Grrl Power #1289 – Holo-mouth
Presumably, if you have a really good translator with all the extra options, you can move your holo-mouth around, like how Garamm is offsetting his there in panel 7. And clearly that sets up all sorts of possibilities for sexual shenanigans. Also a lot of upsetting ones as well, like you’re getting it on doggy style and she moves her holo-mouth to the middle of her back to bark instructions at you. It wouldn’t change where the sound is coming from or provide any tactile functionality, it would really be more of a test of your focus, I think. I’d assume that the good translators would be able to do stuff like lipstick or whatever, but also change things about the mouth, like if you have a chipped tooth or something. But maybe they could also swap your mouth out for another species’ mouth? Like Garamm could have a pair of normal human lips? That would be off putting.
How much food would a 7’4″ muscular-but-not-quite-bodybuilder eat? Yeah, Frix has pretty huge arms, but he’s not “abusing HGH” big. Though in his case it’d be W(oof)GH. I googled how much he’d probably weigh, and there’s a 7’2″ bodybuilder who competes at around 330 lbs, so let’s say Frix is an even 350 so it’s easy for me to remember. Of course, alien metabolism makes it impossible to really guess his caloric requirements, but a half-rack of beef ribs and a double serving of mash and mac and cheese seems like a reasonable lunch.
Speaking of fanfic, you know what the most successful one of all time is? Dante’s Inferno. Nearly everything Christianity believes about hell comes from that. The bible basically says Hell, or Gehenna, is a place of fire and torment, and… that’s kind of it. There’s virtually no detail other than that. Every movie, comic, novel, poem and TV show about Lucifer and devil summoning and possession is derived from The Inferno. It’s basically canon, and it’s fanfic.
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I actually really like Garaam, he’s got Deadeye Cybin voice to me
Yeah he is just so LIKEABLE despite his history with Lapha. He is always friendly and sociable – even to the aetholith Lapha bodynapped.
I love how you can go from puns to worldbuilding to sex jokes so naturally.
Also, yeah, Dante’s Inferno is religious fanfic that got canonised and I am never going to stop finding it funny.
Same.
Well it’s so much better written then the Original Story,
so it’s no wonder everybody agreed to make it canon.
Even funnier that Dante is not the only one.
Fanfic of a fanfic really. Most of the bible stories were cribbed from earlier works such as Gilgamesh (sp?). Christians are an older form of the Borg, assimilating holidays of pagan origin.
resistance is futile. you will be saved. you are assigned BBQ wieners in a crock pot for the Potluck (the potlucks were nice when I was young).
Niven and Pournellle’s two stories set there are awesome as well.
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Yes, Dabbler is sexy (and this is a great pic) but I like her best when she’s being cute/adorable/adorkable.
Personally, I’m more fascinated by the fact she has two belly buttons than anything else.
I noticed too. Maybe a matter of engineering redundancy, in case something happens to one umbilical cord.
Page 994 tells us that her predecessors were stitched-together animated flesh, Frankenstein(‘s monster) style. If she was made with four arms, I guess it’s equally possible that her creator decided she needed more than one place to place an olive and eat it from.
Her distant ancestors were flesh golems, but Dabbler wasn’t “made”, she was born. From a succubus, a doppleganger, and an unknown father who presumably had four arms.
And we are at the number one spot at time of posting, let’s stay there.
Is that a doodle of Max bullying Superman? I imagine Sydney would have… Opinions if she noticed it. Since she would then likely complain about how stupid broken most, especially prime, Superman is and how no one knows how to write him.
Speaking of the Ribs… did Frix just straight up eat the bone? Ribs aren’t supposed to be crunchy…
I thought it was Sydney talking with a mouthful of Cap’n Crunch abheration, but you may be right.
Frix’s mouth is closed and Sydney is speaking in that panel, so I assumed that was Frix.
And yes, he probably did crunch the bone. Growing boy needs calcium :)
Most ribs are crunchy, if you don’t take the bones (the aforementioned ‘rib’) out
It’s only the faux McRib that has no bone (or much in the way of real ‘meat’)
Having strong teeth lets you crunch the bones, and crunching the bones gives you extra calcium for strong teeth! It’s the circle of life
Calcium? Maybe. I suspect he’s just after those tasty marrow morsels. He’s a dog, after all.
