Grrl Power #864 – Pushing HR to the limit
I’m trying to move things along here a bit. Don’t necessarily need to show every moment of Sydney going through superhero boot.
Fining Sydney $10K for getting 13 million likes would be a little like fining an oil company $100 million dollars for spilling a jillion tons of oil all over some national park. It’s like 29 hours worth of profit, and is in no way a deterrent. I googled what sort of money getting a shitload of hits gets you on Instagram, and apparently “taste makers” can make $10,000 for a million hits. Presumably those are for posts that directly promote something, I don’t really know, but it’s still pretty gross. Granted, at the time this comic takes place, it’s not quite 2020, and IG wasn’t as big, but we’re also dealing with comic time here so… it’s whatever time we want it to be, especially when it comes to technological development, but the takeaway is this: If Sydney posts a picture of Harem’s bra-clad cleavage, (and names the brand of bra) she can probably afford a new car. So… imagine how well Harem is doing with her own online efforts. She has unlimited access to Harem’s cleavage.
In case you were wondering, Sydney has a tablet computer on her head there in panel 6, which is supporting all the other stuff. I tend to draw these pages without much consideration for where the orbs would be floating, which is why they’re sometimes a little weirdly positioned if someone happens to be standing right behind her.
I’m sure some will want to point out that if she was asleep, the obs would power down and be rolling around on the floor, but they don’t do that right away. It’s at least 15 minutes before they go into screen saver mode.
Arc-SWAT is starting to put Sydney through some aerial dogfight basics. For a superhero team their size, they don’t have a whole lot of fliers. I guess Dabbler probably knows a flight spell – that seems unbelievably useful for an adventurer, especially one who presumably does a lot of spelunking and dungeoneering, but when it came time to draw that balloon ring paintball panel, I decided to add Cora to the mix instead. (I know, she’s like 9 pixels tall in the regular sized page, but trust me, that’s her) She can conjure up rocket legs, so she can fly at least as fast as Heatwave.
If you’re confused as to how her hard light legs could propel her through the air, obviously by themselves they can’t. She has access to the same teleport system that Dabbler does and can port little thrusters into her calves, and the hard light constructs just forms a framework around them. They also provide an optical chanel which wires them up to her meat interface so she can control them with a thought. Same thing when she replaces her hand with a boson nullifier or something else equally horrifying.
Speaking of Heatwave, I’m not sure what those balloon rings are made of. Certainly not rubber and helium, because Heatwave’s flight corona would definitely destroy those when she flew through them.
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It’s unusual to be first posting anywhere.
There can be only one.
If I was the owner of a website and saw someone posting a “first” comment.
I would edit the page to add in another comment just before them (including the time stamp) that was relevant to the update just to make them look silly.
I would ban them, because informatic pollution is inexcusable.
The internet must be a veritable minefield of disappointment and horror for you then. XD
That almost makes me want to follow you around and wait for you to make a website so I can make a ‘First!’ post … just to poke the hornet’s nest. :)
What’s unusual is discovering that there are still people out there that think being the first poster is some sort of an accomplishment worth bragging about.
Oft-times good luck is to be rejoiced. E’en so, too many begrudge the receiver.
At least have the decency of posting about the page in question, like me last time
I honestly didn’t have anything interesting to say, was just surprised nobody else had posted yet. XD
Any one of the nine panels had something interesting to comment about :D
For example, the First one! :)
Maxima on the aerial paintball course seems horrifically unfair to everyone else though
She’s a target. Your job is to paint her. Go!
That’s unfair to the Maximum (eh) though, considering paint doesn’t stick on her skin.
Only if she’s naked, the paint can stick to her clothes
Thanks for that mental image.
Like you didn’t already have that image :P
If any one wants I have a fan pic of Max nude somebody did.
Dave did a nude Max flying for an invotive a while back, it’s not like you can’t get the real thing
Fanart’s still nice – no need to limit oneself if you’re into that sort of thing :)
It’s not like it’s really important if the paint sticks to her or not. You would know it hit her anyways.
Boo! Hiss!
(Sorry, I missed it the first time around.)
Still unfair. She’s got the speed and reflexes to easily grab bullets out of the air. She’s not getting hit with a paintball unless she lets herself be hit.
But is she playing to win or just to train others?
Looks like she’s the hunter, not the catcher
Mmm-mmm. Cougar references.
You sure that’s Maxima and not the redhead from the locker room photo?
Oh wait that’s her on the bottom… I’m dumb. >_<
Yeah, Brooke is at the top shooting at Hiro, Maxi is at the bottom shooting at Cora
Ummm. Brooke’s not in the Who’s Who… So Who is topless in Panel 5? (Yes, I’ve seen the Daphne opinion, and I’m also sure Brooke has a center-part hairstyle. We know P5 is not Anvil, and I didn’t think Daphne#1 — count from left on the WW thumbnail — has such flamboyant red hair.)
