from side to side, taking in a room, your eyes don’t sweep in a continuous arc, they stick and move as you kind of take little details in then move on. Sure, your eyes are capable of a graceful sweep if you’re tracking something, like waving your finger in front of your face or watching a basketball arc into a basket, but without something to track, they jerk from spot to spot and your brain kind of smooths things out, or at least makes you think they’re moving smoothly.
The obvious solution is that Dabbler’s alien space-tech eye has some crazy software to interpolate out the blinks and smooth out jerky motion – and this assumes that a succubus’s eyes and visual cortex work like one of those evolved Earth primates. Even if succubus eyes sweep a room instead of doing the eyeball version of the robot dance, that doesn’t account for Dabbler’s boobs being in frame. The easy fix for that is that her cybernetic eye is set to a much wider FOV than her organic one, but the software she has running zooms in and crops to what she would normally see, and that’s what gets transmitted to her brain, thus preventing wonky eye headache issues. But the eye is still capturing the wider angle, and the advanced software can fake up a frame that 1) keep the focus on the fight, even when Dabbler looks 45 degrees off to the side to make eye-contact with Sydney, 2) eliminates all blinks and general eye jerkiness, 3) makes it look like Dabbler’s boobs are pushed up to her chin without making the floor look closer or any other weirdness like she’s leaning back to get her body-line in the frame.
The other advantage of running the camera at a wider than organic FOV but trimming it, is that the software can warn her of stuff like loose floor tiles and tripwires while she’s spelunking ancient ruins and also guys with mirrors on their shoes. Even if her brain doesn’t see that stuff, she gets a “there’s something going on down there, take a look at your feet” vibe. It also works side to side and above her too, though one side is mostly blocked by the bridge of her nose, and up is usually partially obscured by her hair, though as high-res as the camera is and with all the motion analysis and interpolation the software can do, she usually has some warning if a fly-ball is careening toward her head or a harpy is about to poop on her.
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I have a query, How does dabblers power work on asexuals. Can she make the perenially unarousable horny?
I’d imagine that her power acts like a multiplier to sex drive. For somebody with absolutely zero sex drive, it would have no effect, since 0 x anything = 0. For somebody with a very low but still technically present sex drive, it would have an effect, but it would likely be much easier for them to ignore than for somebody with an average sex drive.
Another question is, how would Dabbler react to asexuals, and how would she process that they might consider her to be insulting or plain annoying.
Hasn’t there been a throwaway joke about Dabbler finding ace folks being near her a debuff to her?
Not in the comic, I don’t think.
Maybe someone made a joke like that in the comments?
Her milkshake brings all the beings to the yard regardless of gender, species, or sexual orientation.
Considering she’s from outer space, she probably doesn’t even *think* about it. There’s probably a ton of different aliens and beings with either no sex drive or a sex drive that’s completely foreign to us Earthlings. Remember when the lizard guy was ordering that new body? We saw a whole plethora of sex symbols and I wouldn’t be shocked if that was, like, ‘page 1 of 20’ or something. On Earth alone we have creatures that reproduce a-sexually via division, species where the vast majority of the species simply don’t *have* a sex drive despite technically being male/female, species where sex is irrelevant outside of one time in the year/life, species where the male just kinda fuses with the female and effectively ceases to exist and the female just uses the sperm whenever she wants to get pregnant, and species where the girls get knocked up by their brothers while still in the womb before the brother just dies and the sister gets born pregnant. I can only imagine how many species Dabbler’s met where her lust aura simply would not have any relevant effect or an effect in a way understandable to us. Especially since we also know other planes of reality exist in this universe and her aura may not even function on said planes the same way. So… It might annoy her, but she’s probably so used to it, it doesn’t even register without active thought.
Thank you for your eloquent and well-considered response.
It can’t be a multiplier; note Math and Jabberwocky, probably the horniest couple on base, didn’t even realize anything was amiss after Parfait’s “accident.”
