Comic for Monday, February 6th, 2023
Feb07
Well, as ya’ll might imagine, I’m rather busy at the moment. But I found time to make you folks a comic, so rejoice and set aside the torches and pitchforks.
I will confess you I didn’t end up following what the grammatical seminar in the comments last time concluded. I’m going with it takes you folks 18 comments to sort out, it’s good enough for me.
We’ll be on the every-other-week schedule for the foreseeable future unfortunately. Maybe AI art will learn to draw TFSoU comics and steal my job soon. I bet Mium could draw comics.
Anyway, back to D&D kickstarter land for me, but I’ll try to fix any grammatically errors that can settled in less than 10 comments if present…
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The page will come; but not till tomorrow.
It’s a holiday weekend, so the the real monday isn’t till tomorrow… that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Hey man, we understand. It fits in with your “post every other day” timeframe.
Did one of your characters accidentally fall into Questionable Content?!
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4987
Woot, finally got around to Pledging.
Pros – Past keeps doing fun things for a living.
Cons – So many stretch goals eating up time.
Can someone throw a link up to this Kickstarter? I’d like to throw in some support (even if it seems unnecessary at this point), and I’m genuinely curious what this one would be about (besides D&D obviously).
You can click on the “I’m rather busy at the moment” link in the first line of Past’s comment above.
Past,
Woohoo!!! Yippee!!! Congratulations on reaching all stretch goals of your Kickstarter and unlocking all the rewards. You still have 2 weeks to go and the 4 mystery levels just added may not be enough. I’m so glad for you that the OGL problem fizzled and you are successful beyond your original Kickstarter plans. Good fortune to you and best wishes in your endeavours.
Awesome. Simply awesome.
ROFL. Only Peter would think to wander around with the Bridgepoint Data.
Also: WHAT!? WHEN?! HOW?!? WHERE?!?! WHO?????
(All questions pertaining to the Bridgepoint data being retrieved.)
Plus of course Kors World are actively looking for that data, to suppress it with extreme prejudice. Normally Peter likes to give the “walking target” role to others, and watch from a safe and mildly entertained distance.
It’s my feeling that, as has been previously suggested, Peter actually had the bridgepoint data before his uncle asked for him to help get it. It was a copy of the data and Peter didn’t think it was at all traceable to him, and yet he had a noticeable uptick in the volatility of his real estate that he couldn’t explain any other way.
To be clear, no, Peter didn’t steal it from the IDS. He copied it from Acalia.
That’s when and possibly who. As I don’t think I promised you any answers, consider yourselves ahead of the game. Oh, I guess I can answer the how as well: with skill, speed, and a level of subtly that was sufficient for Acalia at least.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious when Acalia somehow gave Miko and Mium the opportunity to copy the data from her when she attacked Miko at their home?
The dialogue on this page is exceedingly clever, hilarious and so “Peter”! Peter nonchalantly drops an Earth-shattering nuclear bomb completely blowing Kally’s mind. Then he continues to casually drop bomb after bomb, flamboxing Kally more and more with each turn, and making obfuscating statements with snippets of truth that play on people’s propensity to jump to (the wrong) conclusions.
This has to be one of, if not the best, page(s) that you have ever drawn.
I can almost hear Kally screaming in frustration!! It perfectly conveys the Peter-Kally relationship and the Peter personality/mystique: his aloofness over the entire populace which he manipulates so easily, his ability to outsmart any competitor/opponent, his unlimited fountain of esoteric knowledge and information,his habit and ability to drop just enough information to entice and frustrate the inquirer, … the list goes on and on. And he does this all with an attitude of “This is simple and obvious, why are you surprised?”.
Kudos. Far Side is in the top three of the 80+ comics that I regularly follow. The depth of the characters; the self-consistent, innovative, complex world building that alludes to multitudinous back stories; the realistic and insightful human behaviors and interactions – these are all over top-notch and leave me panting for more. My only complaint is that Far Side is not daily.
Don’t forget that she’s calling him out for being unoriginal, and reminding Peter (and us) that there are multiple times she thought she’d failed while working with Peter. That sort of emotional roller-coaster isn’t sustainable. It rapidly turns into either not trusting any of his plans, or trusting that most of the time he’s going to make things right regardless.
It certainly puts some earlier scenes about trusting Peter in context. He’s perfectly willing to let her part fail, but will handle the consequences and make sure they still win. Given that and his known propencity to actually work for the bad guys before arresting them, I can also see how the rest of the field agents would consider him as actually defecting to be crazy.
