Grrl Power #672 – Engage… your advanced math skills
On the plus side, Sydney does have her phone on her and it probably has a graphing calculator app. Not a 4 Dimensional Space Calculus one though.
If I was Sydney, I would have put that second point into either the shield and topped that out, or immediately put a second point into the warp tree. It would suck to get the warp speed upgrade, and only be able to go the actual speed of light, because, you know, as fast as that is, it’s still like 4 years to the nearest star from Earth. 4 years. Sydney may have all the air she can drink, and she’s got a granola bar in her utility belt, but she certainly doesn’t have the supplies for an extended trip.
Let’s be honest, she doesn’t even have the patience to get from Earth to Neptune at lightspeed, which is like 4 hours.
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So. I’m curious what the nodes that connect orbs do … Unlock hybrid functionality maybe? So one orb can be connected to another, and that one orb can maintain the power of the others connected to it?
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Sydney: “Engage Warp Drive!”
Orbs: “I’m sorry Syd, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
I think we have already seen one.
I think the link between the PPO and Shield allow her to fire through her shield, and do the aperture thing with rapid fire. I can’t speculate what all the other connections might do, but I think it would be stuff like that.
Oh, wow, whoops. I’ve been thinking for a long time that the shield and ppo were connected, but it’s the flyball and ppo… sorry.
As a Dave myself, I can confirm.
The only hybrid currently selected is the flyball/PPO hybrid. I’ve been assuming that its something like the PPO requesting some of the flyball’s thrust power to counteract recoil when she fires.
Possibly. But we’ve only ever see her use the flight orb and the PPO together ONCE!
Back when she shot the tank. And it’s important to note that she had difficulty using it and saw Maxima afterwards bout how she felt fear at using it.
Personally, I would have either put the extra point into another Warp drive, or the link between shield and flight since those are the two she most commonly uses in tandem.
Sometimes it’s the other way around.
…then we discover that all theories are wrong, that those are actually Pieces of Orb, or Orb Points, and that filling all seven unlocks another new Orb.
Wow, that’s a brand new theory for me! I like!
I’m still leaning towards the center being some sort of ‘global’ setting* instead of being tied to individual orbs. This fits in nicely, though I can’t imagine what an 8th orb would do when the Magnificent 7 have so many nodes left to unlock.
* Not sure what though. XP rate? Personal assistant? Sandwich shop ordering priority? Quality of tea served by the vending machine orb? Number of times a user has been tricked into squandering a point?
My guesses are either respec, or Max style power transfer of some type.
I’m kinda wondering if that’s exactly what those uber-squids are getting all nasty about. There is another orb/orb set at stake, they see Syd as one who is coming to reclaim them.
Please be +GetApp function.
The next “power” she’s affected by (Varia anyone? Krona? Pixelicious?) is copied and turned into an orb that can do whatever that ability can do, plus its entire ascending and descending tree (like Lycanthropy would be the whole natural zoo + Beast Boy + or Vampirism would be Aundae + Bone Vampire + Bat Swarm Form + Sanguine Vampiris + Porphyric Hemophilia + Sparklehomo for its various sub-unlocks).
A new orb is what came to my mind as well. So you get the 7 and you get a 7th orb. then you need to fill 8 for an 8th orb, etc.
While I agree with others that it’s hard to imagine what a new orb could/would do, We still have one orb unused, so we’re already in the chair of wondering what another orb could do.
Alternatively… She had two filled and could only use two orbs at a time, one in each hand. What if she could now use a third and she simply needs to work out which body part to use?.. Problem is she only has 6 orbs but there are 7 chevrons.
Alternate alternative. It’s like a higher gear for XP, so she gains XP for more ability points faster.
There are 7 orbs and chevrons.
1. Shield
2. Fly
3. PPO
4. Comm
5. Air
6. Tentacle
7. ???
But I can’t edit my above comment, so I’m clarifying it. If it is a new orb (I said years ago the same thing, that there are definitely more orbs or objects yet to be found) then it has to be what the others are- based on technology.
