Grrl Power #977 – Boob tube
I had to draw a slightly less involved page to make up for the previous monster one. I can’t decide if Arianna would go for this or not. The boob letterboxing there would increase the views, but she’s not of the opinion that all clicks are good clicks. She’s not aiming to make the team look completely puritanically wholesome, but she’s also trying to keep their image from veering into stripper-cam territory.
I had considered drawing a HUD on Dabbler’s POV, but 1) it would likely all be in some weird language that I’d have to make up and 2) It’s unlikely she’d share that version with the general populace. If I had been thinking a little harder about it, I might have considered drawing that third panel so it shows off a slightly different color spectrum. I don’t think demons would be able to see in infrared – assuming their homeworld is a fiery hellscape, or at least quite a bit hotter. It would be like being able to see blue, but the sun is glaring blue light constantly, and everybody’s armpits and crotches are emitting blue light.
Tangentially, I always thought it was odd that Predators like hunting in really hot weather, like human body temperature weather. Presumably they evolved in hot weather, but without their masks, their prey would be a lot harder to see.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
More editing, and made some headway on the last(?) chapter. Depending on how long it goes I may break it into two chapters.
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Yes, there is a popcorn kernel in Dabbler’s cleavage
….I’ll….get…uh… (0)_(0)’
Dabbler wearing a T-shirt…
(‘____’)
Sugoi Dekai, Mega Milk, or Legen Dairy?
Not sure if Dabbler got Kenya’s ‘Got Cookies?’ tank top from the fourth comic though. She prefers stuff that’s self-adhering.
If Dabbler wears a t-shirt I don’t expect it to stay dry for long.
Three copies of Harem simultaneously make a dive for it … first yootoob video to hit 1 billion views in
244 hours. The smell of servers melting down all over the world. Dabbler will never stop smiling in pride. Surplus tantric energy Earth-wide for a decade.Side note: @DaveB — that incoming GIF had BETTER be incoming …. including popcorn kernel bouncing around on the wave-motion topography.
stereo 3d gif too. blender could do it
Yuffiek: ‘Yes, there is a popcorn kernel in Dabbler’s cleavage’
While on tablet: Zoom, more zoom, max. zoom!!!
‘Damn Capt’n: WE NEED MORE ZOOM!’
Engineering: We’ve done all tha we can – we need more pixels.
Maintenance: My Pixels!!!!
Dabbler: Did I mention that kernel is all that’s left of a bag of Doctor Volcano’s Supra-Diablo Ghost Pepper-Infused Rocket Popcorn?
Sydney: HA! Obvious subterfuge is SO obv- wait, did you say SUPRA-Diablo? Like, the limited market experimental popcorn that the FDC banned for being unfit for human consumption??? The snack that outperforms pepper spray in riot control testing? How could you possibly get a hold of that??
Dabbler: Doctor Volcano’s hopes to recoup its losses by seeing if it’s fit for non-human consumption. Spoiler Alert: It is. *licks fingers suggestively* And there one… kernel… left.
Sydney: *visibly sweating* You… you’re bluffing…
Dabbler:*grins, leans toward Sydney* Maaaaaaaybe….
Sydney: ….
*to Harem* I’m going in. If I don’t come back, tell my parents I love ’em!
Take my subscription please!
Good detail leaving the horns and hair in frame.
I dub this a Horns-Up-Display. Conveniently still a “HUD”.
I will admit, I didn’t notice they WERE in frame until I read this comment and scrolled back up for a double check. I may have been distracted. By the, uh, fight scene. yes.
I noticed the hair on my first pass, but had to go back for the horns.
Same :(
Wait, there was other things in the last panel?
