Grrl Power #734 – Three’s a conversation
This page takes place after about 30 seconds of recovery, hemming and hawing and Sydney saying something like “Upon reviewing this new data, I temporarily suspend my dating… thingy I said earlier.” But I thought I’d skip over that.
Sydney obviously took this better than some might have expected. One of her hallmark characteristics is that she bounces back from stuff quickly. She just has big reactions, which makes it appear she’s far more invested in any given event that she actually is once she has a moment to process. She’s disappointed by this outcome, yes. She figured Leon was a lock, but who knows, maybe she’s not out of the game yet.
I had intended to start this page with a bunch of the team trying to look like they’re not listening in from the next room, but I had to cut it for space, so just pretend that’s going on.
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Last page ended with the drama so think you could cut it with a PPO, and now everybody is just sitting around rationally discussing the situation? Ain’t nobody that well adjusted. I’d think it would take more than 30 seconds of hemming and hawing to get to this calm of a situation.
Okay but WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CAKE POP?! We need resolution!
she threw it onto Krona’s boot tip and it smashed
or dropped it onto her own boot
pop drop
It landed on the floor, cracked and is just sitting there, or may be in the garbage already. In either case, it is no longer fit for consumption.
Krona is RIGHT THERE. She can edit it so it is. Also probably turn it to something better like red velvet.
One can HOPE and pray that she uses her powers for this purpose. :)
Oh, God, Red Velvet cake pops. Make it stop make it stahhhhp
red velvet cake pops with pop rock sprinkles
You watch too much TV. Normal people would react along side of “Oh, I didn’t know you were dating. I guess it was 2 months for you. erg.” They are all friends and Sydney does have similar enough way of thinking to a “normal” person to be mature about it.
Or webcomics or whatever, the medium doesn’t really have anythig to do with it.
To be fair Sydney is known for her over-reactions to things. While a fight would be unreasonable her panicking in embarrassment was quite likely.
Fair enough.
I’ve handled big disappointments that well. It actually is a thing that can happen. Big expectations, dashed hopes…but then you realize you still want the other person(s) to be happy. Sydney likes Krona, respects her, and has time to process the fact that way too much time has passed for things not to have happened. Plus, given her ADHD-ramped enthusiasm for many things and occasional missed social cue or simply poor timing…Sydney would have definitely run across this kind of enthusiasm-to-disappointment 180 several times in her life. (You get used to it after a while.)
Plus, a good chunk of her “enthusiasm” is actually assertiveness, ramping up the energy to ride the crest of that enthusiasm, all to get past social anxiety, and to Carpe that Diem. Sydney knows she needs to focus to get stuff done, and she’s trying to Get New/Next Boyfriend Stuff Done. Which didn’t pan out, Krona got the gold nuggets, oh well.
(And seriously, after all the talking they did, I am quite sure Sydney has proposed wild-hare-brained ideas during their midnight sofa chats, so that Leon needs to be certain about the Pixel thing.)
I’m surprised there’s this much civil dialog.
You don’t know Sydney too well then
Would you like to? Heard she is currently not-attached and looking
Oh HELL yeah.
I can prove my preliminary nerd cred!
How is she about polyamory? My wife would be willing to take her in if she was IRL.
You will have to ask Yorp :P
Civil dialog is better than civil war. Of course the battle would be awesome…
I’m not. I’m surprised so many people expected Sydney and Krona to get in a fight over Leon. Seriously, what about either of these characters made people think they were A) likely to start a fight over a little social awkwardness or B) completely idiotic?
These are nerd girls for heaven’s sake. They’re not gonna stoop to fighting over a boy. For starters they’re intelligent enough to realize how utterly pointless it would be. And, also, they like each other and they’re smart enough not to let a potentially good friendship go to hell just because they’re both interested in the same guy. Give them some credit.
They may try and roll a natural 20 for it though…
Oh, I can see that.
Look at the last panel, Joe Guy. There’s still enough tension to keep mayhem on the table.
That tension is due to Leon being dumb with his choices. … Granted, he’s inexperienced so holding that against him would be dumb in itself. But right now they’re sorta going, “Did he really just…?” and sharing a sisterly bonding moment.
