Grrl Power #927 – All we need is love and fried insects
Oh shit, he’s dating a lizard person, get it!?
Or possibly some sort of hillbilly. It’s even odds if you’re wanting to put money on it.
This is admittedly just a weird transitional page that doesn’t do a lot more than kind of develop some, at best, tertiary characters. Had I a more rigorous editorial process, I might have been talked into skipping it, but I don’t have enough of a buffer to make that kind of call the same night I’m posting the new page.
If this page doesn’t give you much to discuss, we can instead all hate on daylight savings time, which is a stupid thing that no one can justify and why don’t 80% of the clocks in my house automatically set their own time by calling into that time-radio station thing for clocks? Also, why does my microwave and toaster oven need to know what time it is? It’s not like I’m going to leave a raw chicken breast in the microwave for 4 hours while I go out and run errands and see a movie, then expect to come home to a piping hot and probably slightly slimy piece of chicken that I set up with a time delay cook. (Also I probably wouldn’t cook raw chicken in the microwave. I was just trying to be gross.)
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A romantic space lizard.
You get all kinds in Grrlpower.
Also, what is a Calca worm?
Popular fishing bait, apparently.
If you have to ask what it is, you really don’t want to find out.
It falls into that category of Things That Man Was Not Meant To Know.
Okay, I admit it…They aren’t that bad. You can bait you hook with them.
Calci worms are the larvae of black soldier flies. They look like maggots, but are a rich in calcium and have level calcium to phosphorous ratio meaning they are a good staple food for your pet birds, reptiles, etc.
And yeah, some people like them too.
And black soldier flies are frens. They clean up dumpsters … somehow. I dunno why, but if you seed a colony of black solider flies in that stanky-ass dumpster under your apartment window, they drive all the other flies away and feed on the beer-soaked fried chicken bones in a way that minimizes smell. It’s still a dumpster and all, but it’ll be a LOT better.
Mealworms. That particular type is very high in calcium for bearded geckos and other pet lizards, but it’s essentially Gagh.
Gagh is best served live.
+1
don’t forget to chew it properly before swallowing
Yes, from Gagh, that “fake crunch that everything has on TV when you are supposed to cringe” is so satisfying.
Almost as much as the sharp sound of a gleaming sword being drawn.
Real swords don’t do that, actually. If there were that much metal inside a sword’s sheath to make it ring when drawn, it’d never hold an edge.
I reckon if you really wanted to, you could modify the top plate to have a bit slide down the flat of the blade. Still a trade-off between sound and durability, but the wear wouldn’t be going on such a usage-critical area. For a properly gleaming sword, (pick your grade of steel accordingly,) polish regularly with steel wool, and keep in a wood-lined sheath.
why not a stay-sharp sheath that sharpens the blade as you slide it in or out? Wouldn’t that make that nice sound?
Yea if you want your sword to get stuck when you need it. stuck on the nicks and chipped edges when you try to draw it out.
Probably not. The blade’s a lot more flexible to bending out-of-plane (pressure on the flat) than it is to bending in-plane (pressure on the edge), so it’ll be a lot harder to set up a good resonant vibration with the latter. Plus your blade life will drop off dramatically, because you’ll be sharpening it far more than necessary and losing some metal every time.
Just like real foods don’t make that famous live-Gagh crunch. That was the point.
yeah you don’t want your food eating you as well.
How to Eat Deep Fried Worms.
A romantic space lizard who is named after Roman fish sauce (Soy sauce is sposedly a vegetarian form)
Garum was a fermented fish sauce used as a condiment in the cuisines of Phoenicia, ancient Greece, Rome, Carthage and later Byzantium. Liquamen was a similar preparation, and at times they were synonymous.
“Liquaman” was probably too close to Marvel IP to use safely, and Garamm rolls off the tongue much better anyway.
As an alien he probably isn’t effected by the Veil.
Weren’t there aliens on the Twilight Counsel? I think the Veil covered them then but they aren’t covered now because they went public.
Irradon. Aliens like to visit because of existing Veil-ness. However, it is currently down for repairs and retinkering, so aliens look alien.
Those repairs were short term fixes. The Veil had a lower output but was not completely disabled. Besides it’s been months since Syd was on Earth so it’s probably been fixed.
That, and Humanity knows aliens are a thing in total now too.
Irradon actually showed up as a public figure earlier in the comic. So it’s probably safe to say the veil isn’t covering them, not that that’s going to really prevent shpeshifters, or guys with disguise tech anyways. and it’d probably still cover magic or (possibly) supernatural-using aliens/alien Ghosts… so… yeah.
