Grrl Power #403 – Wardrobe destruction
I think I’ve mentioned it before, but Maxima has a field that runs through her body down to the cellular level which massively enhances her structural integrity and strength. This field bleeds out a bit from her body and protects her clothing against all but the most significant attacks. Hiro’s powers don’t bleed out like Maxima’s, and as a result, his clothing is much more vulnerable to the rigors of the super lifestyle. It’s also why Maxima can one arm an ambulance over her head without ripping off the bumper, and why Hiro has to center himself under something and gently tip it up to get his hands on more structurally sound bits. i.e. Hiro’s shirt are in constant jeopardy. Sometimes his pants as well, but usually people aim for center mass in a fight. Stalwart is somewhere in between.
There’s no one on the team who can make concrete set faster, but if you’re talking about moving stuff that normally requires expensive and slow moving cranes, then the team can indeed be quite a boon with assembling all the parts, as well as clearing rubble. Anyone with super strength and flight would never be out of an extremely well paying job in this world.
Sydney was fine with the Sexy Picture Exchange Armistice until just now. Being a nerd and a girl, she is part of a population that still skews male. Not nearly as hard as it used to, but in most gaming group she’s a part of, there’s usually 3-5 guys and 1-2 girls. For that reason she’s used to being a somewhat rarefied commodity and therefor sought after. However now she’s part of a group that skews female, and all of her teammates are in her mind, 8’s, 9’s and 10’s, so it just didn’t occur to her up to this point that she might be required to participate.
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We’ll see – I think she’ll end up 6’2″ and ripped yet busty. Madder things have happened.
Also – good PR there…
That’s too much to hope for, but maybe she could tweak her hologram as a distraction?
Hmm I thought her hologram just made an exact replica(mirrored) of what she looks at the time
Maybe there’s a bonus level she can unlock in the future?
Yup, that has been theorized ever since the skill tree reveal. But currently her hologram shows only an exact replica.
We don’t know if the hologram is photographable. Some of the Orb visuals aren’t…
Probably not photographable, certainly not digitally: recall, Dabbler could not see it with the cybernetic eye.
No, she couldn’t see the skill tree with her eye.
I wonder if it would be visible to a regular film camera. Since it has pretty much the spectrum the human eye could see versus a digital camera having filters to block certain parts of the spectrum
Hey! Keep your damned, dirty ape science hands off of my alien technology magic!
That assumes that people can see the skill tree because it gives off visible light. It could create a psychic impression on the optic center of the brain.
As speaking from a Geek/Nerd (Gnerd?) perspective. There is nothing wrong nor unsexy about how Sydney appears as she is. In fact I know a fair few geek couples where the lady is of similar appearance and tomboy ways and their partners wouldn’t have it any other way.
of course not anarchyant, its just that sydney has a low self esteem when comparing herself to those who represent the peak of social definition of sexy and beauty
Someone needs to remind Sydney of Rule #34…
O_O …. Apparently someone needed to remind me of it cause until just this moment I forgot
Per Urban Dictionary: Generally accepted internet rule that states that pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject.
Often stated as “if it exists, there is porn of it”.
Some think this is an understatement, so less restrictive versions can be found.
As well as Rule 35 being that if you think about it and it doesn’t exist then someone will come up with it. There is another version I think which is if you can think of the weirdest possible kind of kink etc (that actually doesn’t exist), in a parallel universe it comes into being.
This is why I can’t understand it, when someone says something so outrageously esoteric, someone else will describe it as “unthinkable.” by definition, if anyone actually thinks of it, then it can’t be “unthinkable.” Why do we even have that word in our vocabulary in the first place?
O.o
It’s inconceivable!
If you’re saying that why we have “unthinkable” in our volcabulary is due to a inconceivable reason, I must agree.
;)
That is unimaginable!
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Quantum+Fetish+Mechanics
Someone got lazy. Wetriffs.com does not resolve.
It used to. Check the wayback machine, and it’s there.
I must confess I would rather go for someone like Sydney especially with her geeky brains (mmm brains) over someone that’s all hey look at my boobs n buns and zero up top in the head department.
Is the next vote incentive going to be a sexy Halo?
Like this one? :-)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/718
hehe
If god loves us, then YES!
If by adorkable – yes
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If Heatwave has enough control to gently warm the cement, she could, in fact, help it to set faster. Too fast, and it would crack, and have to be replaced. Again.
That has issues. If Heatwave were to increase the temprature of the concrete by a mere 18F it could cause the resulting concrete to lose as much as 10% in compressive strength (probably not good for an overpass..).
A brief overview can be found here: https://www.concretenetwork.com/hot-weather-concreting/problem.html
Concrete sets through a chemical reaction, which happens to be slightly exothermic. Heating it doesn’t help, although it may seem that way. I do some occasional concrete work as part of my job, and one of the things I have to do is to keep people from using it until it properly sets. By that, I don’t mean “it’s hard,” but “it’s fully cured” which takes about a month.
Actually don’t you have to keep the cement a little damp/wet to actually help cool it off a bit for strength?
There is an optimum temperature for concrete to set, so maybe. It’s why some construction seems to take forever – they’re waiting for the right weather.
On the lighter side, there is quite a bit of iron work in construction, so they DO have a lot of things to do….
Pretty much true – used to work as a construction field tech for three and a half years. Optimum curing conditions include a temperature range and a moisture range and a percentage of entrained air range.
All of these conditions are accounted for in the mix at the concrete plant and can, within limits, be *slightly* adjusted on site. it’s generally a bad idea to muck with the mix too much, but, again, stuff happens on job sites, which is why I had work as a construction inspector.
As a general rule, concrete can be poured at *any* environmental temperature, provided the current environmental temperature is taken into account in the mix (extremes of temperature are fairly easy to account for chemically but gets progressively more expensive as you go further away from the 65F-85F preferred range). Maintaining a consistent temperature after the pour is much trickier, which is why those thermal blankets come into play. This is also why they try not to pour concrete immediately before a significant change in the outdoor temperature – if you pour it at 60F and it drops to -30F, all the thermal blankets in the world aren’t likely to help.
Too much or too little water in the mix is something the folks on site have more control over and they like to exercise that control. Field techs test “slump”, which is basically what happens when you put concrete into a container of a known height, remove that container, and check how far the top of the concrete pile falls. Too little slump and the concrete may already be setting up in the truck, and that’s *really* bad. Too much slump and the mix may be out of whack and the concrete may never set up properly – also really bad. However, the mix comes which an optimum slump and an acceptable range of variance, so this isn’t quite as fiddly as it sounds. Unless, of course, the guys and gals pouring the stuff make it more plastic (runny) – pouring and placing concrete is *hard* work, and plastic is easier (“I don’t care how excrementally runny it is…”).
Air entrainment comes into play only for concrete that is intended to be exposed to the elements and is likely to have water standing on it. As all of us know, water expands and contracts as its temperature changes, sometimes dramatically. Entrained air make “pockets” of air for that water to go into as it expands and contracts. The stuff they use at the mix plant to control this is very nearly identical to fabric softener (you know, like, for your clothes). I’ve seen a mix rep pull out a bottle of free and clear Bounty fabric softener, run some numbers, add four or five capfuls to the concrete, spin it for a specific amount of time,and adjust the air entrainment in the field to within a tenth of a percent of what it was supposed to be. I was *very* impressed. :D
Ironworkers tie the steel, and it’s pretty rare for concrete workers to also be ironworkers as well, at least in my experience. Whole bunch of extra certifications to be an ironworker and certifications are *expensive*. Conversely, I’ve seen lots of concrete workers hauling steel for the iron workers, so your point is still valid. Usually the issue that makes construction slow down or stop is one of three things (1) supply chain issues, (2) unanticipated site challenges that require a decision from someone higher up the food chain, and (3) Ma Nature being a hag and making the safety factor more important than the timetable.
So many stories, and this post is boring after the second line. :D
“So many stories, and this post is boring after the second line. :D”
Not at all.
In fact, one of my Rules of the Internet is:
If a subject exists, and is under discussion in a comment or forum thread, that thread will also contain an expert on the subject who will teach me something interesting.
It seems to hold true on the sites I frequent, and this particular discussion has been no exception–Thanks!
A subsidiary, yet related Rule of Thumb for the internet that nicely follows up your Rule:
The number of actual, qualified experts in a discussion or forum that can actually teach you something is inversely proportional to the loud-mouthed idiots who don’t even have enough common sense to know how wrong they are.
…or those who haven’t bothered to read the thread before commenting and who therefore have posted the third instance of a comment already refuted by said experts before the first instance was posted…
-which I’m sure could have been expressed more concisely, were I more awake.
Batman would read every word. Knowledge is POWER!!!
No, temperature does have an effect, in that the concrete has to lose the moisture it has in order to both harden and cure. If it is hot enough, or the mix isn’t correct for the heat when pouring it, it is possible for it to disrupt the process. I haven’t done much concrete work myself, but if I were to get my father to sit down and record all of the stories of concrete work gone wrong he’s been an unfortunate party to over the decades and then type them up in a book I’d easily have a novel’s worth. Going by most of those stories you’d get the impression that my father (who was working as just a grunt on the project) knew more about concrete than the bosses.
9 times out of 10, the “Grunts” DO know more than the “Bosses”
The boss does not have to be an expert in the work. He/she needs to know SOMETHING about it (anyone can make good decisions with enough information, a good manager can make acceptable decisions with insufficient information, a perfect manager can operate in perfect ignorance) but also needs to know how to manage the project.
One of the banes of a lot of tech fields is that in most places there’s a limit to how high one can rise as a technician; to get any more respect or money, one has to become a manager. But there are people who are near miracle-workers as technicians and absolutely suck as managers – and, further, love the technical work and have absolutely no desire to be managers.
Preach, brother, preach.
Good bosses (at least, on a job site) are ones who know whom they can trust to give good information on the topic of expertise in question… and can recognize when the question needs to be asked and actually ask questions of and listen to the answers of those people.
Tougher than it sounds.
That doesn’t exactly hold up when the boss is the one ordering the cement, and telling the mix company exactly how much calcium (which affects how fast it sets) he wants. There’s one project my father was on where the mix was so severely off balanced for the weather they were hosing it down as it came out of the truck just so they could get it in the forms and smoothed (this was for driveways, so level was reletive rather than absolute) before it set. Now, do you still think the boss not knowing as much as the grunts isn’t a problem there? When the boss nearly costs the company he owns hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars and who knows how many man hours of work fixing something he refused to acknowledge he was wrong on? When the boss has underlings do everything he doesn’t need to know a lot, just how to find reliable underlings and stay out of their way. When the boss has direct responsibilites that require actually knowing how to properly do something and he doesn’t seem to have said knowledge and won’t listen to the underlings who do have it he can royally fuck something up.
“The boss does not have to be an expert in the work.”
How true, how true. One of the consequences of that is:
https://www.c4vct.com/kym/humor/whoboss.htm
Max is wearing jeans?
It’s probably not a good idea to fly around in a skirt . . . above other people . . . who will probably look up.
What else? You think she’d ever fly in a dress?
She’s already stated she doesn’t wear skirts.
I think he was saying “as opposed to Uniform pants,” guys.
Correct. I’m glad some people understand.
She’s not wearing a regulation jacket either, and Hiro isn’t wearing uniform pants either
Too bad no one was there with a camera in panel one. We would have a return photo available to send to the guys titled ‘Gluteus Maxima’.
Who would be brave and/or foolish enough to risk being caught with that kind picture? It would certanly be a very nice picture to enjoy watching but hardly worth the risks involved.
Omar would do it for another rage pic of Maxima.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1886
It is a rare occurrence, but does occasionally happen.
Jeans are probably going to be more practical than uniform pants for construction work
since the “mission” as it may be, seems to be more of a public relations thing rather than and ACTUAL mission, I’ll hazard a bet that Ariana specifically TOLD them to show up in civvies*, rather than military uniform, in order to “ease the minds” of some of our “more sensitive” constituents (ie morons) about how “The Military** is Taking over Our JOBS” mentality… if they show up in civvies, they are “just volunteering”, and not actually “taking over” the job-site…
*Civvies: slang for Civilian Clothes. though they should still be appropriate for the area, ie: a sundress is NOT appropriate for a construction site, ie: Harem…
**P.S: believe it or not, it IS actually ILLEGAL for active-duty military troops like the SeaBees (John Wayne movie “The Fighting Seabees”) to build anything STATESIDE, as it will deprive a civilian their chance at performing his/her normal day-job… by the same token, when in a combat zone, the civilians are the one that can’t be there and then it IS the job of the Seabees to do all the building of stuff… i found that out when i was in the Navy Reserves and our CB’s built a picnic pavilion on the Everett Navy Base as part of their qualifications for being able to do concrete work or something like that (not exactly sure, mind you, as i am an electrician) anyway, it wasn’t until they were done and it was being inspected by everybody under the sun, that we were told that it should never have been authorized in the first place, because of that law… that if the MWR facility had wanted a pavilion, that they SHOULD have contracted out a civilian firm to do the job, but the various people complaining weren’t TOO angry as it was “just” a covering over two picnic tables, but that if it were to have been anything more substantial, that they would have filed a grievance and/or a lawsuit…
Harem had nothing to do with Hiro’s shirt ripping, I’m sure.
No, it’s not like she has a history of conning people out of their shirts
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/672
To be fair she should not be the only suspect here. I am sure Dabbler have a cloth disintegrator sniper gun for these kinds of situations.
Dabbler doesn’t need it to get people out of their clothes – men or women.
I think dabbler has already done something like that…Way back in 1980.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nude_Bomb
I think Doc Savage has had shirt ripping powers since his creation…
Or has it only been since his paperback book cover days?
Re the last panel: Never say never, Sydney.
Haha its probably gonna turn out like max’s phone I’d picture lol!
Gah I mean ID picture. Stupid auto-correct
Took the words right out of my mouth. : )
A few months of working out…
She’ll still be embarrassed, though.
If someone is taking her picture I think she would take embarrassed over bare assed any day.
just like i’d prefer a “bottle in front of me” instead of a “frontal Lobotomy”… i have no clue what stand-up comic i heard that from, but it’s still the truth!
and the moment hiro is sweaty a new PR happens
a CROWD of people piling up to see the show.
just tell syd shes doing a splatoon cosplay and she would be all over the bike-shorts/mini-shirt combo.
Copay might be a good alternative. Some girls are more comfortable dressing up in characters even tough said characters have less clothes than what most people would usually wear.
Kinda like how for some reason swimsuits are ok to wear in public but lingerie is not in people’s minds
Meant cosplay lol
Your autocorrect is too stupid :D
I was thinking the same – cosplayer and no sexy pics at all? Strange… Even for Sydney.
Maybe now that she’s surrounded by more girls than guys, and quite self-confident ones, and having good reasons to develop some self-confidence herself, she may warm up to the idea…
i know right? but there’s a silver lining. the phone remembers the words i use so eventually it’ll understand what i mean everytime( this was typed on my computer btw)
Apparently your PC is now sore that you complained about it and is preventing the shift key from working in retaliation.