Maybe I’m dumb too, because I don’t get it. Why does Sydney mention Pixel? Why does Leon think she was kidding about it? Why are the girls going: “Did he really just…?” What?
Sydney is short. Krona is shorter. Pixel is… Maybe shorter than Krona? But pretty close.
This is what the joke is about Leon’s type; she’s offering to give him Pixel to date as well.
And then for a moment he wonders if she’s serious about it, which of course she wasn’t. (She just had a 30-second freakout of her intended boyfriend going out with someone else, why would she offer to put another woman into the mix?)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-429-snap-judgements/ Pixel is taller than Sydney
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-492-dont-tell-her-spots-are-gauche/ Krona is taller than Sydney
her intended *Earth* boyfriend (or terrestrial boyfriend, if you prefer. atmospheric?) She already has a Space Boyfriend
I’m not. Sydney has a -5 penalty to saves vs. Analysis Paralysis. Even if she was really upset (instead of jaw-drop surprised, which was how I read the cake-pop-drop moment), she wouldn’t be unlikely to get so bogged down in unpacking the situation as to forget that she was ever upset about it in the first place.
His type is a Type-O
Type A actually.
Yeah
Not everyone is into the whole mammoth boobies thing
In fact many of us appreciate the A-Team.
More than a mouthful is wasted.
Let’s hear it for the A-Team! Little and cute is best.
Why is it that people who are into small breasts always seem to have to make snide little jabs at large chests? Just do you, man. Like what you like and so will I.
Because they live in a river in north Africa, and projecting
To this day I have not a slightest clue what Draa have to do with such situations.
Well, besides Moroccans having a bit of a reputation in neighboring lands for being obnoxiously stupid.
Mammoth boobies are always hairy,
just like the rest of the mammoth.
Mammoth Mammaries?
mammothries
Yes Leon, it was your idea. Your mind went places that Dabbler would approve of…
Also, 2 months ago? There goes the timeline… oh wait. Who’s 2 months?!
Everybody’s but Sydneys two months ago. She effectively time traveled.
Excuse you? Read panel four again and tell me who brought up Pixelicious?
Sydney suggested she bring in Pixel as a joke about getting all the women he’d find attractive in the same room with him to make him uncomfortable. He’s the one that made the leap to it being a proposition.
Yeah, Sydney gave him the idea in the first place
Kinda sick of people who say something, realise how bad it sounded and say “Just kidding!” and then turn it on the one they said it to as though they were the one who came up with it!!
That’s how they get you!
Did you just reveal something about your relationship with your wife to us, Dave?
Not that way of ‘getting you’ :P
As my ole buddy Prince Humperdinck always says, ‘I always think everything could be a trap, which is why I’m still alive.’
That gives me an idea for a line Sydney could have used against the mega-squids.
“My name is Sydney Scoville. So is my father’s. Prepare to die.”
Nice ‘Princess Bride’ reference.
It would’ve been somewhat funny if Leon had asked “Why would you want to bring Pixel in here?” as if he’d sensed the trap and deftly avoided it.
This guest is correct. That was entirely Sydney’s fault. She made the proposition, even as a joke. If you open the door, even teasingly, that makes what comes in next your fault. There is literally no good time for that subject to ever come up, so when someone else brings it up, that is the best and only available time to see what comes from it.
Much as I love these girls in particular, they’re going to unfairly blame him for this. Despite his inexperience and general lonely-nerdgeek-syndrome.
Like that matters.
He’s sleeping alone tonight no matter who’s fault it is.
That is not a new situation for Leon. In fact I don’t think it would be any different from how he slept the night before.
True, but the last couple weeks may have been addictive…
That’s implying they have progressed to that stage
You haven’t figured it out yet? It’s always the guys fault. Always. It’s safer to accept that reality.
That was my point. :-)
Yep. “I’m a man, and that means I’m wrong.”
Unless you’re trying to admit you actually are wrong, and then if a woman hears you, it means you aren’t wrong. But it doesn’t make you right either because you’re a man.
How can you not be either? Shut up, that’s how.
Women’s faults are many,
But men have only two:
Everything they say,
And everything they do.
Inherent in the “it’s always the man’s fault ” is the implicit assumption that women are too frail to be expected to deal with the consequences of their mistakes. It is the opposite of respect.