You don’t really get much marrow from ribs…
I thought it was a hot dog. Yes, barbecued hot dogs are a thing.
Definitely ribs… panel one.
Our own hyenas eat bones regularly. In fact, about the only thing left after a hyena meal is the stain.
I will differ on this.
Dante wrote the first science fiction trilogy with the science being theology. Although in all honesty it was more of a lampoon of Italian politics. Although you do have to be a scholar of 14th century Italy to get most of the in jokes.
I have close enough to no knowledge of 14th century Italy, but I know it’s fairly common for science fiction to be a lampoon of contemporary politics and/or religion, especially in places and times when you have to be indirect to get away with such lampooning, so I have no problem believing you 100%.
“Every movie, comic, novel, poem and TV show about Lucifer and devil summoning and possession is derived from The Inferno. It’s basically canon, and it’s fanfic.”
This is not accurate. Inferno had a lot of influence but these aspects existed prior to it. Demonic possession occurs in Chapter 5 of Mark. Both the Hygromanteia and the Greek Magical Papyri contain demonic summoning. The Papyri are older than Inferno. The Hygromanteia has sections which date to different time periods, and some parts may post-date Inferno, but some of the sections dealing with summoning definitely predate Inferno.
Well, the demonic entities are not necessarily living in hell. Our view on religion is childish and doesn’t reflect more adult points of view. Also most of info of hell is actually from the book of Enoch with the chambers of the earth and the firefalls. As the Pistis Sofia points out – there are the realms of torment that are related to the archons (not God) that rule the power structures of this realm. The church just used the hell concept to extort money and obedience..
I think “Paradise Lost” is actually more relevant to perception of Lucifer.
Came here to put in a word for “Paradise Lost” myself
I would say the New Testament is OT fanfic, and we should include Paradise Lost in the canon as well. The whole idea of a war in heaven and demons being fallen angels comes from there.
Be glad Sydney wasn’t having chocolate salty balls (if any of you remember that from South Park)…!
I have a very fertile and perverse imagination and I can’t think of a single way touse hollographic mouths sexually.
Sorry to put this in a reply but my comments keep disappearing for some reason. So please tell me did Dabbler grow a second bellybutton or was I hypnotised by the magic tits.
From memory, Dabbler mentioned she has two mothers. I forget if this is something all Succubi have but I think it was. I figure the 2nd belly button is supposed to indicate she gestated in two separate wombs.
If there are any succubi shown with only a single belly button or images of Dabbler with only one, its likely use of their camouflage just like how Dabbler’s tail appears and disappears at times.
Dabbles is not a fully ‘Purebred’ Succubae, like, fairly sure, no other Succubae have four arms or four bewbs
As for the tail, hers is cybernetic
Thinking in terms of hardlight suggests possibilities to me, even ones I regret imagining.
What’s on that blackboard? Can’t see the whole thing.
It’s the menu. The meals today are
– Meat
– Not Meat
Also a cartoon of Max punching Superman.
He deserved it. Superman is such a douchebag.
I want to know if the Not Meat is more or less expensive than the Meat, but Frix’s head is in the way…
Check panel 6 of the previous comic.
It shows $15 for Meat, and $12 for Not Meat.
Has Dabbler always had two navels or was I distracted by “something.”
She’s always had two as she has two biological mothers, which was explained around the time they visited Galytn. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1021-the-family-tree-contains-several-mobius-branches/
Did She spend time in both wombs?
I think they were joined at the womb, with Dabbler inside. Literally two biological mothers. Don’t try to figure it out; a wizard did it.
Sometimes she has two, sometimes she has zero. The latter may be assumed to be because of holographic clothing interfering with the perception of reality, rather than any mistakes by the illustrator.
