Grrl Power #496 – Bishōnen hold’em
I fully expect the majority of the comments to be about how a Bishōnen playing deck should be filled out. I intentionally didn’t show Sydney holding the Ace or Kind of Hearts, and I prefer to leave those high level decisions to experts more qualified than I. As it is, I think “L” might be a little low as the 8 of Hearts, but this all assumes the deck is making a value judgement based on the card face, which is totally valid given that Racoom is the 2 of Clubs. I doubt he’s high on anyone’s effeminate boys smooching on other effeminate boys ship list. And yes, obviously the deck came from Sydney’s utility belt.
I assume they’re playing Texas Hold’em, so the quality of Sydney’s hand depends entirely on what’s face up in the middle. Is that the river? I don’t know poker, but I’ve heard the term “river” before. I know there is some skill to playing poker, but you’ve got to admit there’s a shitload of luck involved. Those movies like Maverick and Casino Royale where the main character goes all in on the last hand and the right card happens to come up? That’s not skill. I mean, ignoring the part where it’s a movie and some guy in a coffee shop wrote that particular outcome. It’s luck, and anyone saying “Ooh, he’s the best at poker…” Yes, some skill was involved in actually getting to that last hand, but one card flip does not a skilled player make.
Sydney doesn’t quite seem to get the rank structure yet. Harem, for all her goofing around, does outrank Sydney. Harem hasn’t shown much in the way of leadership, and Sydney’s plan does seem sensible. Still, usually shouting “Nein!” at a superior… well, Harem’s not an officer… just shouting down your superior, probably not the way to go. If Arc-SWAT ever does a training exchange program with another branch of the military, Sydney will get in trouble real fast methinks.
I know there’s a shot at the news on the page – I really had to edit down what Harem said cause it was turning into an excoriation which was really digressive. That said if just can’t restrain your need to discuss the business of news and its role in a democracy that’s fine, but please no politics. You know. Current event stuff. There are other places online if you absolutely need to vent and nothing good will come from doing it here.
Edit: Made Sydney’s POV slightly blurry in the mid ground. Also, here’s panel 2 without the word bubbles so you too can experience full Sydney-vision. 
Edit 2: Fixed a typo, made Spike’s hair a bit bigger, so hopefully people will be better able to recognize him, and made his card the Ace of Spades since that comes up in Cowboy Beebop a few times. Been a long time since I’ve watched that show. :)
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Panel 3: Why is Sydney bent over and balancing an old VHS cartridge on her ass? And where did she get it?
That’s the air purifier thing on her utility belt. Well, the pouch for it. And she’s bent over cause, well, she’s actually laying down peering over the edge of the roof, like being stealthy at this point will make a difference, especially with her glowing orbs over her head.
At least she’s trying (she can certainly be very trying at times :P)
Yes…There is that.
Several others would agree that Sydney can be very trying…
It looks so much like a VHS cartridge that you couldn’t have drawn a better depiction of one if you tried. :-P
She could just put the orbs back in the tube, like she does on the day this is all a flash back from… oh, right… she doesn’t have the tube with her. Perhaps this is when she learns that it can be a good idea to return the orbs to the tube sometimes.
Tubey is only a step away, when Harem is with the team.
Shouldn’t Sidney’s vision be blurry outside her spectacles and clearer within them? Or are you trying to convey how a 20/20 eye would see though her lenses?
Great job, as always :-)
Sydney is far sighted. Her glasses are for reading, so stuff up close in the glasses is in focus, mid and far ground are blurry, and over top of her glasses, mid and far are clear, and up close is blurry.
obligatory joke about how people with ADHD are shortsighted not farsighted
Sydney has already been breaking that trope. Remember Math’s advice: Three steps ahead.”
She’s demonstrated that during the fight at the (former) Steak House (now rubble).
:D
The problem with ADHD is that you are thinking 300 steps ahead, but have forgotten what steps 1-295 were…
But DaveB was limited by space constraints when he showed us her thinking process at that time. He didn’t even have enough room to show a whole dozen steps.
Well presumably the first 295 were not finisher moves. So long as the five steps that remain are the best remaining ones, and do not need seven-league-boots to perform them, then you are a five-step waltz ahead of the game.
I have ADD, and I actually am shortsighted. As in, eyes are to long.