Its not about them being frail, its about the fact that they (many of them) will be nasty and vicious if they are wrong… And pointing out they are wrong or expecting them to take responsibility is misogynistic to the extreme, apparently.
I remember seeing some clips from a talk show a few years ago where women were complaining that they had to pay alimony/child support when they were the primary bread winners in the house and how it was totally unfair… But when asked about Men paying alimony to women thought it was just natural.
If it ever turns out that the man was right, then he must immediately apologize…
And swear to never ever do it again
And the fact that some people accept this is sad… Put on some pants and ditch the skirt (unless it’s a kilt, those are MANLY) ;p
This just reinforces my belief that women are evil.
Can confirm, am a literal witch. Like, actually. I’m Wiccan.
Foursome! Even better.
Sydney’s already had her fursome, so as long as she is chasing after Dabler (intentionally or otherwise) I suppose a foursome would be next.
On the actual plus side, odds of Krona being on hand to study the sphere grid in a non-crisis moment have substantially increased.
She needs enough XP to unlock it tho
The point is that now that Krona is hanging with Archon, it’ll be much easier to get her and Sydney in one place the next time Syd levels while not still in combat.
We’re still not sure what the spheres consider as XP-worthy, except that it seems to have to involve using one or more of the spheres. Maybe if she uses the fly-ball to maneuver into some fairly acrobatic positions in a foursome, it could unlock a level-up? Dabbler could plot the logistics. She probably knows sexual positions that are non-Euclidean, only possible in dimensions with different laws of physics, or both.
Okay I’m confused is Sydney talkin short type , is she talkin nerdy is his type ,is she talkin powerful is his type or did she just go with the whole sci-fi she’s a where cat kind of thing?
There is something really attractive about a woman that can kill you six different ways
Short, nerdy with colorful hair
I’m not sure Pixel would fall into the Nerd category and is certainly not in the same power bracket as the other two. That leaves short girls.
She’s in Arc Light, and quickly analyzed the Blood Drinker sword pieces during the Council fight. Definitely a Geek, high probability of nerd.
Assembling Team Lilliput is a good thing.
Well, except maybe not good for Leon.
So, if Team Lilliput is Halo, Krona, and Pixel, is Team Brobdingnag Anvil, Ren, and Stalwart?
… Yes
Short, nerdy and cute with lots of ‘spunk.’
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-485-miniboss-fight-music-record-scratch/
Or maybe lots of spank, apparently.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Short, smart and scary.
White and nerdy.
I award you three internets!
Looks like any and/or all of the above, as long as they are interested in Leon. Don’t forget what happened when Harem gave him Side Boob on the Shoulder.
Short, snarky, cute and smart. Colorful hair adds to cute and snark both. Pixel being a Pink
PantherJaguar doesn’t hurt, either.Doesn’t Krona own any other tee shirts? She’s wearing the same one she had on two months ago.
Daniel the Human has several polo shirts in his “good clothes” rotation, all of them the same cause “that’s what he feels comfortable in”. He also brought me more clothes since I DID only have 1 set of clothes…
Maybe she just sets it to Clean: [True]
If I could do that I would. If I could I would also set “has_slept_enough” to True.
From the bowel situation, it seems it only works like a snooze button, so it’s like free coffee I guess
Well, that’s what she does. She doesn’t want to permanently clean her bowels because that sounds too dangerous.
Why would your shirt need sleep?
Personally only have a handful of clothes, never did get the whole “fifty dozen outfits that only get worn once” crap
If you like a particular style, why not just buy multiples of it? That way you don’t have to wear it until it fades or shreds, or worse, is able to stand on its own or drag itself to the washing machine
Being something of a nerd, even Albert Einstein had multiple copies of the same outfit. In his wardrobe, he had several sets of the same suit hanging up. Being nerdy, style isn’t much of a consideration, but when a particular style is decided it’s best to stick with it.
This way, when Albert woke up each morning, already starting to consider the questions of the universe, he could avoid distracting himself with trivial thoughts about what he should wear for the day; he’d just grab the next suit in line & get dressed mostly by reflex & force-of-habit.
Is it really so much of a stretch to imagine how other nerdy & geeky people would get by on a day-to-day basis with their regular, repetitive mundane tasks?