Maxi, Cora and Hiro aren’t in the Who’s Who either, that is most definitely Brooke in the locker-room
TBH, Maxi, Cora and Hiro are more like after-thoughts, to be puzzled out on Sunday… And it took me until much earlier this evening to realize that is Daphne#1 in Panel 4.
Now, I’m intrigued by the huge parting in Brooke’s hair just above her ear — is that a scar? Also, did anybody ask her about appearing topless on social media?
It’s Brooke. She didn’t have any speaking role AND wasn’t in the foreground doing anything interesting (unlike Harem in panels 5 and 6, so that’s probably why she isnt in the Who’s Who. Although by that logic I suppose Jabberwocky should be in the Who’s Who because of panel 3.
I beg to differ. While Brooke WAS in the background, I think that sideboob qualifies as “anything interesting”… ;)
I’m surprised that Arianna hasn’t ordered Sydney to clear everything she posts online through the Public Affairs office first. This would prevent not only the HR violations, but also ensure she doesn’t post anything classified either.
I’m thinking that might be something Sydney will have to do going forward from this point. But yeah, it does seem like Arianna let one slip through the cracks.
Speaking of cracks… ;)
Sydney DID clean up the post with Arianna. Who totally recognized the problem in advance but would never admit it.
Their social accounts are strictly monitored anyway, anything classified would be removed by Leon in seconds.
And really Sidney, how would you feel if somebody make pictures of you in the locker room?
Given the dialog at various other points, especially including the pranking, I’m 100% consent was obtained before posting that picture. NO WAY does Syd risk a prank war against them.
Plus, I’m pretty sure the teleporting hero with multiple bodies, who is currently stairing RIGHT at the selfie being taken, was totally in on it and posed for the pic. HR is probably having this conversation with Harem too. :P
Weren’t the bored-to-sleep selfies Harem’s?
Yes, and they would be on a separate posted account
Or Harem could have taken Sydney’s phone while she was falling asleep without her noticing to ‘add’ to her picture collection.
Panel 6 could start a prank war, when you think about it. I’m not sure Syddles would lose (except when HR gets involved).
There is a difference between starting & ending a prank war. Given the nature of the organization, I’m pretty certain that prank wars are kept in check via MAD. Which only works if you retaliate once hit. Syd is going to have to decide if she wants to go MAD or just be boring & shrug things off. I don’t really see her powers aiding much in a prank war beyond jump scares or using her known true sight power to convince someone that there was a threat when there was not.
That having been said, once something is on the Internet, it’s theoretically there “forever”. If you read Trump news on snopes.com for any length of time, you’ll note that most posts about Trump’s tweets will mention stuff not being in his deleted tweets (or sometimes mentioning that they were.) “delete” does not necessarily mean the same thing online as it does on your local computer. Also, considering the number of implementations I’ve seen of ‘undelete’, what it means on your local computer might not be what you think it means.
Delete mostly means register data block as writeable space and does not actually change any values on the disk with exception of a relatively small group of programs that will overwrite the block in all 1,0,or a specific pattern of such to destroy the code.in the case of forensic hard drive recovery It may take several passes like this to degauss the disk segment. The surest way to destroy data is physically destroy the hardware completely.
It all depends on what you are hiding. A single pass of 0s or 1s will keep the average hacker out, you do need some VERY expensive gear to read any “residual” magnetic traces. And if the disc segment had been heavily used, there may be nothing recoverable anyway. Lesson: use a small drive to keep your secrets on, use it frequently, and don’t defrag too often. And yes, I would defrag before overwriting…
I was going to say this.
Sydney probably stopped paying attention long before whatever hours long presentation went into how-to-use (or rather NOT to use) social media accounts.
Well sit me you’re really putting HR and your therapist through their Paces aren’t you?
Wait, shes up to drawing Xs on targets?
And cutting off arms.
All in all good practice for those dead space missions
And slicing through abdomens
Doubt that that was Sydney
Well, the Harley Quinn outline is pretty distinctive. The Joker in silhouette would be harder to distinguish.
Ummm… here’s another one from the Anacronism generator!
The strip is somewhen in 2012, right? OK, she can post to Instagram… but if that silhouette in panel #1 is Harley Quinn in twintails, it’s from the future. Twintail Harley is from 2016 (maybe 2015, if you have access to the design sketches for the Suicide Squad movie).
alternate universe, alternate course of events in popular media.
I am not going to hold EGS, Grrl power, or any other comic to only making pop culture references to when the strip started and internally hasn’t moved anywhere near as far forward in time as real life.
same deal with mainstream comics. Just take it as a nod, shrug off rule of funny/cool, if you have to internally excuse it as (its a different timeline) then so be it; its not a major issue and there more for the reader than any plot driven element.