I was using vampirism and such as an example. There are a LOT of pieces of tech, but they only really do so many things. The orbs so far do all those things, almost. A few exceptions:
– Refrigerator / freezer / fan / heater / grill / other wind/temperature something. This includes curling irons and cryoguns, cooking tools both manual and electric, etc.
– The brown (Room) ball is probably a holodeck + hammerspace + stasis pod + etc.
If I’m right that some new tech that isn’t related to an existing orb, or the unknown one, then the PPO absolutely has three other modes (which it does, which are locked). Here are the ones we know: Beam, Howitzer. There are 4 others. Here are the ones I can’t imagine aren’t there: Flamethrower (could be lightning, fire, ice, etc), Vaccuum (Subnautica has a gravity gun to pull things towards you), Sniper (slow re-fire rate, but stupidly high shield/armor penetration). Maybe the last one is Grenade/Mine/Rocket.
So what would the next orb be? It has to be mechanical (machines can’t see it as Dabbler said and all the orbs so far function as machines), but… I dunno, I think the Air ball also has 3d Printing / Replicator capacity. Or it will once it’s unlocked.
Wait, there is another type of technology I just realized that Halo doesn’t have active control of… yet as far as she knows: Projectors.
There are machines RIGHT NOW that is like a helmet that reads your neural activity, and tries to reproduce what you see on a screen. It doesn’t work very well yet, at all. But the Orbs tech level is way higher, so if that’s a function, it should work.
It’s Skype. The brown Orb is Skype. But, like psychic Skype. Allow Sydney sound/voice communication from her to anyone, anywhere, that she already knows. She should be able to project her own thoughts and memories onto a screen, or midair that acts like a screen, or maybe the Orb is the holodeck itself. That’s why when it was scanned by Mechasquid it had running code because it was actively recording everything, and always is?
You might think that function should be on Comm, but that’s not the type of Comm it is. The yellow ball is more like Spock, where the brown one is more like Uhara. Wait, red is Worf, Blue is Scotty, Purple is Takei… Pink (hentorb) is
All of that that would be the telecomm orb’s purview. If it can make a projection of her, it can make other kinds of surveillance type displays. (The display on the flyball is clearly a flight control mechanism, not a surveillance attempt.)
It’s far more likely the final unknown orb is some sort of sick bay / infirmary / healing device (possibly even regeneration or shapeshifting once it’s got enough points? grow a third arm, anyone?), since the green orb is Life Support (air on the lit tree, probably food & drink on the unlit one(s).
It makes sense to travel into space with some sort of medical kit, as well as air/lifesupport, comms, shields, propulsion, tools (lighthook, it manipulates things outside the shield), and self-defense mechanisms/weapons (ppo). It would not make sense to travel without some sort of first aid kit at the very least, and these orbs are clearly ranked several miles above a metal trashcan lid for a shield and a skateboard for movement.
And I do think the green Airball came to her hand automatically because it has that double-outline pip filled in, unlike any other of the orbs. Which would explain why Mysterious 7 didn’t just fly to her hand whenever she was injured. I could be mistaken, but that is a sensible possibility.
I speculate it might let her use the orbs without using her hands, and maybe thus enable her to use more than 2 at a time?
OR instead of an 8th orb it awakens that orb that does nothing it says its doing somthign but cant tell aka its connected and being charged up once upgrade bar is filled it comes fully online like allocating memory to certine processes
Oh, that’s why the last one doesn’t work yet.
Getting a Duck Dodgers vibe,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU7TdtLzPrA
+1 for summarizing most of the navigational theories in the comments thus far. ;)
I’m guessing the mini-menu at her fingers is a waypoint system, so it stores places she has spent some time at.
That makes the most sense considering how user-friendly the orbs have been so far. Hopefully they don’t save waypoints from before Sydney got the orbs and sends her wormwhole to the sea floor of some tropical area by Florida. I would bet a wormhole like that would deal as much damage to the environment as those ocean hikes the aliens were throwing after Sydney.