This is exactly what I do. When I was a kid, my mother would buy whatever was on sale regardless of color or pattern. When I moved out, I gave away 90%+ of my clothes to charity. A dozen black slacks, a dozen polo shirts of various colors, and I can dress for work in the dark before I’m fully awake.
I just let my wife select my clothing, and reserve a veto over it. She’s got good taste, got me a squids Hawaiian shirt just yesterday.
Prior to being married it was plaid flannel shirts and jeans for all occasions. Made the mistake as a teen of politely gushing over a plaid flannel shirt my Mom had given me for Christmas, so I had a lifetime supply, why not use it?
It got to be a joke at work. “What color of black Levi’s is Mgnostic wearing today?”. I just liked the convenience of going into the store, finding my size and checking out. Pretty much any polo shirt would go with them.
In comics, especially the superhero genre, people tend to wear the same outfits.
It’s almost as if they had a uniform to wear or something…
I only saw one change of outfits for the Scooby gang. Unless they had a washer tucked into the back of the Mystery Machine, it must have gotten pretty rank in the van after a while.
P.S. Krona’s shirt is her way of referencing her own power, in that the ‘red pill’ in the Matrix had the ability to see the truth of reality behind what is only experienced by the senses.
Oh, good call. I didn’t realize what was on her shirt, it just looked odd to me.
Personally always thought it was a Baked Bean…
God knows there’s no such thing as a clothes washer.
Is Pixel really nerdy enough for Leon?
Short nerdy aggressive powerful the list of similarities that they have pretty big. It’s also possible that he could enjoy spending time with people that are little louder than normal her being a we’re Jaguar would definitely add spice to bedroom life. It’s already been suggested that Sydney’s OK with sort of thing
Pixel: I’m flattered, but I have a girlfriend.
Sydney: Well I guess that’s set WAIT WHAT GIRLFRIEND??
Pixel: What? She likes my spots.
You mean this may have involved slightly more first-hand knowledge than at first appears?
“Nerdy enough to be attracted to Leon” is all the nerdy he needs. True of most people, he wants someone who is attracted to his strengths. Nerd boys have nerd strengths, hence dating nerdist girls.
Doesn’t hurt when they’re cute, snarky and smart, too. Smart nerd boys do *not* want dumb girls, take it from me.
He HAD to ask… just to make sure… just in case it wasn’t a joke… off course!!
… and now ge must face the Double Conspirational Side-Eye of Doom!
… all a part of dating and life…
Admit it boy, you’ve got a type alright.
Come to think of it, I’d be up for this little munchkin 4 way myself.
+1
Glad to see everyone is being civil here. Hopefully, there will be no hard/jealousy type feelings that will make some people here do stupid things.
Come to think of it I’d be up for that little munchkin 4cway myself.
Hmf, I get slapped if I suggest something like that. Looks like he DOES have a type. I’m not that picky, I allow all ladies access to my greatness. Just wish I have a bit more luck…
Let me guess; your biggest problem is that you have such a hard time convincing the ladies on your greatness without seeing a lot of eye-rolling & hearing a lot of “yeah, right” before you can get anywhere. Am I right?
I have the same problem.
They’re probably just not into robots. Or raptors. Or raptor robots.
Maybe they need to look for girls with ‘a type’…
The key, hetero (& bi/pan, etc) gentleman, to getting us ladies interested in your greatness…isn’t access to your greatness. Don’t get me wrong, that’s good, but…
The key to getting a lady interested in your greatness, is to be interested in & strongly supportive of her greatness.
That, alas, is where modern society fails most everyone, because guys are trained from birth to downplay, dismiss, be jealous of, and/or even try to destroy anything great about non-males.
Seriously, two examples off the top of my head, a specific and a general example: Caster Semenya, who is cisgender female, has to take medicine to cripple her natural hormones if she is to continue to race. No male is expected to do the same at any international-/Olympic-level competitive athletics. That is not appreciating her greatness. Mansplaining occurs every single day, wherein a guy assumes he knows more than any woman, including specialists in their field, and proceeds to “deliver his greatness” to her by explaining things…which almost always ends up being utterly unnecessary, and far too often ends up being wrong. (Especially when trying to explain something to an expert.) That, too, is definitely not appreciating a woman’s intelligence (i.e. one of the many things that makes women great).
