Grrl Power #963 – A memorable first date
Sydney is wandering around the room demanding what the last pop-culture thing they said was. It’s inefficient.
Speaking of, how is it that the names for Sydney’s hair color are “Dirty Blonde” or “Dishwater Blonde?” I can see some women owning Dirty Blonde, especially if they’re in college or in their Dirty Thirties or whatever, but it’s not… super complimentary, is it? And Dishwater Blonde? There is a short list of “The Grossest Stuff” and dishwater is definitely on it, just behind “wheelbarrow of fat scraped from deer hides during leather making.”
What I’m saying is, to the best of my knowledge, Sydney made up the term “Chocolate Blonde” because the other terms for her hair color weren’t flattering enough. (Disclaimer, Sydney’s supposed to have slightly multicolored hair, darker near the roots and lighter on top, but when I first picked the color for her hair, I kind of averaged them because multilayered hair colors is harder to draw and takes more time, so I couldn’t fault you for describing her hair as “Tan.”)
It’s fair to say that Maxima’s trajectory into super-dom was not the typical one. While powers often begin to assert themselves fairly early on in life, it’s a fair bet that once a super hits puberty that they’ll grow up to be quite the Adonis or, uh, Madonnis. (quick google) Or Adonia? Hmm. Never heard that one before. Anyway, Max grew up looking like, well, a cross country runner, because that’s what she did in high school. She didn’t have her encounter with the geode until she was fifteen, and things progressed rapidly from there.
Messing with the sliders probably wouldn’t make Max’s skin go transparent, but most of us have seen some pretty amazing glitches in video games, so I’m sure we can come up with likely scenarios. Probably that skin texture would either disappear, leaving her looking like a mannequin, or it would get stretched and she’d look like a flesh lump with no distinguishing features, like something out of a Silent Hill game.
I tried installing Dead Space 1 a few months ago, because it’s still a pretty great game (I know, there’s some uprezzed reboot coming out. I’ll have to keep my eye on it. I hope it’s as good as the Resident Evil ones Capcom has been doing, but, it’s EA, so we’ll see) Anyway, the game mostly worked, except some of the character models had… er, coordinate issues. By which I mean I was watching the opening cutscene as the rescue shuttle goes to find the big planet cracker mining ship, and the woman on board is talking to me, except everything from her mouth down was stretched way off the screen. The top half of her head was there like normal, then there was this smear at almost a right angle heading stage left. Honestly it was creepier than the necro-whatsits in the rest of the game.
Share some of your most heinous graphics glitches, and imagine that happening to Max on a date.
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Heh.
There’s always a breaking in period….
I one had a glitch where the coordinates of the clothes vertices were shuffled, resulting in a spiked ball instead of the body(s)
Must have been a very strange dinner date.
It is so cute that Sydney is taking the role of peanut gallery.
Max: Hello! Tech support? My skin is randomly transparent.
TS: Have you tried unplugging and replugging it?
yeah, and that only seems to repair the region surrounding the plug
I can think of a bunch of stuff grosser than dishwater, but I work in clinical pathology, so my standards on “gross” are definitely messed up.
I worked in the part of the hospital were the cutoff pieces go. nobody wants to hear my stories, especially when eating. hey I had to live through it!
When my games started doing that, I found it was the graphics card melting down. I’d get asteroids in space games that suddenly rotated a spike the length of a galaxy through the screen.
…I feel like I would definitely not call Sydney “dirty blonde,” much less “chocolate blonde.” She’s a blonde.
“cracker blonde”?
That implies she’s racist. I don’t think she’d approve.
when did crackers become racist? or is that only the saltines?
A ‘cracker’ is a derogatory term for a ‘white person’
But everyone knows, only white people are racist (that’s sarchasm people, get over it)
And here I thought ‘cracker’ was a derogatory term for ‘bigot.’ That’s sure as heck what white people around here mean when they use it about each other.
Isn’t ‘bigot’ already a derogatory term? Do you mean complimentary, or extra-derogatory?
More complementary than complimentary. Sort of like the same set of people tend to be called “fuckwad” and “dipshit.” Or the same set of people tend to be called “asshole” or “bastard.”
As with the other two cases there are subtle gradations of meaning. ‘Cracker’ tends to imply more age and tradition than ‘bigot,’ and as such is typically associated with the former Confederate states in the US Southeast. Crackers are the unreconstructed who have learned race hate early in childhood and been raised among people in a very similar mindset. Usually they have deep social connections (the so-called “old boy network”) that work in their favor and help them avoid consequences. Bigots, otoh, can be any age, may not be connected to any particular network, or may have just taken up race hate as a hobby in late adolescence or adulthood.