No, it probably isn’t going to work that way. Remember, society puts this insane focus on women having to be in the mid- to upper- 5′ range, have at least a C cup (preferrably more to society), and a flat or near-flat stomache to be ‘beautiful’. Unless those orbs cause a sudden mysterious growth spurt (which would greatly hurt A.R.C.’s image, as it would imply they employed a minor in a high danger occupation, and that’s one can of worms they’ll want to avoid like the plague) she’s always going to be to short and to flat chested to be ‘beautiful’. The problem here is that she is surrounded by a bunch of women who, although taller than what society considers ‘beautiful’, are very busty and have ‘ideal’ figures. Until she gets some fans who consider her, and not her teammates, to be sexy, and who don’t come across as pedophiles focusing on a super loli, her confidence is going to actually be much worse. Based on several of her earlier actions she’s already been made extremely uncomfortable by the fact that she just isn’t as ‘beautiful’ as the other women, and it has hurt her self-confidence in her appearance some (thankfully she doesn’t base her self-esteem on her appearance).
If you don’t get the super loli reference watch Please Teacher, it’s on Hulu, and you might want to consider the sequel Please Twins. I’ve loved it that Hulu has started to get so many great older animes now that the Japanese studio’s have started to have their own channels there, and quite a bit of it is dubbed even.
I think you underestimate us guys. In real life many, if not most, men would like her the way she is and would tell her in a nice way. I’m sure this goes for the fictional guys here too.
Seconding this. Most of the unrealistic beauty standards are put forth by the fashion industry and women’s magazines. You’ll see a cover blurb on Cosmo lamenting the impossible beauty standards women are forced to live up too right next to a photo shopped supermodel or actress. When you get out in real world, away from the images force fed to us through the media, you find a genuine appreciation for all sorts of body types. Sydney may be boyish, but is still an attractive young woman. And as Anvildude points out, attitude and confidence go a long way towards what is “sexy”.
Except maybe Math… meh… Math wouldn’t care… any skin and Math is done for the day…
what society is this?
i think you have spent way too much time reading trashy fashion and celebrity magazines, because they are the only source of the social image pressure nonsense in my society.
and if its not you reading the trash directly to end up with this idea, then its the people you got the idea from.
Aside from the height try just about every single guy I personally know, and if I subtract the ones who are blood relatives it is every single guy I personally know, aside from myself. The reason those fucked up standards manage to thrive in media is because there are more men who prefer those types of women than any other group individually, and based on the people I know myself I can easily see why it doesn’t change. If there really are so many guys who like different body types then you’d assume that at least 1/4 of the guys I personally know, if not 1/2, would like something other than what the media force-feeds us, but that isn’t my personal experience.
Since when have mass media and commercials realy cared much for reality? A real man knows that he can and will be charmed by many kinds of women, even those that he didn’t think was his type. But media have never been interested in such a complicated picture. It’s just easier to keep to old stereotypes.
i dont care about your assertions of personal experience.
all you have done with your paragraph about the media, is admit the assertion i made about trashy fashion and celebrity rags was true.
since its those female audience targeting pathetic excuses that are consistently the ones dribbling the nonsense you are referring to. typically a page turn from adverts about trendy clothes and makeup being worn or endorsed by celebrities.
Except I don’t know what century it was I last read one of those gossip rags, or more accurately the fact that I’ve never read one, so your assertion still doesn’t hold. I am going by what I observe in the behavior of others around me, and once you get away from those who practically live online the ideals the media strive to force feed us are the ones that have the greatest number of men seeking them. Yes, women of many other body types do great in porn on the Internet, but there is a reason it took the Internet for it to truly thrive, it had problems reaching useful audience numbers before then because those of us who like something different are to few and to scattered.
Maybe you haven’t read one of those rags personally, but what about those around you? The ones you claim to be ‘observing’? You are mimicking their behaviour, and thus, you have been influenced by those gossip rags
Wait, how am I mimicking their behavior? Yes, I like a tall woman, one that is taller than me in fact, but that is so that I can snuggle into her, instead of her snuggling into me. I don’t like large breasts, I much prefer women with something below a B-Cup. I’m actually allergic to most, if not all, make-up, but even before learning of said allergy I preferred a woman who didn’t feel the need to put on her war paint all the time (and not because she was naturally ‘beautiful’, I just don’t like the look of make-up, I’d rather look at an ‘ugly’ face regularly than one that used make-up to be ‘beautiful’, but I’m not a high enough level anything to take on the beholder to then figure out which eye has the ‘beauty’ in it to get it and attempt to understand it). I don’t even like especially ‘girly’ women, I much prefer the tomboys. Actually, to help you out a little take most of the whole ‘guy does this, girl does that’ aspects of a relationship and reverse them for my dream relationship. I don’t even have to read one of those rags to tell you that that is contrary to what those rags regularly spew forth. I know this because I’ve give up on ever finding a woman I’d like enough to willingly be in a relationship with again, as human society as it currently stands isn’t likely to cause a woman such as I like, who would be interested in me in return (that’s the catcher there) within my lifetime, unless I want to borrow a page from Japanese history/folklore and raise her myself. I can’t tell you the name of the person who did that, but they have found records proving his existence, even if his ‘raising’ the ‘perfect’ woman for him to marry are probably just elaborate fabrication to ‘justify’ why he married a girl he raised (no, she wasn’t a blood relative), after raising her.
Getting back to the original point, I know of what society pushes, but I have yet to say I agree with it. In fact, I have repeatedly, through this comments section if you care to search for them, implied, when I haven’t outright stated, that I don’t agree with it. You, sir troll, don’t seem to give a flying fuck what I actually prefer, but on forcing words into my mouth. Be glad this isn’t a forum, I’d consider reporting you to the mods at this point as you are completely incapable of having a mature conversation, then again our mass media isn’t interested in portraying adults having mature conversations, don’t believe me just look at the recent debates for the presidential candidate hopefuls. I’ve only heard about them and question if any of them are honestly mature enough for the job.
Jinx, say? And I agree- Sexy isn’t so much about body proportions as it is about presentation and attitude.
jinx would work well.
but would it be the TT or LoL Jinx?
What is this sorcery?! I’m up early enough that there’s only 9 comments?!
That aside, I do look forward to see what kind of changes her new workout schedule will land her in. And it’s surprising to find someone who’s ADD/ADHD is by and far worse then mine.
Not sure that this means. What does it mean to skew male/female?
Math. No, I mean math math. Percentages. 60/40, 5 to 1, that sort of thing.
Just that the team has more females on it than males.
The team we see, we already know there’s most likely more “Field” teams than just the one we see so overall it may be fairly even.
If something is skewed, it’s favoured towards 1 end of a spectrum. Not evenly distributed.
In this context specifically:
There is an imaginary line at which the extremes of Feminine and Masculine are the extremes. Sidney, as a nerd and a girl, is closer to the masculine side of this scale than someone who is (for example) a ‘normal’ and a girl. Therefor she is ‘skewed male’ compared to ‘normal’ females.
Isn’t the process of concrete setting a chemical reaction and not merely the loss of water?
Yes, temperature is involved to an extent, but not sure the setting can be accelerated.
Heat will speed up the reaction, but that makes weaker concrete. Long, slow curing is the best.
Fun fact. Heat was an issue when building the Hoover Dam. Engineers estimated at the time that if the dam had been built in one continuous pour it would have taken 125 years to cool to ambient temperature. During which, it would have crumbled away.
Instead, the dam was built in a series of trapezoidal columns that had copper line run through them. A refrigeration unit pumped ice water through them to. Cool them off and dissipate the heat.
Also, despite the song, no one is buried in Hoover Dam.
It would form an unacceptable void in the concrete.
Depends on where they were buried
And how they were intered.
Up to a certain point yes, and the longer it takes it to get rid of the water in it the slower it sets and cures. Since heat makes water evaporate it can have a huge impact on how the concrete sets and cures.
I’m all for a sexy sydney vote incentive
Oh HELL YES!
I like her better like she is now. She is funny and charming. Not everyone needs to be a fanservice boy or girl. In fact it’s better for fanservice jokes if the protagonist is not fanservice material herself.
There are more forms of ‘sexy’ then being half-naked (or fully)
^ What these two said.