Wait a minute… The comic began in 2010, and Sydney found the orbs in the Keys…
I have a new conspiracy theory about a certain international incident in the Gulf in April 2010.
the oil spill? you think these things erupted from inside the earth or something?
I have 3 hypotheses*:
1) Sydney activates the “back button”, returns back in time and lands smack in the middle of the drilling rig, causing the explosion. A few hundred miles and say 6 months off course from where/when she found the orbs in the Keys, but from 700 (or whatever) light years away and adjusting for the Earth’s progress around the Sun (and Sun through Galaxy, etc) that’s a tiny margin of error and very very good for a first-time user. Easy peasy for a quick corrective trip once the user has better targeting data… actually, perhaps the explosion was from the collapse of a targeting/probe micro-wormhole the orbs used to collect local data and dial in the exact 11-dimensional coordinates.
2) The previous user made some sort of mistake or was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, either causing or being caught by the explosion. They limp (or are thrown) away and collapse by the Keys, where they die (or are whisked away unconscious for emergency medical attention).
3) The previous user was a worker on the rig, who was clearing a clog in the drilling systems which pulled the orbs up from miles below the bottom of the ocean. (Insert favorite ancient-aliens-populated-Earth theory here). The worker (let’s go with Bob, because that’s what anyone in construction is named right?) picked up the flight orb first and got a minute or two of swooping around in (“here, hold my beer”) before trying another orb – the PPO, bad choice. Following the explosion** and during the next couple days of unfolding international attention, Bob returned home to Florida in a panic, discovered the orbs went inactive while he slept, and went out by himself on a boat and threw them away, swearing to never speak of them to anyone. When Sydney found and activated them, they flipped to “proximity alert mode” to prevent being ‘lost’ again.
* All facetious
** In a tragic twist, the explosion was not caused by Bob, who being safety conscious and aiming whatever-this-one-does off the deck into open waters. However the crew was neglecting the equipment to watch him, and even in later years he would blame himself at least for the timing. Ultimately his delicate nature would have made him unfit for superhero duty, especially with other Archon personalities, so perhaps it was for the best.
*Sydney erupts from a wormhole in the middle of the comic shop. Joel is terrified.*
If that was to happen I think Joel would be startled at first, but as soon as he realized it was Sydney he’d just say something like, “You’re late”, to her and then go back to whatever it was he was doing.
If she does do that (I expect it now) and she appears somewhere the previous user went to or came from, and gets into trouble because of atmosphere or something, I don’t see a problem.
Appears in the void of space with some space debris around and nothing else? No suffocate- Shield+Air, Shield+Wormhole, just reroll. It works on this ship, whose engine acts a lot like Sydney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbtZ4NgtdA
Sorry I meant this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCf53ses22w
It’s recorded impossibly quiet; you’ll have to mute all sound except the video (so you aren’t deafened by anything else) in order to hear the video at all, but it’s the right link at least.
I’m thinking the central cluster might be making the infographics and other extended UI elements more visible. It would be the “user manual” to the orbs, as opposed to the unlabeled “controls” on the orbs themselves.
But that conflicts with the idea that one of the orbs’ primary functions is teaching their own use. If they were, then some extended UI if available, at LEAST to the ‘unlocked’ capacities of the orbs, would not require anything else to enable it.
Maybe she should bring up the spinny-display (since she knows how now) and try touching the nodes like pushbuttons. With a glowy-bit in hand they have a point-allocation effect, but using them as pushbuttons otherwise seems like an obvious way to bring up extended UI or documentation if any exists.
Don’t forget that Dabbler has something in the works on their end to help Sydney. At least, it seems like she does.
Dabler knows people, everywhere, everywhen. Usually really intimately.
Since there are seven “nodes” to the center hub, and there are seven orbs, and since she previously had two central nodes activated, I would suspect that she just activated the ability to use THREE orbs at a time now, although how she will discover she can do that will be interesting.
She already has a mechanism available to her to use up to 4 orbs that has been subtly established.
Can you clarify? I’ve never picked up on that. I remember her experimenting with trying to use her feet, to no effect.