So… All crackers are bigots but only some bigots are crackers. As usually used.
No it’s a derogatory teem for caucasian.
Her hair doesn’t seem dark enough to be brown. Maybe caramel blonde or honey blonde? (Do not google the rabbit hole of ‘blonde hair’.)
Sydney is a Trinidad Scorpion blonde.
https://www.cayennediane.com/peppers/trinidad-scorpion-cardi/
The only thing I’d ask of this situation is, who the heck would manage to score a date with Max?
A Very brave shapeshifter.
Deus.
Yes, “Dues”, but they’ll spend the next three years arguing about whether or not it was a “date”.
Someone who is not a dick, so, sadly that rules out over half the readers
and Deus.
…and me, as she is not a lesbian! :)
Well, dabbler could work on that if you ask her.
What do you mean, “could” work on it? Xuriel has been working on it since forever. “I find complex women arousing” – and Max has been brutal in rebuffing her “You find stairs arousing”
Dabbler is “working on” all sexy supers. It’s in her nature.
Dabbler probably joined Archon precisely because it lets her hang around the sexiest people on the planet.
It’s like she went on a cruise to earth and decided to hang out in the buffet. It all you can eat!
Someone who didn’t (yet) realise the full extent of who he was getting involved with, if that last panel is any indication.
Honestly, I expect she’d want to do the various preliminaries in pseudonymous disguise if she had the chance. See whether things work out as person-to-person, without the complications of fame and exoticness, and those can be introduced later when she’s found someone she thinks can see her past them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Max would be ok with a nice (ex) military or medical guy, does work out.
But it might be nice for her to date a guy not in the hero bizz.
Ofcourse, then he gets stuffed in the fridge and she ends up with Hiro who has been promoted and gotten his own half of the team to command, out of direct line of command from Max
Yeah normals who dates supers rarely live to a old age.
Hiro? (Yes, I know about the rank issues, so a ‘working dinner’?)
When the spaghetti code is so dangerous it can explode if touched… been there, done that.
Aaaaahh, Spaghetti Code… Yum! Brings back the days of coding in Microsoft Basic on the C64. And reverse engineering games written in C64 Assembler to see how they did it. The stuff of Madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never heard it called C64 Assembler. It was Motorola 6502 assembly. Well, technically 6510, which was a custom processor for Commodore, so … you’re technically correct, damn you.
Xuriel’s expectations vs reality. :D
I checked it out, and Sydney’s hair color is more of a Golden Brown. Kind of like this: https://content.latest-hairstyles.com/wp-content/uploads/light-to-dark-golden-brown-ombre-500×500.jpg
Max’s current hair color is described as a moderate Orange, though it looks more soft brass than actual orange. I think it looks nice on her, but I can see her going near black.
Favorite graphic glitch was in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
It would start with the buildings. Yes the buildings. For some reason, the game would start grabbing the graphic ’tile’ for the Disciplines, like the fist picture for Potence, and stretch/wrap it around a building. It was gradual to start, and would progress as you played until everything looked like it had been ‘wrapped’. Then the text would start to look a little block… and gradually turn into weird symbols, then turn into those ’empty boxes’ that are sometimes used to represent characters to a language where the computer doesn’t have that font or typeset.
Only thing we could think of was a driver issue on my video card, or the video card was dying. Never did solve it. That computer is still in my closet.
Were you running Windows?
Seeing as VTM:B was only released on Windows, its safe to say that.
Not really. I’ve played a number of “Windows-only” games on Linux.
Were you trying to load a save from an unmodded game version into a modded one (I.e. install the unofficial patch)?
Adonis was somebody’s name, it wouldn’t have a feminine version, he was one of Aphrodite/Venus’s boyfriends, so that’s usually what’s used.
Yes, it was the name of someone in Greek Myths, but that doesn’t stop it having a feminine version of it.
Alexander was the name of a famous leader, but the feminine version Alexandra still exists. Julius was an Emperor, but the feminine version Julie/Julia exists.
If a name exists, especially one from someone famous, there is LIKELY a feminine/masculine version of it too. As people would name their children after them, regardless of gender.
