Grrl Power #908 – Bombast industrial complex
Ok, so that last panel, hopefully you can tell what’s happening there, but it’s a little small. I should have zoomed in more on Cora’s eyes. Basically she’d getting an alert. I think a lot of you have guessed the source at this point.
Honestly, if there was a real superhero fight happening in the middle of a city, I would be shocked if there weren’t a dozen people within fifty feet trying to not only film the battle, but selfie it. The only reason that’s not happening here is I don’t want to spend hours drawing a bunch of dumbasses at the fringes of each panel.
I don’t know what the conversion rate from Quatloos to Ameribucks is, but in that original ToS episode, the alien gamers started at like, 15 quatloos, and it maxed out at around 5,000, which seemed like pretty massive stakes. It could be like… 50 dollars to the quatloo? Or maybe it’s 10 quats to the buck, and those Triskelion gamers just thought they were high rollers. I like to think the quatloo has a high inherent value, and if you tried to buy a single tootsie roll with one the clerk would give you a dirty look, and have to give back a handful of Singloos, Doubloos, and Triploos as change.
Check the vote incentive to see Sydney in her jim-jams. Check Patreon to see her… not in her jim-jams.
So. It would seem rather a lot of you enjoyed Sydney’s pinup debut. Or at least thought the idea had enough potential that you’d check it out over at Patreon. (Yes, her mouth is probably a little big. It’s been pointed out, and I agree. Staring at a picture too long can make you forget what actual humans look like I guess. If I can tweak it without it looking odd I’ll try and do so in the next few days.)
Hopefully you decide to stick around and enjoy the high res comics in between the pinups. Obviously I will have to do a little bit of pandering to those of you who enjoy a slighter figure on a lady. Like it would be such a burden to have to do pinups of Pixel or Krona. Or Pixel and Krona. Hmm. Now I’m getting ideas.
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One of my favorite novel series has a six-qual out. Binding Words 6 is available! It’s a doozy so far. Haven’t finished it as of writing this post, but it’s got some feels.
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I read “Gagged” as “Gassed” cause sleep deprived (cat had kittens early early this morn and still delivering one ever couple hours…6 so far). That threw me for a loop. Why would she be excited over being gassed?
Ether, you get it or you don’t.
She’s just excited to meet the Ether Bunny!
or go to Ether Ithland (hah, gotcha, the ‘th’ is thtill thilent!)
Ether way, it’s a great gag!
Well you know how to catch the ether bunny?
unique up on it.
You know how to catch a wild one?
Tame way
How does it communicate with its chocolate egg fabricator?
It uses Ether Net.
Okay, I’m laughing – gas jokes, and none of them nitrous oxide. That’s funny.
Nitrous oxide is a gas that lets anything pass as funny, but anything is funny if it passes as a gas.
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Makes ya wonder why there aren’t more cases of supers who – under supreme exertion – temporarily lose control of the Final Sphincter. The Must-Always-Look-Beautiful DNA must include Super Fart Resistance.
I can hardly wait for Sydney to use this knowledge.
Boogerman seems to be the exception.
this does make me think of how among all the “gross out” powers you see the vomit types are the most common “acid vomit”; probably because we’ve so standardized the idea of breath weapons…I mean “Water Gun” in Pokémon is basically just filtered vomit when you think about it, pressurized water coming from inside.
second would probably be burping if for the same reason, gas attacks like the classical miasma breath most European dragons had (that and poisoned water they’d spew out) prior to the popularization of fire breath as the standard.
but farting and so on, you don’t see so often. Likely censor reasons, not wanting to gross out your audience. I used this oddity once as a rule for a team of supers called the “Rejects” that there were even rejects from the Rejects *one of their rules as they were a public charity group not crime fighter so image was important, was no one with gross out powers*, so no avid urine, or fire vaginas, or flame farts. Or this one guy I made called Copra Bomb whose power was so convoluted it was only by chance he even found out he had a power (a bad camping trip and a fire). His feces would undergo a chemical change when dried out that caused it to become explosive if ignited…keeping in mind it had to dry out first or the change wouldn’t occur.