Are you Sydney, in disguise?
*sniff sniff*
I truthfully don’t know anyone that’s farsighted that wears glasses all the time (well I do, but they have a squint which needs correcting). Do people do that? Otherwise you need to explain that away as some Sydney quirk.
Plenty of people do. If your eyesight is bad enough you flat out need to wear them. A lot of shortsighted people get longsighted in older age too, naturally their used to wearing glasses so they keep ’em.
I guess that explains why she’s always looking over them. Still she picked some really big glasses that she really couldn’t use for, say, driving.
+1
Really, when dealing with something as unprecedented as super powers, I would think “listen to the person with the apply skill set” trumps rank, even if Sydney is a bit undisciplined.
Super powers in general seem to coordinate highly with, ah, strong willed and independent individuals. Mapping that to military discipline would be a huge uphill battle.
I have worked with some Sargents who would be very calm in a situation like that and would just give her the look, listen to her idea, and roll with it if it was a sound one, or revert back to their own idea pulling rank if not a sound idea. But then there are those on a power trip and get all huffy at anything resembling a contradictions because as a higher ranking soldier, their right and the lesser rank is always wrong. She’d get into trouble with those real quick.
Would really all depends on the personality of the soldier/officer dealing with the situation.
That all said, while ArkSwat may have a rank structure, its very loose in its implementation most of the times. Seams to only really come into play when actually needed to get things done in a hurry.
Yes, mentioned on the first page that Bodie will at least listen to Sydney’s plan, seeing how she has had first hand experience of Sydney’s battle-thinking
That “loose Application” is something that is an ongoing issue ith their training regimen.
ITs like they cant make up their minds ‘hat it is they ‘ant.
Jedi or Super Soldiers?
First and foremost its ALL about the Chain of Command.
(as in the chain you’re beaten ‘ith until you kno’ hos in command)
At its best (and ‘orst) you get a programed human that has 2 modes; Soldier/Policing and Safe, and can go from one set of protocols to the other in a fraction of a second; UPON COMMAND.
Because lives can be in the balance. Do it first, question it later (if at all)
The problem ith this is this system begins to fail ‘ith lethal repercussions hen local citizens interact ‘iht that system badly and … you get a Kent State Massacre.
(That cat looks nice and happy but ‘hen some ass hat rubs kitty the ‘rong ‘ay …)
And Archon is all about civilian interaction.
So their training is going to be more about ho’ to be policing than soldiering.
Even ith that in mind both systems have accepted means for the commanded to alert their commanders that they are in the process of fucking up.
Sydney may need to re take that class before that Corporal promotion happens. (Meritocracy is all ‘ell and good but Social graces are still required in any command track)
I apologize in advance, but I have to ask: Did someone switch your keyboard’s ASCII codes for the ‘w’ and ‘~’ keys?
erg. Pardon me yet again…’ w ‘ and ” ‘ ” keys.
They are probably trying to talk in character. But reading it is more effort than it was worth. You need to type clearly if you want it read. You humans would skip by if all I typed was chirp chirp chirp squawk.
“You humans would skip by if all I typed was chirp chirp chirp squawk.”
You could always post that material on your ‘twitter’ account.
that was a pretty cheep joke
If this part of the thread continues much further, someone is bound to wind up with egg on their face.
funny-side-up
You really ought to avoid this fowl humor. Don’t you know you can get diseases from it? Honest! Like.. Um.. Oh yeah! Like Chirpees! You could get that, you know. It’s a canarial disease, and I hear that it’s totally untweetable once you get it..
Untweetable? Ah, go say that on Twitter.
What tweetments DO exist are expensive though…They’ll rapidly clean out your “retirement nestegg” to pay for it.
I broke my laptop key. So that letter gets to be MIA until i fix it.
Sorry about the online speech impediment.
‘Tis OK, it had sound arguments, a passionate delivery and an interesting massacre. Plus it inspired a chipper pun thread. Personally I thought it was for the birds mind.