People would name their children after the famous character regardless of gender, and/or the name would already have masculine and feminine forms before someone became famous bearing it. Having said which, Aphrodite was often regarded as the most beautiful of the Olympian pantheon, so it’d be a safe bet to use her as the comparison – or would it?
True, that the name in both masculine and Feminine existed beforehand, just being linked to someone famous makes one or the other more prominent in the memories of the population, which leads to assumptions that the other doesn’t exist.
Did anyone else have to reread the word “super-dom” a couple of times before getting the intended meaning?
Yep. At first I read it super-dorm, and was thinking about it like some kind of university of superpowers thing.
What is the intended meaning?
The track to becoming super powered. Kinda maybe like kingdom. As opposed to being a really great and highly respected dominatrix.
So, superdom then, or superness?
You say that as though those two things are necessarily distinct…
Yeah, that hyphen doesn’t help at all. At first, I thought it meant a super-powered dom, which incidentally sounds like an interesting concept: are supers who are into BDSM effectively limited in their choice of partners to those with super-strength or super-toughness (depending on role)?
Not really. BDSM isn’t just about inflicting or receiving pain, it covers a wide range of activities.
QV empoweredcomic.com in which the protagonist, a curvaceous blonde in an extremely fragile catsuit is inevitably bound and gagged.
Pretty sure the real meta reason is 100% identity politics. Can’t give her the option to appear as anything other than white.
Can’t have Max going around simulating an African American. That would be cultural appropriation, and we’ve already seen how touchy the readers were when the fictional people *testing* and *reprogramming* the device turned this fictional character dark for a single moment.
Pretty comical levels of white knight outrage, imho.
You whinning and insulting people about the hypothetical outrage of something that was never even suggested(Max simulating an African American) , let alone had a chance of happening, is unironically more a sign of your own oversensitivity than anyone else’s.
This page, and the comments, contained precisely zero outrage of any kind and yet you still manage to belly ache and complain. Truly impressive.
“cultural appropriation,” A ridiculous, term!
That’s what they were going for: mocking those who scream about ‘cultural appropriation’ for a white dude sporting dreadlocks, when all it really is, is some lazy shit who hasn’t even brushed his hair in a month
Well, that depends on the dreadlocks. While some are exactly what you described, others have been carefully crafted via braids and backcombing so the hair locks together into a dreadlock.
Though the first half of the name Dreadlock is fuzzy from where it came from.
And yes, I agree cultural appropriation is a dumb concept.
Let’s use dreadlocks as an example (as there was a microstorm about this, link below). Cultures known to have used them: The Indians, Egyptians, Mongolians, Aztecs, Vikings, Celts, Greeks, Romans, Picts, Israelites, Native Americans.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-hair-raising-truth-dreadlocks-don-t-belong-to-one-culture-
Yes, But and Maybe. I read and enjoyed Rudyard Kipling “The White Seal” as a kid, but it was many years later I disovered Kipling had “sort of” “confessed” he had culturally appropriated (not his words) much of the Inuit stories for this novella.
OTOH, does not any author “culturally appropriate” tales from foreign and exotic peoples in the creation of a new work?
Cultural appropriate is a damn stupid idea. Taken to its logical conclusion the melanin rich portion of the US population will have to stop wearing clothes and using electricity.
But, just like with racism, only white people culturally appropriate things from other races (this is another sarchasm for you all to get over)
Max no longer corresponds to any human ethnicity. If she’s going to mask up as human, she’s going to have to simulate something.
I’d say ‘caucasian’ is probably the best choice for two main reasons. First, she has generally got the cultural knowledge to simulate that more easily, and second because she has facial features (in terms of facial shape) that don’t frequently appear in other major ethnic groups. You won’t generally find an asian or an african with a nose like hers, and the narrow lips, while within the range of normalcy for both, are much more typical of caucasian.
OTOH, her facial shape could be convincing as a middle-eastern, north-african, or native-american – all of which she’d need to know more about to really do much with.
Caucasian is just the easiest thing for her to simulate to appear human.
caucasian also tends to ‘blend in’ to a background of people, as the more people there are, the less noticeable a caucasian person becomes, unless they’re the only one there.
Or maybe the meta reason is that it’s simpler to just have Max appear as the race she was born before turning?
It makes more logical sense and is easier to keep track of.
Also, the whole point of the disguise is to let her feel and look normal by minimizing her unique appearance, so it makes sense to stick with a tone that a) is actually her natural one and b) statistically matches her genetic bone structure and facial features. Sure, there are plenty of people with heritage mixed from opposite ends of the globe who have the stereotypical ethnic features of one parent and coloring of the other, but the combination is a population outlier and can be quite noticeable, which is counter-productive to an effective disguise.