We were told at the twilight meeting that the veil cant keep up with media saturation, so I imagine any alien that is part of the huge tourist influx is beyond the veil ability to hide. Hopefully any aliens still intent on secrecy are covered.
yes but some aliens still have personal disguise devices as seen at the club and explained by Dabbler. The veil has to have specific species entered into it’s programming, not every visiting species may get that treatment. After all if their species aren’t regular visitors over centuries and they have their own disguise devices that work better than the veil anyway, why take the time and hassle to update the planet spanning network’s likely already taxed system to cover who knows how many species from being detected easily by humans.
*Affected
I like both versions.
As an alien he should be shrouded by the Veil. And so should all the other aliens, which includes the ones wandering around dropping gold on tourists to have them become taxi drivers, and also the ones trying to kidnap Maxima and/or other supers.
Soooo much inconsistency in this comic.
The Veil is designed and operated for supernatural Earth natives, not for aliens – Dabbler explained at the club that most (nearly all?) of them use disguises. If anything, aliens might be explicitly excluded soon given the explosion of public awareness, just like supers have been.
If you want to win a girls heart toasted swamp flies have nothing on chocolate covered grasshoppers.
Even so, deep frying her calca worms is bad for her health; it’s the oil that gets ya’. Probably better to toast or bake them.
Try stir-fry and a lite veggy oil.
Cant agree more on stir fried locusts with chocolate scorpions for desert.
yeah well I ate a whole live possum covered in creamed corn and walnuts
As long as the oil hasn’t been through the hydrogenation process it’s not so bad. if the label says “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated” then it’s best to leave it be. However, there are some industries that don’t do that; for example, some kinds of margarine don’t hydrogenate the veggie oil that makes up a big part of their product.
air-fry. always air-fry
Almost everything is better when covered in chocolate.
Except doggy treats.
Only if you’re giving them to dogs…
Tell that to dogs.
Honestly the heated blankets sounds like the bigger draw to me, especially for a cold-blooded lizard-person, but having a food supply with your fort does take it to the next level. Nothing like a nest of warm blankets and your snack of choice.
Chocolate-covered grasshopers are delicious – and easy to make!
Bets on whether that girl is the daughter of the redneck sacrificial pawn from around 400 or 500 episodes ago? The one Fiona sent into the super-secret undersea magic vault as a sacrificial catspaw?
You mean Cooter. Unlikely. She is capable of intelligible speech and doesn’t look like the end product of several generations of inbreeding.
Plus, then you’re left with the horrible thought of Cooter passing his genes on.
No, with her it was clearly a sophisticated (manga/scifi/con) sense of humor rather than her basic meal preferences.
Clearly…
It is my impression that the closest Cooter got to a woman, prior to being spread all over the place, at least as an adult, was when one, or several, slapped him hard enough to potentially cause whiplash.
Also, she seems somewhat more intelligent than Cooter, but then a rock seems somewhat more intelligent than Cooter, so that’s hardly evidence of anything.
Didn’t his family get killed by ‘monsters’?
That could be a really unexpected plot twist – part of his family were monsters, and he flipped when he eventually broke through the Veil and disowned them, choosing instead to believe they were body snatched.
At least we’d have a reason to see some more Cooter antics.
How much you want to bet that the other two are in human disguise and is in fact a lizard man and a demon, and both don’t know that they’re actually in disguises.
What, and they were each previously infiltrating believers and trying to convince the other that their own specie didn’t exist?
(not a typo)
Or perhaps they’ve both figured it out, and are trying to get the other to open up so they can be honest about their own situation.
The side-story we need now. That sounds amazing.
I’m voting for this.
“Lizard Girl is Dating a Demon?!” Is pure manga fuel. I especially like it if they’re both basically Illuminati Drop Outs, working on art degrees at SUNY.
Given that the Illuminati have been around centuries or even millenia, you’re absolutely right – there must be Illuminati kids out there abandoning the family business and rebelling against their parents by just living normal lives. *mind blown*
I’m thinking Snowden, Harry and Meghan, and probably a good percentage of street performers.
Weird, the girl looks like its Halo. Size, body type, face.
Body type? I can think of two major differences
Girl Abs and an extremely long neck for a human.
Halo should soon have abs like that.
Nah, there is enough muscle in this comic already.
But very little of it is earned.
Sydney will statistically never be a washboard…but I look forward to the day she looks carved outta wood & basically has a melt down when some redshirt snark sat her about how nice it must be being a super with automatic superhotness.