As an NCO, I made a policy of listening to Marines who knew when to provide useful suggestions, and performed any necessary attitude corrections after. ArcSWAT seems to be the kind of organization where people aren’t compensating for small genitalia with the size of their power trip.
also former military. a good nco is just like a good boss in any other job, except in how fast you have to follow their instructions. but they’ll listen a brief idea or suggestion. (only officers give orders, NCOs instruct. practical difference: none whatever)
HIT RECOOME’S MUSIC! [Doom E1M1 music plays]
VEGETA! YOU THINK THAT BECAUSE YOU’RE THE PRINCE OF ALL SAIYANS, YOU’RE THE BEST AT WHAT YOU DO, BUT LET RECOOME TELL YA’ SOMETHING BRUTHUH! YOU AIN’T NO WOLVERINE, AND YOU AIN’T GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO STEP UP TO A FIVE TIME CHAMPION!
Vegeta: Wrestling ‘s fake.
[crowd]: Boooooo!
Well, the physical activity is real & they have to train hard for it. But they also choreograph & practice the matches to try minimizing the risk of injury. However, even the sturdiest of athletes can make mistakes when fatigue starts to set in, so most of the injuries are real & serious.
What? Does anyone really think that the cameras know exactly where to be when some “backroom altercation” breaks out?
I still like watching it though, because they do have Truth in Advertising when they put “Entertainment” right in the title of the organization (World Wrestling Entertainment)…I think of it as watching a soap opera that’s been hosed down with testosterone.
Yeah, the moves are real, but everything else is scripted, like the Superbowl or Boxing :P
So, where did the deck of cards actually come from? I’m guessing they were not hacked by Krona. I’ll bet they sell them at Sydney’s comic shop and she keeps them in her utility belt next to her gold stars.
Also, I know Krona helped her out a little by hitting the “snooze button,” but I hope Sydney’s taken advantage of this lull in the action to slip off for a second or two to . . . take care of business, if you will. It could be very embarrassing for our heroine if things suddenly got exciting and she had an accident because Krona was too busy fighting to help her out again. Then again, Krona said it would buy her about a half hour and so Sydney might not even be able to take care of that issue for the whole thirty minutes.
listen what lady wants… all of us around when she pees? I some perv could be reading this….
*prepares 4th wall privacy screen, for later erection*
Can that orb of Sydney’s make an old warehouse transparent???
That is her tel-presence/true sight orb. She can project a copy of herself with no mass onto the roof like Harem was going to do without any risk of the roof collapsing.
And then just stick her face through the roof to see what is inside, if Sydney is clever enough to think of it, she can slowly ‘phase through’ so that only her face is sticking through
I think she can see through the mini orb that comes out without even projecting.
Pray her plan works…!
She has a plan? o_O
Well, she’s pretty good at coming up with a plan…If she doesn’t have one right now, she’s probably the best one in the group for coming up with a plan.
Harem’s points in that first panel. Yes that exactly.
(Although size doesn’t really make a difference, to be honest.)
Fortunately you can always turn to the BBC to get respectable news. With no pandering to gutter reporting.
“Pandering to gutter reporting”, generally not. But they do have an occasional bad habit of false equivalency to make up for it – the position that since there are multiple factions on an issue, all must be given similar exposure, regardless of their actual level of support or evidence.
No one has yet to comment on Sydney’s demented grin in the last panel? o_O
We know she’s on her emergency generic ADHD meds, and a general lack of good sleep. So she’s running at the “loopy” end of spectrum. I’d call it manic instead of demented.
‘Manic’ or ‘demented’? What’s a life sentence between mates?
I love her expression there. Even with Krona having toggled ‘Littlefolk Bobbleheads’ to ‘ON’.
Texas hold’em you only have 2 cards in your hand, so can’t be that
Could be Omaha Hold ’em. That was my assumption as soon as Poker was mentioned.
Was wondering if any one else would catch that. 2 hole cards per player and 5 community cards shared by all players (by the river at least).
I’ve yelled at many an officer who was about to do something…bad. Generally *after* you yell at them, and get them to stop, then you more politely explain what would have happened if they’d have continued their action….(Side note, butter bars require escorts, they should never be allowed out unsupervised :P )
How about butter bars that cam up from Enlisted? I’ve got one ancestor that did that, and sib seriously considering it now.
one the one hand sergeants that dont kno’ they are mustangs ‘ill still treat them like butterbars. And that presumed incompetence gets old fast. That said most non-coms ‘ill pick up on that shit quick and make certain that particular fact gets around to thems that need to kno’.