When Varia touched her, nothing happened, but the orbs began orbiting both of them, implying that they would work for Varia while she is touching Sydney. So duct tape them together in such a way as to allow them to be touching with all four hands free, and four orbs can be used at the same time.
Just have Halo sitting on Varia’s shoulders, Halo wearing shorts (the shorter the better for more skin contact…) & Varia wearing a tank top. That way, they get solid contact for Varia Power Activation And Sydney isn’t that heavy so they can stay together for a while…
Damn it, someone tell them the Orb-share thing happened so they can try stuff like that…
Exactly this, Velocidictorian. Valedictoraptor?
Sounds like a Vote Incentive.
Here I was thinking a Vote Incentive should be Halo, Krona, and Dabbler all draped and grabby over Varia, while they stare wide-eyed at the skilltree, since they can share sight in that way. We can’t see the tree (because we’re behind it, they’re in front of it) and we only BARELY see one of the orbs and one of the Kronachromesight transparent Key-of-the-Twilight-esque bracelet-like things in the bottom right corner but can’t make it out.
Oh! That would be a fun vote incentive, or even an updated skilltree art with the foggy/smoky night-time background and Halo in full military duds
So, what IS that button? It’s so small I can’t make out the icon.
Let’s push it and find out! Come on Syd, you know you want to…
I think it`s a jump history. or tab.
I mean favorites.
I zoomed in to 500% and I kinda can.
Top icon: Not an icon, it’s a wormhole wireframe.
Icon next to it looks like a planet, but not like this one. Has a dot in its center, which is probably a shopping mall’s ‘you are here’. There are other things in that list though, which are probably ‘other planets’.
So to make it work it would be “Click wireframe. Click ‘you are here’. Turn orb to scroll to Other Planets: Earth (probably geographical). Click wireframe”. Even if she can’t teleport to the Keys or Archon, she’s fast enough that she can get to where she wants in a few hours at most from there.
So Dave, a thought just occurred to me.
Sydney might be one of the only supers that can go into space while largely unassisted (she still needs the link to HQ for her comms, at least for now), and she’s definitely the fastest super for actual
Um. Given her powerset, Sydney is in a rather uniquely beneficial situation, such that she *should* be receiving a visit from the space industry soon — with a simple spacesuit, she could transport a new Rover to Mars in just a few hours. Prep time included. (Assuming the flight or negates inertia for other things inside her shield, and it seemed to do so for Harem, so…)
Hell, she could singlehandedly establish a colony on Mars by transporting supplies and people. The only reason she’d need the spacesuit would be for the brief periods of dropping her shield to let out the cargo on Mars. All they’d need to do would be design ‘pockets’ for the orbs to sit in her hands (inside the suit), some kind of internally-accessible container on the back of the suit to store the orbs, and tubes leading down the arms that connect her ‘pockets’ and the ‘backpack’ so she can access all the orbs mid-travel if need be.
That’s not exactly a simple modification list, but it would be an *absurdly* small investment to make considering she could also effectively jumpstart the process of building a spacedock for ship construction.
The only issues left would be getting her to focus long enough to do it…and making sure she didn’t spill the beans about any top-secret projects.
Sure, but how do we know that other supers aren’t already doing such things? It seems space travel is difficult and that they don’t have easy access to interstellar warp, but sending things into local space seems doable.
SYD-ex when you absolutely have to get a satellite in orbit now
“Syd the Super-Scooper – We pick up where your space junk left off.”
I should remind you that we’ve already encountered quite a few extraterrestrials in this comic (most notably Dabbler)… Sydney is hardly unique for her ability to travel interplanetary distances.
That’s a flat “No Way” then?
The orbs seem almost like something the Xunca would have made and left behind in Alan Dean Foster’s Humanx universe. They liked leaving random stones that did amazing things when brought together – and they were capable of easily traveling between entire universes – taking whole worlds along with them.
Bonus points for mentioning my favorite author…
So, nobody going to comment on why Sydney placed the face bandaid over her glasses?