Also note that it’s been demonstrated to work on straight women (when Dabbler showed up to inspect the orbs and was pushing her lust aura, both Sydney and Arianna had to repeat a “Not a lesbian” mantra in their heads to avoid distraction. They’re also literally hypnotic, to which Sydney – a straight woman – has fallen prey multiple times. So I’d say it would work on asexuals. The lust aura probably wouldn’t extend through video (although who knows with spacemagic), but the hypnosis might.
I had forgotten about their hypnotic nature. Must really skyrocket stream donations.
this must work wonders against sex repulsed assexuals: instead of getting horny, the target get increasingly sick. Area debuff if you ask me.
Alternatively, it could make asexuals sexual.
People who are asexual often still do have a physical libido. They don’t enjoy it in the way other people do, or for some of them not even at all, but they do have a libido.
I myself do get aroused and have fantasies but would never want to actually do anything sexual with anyone irl.
… so its similar to the old joke about how during puberty males have no dick control at all
Well after puberty too … those things have a mind of their own (insert “Higher Beings gave men two head, but only enough blood to irigate one at once”).
Seriously, I’m 50, male, heterosexual, heavily medicated, on antidepressants, my libido is shot down to way below average, I’m not intrested in anything romantic or one-night stand (got hurt too many times, both physical [yes, broken cavernous core] and emotionnaly), and I *STILL* get random boners for no reason whatsoever, even while watching some horrendous things like WW2 documentaries.
I’ve been told by an urologist that that is an non-controllable reflex of the human male body, it randomly checks if the plumbing is still in working order.
Of course, it’s *always* at the most inconvenient time !
It’s not always at inconvenient time. It’s just that if it’s at convenient time you won’t notice.
You just described me to the letter. :P
Same: still get aroused (and need a way to unarouse) but have zero interest in being with anyone
You have asexuals who think sex is pretty neat and interesting as a concept, asexuals who are squicked out by it, and asexuals who are pretty disinterested entirely.
As an asexual, I think she’s hot. Doesn’t mean I want to boink her. We can still appreciate the aesthetics.
As an asexual then do you think dabblers lust aura works like a siren song then. Adjusting itself and calling to your desire, if not sexual desire, then to pasta?
Legit curious?
Curious as well (largely to find out what the desire would be… )
Pasta and garlic bread? Seriously though, I have no idea. I don’t have any overdriving desires, unless you count curiosity. And Dabs has a *lot* of interesting stuff. (I’m an engineer and a nerd, gimme new tech.)
That also begs the question could you potentially sue for her keep trying to get an arousal from you. Like I know that it was already discussed but I feel like trying to make someone who is asexual(like me) would piss me off more than get me to go stupid for her. Like if it was an actual relationship with someone like(forgot her name the one that turns into a leopard)and keep getting hit by that lust force. I don’t think I could handle being near her
I found WoG in some very old comment:
Different people have varying degrees of peripheral vision. Prior to my cataract surgery, I was extremely near sighted, and could clearly see my own lips moving when I talked, for instance. (I can still see them out of the edge of my eye looking straight forward, they’re just blurry now.)
If I’d been Dabbler, I absolutely could have seen my own cleavage.
With her ocular implant and its various functions (not to mention her usual wardrobe choices), I’m sure Dabbler can get a good view of her cleavage whenever she wants.
I’m a bit nearsighted and if I’m looking straight ahead, I can see my facial hair in the bottom edge of my peripheral vision. I tend to tune it out as much as I do my nose. Interestingly, if I try to look down at it, that alters the distance my pupils stick out and I can’t see it as much.
I just checked for myself, and I can see motion in to about 4 inches from my sternum (looking straight ahead).
Time to have a chat with Dabbler about streaming on a military base and how she may be providing information and/or access to the system to sufficiently intelligent and/or powerful enemies…
This chat may involve a rolled-up newspaper.
That or a brick.
She might enjoy that a bit too much.
Hopefully she cleared it first. The fact Maxima is just giving her side-eye rather than telling her to shut it down immediately implies she did (the side-eye is probably for Dabbler using her “assets” to boost the stream). A good reason to do so is that Maxima is aware Cora’s Stud’s are known to be high-tier combatants and is also confident in Math’s abilities, so she sees this as a show of strength on Earth’s part. And we know she is fond of shows of strength (flashback to what she did during their power demonstration).
