Grrl Power #383 – Talk nerdy to me
Hope everyone got some good drops this Xmas, and hopefully everyone can follow this page ok. I’m not great at time transitions, and you can’t do the crossfade in a comic like you can on TV, but it’s supposed to be like an hour of Sydney and Leon chatting from panels 2 to 4.
After I drew this page it occurred to me that if Leon’s going to drag his gear out to the lounge in order to support his terrible posture, why wouldn’t he just use the big screen? I considered changing the setup, but then Sydney’s dialog wouldn’t make sense as written, so instead I threw something else up there. Multitasking is where its at.
Hearing people talk about DOTA2, LoL or any other sort of MOBA is like when people start getting really analytical about football. It is its own world with its own vocabulary. Really, most things are like that though. People can get some down and dirty talk about Photoshop techniques, programming, 3D modeling, wood turning or whatever and really leave those not in that particular clique in the dust. MOBA games are famously new player unfriendly though, partially because the games don’t hold your hand at all, partially because the communities can be as bad or worse than Xbox live, and partially because the moment you start playing, people assume you know all the vocab and acronyms. It baffles me as to how they are so immensely popular, honestly. They’re fun games but there’s a massive hump to get over at the beginning. Anyway, don’t worry if you have no idea what Sydney and Leon are going on about in panel 2. I promise it’s legit.
I had to rewatch Star Trek into Darkness to make sure I had Leon and Sydney’s banter correct for this page, so now I can say I have suffered for my art. That movie was… fine on the first viewing, but man, the refrigerator logic was strong with this one. It was one of those movies that you walk out of the movie talking about with your friends, and instead of talking about how cool or clever it was, everything someone says punches another hole in the writing and by the time you get to your car you realize it was hot, lens flarey garbage.
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I like the choice of monitor stand. and is he SERIOUSLY lefthand-blind on the keyboard there? My arm would go to sleep in ten minutes like that
Judging by his hand position, I see no issue in that.
There’s a distinctive gap between F1-F4 and F5-F8, you don’t need to look at keyboard at all to press them or to change accord.
Normally I have single-target abilities around left block and mass abilities around second block. Third block is normally support and most of it is bound to my mouse, so I rarely touch them with other hand.
Blind keyboarding isn’t really a issue, even at minimum adding a textured sticker to two for “home position” would do. It’s the arm position limiting blood flow and putting the arm “to sleep”. To which I agree, I wouldn’t be able to feel my fingers after about twenty minutes.
Its the mouse that would drive me crazy, especially with a proper one. Some sheets of paper as a mouse-pad causes issues, plus moving it around *ug* I hate not having some form of smooth flat surface for it. (I guess he could have his dpi set so high a slight move would move the screen width, but dam that would have to be insane)
Or he could be using a trackball, even one of those mobile handheld track balls.
Panel three shows the ‘mouse’, and it does look like it is a trackball (either that, it has one heck of a huge ‘scroll wheel’)
He’s using a trackball. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. I knew a guy who played Quake 3 with one. I gave it a try, and it seemed doable, given a few hours to catch up on the learning curve.
I always played shooters with a trackball, if possible, I found it much more responsive and intuitive than a mouse. Plus nobody else could use my computer, because not many people can use a trackball.
Hadn’t even thought of a trackball and entirely missed that great detail in p3. I’ve also used one but never enough to be efficient, keep planing on buying one for when my wrist is bothering me.
Oh, come on, Max. If you’d given ’em three more panels, they’d be getting laid.
Nah, not laid, just some hot and heavy Fallout 4 foreplay.
Fallout 4 play?
https://instantrimshot.com/
I seriously considered it for a moment but stopped before clicking, going NOPE NOPE NOPE!
I’m not sure if Sydney is playing with her hair, letting it down, or both in panel 4(I imagine both considering panel 6), but I like it. If I found myself sitting stationary and just talking like that I’d let my hair down and play with it too, if I still had long enough hair for that.
I initially questioned the mere one hour spent talking about nerd stuff, far too short of time, and then I remembered, Max was interrupting.
Also, Sydney’s just the best at swearing.
Believe she is just playing with it, not letting it down
Why not both?