Well, now we know
And knowing is half the battle… in the shadows cast by a very bright light
“If you are still making distinctions between windows and walls, you aren’t throwing hard enough” – Naomi
Of course I’m not throwing hard enough. I’m not throwing.
That said, depending on the construction of the building and exactly where the entrance happens, the wall can be a much better place.
– No shards of really sharp stuff. Maybe you don’t realize this, if your primary exposure to broken glass is from car window safety glass, but normally glass shards are insanely sharp. We’re talking molecular point sharp here. Building windows are usually not made of safety glass.
– Non-load-bearing walls are frequently made of particle board and similar materials. Particle board is also known as fallaparticle board because it’s basically sawdust, wood chips, and glue. When you put wood in the recycling, it may become that stuff. It’s not made of especially strong varieties of wood, it’s whatever they have.
– Office space tends to not have studs every 18 inches in non-load-bearing walls. I feel confident that Naomi is appreciative of this fact, even if it wasn’t stated anywhere. That said, when office space does have especially solid bits, they tend to be metal rather than wood, so I guess you get some and you give some. But it looked like she was the right distance from the window to miss any of those.
I’ve never seen a non-load bearing wall made out of particle board, but am more familiar with US residential construction than commercial. Still I’d expext the interior to still be Drywall on commercial buildings. Which is cheaper and more fragile than particle board.
I’ve seen some wild videos of Texas production home builders using basically cardboard for the exterior. With studs 24in on center, and vinyl siding. That’s a combination that would let a high school football player charge through a wall, much less, Naomi! However, this is a commercial building, so I doubt it’s made that cheaply.
On another note, glass is like Obsidian. Insanely sharp, but doesn’t hold an edge for very long. Which is why broken glass shards in the wild aren’t a larger issue.
I also think you’re underestimating Naiomi here. When she’s boosting, she’s far more durable, to the point her skin might be harder than what glass can cut.
– There’s an interesting line when Naomi ripped what’s her names arm off. She says that person didn’t know how to use the boost engine and was going into shock. Implying that someone who did know what they’re doing would not be going into shock from loosing an arm.
I read that as someone who knew how to use the boost engine would have been thrown rather than losing an arm. Acalia made herself immovable when she should have been increasing her structural integrity.
I don’t think anyone uses particle board for exterior walls. High-density fiberboard, definitely “yes”, but that’s tough stuff, with longer wood fibers, often referred to as engineered wood. They make structural I-beams of the stuff; it’s more stable and consistent than natural wood.
There’s no inherent reason corrugated cardboard can’t be used in construction. It has excellent stiffness-to-weight, is highly insulating, sound-deadening, stable….for maximum stiffness, the inner layers are edgewise between outer panels—much like how balsa or foam core is used in fiberglass boat construction. You just have to take into account the material properties in your engineering. Building codes tend to be rather conservative, though, as in taking into account how the system will fare over a period of decades, so new ideas aren’t readily incorporated. (It’s not really a new idea, but still not a lot of examples.)
hey, man, this is joyous torch-and-pitchfork-waving, we’re celebrating!
…I need to work loitering with celebratory farming equipment and joyous oversized incineratives into SOMETHING.
I’m fairly certain only Miss Atarah can throw Miss Atarah *through* windows.
Panel 8, bubble 2.
I told Aaron I’d retrieve *it* when I stopped by the I.D.S. office.
Panel 6, bubble 2.
I just never told you *that you* were the distraction
The Bridgepoint data??? Didn’t see that coming. My thoughts were more along the line of some alien tech device that Peter would hide in a bad people building.
That’s exactly what the Bridgepoint Data is though. Alien tech originally stolen from Kor’s World.
Panel 6: I just never told you were the distraction -> told you you were / told you that you were
Panel 8: I’d retrieve when -> retrieve it when
This. What he said. For some reason I didn’t see this post earlier.
It was fun to read the comments about: “There is a large number of desperate, dangerous, and not exceedingly clever people among your enemies.” I feel that the idea is conveyed regardless of verb. Modifying a bit to “There is many people, among your enemies who is dangerous, and not exceedingly clever people.” sounds wrong compared to “There are many people, among your enemies who are dangerous, and not exceedingly clever people.”
If I were attempting to re-frame the sentence in the way you propose, with the mindset of leaving the most important word for last, I think I would go with:
“Among your enemies, there are many people who are still alive, at least moderately dangerous, and not exceedingly clever.”
But that sounds more like Peter or Miko than Mium, at least to my ear – probably since it’s more “deliberate snark” and less “insult framed as matter-of-fact statement.”
im pretty sure you its
going through to find that data and
through windows