Grrl Power #772 – Apologyamorie
Sydney is actually pretty used to apologizing. As many of you may have figured out, she’s an act first and think second sort of gal. (When she thinks at all.) It’s no wonder she’s a single child. Her parents couldn’t risk her gaining an accomplice.
It’s has been like three whole days (from her perspective) since Harem has popped in right next to her. She has to re-readjust to that.
I’m not actually sure how Sydney fell over. She was leaning against the counter. She stepped forward a bit just before Harem arrived, but she didn’t have much room behind her. I guess she slid sideways along it till she reached a point of no return and went down.
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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day everybody!
Yarrr?
I heard a story about that this morning on NP ARRR.
ARRR you saying that Sydney is only interested in Leon for his booty?
Aye, and his “wooden leg”, if ye get me deift.
She likes thuh cut of his “jib”, iy ye ken whut uh’m sayin’.
drift, not deift… ::trots away in shame::
As long as he be trotting away, rather than aweigh with the trots!
As always, Talk Like A Pirate Day be brought to ye by the letters Aaarr and Aaaye.
Don’t ferget, a pirate’s first love is the “C”.
Cameo appearances in popular movies?
Caddalacs?
Career day at thier kids schools?
Thier pet cougar Camille?
Carefree lifestyles?
Courage the cowardly dog?
Yar, but also ’cause they’re cognizantly capable of chilling calculating criminal corrosive cruelty, ye curs!
Ye call yersel’ a Pirate, Drakeye? Every sea-dog worth his salt knows there be Seven Cs!
Unless ye’re deliberately omitting the one which shall not be mentioned with Ladies present. Constructin’ the prettiest o’ floral bonnets.
If I wer’ ta ask ye a pirate’s fav’rite letter, ye might be thinkin’ it were ‘RRRRR’ – but ye’d be wrong!
A pirate’s fav’rite letter be ‘P’ – because it looks like an ‘RRRR’, but it be only havin’ one leg.
*looks at brichins* *stands up and just quietly applauds* *sits down*
Ahrrrr, matey…Ahrrr. ‘S’ & ‘T’ as well!
Talk Like a Pirate Day is over. Today is now National Pepperoni Pizza Day.
Saturday is Batman Day!
https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2019/09/09/celebrate-batman-day-on-september-21
And is is his 80th birthday.
Clearly there is only one way to solve this problem of which holiday to celebrate.
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/abY8A9p_700b.jpg
Woulda been cooler if it was Pirate Batman eating a pizza :D (even Blatman sucks guano through a straw)
Alas there are some things even the internet cannot find.
There is a Pirate Blatman though
Still chewin’ the fat….
So she was eaves dropping or he was yelling
The “Harem” is set in a heavier font. That could indicate a louder voice.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Harem wasn’t doing a bit of eavesdropping. She finds the Sydney drama to be extremely entertaining.
Extremely entertaining… until she gets sucker punched for her sudden appearance.
thats what I was expecting, the last time Harem suddenly appeared in front of Sidney,she got punched
That was when Sydney asked for a demonstration of Daphne’s power, which don’t recall Sydney ever apologizing for
Nah, the last time Harem appeared in front of Sydney suddenly was at the construction site. No punching happened. Before that was in the comic book store – also no punching happened, although Sydney marked up a customer’s face with a marker, before they took selfies.
She was still evesdropping. As were other people
Sweet, first time commenting so close to the upload
“Chuffed”; Not a word much in use in American English. (I would have expected “stoked” over here.) Or maybe I’m out of date and Harry Potter resulted in it being imported?
So, where did Frix go? I guess he’s got Sydney filed under “one night stands”.
Sydney asked to speak with Leon alone on the last page. Frisk is just respecting her request.
Missed the “alone” part. I guess that was implied?
The “alone” part can generally be clearly indicated non-verbally by following the assertion of a need for a discussion by going into a previously empty room with the person in tow. As they appear to be in a different room, and apart from two panels are alone in that room, this appears to have been what happened.
In the comments for this page our author DaveB notes that Sydney watches a lot of British comedy.
(Hope I got that tag right)
Linkage worked :D
Leon looks a little unfocused here. Has he always been cross eyed or is he on something “medicinal”?
I think when Dave was drawing this page he had some old Columbo reruns playing on the TV.
It takes a decent ego and supreme confidence for polygamy to work, in my experience. Hopefully they all are supportive about it to each other.
actually, it would be “polyandry”…
No, it would be polygamy – polyandry is when a woman has more than one partner. The prospect here is Leon dating both Krona and Sidney, which is polygamy (while he suggested for Krona and Sidney to go out, it seems clear that what he actually meant was for them to spend some time together and get to know each other so they could see if they get along, and if they would be jealous of each other).
Not unless they all get married, up until rings are exchanged (or wrists tied together, hence the expression “tying the knot”) it Polyamoury or “many loves” and is a non-gendered term.
Which brings up the line from ‘Animal Crackers’:
Capt. Spaulding : [to Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead]
What do you say, girls? What do you say? Are we all going to get married?