PS: Harley Quinn has had twin tails since she was created, just normally hidden under/in her costume.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BG6KEXxuUnw/hqdefault.jpg
Yeah, she always had the twin-tails (or what ever they are called when they stick out the sides), Harley with a baseball bat is from that trash movie (her go-to melee weapon of choice was always a big-arse mallet, like used to erect a circus tent)
I was against her switching to a baseball bat, as well as getting tattoo’s and her change in outfit in the “Birds of Prey” movie because the line between Harley Quinn and Tank Girl was starting to get blurry enough they could retcon Tank Girl to be her descendent and it make sense; but also losing too much of the circus shtick for punk.
and I am not the only one to make this comparison of course.
https://tv-vcr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/tank-quinn.jpg
Now there’s an inter-essstinnnng question. Who would be Tank Girl’s father?
Personally never liked Harley being depicted out of the Quin-suit all day and every day (certainly not looking like a ‘street walker’), and that was before that nasty crappy movie came out
She has those nifty targeting glasses on.
and the P90 is absurdly controllable…and has a 50 round magazine….IF I counted right, that should be about 50 holes
some day I will have at least the civvy ownable short barreled rifle version…sigh…someday
Unfortunately 18 inch barrel. That’s the law. P90 isn’t considered to be a pistol even though it can be easily uses with only one hand.
Depending on the state you live in, just pay the $200 tax and get a stamp for an SBR version.
Yeah but even so, making those patterns would require exquisite control of the weapon, which she does not yet possess. Given, time is loose here since it’s a (long awaited) training montage of indeterminate length, but given that she still has bandaged thumbs it’s almost certainly her first or maybe 2nd day handling a P90, and at most she has only a few weeks of firearms training under her belt.
Yep. When your alien-tech-not-to-be-shared-with-pre-space-cultures targeting glasses allow you to shoot the weapons of cardboard cutout bad guys with a pistol, they also allow you to practice dismemberment when you’re using a firearm with a much larger capacity magazine.
I’d be very surprised if Sydney did that on full auto, however. No amount of targeting aid can make that possible for a normal human.
There’s a lot to be said in favour of a good burst-mode.
I’m still pretty sure it’s an AI/main control orb.
Now we know the power of the seventh ball. It gives her passive skill to selfie anything, FROM ANY ANGLE! Even while asleep.
The conference room ones are Harem’s. Peggy or Seneca probably took the firing range one. Not sure on the obstacle course, since I doubt Sydney would let go if the wall she’s climbing over long enough to pull out her phone for a selfie. Maybe someone’s flying a quadcopter for that?
she drew on X on a target….
and then made other um cuts….
those are some OP glasses.
I think the other cuts are her drawing a shirt on the silhouette
And I think they show Sydney cutting the arms and torso off of Daddy’s Little Monster.
The amazing Daphne and her astonishing quintuple cleavage.
That issue of Playboy sold out faster than any other one EVER
I see gravity does “catch” up with Harem :) :)
If she does not sydney should have a orb clamp on for her phone / etc.
My guess is that HR has less of an issue with Harem’s bra being in the picture and much more with a topless Heatwave in the background.
Also, Heatwave probably could sue Sydney for taking that picture. Though admittedly laws regarding paparazzi are really weird and known to induce madness in those who attempt to decipher those pre-eonochian tomes. Still I am fairly sure that ‘lockerroom’ does not fall under the public lands clauses that the paparazzi use to slither away from being held accountable (and subject to paying damages to the people they photograph).
Ariana of course let this first violation pass, those 13 million views reminded her (likely needlessly) again of the value of the brand she is working with. Before realising that she has a huge conflic of interest here (she represents legally all three women in this picture, two of whom are depicted in a way that flagrantly violates their privacy).
HR on the other hand should not have been so lenient (except for rule of funny reasons that is) and fined her immediately. Ten seconds of common sense should have told Sydney that she could not post that lockerroom picture, so the ‘I was not told’ excuse will not hold. And of course they should immediately warn her that the second violation doubles the fine, and the third will result in either the brig, or being booted as well as being forbidden to use the orbs ever again (or Maxima would come visit her in an official capacity).
Of course what should have happened is not nearly as funny, so … yeah.
They mentioned earlier that super powers are not illegal. I doubt they would tell her to stop using powers unless they use them in a manner to harm people or break other laws. Sydney has accidentally caused a forest fire with the Pew Pew Orb [non-hip here], but spent a good amount of time ensuring that people don’t come to harm due to her powers before joining Archon [keeping that information hidden, practicing in secluded areas to prevent harm, and probably other things not shown].