TWO: Panel 4
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1017-nants-ingonyama/
ZERO: Panel 8
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1020-i-dream-of-genealogy/
UNKNOWABLE: Panels 4-5
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1026-earl-gray-hot/
In the unknowable, it’s actually 2 there as well. You can barely see it from the shading. But yeah I agree about how any time it’s not two, it can be blamed on glamour. :)
Dangit. That means my CGI clone has another discrepancy. :(
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ru60h25hommgy5h22ed6y/WideAngleSelfie01.jpg?rlkey=6xtc4w9khi97p2zrib8kxqzhy&st=pg39st7a&dl=0
Just assume it’s a minor glamour change.
Nice job on Sydney though
“alien metabolism makes it impossible to really guess his caloric requirements”
Probably not all that different. Metabolism includes keeping body temperature even for endotherms and energy exertion (lifting, walking, etc.). Assuming the same body temperature, the requirements would be the same (aliens don’t magically get more energy from the same chemical reactions).
If Frix happens to actually have a nuclear generator pack in his chest and eats the occasional spoon of radioisotopes to keep that fueled, then he could have completely different requirements. For one thing, food that we would recognize then becomes something he eats for social reasons and pleasure. The energy content would be completely irrelevant.
But if the space guys could do that, I don’t think they would be particularly impressed with what Earth’s supers could do – except for “How can you expend that much energy from eating *food*? Where is it coming from?”
Aliens looking for Max’s extension cord could be amusing and/or horrifying.
ultimately we don’t even have to go that far – ‘dietary fiber’ for example just means carbs we can’t digest, which counts as having zero calories for humans, but it’s not zero calories for herbivores that can digest them. so technically cows have ‘alien metabolism’.
and it’s certainly possible to imagine an alien species that either can’t digest one of proteins, carbs, or fats, or gets a different relative amount of usable energy out of it than humans do. or that can digest petroleum products, a very dense source of chemical energy that [depending on the specific product] is either toxic to or passes straight through humans.
Actually there are bacteria on Earth that digest oil and are used to help clean up oil spills. And Hyenas crunch and eat bones. You don’t have to look for aliens to answer, “what if a creature could eat XYZ?”
https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/who-thinks-crude-oil-delicious-these-ocean-microbes-do.html#:~:text=There%20are%20species%20of%20marine,solely%20on%20oil%20%5B1%5D.
If you want REALLY different metabolism, consider cold fusion generator and eating hydrocarbons so you can fuse them into oxygen.
That explains the UFO aliens’ penchant for probing.
I am mostly interested what exactly went into Sydney’s burrito. Recipe pls?
Tortilla, peanut butter, banana, captain crunch, carolina reaper slices, Sydney’s ground pepper seeds, reeces magic shell
Trying to make that work is a bit tricky. To get the shell to harden, you need a source of cold. I’m thinking the banana has to have come out of the freezer and is still slightly chewy and cold.
I’d eat it. Not at reaper level though, ghost pepper. 1% power.
I don’t think she bothers waiting for it to get cold and hardened.
Btw, whatever you do, never try a scorpion pepper (I think the proper name is a trinidad moruga pepper but my friend called it a scorpion pepper. I got sick when I took a TINY LITTLE TASTE of one, and I tend to be okay with very very spicy food, despite the reaper supposedly being hotter. I did NOT think that. It sort of tastes like a reaper pepper but it starts a bit fruitier…. when starts getting spicier and spicier and it feels like it never stops until you are on the ground in a fetal position regretting your life choices that led to that moment. Taht did NOT happen to me with the carolina reaper though – that one just was heat – it didn’t lull you in with the fruitiness at first to make you taste it more.
I get that same feeling if I hold in the puns, or if I hear a bicycle horn and don’t laugh like a clown.
omg, imagine if you had a bicycle horn that could honk out puns! You could use it fot slaughtering mimes!
They’ll die laughing silently…
It would result in a great honking mess.
It’s labor day. Give the ninja hit squads a single day to vacation okay?
They are eating my barbecue and drinking beer. They will be fine.
Yeah I had Adam and Bert over the other day. Nice guys, they always try to assasinate me in new and fun ways.
Have you tried their chocolate raspberry trifle? It is to die for!
Oh, we know she does not mind any mess or disaster it makes.
But if we were trying this out in the real world, with mortal heat tolerances, and wanted it to actually function as a food…. The Banana is the best source of cold.