That answer was before looking closer at panel five (the brown Unknown looked a little like the top of her ponytail, as seen in panel the first, but we have already established can’t make out details like that :( )
I do start to wonder how long is spent actually coming up with Sydney swear vocabulary…
Ahh, wow, been a while since I’ve heard someone mention DotA 2 instead of LoL. Last time I played, everyone was still on about Enchantress and Leshrac, with the latter in particular getting massively overused. I had to stop playing, tho, games were awful and I kept getting interrupted mid-game (45 minute-1 hour+ sessions just are not workable if there’s a chance you can be interrupted).
Back when I still played, tho, I mostly mained Lion and Jakiro, with the occasional Sand King. I wanted to run Necrophos for my all-hero challenge, but never managed to figure out the right builds.
Latest patch sandkings scepter upgrade got changed so that it doubles the length that with a new item that increases spell range makes his stun go further than a blink
Panels 3 & 4 could have use an arrow and time indicator for clarity, a la: “–Two–Hours–Later–>”. I have to admit, otherwise there is not clue to time transition and the dialog is, uhm, it takes a sharp turn without the indicator. It’s like how people drive in my city. -_-
It is how many of us with ADHD think. Good luck keeping up with the train of thought that keeps skipping to the next track.
That’s why it needs some sort of indicator of time passing. Otherwise it just reads as sporadic change of subject between panels which wouldn’t be unexpected for sydney’s character.
Don’t get me started on ‘ST Into Darkness’, Dave! Every damn time the writers wanted to add some cute little death scene, or speed up the plot, they pulled some Phlebotinum out of their ass to shoehorn it in with no regard to how it will affect that movie universe in the future. No respect at all for the material. Roddenberry must be turning in his grave.
That’s why I wrapped him in copper wire and surrounded him with magnets.
Free power for life.
But now the Earth is experiencing a slight eccentricity in it’s axial rotation…We could wind up spiraling into the sun in about 10k years.
It’s too bad that the Prime Directive will prevent any friendly alien race from saving us.
Don’t worry, every few decades we’ll just flip his coffin so his head is pointing the other direction, spin cancels itself out, everything is groovy again.
Let’s see what happens when you spin his coffin vertically, while he is spinning horizontally.
Anybody notice/mention that Hiro brought his pair of groupies “home” for the evening? Looks like Super Hiro’s callsign needs to be changed to Horndog Hiro!
Yeah, mentioned early on the first page (also about Peggy looking out the window)
Okay, all you commenters have completely failed in your duties and have to turn both your Geek Cred card and your Nit-Pick card.
Unless she’s talking about a future Star Trek movie featuring a notable comedy actress raised from the dead, it is spelled K – H – A – N.
Well, then isn’t that due to the spelling mistake in panel 4?
Why would the incorrect spelling of “Chekov” lead to people spelling “Khan” wrong?
Oh, wait, you mean the other spelling error in panel 4 . . .
;-)
Whoops, my bad.
Ok it’s fixed now.
Ninjas did it. Always blame Ninjas.
How do you know that it wasn’t the butler who did it?
“Jarvis! Can I talk to you for a moment?”
~Heard in the Avengers Mansion (not the same as Jarvis, Tony Stark’s computer AI)
How do you know the butler isn’t a ninja in disguise?
Strange. Her socks are the opposite of Daniel the Human’s socks, hers are red with black toes & heels, while his are black with red toe & heel. Apparently his have something to do with “special steel toe boots” & normal socks rapidly growing holes in vital locations.
wonder if she chose those socks to go with the shirt…?
Hmmm…
I wonder which style is most like Pippy Longstocking’s preference in socks? I don’t rightly remember that kind of detail from so long ago.
Hrm.
maxi and that guy I guess work on little if any sleep.
I suppose he’s used to all nighters. or he starts his shift later.. or is simply “on call”
and her endurance probably helps anti sleep..
I need whatever mod puts “CLICKETY CLICK” up on the screen when you reload.
Actually, that is Leon schooling some nub (the game screen is just barely peeking over the top of his hair and sleeve, the screen with the naked chick in the shower is the Big Screen TV)
He better not be playing jungle legion comander, most useless pick in the game
The classic nerd measurement of time units would be to count the number of soda cans on the table. Unless there is a robo valet or Sydney is lighthooking sodas in and out of the room (with the hologram ball to guide the lighthook around all corners).
Normally yes, but Leon cuts off his Mt. Dew intake by about 8pm.