She could probably be fired for gross misconduct for that picture, but I doubt they would try to prevent her using her powers unless it was to break other laws.
As for Maxima going to visit Sydney in an official manner, that would be interesting to see. Maxima would know the best way for her to win is to prevent Sydney from using the shield. Sydney has been thinking of the scenario of Maxima becoming a threat and has kept information from her for this reasoning [not informing her of teleporting until she had to]. I think it depends if Maxima has the element of surprise as to the result of that battle, as that Shield seems to be the only thing Maxima can’t get through. My scenario is just Sydney vs Maxima, with no outside help on either side.
Super speed tops everything else. You can’t put up a shield if maxima has you handcuffed before the nerve impulses go from your eyes to your brain.
Then why does The Flash get his butt kicked so much? Especially the WB version. Please don’t misunderstand–I TOTALLY agree with your argument, 110%. The Flash shouldn’t have nearly as much trouble fighting villains as he does simply because he moves faster than they can think or react; his foes should never know he’s coming until they blink and find themselves in a jail cell, and it should be the same situation for Maxima.
Every week, however, Flash gets his butt handed to him by people who should never even SEE him. Talk about the Worf effect…
Speaking strictly from a powers & abilities standpoint, does Maxima remind anyone else of Ultra Boy from the Legion of Super-Heroes, or is it just me?
I did ask the question whether supers can think at super speed?
Having asked, I guess it may also be a question of whether supers bother to think first act later?
If a super speedster can’t think at super speed, they will be a dead super speedster in rather short order. If their reflexes, which are controlled by thought, can’t react fast enough to avoid them just smashing into things they are heading fast towards, then they will die of the injuries caused by those collisions.
the only “realistic” speedster death I can remember/I’ve seen was from an Aliens comic, guy was using “Xeno-zip” to get a speed boost, but went nuts, lacked the reaction time to compensate for the speed and smashed into a wall hard enough to splatter himself.
honestly a speedster would need a lot of changes to their physiology to work, neuro-transmitter boosts, reflex boosts, muscular enhancement, tendon/ligament reinforcement, skeletal durability increase, an anti-blood pooling in the back of everything as you run (provided we are talking Flash/Quick silver speeds level speedsters and not just captain 50 mph). Along with massive durability increase for impacting surfaces, as well anything they impact is being hit pounds per square inch by fist’s surface area going at insane speeds so unless they can somehow move that quick yet also paradoxically slow down each punch they are basically pummeling a guy with what amounts to baseballs going at thousands of miles per hour to the head and body. So every street criminal Flash fights should end up looking like bruised hamburger meat.
Add friction and well…so much fire and sonic booms. ect…
-conversely if they aren’t strong enough to do those things at those speeds than those things should be happening to their own body from impact.
all reasons why so many newer speedsters are written as or retconned to be slowing time rather than actually moving at those speeds.
With most speedsters (Flush and his various ilk: Kid Flush, Girl Flush, Old-man Flush, etc don’t count) are born with the ability, so they develop most of those abilities in the same way a non-speedster learns how to walk and then run: gradually and over time
no amount of habituation and physical training can allow a human body to safely and effectively move at hundreds of miles per hour without assistance let alone thousands or higher; think of the centrifuge test NASA astronauts go through in training times a few thousand. Why these comics make it some time distortion, magical force or what have you instead of speed; and again physics on impact with anything, friction, pounds per square inch, speed=force, ect… no human body could withstand it without also being super humanly durable unless using a cheating loop hole like stopping or slowing relative time.
Who said anything about hyu-mon bodies? That’s why excluded the Flush-squad
Do you believe a hyu-mon is born with the ability to break bricks with their bare hands? Or do you believe they worked at raising their hands’ durability first?
Same with people like Insane Bolt: they didn’t have the ability to run that fast at birth, they trained and built up their endurance
it was the implied point of this entire conversation, as I was spring boarding off oberon talking about human synaptic response time to those high speeds; and I mentioned the Xeno-zip of a guy splattering and adding that in all honesty given how speedsters are portrayed in comics and movies their punches and general strength and durability is implied to be just human levels with their one power being super speed. Pointing out that if we are to apply real world physics and physiology to them then their power would have to be much slower or else require a shopping list of secondary powers to compensate for the enormous strain and pressure moving and maneuvering at those speeds would put on a human body; let alone interacting with still surfaces and people while moving that fast.
Only really familiar with Quicksilver and the Flush squad, with ‘Silver being born a mutant and the Flushes being hyu-mons who were ‘given’ their speed as adults (well, not counting Kid Flush)
John Byrne’s Next Men, a short run comic he produced after leaving Marvel (and which went through the expected litigation for having a name similar to X-Men) tried to pitch their characters as more realistic. The speedster would wreck any shoes he was wearing, for example, and had super tough soles of his feet. The nigh invulnerable woman was incapable of feeling human touch and this made her (via the pseudo-psychology you might expect from a comic book writer) cold and withdrawn from people emotionally as well. etc.
never understood writers making invulnerable people numb.