Hey thanks! This sound horrifyingly awesome! Horrsome! I might replace the reaper with some rather gentle jalapeño though. ^^
The holographic mouths presumably would be for those species that use mouths for speaking.
You might run into ‘uncanny valley’ a lot if you’re talking to a species that has a mouth that makes noises your mouth can’t naturally produce.
There’s also body language to consider.
And then there’s the species that use other methods (changing skin coloration, olfactory production, antennae waving, etc.) Having antennae appear and disappear above your head when you’re having a three way conversation with a woof and the equivalent of say a thri-kreen (assuming that language uses antennae movements) might be disconcerting, but I guess you’d get used to it.
It would be a difficult problem, but then apparently they’ve had a long time to develop this software.
“Reglectable” is now a word, and we really need to acknowledge that it was only possible in American-English, and that because of the American fast “food” profit-extraction machine.
I’m ashamed to say that for several of my teenage years I had a reglectable relationship with white castle cheeseburgers (hold the onions) every 6 or so months. Me and my friends would buy a ‘crave case’ of them (I think it’s like 30 or 50 of the little slider monstrosities), eat until we were sick, then say NEVER AGAIN. Then six months later, we would do it again because we had goldfish-length memories apparently. This went on for 3 years until I moved to another state.
Garamm eating is off putting. I mean using tableware is strange for his dental arrangement. With no lips or cheeks he can’t really chew. Like a T-Rex, Komodo dragon or ‘Raptor his mouth is structured to rip out chunks of meat and gobble it down or just swallow it whole. I’m trying to think how an intelligent, civilized Velociraptor would eat in company. Would they even eat processed or cooked meat? As far as taste, Komodo’s will eat things three days dead and stinking rotten as will many predator/scavengers. When Garamm first showed up with a whole ham, I thought he was just going to pop it into his mouth and swallow it. Honestly, I thought he’d even prefer live’ food, to be eaten while kicking and screaming, y’know all ‘vore’ like. Hmm, I guess this is where civilized, manners and dining in polite company comes into play.
Now I’m wondering if he has an internal means of mastication. A gizzard perhaps? As for eating habits, we dont know how long Garamm’s people have been interacting with other species. They may have had time to develop table manners. Given all the technology floating around in galactic society he may have access to suppliments or mods so that he doesn’t have to be the obligate carnivore that his appearance suggests.
Him gots lips, even learned how to smooch with ’em.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-925-star-crossed-mercs/
Table manners are a way of allowing us to ignore that there’s an omnivore within arm’s reach chewing and swallowing something that could very well be us in other circumstances.
That omnivore may be bigger than us, and therefore (according to Fat Bastard) “higher on the food chain”.
So a velociraptor with table manners would eat very differently from e.g. a crocodile in the wild.
Thing is, most bodybuilder’s don’t weigh as much as someone of similar size but real proportions
If you had said a 7’2″ weightlifter, then you would be getting into some serious poundage
It’s like the difference between Kevin Nash (in his prime rasslin’ days) and The Big Show: Nash was a lean seven footer, whereas Show… was not lean so their weights would be vastly different (believe Nash was around 300lbs and Show was about 500?)
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (played “the Mountain” on Game of Thrones) a strongman. Deadlifted 500kg at one point.
6’9″, so yes really tall. When he did that deadlift his body weight was apparently 450 pounds.
Having doubts that Garamm is actually eating real ham (or real meat for that matter… )
I’m pretty sure if you tried to serve fake meat in the ARC-Diner without clearly labeling it, you’d have a metric fuck ton of angry supersorts storming the kitchen.
Have never seen ham served in giant cube form
I have seen whole hams, and they can be cut into any shape you want. Normally they would be sliced for western-style dining (knife and fork), but since alien diners with alien mouths are now regulars at that cafeteria, I imagine the serving crew is working to improve their experience. Such as cutting the ham into large chunks or cubes.
What they’d most likely do in this case is quickly separate the ham into muscle sections and serve those whole, but cubes are far easier to draw. Or maybe Garamm is the one who cut his muscle chunk into smaller cubes. Trying to fit in with the humans.