The One piece villain had a gas villain.
He was pretty terrifying as we was working on gasses that would put agent orange to shame until his heart was ripped out of his chest, still beating, encased on a dimensional prison that was still connected to his body allowing the possessor to squeeze the life out of him at any given time…
You know, looking back, I think it’s art and writing style are the only things keeping One Piece from being a horror.
In-Universe, targeting is probably another reason for ’emission’ powers to favour the front end. If you need to aim your spewings, then it’s easier if they’re coming from the manoeuvrable orifice nearest to your eyes (with some ‘notable‘ exceptions).
*Harmony: Was he a burper? I jumped ship at the time skip (mainly because I also lost my source to keep watching online; although I have seen a few clips that made me wish I had stuck around).
*Scott’s Folly: That makes sense, although in nature aside from the Horned Lizard *shoots blood from its eyes to disorientate predators* it seems rear end powers are more common. Skunk, Bombardier Beetle, and so on. Although we do see plenty of puke up defense mechanisms as well, and one Lemur has this wrist based foul odor. Although that all said I have seen a spider that would spin its silk into a net and hold it in its front legs to snatch up prey.
-and it just occurred to me how many spitting defense mechanisms there are, such as spitting cobras that shoot their venom from their fangs into the eyes of would be predators.
so I agree if you are going to have a super power probably best it come from some part of the body you can aim more easily.
That, has already been used!
No kink shaming! If she likes to inhale fats, who are we to judge?
Gah! Farts, not fats. But no kink shaming about inhaling fats, either.
How are the kittens doing now?
This is by far the most important question by far.
Also, the Laws of the Internet requires pictures.
Quantaloos might be called such because they represent some form of quanta.
That leaves that they are a quanta of what? What is the ‘gold standard’ for galactic currency.
Given that your galactic civilization seems to be decidedly post-scarcity due to the availability of matter arrangement technology (3d printer ++), and space rocks are absolutely swimming with every element you could ever want to access, and solar panels can soak up as much power as you like in proximity to a sun, the only ‘element’ in demand is time.
So I propose that your Quatloos are actually a financial representation of time, that lawyer charging three hundred quantaloos per hour is literally saying ‘my time is worth 300x as much as time spent in direct work’- which is a pretty epic statement. Someone who is in a ‘barely subsisting’ job would literally make 1 quantaloo per hour; by definition of the currency.
It could also be that Quatloo is the value of 15minutes of manual labor?
Or it’s a completely made up definition with no built-in intrinsic value, such as every Cryptocurrency today.
Or it might be considered the value of a standard food ration on a world near the Galactic center.
We’ve got an independent actor with a crew of four casually riding around in a ship with armament capable of rendering life on a world uninhabitable, plus random hordes of fel, plus who knows what else. I’d guess the commodity or service at a premium is security.
… okay, more seriously, I’m thinking it’s an information-, knowledge-, or expertise-based economy.
Or, it could be like the nonsense currency we have now that is fiat currency. It’s not really *worth* anything, just it gets traded around a fluctuates based on how people feel about it.
Any fiat currency could be viewed as being worth “time” – it’s how most people tend to get it, by spending time doing something for someone else (even if it is abstracted through various trading markets, or ownership of something) and you pay it to get someone else’s time toward your benefit
just that something like a government can manufacture more of it out of nothing, thus reducing it’s value
Any money at all is worth what you can get for it. That’s all.
true, but I think there’s a distinction between the two
fiat – value based on the perception of billions of people of the reputation of hundreds to maybe tens of thousands of people multiplied by what those hundreds of people think it should be worth
material standard – value based on opinion of billions of people of the value of some material
fiat value can change on a whim – either the billions of people not liking those hundreds of people, or the hundreds of people acting like babies
material standard (gold, silver, whatever) takes some of those variables out of the equation
Something like a Government, or something like a Bank. Most of the fiat currency in today’s economy is created by the loan books of mortgage lenders, albeit laundered around the system a few times. Even when a Government ‘creates’ money, it’s invariably paid for via investment bonds – effectively, loans from investors.