Mrs. Whitehead : All of us?
Capt. Spaulding : All of us!
Mrs. Whitehead : But, that’s bigamy!
Capt. Spaulding : Yes, and it’s big of me too.
Polyamoury is disgusting…
Sorry, but that is just how I feel. I am all for multiamoury or polyphilia, but mixing latin anf greek root words is just wrong.
Well! I certainly hope you never have to talk about a hyperactive, claustrophobic, dysfunctional sociopath from Minneapolis watching television content about automobiles or genocide via a geostationary satellite-based delivery system, or especially not a heterosexual, meritocratic quadriplegic, neonatologist hyperextending a neck muscle while performing a tonsillectomy/liposuction procedure due to being electrocuted when an aquaphobic, bioluminescent, eusocial, insect colony scares a beatnik, who bumps him into an open wire
please stop trying to break my brain, i’m dangerously close to running out of superglue already
Made my day :)
English is literally chock full of mixed-root words… as polarbear demonstrated
There’s a cute bit in the documentary “When Two Won’t Do” where Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart talks about how she came up with the word “polyamory” and yes she knew she was mixing Greek and Latin roots
You two made me look it up, so now you have to suffer with me in useless trivia. Looks to be Polygyny that is the specific term, for one man many women. Polygamy is also correct, but is not limited to Polygyny or polyandry. It can be many of etch too. In other words, if a town all got married you could only use polygamy.
Oh dear lord people. My name is Brendan and I’m a practicing consensual non-monogamist. Both polygamy and polygyny refers to marriages of multiple people. Same with polyandry. Before the idea of going steady supplanted the word dating, we didn’t need a term like polyamory. Dating was just dating until you chose one partner. Extramarital Affairs used to be called swinging, but that has a certain connotation of lacking emotional content to the relationship. Polyamory was an invented term to refer to and non-monogamous relationship structure. While it was manufactured recently, and the roots of the words come from two different languages, and non-monogamous circles it is a commonly accepted term. If you’re looking for a term that won’t offend a linguists sensibilities, you can also call it ethical non-monogamy, or consensual non-monogamy.
“ethical” or “consensual” begs the question.
It’s polyamory. Whether all parties fully “consent” or not and whether it is truly “ethical” or not probably varies moment to moment.
That really depends upon which ethical philosophy you adhere to. Frankly of the philosophies I’m familiar with I think only universal moralism would find anything objectionable about consensual non-monogamy, and even then only under certain flavors of universal moralism.
When you start talking about ethics and morality it’s important to remember that not everyone shares the same moral code.
And that’s why some prefer consensual non-monogamy (CNM) – it arguably takes the moral implications out of the NAME, but it carries with it it’s own potential for argument. What is consent when you are not part of a particular coupling or throupling dynamic?
I would choose to see it as being a minimum of “you are aware that the person you’re with is not monogamous and you choose to still have a relationship with them, but HOW, WITH WHOM, HOW OFTEN, etc is for a separate, more specific discussion” — but I prefer ENM to describe me so
Yes, polygyny is the specific term for multiple female partners, polygamy is only correct if there is an actual marriage between more than two people, polyandry is multiple male partners. The terms without marriage involved and where there’s no preponderance of gender are widely varied, but the most well known that fits those is PROBABLY polyamory. I’m polyamorous, which means many loves, and doesn’t necessarily mean there’s sex involved, but there’s also relationship anarchy (RA), open relationships, hall passes, 100-mile rules, swinging, various BDSM dynamics, and many more, and that’s only what falls under the “Ethical” Non-Monogamy (ENM) umbrella. Others are usually considered cheating.
I’ve found this diagram helpful at times: http://obsidianfields.com/lj/nonmonogamy3-large.png
Among the others is “the list” a list of 5 celebrities with whom you are allowed to have sex.
100 mile rule. In the Navy, they called that being a Geographical Bachelor. Or A Girl In Every Port.
oh gosh, i just thought of something if you sleep with Krona, there is absolutely no way she DOESN’T use her power in bed! she can customize her partner’s performance to her linking, even reset them to the state they were at the beginning so they can last longer, or even “save” her climax state and load it at will
That is both terrifying and remarkably exhilarating at the same time……
Imagine being kept just “on edge”, right at the very cusp, for HOURS…..
It’s like standing at the edge of a very high cliff and looking down..
For a acrophobic like me, that is actually a very terrifying prospect. Just thinking of standing a the edge of a cliff starts freaking me out. That is not a place I want to be held for a long time, or even a short one.
I think it more likely to be like the snooze on Syd’s urge to pee. You just keep humping merrily until suddenly I NEED TO CUM MY BRAINS OUT! And you do.
‘Sorry, that was disappointing. I’m going to reload an earlier save and try again.’
Like the main character in About Time. After finally managing to reconnect with his crush, he re-does their initial night of lovemaking over and over until it goes from “I’m sure it’ll be better next time” to them both exhausted and sated.
Have seen that movie, had forgotten that scene
Um….maybe not. Hear me out.
