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Grrl Power #1317 - Beige quo
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Peggy's seen some nasty stuff in combat, but she was almost entirely spared the more visceral elements of losing her leg, as she passed out when Max hiked the Pave Hawk, then woke up post surgery. No one ever showed her a photo of her leg, though she did see an X-Ray of it, which helped her come to terms with why it needed to be removed instead of her trying to live with about 600 transdermal metal pins jutting through her shin and calf and foot trying to hold all of the flinders in place while it healed.
Still, as an advanced space doctor/technician, there's no reason to risk your patient hwarfing in your surgical suite on the off chance thet them seeing the inside of their own tibia being reconstructed causes their vagus nerve to start doing the cha-cha.
Olden-time doctors had to know how to harvest willow tree bark or how to grind up the right concoction of herbs or know which ailments being pecked by a bluejay would cure. High-tech doctors have to know to push the NIBP button before activating the anti-borborygmi field, lest it cause an epistaxis inversion. They're all technicians in their own right. If Peggy implied that being a space doctor simply involved pusing a single button, Frix might have been insulted, but he wouldn't have "spit on her muffin," which in this case would mean... putting her foot on backwards? It's hard to come up with a limb-replantation equivalent. Maybe switching the nerves for her pinky and index toe.
I keep forgetting to mention, I have a BlueSky account now, since that seems to be a proper successor to Twitter. I'll be posting in both places for the foreseeable future.
Comments
Jared Kolbly
My expectation for a highly advanced surgery machine that is only attaching a previously grown limb would be that it does a scan to find all the nerves and whatnot that needs to be connected on both then provides a plan for the technician to adjust or approve then goes to work while the technician and machine watch for issues that pop up to pause and adjust, which should rarely occur (not accounting for patients moving.) The way Frix is moving his hand with the light rings on it makes me think he is manually operating the surgery.
Terence Bryant-White
Frix *slightly* dejected: "Peggy, if you don't stop wobbling RIGHT NOW, I am not responsible for any...weirdness !!! ππ"
eddi_TBH
"My nipples explode with delight!" Actually Xuriel may have used that one a couple times.
Teksura
Right. Sticking with your shovel analogy, I'm thinking it's comparable to a worker using an excavator. A skilled operator can do some impressive things that an unskilled operator can't do. This is consistent with the earlier line about maybe Dabbler isn't the best person to go withbfor attaching the leg. She can operate it all right, but not at the same level of skill as an expert. But that's still reinforcing what Peggy said. There is a strong technical aspect to it as well.
eddi_TBH
I was conscious for my colonoscopy and watched the monitor with the doctor. The distraction was all I needed. HMOs demand you have a 24 hour watch if they sedate you in any way.
eddi_TBH
You still have to learn to shovel. It's just a lot easier than brain surgery.
Czarzhan
By the way, I was doing an archive dive and came across #666 which segued to "Demon Stuff". I just want to point out that #1332 is coming up (double 666) in case Dabbler wants to make more cookies.
Eric Loken
Of course Frix could know full well that she wasn't making a sexual comment, the context didn't make any sense for it to be sexual, and so he was just being a smart-arse - given the same line *I* very likely would have responded similarly. Sometimes it's just fun to take the dirty interpretation of what someone says rather than the actual meaning. This is how you end up with being able to respond "that's what she said" to a great many statements.
Raymond Dannelly
Read the first two panels and fully expected the progression to be: "Are you sure you want to see?" "Ummm... yes. Yes I'm sure." "Well too bad, we're done."
Daikaiju
I'm reminded of the new Lower Decks comic. Everyone is using various Earth specific situations to describe the current problem and Dr. T'ana is about ready to pop off by the fourth one.
Anton Schleef
Which applies to anyone that isn't a basic laborer.
Anton Schleef
And that's assuming that there is a matching idiom on both sides.
Gelatinous Cube
I'm sure idiomatic speech is one of the most complicated, as most idioms require a LOT of cultural context on both sides to match idiom-for-idiom.
Enigma42
I see it as automation does the big ticket things like the bones and muscles and it asks are you sure when it comes to fine details like skin sensitivity and if you want tattoos
Greg Morrow
"Epistaxis inversion", aka "Vampire Nose Syndrome".
Jared Kolbly
I can't say for sure, but this process looks very manual. I was expecting it to be mostly automated, but it looks like Frix is fully controlling the machine, similar to our remote surgery machines.
You_With_The_Face
Frix is adorable with translation errors
Thomas Dorner
"as a shade of purple-grey" :-)
Thomas Dorner
Yep, doesn't match the tattoos, called it. ;-)
Dwaz
It refers to when your stomach is "talking" to you.
Teksura
I mean, Peggy isn't wrong. He has to know all the technical aspects of the tools he uses. That doesn't make him less of a medic, it makes him someone who has to know how to properly use the tools he has to accomplish the task he has to do.
Playwars
Aaaah, automated translator errors, a great staple of sci-fi jokes.
Lee T Boswell
"borborygmi" ; is that a Magic reference? Cause there's a character with nearly that name in the game.
Marc Vun Kannon
Probably started with 'butter my muffin', an idiom it got from somewhere (Sydney) and went sideways into some parallel dimension.
Immortal_Knight
It seems like the translator took "spit on my muffin" in a sexual direction lmao. Although it makes sense given the word muffin