…I never really considered that, when Leon likes to “spread out,” he also includes his bladder…
Vacuum would be filled the instant the gate was open. The wave of force would probably do more harm to sgc and they wouldn’t be able to keep guards ready and in position. Same with toxic barrels.
Umm, the wouldn’t need guards if they had the barrels
You both miss the point of twb, it seems. Just as Sydney said, barrels should be there to be disintegrated by event horizon burp. Not as a defensive mechanism, but as a harmless and easy way to dispose of said toxic wastes – or anything dangerous, really – without harming environment in any known way.
That said, burp disintegration would be, probably, one of most effective defense mechanisms – just reopen the gate in crucial moment and install pneumatic trampoline under the ramp…
No, Sydney was saying the barrels would be there as added security, not as way of disposal (if it was for disposal, they could just dial into an already abandoned and toxic world and dump the stuff)
Hitting on Underdawg’s first point, hard vacuum would not be compromised by a stargate opening. The energy membrane doesn’t pass atmosphere, which is why they always send a probe to a new address to check conditions at the destination. Now, if you’re talking a different type of gate, I can’t presume to speak with confidence.
Not just atmosphere either, more than once they’ve opened gates that were completely submerged, and water didn’t pass through. Passage through seems to require momentum rather than pressure.
She literally said, “I thought they should hang barrels of toxic waste in front of the gate so they would be disintegrated when it (the gate) opens.” She was talking about disposal, toxic waste doesn’t disintegrate anything.
Now as to why they didn’t just because something is atomized doesn’t me it couldn’t still contaminate the entire area around the gate. The blast doesn’t destroy everything either, the iris could withstand it somehow.
Additionally trucking huge amounts of waste to the Stargate facility would be pretty suspicious.
Actually that could be pretty clever as cover, tell anyone who finds out about the deep levels who isn’t supposed to that they’re toxic materials storage, and it’s suddenly a DAMN good excuse not to let em down there.
Stargate event horizons are a funky monkey, and subsequent to handwavium as much as the next, however it’s been seen that space gates don’t port vacuum to atmospheric gates, so you could make an assumption from that regarding lack of differential pressure IE nothing pressing to cross the event horizon.
As for why not use the TV monitors: Resolution, most likely. Yes, you can get 4k TV’s and so on, however most television grade equipment like that isn’t suitable as a general rule for computer display. I looked into a 40-some-odd inch 4K TV in lieu of my triple monitor setup I have now, and while my panels are only capable of 60fps due to design, 4k TV’s generally can’t even do that. Not a big deal when you’re using it as a commercial display or watching a show, but for gaming, it would be a huge deal.
Actually SG-1 was the most consistent set of rules I’ve ever seen in a fiction show like that. Whenever something broke the rules, it was because there was some new interaction between the gate and something like a black hole or a piece of ancient technology.
They did do one episode near the end of the series where they lampshaded all the technical and plot issues in their own series as well as every other sci-fi series they could throw in. The plot of the episode was that a writer had been brought in to create a fake TV show version of the Stargate project to head off conspiracy rumors about the existence of the Stargate itself. The main characters and the studio rep basically sat around coming up with goofy script ideas for the fake show, and then the scene would jump into that idea actually happening (*cough* Family Guy *cough*)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_%28Stargate_SG-1%29
I think that Sydney’s suggesting that the vacuum would leave someone unfriendly who crosses gasping for air, not suck air through from the other side.
Relaxed body positioning.
Playing with her hair.
Comfortable being close to him.
All the signs are there.
Achievement unlocked. Potential love interest acquired. I wonder about this, too. The other possibility is that it’s not *him* she’s into per se, so much as she’s found someone who really “gets” her interests and where she’s coming from. What if Sydney’s not the only one interested in Leon, and gets frustrated being forced to deal with one of the ditzier supers liking Leon? Ugh, that’s way too close to a “harem” trope subplot. I so very much dislike “harem” subplots, and by dislike, I mean hate with an undying passion.
I don’t have anything against harem tropes themselves, but nearly all manga/anime has become intolerably lazy with it.
Oh, you’re living with a tomboy, a pleasant one who is none the less shy and gets punchy on occasion, a hard living violent one who has a feminine side but only rarely shows it, and one that’s basically a weird alien or catgirl, and you yourself are a boring generic template of a male so you don’t distract the male readers from imagining themselves in your place? You don’t say.
Then you have something like Aiki, where all the girls are violent tomboys, and the main character is a lecherous pervert-slash-bored god? Yeah ok I’ll check that out.