Just keep in mind that EVERYONE is fanservice material for someone. No exceptions. I know people who have tastes in eye candy that make my head hurt, but it turns their crank, so who am I to judge. I personally think Halo is cute as all holy hell just as she is, but the alpha male part of me wouldn’t mind her changing a bit toward Harem’s direction when it comes to body shape. But that is mostly subconscious and instinctual rather than an attractive preference. (did that make any sense, cuz it sounded better in my head, lol)
I think I understand what you are saying, but mostly because of one of the dating sims I’ve played, where the character I ended up liking the most after getting all of the endings was the one I found the least attractive initially. On the other hand they didn’t give her any of the usual personality types that gals with her figure have, most of which I either don’t like or else would really only like as a friend and not as a lover/wife/life mate. It is the only time where my favorite gal was the borderline kyonyuu, which is a bust type I find very unappealing, rather than one of the two petanko, which is my favorite bust type by a mountain range slide (a land slide that levels a mountain range). Of course my dream gal is 6’+, petanko, somewhat muscular with well toned muscles (sorry, I’m not that into the female body-builder type, although I’ll take any of them over the walking skeletons any day and/or night), and either a feline type, vulpine type, or lupine type anthro (I like all three of those equally, others to lesser degrees with a few I don’t like). I’ll consider those that are short one trait, sometimes two so long as they don’t go too far in certain areas, but my tastes really don’t coincide with society in the slightest.
Also, since I did bring up that particular dating sim I will mention one other thing about it. It has my favorite harem ending. The girls are being so demanding that the protagonist’s health is falling apart, they might even be killing him. It’s more the fact it implies he has a limit, that is almost real life human probable and is being pushed way past it, that makes that my favorite harem ending.
Yeah – anyone who thinks RL harems were “fun” never read the history books. The original historical event we get the word “harem” from was intended to imprison the MALES. (All the heirs and spares of the Persian king) All the drugs, food and women you wanted…. and when the king dies… your oldest brother would kill off all the rivals to prevent civil war. *shudder* Who would want that?
Care to explain what ‘kyonyuu’ and ‘petanko’ are to us stupid foreigners?
I had to look them up. As you probably figured out, the terms are about women’s chests. Basically, Syd is petanko and among the other superheroines in this comic (who are mostly at the small end of kyonyuu) starts to show the emotional aspect of it.
There are sizes larger than kyonyuu, rarely seen (thank goodness) in real life without enhancement surgery. When you start to wonder how the poor girl can stand straight…
Figure it had to do with bust size, but wasn’t sure what specifically
There are women who are naturally H’s (or even J’s), they are able to stand straight because their back bone and muscles have grown with the bust to compensate (it’s like those who have always been ‘heavier-set’, their heart has grown bigger to compensate for the extra ‘distance’ needed to pump the blood, and tend to be fitter than someone who gained the weight quickly or at a later stage of life)
On the “petanko” end I’m not exactly sure where it starts, but my understanding of it is a Japanese A-Cup and down, I’m just not sure how that compares to US Cup sizes without finding an online comparison chart (I did see one once, and the US has different Cup sizes from the rest of the world, although there are several different charts used, we just have the only exclusive chart and certain charts are based on certain measurement methods). The “kyonyuu” is a bust measurement in excess of 90 centimeters, or roughly 35.5 inches. On Japanese, and most other Asian, women that is a huge size, on those of more European decent, not so much. My Ex, who was admittedly rather over-weight, would’ve technically qualified and she was only a D-Cup. Heck, my only living grandmother probably qualifies, as well as my aunt on that side of the family. Sadly, I’m a dude, and although over-weight I’m not horribly so, and I almost qualify just because my chest cavity is so large in its own right (when I was more in shape it was pointless for a nurse to make me use one of those ‘breath capacity’ things after a surgery or something, I could easily max it out twice and still not have a “full” breath). I hadn’t known there was a larger one, although that does make sense, but I haven’t noticed any visual novel characters being described that way, and it’s primarily from those that I’m familiar with the first two.
There is a size smaller than A? o_O Or did you mean “Japanese A-Cup and up (to a C-Cup)”
Not a big person, but could also fill one of those capacity things as tend to take deeper and fuller breaths (have had to train self to take much shorter breaths when getting a CT Scan or an X-Ray as would still be breathing out when they say to breath in again)
There are sizes smaller than an A-Cup, they are the AA-Cup and the AAA-Cup. If I remember the size comparison chart I’d seen correctly a Japanese AAA-Cup is about the same as an American AAA-Cup, as it is universally agreed to be the smallest (the “mosquito bites” size made official), but the chart the Japanese use tends to have the sizes in narrower ranges, so an American A-Cup would be more like a Japanese A 2/3-Cup, not quite a B-Cup, of course this is part of the reason why the chart they’re using goes all the way up to an N-Cup, and unofficially has even further sizes. The easiest way of thinking about the Petanko size range is these are the women whose breasts are so small they would need a partial breast reduction (just on the under side) for them to be physically capable of sagging, and even then they probably wouldn’t. These are the women who don’t need breast support in their clothing, and it isn’t unheard of for them to not wear bras at all as the bra doesn’t actually do anything for them. I hope that helps answer the question.
I don’t take as large of breaths as I used to, what with being overweight now, but I’ve never been able to train myself to breath fast/shallow enough for the doctors, as it causes me to hyperventilate and I don’t enjoy feeling light headed, dizzy, faint, and occasionally a touch nauseas just because I’m not breathing deep enough. Of course most people only use about the top 1/3 of their lungs when breathing normally. Even now I’m still probably using 1/2, and my norm before was between 2/3 and 3/4.
I personally think that each of the ‘sexy pics’ should be put up as a vote incentive, as they come up. It would be a good way to keep a running tally, and fun to do as well.
If you got super strength and flight and really want to make lots of money, flying satellits into orbit would be the way to go. Even if you can’t survive in space without equipment all you need is a space suit…
Just going up to space isn’t enough to stay there. Thing in space need to travel sideways at insane speeds.
The ISS is zipping around the earth at 7.66 kilometres per SECOND (that’s 17thousand miles per hour for you in the USA)
Well the main thing stopping you in atmo from reaching that speed is wind resistance. In space there’s no(very little) of it so I don’t see a reason why a super wont be able to do it. Depends *heavily* on HOW their specific flight power works though. I can see some of them being able to do it with the right gear and others not so much.
However, the ability to fly ought to mean the ability to accelerate at more than 1g. Once you’re in a vacuum with no resistance, 7660 m/s divided by 9.8 m/s^2 means that it should take 781 seconds, or 13 minutes, to achieve that speed.
Also…
Powered orbit to surface.
Slow down to 250mph and then come straight down.
No heat shield required.
The whole idea of needing a heat shield is that spacecraft use the friction of re-entering the atmosphere to slough off the orbital speeds. It pretty much has to be done that way… imagine the fuel needed to counteract orbital speeds. Even a stationary satellite, one that appears not to move in relation of the earth IS moving with a great deal of velocity. Geo-stationary satellites are moving the same speed the earth is spinning. A stationary satellite that appears to sit motionless as the earth spins underneath it is still moving at the same velocity that the earth is orbiting the sun.
The whole idea of orbital speed is to counteract the force of gravity. Too fast and you fly off into space… too slow and its a hot time in the old town tonight…
Most forms of super-flight aren’t strict acceleration, and in many settings even without wind resistance they tend to have a max speed. A pure acceleration profile is normally only seen in some form of reaction based thrust (such as a rocket) and not a reactionless based thrust (such as the impulse drive or warp drive of Star Trek). I read, and play, a lot of science-fiction, and I can’t place a single setting right off hand where they have a reactionless based thrust that has a pure acceleration profile, instead of whatever makes it move just happening to move at a particular speed and it pushes/pulls the ship along at that speed. Sometimes there is an acceleration curve involved, usually based on the mass of the ship, but there is an absolute maximum possible speed, other than c (the speed of light), regardless of mass or fuel available. Thus, not all flyers would be capable of assisting with anything at orbital speeds (unless the object in question is in a geo-synchronous orbit, in which case it has an effective orbital speed of 0 miles/yards/feet per second in relation to Terra).