So…how often do you express interest in a woman’s greatness? How often do you show appreciation for her & her accomplishments (& I’m not talking her body or attractiveness or fashion sense)? Guys automatically expect their greatness will be appreciated because that is how our society has been set up. In fact, some guys get way beyond petulant if their greatness isn’t automagically noticed & appreciated, to the point where we have men killing women (and others) specifically because women haven’t automagically & continuously expressed our “appreciation of his greatness”… (https://www.damemagazine.com/2017/10/24/men-are-killing-thousands-women-year-saying-no/)
Very few guys express their appreciation for the greatness of women. Leering at curves doesn’t count. Seriously. Leering. At. Her. Curves. Does. Not. Count. I cannot tell you how many guys leered at my nourishment sacs when I was a 39H because it was literally in the thousands, covering a span of over twenty years…but I can tell you that there were exactly 3 guys in those 20+ years who were interested in my brains, praised me for my smarts, admired my various abilities & skills, thought I was funny, who encouraged me consistently to do great at things, including doing better than them at certain things. Many thousands versus just 3.
I’ve had hundreds of women admire me for all those things, encouraging my greatness. If 2% of the population is lesbian (4% of women) and 4% of the population is bi/pan (2%, aka women), then that’s 6% of all women would be potentially interested in flirting with me. So 6 out of every 100 women. Now everyone has a personal type, and some are in relationships, but…I’ve had a dozen women flirt with me over the years who showed appreciation for my greatness. Versus three (3) guys, out of literal multiple-thousands.
Guys are capable of appreciating greatness in women…but y’all have bought into toxic masculinity & toxic patriarchy because you’re raised from birth breathing it in like a fish breathes in water. Fish don’t even know of an existence without water unless they bother swimming all the way up to the surface, and/or are adapted to leap out of the water and soar (flying fish) or wriggle from watersource to watersource across the mudflats (certain species of catfish, perch, etc). But most fish don’t even think of trying to do that, and that’s what guys have become, because of these socio-cultural upbringings that insist upon denigrating, dismissing, and/or destroying the greatness in women.
So…really, truly, seriously…how much have you done to genuinely appreciate that greatness in women? And if it hasn’t been much (which I think is the case)…what will you do to begin?
…
Important Caveat: Don’t smooth-talk women simply as a lure to get them to fall for you. If one does, your fake sincerity will crumble, and you’ll revert to self-focused form…and most of us can smell that coming a mile away. Genuine interest in & support of ladies is precious and wonderful. It radiates from everything you do, whether it’s listening to women’s ideas at work or promoting them & giving them a higher paygrade, or if it’s cheering on a woman who is better at pvp video games than you, even when she’s kicking your butt, or it’s voting for women to get into office… But it’s not just that.
It has to be you, a guy, turning to another guy on the bus who is pestering a gal, and telling him, “Dude, she is NOT interested in you. If you really want to talk to someone, then you talk to me.” And then don’t pause but open a conversation, such as: How was your day today? Is your boss treating you okay? Have you looked into maybe joining or forming a union at work? How ’bout that sportsball game last night? Which team were you rooting for? So on & so forth.
You gotta talk to other guys at work. “Fred, I want to hear more about what Michelle has to say. I think her idea is great.” “Sam, you need to stop bugging Lucy whenever she’s at the copy machine. Yes, it’s by your desk, but you need to stop staring at her butt, because I can see it’s making her uncomfortable, and that means you’re hurting the company’s bottom line whenever she knows you’re gonna be leering at her bottom line while she’s just trying to get her work done.” It has to be, “Tim, you’re great at flipping burgers, but you need to stop cracking jokes about Ayinda’s ‘buns’ because that’s harassment, and nobody deserves to be harassed.” If you’re working a construction site and a gorgeous lady walks by, and guys start to whistle, you need to call out, “Hey! She doesn’t exist for you to drool over. She exists to be her own person, minding her own business, and YOU exist to get this work done safely! So get your eyes and thoughts back on the job!”