I actually take issue with the hair being in frame. It shouldn’t be. Her hair is pushed up past her horns so out of her view. Either her hair sticks out several inches in front of her head, and her horn is invisible from the bottom up and is far longer than we realize, or its an error. She’s also only recording from the cybernetic eye so the hair on the top right side of the panel should be impossible to see. It was a nice touch but doesn’t make much sense. The hair in the bottom right though is actually accurate. (I’m a photographer, I actually have to consider things like this when framing a shot. )
Actually you can see that there’s still some hair off her shoulder in the first panel. WTS, the camera is in her left eye (the cybernetic one) so it shouldn’t be able to see the right side of the body due to well your nose.
Then again, we are talking about high tech stuff that dabbler made, and it is in cannon that one can hijack someone’s nervous system and see what they see in #924 so the eye could be doing that.
It would explain why we don’t see said nose as it’s something people don’t normally pay attention to. It also explains why Dabblers Boobs seem to be the main focus, because of well… how hypnotic they are.
Wait, there are horns in the picture? There’s hair in the picture?
*peers* Nah, you be crazy, there’s no hair or horns in the picture.
Nope, I only see boobs. I think Maxima might also be in the picture somewhere. But that’s also just a guess.
Unfortunately, missed a slight detail, too. Dabbler’s left eye is the cybernetic device … so the frame would not be symmetrical. The tips of her horns, he view across her cleavage, etc. would all be a bit off-center.
Or maybe that is all cleaned up in post, too.
If there’s ever a FPS starring Dabbler, the horns will be there on the side of the screen. But that’s also where she puts the ammo counter and mana bars in her HUD so she doesn’t accrue any additional occlusion.
There was a Jurassic Park FPS game where the game was basically looking down at a woman’s boobs as well, and the bullet meter or health meter or something was a tattoo on one of them.
It’s called Trespasser. Or more specifically ‘Jurassic Park: Trespasser.’ It’s a truly terrible game that I think most people only bought because of the boob-centric view. The only thing they even made FOR the main character, since you never actually see her, are her boobs and ONE arm.
https://i.wpimg.pl/730×0/m.gadzetomania.pl/tresspasser-344073-1735ac587bc72.jpg
They… gave her an arm? Who even would notice?
Well you wouldn’t want to trespass in Jurassic Park unarmed. The boobs-and-dinosaurs game was just trying to be realistic, you see.
one problem! the framing shows that the camera is in the centre of her **forehead** …
If anyone has been suddenly enlightened by this camera angle, the keyword you want to search for is “fpov” or “female pov”.
“Play Now, My Lord”
Canyon²-Cam™!
Literally hypnotic!
We are getting the gif right?
If this comment board had an ability to upvote, I’d guess that this comment would have lots of them, in support of a ‘yes’ answer to the question.
We’re talking about one epic Vote Incentive here.
Name your price in tips & Patreon donations to make it worth your time investment, Dave. Even if you have to hire someone with mad skillz to help you out. There’s also *.webm format to get more action and smaller filesize than GIF provides.
I’d love to, but I don’t know how to use After Effects to animate stuff. Or do literally anything with it, really. I’d have to hire someone.
I’m sure there’s multiple fans with the proper skills who would be more than happy to VOLUNTEER their time to create something like that.
i echo this is this gif coming or no im still waiting
That corset must be made from some truly devine magic to keep those girls contained like that. Looks like when that shockwave hits that the vid could go instantly to NSFW. XD
It probably is. And it probably have a NSFW function too that makes it ”accidentially” fail to contain her at just the right time.
Aphrodites +ff corset of holding
Awww…!
Reframed and stabilized in post!
Come on Sydney, Take the Bait! Your jokes are bordering on flirting already, all you need is a Kernal of Bi and you’ll be Happy!
“It’s ghost-pepper-flavored hot.” – “Weeeeeeeell… maybeeeee…”
I assume she’s using her cybernetic eye. Wouldn’t she only be seeing the hair/horn on that side of her face, with a tiny smudge of her nose on the other?
It’s probably magitech, and takes the actual video from a more centered perspective that doesn’t jump around as her eye moves about. An actual eye perspective video would be very disorienting without the whole “brain automatically compensates for perspective changes it ordered in the first place” thing going on.