And as you say, it’s all something of a Wile-E-Coyote act. As long as people think a given currency is a reliable abstraction to mediate their ‘real’ exchanges of value (as embodied in tangible objects or skilled work), it works. Disrupt that faith, and the system cannot flow as smoothly. Even though the underlying transactions are still as favourable as they were before, it’s much harder for them to proceed without money of some sort acting as a ‘solvent’ to carry the value.
” Even though the underlying transactions are still as favourable as they were before, it’s much harder for them to proceed without money of some sort acting as a ‘solvent’ to carry the value. ”
At present, anyway. There’s several theoretical economic models that could, if put into practice, be much more of an efficient arbiter than a typical money system. However, such a system would *have* to be direct-democratically run to avoid the level of corruption that you see in “communist” dictatorships.
Money doesn’t really matter until you don’t have enough of it to perform a transaction. In most cases, the effect of having money is just psychological: people believing they have, or don’t have, a certain amount affects their behavior.
It would be great if we could develop a system that carries the same positive effects of encouraging people to contribute to society, without the negative effects of preventing people from participating in society.
Fiat isn’t really time-connected though. Wealth really isn’t work connected at all anymore because automation exists.
You also need to think post human.
remove the idea that “scarcity equals value. Especially remove shiny rocks are hard to find equals value” in these settings. Then currency becomes an abstract point system awarded for effort and time to be spent without the need to barter or trade personal work/favors. You perform a job, are awarded some encrypted anti-counterfit form of currency that is recognized by the major trade guilds, empires, ect… and that’s all you need.
One Quatloo is equal to the market value of 1.63 liters of non-caffeinated root beer. Do NOT attempt to incorporate caffeine into the economy.
That’s basically the same way modern Earth-money works on a practical level anyway, though?
Looking at industrialized mostly-capitalist countries, an hour of work is worth at minimum X. Some work is valued much more than other work—an hour of skilled technical labor in the US is worth roughly 5-10 times an hour of burger-flipping or unskilled hole-digging.
Leaving aside the moneyed class, who are playing an entirely different game, and a digital copy of a video game is worth roughly 0.5 to 4 hours of burger-flipping, or a few minutes to an hour of skilled technical labor. The flipped burger costs maybe a quarter of an hour of the person flipping it.
Scarcity factors into the cost of “collectible” items, but for any commodity good, including “valuable” things like gold, it mostly eventually goes back to labor—how many hours it takes to mine it, and to build the equipment that digs the mine, and to mine the materials that the equipment is made from, and so on.
Just like on Earth, it’s reasonable to expect that an hour of lawyering costs at least 30 times more than an hour of unskilled labor, and a LOT less hours of illegally trying to kidnap superpowered people.
It could be an attention economy.
Getting likes is mining them.
And the are marked as yours.
So people can trade them, thus. Trade.
“Ok, so that last panel, hopefully you can tell what’s happening there, but it’s a little small. I should have zoomed in more on Cora’s eyes. Basically she’d getting an alert. I think a lot of you have guessed the source at this point.”
Yup. I recognized that logo. Windows 10 wants to restart for updates.
this.must.happen. its a tense moment the situation is critical and time sensitive. and the computer involved simply must update itself right now. Hollywood is missing a good joke here.
In her eyes, that looks more like a map with 2 roads crossing and probably representing map location of where that *ping* came from… maybe when Halo’s throat mike was yanked away and presumably damaged, it may have pinged her or maybe it’s a visual recognition in the glasses of strangers waving weapons around in front of Halo that prompted the ping but it does not look like the windows logo to me…
The only reason why Sydney’s Archon-issued choker would ping Cora, s if Cora had hacked the system: Cora ain’t a member of Archon, so her being pinged would be a SERIOUS breach of security
So, no, it wouldn’t have been because of that, most probably Sydney’s eyephone connected, and we are about to see the ‘ghost-AI’s side of the conversation
After realizing I’d been staring at ’em for a minute, now… it just occurred to me:
Isn’t Tits McGee there in panel 4 supposed to have some fresh road-rash on top of those sea-foam green zeppelins?
Must be rocking some tech/magic that helps her regenerate minor injuries fairly quickly.
We know from her skin colour that she doesn’t have the same blood chemistry as a Human, and it’s quite plausible that her skin has different abrasion resilience as well. Maybe there just isn’t enough contrast between ‘road rash’ and undamaged skin to show up without close inspection. Cue parade of volunteers to carry out said inspection.
Assuming anything from skin color is kinda iffy when a certain blue skinned individual has more or less proven that can be changed to a significant degree (proven for humans at least but we don’t have any reason to believe humans are special in that regard)
A good point, which I’d forgotten. Basing skin palette on blood chemistry and vice versa only applies in the absence of any overriding pigments (although note that the pigment itself, and any structures needed to incorporate it, may affect the overall skin structure). My previous comment should be taken as rephrased: although different blood chemistry and/or skin structure is suggested by the different colour, it is as yet not proven
Oh, right, I forgot about that. It would have been funny to draw about 25 bandaids on each boob.
I just figured they were anime boobs and thus had a high resistance to being cut damage.
(how often do we see those swords and other blades slice horizontally across bras and tops and do no damage?)
Many years ago…20+…now I feel old; I designed a fantasy world based on anime standards of durability and physical strength…basically Slayers and such; one idea was the local’s skin wasn’t like human skin but had special elastic/durability properties that made it high resistant to being cut…also defense auras for extra measure.
Noooo… i think she has the appropriate skimpy anime armor, probably not the best like Dabblers
Dave’s universe uses the Warner Bros/Bugs Bunny rule of regeneration. Whenever a character goes off screen and returns they are reset to their original appearance*. (With exceptions for comedic or dramatic effect)
* If still on screen and flattened by a steam roller, simply put your thumb in your mouth and blow.
Not that strong of toon force.
Honestly a lot of Anime, especially early 90s and late 80s had a toon force that felt like it was just below Duck Tales. As in they’d still bleed but you’d have to smash them into a brick wall pretty hard to do that. Thinking anime like Ranma 1/2 and Slayers do mixed in a lot of gags into the action; also the original Dragon Ball (when Goku was a kid) was like that too…to the point that Dragon Ball Z and Super contradict several points (like how lethal bullets are). But then again Super has more toon force than Z did *there is this whole censorship issue as to why…Super in Japan got approved for a too early time slot so had to tone down the violence; and sexual innuendos, which is why Z feels so much grittier and the fights more brutal as it got a later teen-adult time slot. So Super feels a tad more cartoony but not as much as the original series.
But yeah, watch a lot of those anime even when the characters aren’t super human and they’re throwing objects more than half their weight, smashing into walls, getting kicked out a four story window with minor injuries, ect…just using that as a thought experiment to design people with that kind of durability as a norm was an interesting experiment and looking into how cut and kinetic resistant animal skins and body armor were structured.
Can’t Sydney use the communications device built into her glasses to call for help?
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I think you missed a beat there.
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The Vote Incentive day… omg…
“Attempting to be sexy Sydney” is cute & funny in its own right, even without the dialogue with Frix. That said, what *really* caught my eye was the orbs. This ‘hi-res’, ‘high-quality’ view on them reveals some interesting factoids about them.
One is, despite the change in art style for the picture, the art style for the orbs remain the same. This basically means how they look in the comic, despite art style is [i]how they would look if rendered realistically[/i]. In other words, the orbs [i]look[/i] like they were drawn for a comic book.
This is a further piece of evidence that the orbs are not actually there (a comment Dabbler made, that she then said she couldn’t detect them in any other way than by seeing them), but they are a projection from Sydney’s superpower, and they’re thematically projected as comic drawings based on her own identity as a comic shop owner. This is further supported by the fact that the window reflection on her glasses [i]doesn’t match[/i] the window reflection on the orbs. The orbs have a more comic-style reflection further emphasizing they are intentionally comic-style.
While they can’t be detected except visually, they most definitely ARE there. If they were purely illusion then trapping them wouldn’t trap Sydney. Also in the crossover book, which is conon, Astra’s super vision said ‘they’re deeper than their circumference’ she could see several feet into each one. Pixal also when looking at them in skilltree mode, said she could see the underpinnings of the Universe laid bare.
What this all means is that while the orbs are illusion, there is something real there that the illusion represents.
That wasn’t Pixel seeing the universe revealed in the orbs, but Krona!
Sort of like the Wonderbra.
she also physically hit people with them, both her first villain and math got smacked
> they’re deeper than their circumference
So…
So they’re holes in reality. Ones that Sydney’s plot revolves around.
One might call them…
… plot holes.
Are you implying that they were made by the alien race known as the Ploghts? They’re an extremely advanced tech species that likes to make extremely powerful devices and just leave them laying around to be found by locals. Many an adventure was started by using a powerful Ploght device.
(for those that didn’t get it the ‘gh’ is silent)
I can see where Cora’s coming from, but I’m with Ray on this. Overwhelming firepower may be an effective way to discourage violent crime, but it doesn’t give any incentive for the criminal to come quietly and stop breaking things. If you know you’re going to burn anyway, you lose nothing by making a bit more of the world burn with you, and many would gain a bit of spiteful satisfaction from making the rebuilding job harder – “as well to hang for a sheep as for a lamb” is a proverb for good reason. The Cora option only really works when the judgement-and-response loop is fast enough, sure enough, powerful enough, and localised enough to have less collateral damage than its target.
it also increases the chances of developing terrorist cells, rebellion forces, and pretty much anyone else able to rally people around with the promise of making a better nation that will be for the people, protect them, rather than mercilessly murder them.
*yes these same regimes ultimately end up doing the same once in power due to corruption; but at the time they can gather a fairly large force if they feel they are going to die or be tortured anyway.
It’s certainly Cora’s style, though… remember that when she and Sydney got mugged back at the station, she left body parts strewn across the landscape, prompting comments from Sydney that Earth cops tend to prefer non-lethal solutions. Cora might be friendly, but she also has no qualms about killing people who inconvenience her.
As for Ray, I’m not surprised that he understands the public-relations angle… he’s dodgy as hell, but he’s clearly street-smart… knows how the authorities think.
I can’t say that Sydney’s debut in the Patreon pinups was the driving motive behind joining up, as I’d been meaning to do so for a while. But it did, along with the New Year, make a welcome reminder to actually do it rather than put it off again – thank you, DaveB! And if the A-Team are likely to be making more appearances, so much the better.
My father told me about a rich man who went to cafe to buy a coffee in the morning and paid with a large bill. Staff had to go to bank to get change. He repeated it on the next day. On third day staff had prepared the change beforehand, and man paid with pennies.
…to what end? Proving that he was a jerk?
I mean, that’s what rich people do.
It’s almost like Sydney is the main character or something. Why wouldn’t she be popular?
I don’t think I want to live in the society that formed Cora.
yeah I kind of feel if flaying a mugger is okay then drones that shoot happy time drugs at anyone grumbling on the street, or break your legs for jaywalking (hey, you can just pay to have them fixed or replaced); may also be common place deterrents.