I expect her to Sydney at him (yeah, it’ll be a him) and weave in a sufficiently detailed recounting of how she got to that point that he passes out from sympathy pain.
When it comes to someone expressing jealousy about someone else’s appearance, it’s far more likely to be a her.
The other thing I noticed right away in the last panel is that she is leaning back, but waling forward. Her balance is all wrong. Look at the guy; head above feet. If you are walking forward, you want to lean slightly forward to keep you weight over your base of support as you move forward.
Shit… they’re not human.
Perhaps she is of the human subspecies Homo Liefeldensis.
She’s walking the exact same way as Garamm.
Yep. she appears swaybacked. However, it may be a function of him being so much taller than her, that she has to crane to look up at him when he is too close. Mentally stand her straight up, and look at the difference.
Combined possibility… they were walking forward, her comment brought him up short, and she had to stop herself and pull back the distance to look at him directly.
I’ve walked using both of those postures before, it looks and feels ridiculous, but it’s totally possible (the balance issues are real, but not insurmountable).
I’ve walked with all kinds of ridiculous gaits, some even that one would think would be impossible (or at least grossly impractical) until you try them. Heck, I play with my walk so much that recently I’ve found myself walking like a cartoon character from the ’40s at work, and had so much difficulty stopping when I tried that I just kinda let it happen now. Luckily it’s a brand new job (for me, anyway, the company’s been around for decades and my department was one of the first in the company), so as far as my co-workers are concerned, I just walk with weird arm pumping and extra knee bends, they have no idea that that’s a very recent development.
Do you work at the Ministry of Silly Walks?
just wear a t-shirt that says you do.
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In case anyone else also hasn’t seen the Silly Walks sketch in too long, and wants a refresher on Cleese’s flexibility – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHFuTpVvRCI
You should see the lengths that teen aged gangsta wannabes will go to in order to fit their adopted stereotypes. I knew one kid in the rehab where I worked who walked with his toes 180 degrees apart. He didn’t know from Charlie Chaplin but there was a cartoon stereotype of a gang member that he was trying to imitate. When I worked with teens in the 90’s that girl would have had a seven inch high wall of hair instead of the ball cap but the posture is the same.
Um, have you compared the last and penultimate panels?
Maybe give them another glance, and look for similarities in posture between suspected lizard girl and actual lizard guy.
Her neck isn’t abnormally long, but her hair is mostly hiding her sternum, which creates that illusion from this angle.
No, you can clearly see the full curve of her throat in the last panel
That looks like her left collarbone and shoulder, to me.
Base of her jaw, if you believe that that is her left shoulder, the MIB will be with you before this message ends (please struggle)
I assumed she was some hipster type eating insects as part of some alternative diet, but then you brought up she might actually just be a lizard woman in disguise…
Why not both? those insect diets are actually championed by lezard people!
You know I’m now going to keep checking the next few pages to see these people in the background, hoping Halo uses truesight, and see if anything changes.
Also, swamp flies give you swamp gas?
I’ll let myself out now…
And swamp gas gives you xenonphobia which is why hillbillies are prone to raving about the lizardmen, and radiation in the drinking water.
I want more of these two. Even if they just pop up as side bit characters infrequently.
Though that’s one thing I love most bout this comic. Even one shot characters have a full personality and traits enough for an entire character sheet. Props to Dave for putting in maximam (pun intended) effort into every being to grace these pages.
Hands in pockets all over the place. Must be degenerates. Possibly Canadians.
Nah, it is just easier to draw people of you don’t have to worry about drawing detailed fingers on hands. Besides, what makes you think those people are Canucks?
Yeah, especially since they’re clearly kind of idiotic American Millenial Hipsters.
No offense, but as a Canadian, even our rednecks are smarter than these two. Not by much, but still.
Okay, please explain what proves these humans are stupid?
Clearly, Garamm is a lizard man by any reasonable definition. And Lapha belongs to an alien species that has been theorized by readers in prior comments to be a type of demon, given the probable magical sigil in front of her forehead. Nothing in their remaining observable costumes looks high tech. Both of them speak English.
Most importantly, contextually, the two acquisitioneers were not out and about being touristy, but were hiding and observing. Thus, the humans’ conclusion is reasonable and likely true… they are lizard man and demon woman, and ALSO happen to be alien.
Also, backing up, these are two people who have thought their way through to pierce the Veil. Since demons and lizard people DO exist, that means these people are likely smarter than average.