Yet it still selected the linguistic abomination ‘maturized’ over ‘mature’.
That and commoditized are part of the joke, son.
Most successful fanfic is the New Testament. It’s like those fanfics where the author inserts their OC who is better at everything than everyone. Big “and everyone clapped” energy.
Sydney becomes a squeaky toy.
lol
I LOVED the “Squeaky Toy” SFX!
very relatable and adorable. adoralatable
There was a comic/cartoon style artist in the 80’s who liked to put sexy mouths in place of all kinds of orifices. Dabbler would have loved him.
Now you’ve reminded me of the animated series Clutch Cargo from my childhood. (See the Wikipedia page for details.) It used limited animation and single cells like much anime, but superimposed video of live person’s mouths when they were speaking. Even as a child I thought it looked cheap and cheesey compared to the Disney, Warner Brothers, Hanna-Barbera and other offerings of the time. I feel much the same about anime. Give me full motion animation every time, please.
And in an unexpected case of deja vu/premonition/clairvoyance… Several hours after posting the above comment I streamed Pulp Fiction and there was a scene of a boy watching a Clutch Cargo cartoon on TV. The weird thing is that these sort of peeks into the future have happened to me many times during my life, and they’re always a WTF! moment.
See “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon”.
So… those herbivore teeth might not be real?
Damn it Sydney! Now I’m thinking of the sexual uses for holo-body parts! LOL! Gotta love space tech and magic tech :)
“You, madam, appear to be talking out of your ass.”
Having worked with several people of above average height, up to 6’9″, their weights varied radically with their builds.
‘bodybuilders’ aren’t nearly as strong as a manual labourer of the same height, they’re going for looks not performance and while muscle does weigh more than fat, which in the military caused massive problems with the ‘BMI’ (nothing more than a glorified height/weight) chart that was supposed to decide your fitness deeming the most muscular members to be ‘obese’, the proportions of it to the frame can be quite different. The 6’9″ guy weighed 485 and was massively strong, one of the 6’5″ guys looked like a magazine model but I could outwork him dragging rockets and ammo belts around on the flightline and I’m just a tiny bit shy of 6′ (or I was, it isn’t only shirts that shrink over time). My father was 6’4″ and about 350 strong as an ox, another one I worked with was 6’5″ and weighed probably 210 or so, skinny as a rake but I saw him pick a ‘regular size’ guy up and throw him across a room. Another guy in the service was 6’4+ and boasted about how strong he was but he couldn’t even overcenter a 20mm gun when cocking it by hand while a 5′-fuckall girl could slam it over like it was firing while she was standing on a wooden box, and the gun weighed more than she did !! It all varies, height+weight=height+weight, nothing more and nothing less, it’s how the two work together that counts.
The sports of strongman and bodybuilding are very different. Different Training with different goals. Most bodybuilders are relatively small on the tail for their perfect body shape whereas someone once said about Eddie Hall: “Nobody should be allowed to have a belly that big and still have visible abs.”
found Syndey’s pizza.:
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there is no pineapple or ham on this Pizza.
this will spice up this thread.
While Holographic mouths would be problematic for the lipstick industry, it’s kind of kinky when someone leaves those marks all over during sex so the industry wouldn’t crash just because of holographic mouths, it would just change focus.
“…you’re getting it on doggy style and she moves her holo-mouth to the middle of her back to bark instructions at you.” That was groan worthy.
Also, if your automatic translator has artificial intelligence, how long before they start to make up slang that only other autotranslators understand?
Way back we invented a way to modulate digital data into audio and back. It is what the first modems did and how the got their name.
In theory programms on computers could even share data via speakers and microphones, but the bandwidth might be abysmal.
I would guess the translators would use something similar. Might be trickier to find a frequency range that is still audible to them, but outside most species hearing range. But certaily something they might do as part of a “enhanced translation” feature.
There’s an XKCD about that.
Ends with the AI having conversations with each other as mindless humans wander around.
One possibility would be “training” them not to. Since this isn’t what you paid for.
On the other hand, it’s entirely possible that the space guys have some sort of ethical framework to make it illegal to “train” AIs. Since it involves negative reinforcement, if you consider them sentient it may come under the same framework that negatively reinforcing things with a fleshbag intelligence.