ಠ_ಠ
Whatever you’ve planned in Sydney’s future, I’m certain it’ll be highly entertaining, you glorious dapper monster. You have my thumbs-up … not that my thumbs have value, although that would be both weird and amazing.
I suppose the value of your “thumbs up” would depend mostly on someone’s opinion as to where they’re up & into…
And that this 15-18 year old male has, apparently, no sex drive as the households worth of appealing archtypes are all trying to get the MC to look their way.
No, not a ‘potential love interest’, but more a ‘kindred spirit’, someone with whom she can let her gerk*-age out with
(*geek+nerd=gerk, or maybe ‘neek’=nerd+geek))
Quote: The other possibility is that it’s not *him* she’s into per se, so much as she’s found someone who really “gets” her interests and where she’s coming from.
Sounds like a kindred spirit to me.
I don’t think we can discredit either possibility until further evidence has been presented.
(Also, I’m a fan of the silent “G”, m’self, but gneed doesn’t seem to work. How about gnerk or gneek?)
do recall that at the end of their First meeting/interacting, she put him in the Reverse list. Possibly while blushing (though it might have been bruises from her cognitive reset action). Second time during the post-press conference dinner shindig we got to read her thoughts about imagining him with Her surname. So adding this one in and me thinks romantic interest is at least somewhat more likely than platonic if we follow the fairly well established trend here.
Isn’t the Middle where she puts ‘potential bond-mates’, like Logan (complete with illustration), figured the ‘Reverse List’ was for BFF’s
Idea: I think if you went with a slightly tilted divider between panels 3&4, you might get a sort of implied “time’s passing” read to it. I can’t really say why, but it strikes me that it might work.
This has happened to me more then once, especially when I’m talking to my friends on Skype.
The world has lost 2 greats today.
Lemmy of Motorhead,
and
Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlemglobetrotters
True superheroes both.
Re: “analytical about football”… I don’t think that is appropriate comparison. Imagine someone showing you a close-up of you car’s motor and telling you that “it is your car”?
I mean, how many people actually know, how their car’s engine work, and how many of them could actually make sense from the mess of wires, pipes and other stuff typical for modern car engines? And it is, as much as it is a joke, an ACTUALLY THE your car. Remove the engine, and you get a chariot without a horse. Can’t even stand on its own.
Same for any sufficiently developed game. Be it whatever sort genre, doesn’t really matter. MOBA’s just have a single-minded focus, and thus more narrow set of goals and less ways to reach them. Which normally translates into straightforward and relatively small set of core mechanics, which you just have to memorize, and then apply to specifics of a character of your choice as your understanding allows for.
Part of the reason why I make sure everyone is on same side of the wall, when starting to talk specifics of the agenda.
My point was that there’s insider lingo that you have to commit some time to learn before you can understand what your obsessed uncle is talking about or make sense of someone talking over a replay of the event.
Jargon is the word for that, and it’s a lovely one. Every speciality has its own jargon, and often in direct conflict with another field’s.
Sailing jargon is a great example. To someone uneducated in it, it sounds like gibberish, but every word has a very clear meaning and purpose.
Even if you are educated in it, it still sounds like gibberish :P
I recently saw something on the History Channel that described ‘port’ and ‘starboard’. Before ships had a central rudder they had a large plank (or ‘board’) strapped to the side and moved by hand to change the ship’s direction. Since you would want to use your stronger hand to do this it defaulted to the right side of the ship. This setup meant you could not dock the ship on the ‘steering board’ side since it would get in the way. Therefore the other side of the ship would be used when coming into ‘port’.
Fascinating.
JJ Abrams is by far one of the worst directors I have ever experienced. And I am not talking about plot holes or his tendency to wreck whole fantasy universes for a half assed punch line, I talk about every of his movies is basically the same. Always. Every Time.
Even the worst Uwe Boll flick will easily wipe the floor with the best Abrams movie.
Wait does Max not sleep, and if she does, does she not need much if she’s still up and telling Sydney to go to bed?
Maxima is an early riser. She’s slept a good six hours, washed and showered while Syd and Leon were shooting the breeze.
Not really about today’s page, but I found something that I thought interesting. It’s a contest that Sydney would honestly excel at. Flyting. It’s basically a contest where two people insult each other. The one with the best insult wins.
