Grrl Power #294 – Sydney’s mighty need
I don’t envy women for having to wear bras (also known as boob jail), or buy them certainly, they can get quite pricey, but getting to take them off at the end of the day, that’s got to be a good feeling. Nearly on par with taking your socks off and slipping them around under the sheets right when you go to bed.
This is actually the last page of book 1. It’s kind of a weird tone with the succubus recharging bit, but really the point of the page was trying to tie back into the flash forward from the first few pages. I will level with you guys, when I started doing the comic five years ago, I really hadn’t thought all the way through to the end of the book. I thought the only good way to do it was to at least partially address the point of contention from the role playing game, namely lasers vs. transparent things. Obviously if Sydney was trying to claim that lasers should go through transparent shields and everyone at the game knew Sydney was a superhero with a shield that blocked lasers (which they did) someone would have pointed that out to her. I maaaaay go back and edit a line in those first few pages to read something like “I didn’t buy that advantage for OmniGal, so KopyKraut* can’t have it either.” so it all ties in better. I don’t think that would change the feel of those early pages.
As far as sticking a succubus sex joke in (really it’s a Sydney gets embarrassed joke) it does bother me a little when people include succubi in stories that never really act a lot like succubi. It’s like writing a story about Vampires that never drink blood. Besides I like the “I’m in the middle of something/something’s in the middle of me” flip, and you guys can have fun speculating on who it is that will be sleeping it off tomorrow cause all his, uh, electrolytes have been drained. Yeah… electrolytes.
In case I don’t say it enough, I really appreciate the support you guys have given me-slash-the comic over the years, and not just financially… though without the success of the Patreon campaign, I’d still be working an 8-5 job and we’d only be halfway though fight right now. Granted I might have edited it down a bit harder but still it’s a depressing thought. I never take it for granted, every day I don’t have to waste an hour and a half being completely unproductive while commuting, or just straight up working at a job that I only care about because it pays the bills I want to jump around and be all “Yeah, take that “the man!”” It’s been quite a journey from thinking “I should make a webcomic” to now, and I’m eager to get to book 2, starting Monday!
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Sydney does talk like Zim on occasion.
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I guess Sydney is a Starfleet engineer.
Other than that I don’t know what to say.
If she’s an engineer she’s command grade.
Regularly Engineers sport this logo,
this logo, or this logo.
For some reason, it feels like Dabbler is being surprising prudish.
Normally she would be offering to set up a video feed.
Nah, I don’t think she’d interrupt the act to set up a video feed.
Possibly not even to activate a video feed that’s already set up.
I suspect she’s being sensitive towards the fact that Sydney probably needs to recharge as much as she does, and it’s hard for humans to do their recharging when they’re all hot and bothered.
Or perhaps her partner’s privacy.
Or, perhaps not even her partner’s privacy, but perhaps simply courtesy to her partner. I might feel a bit insulted if my sexual partner started taking long, detailed phone calls during the act. I might feel a bit hurt that she did not give me more of her attention, at least for the duration of the act. :)
or she just subtly suggested a mental image to a girl who sho knows from earlier, has a powerful imagination.
even if she didnt know half of what syd was thinking during that planning.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1569 shirtless batman & dabblers boobs on the brain.
I think it is more of a case of talking about other things is killing the mood so she can’t enjoy herself. The voyeuristic aspect of having someone else listen it would probably help her some if the subject of the call was different.
Nah, Starfleet discontinued that practice well before that combadge design was put into production. At the era of that badge design, all Starfleet personnel wore unmarked chevrons, with department marked by uniform color.
Yep, this would be the Voyager era badge and since the badge is on a yellow bra she’s in Engineering.
*looks around for signs of an emergency medical hologram projector*
Depends on if that bra is TOS or TNG. I suspect she’s a Weapons Officer. She’s certainly offensive. :P
Looks like Voyager based on the delta’s backing.
It does look like the Voyager communicator with the added ‘icon’ from the original series for ‘command’.
So it does. Which kind of indicates that it’s the backing that’s anomalous and inaccurate.
Then again, we are talking about underwear.
*George Takei voice* “Ohhh my!!!!!” wonder who the lucky devil is who gets that duty back at HQ?
Dabbler likely has a formula set up so she’s never with the same guy 2 nights in a row. She is technically feeding off their vital force after all…
I’m not sure if they work like that here. We know she’s basically powered by sex, but there hasn’t been an implication that she literally feeds off life force; more that the act itself feeds her (like Vehemence being powered up simply because violence was happening). Assuming people like her were around back in the days when the succubus myths were made, people could have just assumed that they were draining life force, while that turns out to be a myth in, uh… “reality.”