Krona’s powers are, in essence, that she’s a programmer with access to the source code for the universe. She does what she does by writing programs which are compatible with whatever OS God (or whatever, insert your preference here) used to set up reality. It’s a task that, unless she’s written the script ahead of time, requires quite a bit of concentration. And even if she HAS written the script ahead of time she still has to fire it up, which even that requires some amount of focus. And….um….not to get tacky, but we’ve got plenty of police reports regarding traffic incidents to prove that sexual activity has a pretty severe impact on one’s ability to focus. My guess would be that anything Krona attempted to do with her powers mid-coitus would not work quite the way she was intending.
happy talk like a pirate day..
aye, well then there’s that story o’ these limey women that were updat’in they’s relation’s status in mid act as it were….
In re: whatever OS God (or whatever, insert your preference here) used to set up reality: according to this XKCD cartoon, it was supposed to be Lisp, but the Gods ended up hacking most of it together with Perl.
Sounds like movie from the late 80s where they found a way to record your sensory experiences, and play them back into someone else. Can’t remember the name of it.
They had one of the team splice the tape (yes VCR tape!) for about 10-20se conds of climax, and closed the loop so it played over and over. He ended up dying of the experience.
Eh, that’s just a droud. A rather messy droud, but a droud non-the-less. They’re pretty common in scifi.
“Strange Days”, from 1995?
Sidney “but I don’t like girls!” Krona; “Oh don’t worry, that’s an easy parameter to edit.”
Krona being a girl, or Sydney liking girls?
Yes
… *looks around furtively*
Harem, Harem, Harem!
*waits…*
*pouts, and slinks away*
No, there’s 5 of her. So you have to say it 5 times.
But it was said only three times in this strip. Unless she accepts a very long period since the last two…
The meme is three times. There was only one Beetlejuice. By your reckoning, they’d have to say Harem 15 times.
Sorry, they were all busy.
One’s with deus.
One’s on the toilet.
One’s in the middle of making out.
One’s on the obstacle course.
The one that watches you from your window had to get something to eat. Maybe next time.
The one in the middle of making out is with Deus. So where’s #5?
she was unloaded, to give a powerboost to the one making out with Deus
Either that, or she’s watching Harem 1 with Deus, to see if she can figure out how he does that thing with her bra.
Didn’t work for me either.
Comedic timing or not this was 1 decent joke honestly I think the girl averse has one of the more benign overseers of fictional universes
Oh yes, if the movie showed us one thing, it’s that speaking the name three times invokes the summoning. Even if it’s not all spoken by the same individual…I’d guess that all of those who do invoke the name has to be within hearing distance of each other though.
Harem must’ve had the sides her head shaved while Sydney was off planet!?
Nope, her Punky self’s always been like that.
Actually, I just checked and she used to have hair on the sides of her head, though it was close-cropped. Now it’s actually shaved.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-525-tropelock/
Well, if you closely shave it, it turns itself into close cropped, and then you have to shave it again. It’s a regular cycle.
Sidney: “I hope you’ll let it grow back,cause your hair right now looks like a scrub brush.”
And… what would you call Sydney’s hair style? o_O
The only difference between Bodie’s hair now and before, is that the sides and back are now shaved (kinda like a reverse monk’s hair-cut :P )
Sydney is getting better. Before, she’d scream AND punch.
Well, she did reset her ‘surprised’ response. Thank you convenient countertop!
It was actually Leon’s desk
Harem has gotten revenge for Sydney punching her in the nose on day one!
Yes, was thinking that as well :D
Good to see that Sydney’s reset is working, although Harem does deserve a punch in the snoot this time.
Why?
Heart attack inducing teleport done on purpose. That’s why.
She experienced the “manga fall”, where people only need their own space to end up head down/feet up. No need for more :P
Hey there! Practicing consensual non monogamist here. I really appreciate this very human and very realistic look at polyamory. It is expressed so rarely in comics, and while there are jokes around it, you’re kind of nailing the expression of the different problems and awkwardness that goes into consensual non-monogamy :-) it’s pretty cool to be represented.
I would imagine being a consensual non-monogamist would be way better than being a non-consensual non-monogamist, whatever that would be.
Non-consensual non-monogamy would be called cheating by most people.
Don’t ask about non-consensual monogamy.
That would be an arranged marriage.
That’s usually called stalking. Or kidnapping. Just generally not a good thing…
Hence the not asking about it part. :p
No, neither stalking nor kidnapping have a relationship. Just fear or pain neither of which are reciprocated.
Why does everyone assume that non-monogamy means polygamy? Sydney is currently a non-consensual kanegamist!
same
Speak of the Devil and she shall appear…. or in this case a being that is capable of being in multiple places at once.
You answered it for yourself. She stepped forward, and when she tried to steady herself on the counter it wasn’t where she thought it was and threw herself even more off balance.
Yeah, she stepped forward and took a half-turn (either slightly before or as Bodie appeared) which meant the countertop was, as you said, no longer where she had left it
Plus, Rule of Cool :D
Daphne got lucky she wasn’t punched in the nose agian.