Still an absolute orbital velocity of 3,7 km/s though.
Sitting on the surface, you have an absolute orbital velocity ,444444 km/s
You are probably confused with the concept of a space elevator, but that’s a thing that is already orbitting
The absolute velocity of 3.7 km/s doesn’t mean a super with flight can help put something in orbit when his/her max velocity without wind resistance is only 2.5 km/s. Heck, the entire concept of super flight at high velocities requires that the super in question either have a notable degree of invulnerability or able to create some kind of barrier or shield around themselves to keep the wind pressure itself from injuring them once the exceed terminal velocity for the atmospheric pressure they are traveling through.
Also, I’d said a relative orbital speed, not absolute, meaning that in relation to another object you don’t appear to move. I hadn’t realized that the absolute orbital velocity for a geo-synchronous orbit was so high (and the upper end of a space elevator is in a geo-synchronous orbit), so I guess that throughs that one out the window as well.
My primary point had been that there is a very good chance that the overwhelming majority of supers with flight abilities wouldn’t be able to achieve the speeds needed to be more useful than getting an object up to orbital heights, they’d never be able to get them up to orbital speeds, and without a certain portion of those orbital speeds any objects up there are in severe danger from the debris that is in orbit.
Try looking at GURPS 3rd edition vehicles book.
It’s in there.
Also to a lesser extent Mecha and Robots.
I’m not surprised about that in the slightest.
Yeah, GURPS deals with acceleration rates, minimum turning radius according to speed & mass…The whole kitt-n-kaboodle. They even deal with with it in GURPS Supers, to help lend as much realism as possible, even in the unrealistic genre of comics & super heroes.
One thing that you can say about GURPS, they do their homework…
Lifting a rocket to altitude would be a huge help even if the rocket then needed to fire to accelerate to orbital velocity. Any time you can make use of external energy, such as magic superpowered energy to replace fuel burned on a rocket, the rockets mass to fuel ratio gets better.
It wouldn’t make a difference to the satellite whether a super flew it up and positioned it, or a conventional space craft delivered and positioned it.
The satellite itself is still going to be designed normally to operate once in orbit and positioned. The delivery method is completely irrelevant to that functionality.
The most expensive thing, energy-wise, is getting the thing out of the gravity well and into micrograv. This, a super could very well help with.
Once in space, the super is going to be much less useful, as the satellite would need to reach a particular optimum vector, and the presence of the super could have profound effects on vector calculations. On the plus side, with the cost savings realized in the fuel-less escape velocity (both in money and energy terms), one could build some pretty sweet attitude controls into the satellite.
Once had a character who did this for NASA in a Supers game – he also flew watch beside spacecraft from ground to extra-atmosphere and on return just in case Challenger / Columbia happened again.
Yeah, with Supers, they could build a low- or high-orbit (not sure which) construction platform to piece the parts together, speeding up the construction and installation times
Thinking you donlt even have to have a super take a satellite all the way up. Something as simple as a well-timed push to the launch vehicle could be a huge help.
You’ve just described the plot of the third Jumper novel.
Good going there, Sydney, first including yourself into the girl camp by using the word “we”, and then immediately excluding yourself as soon as somebody implies you might be asked to contribute.
A sexy picture of Sydney? Now that’s something to look forward to. Can’t imagine how that would work out, but it’s libel to be very funny, and very embarrassing to her.
Wait, a sexy picture of Sydney is supposed to be very funny and/or very embarrasing, for her, in a defamatory or maliciously/damagingly misrepresentative of her way? That doesn’t even make any sense. Unless what you meant was that “it’s liable to be very funny, and very embarrassing to her.” That’s not a small typo, that’s a huge typo missing that a there.
Okay, I typo’d. So sue me.
Some typos are funny, some are weird, a few are confusing. This is one of the very rare where the sentence still made sense, it just ended up meaning something drastically different than you intended. I usually re-read my comment before I actually post it to avoid errors in the first place, this is just the most extreme example of why it can be a good idea I’ve ever encountered.
Personally believed Raz was just funning with you :D
No, I was cautioning Just Me to make an effort to re-read comments before posting them, as they can’t be edited. Libel is a real word, and specifically it is the word for when you sue someone for making false, defamatory, or slanderous statements about you in an effort to undermine your business or reputation. Well, roughly. If you’re familiar with politics in the US in our current presidential campaigning if they wanted to force it most of the candidate hopefuls could nail most of the others on libel lawsuits if that helps you. That was an instance where the typo that happened had severe implications, and they weren’t funny. I tend to be a very serious person until I know who I need to take seriously and who I don’t.
Sydney “included herself in the girl camp” as a follow on to the earlier discussion of sexy photos during the debriefing. And as for excluding herself, if she is not comfortable doing that sort of thing, then she should ALWAYS have the option to say no (and to have her choice accepted), regardless of what “the rest of the team” are doing. In this case, I’m pretty sure Maxima & Peggy would back her decision on the grounds of military regulations if nothing else.
People are funny that way, wanting to have a say in how they participate…
Most folks have a “limit” to what they feel comfortable doing. Sydney likely doesn’t think of herself as cheesecake and either (a) doesn’t want to be treated a nothing more than a sex object or (b) has body issues and self esteem issues that make her uncomfortable in that context. Possibly both.
Since this particular act is outside her mission parameters with ARC, pretty sure she has the right to decline participation – although there may be social consequences within the unit.
It is a bit funny to me how many Playboy models have spoken of getting naked and having pictures taken of them as a “freeing experience”. I’m guessing the combination of the very unsexy experience of a photo shoot (“do this, do that, now quack like a duck…”) and the fact that the photo team works long hours to make that woman look *amazing*, probably better than she’s ever looked before (or at least, from her point of view) might have something to do with it. Body image issues tend to get run roughshod in that context and the women come out with a more balanced body image afterwards.
From what we saw in earlier comics, some this year even, she definitely has the body image problems, and most of these co-workers don’t help with that. However, I’d say she doesn’t have any self-esteem problems, because from the impression I’ve had of her over the years is that her self-esteem isn’t reliant on her body image, which to me is a much healthier attitude.
That looks like a “hard hat area.” Superhero or no superhero, you gotta wear your hard hat or get kicked off site.
I know rules are rules, but surely they can make an exception when your head is demonstrably harder than the hard hats.
Very true, but as a PR move, he really should be wearing one. Mexima should actually give him a talking to about that. Or it could be another chance for a joke. Maxima asks about the hard hat, Hiro points to pile of broken hard hats. Ba-dum Dish.
Harem however has no real excuse.
She’s not part of the crew, nor on the actual construction site (or at least, the part they are working on)
yeah, but then comes the fact that he’s CLUMSY enough to drop kiloton objects ALL THE TIME… ANOTHER PR nightmare… think about it, who in their right mind would TRUST a super that can’t safely lift that heavy object out of the way of the innocent victims… without them thinking “OH No! he’s gonna DROP IT ON ME!!!”
as for Harem, she shouldn’t be allowed on the site either dressed like she is, or to be seated where she is, since OSHA and insurance rules and regs frown on non-essential personnel being inside a work-zone, “just” being a Super and with Archon won’t cut it… she should be getting a talking to/by the site supervisor at the least. also, the pillar support combo that she sitting on is drawn lopsided i think, with three posts placed like that with an overhang above her makes it look like there is one post missing, but if there’s one missing it sure got knocked out VERY cleanly with ZERO debris/ wreckage at the top and bottom where the re-bar would have been the strongest…
He clearing rubble, looks like to me, and he’s pretty much off by himself, so the clumsy issue isn’t so much a thing. He should, however still have the hat on – less smart people on the construction team might think it gives THEM permission to not wear the hat, and that would be very bad indeed. Also, PR.