This. Totally this. The only characters in-universe who think these two are stupid are… Garamm and Lapha. And they just tried (and failed) to kidnap Maxima and her team. Not exactly proof of their own intellectual superiority.
You mean, the two who failed to spot the giant red rocket ship are actually smart?
if they were walking from the other direction, they likely wouldn’t have seen it until then. It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of other things to see in the middle of a large city.
It’s cold in Canada. They are excused. Thought everyone knew that. My apologies to all Canadians.
I hope no one is eating while reading about fried insects…!
I dare you to look up “Carmine”. While eating strawberry flavored anything.
And after you swear off anything that is purplish-red, I dare you to look up how Figs are pollinated.
Go on. I can wait. And, oh, there’s more. Let’s talk the FDA limits for rat and insect parts in your food.
Wise men have suggested that one should not look too closely at how laws or sausages are made. Then someone had to create a court case forcing a judge to rule on a law concerning the making of sausages.
Western thought process:
dry bugs: gross
wet bugs: delicious
shrimp are just cockroaches without wings that live underwater, look about the same and eat the same kind of stuff.
its like, we gonna have crawdads and crab legs
looks like floppy scorpions and pinchy spiders to me there, but somehow those are gross but this isn’t….
its like saying you only eat penguins but would find chickens disgusting. (I know the genetic relation isn’t exact with the former examples just being arthropods, and the later example birds, but hey, visually it feels that way).
If we’re placing bets, my money is on her being an alien herself, and wearing a very good glamour.
Or, with furries or whatever they’re called here being a real thing in this universe, she could be a lizard one of those
I believe the term is “scaly,” and I think several of us are pulling for that.
were-lizard meets man at UFO con she went to for a laugh, is dating.
finds what looks to be another lizard man and a demon hiding behind a sigh, surprised boyfriend can see them, plays it off.
also wouldn’t be surprised if the average member of the various supernatural communities who aren’t members (as in the individual) of the Twilight Council may not be aware of what all out there is real. Like some random were-beast is part of their own community that has a representative on the twilight council but personally has never met a vampire, undead, spooky talking doll, ect… and is surprised to find out those are also real one day.
like average Joe were-leopard just hanging out with his family, not interested in politics, most just hears about were-beast, beastmen, what ever, stuff and things involving humans. Goes to a club one day in his twenties and accidentally runs into a demon, which he didn’t know where real and freaks out.
Hillbilly? Having taste preferences for insects seems more the kind of thing a white liberal woman who attended a $90,000 per year boarding school but spends all her time whining about oppression would be familiar with.
My thought too, and the location’s right for one of those, and wrong for a Hillbilly.
Not sure why you are considering that as a true preference rather than a quip. A quarter of the young adults that I hung out with in my twenties would have had some such comment. Another quarter would have laughed or groaned, and the last half would have retched… both at the quip, and the remark that spawned it, although they probably would have been running screaming from the horrible creatures long before that happened.
It ain’t Beverly Hills, that’s for dang sure.
The hillbillies that I knew growing up usually considered anything with more than four legs to be bait, useful for catching things with more meat on their bones. Insect grubs were particularly prized as fish bait. While I caught crawdads for sport as a child, it was really more of a Cajun thing until Cajun cuisine became more popular in the rest of the country.
Hate on Daylight Saving’s time it is. Prepare for rambling.
The best night of the year is when Daylight Saving’s time ends in the fall. Sure there are certain holiday nights that are a big deal, but the best actual NIGHT is the one with an extra hour. Even if all you do with that extra hour is catch up on sleep.
Plus afterwards the sun sets an hour earlier (or ‘on time now’), which is great for us nyctophiles.
So this conversely makes the worst night of the year is the one that ROBS US OF AN HOUR OF SLEEP! Not all of us have off on the weekeds. Some of us are working essential businesses and had to work this whole last year and also have to work Sunday morning on ONE HOUR LESS SLEEP! JERKS!
Is losing an hour worth it to get that ‘best night’ half a year later? No, probably not.
However, I’ve long pushed a better idea:
Get rid of daylight saving’s time (that’s hardly original).
Also get rid of Leap Years (we’re going somewhere now).
Every other month, have a “Fall Daylight Saving’s Time” where we get an extra hour.
6 times a year, 24x in 4 years. Calendars don’t get screwed up.
And we’d get an hour longer night every other freaking month. How great is that?
However, just because a year has a 1/4 day that needs to be made up, the Earth’s rotation remains constant. That means that while the calendar days would be okay, the daylight hours would gradually shift over the a 4 year cycle.