Pain receptors not registering because there is no damage does not equate to a lack of touch receptors. I can feel something is smooth, wet, dry, rough, ect…without it causing any pain because its not damaging the skin.
unless the reason is because their skin is made of some rock or metal and part of the deal was to also lose touch receptors. which would cause a lot of other daily problems related to reflex actions.
NO WAY does Syd risk a prank war. Full stop. She got consent before posting.
Given what we’ve seen of Harem, I would be surprised if she objected too loudly to (her part of) that picture. It’s not as though she’s all that restrained on her own account, and she does even appear to be deliberately posing in this one. The ‘interesting’ question will be whether Brooke’s inclusion is deliberate. I would not put it past Harem and Sydney to both be paying too much attention to their own posing, and not notice that Brooke was in the background – especially since she appears to have just walked into shot when the picture was taken. (Note that Brooke has already been established to occasionally be slow on the uptake, which could manifest as not realising until too late that she was on camera – followed by that wide-side-eyed look of surprised realisation.)
If Sydney is facing a stiff fine for locker room selfies,next time she’ll be facing a court martial…!?
The powers that be will make every effort to retain / retrain Sydney. She is one of the most powerful beings in the known universe. Sydney is far too valuable an asset for a “We’re kicking you out because you broke a rule.”
I don’t think a court martial necessarily means they’d discharge her. That’s just one of the possible punishments available.
More likely a demotion. Like Furstenburg in Nick Poletta and Phil Foglio’s “Illegal Aliens” Novel.
+10
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The only rank lower than Recruit is Civilian. When people screwed up “back when I was in boot camp” (Jul-Oct ’70) they put them back to an earlier week.
Back to p-days
Holy shit, I haven’t heard that phrase in ages. Sent a chill right down my spine. That was the curse of death back then.
For some, the court martial is the punishment itself.
Just like if you’re charged with a criminal offense and you’re put on trial, a court martial could find you innocent, or at least could find that you acted according to what was required of you.
Generally, these days, neither court likely recognizes the hardships that are placed on a person just for appearing as a defendant in any kind of a court setting. I suspect that a court martial probably works the same as a criminal charge in regards to other “intangible” penalties: the fact that you were court martialled is on your record forever, and judgements of whether you were suitable for various assignments would consider that fact.
That said, it’s my impression that people don’t play politics with court martials like they do with criminal charges, wasting military court resources to attack people who are merely on an opposing side of some disagreement, even though they’ve done nothing wrong.
(There have been incidents in the past few years in the Boston area where underprivileged people were arrested and charged just long enough for them to have a criminal record before dismissing the charges because they had the gall to say that the government was treating them inappropriately poorly. Most of these have been protestors, but some were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. There’s likely other circumstances where this has happened, too.)
All of this does not disclude the possibility of a civil court action if someone really has a mind to do it.
A few thoughts and bear in mind my data is twenty plus years ago. But when I was in the Air Force, there were no cell phones to do selfies or take pictures anywhere. There was no HR for military people. HR would be your First Sergeant. And anything done publicly with you had to go through the PR office. From writing a short story to a review of a restaurant. You had no first amendment rights.
That said the locker room pic would be on every wall it could be hidden on around base. And I say hidden on because you had to appear to have decorum. Even if you were all horny twenty somethings.
Same with the Army. Though with ARCswat being a partial civilian operation, they might have an HR department. The organization I think is civilian organized to provide their legal ability to do law enforcement, but its personnel is a mixed bag of military personnel and civilians. I would suspect that Max as her CO probably had a talking to her about that as well since HR probably would have mentioned it to her.
Arc is a military organisation, so they could just transfer active duty personal. The law that forbids military to operate domestically lists the branches explicitly, the Navy and the Army. Air force and Marines are prohibited by rules/general order, not law. However they may all have some sort of HR for the civilians on staff.
Legislature not forbid that. Army/Navy policy forbid that.
ARC* policy not forbid that.
Ummm. The Posse Comitatus Act 1878, 1956 and 1981 says otherwise: actually covering the Army and its child, the US Air Force.
This is covered in very early pages of the comic.
The HR Department is simply called the Personnel Office. It has a Personnel Officer in charge. In the Navy, the personnel office is staffed by enlisted Yeomen and Personnelmen. The other branches have equivalents.
Yeah, but you’ll still talk to the first shirt. Discipline is his job, not CBPO’s.
Sydney’s build in panel three..
