Grrl Power #770 – Reactions are… mixed
I would watch Most Extreme News Network. I’m assuming the format is them mentioning a top level piece of news, basically just the headline. Nothing in depth. Then they make a bunch of bad puns and tangentially related goofy comments.
I’m not 100% sure that what Suzie is saying totally makes sense, but I figure her exuberance is part of her charm.
Deus not knowing how to use PowerPoint is a lot funnier to me than it should be, just because he’s supposed to be pretty smart, and PowerPoint is some basic ass software.
Thinking about exporting our entertainment to the universe, pornographic or otherwise, I’ve come to the conclusion that it would radically change the economy of Earth. Imagine if someone made a movie here on Earth that cost $200 million to make, and after international ticket sales were accounted for, it nets a billion dollars. Now imagine that there are 5,000 other worlds the studio could sell that movie to. So, okay, let’s be conservative and say only 1,000 of those worlds really do gangbuster sales, because we’re talking about aliens and The Titanic, or Avatar, or Airplane III may not land culturally with every species. So 1,000 new worlds of audiences with comparable populations and desire for entertainment, etc.
That would be a trillion dollars in revenue… okay, minus a few bucks for advertising. But still, that’s one movie. Studios with 80 years of back catalog would become economic superpowers with more clout that all the world governments combined, and it would happen practically overnight.
Independent authors could knock out a book, what, it only sold 1,000 copies on Amazon? Guess what, it sold one million copies on Galamazon, and at $2.50 net revenue per copy, they’d be set for life. And that’s for a book that sold pretty poorly by local standards. Stephen King would be able to buy Saudi Arabia just to use as a place to keep all the rest of his money.
Seriously, if the galactic appetite for human porn was at that same level, every webcam girl would be able to retire comfortably after six months of weekly shows.
I’m telling you, the world economy would shift dramatically and rapidly. Of course, we’d probably have a massive trade deficit for a while. Even if we couldn’t get our hands on the latest portable holodeck gameboy gadgets and other sorts of tech, our own consumption of alien media would be completely nuts for decades to come. I mean, imagine if there was a show like Red Dwarf or Star Trek that were literal documentaries because spaceships were fucking real. Ice Road Truckers, except its… well, Planet Express.
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just noticed the porn star’s nails are the same color as Deus’s multiple cufflinks.
No they aren’t
Yeah they are all except the purple one, he has all the infinity Stones she only has five of them.
Look at her middle three nails, they are not the same, similar (only in the fact they are different colours), butt not the same
How about noticing that the nail colors are the colors of the rainbow minus indigo and violet? Red, orange, yellow, green and blue. Very basic and nothing to do with any other comics anywhere. It also ties in with the second panel: “…taste the rainbow.”
She’s really pushing that “Goddess of Ash” thing.
You’d think she’d trademarked the title and was going to get a quarter for every time it’s used…
This is an amazing comic and i am loving every bit of it. However question, i don’t know if it has been asked yet but what about the gods? Like are they as real as other mythical beings or were they just some other mythical thing pretending to be a god or were they ancient aliens?
Alien sex tourists….
good question, Dabbler has claimed to have killed gods. and one theory is the planet wreckers that went after the Alari planet could be stygian gods, hence looking like but not related to the Fel; which would give Halo the “has killed gods” feat as well.
But as the priest of the Ori said on Star Gate SG-1, “what is a god but a being worshipped by those beneath it”.
the term is even in world religions nearly as useless and vague as “monster”, “spirit”, or “demon”. A god really can just be anything that has some level of power and is worshipped. Different people have different criteria, usually supernatural powers, immortality, and for some a “dominion” power (as in has control over a specific aspect of nature, human emotions, ect..) which is usually somehow, hand wavy explained as not the same as a -kinetic power or demonic, or a -mancy; due to some “divine energy” bit in there. Like a pryokinetic and a pyromancer are different than a fire god, but how a fire god is different than a fire elemental; even one that can’t be killed as it astral and only expresses its self in the physical world through fire…apparently just comes down to strength and other aspects like maybe being a keystone being who without that aspect of that world wouldn’t work right or cease to exist with it. I have found several writers over the years have made gods something that relies on “prayer power” for strength…which makes them stupidly weak compared to just an old elemental.