Nothing (other than metallic-looking golden) is her ‘natural one’ any more. Race, along with many other features of humanity, has been taken from her.
Fairly sure she’s still human, which is the only ‘race’ that should matter
Practicalities of publishing a public access online comic aside, for the most part you would want a familiar face looking back at you from the mirror. I realize people mess with hair color and makeup a lot and use cosmetic surgery to try to approach some ideal of appearance but for the most part you want to look in the mirror and see your internalized version of yourself. The discussion does raise the question of Max’s race. Is she really caucasian anymore? The fertility of the supers has been discussed at other times but assuming that Max is fertile, would she breed true? One assumes that the stuff in the geode was some type of mutagen and from what little we know of Max’s back story she changed from the inside out, shedding her normal skin to reveal the golden super underneath. It seems likely that she is a form of induced mutation. So, does she have enough genetic commonality to be counted as a member of any specific race or is she sui generis?
Dude/ette, most of the world doesn’t see their “idealized version of themselves”, heck, most don’t even get their mental image… and that’s not getting into trans issues. If I got off the matrix, and then reconnected like neo, I wouldn’t look the same, I would look younger, and fitter.
You are correct in that most people never get that Idealized version but we all, at least all of us who have seen our reflection in a mirror, have an internalized image that is labeled “me”. Whether or not it reflects what you feel your identity is as a person there is image in your head that you recognize as your face. There is a type of subtle brain injury that wipes out the ability to recognize faces, including the ability to recognize ones own face. It is devastating. In Max’s case it wouldn’t be that bad because this is the technomagical equivalent of a mask that she can switch on and off. I’m just saying that most of us would find it jarring to look in the mirror and and have someone who isn’t us looking back. As I think on this though, I wonder if Max’s situation would apply very well to the rest of us. Her case is more like Superman getting a better Clark Kent outfit.
Correction: most people who have seen their reflection, not all
A new comic has dropped so I suspect this conversation is dead but…I have wondered about self image and blind people. I don’t mean a sense of self worth as the phrase is often used but the literal internal physical concept of this is my physical self. I would suppose there is a tactile perception but I’ve never had that conversation with a person who was blind from birth. As for a person who never had the opportunity to see a reflection of their face I would bet that the “me” image would be a lot more shoulders down oriented.
I’ve been a Civilization fan since it first came out. When I bought CivII I installed it that evening and played for thirty hours without a break. So, when a friend recommended the Caveman To Cosmos mod for CivIV, I downloaded it and played nothing else for weeks (not solidly, this time…)
This mod has many more units than the basic game. Many *times* more units. And one of them has a weird glitch.
Any time a Tapir (a wild animal unit) is on screen, a weird grey bar radiates from the image of the Tapir. It can point in any direction, and it can range in width from about a dozen pixels up to about two-thirds of the map window. So, when most of my view greys out, I know there’s a bloody Tapir somewhere in range. I try really hard to kill them, but it’s kinda hard when you’re effectively blind.
That’s not a Tapir, it’s an A10-warthog.
Always wondered what ECM actually looked like…
Kind of makes me question if Dabbler missed some of the more detailed bits in this. Imagine if Max’s nails were still her metallic gold or her teeth had changed to a different color/texture mix.
Or her nipples blink in neon Morse-code :D
do not touch . . . do not touch . . . do not touch
that’s the message they’d be blinking.
Nah, more like “Viewer will die”
Was actually thinking of a longer message, but they would be dead before they got halfway, and that’s even if they know Morse well :P
They Live!
(Are we still with sun glasses, or are we at contact lenses now?)
I’ll tell you once i finish my bubble gum…
“Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On the Bedpost Overnight?” (apologies to Lonnie)
A bad one off the top of my head was the infamous broken arm glitch. In the digital variant of the game if you played it long enough some of the graphics would go out of wak. I think it’s because pure digital never translated well on the ps3. Anyway play long enough and coles arm when ever in the aim mode would bend to this really bad angle. I hated it and had to fire from the hip for like half of the game.
For Maxima is more an Artemis phase for Maxima… and an Ishtar phase for Dabbler and Harem…
For Anvil it’s more Bastet Sekmet…
Halo being like a geeky version of Imhotep an ascended mortal…
People in my family are born blond and slowly darken as we grow up. If I go walking enough to get enough exercise to maintain fitness, the sun bleaches my hair to dirty blond. Since it also means getting enough distance/sun to keep my eyes healthy . . . well, I do my best not to dwell on sibling teasing for staying blond longer than the other boys did.