Also it might be Achillies, as he can’t be harmed and probably has a lot of stamina. Zephan was considering “studying” her, but I don’t think that’s him this time. Hiro is also a distinct possibility, but the hand looks too small to be Stalwart. It could also be a random guy in the base (or more than one).
It’s not difficult to see where that legend could have come from, that succubuses drain life force. I mean, if you’re up all night engaging in a physical activity, you’re going to be completely drained and tired the next day, which would naturally lead some people to speculate that your life force is being drained, especially if you go for multiple nights on only a few hours of sleep a night. That’s going to make anyone act (and look) like they’re dying.
BaufenBeast may be right. After all, in Comic #265 Dabbler certainly seems to imply that she can receive energy just from being around the act. “If all this mess had been an orgy, I’d have enough power to take on the whole team with both hands tied behind my back”.
So while while she may get a better charge with a direct connection (and I can’t think of anyway to say that without sounding dirty), it certainly sounds like she cab get power just from being in the presence of sexual activity.
Nicely argued.
DaveB, I got just a little thing about the comedic blurb in the bottom border of the comic: “She only answered the phone because she’s an inveterate multitasker.”
Wouldn’t that read a bit more appropriately as: “She only answered the phone because she’s a consummate multitasker.”
;)
That too.
in·vet·er·ate
adjective
having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.
con·sum·mate
adjective: consummate
showing a high degree of skill and flair; complete or perfect.
The lady DOES have four arms; pretty sure whatever she’s doing (well, we know WHAT she’s doing, so I guess I mean “however she’s doing it”) she can spare one to tap her collar “phone”.
Actually, Dabbler has a cyber-implant for a communicator so for the guy she just started talking to someone in mid-act.
Of course if she turned on her aura, he’s probably not even aware that she’s talking.
It also fits well with the other definition; Scroll down the page here – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consummate
Yes, that was supposed to be a double-entendre pun.
:D
Thank you for clarifying. You saved me a face-palm regarding Hinoron totally missing your joke. Also, your joke is hilarious.
I see this as one of those few jokes that it doesn’t hurt it when you explain it.
:D
You are missing the horrible consummate pun. Use the verb form.
“make (a marriage or relationship) complete by having sexual intercourse.”
Maybe it works on the basis of threat, ordinary light isn’t dangerous so it gets through, laser light is, so it doesn’t.
We can find out for sure if Sydney uses her shield at the beach & tans without getting sunburned. Although it doesn’t seem Sydney’s the type of person for trying that, using https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/366 this behavior as an example.
Back at that point she was trying to hide her powers. Now that it is out in the open there is no reason to not use the shield to block the evil day star.
Hell since she found out the orbs can level up she will probably be looking for reasons to use them just to gain XP.
Yeah, it could be like….nano-tubules made of thaumium particles. Light over a set amplitude would be blocked, as well as if too many photons passed through at a time, it would absorb some, and with the increased vibration of the particles, make that part of the shield opaque for a moment, ceasing the effect when entropy leached the energy back down to an allowable level?
ie, A Wizard Did It.
Or perhaps somewhat of a reactive shield with a an outer radius and an inner radius… (The outer radius detects incoming threats, and the inner radius reacts accordingly. ) Alternatively, it’s magnetic much like the earths magnetic field.(Which protects us from certain forms of harmful solar radiation, while still allowing light through.
Mmm
Mercury – God of divination – Truesight Orb
Venus – Goddess of love – Tentacle Orb
Earth – Protective magnetic field and atmosphere – Forb
Mars – God of War – PPO
Jupiter – God of the Sky – Fly Ball
Uranus – Castrated God – Brown Mystery Orba.k.a. The Bobbitter
Saturn – God of Plenty – Green Mystery Orba.k.a. The Pizza Maker
Neptune – God of the Sea – The Eighth Orb, location ‘somewhere off the Florida Keys’.
The sailor scout orbs
What about Pluto God of the Underworld?
Sorry, no longer a planet. If we count Pluto, what about Ceres and Eris and all the other Dwarf Planets?
If I remember correctly there is 5 known (including pluto) 6 highly possible and more than 200 maybe possible dwarf planets so it would be a headache to have that many orb hovering over you head too :P
Saturn – God of Plenty still works now that we know that the Green Orb is.