That is because shows of strength are rather effective at dissuading the majority of idiots not to even try. So, more often than not, when someone does try something, it’s a legitimate threat and not just another annoyance wannabe. This would also reduce the occurrence rate of incidents.
Agreed. Maxima doesn’t so much want to gloat about her power as she wants to prevent future incidents. She took Vehemence’s haymaker right to the face in hopes of convincing him to stand down, for example. She’s very dedicated to Archon being a peacekeeping force rather than a more belligerent one, which is also why she’s big on leaving perps alive if possible. Honestly, in many ways, she’s kinda the perfect leader for a force like this.
Being able to juggle tanks also a plus.
Dabbler is almost certainly intelligent enough to filter out anything that could be a problem, and has enough ‘in the moment smarts’ to not forget to do that, generally speaking. Also Archon HQ isn’t a secret location where she could accidentally give away their position, everyone knows where it is.
I guess a rolled-up brick isn’t out of the range of possibility, in this crowd…
I mean, the wide FOV, the predictive tracking, the incredible hypertech, all of that is fine-well-and-good, but I feel like it would be a lot easier to just have a photorealistic virtual model of her cleavage that just moves in real time with her body superimposed at the bottom of the stream
That’s unlocked for those who contribute 100+ qatloos to Dabbler’s channel.
Agree. Way easier and you wouldn’t get all the distortion of messing with the FOV.
After all this talk of “sweaty”, and seeing actual light reflexes on them, why not just zoom into the REFLECTIONS of the fight scene on her main attractions? :-P
I swear people like dabler existed in the real world guys and maybe some girls would be lining up trying to see if she would be willing to marry them. Heck some guys will even sign up just to be a one night stand on the rotating basis if what I hear about succubi is correct
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-977-boob-tube/
Of course a succubus can pose like if she was drawn by Liefeld.
I wonder how this comic would look if it was drawn by Liefeld in 1992?
Well there are no feet so…
Pouches! Pouches everywhere!
Halo already have some pouches right? So that’s a good start.
Bendy guns galore. Look it up. I don’t think Liefield could draw straight lines if his career depended on it.
I just made a self-test where I held my hand in front of my chest while looking straight ahead and it doesn’t have to be far away from my chest to enter my peripheral vision, so I assume that any chest size of at least C is gonna be visible as well. Am I the exception? Because if not then there’s really no need to come up with an explanation as to why Dabbler’s breasts are visible in her stream.
Also: Good to see that there’s at least one malien who doesn’t get knocked out immediately. I guess the Inverse Ninja rule applies to this fight, but on both sides.
Apropos Ninjas: I wonder if the Byakugan forces Neji and Hinata to always have their genitals in their peripheral vision.
I repeated your experiment with similar results – while sitting straight up and looking straight forward, my hand becomes visible in my lower peripheral vision (is it still called peripheral when it’s up/down rather than left/right?) roughly 6 inches from my sternum. I’m not sure if that corresponds to C-cup or D-cup, but I’m confident Dabbler’s cleavage would be at least somewhat visible. Leaning back a bit, I can see my own chest (barely), but Dabbler looks to be sitting straight up. That said, back when we were discussing peripheral vision in my college biology class, I had the widest arc of vision of anyone in the class; I don’t know if that translates to up/down peripheral vision (we only checked left/right), but I may be an exception in this case. But nobody said Dabbler can’t be a similar exception!
Neji’s Pride and Joy would probably be visible to him anytime he’s naked, but I’m pretty certain Hinata’s BMM’s would get in the way of her own vision, at least post-timeskip. I think it has some ability to see through barriers, but even then I think it can only see chakra or similar, so they wouldn’t see details when clothed (and Hinata wouldn’t be able to even when naked, unless she shifted her boobs out of the way). Of course I think the Byakugan is largely an active skill rather than purely passive (I think it gives a passive buff to situational awareness, but I don’t think that gets the level of detail of active use, and that’s what you’d need to see your junk rather than just know it’s exposed).