At that point everything runs much smoother.
Of course ‘hen a fresh transfer arrives there may be a pool set up to see ho’ long it takes for the ne’ noncom to figure it out.
But in the end your still an Officer. and hanging out too much ‘ith the non coms (especially the ones that are under your direct command) is going to interfere badly not only ‘ith your ability to Officer. but ho’ you interact professionally AND socially ‘ith other Officers.
Cause Officer life is a very different thing from Enlisted. A lot of shade and grief can come at you just because you aren’t a graduate of a particular military academy (ring knocker) like everyone else around you.
One word of advice, if you are in the British army, be sure to check which rank you had the most years in service. I have a friend who got his commission. Then (when the army decided they had to thin the ranks, en masse) he got the chop.
Trouble is that, for key things like pension entitlement, you revert to the rank you were at for the longest. Not the rank you were most recently at. He had spent more years as a private, than at each of the NCO ranks he advanced through (ending up as a sergeant), so he now only gets a private’s pension, rather than an officer’s or sergeant’s)
Technically the best bet at this point would be to use the aura sight of the telepresence orb, which should tell how Pixel is doing and if there are other magical things present, like the killer mannequins (those were definitely visible through the wall earlier). The truesight (Pixel could be almost back, but still invisible) and the telepresence mode if those were inconclusive is a solid last option though.
A while back Dave asked for a list of things that Sydney should put in her utility belt, and I offered a deck of playing cards as an option (seconded by a few others), for various reasons. I’m beyond pleased to see that Sydney actually got a deck, and it’s hilarious that it is Sydney-personalized. And, within a “day” of putting it together, she found a use for them! Woo Hoo!
This discussion reminds me of the MythAdventures storyline about dragon poker… Basically the main character got a reputation as being really good at the game, even though he didn’t even know the rules (which, by the way, are enormously complicated and change by day of week and such), because the dealer was stacking the deck for him. (so that someone could give him an IOU/assassin… Okay yeah these books are a bit weird)
Anyway though he knew that he actually had no chance and so when he got put in a big tournament (for some reason) he somehow convinced the champ to bet everything on the first hand.
And that’s how the new champion of the game knew barely any of the rules.
The “somehow” was set, by and large, by the betting structure. It’s a seven-card “stud” game (meaning you don’t turn cards in for new ones–you just use the 7 cards you get to build the best 5-card hand you can), with fixed stakes, and bets are laid down after every card is dealt. So without even looking at the face-down cards, he boldly bets/raises the maximum bet each card; his opponent then has to call or quit. Since during most of the deal, he’s got a weak visible hand, his opponent pretty much has to call on every raise, or else lose the money that’s already in the pot.
By the time the King figures out what’s going on, it’s too late–most of the stakes have already been bet. So he just goes along with it, taking the “One hand means this is all about luck” as a compliment, as Skeeve is admitting he couldn’t win by skill.
“… he didn’t even know the rules (which, by the way, are enormously complicated and change by day of week and such)…”
Sounds like the game of Fizzbin.
Levi damn well better be one of the other aces
Honestly, I still don’t like this whole “keep aliens and magic secret from the public” thing. I mean, who are they to keep that secret? Who are they to decide that billions of people can’t know about their own world? I don’t buy the excuse that “but people will panic and start killing everybody!” That didn’t happen with the supers. If anything, the longer the hide it, the worse they’re making it for themselves.
I think the more progressive elements of the Council are working towards some kind of gradual reveal but they have to completely win over the majority of the Council with a winning plan and then enact that plan which I’m betting, when it is finished, will involve a slow reveal over the course of many decades. (many of these beings have very long lifespans and take a lot of time to get on with things)
It was guessed earlier and confirmed today that they have their fingers in parts of the media pie and the more progressive elements of the Council are probably already attempting to influence humans towards a positive reaction through shows, movies, books, comics, internet, etc…
Also, supers started from a higher baseline as far as public opinion goes. How long after the first nation openly grants asylum to vampires or aliens or some such, that someone decides “nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure”… or, y’know, “this is the perfect justification”, if that be the case.