(etc, etc, until it’s no longer ad nauseam for women)
With all that said, to all the guys reading this? I’d genuinely like to appreciate your greatness…but we ladies have been burned so many times by self-focused guys, we’re gonna need some proof that y’all are indeed truly great. I do believe you can do it…and I know it’ll be one of the greatest things about y’all when you do it consistently.
https://youtu.be/37OWL7AzvHo
Caster is required to take hormone suppressants because Caster is genetically Male, but prefers to be treated societally as Feminine. XX and XY chromosomes are a binary reality. Masculine and Feminine are the fluid social constructs. Pretending otherwise is ever bit as foolish and anti-science as the Falt Earthers.
Not entirely accurate. Caster Semenya is not considered to be a biologically male person. She is Intersex, which is not even remotely the same thing as a Transgender.
Hermaphrodite? Ok, I guess I can buy into that.
Loosely, yes.
Can’t call her “male” just because she has testes, because she has ovaries as well.
But also can’t honestly call her “cisfemale”, because her body does not biologically match the female sex.
one can be intersexed and not be a Hermaphrodite.
Hermaphrodite meaning having both sexual organs in some form.
So much to unpack in your diatribe, but I simply don’t have the energy for it. One point I will make is that more and more these days, men find it easier to just opt out of relationships altogether rather than to accommodate the onslaught of new and ever changing – even those that honestly try still risk being #metoo’d into nonexistence. Someone put it perfectly the other day with the comment of “Women are like sexually attractive land mines.”
The only statement of yours I have the energy to counter is your closing one. I’d genuinely like to appreciate *your* greatness.. but we men have been burned (and ruined) so many times by mindgame-playing women that we’re gonna need some proof that y’all really aren’t gonna fuck us over a the first opportunity. I do believe you can do it, and I know it’ll be one of the greatest things about y’all when you do it consistently.
But I’m not holding my breath.
If you want to ethically tar all men with what is done by the worst of them, as experienced by some number of women, then to avoid hypocrisy, you morally have to accept yourself being tarred with whatever is done by the worst of women, as experienced by some men.
Is that really the social milieu you want?
Are you ethical enough to accept that as the basis for discussion?
I’m not, because although it is a fair rule, gender-wise, it’s stupid and unrepresentative on both sides, life-wise.
We’ve all seen both kinds of things happen. Doesn’t make it typical.
Specifics of “what men can rightly say that bad women often do” don’t matter. Who gives a crap?
Most women are people of good will, doing what they can in a complicated life. So are most men.
You can do better than your diatribe.
I appreciate the positive points.
I don’t appreciate the implication that every one of these people that you don’t know, and you don’t have a clue about, aren’t already doing some or most or all of these things, when applicable, when they can.
You are insulting every man here, with your “womansplaining” and your nasty assumptions.
You haven’t earned the right or the credibility to make that assumption about any one of them, let alone ALL of them.
It’s blatant sexism and bigotry and stereotyping and all-around bullshit.
So, how about we start again, with respect?
Link me on Linkedin and we’ll chat.
Dal Jeanis
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By the way, your entire point about Semenya is completely based on a false pretext, and you have to know it.
The argument you made is completely gutted when Semenya’s physical status is truthfully disclosed, rather than artfully concealed. Folks, runner Semenya has male parts that constitute a distinct and unfair advantage over cisfemale contestants.
Sociologists Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook define cisgender as a label for “individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity”. Note that middle clause…. “their bodies”. A body with internal testes is not scientifically a female body. It’s hermaphroditic. It can be primarily female, but it is not cis-female.
Labeling a person who has testes a “cisgender woman” is an attempt to falsely pretend she is in all senses physically a woman, with no unfair advantages. She isn’t.
Your deceptive argument (if not an outright lie) would render the term “cisgender” meaningless and useless, scientifically….so we’d then need another such word (“eufemale”? “eusex”?) to express the simple concept that was formerly expressed with the English word “woman”.
I’d prefer not to multiply terms, but either way, readers deserve to know about such deception where it occurs…
Why does it matter? I’ve never seen a rationale for separate men’s and women’s sports that went any deeper than “men are more physically capable than women and therefore it’s not fair for them to compete with each other”, which is an inaccurate generalization based on unspoken assumptions about men and women and sports.
Some women are faster or stronger than some men. Some men are faster or stronger than other men. Some women are faster or stronger than other women. Isn’t finding out which are which kind of the point of sports? If men tend to outperform women in a particular sport, why is that a problem? If the goal is to level the playing field, then have separate divisions based on measurable, relevant criteria, e.g. weight classes in boxing and wrestling.