You do realize that a busy which is 6 inches from your sternum is an absolute huge bust (which makes sense for a succubus). Ask your wife/girl friend if you can measure 6 inches out from her sternum to visualize it.
Depending on the band size, you’d probably be looking at as high as an I or J cup to have a full 6 inch deep cleavage.
C-cups are nowhere near that size.
Yes, 6 inches are roughly 15cm and I don’t need this much distance to see my hand. I repeated the experiment with measuring tape, and in my case the minimum distance I need in order to see my hand is more like 6cm instead, and when I look slightly down at my screen it gets close to 0.
I don’t have heaps of breastage, but if I’m looking slightly downwards (such as, at my laptop screen) I can see my hand resting on my chest in my peripheral vision, even if just barely. If she’s focusing on their centres to show their whole bodies, and she would, that’s a steeper downwards angle.
Dabbler’s eye is also a camera, so that sorts out the “peripheral vision” problem, since presumably she wouldn’t let her vision be stuck at a scrub “human eye with everything useful in the macula” level if she could help it. Add in her… [GLaDOS]generous…ness[/GLaDOS], and some pushup, and you could certainly see shapes on her livestream. I don’t know about “down her cleavage,” though, that might be beyond th- wait, no, that weird pose at the end, that would maybe work.
Thanks for participating in this experiment, as it is always good to get a woman’s perspective when looking at your own chest is concerned. :-)
I agree that seeing the cleavage is harder to do (as in “you need to either look down a bit or have a wide-angle camera and interpolation shenanigans”) than seeing the outermost parts.
I’ve got a C-cups, and when arching my back a little and looking straight ahead, there’s definitely movement at the bottom of my field of vision while breathing deeply. With Dabbler having boobs that are at least 2-3 times the size of mine, a much more flexible back, and – as you say – probably looking down a little, she’d definitely be able to see her cleavage.
> Apropos Ninjas: I wonder if the Byakugan forces Neji and Hinata to always have their genitals in their peripheral vision.
The Byakugan sees through objects and is full 359 degree vision where you see everything in equal fidelity. It forces Neji and Hinata to always have their genitals and everyone else’s genitals in the center of their vision.
C cup is probably too small if looking straight ahead (unless you have really wide peripheral vision)
C-cup without a band size really doesn’t mean anything, for example: 26Cs and 36Cs are drastically different.
Also, many celebrities claim to have D or DD cup because of some unspoken rule, when that’s not really what size they are (or they are wearing a poorly fitting bra).
P.S. this statement is based on the USA clothing measurement system.
Fistbump.
Are we assuming that the streaming is of what Dabbler sees with her own eyes? When I saw the mention of “streaming” I looked for a camera, and hit on the little heart shaped dingus where her straps cross at her throat.
She’s confirmed to have a cybernetic eye and I think we’ve seen the results before
Correct: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-977-boob-tube/
In that one the action is below her so she’s looking downward, but the effect is similar.
We can only hope she’s received permission from Max to publicly broadcast military training exercises such as the linked and current “friendly” fights.
C cup is probably too small if looking straight ahead (unless you have really wide peripheral vision)
C-cup without a band size really doesn’t mean anything, for example: 26Cs and 36Cs are drastically different.
Also, many celebrities claim to have D or DD cup because of some unspoken rule, when that’s not really what size they are (or they are wearing a poorly fitting bra).
P.S. this statement is based on the USA clothing measurement system.
Dang it, this comment was supposed to be replying to a different one
And she’s pointing to her eye when she mentions streaming, so I think it is safe to assume she’s using her eye as the camera.
As noted, it’s been stated before that her cybernetic eye is capable of recording (one of the reasons Maxima refuses to shower with her around), and we’ve seen the view from it during Maxima’s spar with Vehemence. Additionally, note that she’s pointing at her cybernetic eye (it’s the blue one) here as she states she’s streaming the fight.