Ninja’d
A better approach would be to have a photomapping engine within the eye. This would allow the eye to move around as normal, while the engine puts together a consistent, stabilized, image. This is essentially what the human brain does anyway, and also related to how MPEG is compressed. The only real downside is that objects that move while outside of the frame would seem to “juimp” when brought back into frame.
Frankly, it wouldn’t be hard to make the eye with better capabilities than the human eye, such as having no fovea, but the same, in hardware, resolution as the fovea throughout, and having no fade-off of cones toward the peripheral vision, but color vision throughout, that also has light sensitivity at least equal to human peripheral vision, then “downgrade” that image to something the human brain knows how to use, but keep the rest of the information for other purposes.
It might even be easier, as it would allow the cybernetic engineer to use off-the-shelf sensors rather than requiring very specialized sensors with irregular sensitivity, resolution, and color perception.
Well, sure, you could do better than that with an artificial eye. But you’d need magiteck to see anything on the opposite side, because her nose is in the way. Close your eye and everything past 45 degrees on that side is blocked by your nose, regardless of how good your peripheral vision is. (And mine was pretty hot before I got cataracts, I could see my own face.)
Alternatively, maybe the eye uses it’s connection to her brain (it needs to have one, otherwise she wouldn’t be able to see through it or look in a particular direction) to convert what she sees into video. just give it a way to upload the data from her visual cortex and convert it to digital, you get all the video you need.
did you know your eye will automatically rotate? Don’t believe me, just check it out in the mirror.tilt your head and watch what your eye does
Depends on how advanced the magitech is.
Re the Predators _ So hunting in those conditions is more of a challenge: Better sport!
Yeah, hunting in colder weather makes no sense: most of the hyu-mons who venture out in it wold be almost completely covered up, very little body heat visible
Hot weather means little to (almost) no clothing, meaning more body to show heat
Dabbler’s Onlyfans page must be making her a lot of money every week!
Did Dabbler fail to warn Halo that the hypnotic effect was cumulative over repeated exposures?
Optical physics lesson time, Dave.
Starting from blue and getting worse as frequency rises you get Raleigh Scattering. This is why the sky is blue. In the UV and higher spectra this manifests as haze that looks kind of like smog. (How do we know? Excellent question. From cameras that work in the UV band with the image downshifted to visible spectra.)
But for distance you need high resolution to see detail. The higher the frequency the better resolution you get.
So our eyes are evolved to see in the highest frequency that doesn’t suffer from Raleigh Scattering. For creatures with eyes that don’t do distance vision anyway this isn’t an evolutionary pressure, and many insects can see in the low UV frequencies.
On Pornworld where the Dabblers evolved – and every other world in the whole damn universe – the visible spectrum is exactly the same because it’s the best band for distance vision.
Infrared isn’t totally out of the question. It’s not great for detail at range but it would let her SEE arousal.
Indeed. The ‘optical band’ for just about every species with an oxygen-based physiology is going to be roughly 400~700 nanometers. Admittedly, Dabbler’s cybereye probably has a LOT more visual modes available that biology couldn’t possibly develop.
Oxygen isn’t the determining factor here. Water is. Look at the visible spectrum and then compare to the transparency spectrum of water. They’re practically identical. We see the range we see because our eyes initially evolved to see under water. There was no reason to adapt to see other frequencies, so we never did. Ectoparasites that feed on warm blooded critters, as well as pollinators have a need and ability to see in other spectrums; namely far infrared and ultraviolent A respectively.
Pollinating insects can see most of the visible spectrum, all of UV-A, and a little bit of UV-B… That sounds like a lot more than us, but it’s actually not. They have a range of 300-600nm while our spectrum is 400-700nm. So pollinators just have a 100nm shift. BTW, their eyes, while of a different design, also evolved underwater, and use most of the same genes our eyes do.