Those actually sound like pretty damn good incentives to follow the laws
Who wants to waste time and *local currency* replacing your legs, when you could simply not do something you know would get them broken, just because you can get them replaced doesn’t stop them from hurting when they get broke
You will still get arsehats (some who literally wear a hat on their arse) who believe it is their right to cross the street without using a designated crossing, and screw the drivers, they are more important and the driver should have been paying better attention!
Civilization is a fragile ever growing Crystal lattice. It has to be cultivated, pruned, and guided with effective support structures so it doesn’t collapse under its own weight or shatter it’s self with ingrown branches. The quickest way to break a civilization is to grasp it too firmly and try to force it rather than cultivate it with trust, protection, and support.
Some people love their authoritarian fantasies too much to “waste time” with anything as delicate & labor intensive as gardening.
and that is why the average lifespan of a government (read government not nation or culture) is only about 50 years. Very few survive past their founding generation for that very reason. Forced control, and insisting they have the right to rule no matter how they treat their subjects and believing they have some divine untouchable right.
Someone on my Facebook made a rather good analogy. So many politicians and world leaders know they are making Faustian deals; the problem is they believe they are Mephistopheles in those deals; an untouchable devil who comes out on top no matter which way the deal goes; completely forgetting they are part of the very country they are harming and are just as vulnerable as anyone else.
I’ve noticed people say they don’t care for muscles on pin-ups but for me it’s been the opposite issue with superhero physiques. Gag-boob level proportions. Personally I find muscle tone quite sexxy on a woman or a man but over-exaggerated anything tends to breech the uncanny valley. I also concur about having the more petite characters such as Krona would be nice. As for Pixel, I feel like an Animorphs book cover style image may be nice? Also when are we getting male pin-ups? Never?
Yes, passing the spacebar will get you to the keys of advancement. You can [ESC] your dead end job, and [Enter] a lucrative career in space law.
I would [Insert] an [Alt] joke here, but that would just be a ploy to [Shift][Attention] from yours.
I have more self [Ctrl] than that, so I will go [Home] now. I will [End] by saying feel free to [Page Down] to the other comments.
Do you have a kin Obey?
And dont forget the athletic shoe industrial complex.
Whose sole purpose is to inflate prices.
A titanic battle is raging while the guards and prisoners discuss galactic political and policing philosophy – a stellar example of the comedy industrial complex.
Ah, I think I now know what Sydney was doing earlier, she is using her new glasses to contact others for help. I believe that they had some alien tech enhancements.
… Yes, we saw Sydney receive a galactic dick-pic from her woof-friend couple years ago
What are the odds that Sydney, in trying to text a help message, accidently forwards Frix dix pix?
Cora goes, “Hum, that looks familiar, but now is not the time”
If it only goes to Cora…
Who else could it go to? One of the others on Cora’s crew?
Depends whose contacts are loaded onto the system and how they’re filed. I was just thinking of all the e-mail cases where someone’s accidentally hit Reply-All instead of Reply, not checked which recipient had been nominated by an auto-complete (e.g. Cora Crew group instead of Cora Zylstra), or not realised which window was actually live and taking inputs. Not really intended as a prediction.
When I read the conversation on the vote incentive, I immediately thought about the Krogans from Mass-effect and asked myself if Sydney checked how many “balls” Frix’s species has… :p
They had sex, while bathing together!
Just for the record: A pinup of Sidney? Nice. Krona? Sweet. Pixel (in human form)? Not bad at all.
Literally any other woman in this entire comic? Zero interest. Fit is nice and all, but some of us just don’t go for the preposterously busty statues.
Pixel, in anthro form! :)
Animorphs style transformation sequence :)
You could put a small inset panel on the lower left or lower right of the last panel to blow up one eye.
I feel like the last panel is her noticing Sydney in some compacity
About escalating to kill beam, are we 100% bet the lives of everyone around you certain that Hench Wench doesn’t have ReflectKillBeam powers? Surprise surprise, the person who prepared specifically for ARC does/doesn’t have a killbeamreflect power.