Math looks like he’s enjoying himself, unfortunately for Sylv that means as fast as he is I’m not sure he has compensated for our humans tactical thinking.
I really like how happy Math look right now ^_^
Finally, a fight he can enjoy :)
He had a similar reaction when he first fought Jabberwokky at the restaurant rumble.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-213-a-manxome-foe/
If you’re going to have an artificial eye (as opposed to getting an cloned replacement or something – I assume space tech can do that, especially for succubi), you might as well get the top of the line model with all the trimmings.
I should think that one of the options would be to have different models of “eyelid”. On the one hand you want to capture *all* of the action, and blinking with an actually solid lid would prevent that. On the other hand, if you stop blinking with one eye while filming, that starts to look unnatural. I should think a succubus wouldn’t want that, since they started out as leaning towards infiltration.
So I guess the eyelid looks solid from the outside and transparent from the inside or something like that. And there’s likely something (presumably automatic) to make it opaque for flash protection.
The signal to her brain likely does a software interpolation so it feels like it’s actually blinking. Or maybe she’s just gotten used to it.
There’s lots of things you can do with software.
Not sure if it’s possible to get the raw data stream. It would have a lot of the problems you mentioned. A human’s so-called “clear” vision consists of a spot about the size of your thumb at arm’s length that the eye waves around, plus an enormous amount of processing to fool our brains into thinking it’s all clear all the time. The rest of the retina is really good at detecting movement (i.e. change) and directing that little clear spot onto it for a better look.
But that blind spot is an artifact of the physical construction of our eye, and it’s just a happenstance of genetic history.
If our rods and cones had evolved with the nerves coming out of the other end, there wouldn’t be a blind spot. So there is no reason for an artificial eye to duplicate that flaw.
Octopi evolved from a different lineage that flipped their sensor cells the other way.
Not the blind spot, that’s something else.
I’m talking about the small spot you have which you use to read and have actually clear vision with. When you’re looking directly at something, that’s the spot.
As opposed to fairly fuzzy vision which is however really good at detecting movement.
Try reading letters that you aren’t looking directly at. It’s hard, as it’s tempting to just look at them, but you will see just how fuzzy they get when they’re even a little off center.
My guess is the cyber eye blink is in part an illusion projected from an open eyelid position, which could be detected as an illusion if Sydney held her orb while staring into Dabbler’s eye when most vision drifts down.
Movement track illusion could be a physical projection from inside with no actual physical camera front iris.
This could allow full light capture of the entire eyeball to the extent of the edge of the eye, with minimal limitations. Likely require a different method off filtering flare effects than non classified commercial cameras.
As far as ‘boobs in frame’ goes, that might be one of the things the (human) brain edits out of normal vision. I’ve read somewhere that we all see our own noses, all the time, but don’t notice them, in fact trying to see your nose sans a reflective surface can cause a headache.
Of course, since I can’t remember where I read it, the whole thing might be bullshit.
I don’t see how, absent some sort of eye injury, your nose wouldn’t be visible to you. But unless you have some reason to pay attention to it, you have no reason to actually SEE it.
The thing is that the ocular cortex is constructing a view of the world patching together the input of both eyes, so it can just “erase” something that’s visible from one eye, if the other eye can see what’s behind it, and you’re actually interested in that thing, not the obstruction.
Seriously, if you hold up a finger and focus on a wall in the distance, you’ll notice you’re seeing your finger in double, sort of semi-transparent. The only reason you’re seeing it at all is that you’re thinking about it, so you don’t erase it…
If you want to test it, just close or cover one eye…
We all learn to ignore things like our own noses and such, I see mine anytime I look to the side or downwards, I just ignore it. Same with blinking, your mind just edits it out unless you think about it. How often when you misplace something and you can’t find it until someone else looks around and spots it right away.
unless your face is upside-down, you’ll always overlook your nose.
If you use one eye it’s pretty easy. Using both eyes involves crossing them. Most people get a headache because that’s not something most people do on a regular basis.
I guess if you’re in the habit of crossing your eyes to indicate disapproval or “stop looking at me” or something, it might not cause as much pain.