Are Cora and Dabbler IN relationships? They both seem to have more of a ‘several friends with benefits’ vibe going, with no long term expectations or strings attached.
In Dabbler’s case I don’t think monogamy would even be an option. I mean….what would be the long term health impact of regular sex with a succubus? I get that in this verse they’re not the life draining variety, but it still can’t be healthy.
This assumes a zero-sum transaction like in parasites.
I agree that for normal humans and even superhumans there’s probably point where it might become unhealthful.
Well, the hair dresser with super strength was reduced to jelly and commented on the need to be carbed up next time, so I assume it’s sort of like running a marathon; Not necessarily bad for your health, but it’s not like you can do it every day.
And Dabbler is thoughtfully inducing partial amnesia in HER meals, to avoid ruining them for normal relationships. Presumably relations with a less considerate succubi have long term psychological consequences even if they don’t ruin your physical health.
Might not be quite so altruistic as that. The situation with JabberWokky might not be the first time that Dabbler has been stalked by an obsessive lover. Giving them partial amnesia may partially be so they will move on to other people.
The situation with Jabs is something that Dabs is not familiar with: she has said, on several occasions, she has no idea why it affected Jabs like that, that it should have worn off within a matter of hours
It’s possible that it’s simply the first time she has returned to a past hypno-meal (remember, nothing physically happened between the two, Dabs simply hypnotised Jabs and then sent her to fight whatshisname who proceeded to make a sidewalk sandwich with her as the meat, and that possibly messed with the spell)
Don’t forget that Jabberwocky was already under Kevin’s mind control at the time Dabbler hit her with her spell. No telling how two Geus overlapping might turn out.
Plus according to Dabbler, there’s something particularly unique about how Jabberwocky’s powers work. They somehow tap into the aetherspace (which apparently it not how most superpowers work), which explains also why Jabberwocky’s powers can change from moment to moment depending on the ‘style’ that she yells out. :)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-547-this-kiss-is-on-my-list/
Yeah, Jabberwocky is basically a martial arts version of Animal Man from DC.
A.M. drew the essence of animal abilities from the Red (the metaphysical embodiment of all animal life) in a way similar to how Swamp Thing connected to the Green (the metaphysical embodiment of all plant life). He got the abilities without needing to have the accompanying physicality (fly as fast as a bird without having or flapping wings, sense of smell like a moth without growing antennae, etc.).
Jaberwocky draws on the aethersphere, which is apparently a field generated by all sentient beings collectively. So, like Consensus Reality in Mage: the Ascension, or the Force in Star Wars, or the mana field in some magic systems in RPGs. Mages would tap it to empowers spells, Jabberwocky channels it through a conceptual framework (Cheetah style!, Crusader style!, etc.) to empower different kinds of physical skills and abilities, without apparent external changes (cheetah style didn’t change her legs, crusader style didn’t give her armor and a sword, etc.).
Apparently, her innate ability to tap into the source of magical energy is causing her to sustain the spell because her love/hate attitude towards Dabbler essentially means that, on some level, she doesn’t want the spell to fade (Tsundere style?).
I’d honestly love to see a side plot where Jabberwocky finds a way to break the spell by admitting that she actually likes Dabbler (once she realizes the spell is being sustained as an excuse for her feelings, its reason for being fueled, and thus its fuel, goes away).
Which would then allow her to actually spend time in the same room together without Grumpy Granny (aka Maxi) throwing one or both through the nearest window (said window may or may not already exist before they go through it :P )
The other way that would definitely make the spell slip off her, according to Dabbler, is for her to ravish Jabberwocky sexually to extinguish all the tantric energy that she has built up. After which “the spell would just slip off.” Jabberwocky (under the spell) is for that idea. Maxima said no. Probably because it’s so rapey – akin to having sex with someone while they’re drugged and unable to make their own free willed decisions.
While she is not entirely inexperienced I would bet that a lot of Sydney’s understanding of relationships is still informed by what she has read in manga books. Having a proper conversation with Leon probably took a lot of courage.
I think she should give it a go, besides I thought in the first few pages she was “with” Olivia. Chuck in a Krona with a dash of Pixel and Leon could have his own omni coloured tiny harem.
SNERK!!
Poor Sydney.
From Harem’s perspective, Sydney falling over when she teleports in is a step up from getting punched.
Man who chases two rabbits catches neither.
Except Leon has already caught Krona. And it’s the second rabbit, Sydney, doing the chasing. So maybe find a more applicable ancient saying that actually applies here?
So, you’re saying he has one bird in hand, but he’s hoping to take two in the bush?
No.
He has one rabbit, A different rabbit wants to be his rabbit.
Call it a fatal attraction. Sydney should let it go and not stew over it.
No need to be an ass Oberon. “Accept the rabbit that runs to you and you will likely lose the rabbit you have already caught” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as smoothly.
Gotta love people who needlessly argue semantics when everyone knows what’s being said.