Yeah, Harem’s going to get a bitching out from someone in her near future. Teleportation aside, she’s gotta sense it to react to it. And even if she has permission to be there, she’s also setting a horrible example. More bad PR. The clothes are less important since she’s not actually working, but they’re also sort of on the dumb side.
It could be funny if Arianna arrive and angrily force hardhats on everyones heads while lecturing them about PR.
Actually, unless Ari is in charge of the construction company, she can’t order squat
But she can probably demand a lot from people under ArcSWAT contracts if it have something to do with PR. In this case I find it reasonable to think that she will only allow them to keep working on this site if they follow some basic safety rules such as wearing hardhats. The owners of the construction company can of course say no but that would be realy stupid as they would lose a lot of time, money and PR.
Yeah, and we have seen how well Maxi reacts when Ari tries to push her people around (guess it really depends on how she makes the ‘request’)
One place I worked (jokingly) said that if your head could successfully complete the testing regimen for a hard hat, you could leave your hat off on the job. I think that the “tanks”/”bricks” of the team would qualify.
Harem/Sydney, however, should definitely be wearing hard hats. AFAI can remember, Harem has not special damage resistance (beyond the fact that as long as one of her is alive she can’t really be “killed”), and if something catches Sydney before she gets her shield up, she’s toast.
No, I have problems seeing OSHA giving the okay to someone who’s head is demonstrably harder than a hardhat not wearing one. That is because there are plenty of sites where a hardhat is required and yet at least half of what might fall on your head would instantly kill you despite the hardhat do to the heights involved. My father has worked on construction sites like that, and at one watched the foreman argue with the inspector about wearing the hardhats, when someone dropped a sledge hammer. That sledge hammer hit the seat of a bulldozer with enough force to go completely through it and hit the drive shaft hard enough to break the drive shaft. When the foreman said to the inspector “If only we’d had a guy on that dozer wearing his hardhat we might’ve saved the dozer.” the inspector finally let off, as any person hit by that much force would’ve been instantly killed no matter how good the hardhat, either from his skull being obliterated or from his spine being crushed if the hardhat did stop the sledge hammer.
When OSHA will be an ass about requiring hardhats, and fine companies thousands of dollars for not enforcing their use, on sites where anything that is dropped will either sting to leave a moderate bruise, because the terminal velocity is to low to do more, or outright kill you through the hardhat, with no middle ground, I can see them requiring it when a super who’s head is ten times harder than the hardhat, and can prove nothing there could even cause him/her to be dazed, let alone concussed.
Also, for basic PR purposes it should be required, to help incourage children who don’t have super strength and toughness to wear protection. Remember, children copy people who they think are ‘cool’ (sorry, never understood this meaning of cool, so I can’t feel I can legitimately use it), and supers tend to be the most heavily copied because they are the ‘coolest’.
Thing is, not all of the people present are “invulnerable”.
Harem isn’t. Sydney isn’t. Depending on who else is there (Heatwave, Math, etc). Harem can port away and Sydney can shield herself. But all it takes is one slip up, or not expecting it, and a wrench to the head from a dozen or so feet up = severe head trauma
For some reason, Halo in her new hat always makes me think of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
(Now placing Sydney in this movie is a scary thought…)
Not sexy as such, but if Sydney could pull something like Armando’s fan art of her
https://davebarrack.deviantart.com/art/Sydney-by-Armando-Valenzuela-471274815
then it would be a reasonable contribution to the rotation, as far as I was concerned anyway!
Yes. Just Yes. I second this notion.
Very adorkable.
actually, if you’ll recall from the wallpaper of when she first grabbed the Flight orb she’s got a decently male-attractive body with the right clothing choices (and trust me there are some people who look good on land but somehow turn into something resembling beluga whales in wetsuits.)
Yup – especially if she gains some muscle through the physical training :) (maybe not up to peggy’s level, but a few muscles here and there could definitely add it’s charm :) (and would remove a bit of sydney’s insecurity, like when she told i didn’t know you could feel fat and scrawny at the same time)
Whatever did Harem mean by that statement to Sydney?
That one day she’s going to take pictures of and give out revealing/sexy/etc. pictures of Sydney as well.
Hopefully Arianna won’t get wind of that!!! ;)
Just putting this out there, and I don’t mean to be offensive, just honest:
A girl can be short, skinny, lacking the proportions of what most people consider “beautiful”- and yet actually be quite attractive or even sexy.
Maybe that’s quite subjective, but it’s true enough.
I have said for yesrs that whatever you got, someone out there gets turned on by it.
Boobs, butts, legs, arms, ankles, nostrils, elbows, armpits, bald spot, pot belly, hairy nipples…. whatever. There is someone out there that thinks the part of you that you hate the most is the sexiest thing in the world.
Half of being sexy is attitude and approach.
Agrecian: ‘beauty’ and ‘attractiveness’ are not always the same thing, someone may be considered ‘beautiful’ but not be ‘attractive’, and someone may be ‘attractive’ but not generally considered ‘beautiful’
How does the construction crew feel about losing a month of work?
It would only bother them if they lost pay as a result. If there’s more work lined up anyway, or they’re getting paid in full for the thing (assuming a non-timed based salary basis) they shouldn’t mind.
^ that, and AFAIK, most highway work is “objective complete” rather than “time taken”, so finishing faster means the pay/time ratio goes up.
Actually some road-project contracts have a bonus clause if the project meets spec and is done ahead of schedule, although there also may be clauses to protect against “unavoidable” delays like a tornado running through the construction site.
I have worked construction before, as have both of my parents, and that better pay/time ratio thing only applies for the company itself and not for the workers. The workers are hourly, and ultimately it doesn’t matter how fast they get done they don’t get paid any extra, unless they signed a contract stating they get a bonus for early completion (because of the better profit ratio for the company). Now, if the company already had two or three years worth of work lined up most of the workers aren’t going to care, and some will even appreciate the help as that clean-up can be a headache, but without some sort of profit-sharing or early completion bonuses for them then getting done early won’t affect their pay in the slightest. In the rare instances where the company does regularly give bonuses for early completion the bonus is based on the bonus the company gets for early completion. Remember, part of the bid for the project was based on the number of man-hours needed, and those are billed to the customer/client at the end of the week, not in advance, so fewer man-hours means the company can’t bill them for as much to finish the project.
I never worked construction myself but my father ran a small construction business so I was around construction workers a lot when I was a kid. For most of them, and particularly the best of them, cleanup is an unpleasant part of the job that has to be done to get junk out of the way so they can do the fun part – BUILDING STUFF! And get to the soul-satisfying part – “See that? It wasn’t there until I BUILT IT!”
I really don’t see them objecting to help on the clean-up.
True dat.
When I left construction and in the relatively isolated market in which I worked (Kansas City Metro area), profit sharing with time-bonuses was very much becoming a thing.
Billing as I saw it was usually the other way – the company got its scheduled man-hours from the bid paid each week and any *additional* man-hours had be justified before being compensated. The company submitting the man-hours was more an accounting thing than a real limit on the agreed-upon compensation within the context of the contract. But since I wasn’t on the construction firm directly, this was all pretty much second-hand bitching I heard. :D
That part depends a lot on the contract that was made, and typically doesn’t become an issue until they start hitting over-time hours. Most “customers” are willing to pay for 10-20% more man hours (sometimes more even), if it means it gets done faster (everyone benefits from it being done faster, even if there is an early completion bonus the “customer” still benefits as they can make money from it faster), but only if that means there were more people working that week, not because they put in overtime. In my area, where we usually can’t do any construction work for 3-4 months of the year thanks to winter, you expect to put in a certain amount of overtime hours, however the extra .5 time for the overtime is usually coming out of the company’s profit margin, as the “customer” won’t normally pay for it. Now, if it is a “rush” contract, where the contract stipulates getting it done as fast as humanly possible, there is usually an “overtime” clause, and then the customer does have to pay for it, but those ones usually don’t have an early completion bonus.