Yeah, this happens frequently where if i’m not thinking about it my boobs will edit out of my peripheral vision despite being actually visible to me, same goes with any body part I’m not actually focusing on such as my nose or my arms if I’m sitting in a chair. When you are focusing on something your brain tends to construct a hybrid vision of what you are actually seeing and erases things you arent focused on. The moment I think about my chest though I can see them even looking directly forward standing perfectly straight (This is due to my implants making me even larger then Dabbler up top)
Dabbler can manipulate her own pheromones on top of her magic, so anyone or thing can be effected. I recall what happened to Max when her and Dabs came into the base when Parfait had lost control, Max’s suit almost ripped out when her nips reacted that fast. Any being that lives on the sexual energy of ANY race would need that to survive. Dabbler also said that any part of her is hypnotic, so making sure that her boobs are in frame for her eye to pick up has a lot to do with people’s interest. As far as her eye scanning a room, it’s just a matter of training and focus, she is well over a 100 years older than anyone else in the room, if you lived that long, you’d have crazy control over what any part of your body did. Plus since it’s not part of her body per-say, I’m sure it doesn’t need blinking or such, so she could owl-eye everything without any real discomfort.
Dabbler would seek out the guys/gals with mirrors on their shoes and then tease them. She would get just close enough that they could almost see up her skirt but then find an excuse to back away.
All I want to know is, can the stream watchers hear Dab’s/Syd’s conversation?
Possibly, with Dab’s technology she could set her broadcast on a 30 second lag with audio levels and a mute button to manage distractions. If nothing else she would want to set it up so that her voice didn’t drown out the sounds of whatever she is recording. I expect that the same would aply to filtering out conversations aroud her.
Reall, anything with sufficient sensory apparatus.
Sydney’s really leveled up her boobnosis resistance if she can discuss this so clinically.
Considering her history with succubi that sounds possible.
Yep.
Math is my 2nd favorite character in the series, outside of Halo/Syd.
The rest are fun, and I completely understand that Math is not as integral to the main plot as the rest of the girls/characters, but I truly wish that his current spotlight wasn’t such a temporary thing.
He’s a well fleshed out character with quirks and idiosyncrasies that many of the others don’t have.
I figure with all the sci-fi examples of future-tech “holovid/tridee/etc.” that if the person IS the camera, its a 360 degree view for the recorder, with the image center being whatever the heck she says it is. So if she sets the POV at her throat or collarbone, purple booba will definitely be the lower frame of the shot.
And here I figured Dabbler might use a camera built into her collar, or the brooch on the straps of her top, rather than her eye for streaming. It’d get a better view of her chest and be more consistent as her head moves. Then again, she could be streaming a holographic composite being dynamically constructed from both of her eyes’ view plus that of a collar/brooch camera. More likely the brooch than the collar, now that I think about it; the collar would get a better view of her jaw than of her chest.
The eye is artificial, so it’s already a camera of sorts.
I’m not sure an artificial eye for a human would work that way; several people have pointed out how differently our eyes work than the cameras we use.
Dabbler is however built… different.
It’s not just the four arms and hooves thing. The comic has gone into some detail on the origin of the succubus. TLDR; they were originally artificial beings. So I think at least some of the builders would have done some redesigning to get rid of some of those oddities in the originals.
The designers were also somewhat competitive. So they would likely have attempted to reverse engineer and introduce the successful redesigns into the others.
Rinse and repeat.
Last frame: Maxima is unamused :)
I thought that Dabbler just has a camera in her choker for the streaming. The angle would work better this way.
Aaaand Dabbler just cost Math the match with that stretch.
