Grrl Power #769 – Incoming (eventually)
Cora and her crew have heard of the exploits of the supers that Dabbler has been hanging out with, but it’s obviously different seeing it in action. Probably a touch humbling too.
I’m not sure why Maxima is standing like a model. It was a weird confluence of me randomly deciding to tilt her head up a little and not being sure what to do with her other arm. I threw her coat over her shoulder and suddenly she’s all vogue.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the previous page. There were some votes for leaving it as it. I think it’s a bit too far for Sydney for forget she was watching a press conference 20 minutes ago, but… she has had a few busy days. My favorite suggestion was Sydney complaining that she was iced out of the XP from taking down the Fel. Honestly, the team should be involving her in as much combat as possible since she’s the only one who gets a direct benefit fighting. I mean, everyone on the team benefits from fighting, but Sydney literally levels up.
So… I guess for now, imagine she says something about that, or the original thing.
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…. did Earth just “oh s#!+ !! A Mycon into temporary sanity?!? Even the Urr-Quaan couldn’t do that!
Huh. Maybe it’s afraid that Juffo-wup CAN be destroyed by energy blasts..
Juffo-wup flows through my fibers and I become turgid. Violent action ensues
Nah, you need to submit this to “Guiness Galaxy Book of Records” for “Oh shit” moments.
…Anything Sydney does, ever, goes in “Funniest Videos”
Well except where she caused a massive traffic accident on the Fracture ;)
That was funny (as long as there were no casualties).
Sydney missing out on XP won’t be a problem once she unlocks the Party System. Then she can add Max or whomever to her party, and get a portion of their experience whenever they defeat an enemy or complete a quest.
… now I’m thinking about Max under the effects of an Att-Ip
Support ability….
Wait does XP scale? So every level more and more…
It may not necessarily scale per se, but the ships in the Squidward Fleet gave her nothing.
Some challenge has to be present.
Just because a character says something, that doesn’t mean that’s how it works. She was also constantly pointing out she doesn’t KNOW how the EXP works for her orbs or if it even matters if she fights anything or just uses the orbs. She doesn’t know; there is no instruction manual for her. She was guessing while fighting them, but on the ground double guessed her assertions.
Her very first point came from just showing off for the press, so it is possible that the XP required for an upgrade does increase after each level up.
It was the first point she’d ever gotten though, after months of unspecified messing around with the orbs in private (including flying and at least 1 forest fire). It could’ve been the event by itself, or that could’ve just been the day she happened to inch over the threshold to the next level. Given the next couple came within days though, it’s clearly not time based.
Rough correlation though does seem to be “did something new and impressive”, and it’s been more so each time.
Or she could have had the point for some time and that was the first time she accidently opened her skill try and there was a point there to spend.
t could ae that she hadn’t used the PPO enough to complete the Orbs tutorial. You get your first point at the end and can’t earn any points until you do.
Tbf she’s pretty sleep deprived still isn’t she? It’s plausible between that and the giant gun the she forgot
Provong once again that there is no such thing as an obscure reference when geeks are involved.
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Impressive. Taking “A few hundred” to mean about 300, that means that Maxima’s blast was about *seventy megatons* packed into a square meter. I think that exceeds the energy density of anything except the core of a star.
There are nuclear weapons from 1961 that have a yield of 100 megatons (like the Tsar Bomba). Although not sure how it would factor in with the ‘packed into a square meter’ part.
It is something along the lines of how large a Megaton of marshmallow would be [4,731,800 m3] and a megaton of Dwarf Star Alloy sometimes referred to as neutronium would be [~2mm3].
This is engineering – It is just like math only louder.
While I have some math skills, there’s a reason I went into IP Law instead of engineering :) Not having to figure out stuff like this is a big plus :).
I think you are misunderstanding what a megaton is. It isn’t a million tons. Nuclear blasts are measured in tons of TNT equivalent. A megaton is a blast equivalent in power to a million tons of TNT. There is no such thing as a “megaton of marshmallow” as marshmallows are not explosive. It is a measurement of energy not mass, and is roughly the same as 4.184 petajoules.
Wait. So your marshmallows AREN’T explosive? …have I been doing something wrong with the recipe…
We really could use timeline for this story. I really wonder how much time passed between Archon reveal – Alari spaceship landing and now this invasion attempt.
Juffo-wup is the Mycon race’s spiritualism from Starcraft 2. Great reference.
Star Control II
You mean Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters
People talk about the question why Cora isn’t afraid for exploding space ships.
I suspect that they use negative-mass “perpetuum mobiles”(not real perpetuum mobiles, because they still obey the laws of theromodynamics).
The reason I suspect this are
a. the two commonly used ftl technology are warp drives and worm holes both of these have a current theoretical explanation involving einsteinian negative mass, which can also be used for negative mass perpetuum mobiles.
b. These things don’t explode or do something fancy when there is a defect, but just cancel themself out by letting the negative mass and positive mass cancel each other out.
c. It’s the more volume and mass efficient than any of the methods you named.
d. You won’t have to refill your tank.
This is, in Star Trek terms, like watching a prewarp planet NOPE a Borg invasion.
THE FEDERATION WOULD HAVE QUESTIONS. QUESTIONS, I TELLS YA.
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