:-D
My guess-hazard is it slows down any light beyond atmospheric speeds, so anything outside of “Background Harmless” gets absorbed to power it/negated however. Possibly stored in the PPO, that’d be a neat way to limit it, although that would raise the question of it’s current power.
Speeds???? You, uh, are aware that the speed of light is a universal constant right?
It’s actually not. Under the right circumstances, light can be slowed down to only a few meters per second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light
I see, within the item you linked, that it goes on to say that it has even been stopped completely, then re-started.
Which gives an interesting insight in to one way that the force field could work. Harmful light incoming. Stopped. Some later time, when it is needed, it is re-started. But being directed out of the PPO instead.
The Speed of Light, TM, (as in C) is constant.
The speed of light, (as in how fast the photons are moving) isn’t.
We use speed as a measuring stick because it is very common and (in a vacuum) moves at the speed we want. the actual speed of light has nothing to do with it.
*grasps stick and gives it a few swings*
Oh, that is how they do it!
The speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant. It slows down (sometimes very significantly) going through materials.
I have no idea what scruffy is saying, though.
Actually light’s speed can be effected in vacuum too especially when traveling next to a black hole not only it bends but sometimes it can be drawn in to black hole itself and it is still in vacuum :P
Well, sort of. All observers will measure the same (local) speed of light in vacuum. Since time passes more slowly near a black hole, an observer far from the hole will calculate a lower speed of light near the event horizon.
Now you have made me want to conduct an experiment with a really long light sabre and a black hole. You are mean. I don’t have either of those.
It is probably something close to the photochromic lens effect like in those ‘transitions’ sunglasses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochromic_lens. UV or harsher rays cause the material to turn opaque to visible light. If it could be tweaked to turn opaque to only UV light, then there would appear to be no visible change but still provide protection against ionizing radiation. For higher levels of visible light the shield does change its transparency to block some of the light from that direction, but only down to current ambient light levels (as measured by one of the mystery orbs). The view through the opposite side of the shield is unchanged and this lets user keeps a balanced 360 degree view of their surroundings from the inside.
For example, it reduces a laser death ray outside the shield to a laser pointer inside the shield.
(The visible ‘trace’ of Hex’s beam sweep was from the shield changing to opaque at that point and causing the light to bounce off that shield section rather than go through it.)
Shield function 2: Impact resistance
Any object (or particle stream) hitting the shield induces a piezoelectric effect that converts the kinetic energy in electrical energy. This is energy is dissipated from the point of impact in a visible pattern along shield power grid lines. The energy absorbed from the attack is used to supply the reactive force to repel it.
+1
Not all lasers are dangerous, well, no more than sunlight
The shield could also be able to determine different wavelengths. Or could have a set level at which it will only let certain light through, and any light beyond that it diffuses into normal visible light. Which is why the flashbang doesnt blind Sydney either. Like someone else said, sort of like a high tech ‘Transitions’
the shield is sentient.
therefore the orb is sentient.
or at least some level of intelligence
Yeah, somethings come up, and she’s recharging.
Vote daily, if I had cash I’d do Praeton too.
Lazers don’t go through Sydney’s transparent shield, simply because they don’t get it, this technology :-) That is, they don’t understand the technology, it’s opaque to them, not transparent.
Who says The Man isn’t watching? Put *just one* Starfleet-enhanced brassiere on the page, and all the J.C. Penney ads show up with bras. Thank goodness Dabbler’s part of the page wasn’t more graphic…. : )
Says you!
IMHO, JC Penney catalogs don’t show enough as it is!
They don’t feed off the images but the comments itself. Just don’t type in porn.
Oops.
heh.
My 7 year old cousin likes to call bras “Booby Traps” whenever she sees one.
*Mammary trap
“Over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder” is popular around here.
Haven’t heard that since was a kid, many many years ago
I’ve always liked “tit hammock.”
Ay caramba!
Wow! If I were a woman I would SO want that bra!!!
I guess you’ll just have to settle for finding a woman who wears one…
“Do you accept this quest?”
“No, I’d rather buy one to wear for myself.”
OR
“Yes, I could use the extra XP bonus for completing a quest.”
A few thoughts here.
1. Dabbler’s could be Leon, as aside from a small altercation with Seneca he was not in the fight. And withe his height and all that very well could be his hand.
2. The reason Dabbler did not do a video link with Sydney could be that she does not yet know just how far Sydney can be pushed.
3. Now there have been plenty of comments regarding Sydney’s bra, but none of you have asked the next question, which needs to be asked FOR SCIENCE!