I know, right?!? That Emma sure loves trying to defend wrong shit, doesn’t s/he? I mean, I laid out exactly what was going on even after she made her inaccurate statement and s/he still thought it was worthwhile to defend her inaccuracy. Some people!
And yeah, Sigurther, I know you were referring to me, but since it better applies to Emma I thought I’d flip the script despite your attempts to play white knight for Emma’s dumb post. Congratulations on rushing to the defense of wrong, I’m sure that’ll serve you well in life.
there’s a type of lawyer that makes their money doing exactly that.
Welcome, you must be new to the comments, that’s Oberon’s main job here, he goes around rubbing his ass in everyone’s face
You equate pointing out that you completely missed the facts of the matter with your “Confucius says” as being an ass? You like being wrong so much that you can’t stand to be corrected? You can’t handle the truth?
That’s the ass. That’s the ass right there.
And the same goes for the peanut gallery idiots who rushed to defend you even though they knew you were wrong.
I thought it was a rabbit who chases two children with cereal boxes catches neither.
Yeah, but if two rabbits wander into the same snare, then you’re lucky and didn’t have to do any chasing
The rabbits can come to you by choice, it’s just *chasing* two rabbits that won’t work out.
I’m actually impressed. VERY impressed. Not so much with Sydney as with DaveB. That certain… problematic page, from a while back? The one that pissed off so many people with its blatant sexism and attempt to dismiss domestic violence as the stuff of comedy (as long as the victim is an acceptable target)? He stated that he was going to have to think about things after the reaction he got.
…Well, here’s the results of that thinking. This is Sydney acknowledging that her behavior was wrong. This is DaveB addressing things… I very much admire that. I say that as someone who has seen authors become indignant and double down when readers dare question the inherent rightness of whatever their protagonist is doing. It’s very nice to see that Dave is being responsive (in a positive fashion) to feedback from his readers.
Yes, it’s always nice when an author listens to what a commentator says rather than perma-ban them because they don’t agree with what they say
As for that scene, never thought badly of DaveB for writing it, because there are people who are like that, who would have done the same thing that Sydney (and, to a degree, Kronachrome) did
Kinda saw that with some of the posts defending Sydney and condemning Leon
You know which child should be the youngest because they run a successful youngest child campaign: alternately endearing and maddeningly destructive.
tbh it looks like sydney was still leaning supported by her right foot. then tried to run right leading with the left foot and hooked her left boot on her right calf binding the legs in place -> ded
I just hope Leon survives. Even if he doesn’t date either of the A-Team in question, the two of them are some of the most powerful beings in existence. That’s not a fight anyone needs, let alone as the battleground.
I feel sorry for any alien with IT troubles who decides to borrow Leon for assistance without leaving a proper note…
Sydney was serious for 5 whole panels! That might be a new record.
Well, she did say she would try
I really like Leon’s look from back in the early days, but IMO the art improvement really didn’t suit him. That may also just be my personal taste in men, or some Brobdingnag-type “see detail, see what you dislike” case
“she’s an act first and think second sort of gal”
Don’t you mean “act first, maybe think seconds later”?
umm… alien titan whatsits? what’s Leon’s clearance level, exactly? and if they’re literally flying out to the edge of space to debrief Sydney… I’m kinda thinking it’s pretty need-to-know stuff, right?
Umm, he’s their Tech Guru, he’s probably on at least Sergeant or Major level of clearance, if not higher
Military clearances are implemented on the basis of need to know, rather than rank.
You can and often do have a Private First class who repairs surveillance and cryptographic equipment for a company level intelligence section who has a higher clearance than the officer in charge of the Regimental motor transport section.
That just means, the PFC has the clearance level of a Major, and that Major doesn’t have clearance to squat
Remember, Leon is a civilian, so he has no rank at all
Also, prior to the Alari outing the galaxy, only those with Private (or was it Corporal? what rank does the Daphne’s have again?) were privy to that knowledge (not counting Sydney, who was informed before she Sydney’d upon some ET-tourists and blurted it out in public)
I don’t believe you understand how security clearances work. Clearances are based on the individual’s responsibilities and need to know. Rank has no direct effect on the person’s clearance level. Clearances are issued to civilian contractors and civil service civilian employees on the same basis.
Back when I was a private in the Army I knew certain things related to my position that a Colonel outside of my field was unlikely to have clearance for. Later on, as a civil service employee I had access to certain things that my boss did not. It all comes down to need to know.
Yes, do understand extenuation circumstances, and why a Private would have a higher clearance than a Four-Star General
Under normal circumstances, a General should have the second highest clearance (only the El Presidente should have higher, butt even then may not be cleared to know everything)
During WWII there were enlisted soldiers working with the Manhattan Project that knew atomic secrets that many of the Generals knew nothing about. There were civilians working on that project that knew things few generals knew. Vice President Truman knew nothing about the Manhattan Project until after FDR died and Truman became President.
What we have described is normal circumstances.
You have a mistaken assumption probably drawn from too many movies.
Remember that thing which Peggy did to Sydney about erasing everything she ever saw in movies or television regarding firearms?
You need to do that to yourself regarding security clearances.