There are a lot of quirks and variables involved, but if a construction company wants to push their workers to get it done as fast as possible when they might not always have more work lined up they have to offer profit sharing and/or time-bonuses or expect to lose workers when they hit a dry spell. Now, my brother is still working construction, and I can tell you that in my area profit sharing and time-bonuses are borderline mythical, even for the equipment operators running the heavy equipment (which is what my brother does), and the one company my brother has worked for that offered something along those lines the regular pay was so bad it essentially required everyone to fight for them.
This. Far more than vigilante activity and the corresponding notion of super-villainy, this is going to be an issue in a world where “supers” suddenly feel free to go public. If one person can do the same job as twenty (due to super-speed, strength, or whatever), then it is very cost-effective for a company to offer them, say, the same pay they would give to five non-powered workers.
Even in cases where there’s not a direct comparison, a good many powers can make someone a premium value. FREX: Someone like Heatwave could be employed as a welder, and save her employer the cost of buying and maintaining a good bit of the equipment involved. Even environmental resistance could be considered a premium–for jobs where fire or cold are a danger, immunity to that particular element is going to be something you can use to negotiate a lower rate of insurance.
Thing is, supers are rare enough that not every company can manage to do this. Economic forces will thus make those companies that DO manage to hire one or more supers early on very competitively advantaged. This, in turn, will breed resentment among normal humans.
I’ll also note that given non-human appearance factors, you can expect both xenophobia and religious zealotry to become an issue in how people view the team. If anyone ever hears Dabbler refer to herself as a succubus, there will be a pretty much permanent protest camp set up outside the base.
That is also one of the reasons the ARCHON-pay is so high: they could get possibly the same amount (or close, higher or lower) with less chance of dying by entering the commercial sector
Considering that extra month was caused by Archon, it’s only right that Archon cleans it up
There were peacefully enjoying a team dinner in a restaurant and were attacked by a pile of supervillains. This is about as far from “caused by Archon” as you can get. With that kind of broken logic you’d also claim that the off duty police officer would be responsible for all the bullet holes that the bank robbers caused in the robbery he became involved in by being at the bank to make a deposit, right?
Doesn’t matter who started it, they still helped cause it, and they don’t have to, PR or no PR, but they chose to help clean up after themselves (guessing you were never taught that growing up)
Yeah, actually that is the only thing that matters. The off duty cop isn’t going to start shooting up the bank that isn’t being robbed.
No. They choose to do something that would benefit themselves via being good PR. Or did you miss the part where the destroyed restaurant was dismissed out of hand? It seems that reading comprehension was not something you were taught growing up, and I don’t even need to guess.
To a certain extent Guesticus is correct. They didn’t start the fight, and when possible tried to avoid damaging the surroundings, but they did participate when it was brought to them (because not doing so would’ve made them seem weak and cause a lot of other “hiding” supers to think they couldn’t be stopped, triggering a super crime wave, stopping them prevented this). The fact that supers, in general, caused such tremendous damage will be used by the anti-super groups to protest the existence of supers and lobby for anti-super laws. The winning side going out there and helping with the clean-up takes the wind out of the anti-supers’ sails (until they make a fuss over all of the lost work for the normies, but that won’t gain much traction until a super goes private sector and causes several people to lose their jobs). Not doing this is a PR disaster, doing this is some of the best PR they could do right now as to the public it looks like they clean up after themselves and do care about the well-being of the normies.
disaster relief, everyone is booked out to ongoing jobs, their will be an empty corridor with no traffic for months to years (how long it takes to run the tender process and find a hole in everyones work scuduals to fit in and carryout the work, com engineering firms are booked out years from now) since Arcon would be doing months worth of Demo & Cleanup in a day, making the area safe. local and adjoining area business are going to die due to disrupted traffic flow, heck if this is a major arterial they could hurt business in the whole state (and possibly surrounding states)
I have to correct you here. If this is a major roadway, which being damage could disrupt traffic flows for the entire state or more (sorry, but where I live they could bomb my state-capital and it’d barely faze getting goods to the stores near me, to many other routes in and through, instead it’d increase the traffic flow near me, especially the commercial traffic flow), then it gets a priority contract, and the government will either negotiate with the “customer” being inconvenienced by this being fixed now, or if the construction company is working on a government contract give them an extension on it to get this one taken care of. That’s how it actually works in the real world. Yes, most companies are booked solid a year or three in advance, but when the government decides it needs done NOW they find ways to get it done NOW.
I actually see this sparking the formation of companies that specialize in super clean-up and reconstruction.
I’m blanking on the title, but Marvel actually did a comic series about a team of supers whose primary function was cleaning up after superhero battles. It was a cool concept, but I never really got into the series myself.
R.J. Ross, who writes the Wearing the Cape series, actually has a super team in the setting that specializes in construction, primarily post super-battle clean-up and reconstruction. She’s never done a story focusing on them (as everything she’s written focuses on Astra and Astra has never worked with them, just meet them), but she has made mention of them a few times. As a super hero story the idea is somewhat lackluster, as a setting aspect it is awesome.
Not sure about a group of supers, but do recall (vaguely) mention of a group who goes around repairing Super-related damages
Syndey’s “sexy picture” may very well be of her completely clothed but as the latest superhero/sidekick. XD Because superheros are just a *bit* sexy.
She doesn’t want anyone to see her Boy Band tattoos.
No, wait! She doesn’t have any tattoos, is embarrassed by her lack of skin art, and doesn’t want to get any because she’s afraid of needles.
Oh! Better! She has Disney tattoos and drawing them in a comic would be a violation of copyright!
Sydney’s actually going to get some pictures taken sooner or later. Remember Candace Kane? Eventually, she’ll get her turn, though those will likely all be innocent PR photos.
. . . that is, unless Miss Kane does a better job of selling the idea of glamour photography to her than she did to Maxima.
Unlikely, given her reaction here.
Quick question of clarity: When Harem says Halo will join the rotation, does she mean in taking pictures, or in having pictures taken of her? I can see it working both ways, but the latter explains Halo’s reaction.
The latter.
I had more the impression of it meaning both, not just one.
Why all of a sudden do I have YMCA stuck in my head?
Because Hiro is in the Construction Worker’s outfit (some of it anyway) and in the “Y” stance :D
And you “LOVE” The Village People.
I can’t be the only person who finds Sydney hot the way she is? She’s equal parts innocent, crazy, cute, and geek. She’d be the greatest date anyone ever had if they could keep up with her.
Imagine once Sydney’s get a bit of muscle from physical training :) (maybe not up to peggy’s level, but still ;))
If Sydney stays with ARCHON more than 4 years she will be closing in on Peggy.
Don’t know if I agree. I feel X-Men is closer to what we’d see if people had super strength and could fly. Why hire 10 people, when 1 person could do it and at the price of 9 people. That’ll be 9 people not happy.
Or the company’s will be cheap and just expect more of the super while still paying him normal pay. We see that today in normal companies that just don’t want to pay the difference for better or employees or the unions that won’t let them be paid more.
There will always be a company that IS willing to offer a super more, so there’s no way a cheap company would get away with that
By that logic we should tear out all labor saving technology as well, since it also destroys jobs.
Needless to say some form of that position does exist in real life. That the logical extreme of such a position is to go back to killing wildebeasts with a stick is quite naturally lost on such people.
My primary issue with the “normal” female superhero physique is the breasts. I have never liked the look of implants and the shape and positioning of super female breasts makes them look like they have implants to me. Give me a real A over an implant D any day. Larger breast should look like gravity is a real force, IMO. So I add my vote to the apparently many above who want Sydney fan service. Just tell her it’s cosplay and I bet you can get her into some really fun costumes.