This would be the deal breaker for most. I see it as the best part.
We’re in the 21st century. We have electricity. We have the internet. Time keeping will be easy enough with most things auto updating, and the daylight hours shifting might get the general populous to finally shake their slave collars from the Sun.
Why work everything around ‘daytime’? Having 95% of the population sleep at the same time every day in their respective time zones means that in our very overpopulated planet, we are basically wasting 1/3 of the earth.
Imagine a world where everything was nearly 24/7. Where ‘day shift’ and ‘night shift’ were meaningless, like people took an 8 hour shift and worked that year round… and sometimes those same 8 hours were ‘daytime’ and sometimes ‘nighttime’.
Hell, with this we could get rid of time zones as well. Everyone’s on the same clock, because no one’s relying on some burning ball of radioactive cancer waves to decide when they have to do things.
Plus, if not everyone was sleeping the same time, not everyone would be working the same time. Which means we’d have two more equally populated shifts, and ‘rush hour’ would have 1/3 the cars on the road.
That’s the world I want to live in.
Of course, when I go full megalomania daydreams, I also want a floating castle, or just an airship, that can match the speed of the earth’s revolution. I’d set it into the ‘night’ section of the planet and start flying westward, living in my fabulous flying Night Castle like some crazy fantasy sorcerer.
This is crazy talk. There’s a lot of research that people who work the night shift are more obese, smoke more, sleep less, have a significantly higher chance of developing diseases like depression, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, have a higher rate on on-the-job injuries, and die younger. The WHO classified night shift work as a possible carcinogen.
I love DST, I wish we were on it year round. In fact I wish we had double-daylight savings time. Or that my state moved into the Atlantic time zone. And no I don’t care about kids waiting in the dark for a school bus, school starts too early anyway, make it later it’s healthier for kids.
I’d like to recalibrate the clock to sunrise every 2-3 months, and have, not 24, but 48, or even 96, time zones*. Again, the internet would make that easier now than in any other time since the mechanical clock was invented.
But, yeah. Teenagers should be taught from around noon to 6 or 7 o’clock at night, I think it is. Not banker’s hours. The presumed reason they are not is it makes more sense to teach the kids, children and teenagers alike, at the same time, to share logistical resources, and makes sense to teach them at a time when their parents are similarly occupied elsewhere, saving “after school” for family time, and extracurriculars. At least in a perfect-world where everyone got to work bankers hours.
*Well, really more than 48 or 96 time zones, since latitude differences in sunrise would indicate dividing those further. It would almost be easier to just go back to the sundial, or a location-aware internet-capable, digital clock. No. It WOULD be easier. Integrate sundial calibration into phone and webmail calendars.
Time is crazy enough on the internet as it is. Just have everyone switch to UTC and set your local hours based on your local sunlight.
Okay, it may be weird for some people when PM no longer means that noon has happened, but that’s a minor thing.
That’s an easier fix. Don’t use PM. Use 24-hour time instead.
i’ve tried using 24 hour time. it only really works for 23 hours, though.
:}
I’ve heard those shit arguments before. They mix up the cause and effect because they just “observe” instead of “experiment”
They have no control groups.
I’m on my phone now so can’t spiel, but I’ll sum it up with one example:
“People who stay up late drink more!”
No, moron. People who drink more tend to stay up late.
Reverse the cause and effect for all the other situations. In most the examples, you’ll find swapping them makes more sense than “not standing under the cancer globe is causing destruction!”
it’s not a conclusion, because experimentation would still be needed.
That’s not so unbelievable after I learned that pirates reduce global warming and fresh lemons reduce highway fatalities.
The best night of the year is this past Sunday morning. The log files in computer systems jump forward, completely missing 2AM – 3AM. The real fun happens in the fall when 2AM happens twice.
The one down side to no time zones would be to amateur astronomy. What time is sunset, moonrise, the solar eclipse, Venus highest in the sky, etc.
You say that, but with no time zones, people would be MORE aware of local things like sunset and sunrise, which might well make them more perceptive, and receptive, to the others.
You have to look it up anyway. There’s no real difference between the answer coming back as 5:23 PM or coming back as 22:23 UTC.
This is my favorite night-centric proposal for an alternate timekeeping schedule. Not too far of some many of my end-of-semester cram weeks, unfortunately, from which I can tell you it’s only appealing until you actually try it for a month straight.
