Grrl Power #1469 – Semi Finals Roster
Events include Unlimited Class Charity, where strangely enough, you can’t win by donating all of your organs. Well, unless you have really top-tier regeneration, maybe. Of course, it seems like a terrible idea for someone with massive regeneration to donate an organ, because how would you stop that organ from regenerating the rest of its original body around it, since you’ve implanted it in a place where it’s being kept alive and fed a stream of nutrients? Obviously it would depend on how the regeneration works. Something that required conscious effort would probably be fine, but Wolverine donating half of his liver would probably have dire consequences.
- Unlimited Class Paying it Forward (I’m actually not sure how that would be an event. Maybe it’s some sort of… relay?)
- Unlimited Class Teaching a Man to Fish
- Unlimited Class Condolences
- Unlimited Class Writing Something Meaningful on a Work Birthday Card and Not Just “Have a Good One” or “Another Step Closer to the Grave, Hah Hah”
- Unlimited Class Hugging but Not For So Long it Gets Awkward
- Unlimited Class Maintaining Eye Contact with Someone While They Tell You Some Boring Story They For Some Reason Think is Totally Interesting
- Unlimited Class Stealing from the Rich and Giving to the Poor and Also Kicking the Rich in the Balls Until their Genitals go Necrotic – (there is some argument that this last bit isn’t “nice” in a technical sense, but most everyone agrees they usually deserve it.)
What Unlimited Class Niceness Arena events can you think of?
BTW, someone pointed out that Roark-1-8 looks a bit like Goon Squad. Or a lot. Well, it’s not. I guess I have an armor design in my head, and I have to put effort into deviating from it.
Final version is up, both at TWC and Patreon.
Sexy bodymod news lady Gail has a special one-on-one interview with Tournament Quarter finalist Saraviah Nightwing! And if you subscribe to Gail’s Space Patreon, (which, due to the vagaries of Earth and Gal-Net’s DNS servers, happens to be the same as the Grrl Power Patreon, go figure) you can see that same interview in the nude!
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Tbh, I prefer Gail’s outfit over Bluce’s.
And I would watch the $#%& out of a niceness tournament. That sounds amazing!
Agreed, just out of curiosity, is pipperin a nasal irritant to her species? Because she looks one good sneeze from popping out of that
Nice Buck Rogers reference.
And a nice The Fifth Element reference as well!
I feel like we’ve quickly moved beyond the idea these competitors are good fighters with powers or magic and quickly gotten into these are concepts with sentience. Living explosion, living mountain, can you even effectively hurt or kill these things. Even the first guy kinda reminds me of Darude’s powers, what’s the solution there? Blow up the planet they’re all on?
I remember a South Park episode about an unlimited class niceness kind of sport where nodoby understood Randy’s sarcasm (or what Butters’ Happy Juice was).
I’d love to see a niceness league comic!
1980’s Buck Rogers on Bluce, and Gail stating fashionably with 5th Element Thermal Bandages. Good work, Wardrobe Dept.!
Appropriately escalated group of semifinalists, good work Dave B.!
(Powered armor either from the same manufacturer, or simply good design following function?)
Niceness Tournament events? Unlimited Class Luxury Environment Adaptation? Xenomorph Kissing Booth? Orichalcum Chef?
No, wait, I think I’ve got it: D.M.V. Line Entertainment!
Regarding organ donation by people with high regeneration, have you heard of Immortal Weakling? It’s a webtoon (which is a shame because it would absolutely benefit from classic format better) where the main character does it regularly. It’s good and I hope the hiatus will end soon.
Oh, and the way it works is that he doesn’t technically have regeneration, his body just resets to it’s default state a minute after getting hurt, anything cut off remains separately. I’m not sure if he ever looked at his own decapitated head but he could.
There’s also Feral from “Strong Female Protagonist”.
Oh! I have heard great things about this comic but it’s cut in the middle and doesn’t seem likely to continue.
If it did I would absolutely want to read it.
Given that it was written by Brendan Lee Mulligan, who absolutely does not have the time for it anymore, that is likely correct. Which is a shame, since I really liked it as well.
Yeah, this whole aside about regeneration for charity feels way too much like a dig at one of SFP’s more noteworthy storylines for my tastes.
nice
Another thought…
Cora is talking about Roark-one-eight’s legs, may he rest in peace.
She is either suffering phantom-limb-empathy, or just lost a side bet.
The art in Unlimited Class Hugging is to extend the hugs as much as you can without making it awkward. It’s hard but they are Unlimited Class for a reason.
Also stealing from the rich ad giving to the poor is decisively not nice. It’s good but those are different things. Good is about morality, nice is about interpersonal relations. They usually synch well but it’s just like tough love is good but not nice.
Hang in there Cora, but he’s not wrong. I’m sure she has feed-back from the hard light, but I doubt it’d be that bad. It still brings to mind the picture of him on top of Sydney, and all we’d see is her hands and feet sticking out LOL. Heck, his head is almost the size of her torso.
These are pretty corny names, but if you think about it, having to take the time to come with that many names in a short time is pretty demanding. I remember the times I went though naming paralysis while playing Diablo 2 and Baldor’s gate…
By the way, that one giant that had the bad name? I would just called him “Alloys.”
I’d put a qualifier on the “Unlimited Class Condolences” in that it must be original enough and not be a cliche or over used condolence. (E.g., no “they’re not in pain anymore”, “they’re in a better place”, “I’m sorry for your loss”.)
Also, with the organ donation… It depends on if the “master molecule theory” is at play. Basically, that the part that regenerates the rest of the body has to be the one that contains the primary molecule/cell/cell cluster that identifies whatever is connected to it as the “primary body for regeneration”. (E.g., this is why when Deadpool was ripped in half in the second movie they didn’t end up with two of him.)
– Unlimited Class Helping People Get Things from Difficult Places (I.e., short people helping tall ones get stuff from awkwardly low places, and tall people helping short ones get stuff from difficult high places. Any taller guy who’s gone grocery shopping knows this one well.)
– Unlimited Class Helping Old Folks Across the Street
– Unlimited Class Saving Cats from Danger
– Unlimited Class Helping Change a Tire (Are you able to be the fastest jack in town?)
– Unlimited Class Teaching Illiterate Adults to Read
– Unlimited Class Helping Feed the Homeless (Regenerating Minotaurs and fruit bearing Treants tend to have the advantage here. As do Deities of Harvest or Nature.)
– Unlimited Class Volunteering for Worthwhile Charities
– