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Grrl Power #1302 - Oh, What A Feeling!
🕑 Added 2024-11-07 11:00:11 +0000 UTCClearly the floor of that valley/canyon thing is solid stone with a dusting of sand, because if it was 10 foot deep sand, the truck would thud into a dune, maybe flip once, but more likely roll over maybe halfway then settle to a stop. Maybe unless the truck was doing 300 when it rolled, and it wasn't. It won't day how fast it was going, because I don't know how fast it would have to be to flip at least 3 times. Probably a lot faster than anyone but a rally driver would be going over that sort of terrain. So let's just say the valley is slightly downhill toward Peggy?
Oh, and I admit I messed up the driver yanking on the wheel as the explosion comes through the sunroof (See? Told you it'd be relevant.) and knocks him out the door. If he's yanking on the top of the wheel, the tires should swerve the car right. Instead I drew the car swerving left (the driver's left, not our front-on view left). I was going to reverse the arrow, but then if I erased his hand to make it like it was on the bottom of the steering wheel, the "YANK" wouldn't make sense unless I drew an X-ray shot of the lower part of the steering wheel. So instead I'm just going to say he yanked it hard over so suddenly, that sand actually slammed up on the inside of the... in this case, driver's side wheel, since the steering setup is reversed in that truck, and that caused the truck to kip-up, or whatever it's called when vehicles... trip. That could happen, right?
The title of the page is not a reference to dancing on the ceiling, BTW. It is a good song though. Very 80's.
I know the vote incentive is stale. Things have slowed down but they're not back to normal and won't be until we figure out what to do with my mom's living situation and the house. The current one is, if I do say so, one of the better incentive images I've done in a while, so if anything going to go stale, that's not the worst choice. But I am trying to get back to (nearly) monthly updates. Previously when I was at my folks' place, I couldn't work on them because I was situated in the kitchen (they have a marble topped kitchen island the size of a Cadillac,) so that I'd be able to hear if someone needed help with something, but now I've moved into my dad's office and have enough privacy to draw bewbs. I might try something a little different for the next one. I was thinking about a 1-2 panel per page comic that has sexy shenanigans that I would try and put out a little faster than (kind of) monthly, with simpler art than the usual highly rendered vote incentive stuff, along with the occasional splash image that's better? I don't know, I might experiment with that.
One of my favorite xenoanthropological series now has an audiobook! Just the first book, but the author is the very definition of indie AFAIK, so other audiobooks will follow only if this one can pay for itself. It's the Vixen War Bride! My only gripe with it is the narrator read almost every single alien name with a different pronunciation than I did in my head. hes-TAY-en? HES-tee-en, surely? I actually don't know which character he's talking about until I consciously "translate" what he said in my head, or he says the name 2 or 3 times in a short span of time. Not to say it's poorly done, they're alien names after all, it's just a little surprising that we only had like a 15% match on alien proper noun pronunciation.
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P.S., No politics talk today, please. I'm really depressed and I just can't deal with it. I thought my lack of faith in humanity stat was maxed, but apparently there's no actual limit. Seriously, everyone armchair about truck flipping physics or whatever.
Comments
Mark Magagna
It does help that some people think an SUV can wall-run. Yes, they do have better off-road capability than the typical small car. But they're not magic.
Gelatinous Cube
Loved the Vixen War Bride series! Mainly because I'm a fox fanboy, and an entire alien race of fox people just made everything better.
Jared Juetten
To be fair, if this is in Afghanistan, then yes it is indeed a very small amount of sand on a very hard, rocky surface. I speak from experience.
Matthew Thompson
“Oh what a feeling, Toyota!”
eddi_TBH
"Boy, it's amazing how much glass you can eat if you don't fill up on bread!" Super Dave Osborne after going headfirst through a backboard.
Paul Burks
I like the Vixen War Bride series from the perspective of 'how bad would two humanoid cultures be at actually communicating' angle. A little ra-ra at points but both sides did pretty heinous things that aren't excused in universe.
eddi_TBH
Peggy looks like she is trying to grab the truck with one hand. If it lands close enough to touch, she will need to be careful. That uses up her luck for the month.
eddi_TBH
Anyone with no concept of what could happen who either wants to show off or is stone crazy would do it.
eddi_TBH
Or flipped loose when all Hades broke loose in there.
eddi_TBH
Needs new upholstery though.
eddi_TBH
Well, Peggy is a maniac. But she is surrounded an army of them now.
eddi_TBH
but she got the kind of adrenaline rush rarely granted to mere mortals.
eddi_TBH
The whole of that region is full of massive erosion. Kick the wheels in a random direction and you will hit rock. With the tires slipping, if one hits sideways, Kiss your tuchus adios.