I dislike DST, especially since they moved it SO STUPIDLY. DST now ends first Sunday in November. Thereby screwing up Halloween for most kids, esp. the younger ones, who end up trick or treating in broad daylight. Going around in the dark is half the fun of Halloween, and if they had just ended the abomination ONE WEEK EARLIER, last Sunday in October, it wouldn’t have messed with the holiday at all!
“Every other month, have a “Fall Daylight Saving’s Time” where we get an extra hour.
6 times a year, 24x in 4 years. Calendars don’t get screwed up.
And we’d get an hour longer night every other freaking month. How great is that? ”
The people working the shifts where that added hour occurs every other month might get extremely miffed that they’re getting screwed over and over. Sure, they get an hour of overtime every other month (unless that have utter dicks for employers) but it would get old fast.
My solution to eliminating DST is to split the difference – adjust all of our clocks permanently forward by half an hour – and drop the time changes.
I will never understand people who advocate using permanent DST.
It makes absolutely no difference compared to just never using DST, except for putting us in a permanent state of lying about what time it is (yes I understand time zones do that for most of the zone, but there is part of it that’s correct, and it actually accomplishes something to use them)
Any employer who isn’t adjusting night shift workers’ hours to compensate for DST shifts is either idiotic or greedy, and deserves the lawsuits their employees would eventually level at them. I’ve worked graveyard before, and my hours for DST are always adjusted accordingly. This is a non-issue.
If your daydream becomes reality let me in as well.
I LOVE daylight savings time. I don’t love adjusting to it, but I wish we’d stay on it year round. I’d rather have the hour of daylight later in the day.
There is likely nothing preventing you from shifting your own personal schedule earlier by one hour.
Whimsical side pages are always fun. Besides, this is *your* comic. Do what brings *you* joy! :)
What do you mean you haven’t given us much to talk about? Sure there might not be the discussions about how science works in this universe or whatever, but just look at the water ripple under lighting effect. That’s awesome, and should be talked about
Was wondering if anyone had brought up the glowing water yet. I know the NYC sewers are full of freaky stuff*, but bioluminescence isn’t one I’d heard before.
* And also a wonderful example of large-scale public works over many decades, but I suspect they’re more fun to study than actually work with.
I don’t think it is actually glowing. I think it’s just a light showing through the water. Kinda like when you’re in a pool and the rippple effect shows on the bottom of the pool. But, we haven’t seen an alligator in the sewer scene in this comic yet. So it could be something supernatural I suppose
I want to know why they build sewers so large that you can walk them. Aside from giving mutated testudines a place to live.
Maybe because they get the occasional really rainy period that needs the extra capacity to clear through fast enough. More likely so that when a blockage does occur, whoever they send down to clear it has enough room to access the site and do their work.
Also, millions of people in NYC each using an average of 60-70 gallons/day results in the need to treat 1.3 billion gallons of wasterwater per day. Take really big pipes to continuously move that much water around / across an entire city.
daylight saving rant on
adding an hour of shut-eyes every year is not problematic, what is, is cutting one every year.
so how about adding one hour every 6 month instead? that way, in a few years we’ll work when it’s dark, and rest when it’s sunny, so in summer we’ll work in the cool hours and stay at home when the temperature is overblown, not risking any sunstroke, and all
daylight saving rant off
I’ve been ranting against daylight saving for 50 years. Just take it as done.
Even Benjamin Franklin only proposed it as a joke, in answer to a question about how to save money on candles. As if turning the clock forward and back could actually “Save” time.
oh, but it does save time! there’s a teeeeeeny little safe in a clock somewhere on the equator that holds it for when we need it later
But only TV Tropes has the key and they have embezzled most of your time.
I would have expected it to be in a bottle? Because, you know…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM
To me it seems like she’s just being sarcastic.
Good job on the light reflecting off the water onto the bodies. Very nice touch! Good attention to detail!
Lucky for the alien mercs that Archon doesn’t know how to secure the perimeter and literally forgot about them.
OMG. yeah we programmers hate timezones and internationalisation. btw eu justbdecid d to drop. dqylight savings.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Indeed. Writing your own timezone libraries is as complex and ill-advised as writing your own cryptography.
That’s a huge sewer tunnel. But I guess you need that in NY so that superheroes can fight down there.
NYC has a crazy amount of stuff going on underground, as do all other big cities. The older the city, the crazier and more fragile the system, and the more abandoned stuff there is.
* steels self to not go down the YouTube rabbit hole of people exploring abandoned places *
speaking of Henchwench just tore a giant hole out what looked to be a few layers of it, so those tunnels they just entered might be a touch unstable.