Isn’t that just a rap battle?
Ultimate rap battles of history!
Sydney Scoville Jr (The Mighty Halo)
Vs
Peter Parker (The Amazing Spider-Man)
BEGIN!
In the next round they go up against each other’s major villains.
Can Spiderman’s webbing contain Vehemence?
Can Sydney’s Light Hook tie up Doc Oc?
Wow, Syney even perches like me….I am starting to get a little disturbed at the similarities….
so that’s where that quantum string is going I wondered.
They have a great attitude toward “Into Darkness”.. (Into Dorkness? :) ()
Yeah, Trek Into Darkness pretty much broke the Star Trek universe with transwarp transporter technology. Why couldn’t the writers simply have had Khan beam up into a waiting getaway-ship, which is subsequently tracked to Kronos? Or why even Kronos? Why not a Klingon outpost-world along the Klingon-Federation border? The Enterprise would still have had to go get him or fire fancy warp-capable missiles at him or whatever.
In Stargate they should have had the gate on a rotating platform and pointed it at a wall most of the time. It would prevent invaders running through the gate shooting at everyone, since they’d be shooting at a wall.
Probably because professional scriptwriters don’t have the expertise required to apply some common sense procedures that would be required in other professions that they write about?
Even more fun.
Put it in a rotating frame and have it pointing at the cealing so when the enemy comes running out they just fall right back in, while shooting the cealing.
That would have been a very scary security measure. Remember, the event horizon of an incoming wormhole doesn’t allow anything physical through it. They’d be disintegrated right after coming through. I imagine it’s even worse than the original Iris, seeing as you get that split second “Oh, Sh-“before death, whereas before it was both painless and unexpected (i.e. It didn’t let you reform at all). Of course, if they have any Flight/Hover capability, you’re just screwed.
Remember that a Stargate is dangerous the first few seconds after it opens – there’s a shockwave that basically annihilates anything directly in front of the gate. Place it against a stone wall, and that shockwave will carve out a nice niche in it for the travelers to step into. That’s why SG-1 had a metal iris that stayed open until the wormhole stabilized, and then pulled quickly shut.
I decided to do some re-reading, and whenever I see a Stargate reference here (btw thank you for that. I almost never see one in general except here) I always end up reading the comments. That said, there was some hand waving where they gave a reason why the iris never disintegrated, Many times the iris would already be closed when the wormhole was opening.
We have no idea how complicated the system they Macgyvered up to run the thing was. Quite likely it was not something that could be practically placed on a turntable.
Bwahahaahah! Dave! Best f**kin’ line all year, ANY webcomic! :D Right there! Thank you Sydney!
I think it’s funny how this day’s ending less than a year after it started, and the last one took 3-4 years (can’t recall the specifics)! You’re getting faster!
… what mouse is he using that can manage to read that well with out freaking out? Side note, my mouse sucks greatly. >.>
Most likely, a trackball
This all makes me happy. ^w^
I love the gripes Sydney and Leon are having about “New” Trek and Chekov getting promoted around lots of people….
Did they forget the first “New” Trek abomination, Office Cadet to Starship Captain, in a day, because that would make a really effective military system…….
No, they talked about that between panels three and four
Hiro bringing two unknown females into the building? There has to be something going on that’s messed up in his head. Because he’s not thinking with it.
Or maybe he’s just thinking with the other head . . .
DaveB long ago established that some of the building was open to the public and contained things like restaurants. So long as Hiro keeps his little playmates in these kinds of unsecured areas, I think he’ll be alright. It looks like this page takes place in the teams rest and relaxation area so presumably there’s nothing secret lying around for the girls to spot.
She’s so not going to sleep tonight.
Sydney, prop open your eyelids with cocktail sticks, until you are in bed. Otherwise, at your current rate of time-skipping, with just two or three eye-blinks, you will be back on duty!
…
Does Maxima not need to sleep, or something?
Commanders of her rank, at a time of battle, or other crisis, may have to go seventy two hours without sleep. Ship captains in WWII were recorded as doing that, despite having the luxury of their cabin near to hand.
In this case the biggest super-battle in the history of the world occurred only yesterday, under Maxima’s command. Even reporting on the aftermath, to the president and others, will have deprived her of most sleep, I guess.