Hench Wench: Stop being so discriminate with your kill beams! Fuck you!
*un-discriminates your kill beams*
*incinerates everyone around*
Maxima: ah fuck
Oh shoot, panel 2 guy addresses collateral damage, I’m not clever.
The basic way to look at the value of a currency in just about any context… (there are many contexts and ways to evaluate currencies) is to look at how much of it you need to buy a meal. No Food – starvation, so it makes for a basic minimum daily expense for survival that everyone faces everywhere. A basic meal here will run me around $2. Figure 2 meals/day -> $4/day.
Decide how many Quatloos that takes and you have your basic exchange rate. Figure the Quatloo economy benefits from hyper-cheap manufacturing (3D print anything using sand and dirt as inputs), or bureaucratic bottlenecks (all 3D blueprints must be approved by a central body, which assesses tax on use of approved blueprints. That tax is 5 quatloos/ton printed) and you can start fleshing out what drives pricing in that economy, which in turn helps to establish the Shape of the broader economy for that currency.
Cora: Sydney, why are you forwarding me intimate pictures of Frix?
Sydney: F*$x#!@ MessengerGlasses Interface!!!
That WOULD get Cora’s attention, wouldn’t it?
Now as to what KIND of attention…
Okay this is like, five years too late because I’m stupid and it hit me while at work. But couldn’t Tom from the Twilight council theoretically refill maxima’s geode water and make more super powered golden demi-gods? I know it said refill any container and some people argued what counts as a container and all that. But maxima did technically drink the geode water when it spilled out of the geode so it might be possible.
Never thought of that but that’s brilliant. Though he said he can refil any liquid he might need an example of it first, depends on how the magic works though and if it’s from a genie it might be pretty open ended.
i think you have a point. you can fill different things into a cup, would he refill all of them, can he choose between which of them to refill it with? only the most recent one? i think you’re right, there needs to be some residue, some trace of what he’s supposed to refill it with.
That, was a symbiote.
Plus, she didn’t drink it, not even technically: her skin absorbed it
darker thought, it absorbed her. Full on “Prototype: game virus”, the organism consumed and replaced her biomass including copying her memories as it assimilated her brain; as she is now can’t be certain how she’d have turned out normally and may now have killer instincts and possibly some techno-organic programming that just hasn’t been triggered yet…or can’t.
Odd thought, the last remnant of a hive assimilation species that would absorb locals, gain and share their memories among the hive with a queen/management server to guide the whole thing to better understand their prey and acquire any abilities the locals have to add to the collective. Think, Phalanx, Brood, Borg.
But only one soldier proto-form remained and without guidance or the ability to connect to others of its own kind (as they are gone) only has the memories of the first host assimilated so for all intents and purposes is her.
She specifically said that it got in her mouth.
May be, but did she swallow or spit?
Neither, it was absorbed as on rest of skin.
Looks like she use the kinky ropes on the wrong prisoner.
Well as long as the ropes subdue the prisoner it doesn’t matter exactly how it does it.
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Double-twist! Made me laugh!
First twist: panels 4 5 6 ; bad guys being guarded are all intellectuals with opinions!
Second twist: panel 8 ; one bad guy is into gags if they’re the right kind! And another bad guy knows about it!
Remember when magic book girl admitted to possessing fur-line cuffs? And pixel kink-shamed her until she reminded pixel she liked to be spanked?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-485-miniboss-fight-music-record-scratch/
Fun thing? There have been theories/evidence that utilizing aggressive violence as a deterrent…doesn’t work. It’s not the MAGNITUDE, as much as the CERTAINTY. And, of course, there are issues with hitting the wrong target. Such as someone who is being forced, or is under mind control…
Actually, the ideal isn’t even deterrence, but prevention, recovery, and rehabilitation.
