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Grrl Power #1016 - Have a nice trip, see you next regime fall

🕑 Added 2022-01-20 11:01:01 +0000 UTC

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Polysanity

as this was just recently brought back to my attention, i have a question for dave. does ARCHON have, and issue challenge coins? if so, i nominate Syd for one for the whole "smacking down c'thulu in starship form" and "figuring out the logical weakness in the invincible guy's powerset" incidents.

D.A. Lamont

Don't jinx us, Private Strawberry Shortcake! (bonus points if you get the reference) 😏 Also Dave, I DM'd you. Sorry.

Harmony Petersen

Glamours... the cheatcode of the sexy-armor arguement.

akrasia

What it looks like has nothing to do with what it is. She could be wearing a Gundam suit under that glamour.

Martin Croft

Is Dabbler's outfit more or less provocative than a chainmail bikini? probably more protective though

furry

pfh, like any american mil crafts are really held to that. >_>; I imagine anyway.

Lee T Boswell

I would point out - it is illegal to travel at Mach 1 or above in National US airspace. They would have to wait till they were out of US airspace to crank it up. Maybe she was saying two or three hours?

Ian Birchenough

Because you have to know who's in charge of avoiding hitting stuff - and who isn't, there has to be some formal process for the transfer of control. this applies to ships (you have the conn) and Aircraft (Pilots aircraft) pretty much everything else with multiple control stations or potential persons in command has a method of telling everyone who the boss is at the moment.

MGH

Ditto. A better phrase for landlubber military personnel would be "You have command."

Richard Riley

In our star-trek-themed drinking club, we say "You have the watch." Then the new person-in-charge gets handed an actual watch. :)

MiddKnight

You have the conn is a term originating in the Navy. Its in reference of the conning station.

Dane Filemyr

So, I know this is nit-picky, but in my time in the military, I've never heard of anyone using the term "you have the conn" outside of the Navy and Star Trek. I can't recall if the other branches have a similar phrase, but I also wasn't an officer, so who know what those guys say to each other when we grunts were out soldiering. XD

Greg Morrow

The solution to too large a cast is a) spinoffs or b) the ABC plot structure Paul Levitz devised for Legion of Super-Heroes, where A, B, and C plots involve different characters, and as the A plot concludes, the B plot rolls up into its place and so on. The C characters may only get 10% of the screen time as the A characters, but it'll rotate around to them soon enough. Requires a lot of planning!

Brad Kirkwood

I want her to catch it and throw it back, THAT would be cool

Stephen Gilberg

Anyone else think of the "I used to be an adventurer like you" line?

Stephen Gilberg

You'd have liked to see that, wouldn't you.

Stephen Gilberg

Because Achilles seems faceless?

Jim the Pirate

I beleive phrase "don't taunt the plot gods" applies here.

James Stephens

If someone shoots a missile at Sydney, I want her to do the Road Runner tongue thing and say "meep meep" before leaving said missile in the dust.

Marc Vun Kannon

This is where he springs his cunning trap to mind-whammy Max into being his bride/servant and Sydney and the rest come to the rescue.

Marc Vun Kannon

Maybe the next many panels should be about something serious on the home front while nothing at all happens in Galtyn.

Immortal_Knight

TIL Lara croft is a countess

Christopher Upton

All that going on and I find myself irritated by the salute. I mean, it’s well executed and all, it’s just inappropriate.

James C

Heatwave is missing her comm-choker in the last panel…

Michael Obert

Apparently she ripped the clothes off of Lara, as there are big pieces missing from strategic areas 😁

Tomek Kowal

You kind of opened Pandora's box, because under the surface of ocean you're in water, and since speed fo sound in saltwater is exactly 1.5 km/s, Mach 16 is, well, 24 km/s, which is 1.44x more than needed to escape solar system, and at that speed under water you're not only going to cause line of continuous plasma explosion, but I'd need to pull up my physics textbooks and check if you'd have enough kinetic energy to overcome Coulomb's barrier and cause nuclear fusion. It's ~3% of speed of light in air, if I recall correctly, but in water you'd be dumping like 4 orders of magnitude more energy, so it could be possible.

Town Crier

Hmm. I'm guessing that Dabbler's adventuring gear is a bit more substantial than she is letting on. She is pretty adequate at illusions, after all.

Jeremy Jorgensen

Now I want to see calculations on how bad the waves would be for a 4 meter diameter sphere going Mach 16 just above the surface of the ocean. ... And the same for going Mach 16 10 meters UNDER the surface of the ocean

Deltarno

Hope this is the start of Deus getting a major setback/defeat. He started as a charming rogue, but the charm has dulled since everything goes his way. Even Dr doom gets defeated for crying out loud.

Dan Merget

Where? I've read a fair amount of Pratchett, and don't recognize any part of the dialogue as a Pratchett reference. (Hopefully you're not referring to the old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times", which is MUCH older than Pratchett.)