Yeah there is a pretty significant difference between “Saves kittens from trees,” and “Drinks human blood. “
“Who are they to keep that secret?” How about the ones who lives are at stake, from the same people who will use even the slightest provocation or excuse to slaughter their neighbour, the same neighbour they have known for several decades
Doubling down on a lie only makes it worse. The fact that they are willing and able to meddle with people’s perceptions is massive paranoia fuel in and of itself, even without the media corruption involved. At that point it barely matters how creepy or pretty a given being is; that kind of thing blows up any chance of trust right off the bat, and wrecks any credibility the government and media had left. It’s basically begging for violent revolt.
I’d expect the people worst off are those beings who want nothing more than a genuine life, but are forced to lie by the Council nonstop under threat of extrajudicial punishment. And if and when it gets blown wide open, they’ll get unfairly lumped in with the conspiracy they didn’t even want.
Ooh, I am surprised that nobody has mentioned what ‘the river’ is, albeit that it has been referred to, in one thread.
‘The river’ is the term used, in some types of poker, where there are cards laid on the table, face up, and are considered to be part of everybody’s hand. The most played version (which Texas holdem sounds right) has a river of two cards, meaning that everybody is dealt three, into their hand.
For instance the river might be a five of hearts and a six of hearts. One player might have a pair of kings, and an eight, making the river of no use to him. Whereas another might have the two, three and four of hearts. This would make a straight flush, a very powerful hand. Another may have the same numbers, but in mixed suits, making a weaker hand. Both beating the pair of kings mind.
So it does make an interesting change to the usual casual poker, that most of us play, where you have all five of your cards in your own hand. It limits the range of possible scores that can occur in a particular round. For instance everyone would know, with the above example, that nobody can have four of a kind, unless it involved either a five or six (and if you have one or two of those in your hand, you can eliminate that too).
*picks up poker hand, returns to posing for artist*
Oh, and much of the skill in poker has little to do with the cards dealt. It is to do with reading the other players. I am a very good casual card player, although I have never contemplated gambling for anything other than chips (or with monopoly money). But it is very easy to beat other casual players, who are not good at guarding their expressions.
I would not consider that this would give me any better chance in a real poker game, as professional players go to great lengths to keep a ‘poker face’. However I have played against some people who did have excellent neutral playing faces. Yet I could still tell how confident they were, if the pace they played t varied. Hesitating a bit longer, when placing a bet, for instance, can give you a valuable insight that their luck has turned.
Of course such things can be faked, and I loved pulling those tricks on the other good casual players that I played with It is enjoyable to rake in a pot with only a pair of twos in your hand.
*wags tail sneakily*
I have seen that picture of you and your friends before. So nice to know who one of the participants is.
https://www.dogshowpictures.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dogs-playing-poker-wallpaper-pertaining-to-dogs-playing-poker.jpg
At least Yorpie isn’t one of them damn-cheating bulldogs :D
Red through the comments and it seems no one said this yet: wouldn’t L be more appropriate as a 7? I mean, a upside-down L is basically a 7 (depending on the font, but in some fonts it could be literally true instead of an approximation). Just something that stood out to me.
7=T 7 =L which does it look more like?
4=A , 3=E, 5=S, 6=G
but yes, upside down, the 7=L
After a press conference admitting that supers exist, it seems like there’s hardly a veil at all
they didn’t admit to magic, werewolves, vampires, demons, etc.
….just supers.
Wait, why is Sydney’s vision blurry in the area where she wears her glasses and crystal clear in the area where she doesn’t wear them? O_O Shouldn’t it be the other way round?
The cards are clear cause they’re reading glasses. The mid ground stuff behind the cards is blurry cause it’s further than reading distance.
Then she wouldn’t wear glasses with such huge lenses. Or only the lower half would have the prescription. Otherwise when she is wearing her glasses under normal use like driving everything would be blurry. And I don’t know of any state that will let you drive like that.
Why do you think Sydney habitually has the glasses on the tip of her nose? It is so that she can see clearly when walking and driving. The big lenses are just for aesthetics. The real magic is the dab of glue she puts on her nose each morning.
The “snooze” button timer is ticking.
Should go off right about when her illusory self is discovered by the bad guys….
Badguy 1: “Pssst, heads up. Got ourselves an intruder.”
Badguy 2: “Where?!”
Badguy 1: “Behind the large crate and… is she doing the pee pee dance?”