What, exactly, is the difference between ‘deterrence’ and ‘prevention’?
Deterrence is a specific kind of prevention: Prevention through fear of consequences. Some examples of non-deterrent means of prevention include addressing socio-economic inequities that give rise to many crimes, physical barriers making it difficult for would-be criminals to get to the site of an intended crime, information security that prevents criminals from being aware of the opportunity for the crime, or just wrestling them down to the ground and getting the gun away from them before they manage to pull the trigger.
Thank you, thought that that was what it meant, but have been wrong (many times, about many things) before
Problem is, some people just won’t listen when told not to do something, they can be taught many ways of doing something differently, and, as much as it would be fun to just withdraw completely and leave them to it, you can’t, and that’s where visual deterrents come into, which inevitably leads to physical force, and then you are left to clean them and their shit up, and, hopefully, put them back where they came from
That category, however, includes less than 10% of criminals (my father worked as a maximum security prison counselor where he had to study this stuff involving people that made the Joker look sane).
One of the lessons is that deterrence is actually one of the least useful forms of prevention.
Interestingly, one of the most reliable ways of reducing crime is eliminating minor crimes. So legalize drugs, get rid of speed limits (instead just have the law require “drive safely”), eliminate jaywalking rules, etc. (Although have cops charged with protecting safety, so they have permission to pull people over and give them a stern talking to if they’re doing something dangerous, but it has to be “not a crime”.) So like if someone’s driving recklessly or insanely fast, the cop pulls them over, “This is just a routine traffic stop. You’re driving a bit fast and recklessly, so I need you to calm down a bit, and relax for a minute or two, before you get back on the road, okay? You’re not in trouble, I just have to make sure you’re safe and everyone else will be safe when you return to driving.”
Basically make the barrier to a person’s “first crime” quite high. That makes a social barrier where committing crime is seen more as a cliff to be climbed rather than something that can be just slid into, and people don’t get “used to” committing crimes. That, and a dedicated rehabilitation program can reduce crime and repeat offenders by over 90%.
Did say ‘some’ people, not ‘all’
Do agree that they need to get rid of half of the ‘crimes’
All hail the new Bouncing Bubbly Blue Beanie Baby Bitcoin!
*targeting failed*
Was supposed to be about quatloos and fiat and the economics of value.
Just like drug dealers taking laundry soap as 20$ trade sinelce a truck full detergent is non serialized, not illegal to own and “cleaned”
God, I hope this is turned into an animated series some day.
I’d pay to watch it.
I’d also help pay to make it.
What was Sydney saying in the pinup? Also, COVID sucks. Double pneumonia. Kidney failure. Loose everything. Nearly died twice without realizing. In the hospital now. No joke. STAY SAFE.
Hammer the nuts, punch the nuts, pliers(?) the nuts and cut the nuts
Glad you are well enough to join us, even for a little bit.
Hope you made it through the worst of it! Crossing fingers for your full recovery.
1. I thought Ray was annoying, but Cora’s a little….violent. And she has no concept of police brutality, which is frightening.
2. All this talk of “industrial complexes” has got me thinking: Depending on whether Monk-Sogynist is a higher-up on EviLLC, loaning Concretia out to them in a disgusting effort to be pimp-like, or something else entirely, there are TONS of ways Hench Wench can lose her powers here.
Cora had a very clear idea of police brutality. However, she thinks it’s a good thing.
Hopefully someone told her that she should not torture the helpless prisoners.
I come from the future,
no one told her that.
Paraphrasing Cora’s probable response: “If they were properly helpless, it wouldn’t take pain to keep them in line. Anyway, using pain to stop them doing stuff is better than using force to render them physically incapable of doing stuff, isn’t it?”
She’s updating Windows 10,000
I’m trying to decide if this is simply a parody of in-combat comic book dialog, or if they’re supposed to be using an alien language that has an incredible degree of sophisticated context and a high information density compared to English… Or what…?