You haven’t seen many ‘real’ breasts, have you, or you have and just passed them off as ‘fake’
It is possible to have real, large, breasts that are still firm: it’s called ‘exercise’ (and no, not putting down those who have large breasts affected by gravity, just pointing out there are some whose breasts are just as naturally firm and ‘gravity defying’ as implanted ones)
Seen plenty, actually.
I agree it is possible to have real, large, breasts that are still firm, but human skin stretches. So the way to have natural perky breasts at any size is if the underlying tissue is expanding faster than the skin is stretching. Which happens naturally in adolescence, pectoral buildup without significant body fat loss (because if you lose significant body fat, some will come from the breast tissue), and during the changes necessary for lactation. Good bras and consistent use of them slow skin stretching, but doesn’t reverse it – nothing reverses it long term, despite product ads to the contrary. Implants add volume way faster than any natural process and therefore the results don’t look like the results of natural processes, so they can be spotted.
One wonders if that rebar had ‘help’…
Please let the circumstances under which that will occur happen.
So Maxima basically has Post-Crisis Superman’s invulnerability, at least as defined during John Byrne’s run?
I have to dock Arianna a few marketing points for this. If this is a PR move, where are the obligatory news teams covering the action? Where is the big sign saying that Archon supers are nice friendly people who are there to help out when bad things happen? I would also take away some points for Daphne showing up on site in civilian clothes. It makes it look less professional and more like a bunch of supers goofing around than an actual mission. And lastly, Archon is letting Daphne open drink cans completely unsupervised? You you what happened the last time she did that.
Actually, the last time it was Heatwave who opened the can, not Daphne
I stand by my claim (although I am currently sitting down)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1257
You are probably thinking of this one https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/524
And interestingly, the same harem appeared in both comics.
Oh right, forgot that one, but, it was hardly her fault a group of idiots decided to attack them :P
Yes, Gothamer featured in both pages, but it was Berry who had the near-can incident with Heatwave
When she’s wearing that hat and those sunglasses, Sydney looks more boyish than usual to me, for some reason. It just makes this exchange all the more amusing.
Rock ’em sock ’em, Sydney? I used to have some robots that went by that name!
Ah, there they are! For some reason, I didn’t win this game very often . . .
I don’t know if anyone else mentioned this, but if the overpass project is a union job, this PR work would likely give the union local fits. Also, putting the job ahead of schedule, rather than just back on schedule means supers are taking hours away from non-supers… someone is going to have a freakout about it, one way or another. People who get paid by the hour don’t like the job to go any faster than planned.
Your last line needs a modifier, as it depends on whether or not there are more jobs lined up. If they have next year already booked solid, and part of the following year, most hourly employees won’t mind, so long as future work doesn’t start disappearing on them. Now, if this meant they were in danger of running out of work in a couple of months, that would be a different story.
Actually, if the heroes aren’t trained in cement construction, they probably won’t be able to do anything other than clean up and place what has already been made. There should be, at the very least, a foreman on sight to make sure that shit is happening as it is supposed to.
Yeah, fairly sure they are just cleaning up the mess they helped make
The government, however, will love the savings that come with being ahead of schedule.
At least Hiro’s wearing the visibility vest.
Technically heatwave can increase the curing speed of concrete by heating it a bit, but it still wouldn’t be even three quarters time… More like cutting a couple hours off. If someone had hydrokinesis, different story.
No, that’s blatantly false. The curing process is a chemicle reaction, and needs to be kept down to a particular temperature range so the concrete doesn’t become britle and useless. The water in it acts as an inhibiting factor, so that it cures at full strength because of the heat lost due to evaporation. If you take the water out to fast you just ruin the concrete and have to knock it out and pour it all over again.
On most occasions when my dad’s construction business was laying sidewalk, they’d finish the surface and let it sit for a couple hours and then lay wet burlap down on it – and hose down the burlap a couple times a day. So that it wouldn’t dry out too fast.
This was in the northern part of the US, less than fifty miles straight-line from the Canadian border (and a similar distance from the Pacific Ocean). Not exactly a hot climate.
Yeah, and where I live if we were having a summer heatwave, with temps over 100 degrees, you’d be using only about 2/3rds the amount of calcium in the mix and watering it hourly for the first day or two to keep it from cracking as it cured. I have actually seen concrete crack because it cured too hot and fast, it’s rare (depending on where you live) but it can happen. Hell, in bad summers you see sprinkler hoses out on a new stretch of road keeping it cool while it cures enough to have traffic on it, and that can go on for a week or two. Just part of the fun of living in the Midwest, we can have sub-zero highs in winter and low- to mid-90’s lows in the summer.
don’t worry Sydney, between Harem double, and Dabbler probably doing 70% of the “rotation”, your turn is not coming fast… yet i still really wan’t to see that one day…
I’m sure this has been brought up before, but what would happen if Halo were to develop a suit that allows all of the floating orbs to touch at least some part of her body all of the time? Maybe a shirt with inserts along the arms? Would she go all “God Mode” on us, or would the power overload her?
No, that got covered early when they went over how her powers worked. The orbs have to be explicitly held in order to work, just touching her doesn’t work.
Correct, mittens are her kryptonite.
As is being riddled with bullets.
Soooooo… What happened to Hero’s Nipples? One might be covered by reflective tape, but the other would be clearly visible.
Especially as it isn’t indecent for man nipples to be exposed in public, unlike woman nipples.
It would be hilarious if they were blocked with a little censor picture like woman nipples have been in the comic so far. Either that or draw nippless boobs on the women… If that ship hadn’t already sailed.
That’s American prudishness at work. I remember a case just a few years back, when they made a new Romeo and Juliet movie. The young woman who played Juliet was not allowed to attend the premiere (despite being one of the stars of the movie), because she was only 17 at the time… apparently she was too young to see her own nipples. (That’s not what they told her, but that’s the real reason.)
Speaking as an American, that degree of prudishness is just silly. She’s seen her own nipples before. (And now, so has everyone else who watched that movie. Ba dum tssh!) There’s a reason why many European commercials can’t be shown in the U.S., and that reason is prudishness.
Wait what? Our commercials are prudish?
In comparison to nearly every non-Islamic nation out there? Yes. There are a few non-Islamic exceptions (the U.K. for instance, which is where we get our prudishness from, they are actually worse), but not many.
Indfeed. It might be OK in US films / TV to burn a dude alive with a flamethrower, but you can’t even SAY ‘genitalia”, never mind show it, without people losing their minds.
That’s just the way of comics: Men physically have no nipples, and Women can’t show theirs
In America, it’s fine to allow pre-teens to watch someone get slowly ripped apart in extreme 3D closeup ‘glory’, but show a nipple in the process? Time for the Censorship to slap a ban on it
I demand nipple parity! Hide the man nipples with clever cenSor pictures!
I definitely think that’d be more hilarious than allowing the woman nipples to be shown, and I’m not entirely sure I disapprove on the basis of “If they want to be asses then let’s out asininity them!”. Well, that and, despite being a guy, unless I’m explicitly trying to get my ‘jollies’ I couldn’t care less about seeing woman nipples.
There was a book I read years ago (I think by Barry Hughart) where one character made a comment that someone was “as useless as nipples on a man.”
Hiro has sufficiently evolved that the vestigial nipples manifest in human men have vanished.
Either that, or he got his powers in a tragic nipple-ectomy gone horribly, horribly wrong. :D
I prefer the second option.
That would make for a hilarious back-story.
No his nipple issue comes from his first fight with another super, The Dreaded Purple Nurple.
That would be the ideal secret identity if M. Night Shyamalan ever decided to become a super villain, because ‘there is always a twist at the end’.
+10 internets :)
*groan*