On the gripping hand, it sounds like the space guys allow slavery. Or at least can’t or won’t enforce laws against it to the extent that a college student (unsure if Lapha was enrolled or just pretending to be one) can find a market and make a plan to sell someone into that market.
So maybe there isn’t a framework. Or it’s only in some places.
Certainly travel times would make enforcement a real problem, rather like it was (and still is to some extent) a real problem on Earth.
Holy Hannah that vote incentive is…perfection in purple
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Two bellybuttons…
is that Jolt in the background?
of course the dog man’s girlfriend doubles as a squeaky toy.
I like the subtle joke about how Frix ate the rib WITH the bone, and then there was the crunch crunch crunch onomatopoeia so that we know, DEFINITELY, that he actually eats the bones as well, rather than spitting them out or something (like in a Kevin and Kell webcomic).
“Speaking of fanfic, you know what the most successful one of all time is? Dante’s Inferno.”
Second most successfull.
Most successfull is the Bible itself.
It is basically “OC god, please don’t steal”. And then the entire old testament is just copied from the Torah.
Then the Gideons came along and cut the first half of entirely. Also, the Mormons and their crazy AU Jesus.
The *Christian* Bible. *The* Bible is the *Hebrew* Bible, of which the first 5 “chapters”, the Torah, was copied into the original Christian Bible. And the fact that most people hear “The Bible” and think of the derivative work really goes to show how successful it is.
Just like cover bands (or just bands who cover someone elses songs), if they get big enough people tend to believe they are the original artists
Hebrew Bible: Original
Christian Bible: Sequel, or Part II
Islamic Quran: Part III, but it retcons Part II almost beyond recognition
Book of Mormon: Weird fanfic of Part II that completely ignores Part III
One qualification to your comment: Far more than just the 5 books of the Torah was copied into the Christian Bible. The entire Old Testament section includes the Torah, other history books, Psalms & Proverbs, and lots of prophecy books.
You forgot that the Torah continues on for another two centuries or so post New Testament, until the destruction of the Second Temple. So, no, the Christian Bible doesn’t contain the entirety of the Torah.
Technically untrue. The Tanakh continues on past the Torah. The Torah is the first 5 books of both Books, end stop. The Tanakh is all the other chapters of the Old Testament, plus some chapters commenting on the prophecies and stuff that Christians presume Christ fulfilled, and the Jews did not.
I realized something today and my life will never be the same. Dryads pretend to be tree spirits when in reality they’re just kinky garden hose.
kinky garden hose: you gotta unkink it to water the garden with it
I’m not about to start kink shaming. Who am I to question how a being gets wet?
Sydney: “Nobody ever wants to try my bioweapo-um… Food.”
If everyone had holographic mouths, they would need to purchase licenses for DLC lipstick colours.
The world has enough Duck Face as is, please don’t start doing Holo-Duck Face
There’s a malfunction on the holoduck and now Worf has to play baseball.
If he spent all of his time swordfighting then no one would get done.
I am 5’10”, 160 and that quantity of food seems…. reasonable to me? I know I have a big appetite but honestly I’d go for the full rib and that much mash and mac. Worst case scenario I have a small snack for an hour later.
There was a fantasy novel I read once where the evil faerie lich had a rhyming song of despair and woe…
And the snarky protagonist was like,
“Okay I know multiple languages, and Even With Magic it’s kind of impressive that I’m hearing this song in every language I know and it rhymes in ALL OF THEM.”
It’s actually ‘The Divine Comedy’, not the Inferno.
Dante wrote one book, but it’s in three sections. Paradiso, Purgatorio, and Inferno.
The Inferno is the most often referenced, but the other two had massive influence as well. It’s just that humans seem to focus in on violence, torture, and pain.
… Have you not been paying attention to what passes as ‘entertainment’ for the past fifty years (and that includes ‘sport’)?
the Devil is in the details, and he’s laughing all the way to the bank
No He’s not: He owns the banks – He’s laughing while everyone else marches in with His money :)
Who do you think invented ‘bitcoins’, NFT’s and other money scams?