Your muscle tone would improve too undergoing military fitness training, especially when trying to keep up with Jabberwokky there. Now, there is a lady with muscle tone. Hmm, I wonder how many times a day Sydney has to climb those walls without activating the flight orb.
On the other hand, Sydney’s figure in the last panel makes Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas look fat in comparison.
I’d say Syddles is an ectomorph. Some shots she’ll have to stand twice in the same place to cast a shadow.
Looks like the P90 suits Sydney well.
I bet Math is a follower of Sydney’s now lol
And in the paintball panel, who is that with green hair? Hiro with a bandana or someone else?
Fairly sure Hiro is above Maxi, the one Maxi is shooting at is Cora
He have a shirt on so I doubt that is Hiro.
Patreon 2x certainly looks like Hiro. The green ‘hair’ is the paintball mask, which Sydney is modeling in the foreground.
Tangentially, I’m not aware of any hopper (gravity) fed paintball guns that can be fired upside down, so Max being upside down (even while dodging / chasing) is a pretty good indicator of some goofing around happening.
If I recall correctly from the second time I played paintball, the gun I used could be fired upside down once, despite being gravity fed. That said, in order to *do* that, you needed to have it upright to load the chamber, and then slightly squeeze the trigger to hold the ball in place as one held the gun upside down. Releasing the trigger at any point while the gun was upside down would cause it to unload.
Just in case that’s not clear, I’m fully aware that is a description of bad trigger discipline, and the reason for trigger discipline is also part of the reason why that technique was *never* useful for me. (Basically, I always accidentally fired the gun before I was able to aim. The other part of why it wasn’t useful was because apparently having ones gun shot also counts as you being shot, so the third or fourth time I attempted that move, I was taken out of the game.)
The ‘poor trigger discipline’ requirement depends on the marker. Rental models usually have an ‘open bolt’ mechanism which only commits ball to breech when the trigger is pulled; this sounds like what you’re describing. Others have a ‘closed bolt’ mechanism, which keeps a ball in the breech ready to fire. You only get (at most) one shot inverted with either type; the closed bolt won’t need any special actions to give you that shot, but it won’t be able to load the next ball if it’s gravity-fed.
Halo’s marker looks like a typical rental, open-bolt and gravity-fed. But either she’s removed the gas canister from the bottom of the grip (not advised in the field), or ARC have some really good miniaturised compressors.
Sydney is probably the one to come up with the idea for that exercise.
Syd: ‘It says here we are scheduled for ‘flight training’. We have enough people. We could play Quidditch!’.
Max: ‘That’s not very military’.
Syd: ‘ OK then, Quidditch with guns’.
Some of my favorite games are Military training. Combat Soccer, flaks and helmets, two goalies and while you couldn’t pick the ball up off the ground, you could kick it you could catch it in the air. grabbing the ball and trying to barrel threw the goalies was always fun. Improved fireteam / squad teamwork and toughened you up. Never been in such a tough sport. (I have done martial arts, football, soccer, baseball, Line training, knife fighting). Making stuff that will push your limits and beyond while still having fun is a good way to get a team together. Add in flight and I bet the Dr. would be on call for those quidditch games.
Tales from my Marine friends of “Combat Volleyball”. One of the rules was if you can boost one of your squadies over the net without interference, that squadie could then attempt to sabotage the opponents. Up to and including stealing the ball. Since this was the 80s, there’s also stories of midnight LazerTag games.
One of the 213 things Skippy Shwartz is not allowed to do in the Army is “Calvinball is not allowed as PT”. Apparently too many injuries.
Super Quidditch was pretty much my first thought as well on seeing the floating rings.
DaveB, Sydney can make money on those pics with the amount of likes getting. But IS she making the money on those pics?
I’m not sure how it works, honestly. At some point if you get a lot of hits, that translates to money coming back to the person getting the hits, and Sydney’s getting a lot of hits. It’s probably just going into an account and she’s not really thinking about it a lot. I imagine everyone on the team gets some sort of monthly email about revenue they’ve earned through the team and other PR efforts.
So to answer your question, yes. But she’s not doing it aggressively how someone like Harem would be. She considers that part of her job, whereas Sydney is just posting for fun.
On Youtube you get a tiny amount of money per page view (and I mean tiny) but will only get paid if it adds up above a certain sum.
What really matters is if you consistently hit a certain number of views, because that means Youtube can charge higher pricers for adds on your channel. It will share a small percentage of that extra income. However, you will need to hit hundreds of thousands or million plus views per video to make it actually a paying job.
I am guessing it works more or less the same for other social media.
Somehow I suspect that even if she wasn’t making any money from her social media accounts, 10k would not be much of a dent in her substantial regular paycheck.
DaveB, how do you choose the position of the orbs for any given panel? Do you spin a pinwheel or something?