Of course cunning commanders find a way round such problems, if there is any gap in their schedule. Even a fifteen or twenty minute power-nap can keep her going, until all of the most critical issues have been resolved, or counters set in motion. The physical battle may be over, but the training and scouting for the next can afford no delay, and the political battles will never stop.
While I understand that this is a superhero comic first and foremost, I must state as a woman I really like them together! Plus I really don’t think Leon would care about taking her last name, he seems like a “if it makes my girl happy, i’ll do it.” kinda guy, in a good way.
Also, love the small things in the page. To many it just seems like normal chat but if you look at her body language it shows a lot more. Starting on the edge of the couch barely sitting, shifting to slightly to be on the couch but giving him space, and talking then ending with shoes off, spread out on the couch where they could almost be on this lap. This shows how comfortable Sydney is with him.
Same could be said for Leon, shifting his attention from a game slightly, to fully turning it off and sitting up to allow her to sit on the couch better, to just relaxing to the point where he really didnt care if Sydney DID put her feet in his lap. Hell, you might have started giving her a foot massage :P J/K.
Finally, the hair plays can sometimes be a sign of interest, something to keep the hands busy instead of going for something “else”.
Also, love the smirk in the panel two that Leon has, like “yeah its Dota2 im badass huh?”
As someone who is not a nerdy as Sydney but geeky enough to feel like she’s me at points, I would fall in love with Leon very, very fast. He would just always out nerd me.
I normally pay a fair amount of attention to body language (Max never stands with her chest thrust out, Dabbler sometimes leans towards people, etc.) but on this page I paid extra attention to it. :)
What’s so hard about time transitions? Put a box in the upper left-hand corner of panel 4 with “An hour later…”. Often the first character who says anything is only saying the last part of their sentence (as if we came in the middle of it). That part is not required, but does often help with the “time passes” feel.
Ugh. The less said about the Star Trek reboot, the better. :-(
Gonna be real honest here. I have no idea if someone already posted this anywhere, but as far as Dota is concerned, there is a really nice introductory article about it. It is written by Purge and was once titled “Welcome to Dota, you suck.” I have been searching for similar articles for LoL, but have not yet found any. If you want a bit of help learning some of the terms (specific to dota and more general ones also) give it a read.
https://purgegamers.true.io/g/dota-2-guide/
Actually who says Khan actually shared the technology of the personal transwarp device with Admiral robocop? The guy was a major jockstrap of a person to begin with ans was using Khan’s family and friends as incentive/prisoners to make Khan build things for him… Khan is not a person you do that to without major consequences….
But it was Scotty/Future Spock who invented it in the first reboot movie, and then starfleet “confiscated the tech” according to Scotty in the second movie, so they definitely had access to it.
Trouble is that there’s a massive discrepancy in what transwarp beaming IS between the two movies.
In the first movie (and the source material) Transwarp Beaming is the ability to use the transporter to transport from one vessel moving at warp to another vessel moving at warp. It’s the fine art of getting a transporter beam to remain coherent when penetrating TWO warp fields.
In the second movie, it’s the ability to transport across massive distances, literally from one star system to another star system roughly a hundred light years away.
Verily, those are two different things.
True.
You can see a logical connection though. Normal transporting only occurs at sub-warp speeds. So it is a huge leap forwards to be able to do that whilst travelling at warp speed. And, if you are able to send a signal at warp speed,* then there is clearly the potential for that signal to travel the distance between stars, in the same manner that starships do. Except it would (using the principles of the teleporter) be able to do so even faster than a star ship.
So very advanced development, but one that we could envisage having had its origins with Scotty’s technique.
Therefore his indignation would also be appropriate, at them confiscating it. That is the action of a totalitarian power-seeking regime, rather than one which nurtures research and development and supports the inventors, to encourage them to further the field. Rather than cutting them out of the loop.
* I.e. it cannot be transmitted like a normal light-speed transmission at sub-warp speeds, or it could not keep up.
Part of the issue is the fact that a transporter beam isn’t just a signal. It’s a particle stream and a complex structure of fine manipulation field effects capable of manipulating the arrangement of those particles from vast differences.
Keeping those functions coherent through multiple warp fields isn’t about them crossing vast distances. Vast distances can be powered through, in theory. It’s about keeping them coherent as they cross through multiple layers of what’s essentially gravitational distortion yanking the particle stream sharply hither and yon. That’s a question of precision, not power.
*Distances. Vast distances. What is up with my spelling this morning?