I should think all these gender-related sports controversies would have made two things clear by now: Society is not in universal agreement about how to measure sex or gender, as much as we’d all like it to be simple. And it’s not directly relevant to athletic performance, or there’d be no issue of women performing “like a man”. If you want to measure something, measure it directly as possible, and don’t hide behind leaky abstractions that fall apart at the edges.
Good luck good sir!
Collect them all :D
^_^
Leon, you twit.
All you had to do when presented with that statement was lift as single eyebrow al la Spock and keep your mouth SHUT
Or just keep your mouth shut period
The best idea, but the most unlikely…
VOTE
Meanwhile… all the cake pops are now gone.
VOTE
Thanks for reminding me.
Two manic tiny ladys and one giant were kitty? This is starting to sound like a party.
Remember how Pixelicious looks when she’s not a 7-foot tall pink ball of fluffy?
Course you do, we saw her two pages back
One of the tiny ones have reality warping powers. The possibilities are endless.
I’d say two of them do – Aetherium Causeways are SO not natural.
Kicking a grizzly bear in the nads sounds like fun too…If your watching from a safe distance…
Is it just me, or does Kronachrome look extra beautiful in the last panel? Narrowed eyes makes her seem… more mature (unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work for me with the same look from Sydney)
At least more mature.
Surrounded by tall busty women who aren’t his type?
There’s a word for that which rhymes with ‘orange’.
Hmm, you could have some of the shadows in the first three panels a little darker, closer to the window, gives the impression of
Daphnesomeone attempting to listen in with out being too obvious (like having five of them lean up against a closed door that opens inwards, and then have at least four of them fall down when the door suddenly opens cliché)Oh, God, if Krona and Sydney continue to hang around these two are gonna feed off of each other and cause more mayhem than both of them on their own. What a pair.
I, for one, hope Krona *does* stick around…
there was a theory that the orbs were ment for krona type thing due to her reality warping powers
Nice curved monitor on that Mac Leon’s using.
That’s probably some flavour Linux operating system. Macs aren’t too good for much technical stuff (though they are better since they switched to standard hardware and a unix based OS).
As an engineer who uses Mac whenever he can, your opinion is a bit out of date. For most software work and everything but running certain CAD packages the Mac and OSX/macOS combination is a rabid chainsaw on steroids. (My last job I had to use both, our hardware design was done in Solidworks, which is PC only, but we slung code on both Mac and PC.)
Linux is pretty awesome too for software but it’s a bit fiddly if you’re just trying to get something done. If you have time to cavort around with it Linux can easily be even more powertoolish than a Mac.
It’s a Mac. It’s in a funny setup (with Launchpad up at the same time as the windows) but the dock on the bottom is all macOS.
Its linux.
The comic where Harem shoulderboobs him she even says its linux.
That dock thing on the bottom is from Gnome. Probably Ubuntu.
Dammit, Leon, I told you not to have that thought.
Panel 4 implies that Leon did have more than an a casual interest in Sydney, and she knew about it. I guess that blows my theory of Leon only seeing her as a colleague or friend out of the water.
But not when she’s IN the water?
I wonder if she can make her Air Ball produce fart gas.
Leon : what the heck, Sydney you join in, we´ll make it a harem ;)
Why would they have to explain themselves? They owe Sydney nothing, barely know her, and she was gone for two months with no claim or stake in things at all.
Plus, she had her own fling. After less than two days. With a stranger.
So, why would this be a thing, at all?
If Sydney were saying something like, “I demand an explanation or else”, then maybe you’d have a point.
But right now they’re just casual friends trying to smooth over hurt feelings.
But not when she’s IN the water?
… What kind of OS is that. I seriously doubt a programmer of name would use Mac. Too much restriction imposed by the OS to make it an ‘efficient machine’ …its good for artists, or used to, dunno what its like now, but when I tried to do some coding on my sister’s mac, installing anything to do the compiling was a nightmare. Every single system resources are locked down tighter then fort knox :/
Note: I’m a Debian user. XD
Well it could be a virtual mac running under a host linux just as well now. QEMU is great
As a Computer Engineer, yeah, no. I’ve used a Mac for years, and only use a PC when I absolutely have to (which thankfully is limited to running our mechanical CAD package at my current job.)