Eric Loken
It is always important to retain control of your vehicle, even when there is an explosion a couple feet over your head. I'm afraid this is going to be a an automatic failure on your driver's test.
Torabi
I only rolled once at about 80mph... But the vehicle spun around so that I was moving backwards, and I might have lost quite a bit of speed by the time it started rolling. As for "15% match on alien proper noun pronunciation", that reminds me of some study that suggested we only have about a 15% match on language with other people. They asked a bunch of people to describe what a word meant to them, what traits it had, and there wasn't much overlap on the specifics, only rough agreement on what the word referred to. The specific example I remember was "penguin". Different people had wildly different ideas about how big a penguin was, or what exactly they looked like, because there are a variety of penguins, and different people had a different species in mind as their archetypal "penguin".
Mathew Aaberg
Bad google bad. It is somersault by dictionary. Summersault is erroneous due to phonetics. Its like nite and night. Only one of them is correct but you still know what is meant.
Tickolas
Huh, Duckduckgo agrees. The panel has spoken!
Dave Barrack
Google said it was okay! Blame google!
Tickolas
Summersault? I reckon you mean somersault 😅
Ascender
Tall vehicles flip myltiple times surprisingly easily. In cross-section they are basically an oblong with two bouncy projections, so they roll acroacross the roof easily, then bounce when the tires catch, which slows their forward momentum in exchange for spin rate. I've seen plenty of small trucks and SUVs roll multiple times after spinning in a ditch at only 35mph. With a little dip in the terrain to help, a triple-roll isn't even stretching the odds.
Mark Magagna
She did say that the helicopter she was trapped under was on fire when she lost the leg...
Magraal
I can tell you *from experience* that even while doing 110km/h, swerving off the road into soft sand will only flip you about two-and-a-half times. I've got the photos to prove it.
JasonAW3
Yeah, I'm PRETTY sure Peggy doesn't get hit by the truck...
JasonAW3
Yeah, and if memory serves, they were a bit further apart than 40 feet,but I suspect she was using that blasted American ammo. I hear that some manufactures in the US make it hot out of the tube... And some US manufacturers, make such "defective rpg7 ammo", it detonated when you pull the trigger. Always a party favor favorite to leave around where terrorists can find a couple of boxes...
fiun dagner
Don't forget the part where they left it under water for a wee bit
JasonAW3
They dropped it, riding a skyscraper down with it... I almost suspect that, if they dropped the building ON it, they could have STILL drove it off... After unburying it first of course...
JasonAW3
Considering what the Three did to that one truck on Top Gear? Probably gonna need a sledge hammer for the dents and some new windows, but afterwards? Yeah should buff out fine...
Stephen Gilberg
I thought of the "Flashdance" song first.
Andy Liss
OMG It's obvious a tiny piece of shrapnel hit near the gas tank and it exploded flipping the truck!!! I mean it is written in the USA, and everyone knows cars explode when the gas tank sees a bullet or in this case a bit from the RPG
You_With_The_Face
It's a HiLux, that'll buff out
fiun dagner
I'm not saying I've ever done it, but it is surprisingly easy to disarm that launch safety so that it's live straight out of the barrel. It may or may not be a popular modification for short-range engagement against armored vehicles in say an urban environment
codesurfer
especially for a hilox. Top Gear couldn't kill one
Opus the Poet
Yes they did, and the RPG did not have enough explosive to even slow the SUV down, but the shaped charge did punch a neat little hole through the engine.
Opus the Poet
I think Mythbusters had genuine Soviet ammo for their experiments, apparently non-Soviet ammo can go off closer to the launcher. I wouldn't know the only Warsaw Pact weapons I got to fire in training were AKs.
Teksura
I only see one hand on that wheel. I would have assumed his other hand was holding the bottom of the wheel.
Michael Obert
Poor Peggy can't even get her slow walking away from the explosion moment.
Matthew Dodgen
Not sure, but they definitely did a shoot the rpg out of the air thing and learned it won't explode till it's like 40 ft from the launcher as it doesn't arm until then.
fiun dagner
It's a toyota. A little bit of somersault damage just adds to the vehicle's character and increases the resale value.
Wings of Genesis
Im not sure but didn't Mythbuster try a car flipping thing?