So, aliens visiting Dirt for centuries, and a secret Council of Monsters secretly running the worlds politics is ‘normal’? o_O
What the fuck do fictional movie clearance levels have to with a fictional web-comics clearance levels? o_O
Clearances, regardless of what they are about, are normal. And not fictional, although works of fiction can include them just as works of fiction can include any other elements drawn from the real world. This helps to establish the fictional setting as being believable and relatable, even if the setting also includes Spiderman.
You’ve had attempts made to educate you. You will, based on historical evidence, reject any information which is outside your supremely limited worldview. This is sad, but it does not make the attempts to educate you in any way inaccurate.
Way to show your assery, again, oh Great Faerie Queen
Not talking about clearances themselves, talking about situations in which a low-level grunt (or civilian) would have higher clearance than a high ranking officer (or even a president)
Ah, is it time for your intermittent attempt to gay shame me because of my username? I hadn’t checked the clock. Your intolerance is not my issue, it only makes you look bad, not me.
And it also points out in a glaring spotlight your cultural ignorance. Oberon, king of the fairies and husband of Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was in no way associated with homosexuality. But you’re too damn stupid to know that. And like all bigots you focus on the thing you hate and fear, your own special definition of the word “fairy,” and then try to turn it into something negative so you can attempt to justify your hatred and bigotry. But you fail, as all bigots fail, when the actual facts of the matter are made clear.
You are such a fucking idiot it is no longer even funny. You’re not talking about clearances, you’re talking about clearances? Did you really just say that? What a fucktard! You might possibly say something stupider and less informed, but it would take effort.
During the Vietnam War my father worked in Crypto as part of NavSecGru(SupRad) hacking the VC codes and cyphers specifically related to logistics on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He was an E6 at the time and was dealing with info that Johnson wasn’t allowed to know, my Dad’s clearance was higher than the President’s
Nonexistent gods damn it, Guesticus…
Doctor Phogg explained things to you in fairly simple language and you still managed to derp your way into saying your typically uninformed and dumbass shit.
You’re the poster child for waiting an hour to reply to a post. Except you should be spending that hour re-reading the post you’re responding to a dozen times, looking up every word, and liberally using Google whenever you have the slightest question about anything. And you’d still manage to get it wrong 90% of the time.
“You’re the poster child for waiting an hour to reply to a post.”
Cereally? It was 13 fucking minutes!! At least didn’t wait until the next fucking day to wade in with their unneeded attacks (again)
Oh, and only one person was fooled by your “Guestitis” fake post attack last month (and it wasn’t me)
Nonexistent gods damn it, Guesticus…
Yes, you idiot, that was the entire point. I used a couple words with more than one syllable, so I guess it’s on me that you missed the obvious point that you should take an hour (or more, hopefully much more) to think, process, and hopefully learn something before you post any more of your idiocy, anywhere. You’ll learn a lot more and post a lot less, and that would be good for everyone. Because you’re clearly an idiot and no one really needs to hear from you, ever. Do yourself and everyone else a favor and shut the fuck up.
As to your accusation of posting under your username, please be reassured that I don’t need to resort to such tactics to make you look like an idiot. You handle that very well all by yourself. Also, “last month” is so very vague that I wonder if you’re just imagining things. Point to your source so I can see exactly what I’m being accused of or get stuffed.
You are the one no one wants to read, do everyone a favour and just fuck off!
You attack people, and when called out on it, you say that it is their fault and that ‘they deserve it’
As Titania said, you don’t just critique DaveB</b, you criticize everything he does (and yes, there is a difference)
You are, to quote a great author, a toxic sock-puppet
Guesticus, I don’t expect you to understand the difference between a critique and an attack, because you don’t understand much of anything. Suffice it to say that if I really criticized everything DaveB did that I wouldn’t even be here to do that criticizing, because there would be nothing here of any value for me to waste my time on. The fact that I’m here means that I find the comic to be worthwhile, even if I find fault in it.
As to the subject of who no one wants, allow me to share with the gentle readers this conversation. Poster LongTimeReader spells out in great detail how you harassed the author of Yet Another Fantasy Gaming Comic to the point where you were banned. So congratulations on having made yourself so unwelcome that you pulled a ban. I liked the part where Rich Morris calls you Buttheadicus.
Now you might claim that this gives you some street cred in determining exactly what is unwelcome, since you managed to make yourself so very unwelcome. But since you weren’t smart enough to toe the line but not cross it you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t bother to give you even the credit for being knowledgeable on how to be an utter asshole correctly. No, you’re an utter asshole who still manages to do even that wrong.
Actually, have never said a bad thing about Rich ever, not even when he edited every post
I’ll just let him speak for himself:
He’s got your number, Guesticus.