In fact, people with a condition called “aphakia” which is an absence of the lens of the eye can see 300-700nm, which is all of the bee spectrum plus all of the vertebrate spectrum. Aphakia can be induced surgically, such as when cateracts are removed, through ulceration of the lens, or from a congenital defect. People with Aphakia also prismatic effect and roving ring scotoma (which is a 30% image enlargement, sort of like a camera zoom effect).
“A surgery to let me see more than just the visible spectrum and zoom? Shut up and take my money!”
Not so fast, the lens of the human eye does indeed double as a UV cut filter, but there’s a reason we evolved it. The zoom effect isn’t half as neat as it sounds, plus the UV light being allowed in puts you at a much higher risk of risk of glaucoma, Aphakic bullous keratopathy (swelling and blistering of the cornea), makes it difficult to tolerate wearing glasses which are very much needed to deal with the complications, and retinal detachment.
FUN!
Yeah, my mom got one of the early replacement lenses before they started incorporating UV filters. She had to wear UV protective sunglasses any time she was outdoors, just because you can see UV doesn’t mean you can focus it. The purple haze made it hard to see clearly.
Also, not wearing them risked a retinal sunburn, which is *really* bad.
I eventually got cataracts, too, and while my lenses nominally have the UV filter, enough leaks through anyway that I have some idea what she was going through, and always make a point of buying sunglasses with UV filtering.
Birds of Prey (and probably other birds, too, but I’d need to check), can see into the low UV as well, and yet long-range vision is important for them…
That might be partially because it is a benefit other than sharp vision. Urine and tracks from small rodents tend to show up in UV, so easier to see and track.
There might be benefits to see other spectrums too, but if its too small or too hard biologically to be worth it, nature tends to skip it. Just focusing light sharply between 400-700nm is quite hard, and most animals don’t see that wide. Its almost double the wavelength. So having lenses and ‘sensors’ for a wider range is difficult. It would be beneficial to see shortwave IR, as fog or haze wouldn’t be an issue, but would be easier to have separate eyes for that.
There is a lot of important information in 400-700nm range about nature, which makes it possible to determine if the leaves on the tree is greener or yellower? Is the water brownish from mud or is it vegetation? How ripe is the fruit? Can I see the fruit amongst the leaves?
caveat: Assuming the same atmosphere.
Google up optics for octopus and cuttlefish. The most complex eyes on Earth.
Silly Humans: “Oooo! Lookit me! I have three sets of rods & cones and can see in a rainbow of colors!”
Octopus: “Hold my beer.”
They’ve got a billion years’ head start on mammals. Humans got some catching up to do yet.
@[luis wu]:
I thought the “prize-winning” species was a tad smaller…
…try Googling “mantis shrimp vision spectrum”.
I’m also inclined to think in a heavy heat environment, IR vision would be less handy, as everything glows, giving zero useful information.
Funnily enough I just watched the Veritasium video about UV rays two nights ago.
btw, there was also a predator outtake video about infrared vision. they had troubles using infrared camera in the jungle because everything was about the same temperature of humans in the jungle. they even had to ice down the foliage to get any kind of differential image between the greenery and the humans. in the end they had to combine visual and infrared to get the effects you see on the screen
With a side-order of chemistry:
Most light-sensitive molecules, such as the pigments used in (known) eyes, rely on knocking an electron from a ground state to an excited state in its orbital. The energy absorbed to do so corresponds to a given frequency of light, with some absorption at lower efficiency for frequencies that are close to either side.
But there is rarely if ever just the one excited state. If there’s a first excited state at +n Joules above ground state, there will usually be a second excited state at just under +2nJ, a third one at just under +3nJ, etc. A biological eye designed to cover more than one octave would therefore have to account for the second-state excitations, and find a way to differentiate them from the normal first-state. Maybe that could be done with just an extra pigment; I’d have to find someone better versed in biochemistry than I to fill in the feasibility.