Is the bra part of a matching set? And can we get visual conformation ? FOR SCIENCE !
I shall now retreat to my Citadel of Aloneness .
Scene: Dabbler choosing he “lab partner” for the evening.
Duck, duck, duck, duck, Oh hello Goose.
Tosses Goose under one set of arms.
Better luck next time boys.
There is no way that hand belongs to Leon
Next time, on Grrlpower: “Ok, so this is reeeeaaaallly going to be the last page in the book. Except for the next one.” ~DaveB
Well we still don’t know what happened with Joel. The contract clause can easily be handled, once out of the flashback. But Joel’s reaction? We need closure!
*Starts clapping paws, stomping, and chanting*
“Joel”
“Joel”
“Joel”
This book has more potential endings than lord of the rings :)
Just found the comic last week, and I’ve already read the archive – twice. Awesomely amusing comic you have here – thank you so much for writing with such great humor!
I haven’t read the comments for today, so don’t know if it’s been mentioned already, but shouldn’t there still be blood drops on Sydney’s right shoulder? n__n;
Love the star fleet insignia on her bra. :) I assume she added it, or is their comic shop that awesome? (Or do they exist online somewhere that I don’t know about? … Now I have to check…)
Welcome to the community. You have spotted today’s Easter Egg. Dave occasionally pretends to ‘forget’ some detail, like the blood stains. We understand that he is just humouring us, as he knows how much folks like finding such things.
When you get around to your next reread, try hunting for the hidden details. Be it subtle wordplay, or tiny features, in a scene. To get you started, there is one in the above comic, which has still eluded all identification!
Maybe it rubbed off onto the bedsheets
Oh my god, that panel seven. So…. *******….. hot.
Which is hotter panel 7 or panel 6 ?
Personally, panels four and eight are hotter
7
Why I wonder has she got a model of the arc of the covenant in panel 2 … is it Harrison Fords lucky day ? :-)
Damnit! Meant to say that on the first page, but yeah, was wondering how she managed to get hold of that
I would have thought it obvious? She will clearly have been to Area 51, looking for her relatives. And they will have told her there that, if there had been a crashed alien ship, decades ago, it would have been packed off to long term storage by now. She would have to try looking in Warehouse 13.
Dabbler just happened to pick up a souvenir, whilst she was browsing.
Hmm – Area 51 gift shop, “getchore arcs here, only 5 bucks and that’s cutting me own throat”. Shes got taste – at least there aren’t any crystal skulls … I wonder what she keeps in there … :-/
Jewellery? We might see a change to her ear ornamentation tomorrow.
Nice Terry Pratchett reference!
+1 for the GURPS Illuminati reference & the Warehouse 13 sourcebook.
I believe that Math is the current recipient of Dabbler’s attentions.
1. The guy is seriously oversexed and needs regular release. Probably has a doctor’s order to visit Dabbler a few times weekly, if not daily. Might even have it written into his contract…
2. Math got his ass handed to him because of a pair of breasts. The guy may need some self-esteem bolstering right now.
3. Math got his ass handed to him because of a pair of breasts. The guy is in need of some sexual discipline, and who better to deal with that than a succubus, cyborg, alien scientist?
Math’s hands aren’t that big
I’m betting on Goose, Achilles or Stalwart. Hiro is too much of a boy scout, mr amorphous is with heat wave and I don’t see dabbler breaking them up for a recharge, math’s hands are smaller than that.
The hand shown isn’t that big, not much larger than mine, and I wear medium to large (depending on manufacturer) exam gloves at work, whereas the beefier bricks at ARCHON would definitely boast XL or larger mitts.
This is the 21st century.
That hand doesn’t necessarily have to belong to a guy………
Well, if it isn’t a guy, Dabbler is showing an unusual taste in females. ‘Cause that is one chunky, masculine-looking, hand, if it is a girl! Mind you, given that she is already into humans, * she does already exhibit broad tastes, so you could be right.
* Or vice versa, as the case may be.
I get the feeling that Dabbler ended the conversation for Sydney’s sake, not her own. I mean, this is like her version of making a sandwich, I’m pretty sure she’d actually be totally okay with holding a conversation mid-coitus.
Must be all that human modesty rubbing off on her.
*Insert obvious joke about humans rubbing off on the succubus.*
When you’re with a succubus, you no longer need to rub one off. That’s the point :)
IMPOSTER!
Carry on folks. Nothing to look at here.
Naming collision. Had to happen sooner or later.