Badguy 2: “… ”
Badguy 1: “Should I attack her?”
Badguy 2: “Do we have a mop? Or do you think we could get her to stand on this plastic first?”
Hopefully she has taken the time to relieve her bladder without the dire urge (the urge where you can barely unclench long enough to drop your drawers)
dire urge: so, you’re shipping that she gets were- dire animal abilities? ;}
Were-dire animal ablutions anyway.
Knew someone(s) would notice the ‘dire’ :P
Before it becomes the Demiurge maker of oceans.
she just wasted 10 of the 30 minutes before she has to pee again
But, had she gone off to find somewhere, you can guarantee when she came back, nobody would be there. Because they all had to dash off and support Pixel, or some such.
Krona looks absolutely adorable in Panel 2. Nice work, DaveB.
“It’s luck, and anyone saying “Ooh, he’s the best at poker…” Yes, some skill was involved in actually betting to that last hand, but one card flip does not a skilled player make.”
Tsk tsk tsk. Dave, I like you. I really do. Big fan of the comic in general. But you’re kinda embarrassing yourself here.
First off… this can’t possibly be Texas Hold’em you’re showing them playing. In Texas Hold’em the players are each dealt two “hole” cards and those are the only two card they get for that hand. Then 5 more cards are dealt out to the community pile… 3 on the flop, 1 more on the turn, and a final 1 on the river. Rounds of betting occur after hole cards are dealt and after each other the above phases.
So taking such a strong stance that poker is mostly luck when you have shown that you aren’t really all that familiar with the game… well perhaps you should reserve strong opinions for subjects you’re more well versed on?
For the record the game of poker isn’t about the cards… not really. There _is_ an element of luck but if luck has a major say in how you play then you are playing wrong. You shouldn’t be playing your hand… you should be playing your opponents and the pot. Situations like they show in the movies where it all hinges on the last card revealed (almost every movie with poker as a major theme) are basically showing where one or both players screwed up and are now relying on luck to save them from their mistakes.
What the game is really about is things like “did the guy to your left bet pre-flop or just call?” or “How many outs could he possibly have?” and “What can you do to trip the guy up and get him to reveal something about how much he values his cards?” etc etc etc. There is a huge amount of skill in that part… and if you’re good at it it frankly doesn’t matter what you have in your hand you could have 7-2 off suit (the worst hole cards possible) and still win the hand. And if you don’t know what you are doing you can have pocket rockets (two Aces) and still lose your shirt.
There is way more skill than luck involved in Texas Hold’em. There’s a reason final tables (5-10 players) at these tournaments (hundreds of players) tend to have the same poker elites showing up time and time again.
But don’t worry, we still love ya.
Oh I’m definitely playing it wrong. I’m terrible at poker, though I’ve never played Texas Hold’em. I think it was like, 5 card… uh, draw I think. It was like 20 years ago.
But I was only terrible at it cause I unluckily got terrible cards. :)
You have to work on your bluffing. It works for more than just cards. Forget about ‘variety’ being the spice of life, it usually tastes like ‘bullsh*t’.
You need to understand, DaveB wasn’t trying to accurately depict a game of poker, here. He just wanted a handy excuse to draw bishies on poker cards. The actual game is just, set dressing.
Set dressing…. I think I know that one. The more clothes worn, the higher the value of the card, right?
So I have to ask, and this has probably been posed before, has Krona contemplated hacking sydney’s orbs?
Hell she may even be able to hack them to give the whole ‘Skill Tree’ english headings so they know what’s going on.
…or…you know…cheat code power level them all to max.
Depends on whether or not Krona’s reality hacking is an actual transcendent form of reality warping, or just an interface for a form of magic that is functionally comparable to, say, Dabbler’s training (albeit more capable than Dabbler because she’s a specialist). We already know that Dabbler’s school of arcane training can’t get purchase on the Orbs because they read as not existing.
Dave has indicated that Krona needs to understand the things she is hacking. So unless the orbs and Krona’s powers are linked (and there are some similarities) then no, she cannot, as she would not know how they worked. She may be able to call up the information panel, but it is probably written in a language she does not understand. Amongst other issues.