Have been reading, and supporting, “YAFGC” for over ten years, he only started having a problem within the last year, not sure what changed butt it fuck as sure wasn’t me
You are the total asshole: you make posts to try and show your superiority and smarts, and when you get called out on it you get indignant and downright insulting
And what’s worse (if that’s even possible), you quote other people, usually out of context, either to insult them (and divert attention from your initial post), or to back up your claims (even though this latest quoted was a second-hand attack from someone who had no fucking idea what was going on, they even used one of Richs edited posts in an attempt to show get me banned from another web comic)
Oh, you’re not sure what changed? As far as I can tell it looks like nothing changed. You were just your usual annoying prick self to the point where it finally broke him down to the point of bothering to respond to you.
And damn, did he respond! Here’s another one of his epic beat downs on you:
I like the part where he calls out your constant idiocy in deliberately misspelling ‘but.’ I recall that a few people in these forums have also tried to educate you on exactly how dumbass this habit of yours is, but (not ‘butt’) you allowed these efforts to educate you run off your back just as you do all knowledge. Everyone typos from time to time, this is just humans being humans. But to deliberately misspell a word as some kind of affectation is just stupid, as you are just stupid.
You believe that to an ‘epic beat down’? As though his rants (fuelled by his friends) are to be taken personally? Nope, never took it seriously then, and still don’t. What ever his problem is, it doesn’t have anything to do with me, nor does it change how view him (he is, and always has been, a talented writer with a unique art-style, he just has a problem with remembering his own characters’ names at times)
Want to talk about poster children? You are the original wall-painting (that’s how ‘original’ you are: you pre-date posters) child of fucked-in-the-head
Have talked to many different people, in many different webics, and no-one else has a problem, so, either they are all liars or they are all just as stupid as you believe me to be, or the problem is not with me at all
And you, you are just a spoilt snot-nosed wanker, locked away in their little room who comes online and tries to act like a bigshot bully
Ah ah ah! Don’t change the scope. I said it was just one of his epic beat downs on you, and anyone caring to follow the link to the TMI forums where some people decided to lay out all of your idiocy for everyone to see can read several of them there.
Then you have missed an opportunity to use it as a learning example. Your denial doesn’t change the facts, because it is quite obvious that Rich Morris took this very seriously. All your denial does is to prove yet again just how oblivious you can be about what is going on around you, even when you’re the one who caused the entire issue in the first place.
You really think his rants were fueled by his friends? No, Buttheadicus, they were fueled by YOU.
I liked the part where he told you off for claiming some disease was the reason you are such an utter asshole.
How can a person read this and still manage to delude themselves that Morris wasn’t serious when he posted it? You’re a self-deluded asshat.
It’s not a made up condition moron, look it up: Aphasia
Never said that he wasn’t serious
No, you are the one changing the scope, and you do this every time: you post some shit (usually out of context, which pretty much everything posted on TMI was, which was posted by someone who wasn’t even there… kinda like what you are doing now, hmm!), someone disputes it with the truth, and then you start tossing more shit around to cover the fact your intial posting was a load of shit
His posts were fuelled by his friends, because obviously you missed the part where his friends (who all seemed to start posting around that time, not saying he hasn’t known them for years, just they hadn’t been posting as often previously) started to attack me and he would take no part in it (not even when asked for his opinion on the matter)
So yeah, nearly ten years of posting with no drama, his friends start posting and suddenly there is drama. Co-inky-dinky? o_O
And no, don’t consider that, or any of the others, to be ‘epic beat-downs’ as am not a thin-skinned moron who takes insults seriously (people who take online threats or insults seriously, or even those who make them, are blowhards attempting to sound tough, just like you)
I’d say higher, given the sort of tech he was talking about earlier.
I mean, a place like Archon would need to have multiple tech guys. Leon’s the only one we see, really. This probably means that of all the tech guys, he has the highest security clearance. Or… given this particular organization’s makeup, he has the highest boob resistance. Companies don’t generally think about boob resistance, however, so I’m going to go with highest security clearance.
Another possibility would be that Leon’s the Arc SWAT tech guru. We don’t see the tech gurus for Arc Light or Arc Dark, because Sydney got put in Arc SWAT, so we generally only see those other groups when they interact with Arc SWAT, and we’d probably only see their tech gurus when they had to interact with Leon, but we only see Leon when he’s interacting with Sydney, which will basically never happen at the same time. Under this possibility, he still has really high security clearance, because it needs to be high enough to deal with any IT issues that Arc SWAT can deal with, which basically means he’s tied for highest IT security clearance in the company. The only thing separating his clearance from that of the Arc Light IT person or the Arc Dark IT person is need to know. The same would likely go for the IT people from any other arc subgroup, but those are the only ones I’m remembering off-hand.
That need to know bit can be a pretty sticky wicket, but it shouldn’t pose an issue with his interactions with Sydney, apart from limiting him in what he can tell her. To the extent they can need their gear to be up to snuff to go up against the alien titan whatsists, he very definitely has need to know of them. At this point, that probably doesn’t cover too much more than the fact that they exist, but unless they’re one-offs, it’ll eventually cover knowing pretty much everything Sydney currently knows of them.
That particular debrief was due to the Eye-ball’s lightbee’s “quick change” function. Aliens are no longer classified, following the press conference earlier, and Sydney has presumably been briefed on who get to know how much about her little side-trip.