If it happens a few more times, DaveB would be glad to have 5 or 6 zeros…
1st, nonlinear optics! There are plenty of processes that are insignificant at low intensities but dominate at high intensities. Just, they usually kick in at VERY high intensity unless you specially make a material for them.
2nd, adaptive shield configuration! If the shield bleeds off 0.1% of visible light you wouldn’t be able to tell well, but that would be enough for it to detect when the intensity spikes in a harmful way, and then BAM it goes opaque.
ZzzzzzZZzZzZzZzZzOMIGOD LAZERZ
LOLz
Not to be “Continuity Cop”, but isn’t this all a flashback from the scene with Copy Kraut’s Copy Cap? That means that Sid wouldn’t have thought that up, or something…, I don’t know. Just a minor nit in an enjoyable and perfect comic.
Actually, this is not a continuity error. It is the payoff. As you say, that scene was the launching point, prior to the flash-back. And this page is a significant part of the tale, because of it’s relevance to that scene.
Just as Sydney’s past as a comic-fan and store owner have given her the skills necessary to become a top-tier super hero, so have her super-heroing experiences fed back into making her a better role-player.
Although that table-top game occurs several months after this phone conversation, even then it remained fresh in her memory. For some reason. Probably some kind of association allowed her to recall it.
It was the game’s master who stumbled upon replicating something that Sydney has actual experience of. Although, initially, we just viewed her dispute as being that which any nerd would attempt, it turns out to be much more significant than that.
No wonder the GM quit the argument, there is no way that he was going to win against the foremost human authority on laser vs force field attacks!
Sydney has been home only a few hours and she has already uploaded her latest idea onto the web.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/googlifier-adds-googly-eyes-to-all-photos-on-the-111404021039.html
I like Dabblers aesthetics as reflected in her decorating choices. Very.. solid, and cultured, what with the preponderance of hardwoods (ceiling beams, paneling, bookshelves) Would chide her on candles just sitting on the edge of a shelf, but its Dabbler, if she cant keep a housefire from happening she needs to turn in her magi card.
They have to be within arms’ reach, from where she is at the moment. For… reasons.
YES!!! REASONS!!!
(insert obvious joke here)
Sorry it’s taken so long for me to do it, but I finally got on to Patreon. Should have a long time ago. This is, as I’ve said before, one of the best webcomics out there! Now that you’ve finished Book 1, it’s time for me to start a read-through. Looking forward to Book 2 … and 3 … and so on …
You just might be hooked on Grrl Power if you…
…buy the print comic & compare page-by-page content with the webcomic.
That does sound like something I would do … LOL
Mark my words. Very soon they will regret ever giving her that communication device.
I think it’s a brilliant joke! :D
Sydney’s “for SCIENCE!” reminds me of Girl Genius. Anyone else getting that feeling that steampunk mechs are just around the corner?
Spark Sydney would would have the Heterodyne, Wulfenbach & Storm King running for cover! I shudder to think just how scary awesome she’d be in “the madness place”. One thing is certain though, she’d have a verra nize hat. :-)
Yeah the GirlGenius spark is strong in this one.
Btw. GirlGenius is missing in the comic links =)
I did take it as being an homage to Girl Genius. There will be a huge overlap of readership, on the two comics, so I just took it as common knowledge, and did not mention it.
I do not know about the clanks. But, if we get to see other angles of Sydney’s room, I am sure we will find a Winslow* plushy tucked away somewhere.
* Explore that image, it has a funny special feature associated with it.
Please.. Tell me that guy is there of his own free will.-|-
She is a super hero, of course he is.
Harem is the morally-challenged one. Dabber just has more liberal values than are prevalent in our society. Rather than being amoral.
Probably.
I doubt Dabbler has to resort to any nefarious means to secure a hot date. Although I do wonder if the Mr.Lucky is seeing the true Dabbler or her Glamour.
After a moment’s thought I do hope that Dabbler avoids one night stands and short trysts. Mainly because: well after Dabbler, non-super sex would always be second best.
It couldn’t be Vehemence. Besides the fact that they wouldn’t let him out for a reward like this, that left arm is normal, and Vehemence’s left arm is metal now.
Bleh, comment reply fail. That should have been attached to an earlier reply.
…when did Dabbler steal the Ark of the Covenant? Or is she just borrowing it?
It is possible that she is the official custodian, at the moment. Jesus took various morally-challenged individuals as his disciples. I see no reason why a demonic individual, who was morally fit for purpose, could not fulfil the role.