How will Maxi react to Dabbler’s “footage”!?
Leon. Dabbler has some footage that needs cropping. Close the door if you need to but don’t take too long.
She’d be professional, adjust the ratio (aka blacken out the cleavage) and concentrate on her performance.
Of course, everybody else would have seen the original video by then and not paying attention that much…
That is true, to a point.
A small percentage of human females (specifically females, because the required genes are on the X chromosome, and only do their job when you have the full pair) can actually see in near ultraviolet, so it’s not entirely out of the question that Dabbler could.
And if you can get near UV, you can theoretically get near IR as well.
And maybe rearrange some chromophores so that you still only have the three main bands, except with wider response curves.
All of which would result in a visible spectrum that is slightly out of sync with our own, while still not being “sees only in the X-ray band”, or something equally silly.
Such a species would even be able to watch human TV, though it would look weird – not quite black and white, more like black, white, several shades of green and orange, but no reds, blues, or purples.
It’s called tetrachromancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Humans
You can also perceive near UV light if you’ve had something like cataract surgery that resulted in getting an artificial lens implanted.
That is true, to a point.
A small percentage of human females (specifically females, because the required genes are on the X chromosome, and only do their job when you have the full pair) can actually see in near ultraviolet, so it’s not entirely out of the question that Dabbler could.
And if you can get near UV, you can theoretically get near IR as well.
And maybe rearrange some chromophores so that you still only have the three main bands, except with wider response curves.
All of which would result in a visible spectrum that is slightly out of sync with our own, while still not being “sees only in the X-ray band”, or something equally silly.
Such a species would even be able to watch human TV, though it would look weird – not quite black and white, more like black, white, several shades of green and orange, but no reds, blues, or purples.
(I hope this one correctly becomes a reply to the post I *replied* to, as opposed to being a random post in the main page. Oy vey.)
Better luck next time.
Human eyes can see higher UV, but the lens stops it. The painter monet painted very different after his eye surgery, with a lot of blue and purple.
Look up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
Lots of interesting visual powers in Earth’s biosphere alone – https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Just imagine what you could do with advanced genetic engineering.
With that camera, why does Max even allow her in the changerooms or showers, and why isn’t Maths paying her for that footage?
My guess is: because Dabbler understands consent. She may push things a little (as demonstrated in many of her interactions with Maxima), but this is very different from releasing personal footage of people who are given say in the matter.
Maxima tried barring Dabbler from the changing rooms – once. Those in the changing rooms, including Maxima, had slightly more peace of mind. But those not in the changing rooms got very little work done that day.
I assume Predators hunt in hot weather for the same reason they don’t hunt unarmed prey: Challenge
It’s so frustrating that Dave already made a geology related pun about cleavage: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-902-no-accounting-for-lack-of-taste/ : It would have been so fitting here. Oh, well, sometimes you got to admit being outpunned.
If there’s one thing that life teaches you, one of those things is that no matter how good you are, there’s always going to be someone who is a better punslinger than you.
I’ve heard that the rods, the parts of the eye which give us “black and white” vision, are more sensitive to blue light than other frequencies.
The brain is very good at autocorrecting for whatever the predominant frequencies of light are, and calling it “white”.
I think Dabbler can only record in VHS for some reason too. Not sure where she keeps the tape though.
Beta is superior
Detla, hanging out in the background, contemplating “Y’know … Earth just may have a purpose in this universe. Maybe it’s worth some sort of protections after all.”
For someone who ‘claims’ to be straight, she spends a lot of time checking out other women…
Dabs is canonically bi, not sure of who else you might be referring to.
Go back and look at Sydney in panel 2.
She’s not even doing it right.
If Syd wants to accurately share Dabbler’s camera-angle, she should be higher-up, so her eye would on the same level as Dabbler’s eye, which should reduce (but NOT eliminate) the “Boob Border” in the shot.
True, but harder to draw and probably not as funny.