Normally they slowly orbit her head counterclockwise, but as this is a montage page, I could pretty much position them wherever.
has it been asked before if they have to stay in a specific order or if they can change what order they are like when used or mix up their order after being directed?
They stay in a specific order just because I have a cheat sheet of the orbs making a progression around in a circle and I copy/paste from that instead of placing each individual orb each time.
But she could probably mix up the order if she wanted.
That might be possibly be a way to activate a “passive” power you know… Brown orb between flight and shield or before them and it’s a lock allowing her two other orbs to use in hand…
right now its just next to the air orb…life support…which should be ON when she is shielded maybe even w/o being held…hard to notice if effective.
Always believed they went in a random order depending on which one(s) was(were) used (and released) last
Panel #5, aka The Locker Room Selfie, looks like it was taken in a mirror. Shouldn’t the orbs then be shown in the exact opposite order they normally are in, or did Sydney flip the photo back to a non-reflected shot.
It seems like she had permission to post the locker room photo. The others are both looking right at the camera.
Perhaps that’s why the fine is so low. It’s technically inappropriate for their organization and what they are, but otherwise no one complained so nothing worse for consequences.
You make a good point.
Even with full consent HR wouldn’t want to be associated with any locker room picks even if all the participants were consent, because there would be enough groups of people who might think less of the team for it.
Ariana doesn’t have a problem with that, because she doesn’t want the team to be tolerated by all, but loved by many, while HR wants to be able to hire from every demographic imaginable.
Dabbled couldn’t fly back on the Alari homeworld. Maybe she’s learned since then?
Dabbler, obviously.
I believe it’s Cora flying, not Dabbler.
That doesn’t help much, though as I don’t think Cora can fly either. lol
I was reacting to Dave’s comment that Dabbler knows a flight spell.
If I remember correctly, her issue was that she couldn’t move fast enough. Maybe she could fly (with some teleported tech), it’s just slow.
Every succubus I’ve personally witnessed flying under their own power moved slower than normal walking speed while doing it. It’s like their power of flight was entirely crafted with the idea of approaching people in bed who were having difficulty drifting off to sleep and leveraging their dangling hypnoboobs to ensnare them.
I suspect that Dabbler could teleport some tech to enable her to fly faster, she maybe just didn’t think about it, since she’s a natural wingless flyer?
while that is common, it is also situational observations.
In all of media however I do know at least one succubus who had high flight speed, although she was a special case, ruler of her reality’s Hell/Demon World; and had to have her soul split into three parts as a baby so she could grow/adjust and merge back together to prevent her from “ascending” and consuming/destroying the demon world and Earth in the process from being overwhelmed by her power.
Morrigan Aensland; queen of Capcom’s Hell….which side note puts her opposite an adorable white wolf who rules over Capcom’s Heaven.
Clearly those aren’t balloon rings. They’re giant candy necklaces and a previously-unseen super with the power of sucrose-kinesis is levitating them.
Did you jut figure out Seneca’s superpower?
+1
Did Sydney get older? she looks older in the last panel.
She aged a week during the montage. She looks more mature in the last panel because of the change of hairstyle.
Change in hairstyle that I LOVE, btw! :)
Who wants to bet that Sydney shot herself in the face in panel seven :P
if this was the first time or second? I’m with you. now we just need a mark or two to bet against us.
Great to see Sandy again :)
The best part is someone else must have taken most of those pictures and Sydney was a good enough spot to upload them.
Can someone explain that weird-ass scope on (The Mighty) Halo’s gun?
If you are referring to the lower left panel, that is the paintball holding tank on the gun. What appears to be missing is the air hose to the C02 canister. They probably made her unhook it once she got ‘killed’ so she wouldn’t accidentally shoot any other players (or spectators).
Many models don’t have a hose, just a canister with an integrated cap that makes the canister function as a stock. This looks like she’s stepped off the field to swap for a fresh canister and paused mid-change for the selfie.
With the headshot, I think she’s out, not just reloading.
Not a scope, that’s for holding paintballs
Harem could definitely afford a well-fitting bra. Bras that are too small are just obscenely uncomfortable (especially for larger-chested women). Unless maybe she borrowed a bra from a different incarnation with a slightly different cup size? Just telling you now, women don’t wear ill-fitting bras on purpose (unless they’re in a porno) cause if you’re wearing a shirt, well-fitting bras always look better. Plus you’re less likely to lose a boob.
Preach!
Oddly enough, different people behave differently. While this is generally a good thing, as it allows us to possibly get assistance from someone who has strengths where we have weaknesses, sometimes this means that people can do things that surprise us.
