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Grrl Power #1282 - The speedening
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Maxima allows an absolutely non-military amount of casual interaction on her team. In fact most people who start reading the comic even a few hundred pages back might not realize that Arc-SWAT is a military outfit at all. Or know what Arc-SWAT is, come to think of it. That said, only Anvil and Peggy could probably get away with saying "Well, la-dee-da." to her, and that's in private. The minimal discipline she maintains includes discouraging razzign up the chain of command.
Dabbler's stream must be extremely wide-angle. I don't think women can really see their own boobs if they're looking straight ahead. I mean, maybe if they're wearing something push-uppy and have at least a medium amount to push up, and even then, they're probably just at the periphery.
Also, using someone's eye as a camera would be obnoxious. People blink, their eyes dart around, even more than they realize. If you scan your eyes from side to side, taking in a room, your eyes don't sweep in a continuous arc, they stick and move as you kind of take little details in then move on. Sure, your eyes are capable of a graceful sweep if you're tracking something, like waving your finger in front of your face or watching a basketball arc into a basket, but without something to track, they jerk from spot to spot and your brain kind of smooths things out, or at least makes you think they're moving smoothly.
The obvious solution is that Dabbler's alien space-tech eye has some crazy software to interpolate out the blinks and smooth out jerky motion - and this assumes that a succubus's eyes and visual cortex work like one of those evolved Earth primates. Even if succubus eyes sweep a room instead of doing the eyeball version of the robot dance, that doesn't account for Dabbler's boobs being in frame. The easy fix for that is that her cybernetic eye is set to a much wider FOV than her organic one, but the software she has running zooms in and crops to what she would normally see, and that's what gets transmitted to her brain, thus preventing wonky eye headache issues. But the eye is still capturing the wider angle, and the advanced software can fake up a frame that 1) keep the focus on the fight, even when Dabbler looks 45 degrees off to the side to make eye-contact with Sydney, 2) eliminates all blinks and general eye jerkiness, 3) makes it look like Dabbler's boobs are pushed up to her chin without making the floor look closer or any other weirdness like she's leaning back to get her body-line in the frame.
The other advantage of running the camera at a wider than organic FOV but trimming it, is that the software can warn her of stuff like loose floor tiles and tripwires while she's spelunking ancient ruins and also guys with mirrors on their shoes. Even if her brain doesn't see that stuff, she gets a "there's something going on down there, take a look at your feet" vibe. It also works side to side and above her too, though one side is mostly blocked by the bridge of her nose, and up is usually partially obscured by her hair, though as high-res as the camera is and with all the motion analysis and interpolation the software can do, she usually has some warning if a fly-ball is careening toward her head or a harpy is about to poop on her.
Comments
Marc Vun Kannon
And if there isn't, there should be.
Person
I did check. Gamma lizard guy's eyes were originally a greenish gold; similar to a cat's. When Lapha first moved in, they were more orange gold. Not sure what's going on their now.
eddi_TBH
Math is in Dragonball heaven. Someone who can actually move fast enough to be a challenge. He may actually be dialed to about 7 right now.
eddi_TBH
Some courtesies continue in both cases. Snarking on seniors has to be approached carefully.
eddi_TBH
Older and younger sister.
eddi_TBH
Simplest explanation is she just uses a separate bosom cam and blends the two pictures. It may not even be a live bosom. Prerecorded for maximum door walking effect.
Otoger
well since it is a high tech robot Eye, so a bigger FOV would be the least it can do, also it doesn't have the issue of our eyes with the low receptor count at the borders and depending on how the "realism" is created she just doesn't need to blink and let her Glamour cover her in person same with the Movement, it doesn't need to be done by the hardware just the interface/software if Dabbler even needs it after so long with it
Otoger
well its also not on the last page at all, at least of how central it is on frame 6
Paul Osze
Oops! Minor continuity error in frame 4: Dabbler is missing the central spot on her shoulder that is in frame 6.
Shade Jones
I just found the IRL maxima thanks to Instagram reels https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-aZesbighF/?igsh=MW14ODl2NDA0a25vcw==
Palmvos
What is needed is for the fashion super to... adjust the strength of the fibers for maximum embarrassment. Provided he can do it stealthy.