No, because the glasses have look like they are broken since she got pounded in the fight a few episodes back. It shows an attention to detail I missed before from the author, at least to me, when I started going back a few pages
She didn’t put the bandaid over her glasses, the glasses are just broken there
Hmm, looking back, it does seem the frame is broken there before the bandaid is there. I had missed this before. i first thought that her right lens was just extensively cracked. But this once again shows Dave is NOT a structural engineer.
If there was indeed a chunk of the rim missing, then the lens would fall out. It would be just like if the screw had come out. The rim is basically in tension around the lens, if any part of that “circle” is broken,(like removing the screw) it tends to spring open and drop the lens. (I speak from experience).
The “repair” would have to be tape across the part that’s missing. and tape in at least one other place, to hold the lens in. It would be very awkward to wear glasses repaired in this manner. In fact, she would have been “one lensed” through the whole fight, until she had time to effect a repair.
When she gets back, a trip to the optometrist for a new pair is in order. If she doesn’t already have a spare pair at home.
I guess, Dave’s never had a pair of troublesome frames before. If he actually wears glasses. (contacts are common enough.)
As to my experience, one night i’m playing video games. When all of a sudden, my left lens falls out. My first thought was the screw had come loose. No such luck, the rim had actually broken. A tape fix would have basically required tape over about half of the lens.
FYI: The common profession with the skill to repair the rim of a pair of glasses, is actually a jeweler.
Or she got p****d off at them late one night when the lens kept falling out because of frame damage over time. Cyanoacrylate adhesive anyone? Still have mine as a spare pair
She could have a teeny tiny tube of Crazy Glue in her belt pouches. That would be MY go-to for repairjobs for things like that. It can be used as surgical glue to hold a wound shut if you don’t have sutures on hand, a teeny tiny dab is all it takes most of the time, and it dries clear enough that it won’t be annoyingly in the way. A few slivers from the debris field to use as applicators, and she’ll have had her glasses repaired in mere minutes!
What about the time dilation effect at near light speeds very little time passes?
Warp drive should not have such effects
How would we know what effects warp travel might have?
In Cherryh’s Merchanter/Union universe, warp travel did weird things to the brains of people who didn’t sleep through it.
Eh, we’re talking about Sydney… if it did weird things to her brain, well… who’d notice?
Right, because spacetime is folded and therefore Point A and Point B aren’t many lightyears apart, but a couple of inches.
Floating 100 miles (minimum) above a planet, in nearly a vacuum, with no automated life support, is NOT the time to start punching random buttons.
the little blip she is seeing is Preset destinations she or the orbs have been to, or habitable enviroments she or the orbs have been to.
*in the last panel
……which should include Earth.
yep yep, our winner winner exit.
I bet the dial will be a ‘return to previous places’ or ‘saved places’ button
Sydney should really remove the broken shards from the glasses frame – she wouldn’t want them to end in her eye when that thing gets jostled.
Probably just as well she couldn’t ‘just ftl’ can’t imagine that being very controllable and would have just got lost, space is mostly very empty!
II saw a new article that they might have found out where all the missing matter in the universe is. IT’s invisible super hot gas that is still drifting between galaxies.
We can’t see it because it has not cooled down far enough.
We will see if this new theory pans out
Oh, that’s what I was going to say.
Maybe whoever made the Orbs was a lot like Finchley (“A thing about machines”, Twilight Zone)
The reason I say that: Sydney defeated Matthias, Dabbler (twice, at different times), Negaknuckles, Vehemence, and Jabberwokky but didn’t get any points.
They’re organic. She only gets points from defeating machines+robots. Cyborgs don’t count since they’re just organics wearing prosthesis. Is a wheelchair user no longer human because their legs suck? No.
Oh and Mr. Amorphous. She defeated him too.
I think it’s D&D rules – she only gets points for kills.
I don’t think she killed anything between the press conference(where she got a point) and the chocolate factory.(where she got another one) And yes, she did help fight Vehemence, but she didn’t cut his arm off or anything. And at the twilight council she only restrained one of the “husks”. Again, no kills.