Only one man can be King of Hearts! “This hand of mine is burning red! It’s loud roar tells me to grasp victory! Erupting Burning King High Straight Flush!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2keyeGC_Pxs
my only disappointment is that Sydney doesn’t have health and ammo counters and an animated self portrait at the bottom edge of her vision, like Doom-guy. Maybe she has to look further down her nose to see that.
That’s because she has normal glasses, it’s Kronachrome with the HUD-goggles
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day…
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
Don’t know if this was already said, but that is not Texas Hold’em. In that game everyone gets two cards in their hand, not four. It could be five card draw and Sidney is in the process of changing out a card. However on closer look it turns out they all have 4 cards. Don’t know if there is a poker game with four cards but the only games I can think of right now that would result in players having 4 cards in their hand would be go fish, BS, or Mao (yes that is a legit game but too many rules a being violated).
Where can I get these playing cards?
I’m asking… for a friend.
If you’re going to play cards with Harem, it’s best you do it in the open like this, or an enclosed room. It would be pretty distracting to try to watch for her “co-conspirators” in a crowded area.
I know she has been busy with other things, but…
1) Sydney is on a stakeout
2) Wearing a utility belt
3) On a rooftop
4) Spying on an abandoned warehouse
And she hasn’t made ONE Batman comment yet?
Too easy.
She is still burnt out, from the shame of having taken his name in vain.
No shirtless Android 16?
Woops, I meant Recoome. mixed up my redheaded Dragon Ball characters.
Rather have the shirtless blonde :wink:
I recently got to observe a co-worker with ADHD, who had just come clean from falling off the wagon with alcohol and meth. There were no past thoughts, and there were no future thoughts, there was only the thought of the moment, and then that was gone, and it was on to the next thought. It was like totally free association at mach 9. And no filter between the brain and the tongue.
I noticed that she was on a spiral downward and took her home, to her family, so she could take meds, rest, monitoring, and not lose her job. Seriously, no filter.
The decent thing to do.
*presents a bowl of Yorpie Snax™*
Texas holdem starts with each player receiving two private cards, then a round of betting. Afterward, three cards are turned face up in the center, and these form a pool of community cards (the flop). Then a round of betting. Then another face up community card (the turn). Then betting. Then the last face up community card (the river; 5th face up card). Final round of betting. Each player still in the game makes the best 5 card hand they can of the two original private cards and 5 community cards available.
Sydney, the lightbee is not risk free. It can be seen by the bad guys. Use your truesight instead to see if you can spot an invisible pink jaguar.
The lightbee can only be seen, if she uses it to project her image
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/494 – 4th panel, Arianna saw it before Sydney projected her image.
And besides that: Would Sydney be able to see out of the lightbee if she didn’t project her image?
Okay, the point is, a tiny little light, you are not looking for, will not be as detectable as a full sized midget nerd
And it really depends on how Sydney perceives the input from the Lightbee: if it only works once she has ‘deployed’ herself, then how would she know she is in the correct position to deploy herself? o_O
who or what does that hand in frame two belong to?
The view is seen from DaveB’s patented ‘Sydneyvision’ that has a miniature camera mounted in the bandaid on the bridge of her nose. Unfortunately, he has yet to develop a waterproof version, so don’t expect it in any shower scenes.
If you wish to contribute to his ‘GoFundMe’ project to fix this problem (also known as Patreon) he may be able to complete this vital task.
So much +1 for that answer.
You missed the point. There is a giant red hand, of some monstrous devil, climbing up, over the roof. Best seen in the bubble-free version of the panel, in the author’s blog.
Clearly the “Mars” sign was actually a shapeshifted demon.
thank you, that’s what I wanted to know, It’s part of the Mars sign, OK no problem,
Bah. They should be playing real poker, not that froofroo fancylad hold em garbage.
It’s neither: it’s Go Fish
Dragon Poker. The rules change according to the day, the number of players, how many of you are wearing hats, etc. (The Stainless Steel Rat book series)
Nah they’re playing Fizzbin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DeIExLcURQ
Stainless Steel Rat????
No! Mythadventures!
I think you may be mythtaken.
I need these cards.
If Spike is an Ace (and who are we kidding? he is.) then is Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckner the joker?
What what what?!?!?! NO GUTSU??? :( :(
Are you talking about Guts from Beserk?