Your hair bleaches DARKER???
I think a different word is required but ‘burnt’ or ‘stained’ don’t sound appropriate.
Sounds more like it darkens with age, but sunlight exposure temporarily slows or even reverses that process. Hence the “sibling teasing”, presumably about ‘not growing up’ because his hair was still light. Albert certainly isn’t the only person whose hair colour changes naturally over time – mine apparently went fully blond for a summer when I was about 2 or 3, before reverting to the dark brown it was before and has remained since.
My eldest was born with almost white hair that turned dark brown by first grade and nearly black by high school. Made for a weird progression of school pictures.
Born with bright red hair. Childhood = pale blonde. Middle School = blonde. High school = Medium Golden Blond Adult mostly = Auburn because my hair is healthy and undamaged and I stay out of the sun. The grey has toned down the reddish tint though and with hair product in my hair looks darker but without product the reddish blonde part and grey make me look dark blonde in parts.
Having been a cosmotologist I will say that hair color is a weird thing rarely captured well in computer game graphics.
I’ve always had very black hair. When I was a teenager I tried to do this thing where I dyed it purple but I didn’t realize you need to first bleach it and it came out looking really weird, like I had something in my hair and blue tips. So I havent tried again because I don’t want to bleach my hair.
I’ve seen a recurring glitch in Train Simulator where cars on nearby streets and highways are represented by large black rectangles many, many times larger than the car or truck would be. These aren’t 3D blocks, just a 1 pixel thick rectangle. It looks weird to see these moving down the highway adjacent to the train tracks. It only occurs in specific scenarios, not randomly in any scenario I might run, so I wonder if it’s caused by a missing file or texture map for the vehicle that’s supposed to be there. Doing a file verify doesn’t cure it.
The last panel looks like specific triangles of the surface mapping mesh running out of power, which would be a mana / out-of-memory error rather than a logical bug (which would more likely screw up the base color, or just the highlights or diffusion). This is totally in line with Dabbler’s warning about limited mana/processing power – any mesh cell that became too complex would run out of processing time or power and fail to render, leaving the wearer’s base color showing.
The ‘spark’ effects would have to be something on the magic side though, can’t think of a great reason for those.
The first panel,Max giving the stink eye to Dabbler…!?
Also,how would Max look with lighter blonde hair-ala Anna-Nicole Smith???
I’m amazed that Krona didn’t say that Maxima looked more like a Barbie doll?
Max is dealing out stink eyes all the time. It’s part of her job as a wrangler of unruly supers.
Plus Dabbler just needled her … “It’s no succubus glamor” … which is a sideways way of saying “We tried to help you, but I am still much better looking than you”
A rather spectacular glitch in The Secret World: If you jumped off a ledge in Agartha (the hub zone) just the right way, in the middle of the right sprint animation, you would respawn in the middle of the main platform, floating in place, with a bunch of your texture unanchored. Points (like elbows, chest, cheekbones, etc) would start slowly orbiting farther and farther away from you. Eventually, you’d look like a big ball of fleshy blades whirling at high speed on the platform. (It all snapped back if you moved, though.)
Ooh, now Maxima can let out her inner geek and go anonymously to GenCon!
I think they should program a goth option, just in case.
Maxima already has the elf option covered, just by pushing her hair back. But she could go for a few exotic skin tones, like lilac and shades of green. With suitable matching hair colours.
Of course a dark elf option would be cool too.
As a “dirty blonde” (in the few points when my natural color is visible), I tend to just refer to my hair as “hair colored.”
Cue disapproving glares from certain bystanders…
My SO plays The Sims (4, I think) on the PS4 a lot. Occasionally, after Maxis uploads a patch, we’ll see trees and rocks along the edges of the playable areas turn into these squirming, gibbering polygonal masses that look like Lovecraft had a hand in scenery design. They quickly repatch it, so it doesn’t last more than a week, but the issue keeps cropping back up in later updates.
DaveB Dunno if you watch Disney Plus or have seen Loki series, but Loki variants are a hot item.
Could we get a group picture of Grrl Power Heroes all wearing Loki Variant horns.
At least Sydney maybe have Dabbler tell her that’s a good look. The Harem would likely wear them during pranks (and maybe to be held and ridden like a motorcycle.)