But in the end “somebody worships this supernatural thing” tends to be the most common thread unless the author of the setting says otherwise.
But yeah, not something explored in depth in this comic, but with all the supers and supernaturals and Dabbler’s off hand remark I got the lesser versions of gods impression.
Pretty sure it was Baal that said that, not the priors.
i mean with your power scales with the number of worshipers said gods could become really fucking powerful with time, like maybe initially they are less powerful than something like a spirit, a fire elemental or hell maybe even a mundane human wizard but depending on how much they scale in power with each believer they could very easily surpass all of them once they have enough followers feeding them plus they now also have an entire army of devoted and fanatical soldiers willing to die for “their god”
here on earth we alredy have those and our gods dont show themselves pretty often
imagine the power of a god that has an entire planet following him, or an entire solar system, or an entire galaxy, things can get out of hand fast in those cases
On-page, there has been offhand reference to at least some of the Ancient divinities and/or demigods being aliens in disguise. There hasn’t been anything definite to say whether all the entities Humanity has worshipped as Gods were misrepresentations/misinterpretations of that type, although references to Juffo-Wup suggest that we’re not the only species with such beliefs. Similarly, there hasn’t been any confirmation or denial of the existence of beings at the power level normally associated with (major) Gods, with or without worshippers (on Earth or otherwise).
Off-page, I would expect that if the Gods were going to take an active role we’d be aware of them by now.
If they’re active now, then we can assume that they would have been active throughout history. In that case, the Council would at least know of them (and given the power levels involved, I’d expect the Avatars of the Gods to have at least a permanent seat at the Inner Table). Given that one reason for bringing Sydney to the Council was to acclimatise her to the sort of being that she might unexpectedly unmask via Truesight, I would expect Avatars to be high on the list of distinct categories to be introduced.
I’m sure someone has pointed this book out to you by now, but I’m not going to look through the hundreds of comments to find out. The scenario you made in your notes(?) sorta happened in a book. “Live Free or Die” by John Ringo. If you haven’t read it, you should give it a try when/if you have time.
I am really loving your comic. Looking forward to the next pages.
Jesus isn’t wrong about the whole more perceptive questions thing.
If Vale got angry and impulsively ate Deus, how quickly could Sciona take over Galytn?
The secretaries at my school used to do this.
They were teaching us on mac classics. They pissed away the newer machines on admin, who had no idea how to use them. These women could wreck a student’s entire year by accident (Which they did at least twice), and they kept their coffee on the CD tray.
So what’s more amusing? That Deus made his plan over a decade ago and never redid it as .pptx or that he just uses an old format because he can’t be bothered to learn the newer version of Powerpoint.
a, because he seems to be deep into his plan.
I think you forgot in your blurb that earth would also have access to a billion other worlds of entertainment. But our spending power on media might not change too much. Earth’s media creators would therefore have to compete with aliens, which would damage their ability to sell just as much as it strengthens it. Except that it’s more expensive to advertise to people further away in more different cultures. It would damage independent creators most likely. Just like we see with how big media strongmanning the spotlight on YouTube these days
Fatale – Couture: When you Show Them ALL, Show Them EVERYTHING
Fatale – Couture: Putting the world in a ball gag since 1977
Fatale – Couture: Because ‘Femme Homicidale’ doesn’t have the same ring
+1 ;-þ
Ah, Deus is being funny. Now all is as it should be.
Is Deus wearing the infinity stones as cuffles?
I don’t think Vale knows how to delete a slide. She’s really defensive about that.
“Deus not knowing how to use PowerPoint is a lot funnier to me than it should be, just because he’s supposed to be pretty smart, and PowerPoint is some basic ass software.”
Yes, but use of PowerPoint makes you less smart. Proven fact.