Comics and movies almost always confuse Sewer lines and storm drains. The large tunnels under the streets are storm drains and/or Utilidors. Modern Sewer lines are much smaller.
But NYC’s system still has lots of legacy mainlines you absolutely could walk through. Traditionally they were a single system (up until the advent of water treatment plants) that just dumped into the nearest major body of water – not sure if the NYC system is fully segregated by now but I’d hope so.
pretty sure it is, although to my understanding alot of it was installing newer power and sewer lines closer to the surface and blocking off the old ones; resulting in a ton of boarded up and bricked up paths and signs of “danger, do not proceed” resulting in a crap ton of urban legends about alot of those old tunnels and structures.
And if I’m not mistaken, Washington State is doing away with Standard Time. No more gaining and losing hours. Well, if WA weren’t in violation of Federal law. Current Fed law allows for changing DST/ST or stay ST. DST only is not authorized. The question is whether WA will thumb it’s collective nose at the DC (much like it does with the real ID act – unless you have other ID, WA is pretty much on the no fly list), or change back to Standard time if Congress does not change the law. Not sure what the ramifications on Fed/State interactions would be violating this one. /em stocks up on popcorn for November….
The thing is, the US Constitution does not give the federal govt the power or authority to say boo about time zones or what have you one way or the other. As per Amendment 10, that drops time zones etc firnly in the purview of the states.
Now i dont expect the courts to rule that way, as they haven’t had any respect for the Constitution since before chief justice Warren, but them’s the words that are written down.
It could be argued that Congress has the ability to say what time it is based on its enumerated power of “fix[ing] the Standard of Weights and Measures” (which is what NIST is all about).
The Commerce Clause would probably get involved as well.
“Current Fed law allows for changing DST/ST or stay ST. DST only is not authorized.” – BADLucas
I’ll take your word for that, I’m no expert on USA law. But does that restriction specify what ‘Standard Time’ should be for each State, or is it just a restriction on what it’s labelled as? I can see the argument behind insisting that the reference time be known as Standard regardless of whether or not the State uses DST, so that DST specifically denotes a departure from (the local) Standard. Could Washington opt for ‘ST-only’, and set that Standard as the time zone currently used for DST?
I believe standard time is measured by the physically defined time zones from GMT, which has been the global standard time. DST shifts us one zone. So even if WA defined standard time locally as DST, it would still be one time zone shifted from GMT (I forget which direction and I’m too lazy to figure it out while posting). It’s probably one of those things that the original law never considered. That unreasonable folk will do unreasonable things. I’m OK with not changing the time. Just think it’s silly and perverse to pick the non-standard time as the standard. But non-standard is the norm out here. :/
Greenwich has been the reference since a British clockmaker produced the first accurate-enough shipboard timepiece, but the boundaries of time zones are only ever approximately aligned with the actual longitude difference. Local political boundaries generally take precedence for defining the zones’ boundaries, and there are a lot of entire countries whose ‘Standard Time’ is an hour or more to the East of their ‘geographical time’ for one reason or another. If Washington wanted to pin itself to the ‘7 hours West of Greenwich’ zone permanently despite being geographically in the ‘8 hours West’ band, they could cite the likes of France and Spain as precedent! (Although they may first need to persuade Northern Idaho, to their East and in the same zone of civil and geographical time, to do likewise.)
It’s even more misaligned currently, with DSTs in effect: some countries have a clock time that’s over two hours to the East of their geographical time. Have a look at Chile and Alaska on this map!
I’d forgotten about all the weird dateline reconfigurations in the South Pacific.
Gas gives her gas (yeah, once she starts ‘tooting’ like a fog horn, she doesn’t stop)
If you want a microwave oven without a clock, just buy one with dials instead of buttons.
Your microwave and toaster oven don’t need to know what time it is – they simply have a clock in them because they already have to have the ability to measure time, and they have a display, so why not? Can never have too many clocks!
Is lizard guy jerking off with both hands in the sewers because he “loves love?”
Nobody wants sunrise super early in the summer, nobody wants sunrise super late in the winter, nobody wants the time to jump around in the spring and fall, and having the clocks adjust continuously over the year has been a clear non-starter since measuring time accurately became important at all.
It’s a problem.
“Nobody wants sunrise super early in the summer, nobody wants sunrise super late in the winter”
DST doesn’t stop that. It just lies about what time it is. Nothing is stopping you from adjusting your personal sleep schedule to avoid those problems.
Is nobody going to mention that this isnt his first time to earth if he has culinary preferences that he probably couldnt have purchased locally in the short time they have been there.