If he was looking or noticing what Dabbles was doing, he had already lost (or won)
Ah, the “non-military casual interaction” that went on in my unit was legendary. I remember one deployment, the plane captains started taking their breakfast to the flight line on weekends to get the extra 15 minutes of sleep that is vital to an E-4. The battalion commander made some snarky comment about flying from a “Waffle House” on weekends. THE VERY NEXT WEEKEND, the squadron Waffle House was born, now serving breakfast from the flight line. Everybody went, generals showed up, foreign army’s showed up, the DEFAC complained to no avail. If you were on this deployment, you ate at the Waffle House at least once. It was the biggest hardest checkmate I have ever seen. The BC eventually had to write a line item for it. After that the BC could point at any hill he wanted to and we would have taken it. It cemented us as a unit.
Never underestimate “non-military amount casual interaction”.
As someone who used to have 39Hs (had 5 pounds taken off, so I no longer literally suffocate when I lean back), I can assure you, a GOOD supportive bra WILL push ’em up into the edge of the woman’s personal visual range with a normal posture & head angle.
Common mistake, but “Busom” is in reference to the pair of breasts- like an inverse of ‘pants’ (where a pluralization refers to a single object- in this case, it’s a singular word referring to a pair of objects)- and so for a single person to have ‘busoms’ they’d have to have 4 or more breasts.
So Wereworld Dabbler.
Heh, reminds me of that classic song about using bosom’s for pillows :)
I feel like, despite Maxima not letting Sydney get away with the Mrs Super speed thing, Maxima still is going to play favorites towards and be more protective about Sydney more than most people (except for Anvil and Peggy), mainly because I think she looks at Sydney almost like a protective older sister. Also because Sydney came into the hero business in a much different way than everyone else. She wasn’t a vigilante first. She didn’t have years to grow into her powers. She wasn’t trained in the military. This was all sprung on her rather suddenly, so Maxima might look at her the same way she felt when she first suddenly got her powers (or at least, got them boosted by the geode/meteor water). Also she might feel a lot of responsibility towards her because she was the one to ‘discover’ her during the faux bank heist.
Maybe her eye implants can access the cameras in the room as well her own eyes.
Talking about maintaining military discipline, I don’t get how Dabbler is allowed to film and stream the whole sparring fight involving military assets probably doing classified things, and not everyone (or anyone?) is informed about this.
She’s allowed to do it for the same reason they had the powers demonstration at the press conference: to intimidate would-be wrong-doers into not bothering.
(Demonstration start on https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-163-serious-press-is-serious/)
I wouldn’t be surprised if she & the Archon leadership had a sit-down at some point in the past and discussed the limits of what Dabbler can broadcast/stream.
And, since she doesn’t want to lose access to Earth’s supply of delicious succubus fuel, Dabbler’s quite happy to play ball on this matter.
I mean, it’s not the “la-dee-dah” that makes the interaction less military, just the lack of “ma’am” at any point. And even that is mostly ingrained habit. Soldiers are just dudes (non-gender-specific). A military unit that’s spit-and-polish all day is a military unit that is ineffective as a fighting force.
Dabbler’s cyber eye could contain more than one camera, so sky is the limit for camera tom foolery.
However, all of the visual concerns would be alleviated if Dabbler were watching the fight while reclining in a lounge chair. Then the cleavage in the shot would make total sense, and be spectacular.
I’m surprised Sidney hasn’t yelled out to do Ninjago moves this whole time
Still surprised Laph is standing behind Sydney: Sydney may be one of the shortest on the base, but Laph isn’t that much taller, plus with Sydney’s balls floating around would be adding extra blockage of view
Why isn’t she sitting on Gar’s shoulder(s)?
I predict Math is going to lose b/c of Dabbler posing around with her boob’s every which way.
Math gets bored. When Math is bored, boobies will distract.
He does not seem bored, possibly for the first time in the comic. Which likely makes him at the very least less distractible.
I don’t think he was all that interested in Jabberwocky as a fight opponent. He’s probably fought literally hundreds of people using some form of animal style, and dozens that thought that switching the style of animal mid-fight would faze him. Nope.
He’s all about speed and thinking first; the whole “when you meet someone, have a plan to kill them” thing. The “three moves ahead” advice he gives Sydney is really just the first step.
My friend and I went to one of the early Gencons (it was at the University of Wisconsin). He played in a Star Fleet Battles tournament. In tournament rules, you have a “tournament ship”, which is a ship of one of the races in the game, specially designed to be balanced against the others.