Eric
This brings to mind something. They aren't in Uniform. There is an -entirely- different set of rules as to do with Military Courtesy between "On Duty and in Uniform" and Off Duty and Out of Uniform.
Town Crier
BTW, most real guys (and some gals) would be discussing the physics of Dabbler's top versus the stress that she is exerting with the arched back. There would be bets as to how and what kind of an upcoming wardrobe malfunction is achieved. Dabbler probably has a specific channel set aside just for such nerds wherein she stress-tests various clothing products for the sexual and intellectual (intesexual?) edutainment of her followers.
Town Crier
To be fair, it IS kind of a Roomba's thing to run into things, doors or otherwise...
BJ
But cyber eye.
BJ
I love Max and Sydney's relationship.
Justaguy
Or... She's recording from her necklace or the locket just above her boobs. If only you hadn't actually POINTED at her eye.
Person
Err... why are lizard dude's eyes still bright gold? PRISON BREAK!!
Anton Schleef
Besides, for a couple of years now they've been advertising smartphones that can filter out that extra movement to keep the final image stable. Hell, I've heard of it and I almost exclusive watch streaming video, and I subscribe so that I don't have to deal with ads, so that advertising is EXTREMELY pervasive.
James Balthaser
I was thinking the camera was in the heart clasp on her neck
Person
I wonder how many totally unplanned wardrobe malfunctions have been streamed, and if she's met her seasonal quota.
Kayleigh Alvarez
technically I can just barely see them when I look straight ahead, but they're in the far edge of my peripheral vision and they're basically invisible until I think to check. kinda like your nose.
B. P.
I'd argue that they'd be in favour of making them look intimidating, giving away actual strengths/weaknesses would be more of a no-no.
Greg Morrow
Human eyes do something called saccades, where our eyes make sudden jumps, for two reasons: One is that we're legitimately changing what we're focusing on, like when we're reading and move LtR and down. The other is motion stabilization; one of the reasons we get so tired just riding in a car is that our eyes are constantly doing saccades to compensate for jerks and jiggles. Our vision-to-thought brain processor unit absolutely 100% edits out saccades without us ever being aware that they're happening. So that would be mandatory software in Dabbler's cybereye, as you speculate. When you see "found footage" stuff like Blair Witch, with all the jigglecam effect, that's like saccades with no compensation, which is why a chunk of the audience gets nauseated.
Michael Obert
Star Dewy Valley also, if keeping with the bodice ripper lingo :). Still, both great ideas!
Martin Drkoš
I get the feeling that they tolerate a fair amount of hijinks from their sentient weapons and pay them handsomely so they don't have any motivation to switch employers.
Teksura
I disagree. Remember the press conference? showing off the capabilities of the team and making a big spectacle of it is exactly what the higher ups want. It makes them look good, champions them as heroes and badasses, and as Maxima believes, acts as a deterrence to super-powered crime when they realize just who they will have to fight. I imagine what the higher ups would not want is anything that makes them look bad.
Sharien Radaik
came up during the training session with kevin aka vehemence in the quarry
Sharien Radaik
how about "Stardom Valley"?^^ Bare Bliss Points of View just a few ideas^^
martin leske
(to iterate on the bottom text) and these cute robot dogs they always show dancing
rhekke
The commentary on Dabbler's eye cam caught me by surprise. From the comic, I just assumed her streaming camera was in the heart shaped ring on her top.
B. P.
I can't imagine that the higher ups at ARC-SWAT would look kindly upon exposing capabilities of one of their members. I however, greatly appreciate hijinks and boobs so please do go on in a similar manner :)
Michael Obert
C'mon Sydney, you're in the (sort of) army now; titles matter. Please tell me Dabbler's steam is titled the Heaving bosom stream. She's not subtle, so I can think of no better name.
Teksura
This isn't the first time we've seen that Dabbler's cybernetic eye can see her own boobs. I take this to mean that Succubus eyes just have a wider field of view and are in fact fully capable of seeing their own boobs, if nothing else than to make sure they are showing them off exactly the way they want without needing to obviously glance down.
Fogel
Didn't Dabbler also stream the Max vs Kevin fight? In that one she was looking down, so she could actually see her cleavage
TrixieTurner
Dabbler has truly mastered the clickbait meta. Heaving bosoms is always a winner.