I have known a number of women who have worn ill-fitting bras on purpose despite not being in pornos, even though they were wearing shirts, because they had the impression that they’d attract guys better that way. Some of them managed to attract guys that way. It’s impossible to say whether they’d have attracted more had they had bras that fit well, or if they’d have at least gotten the same guys. But the one thing happened, and then the other thing happened, and I heard the justification for the first and witnessed the second, so I’m pretty sure they both happen.
I’ve also known one particular woman who wore an ill-fitting bra because she was a masochist and her ill-fitting bra was “deliciously painful”. Quote was hers.
My personal advice for women is to get a bra that fits, because it seems to me that most people tend to agree they look better, and they by definition feel better, because that’s how a proper fit is properly defined.
The primary problem most of the people I’ve known who expressed difficulty finding the appropriate number of partners for them have had in finding their appropriate number of partners tend to be that they do things that drive their would be partners away. I’m not saying appearance is never an issue, but it’s just usually not the most important issue.
To be fair, I’ve known numerous people who have decided that foraging for food was really the best way to survive in the modern world, and this especially works well in big cities, so maybe the people I’ve known isn’t that statistically representative. At least, there are times when I hope it isn’t. (To be clear: I’m talking about people I have met who were affluent enough to choose another path before they chose that one. I think only one of the people I’ve met who was already living the dream asserted that they’d felt that was the good life prior to engaging in it. As such, the fact that I sometimes walk around and talk with homeless people to try to understand how they got to where they are hasn’t really skewed the numbers I was alluding to earlier.)
I think all of her bodies are identical, which is why she ‘customizes’ them with tattoos and different hair and attire styles. I suppose that after their creation that body changes could occur. A pregnancy, for example, and whether carried to term or not, might cause that body’s breasts to change size.
If Sydney is clever, she’ll setup a T.V. To run some movies in another room then use her telepresence orb while she’s in the meetings.
Why is Sydney turning into Elsa?
Just trying out a new hairstyle on her. I may regret it because braids are a little more time intensive to draw, but I have 800 pages of her with the floppy bangs and ponytail, so why not mix it up for a few pages?
I’m liking the braids on Sydney.
Do the flyers get told, “SOLVE MY MAZE” and have to go through the rings in order? Because there’s nowhere near enough fog for that.
“If you’re confused as to how her hard light legs could propel her through the air”
I was not. I asumed they did it like the Strohl Plasma Cannon from Schlock Mercenary:
Suck in air. Fuse it. Use it as propellant for “Rocket Mode”. That should all be doable with Hardlight “Hardware” only.
Double-res gang rise up.
I noticed the paintball marker (which looks like a Tippmann) appears to be a real life picture rather than drawn, heh.
I’ve been doing that with the guns when I can, mostly with 3D models. I throw a filter on them and tediously cut them out and position them, because that still takes way less time than trying to actually draw a gun and not make it look like some shit I made up and banged out in modeling clay.
DaveB summons…[i]Montage Man[/i]!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ca9cQ3GV4
There’s a glaring error in panel 5. It’s redheads that freckle! Dave needs to move each and every freckle. Muhahah.
You… do realise that that is Daphne, right? And Daphne Prime is (allegedly, because even she can’t remember) is Berry (the
redpink-haired of the group)If Sydney wants to make more income on her social media posts, she needs to include more pictures of her comic shop and associated merchandise. Although, those photos would probably have considerably fewer scantily clad buxom women and displays of firearms (except in the actual comics of course).
There is some success in famous(ish) people live streaming role playing games sessions. She could do that at her shop. (I think I found a way to break out the ‘flashback’ and back to the first comic).
But she can have both. How about a live stream of buxom women with firearms (Sydney knows quite a few) playing role play games in her comic shop?
they would want a cut.
Refer them to the first panel?
Honestly the first frame of sydney is the cutest fucking thing in this comment so far.
“Memo to instructors: You know your lesson is dull when Sydney’s orbs snooze.”
Not quite 2020? Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t we still in 2010? We haven’t finished the 6 month flashback that we are still in.
Since everyone else has been too polite to mention it…
“unlimited access to Harem’s cleavage.” Where do we sign up?
So had a thought: what would it look like if Syd pulled up her shield and the team just unloaded as many paintballs as they had? Would the shield fry the paint off, or would there be a funny looking shell of paint?
And second thought: would that be a tactical concern? Like someone “jamming” her line of sight (best if with actual jam ala Spaceballs)?
I’ll guess the paintballs would just bounce off unharmed.
that depends it acts a kinetic thief/momentum killer (which would prevent the force needed to break the paint ball and just make it drop as gravity became the only acting force on it); or if it acts as a physical barrier. It is a deflector that can go either way on sending the paint around it or splashing off of it.
In any case, gravity would be only acting force on the PAINT. The shield is unlikely to have any friction, so the paint would flow down immediately.
seems like an important thing to test