Krona could do this as a small visual alteration.
Maybe do this as a poster for Comic Con or Dragon Con etc
Meh, they don’t have a gator on the team. Gator Loki is the best.
Deus WOULD make a good President Loki, though.
No. Deus, praise be his name, would not make a good President Loki, because Deus would not be President Loki. President Loki underestimated the other Lokis, and did not have contingencies anti-Alligator Loki plans already set in place. He also had not already converted old man Loki to his side, and had not already found and taken over from Kang. And Alligator Loki would actually already be on his side as well, actually. And so would Kid Loki. And so would black Loki. In fact there wouldnt have even have needed to be a takeover because they would just recognize his natural superiority of leadership.
Also if Deus was ever pruned in the first place, it would have been because it was part of his grand plan already.
All of which Deus, in his strategic benevolence, would have already done by episode 1, before seducing Sylvie, every female TVA agent, and hell, also Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Wanda, and Shuri while we’re at it even though they aren’t even in the show (he wouldnt have seduced Gamora, Jane Foster, Pepper Potts, and Hope van Dyne because Deus is a man of honor who would not destroy someone else’s blossoming relationship without good cause), and not let anyone know until the last episode.
Check and Mate.
You just admitted, publically, that SmugD was a prune :P
Where did I say anything of the sort?
Also what does ‘was a prune’ mean?
You have no idea what a prune is? O_o
“Also if Deus was ever pruned in the first place,…”
That reminds me a lot of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (one of the best-known fanfics), wherein a scientist-raised Harry wraps up the entire saga in Year 1 by poking at all the plot holes. I think most of the readers here would quite enjoy it (I recommend the ebook format).
I have also heard that hair colour referred to as “mouse brown”. Which is admittedly not a lot better, but it does still beat dirty or dishwater blonde.
so, what colour is Gadget Hackwrench’s hair?
Everquest Pants Patch made short folks look like they had major giant sized priapisms.
Sims Good Look mod made everyone have black drow features and inverted colors for some reason.
Also, Pamela Anderson cameo in P3.
We don’t know when Xuriel came to Earth but she may have used elements of
Pamela Anderson’s attributes to compose her two armed human glamor.
Does she also have a unobtrusive undercover human appearance?
She should be with Maxima during the first test of the disguise.
I can imagine Maxima simply wanting to visit her family without them freaking out about her being gold and super powerful. Just a normal day. I guess we don’t know anything about her family yet, but we can assume: 1- They were completely overwhelmed when she started developing powers and turning gold. 2- They must have been scared witless about her getting into the military, like any parent is. 3- Now that Supers have gone public, are they at risk? 4- Maxima attracts papparazzi like crazy, so a normal day could mean the world to them.
There is no creepier glitch than the vertical eyes in the dogs in Fallout New Vegas… (and I believe sometimes 3 and 4)… Sometimes Dogmeat and other dogs, would have their eyes rotated 90 degrees but not in their location, at a point like on the lower left, so the unholy eyes would float to the left of the sockets, like 10 cm away from their intended location, lying on a vertical line that was 90 degrees counterclockwise from their logical place, while black meat holes stared at you from the unholy creation that the engine created… I believe they are the closest thing to a Hound of Tindalos ….
A little palette trash and Z-fighting. No big deal, right? And the lips. those need a little deflating too…
So this is a bit off topic to what is currently going on in the comic, but here is a thought ive had. But, referring to the nodes filled in already on the orbs’ skill tree prior to Sydney’s finding of them. I know people are talking about a previous owner but what if she is the only owner? Maybe the already filled points were just like a DnD Standard Array? That was just her base stats at the time and could have had different points if she had a different personality.
Maybe thats why the ‘Life Support’ orb already had the passive chosen specifically because of how Accident prone she is naturally.
Well, the library of already visited star systems, finished with Earth, pretty much suggests a previous owner.
I can totally see Maxima screwing with her skintone on a date with Deus, just to mess with him.
Looks like that choker needs a “lock screen” options, to avoid butt-dailing.
if you’re wearing the choker on your butt, you really need to be re-taught how clothing works
Romantic neck nibbling could cause issues. It wouldn’t have to be anyone’s butt although we don’t judge.
He should really google a term before suggesting the character made it up, as “chocolate blonde” is a real hair color that is a bit darker than Sydney’s, but close enough for her to claim it.
I wonder, with chocolate blonde hair, does she use chocolate mousse?