There are virtually no restrictions on macOS that can’t be easily turned off, and most of them are good thing to have in any case. Remember, it’s essentially a BSD port of UNIX under the GUI.
Remember that Apple has about 12,000 engineers that *all* use the Mac for *everything*. If it was a lousy machine to use for engineering they would fix it so it wasn’t.
Oh, and Leon appears to be running a Mac. Dave put it in a weird state so there would be more on the screen to see (LaunchPad is up at the same time as a terminal window and presumably some graphic program) but it’s obviously a Mac from the Dock at the bottom, or a Linux box with some window manager that makes it look like the Finder.
Due to the choices the agency I worked for made, I used to do a lot of work using the RedHat and CentOS Linux distributions. Like all distros, these had their pros and cons. The most important pro for us was the rock solid stability of a system once you had it configured correctly. The con was mostly that you really had to know what you were doing to get the boxes configured to be that stable. That created issues because some of the scientists thought they were better programmers and database administrators than they really were. I used to spend a lot of time cleaning up some genius’ functional, but dangerously unstable code.
They should call Pixel in…!
And boy the fur will start flying!!!!!
The way they are looking at each other…. oh boy… he walked into something.
Yeah, a trap laid by Sydney
Indeed, but is it a GOOD trap or a bad trap?
Pixel AND Peggy.
Well-said.
Except Peggy’s canon orientation is Girls unless ovulating, which means if she likes any of the other combinations she’ll still save Leon for “That (other) Time of the Month”.
Yeah, this is pretty much how I saw things ending up. Like Dave said, one of Sydney’s hallmark characteristics is that she bounces back from stuff quickly. I didn’t expect to see it happen on the very next page but anyone who can recover from being trapped on a dead alien world and go on to fight the aholes who killed it is not one to let a missed opportunity for dating stop her.
That’s pretty much a characteristic of ADHD types not on the Aspie spectrum. Situation changes then so do they. Turning on a dime.
“I’m going to take you apart limb from !!!SQUIRREL!!! and we can fix that window before it rains again.”
Now here you’re assuming Krona can’t just set her own ‘quantity’ field
(please be a reply to the comment I wish you to be a reply to, this post)
It wasn’t but it works as a stand-alone comment too.
Nope.
It didn’t stay attached.
I’m pretty sure that someone else will suggest that the only answer is polyamory though.
This is a good opportunity for the talk about polyamory and dating multiple people at the same time. After all she has a space boyfriend now and would then have an earth boyfriend. Time to start taking advice from dabbler and cora about how to handle such situations.
It’s a slight shame we missed the intervening 30 seconds of Sydney freakout/glitching/statement retracting, but I can see why it got cut for narrative purposes.
And it seems Leon DOES have a type. It’s a similar type to me, and apparently a fair few other tall guys…
“Whatever doesn’t run away”
And a former GF told me that when I get picked it’s because 1) I’m polite, and 2) I’m there when needed. 2) is not always true, but it’s true often enough.
I found, back in my younger days when it mattered, that it was when I got totally fed up and STOPPED being polite was when the women came out of the woodwork at me.
Before that, I always heard “Why can’t my boyfriend be more like you?” and never, “What are you doing tonight?”
After that, it was, “Why won’t you go out with me?”
And no, it only worked that way when I really did not care one whit.
Given that Sydney’s one of those things that’s part of the weight on Maxes Crown if Cora is right…..she has little reason to be complaining about her turning to Krona for help
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-690-gotterdammermcguffins/
I had figured that about Syd, she freaks out at first, but bounces back after she’s got that freak out done. I can sympathize, although I tend to have a longer build up to the freak out, then feel like a fool afterwards (haven’t actually done it in a long time, with age comes an attitude of “eh, fuck it”).
Here there was – as Dave said – about 30 seconds of her brain processing the development – with probably a lot of internal swearing, some of which may have been more than a little unfairly insulting to the other two – and then she is like “okay, that’s the way it is, deal with it”. The only concern is whether she externalizes her reaction, or keeps it to herself so she doesn’t insult Leon and Krona.