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Grrl Power #1292 - Pod psychology

🕑 Added 2024-09-12 10:00:10 +0000 UTC

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Gelatinous Cube

I absolutely did not get that one. LOL! I was just saying you're a unique mind we don't want to lose, and I caught "Pod Psychology" out of the corner of my eye, and made the Pod->pod person connection, then mentioned my desire for you NOT to become a pod person. Then Karl decided to try and psyop me into thinking you already WERE a pod person, and we're HERE. I know you aren't a pod person, but I'm still not sure if Karl is or not.

Cha0sniper

Ya didn't expect the guy who looks like the dictionary definition of "dumb alien muscle" to have deep insights into your exact current mental state, didja Peggy? XD

Dave Barrack

I'll be on the lookout. But if that's in response to the page title, it's a reference to "Pop Psychology" only they're talking about feet, so "pod" as in "pseudopod." I know it's obtuse, but sometimes at 11:30 at night, the creative juices are just a trickle.

eddi_TBH

If you count anime, you probably have. I found "Manga! Manga!" an excellent guide to idiom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga!_Manga!_The_World_of_Japanese_Comics

eddi_TBH

Exploding out of her chair like a Polaris missile.

eddi_TBH

She sure distracted Peggy. Mission accomplished?

eddi_TBH

Make a Sanity roll.

Gelatinous Cube

Well, I suppose I don't! Of course, you could be a pod person trying to get me think Dave is a pod person already, only to sneakily pod him yourself later! I. Expect. Pod People.

Opus the Poet

I watched a lot of anime that was just a sit com in Japanese. Ranma 1/2, for instance, and Lum.

KnightRider007

The Pratchett character I was referring to was Mr Tulip, the muscle of a criminal pair sent to sabotage the budding newspaper company in “The Truth”. He was not the brightest of souls, had a speech impediment, a desire for a drug habit, and a tendency for arson - but also an encyclopedic knowledge of art history, and a compulsion to remove artworks from the building before he burnt it down. https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Tulip#:~:text=Mr%20Tulip%20(other%20names%20unknown,he%20would%20like%20to%20steal.

KnightRider007

Guido and Nunzio! Wow, that’s a blast from the past!! Loved Robert Asprin’s stuff.

SantaTheHutt

My parents' dog has a compulsion to lick the knees of as many species as possible, as often as possible. I need a space psychiatrist to help her.

Terence Bryant-White

Lapha: "Really Sydney ?, that's your take away from my antisocial behavior?, in any case I have all the alien sitcom energy I can handle right here..."

Brett

Trust Sydney to be the voice of chaos, lightning the mood via ADHD :P

Tim

Garamm is budding like a frikkin' onion, isn't he?

Anton Schleef

I love the menu on that board. Very simple and to the point.

Anton Schleef

Wait, she has rails for that 'train' of thought? I thought it was just a jumbled mess of cars all over the place, sorta like the Train Graveyard in Final Fantasy VII.

Anton Schleef

She is very good with that.

Reigys

Now that I think of it, if Harem (that is her name right... lol) can get over the difficulty of doing those 5 things at once while being distracted by the other 4 in the same room, then she probably would make a great band, and probs would have a career in show biz if not for with Archon.

Reigys

lol. Garamm peeling the sudden onion layers and showing off. Neat. Now show Anvil doing her stand up comedy and Harem doing her entire band! jk, but seriously, I wonder what they all do when they aren't saving people besides socializing and such.

Justaguy

And Sydney with the tension breaker

Reigys

She is probably just excited for the novelty of it. She will almost certainly get bored of it sooner or later

Reigys

lol. The picture of her moving so quickly to be in middle of her orbs without making them do that is kinda funny to me for some reason

Karl Hesmondhalgh

how do you know he isn't already a pod person?

Seth Ruskin

Or he's thinking of all the "Galactflix and Chill" in their future.

Buddha Buck

It's been a while, but I think the referenced TP characters were two thugs tasked with guarding Nobby Nobbs when he fell afoul of a plot to fake him a noble background and thus the rightful King of Ankh-Morpork (a job he did not want).

Tom Weatherly

I'd watch the hell out of some alien sitcoms!

Mark Magagna

One can be very perceptive in psychological counseling and still fall for a three-card monte hustler.

Mark Magagna

They're getting used to her sudden derailments.

Stephen Gilberg

Sydney, it's rare enough for human sitcoms to be worth watching....

Czarzhan

Even Sydney's orbs are unimpressed. She jumps up and they're like, "Yeah, she'll sit back down in a sec. No need to jump out of our comfortable orbit..."

Marc Vun Kannon

Or Silent Bob when suddenly starts talking.

Town Crier

"I Love Lasering!" It's about a kookie low-tech red-head that is given a high-tech weapon. Shenanigans ensue!

Town Crier

Aaaaaaand the tension is broken! It's so broke, that it won't be able to walk for the rest of its life-* Hmm? What? Inappropriate? I don't see how, as the tension was broken... Fine! Sorry. *grumble*

Philip Brown

i don’t remember a Pratchet one. I will always remember Asprin’s “Guido and Nunzio” from Myth Adventutes

Aaron Mauthe

“I’m fluent in flatula Jim! Took two years of it in high school.”

Philip Masters

“Garamm, stop being perceptive.”

JasonAW3

*Sydney cues up 'Emergency Emotional Distraction Attack'* Activated! EEDA successful! Emotional Emergency defused! (Too bad her "bomb defusing" lessons didn't go quite so well...)

Gelatinous Cube

Dave, your brain is a treasure. Stay you. Be sure not to get replaced by a pod person or something.

Gelatinous Cube

HAHA! I didn't even notice that. Great catch!

Playwars

Sydney's hair wins again! No pin can contain it XD

Peabody

HA HA, She stood up so fast, the orbs have yet to catch up.

Sarazarus

Watching Alien sitcoms as a pair of alien-human friends must be an exercise in patience for the alien, havin to explain the cultural nuances of 90% of the jokes and situations xD

Graeme Thorburn

Love Frix's look in the last panel. A 'that's my gal' smile.

DonnieRamesJio

The most important takeaway from that. A+ Sydney.

KnightRider007

I love this trope, of the meathead or jock character suddenly becoming erudite and eloquent when the conversation swings around to their area of interest and expertise (Sir Terry Pratchett pulled off a notably excellent example, of a literal thug who had a professional level of art history and appreciation) Particularly appropriate in this case specifically because it's *lizard*-alien, who we would associate with limb regeneration.

Torabi

So Garamm isn't just an emergency escape lizard, he also doubles as an emergency exposition lizard?

Michael Obert

Word of the day: DeHam. Thank you, Dave. Our lives are now all the richer.

Cat Tillinghast

Illithiids just read Brain Fancy for the articles. No, really! Also: Lapha. Expects. Ninjas.

Thomas Dorner

"De-ham" is wonderful! :,-)

Kizik Ucalegon

Awfully observant for a lizard that fell for that stupid sorority trick. Must have a limited supply of blood with so much having to flow to the tail...