He played a Tholian, which is an unusual choice, and did very well. To the point others were drifting in as an audience, since we came from literally more than a thousand kilometers away and he was unknown to the usual players.
Until he came up against a player who said “Ooh, a Tholian. Haven’t played against one of those in a while. Let me check my notes.” Opened a binder, read some things. Proceeded to trounce my friend thoroughly.
Picture that guy, times a thousand. That’s Math.
The problem is that a really interesting fight for Math probably involves a stare-off and mental calculation (impossible to depict interestingly), followed by about three moves (really hard to depict since the total movement is about 6 inches), then one guy’s arm explodes.
End of fight. Sydney says “WHAT WAS THAT?”
Can anyone please help me? I am trying to find a sword that can cut through all of the bullshit.
I too, have searched for the Sword of Truth. Alas, I have thus far only been able to find the Sword of Objective Truth, the Sword of Alternate Facts, the Bludgeon of Obfuscation, and the Book of Statistical Analysis. I have begun to believe that the Sword of Truth is itself a lie.
Lizard dude there seem to be paying more attention to the conversation than the fight.
Gar and Laph
Dabbler is streaming in portrait mode. Or maybe to people with VR helmets who can look wherever they want.
Whenever military discipline (or lack thereof) is brought up, I’m always reminded of M.A.S.H. where, both in the book and the TV show, doctors were always given slack in the discipline department because they were simply too valuable to be held to account. Unless they got completely out of control, they generally weren’t held to the same standards as regular Army personal, both because they were draftees with minimal Army training and since they were so vital to the war effort.
I don’t know how true to life that lack of discipline was, but I imagine it’s the same situation here, they can’t control who has powers and who doesn’t, so the powers that be have to accept a certain amount of wackiness.
In the M.A.S.H. stories it gets exaggerated for dramatic and comedic effect but there is some truth to it. Doctors are hard to recruit unless there is something in it for them. My top two clinical bosses at the large specialized psychiatric hospital where I spent most of my career were both retired Air Force colonels. Even though we are both now retired I am still in contact with one of them. Dr.T spent a lot of time running hospitals on European bases during the cold war. Getting to the point we had this discussion on several occasions. State psychiatric hospitals don’t generally pay as much as private practice so it could be difficult to recruit and retain physicians, As such they were high value personel. Many of our best docs were people who had retired once and didn’t want to mess with maintaining a private practice. Others wanted the experience of working with our specialized population. The majority were good doctors that I would (and did) let care for a family member. Then there are the flakey ones. As long as you didn’t hurt a patient or embarrass the hospital a psychiatrist could be quite an ass. My wife (a social worker at the same hspital) and I often discussed that we should have kept a diary and could have written our own version of M.A.S.H. One of the docs had an unwritten directive from his boss and the hospital superindendent that he was not under any circumstance to date any of the nurses. Another physician was let go after she showed up at a soiree with lots of movers and shakers from the state capitol wearing a bustier that would have made Madonna blush. This was just the last straw with her. She would flirt on anyone with two legs and a penis. I suppose this would relate to the story above in that I’m sure that Max and probably General Faulk have had at least one “Come to Jesus” meeting with Dabbler. We even had one psychiatrist that was a big believer in UFOs to the point that he had published a book on the topic. He was certain that pretty much anyone who was attractive or intelligent was to some degree decended from space aliens. It’s a shame that he screwed up as he was well liked and a reasonably skilled physican. His downfall was using patient data in a research paper without getting permission from the hospital administration. My takeaway from both these experiences and my conversations with Dr.T is that organizations will tolerate a fair amount of eccentricity from a high value individual but it is possible to cross the line. Having dealt with such folks on an administrative level, my sympathies are with Max and General Faulk.
While the breasts do have a slight effect on the asexual, it’s not exactly enough to make them walk into walls… With the charms she is also probably throwing into the ppv, then yeah, you may have wall hitting from asexual folks as well, but without those charms no.