It’s probably fairly high since she’s in Arc-Light and in charge of all their tech monitoring and cyber security. If you’re the one setting that stuff up, you’re going to probably need to be cleared for a high level of clearance just to do the job.
Honestly? Leon needs to pull up his big boy pants and make his mind up.
Whyzzat?
Yeah, it seems like he has: he chose Kronachrome
Why? From what I’ve seen so far, there’s been no talk of exclusivity, and they’re not married, engaged, or in a committed relationship. Just as long as he isn’t a jerk and do things with Sydney behind Krona’s back.
Actually, we haven’t been informed as to the state of Leon and Krona’s relationship.
We got a bit of a run down regarding how they started seeing each other and then Sydney got dragged off by Anvil in a group hugging. And cake eating.
You mean before or after Sydney?
That run-down did include Krona saying that she might be ok with Sydney and Leon dating. But that “dating” was described in more of a “friends who go out together” manner, not a romantic involvement. Or at least that is how I read it.
On the other hand, our author has said that his favorite author is some guy who writes harem fanfiction+ (a good enough term for novels not managing to find a print publisher, right?). And we have Cora and her harem already. So who knows where he intends to take Sydney, relationship wise? Things do seem to be moving faster than credibly, given Sydney’s prior characterization surrounding even such simple things as nudity in a gym locker room, but whatever. It should be well known to everyone by now that the writing is well behind the art in this webcomic.
There you go again
You do nothing except attack the author, the characters, and the readers. Why the fuck are you even still here?
Criticizing the author is not an attack. Any idiot would be well aware of that, but then you’re the special kind of idiot who decides to post under multiple usernames. I guess having your idiot opinions tied to a single username is too hard for you to bear?
The readers I ‘attack’ all deserve it. True idiots such as yourself are roasted until well done as they deserve. Others I simply point out their errors, and those with thin skins might regard that as an attack but their lack of self confidence or the capacity to recognize their errors is not my issue.
By the way, criticizing someone is an attack, not to be confused (difficult as it may be for you) with critiquing them or their work
I know we havent been informed about their relationship but in the absence of evidence, I do not tend to assume people are in a deep relationship after only a month or so of on-and-off dating (which is how it was described in the comic by Krona after Sydney found out).
Awww. see I’m proud of Sydney right now. :)
Knew she would Grrl-up :D
Any sexism wasn’t deliberate or malicious, as certain some people believed
I don’t think Sydney is in general malicious – usually it’s just she’s thoughtless at first and then realizes it, or she’s wildly immature and childish and…. sometimes realizes it. :)
But yeah I like that she apologized to Leon, considering how she was completely discounting his say in anything earlier. Hence I had to go ‘awwww’ :)
Nope, never thought you did think that of her, just there are others who do
Never underestimate the power of klutz!
One summer get together, we were out on the deck. By law there has to be a small gap between the deck and the building around here so expansion doesn’t cause issues. It’s only a couple of inches, so it’s not like anyone is going to ever fall into it.
If you didn’t see that one coming, you are truly blind. So a friend of mine who is a master klutz fell into it. She was stuck badly enough I had to crawl under the deck to help free her while two others lifted.
We still have no clue how she pulled that one off, despite seeing it happen!
Sydney is slowly moving her awareness back to real-life mode. At what point is she going to realize “Oh my god! I haven’t been to my comic book store in two months!” ?
I hope that things haven’t been too hectic for Olivia and Joel. (or Jo-El if you use his original Kryptonian name)
And we will get another scene of Peggy or Anvil dragging a zombified Sydney through her morning run when she binge reads all the titles she got behind after being gone for two months and then busy with debriefing and training for a week or two thereafter.
She did realize about the comic shop issue at the same time she realized she’d missed her rent payments. Adrianna told her Archon had taken care of all of that for her. Not sure how — telling her parents, co-owner of the shop, etc. that she was “sequestered while in intensive training” probably (which was true, from a certain point of view, as Obi-wan once said).
Her need to catch up on all her favorite titles may hit her pretty hard soon, though, as Dr. Phogg points out.
Also, I kind of want Jo-El to be an actual thing, now. Although DC would probably send a letter mentioning ceasing and/or desisting. Harumph.
Kinda like Marvel did with Spinnerette when she first started :D
Oh, and it’s Arianna (no ‘D’, she’s just a C-cup :P )
It would be funny if Joel would be annoyed by the Jo-El thing and tolerate it coming from Sydney and Olivia or the Archon people but snap at the regular customers when they did it.
That annoying Brad guy would totally yank Joel’s chain.
Nothing wrong with a running gag at Jo-El’s expense.
If she was leaning against the counter at all, then lifted her arms to defend herself…all of a sudden, no support, but still leaning….down you go!
As someone who has been in a polyamorous relationship for many years, let me say that it’s only as complictaed as you make it, just like any relationship.
Also, it makes any form of fiction involving cheating or a love triangle really frustrating. Except this, obviously.
I can barely share my food, let alone a boyfriend.