Perhaps God is not as prudish as everybody seems to assume she is?
+1 for both avatar image and name. Cleverly done.
Looks like you’ve got some weird malware injection that’s appearing at the top of the comic
Yea, Dave can clean it, but somehow they are finding a way to re-infect the site, periodically. He is working on finding a permanent solution. I would not be too worried about it, if you are running an anti-virus program.
Congratulations!!
Seconded. The end of book one is a major milestone.
Hey Dave, it’s awesome that you can now do two comics a week! At what level of Patreon do you think you could start doing 3 or more?
I would guess that would come with getting a colorist to work with.
Is anyone else seeing a big block of script at the top?
Yes, so am I. My “NoScript” add-on is also blocking scripts from visistat.com. I have no idea whether or not that is related.
It isn’t I see the same in all browsers with or without extensions enabled.
DaveB is working on a fix.
Well considering that a LASER beam is made up of one wavelength multiplied upon itself it should be easy to block it if you can adjust your shielding. Or in Sydney’s case her shielding is adjusted automatically by the devices themselves. So advanced they don’t look like devices.
However depending on how the shield is powered it could run you to burnout then bzzzzat!!!
I just figured it was like glass. You know, modern real windows block basically all UV A/B light and only allow good non-burny rays through, but being good glass windows you can see through it just fine. Visible light is about 462 to 655 nanometers and UVA to UVB is about 100 to 320 nanometers, so absorbing UV rays while letting all visible light through really isn’t that hard for modern science.
So the question should really be, “Wait, we were able to see the laser beam quite clearly, so since it was clearly radiating in the visible spectrum, why didn’t it go through the shield?” Although, given that we’re clearly seeing people fly, do amazing thing through the power of sex, do amazing things through the power of violence, teleport, split themselves into multiple bodies that are independantly capable of thought yet nonetheless share a hive mind, go invisible (but still able to see), shapechange, and all kinds of other “magical” wackiness, is it really such a big deal to have a translucent shield that can nonetheless stop a laser? Actually, since we don’t really know that a “laser” was hitting the shield, and not merely something that just looked like a laser, the whole conversation is kind of moot anyway.
Also, Sydney doesn’t look embarrassed in the final panel, she looks mad. Gritted teeth, red face, squinted eyes, furrowed eyebrows, that’s all the classic signs of anger.
Science over sex!!!
Looks more like disgust, like “EEEWWWWW!!!!!!”
DaveB mentioned, on a previous page of comments, that he was aiming for ‘flustered’. Which can overlap with the characteristics you mentioned. Especially if mingled in with a splash of disgust, as Peter Sadlon interprets it. Which I think works well.
The light and shadows does tend to make things look rather angrier though. Rather like torches being used, around a camp-fire, when telling ghost stories. They can make features appear more ferocious, than they actually are.
Spaghetti code monster is back at the top of the page.
It only exists because you believe it does. Have faith, and the word of god will make it go away.
I am viewing this on am Android phone but I am getting some weird code above the comic image that I haven’t seen on other pages. Just figured I, should mention it in the event that it isn’t just me…
You are not alone. You are amongst a vast brotherhood and sisterhood, in fact a veritable legion, of fellow fans.
I’ve had trouble getting a comment through since Thursday. I don’t know if it is related, but lets see what happens to this remark.
Hurrah. I’m live and on the air.
Three issues that differentiate harmful lasers from visible light and non harmful lasers are intensity, focus, and spectrum. If you block photon emissions above a certain energy level over a given area, intensity and focus become non-problematic. Also having different thresholds for different spectra solves many other issues. It’s advantageous to having more porosity on lower wavelength EM spectrums (more benefit at lower danger). Having good radio wave porosity facilitates communication. Given humans see in the visible light spectrum and some organism see in IR and/or UV. You ‘d still want to control IR frequencies for life support reasons (allow at least a certain amount In or out to maintain environmental temperature) and UV frequencies as they been known to cause cellular and genetic damage.
the spaghetti code monster is back……
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Interesting…
Thanks for the heads up, but please don’t copy/paste potentially malicious code. I’ll see it eventually or you can usually alert me on twitter. :)
Could be the shield isn’t an energy shield. It might be a psychic barrier that repels what the orb/host view as hostile.
Doesn’t explain the lack of air though
It might be that the orbs see the usual levels of pollution in the air as being mildly toxic & so block all air. In a purified environment (such as the life support systems aboard spacecraft would produce), air would only be blocked if some kind of harmful gas was circulated through.
+1