Wormhole vector points are fun.
(Bows to the standing ovation for my statement)
I would like to thank doctors Michio Kaku and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Also Georgio Tsukalos and Alfred E. Newman, FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASON (looks around nervously).
I wonder if the central nodes are two point required upgrades? Seems like the other two little central wedge things have lines connecting them to other nodes that are lit up, but the node connected to the new one isn’t (or Dave just didn’t bother filling the part of it that’s visible in the frame in). If it’s not just an accidental oversight, they might be talents that require both the inner and outer nodes to be purchased before they become available.
Assuming an evil game master: 21 point upgrades. You need all 7 center points and the other ends of those lines filled in, as well as the 7 in the middle.
And then Halo wins.
We’ve all had fun speculating about the last unknown ball.
One other idea . It’s related to magic. Syd really has had no reason to believe that magic exists until recently.
So the last relates to the use of magic. She just hasn’t tried the ‘secret word’ We all should know what that is right? It was even used in two very famous games too.
I’m imagining the center will be an all-orb Limit Break super move once completed.
True, but it was not established that Varia could actually *use* one or two orbs while Halo was using two orbs. I would guess that they wouldn’t work, but now Varia could use one while Halo used two. And I’m guessing this will be the first way they actually make use of more than two orbs at once, despite not really needing to.
When will you (meaning me) learn that Icecat doesn’t play nicely with grrlpower’s comment system? Sigh.
Naw, she doesn’t need a suit to let people out on Mars – she just needs to close her eyes, grab the air orb, and let the shield down. Once they have the colony set up, though, she can go through an airlock before letting the people out.
That said, even with the retcon regarding her interplanetary speed, with full flight speed, that’s 10 hours, 20 minutes to Mars at minimum distance, and over 22 hours at average distance (I did not calculate a detour around the star inconveniently located between the two end points on the path at max distance.) and that’s not calculating all of the time it’d take her to locate where she left the stuff the prior trip(s). That’s really not going to be an easy trip to make as many times as she’d need to make it to set up a complete base, and she really doesn’t have the temperament to do the job.
It would be feasible if she could wormhole back and forth quickly – assuming the wormhole comes out at the same place each time and doesn’t damage the environment, of course. I’d bet that Deus already has plans that could be modified slightly to account for her abilities.
That having been said, do we really want to have a space colony when we only have one person who can provide transport to or from? I’m not even questioning the attention span of the person in question. (Ok, I am, I’ll admit it. But hear me out anyway.) We understand from Dabbler that we are currently excluded from galactic commerce and harassment because we’re not a space-faring people. What exactly does it take for galactic society to decide that we’re grown ups, so they can play with us like equals, including taking off any kid gloves in dealing with us? Faster than light travel? Halo wormholing back and forth would probably count for that. Do they care she’s one person of 7 billion? If she’s running a commercial carrier service, or even a military only carrier service, then I’d guess they probably wouldn’t – at least not the worst of them. And the worst of them is exactly the set we don’t want to appear too adult too fast to.
Type 1 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
All 5 of the first commenter’s listed qualifications: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-requirements-for-a-planet-to-join-the-United-Federation-of-planets
Dabbler did bring up Star Trek’s Prime Directive.
I just realized – Deus is Elon Musk’s evil twin.
What I would assert is that the reason we talk about time dilation with near light speed travel should not apply to warp speed, because it’s not actually near light speed; it’s effectively traveling slowly (relative to light speed) through a shortcut.
Exactly what effects that shortcut provide? Nobody knows, except god. So, for the grrlpower universe, Dave knows, and we don’t. For our universe, we don’t know, because we haven’t done it yet.
We actually might have.
But time at the entrance and time at the exit might not be the same.
You might not survive the wormhole anyway.
You might not survive the place you exit.
If you exit and are fine, you’d have to tell someone, and that person would have to believe you. Also it would have to be published, with the publisher and scientific community AT THE TIME believe you too.
Anyone else notice how the center of the skill tree has those three wedges in the center. I think that maybe she’ll get a new power when it fills up.