“Toasted swamp flies” doesn’t sound like something unique to Earth.
Maybe the species of insect is actually called ‘toasted swamp flies’ at least when roughly translated to English. Like, we have ‘Fireflies’ and Skyrim has ‘torchbugs’ so I could see some kind of heat-generating swamp-living insect called a toasted swamp fly.
they taste totally awesome with jelly and peanut-butterflies
both swamp and flies could be translations, swamp is after all just a type of environment. Slow moving water, lots of plant life.
flies being the translation for (small flying invertebrate). possibly not even small,
imagine a lobster with wings like a giant flying crayfish nearly two feet long, sure sounds good doesn’t it. but a translator might translate this Fora Aeria or Swamp Flyer as Swamp fly talking to a human.
Alien, hillbilly, or just learning to mess with her boyfriend’s head?
Yes
all of the above
You drew this just so you could draw that water reflection, didn’t you?
I mean, it looks really cool, so I wouldn’t blame you.
that would actually be funny for a supernatural lizardfolk to see an alien reptilian while dating a human and be mildly surprised but play it off.
maybe the met at a conspiracy UFO con, she there to gather intel or just be amused at human conspiracy theories of reptilian shapeshifters controlling the world, they met there, got to know each other, she likes him but the the lizard people thing is just something she has to roll her eyes at.
but she’s been trying to convince him demons are behind everything, because why not, not like every individual of every species is on the council so some average day to day supernaturals might not themselves know what all is actually out there beyond their own communities. Be funny having a were-civet show up one day and double take at a vampire like, “wait…vampires are real? I thought humans made those up.”
I couldn’t find calca worms, but I did find calci worms. http://www.thehouseofanimals.com/2020/06/30/calci-worm-care-sheet/
I don’t think that girl is human; she actually made a suggestion on what she would want to eat.
… Have you seen the types of shit ‘hyu-mons’ eat? They willingly go to places like ‘Taco Bell’ and eat from the set menu!!!
I think Ophidiophile means that the girl did not say ‘I -am- hungry’ then say ‘I don’t know, what would YOU want to eat’ when asked what she’d want to eat. Then disagree with whatever he suggests or say ‘sure I guess’ noncommittally. Which is mandatory in the human girl manual, page 102, section 4, paragraph 3.
Have been trying for years to assemble a bootleg copy of that manual – having a specific section cited by an expert will help, thanks!
So far I’ve been able to piece together this and this.
Ah yes. The sacred texts.
I now need to know how she learned that swamp flys give her gas and I doubt I’m the first commenter to bring that up.
I don’t care if the page is not full of plot, or Super Fight Action, its the little details for world building that really make a world come together.
I always get worried about ‘get rid of daylight savings’ conversations. Because, like myself, i think most people really mean ‘permanent daylight savings’ and i fear the wrong idea will catch on. If you prefer the way the clocks are set in the summer (northern hemisphere) then you want permanent daylight savings.
Just pick one or the other and most people wouldn’t care so long as it quit changing. Personally I think solar noon should align with chrono noon, just like a sundial, but could live with it either way. I’d lobby for adopting the metric system well before spending effort on picking the specific time zone adjustment.
Next change, adjust by half an hour and leave it the hell alone.
I think the primary reason nothing has yet come of the yearly battle about DST is because the two sides have a false conception of the other side’s position, and argue past each other. That’s probably true of a lot of other problems as well.
To some people “Daylight Saving Time” refers to the practice of switching back and forth, and they probably can’t remember which is standard time and which is daylight saving time, and they don’t care. They just wish it would stop changing back and forth, and don’t have any preference whether it’s an hour ahead or an hour behind, because the clock is arbitrary anyway. There’s no daylight saved under daylight saving time — there’s exactly the same amount of daylight either way. If changing the time on the clock makes you see more or less of the sun, that says more about your relationship to the clock than anything else.
There’s some other group of people who cares about what number we associate with the position of the sun in the sky, and they can identify some reasons to have it one way or another, and they label one association “standard time” and the other “daylight saving time”, and can distinguish between them. They see arguments calling for the elimination of “daylight saving time” and think the people making those arguments would prefer sticking to standard time year-round, despite the clear benefits of daylight saving time.
I’m inclined to think both groups would be fine with permanently switching to daylight saving time, but that option doesn’t seem to enter the picture, and they’d rather fight for one of the inferior options.
Here is my own personal DST rant:
It is actually called ‘daylight saving’ not ‘daylight savings’! What is wrong with you people?! AAARGH!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.