Dabbles is canonically “If they be willing, we be drilling”-sexual
I thought the relevant phrase was ‘her sexual orientation is positive.’
Which means something like,
‘Yes. Remember, don’t be lazy or disrespectful about it, or you’ll piss her off.’
“Now at this point I’m thinking, ‘You mean you wish you WERE a lesbian.’ Because grammatically…! But I let it slide, didn’t want to ruffle any feathers…”
Heh audience hypnotic too. If and when she Does make that video public, she’s going to end up More popular.
Although “hypno-boobs” have definitely been established as a ‘thing’ in this story, I don’t believe that it’s been confirmed one way or the other, whether the effect is conveyed thru other media.
On film, they’re still gorgeous, no question…
…but are they still “literally hypnotic”? That’s not (yet) confirmed. The “glamour” might be limited to affecting only those people who are physically present, & not those who are viewing remotely, or from a recording, unless the recording/broadcasting medium in question is specially-designed to detect-&-rebroadcast the glamour’s effect. This same (hypothetical) limitation might also apply to a succubus’ voice, when it’s broadcast from a phone, or from a recording.
We’re probably better-off waiting, to see what the Esteemed_Author has to say on this subject.
He might decide that omitting such a limitation might risk making Dabbler too “O.P.”, which would hurt the story’s plot-quality.
I actually know this. Predators hunt in hot weather both because their planet is much hotter, and their masks help with distinguishing heat sources. If you check one of the first two movies(I forget which one exactly) it shows that without the mask, a predator has way less ability to distinguish things, lot more reds and yellows.
Fairly sure that was in both (definitely in the first)
Fun fact: Look at the emitter of your tv’s remote with your phone camera and press a button.
You’re seeing the unseen!
Do Dabbler’s boobs jiggle when that shock-wave hits them? And how long do they jiggle for? GIF right on that, okay?
… I’d subscribe to that channel.
Meanwhile, Delta is over there inspecting the mysterious popcorn she was just handed.
Detla is intrigued by this taste morsel created by setting fire to a hard armored shell until it’s insides explode, destroying the armor in the process. Much like battle if your armor fails you and you do not have the fighting skill to rely upon.
Also is yummy nummy in your tummy. nom nom nom.
Also like battle.
I sure hope that Detla is not allergic to corn. I knew a guy in college that was sensitive to something in corn, so anything with corn, corn starch, corn meal, or even corn-based alcohol could make him puke.
Sure it wasn’t just the alcohol? :D
There’s nothing wrong with demons being able to see in infrared. Infrared doesn’t necessarily mean thermal vision. Near infrared for example has nothing to do with heat.
People of Earth, tonight there will be TWO moons !
OK, I’ll take one for the team, I’ll go find the lost kernel of truth in the demonic lust valleys of dabbleria where no one ever returns. Wish me luck!
uuuh did dabbler changed cloth?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-971-riprap-punch/
Uhmmm….
…..glamor spell modification?
I fully intend to hold you to that promise of a gif.
I wonder if the ‘camera’ is not in her eye?
If it was. for instance, in that tattoo or whatever it is on her forehead, that might explain the horns/hair in the picture. Add an extra wide lens for those ‘really succubus moment’ shots and that explains the bust in it too, right?
I have seen FAR odder places for cameras than on someone’s forehead.
Her eye is cybernetic, remember her taking it during the pre-rumble dinner (and freaking out that poor waitress)?
As someone else said: what we are seeing is what Dabbles is seeing (with both eyes), not what she is recording (with one eye)
It actually would be trivial to edit out the cliff Dabbler is standing on, as well as the “balcony” above it, for release as a news reel. Strange aspect ratio, sure, but still, nothing of the recorded fight need be lost. Heck, that part of the screen could have informative title boxes conveniently placed.
I read that as “informative tit-le boxes”.
Maybe that’s where one wants the really important indicators to appear, to guarantee instant attention.