Oh, like instead of an 8th orb, it’s a new branch orb?
Maybe filling out the inner circle will activate the greyed out thin lines that add aditional level of upgrades.
Ah, as in the current skill tree is capped to “level 2” (now 3) upgrades, and the trailing lines lead to levels 3 (now 4) through 7? Yikes, level 7 skills must be terrifying, erase that planetary system level. That would explain why the squiddies were shooting on sight.
I meant more in the line of fill out the inner part and if you have done so you get the next update levels and possible a new empty inner ring for even more…
Exactly I mean if their right about it being a space ship kind of thing there has to be a capacity for new additions to it. I don’t know what she would get though maybe a cloak of some kind.
GAK!! he is going to switch back to earth next week, I know it, Evil….EVIL!!!
She addresses her orb as “Mr. Scoville”? It’s male? Well, it is a ball, so I guess that makes some sense.
She needs a melange infusion so she can become a stage-1 navigator.
I think it’s a Star Trek reference. “Engage the warp drive Mr. Sulu.”
In Star Trek’s Starfleet they tend to address female officers as ‘Mr.’, as in ‘Mr. Saavik’:
https://youtu.be/lKogc14hHtQ?t=73
Maybe she can handle 3 orbs now simultaneously since she has 3 pips on the inner circle?
Probably not. It probably is something that only gives something once all of the slices are filled in.
My guess is that there are bookmarked locations and earth is one of them
Man, I really want a separate image, like in the cast info or something, which keeps a running display of the most current orb level grid as a reference
I wonder how will Dave manage Sydney´s amazing and immesurable superpowers from this arc forward.
Couldn’t filling out the Heptagon in the centre unlock another deeper level of her skill tree?
And if she’s now got the option to open Wormholes, couldn’t she use one as a way to open the portal back to Earth?
Nice ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ reference.
I might just be nitpicking but “I couldn’t figure out how to get it back out” sounds more like Sydney explaining something to the audience than her talking to herself.
I dunno, I talk to myself all the time and I (mostly) don’t have the issue of an attention span of a gnat on speed. Sometimes it’s useful to verbalize an issue in thinking through it; seems to help keep details from getting lost in the static.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22035945
A study I heard about (I think that link says it well enough) showed that when you say what you need to do or are thinking about out loud, you’re getting the educational benefit of experience of being taught by someone else (because you hear it) plus the experience of… experience (doing it yourself).
Talking to yourself out loud definitely helps, basically. Either that or we’re characters in a book or game ourselves and we almost all do this because the writer doesn’t want the actual protagonist to stand out when they do it, so everyone does.
A 100% real, legitimate training technique for learning computer coding is to be handed a rubber ducky by your teacher, and told to “explain the problem to the duckie”…which genuinely works for most coders. If they can articulate what the problem is to the rubber duck, then they usually can figure out how to fix it. (The Rubber Duck Method is renowned (& even somewhat infamous, though nowhere near as loathed and reviled as Clippy) at MicroSoft, Inc. I know, because I have friends who work there. It is also found at Google. I Have Seen The Ducks On Their Desks (at the Munchen branch of Google, visiting a friend while in the city).)
If she leaves this fight there are things we may never see in Grrl Power-verse.
Like her doing a triple attack… Ten Thousand Years of Death Power Speed Henticle Ramming Attack from Below on the giant squidees…
This would make for an awesome splash page homage to Naruto, you know she’s a fan. (Sasuke for sure eh?) Maybe the monthly (mostly) voting incentive, DaveB ??
GEt to mach 16 and BEE into shields Extend henticle in Probe with Humiliation Mode…and shield in compact mode… The look on the squid’s face should be worth a thousand patreons…:Nods sagely in Dwarven:
“So this is it,” said Arthur, “We are going to die.”
“Yes,” said Ford, “except… no! Wait a minute!” He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur’s line of vision. “What’s this switch?” he cried.
“What? Where?” cried Arthur, twisting round.
“No, I was only fooling,” said Ford, “we are going to die after all.”
“Stupid…genius”??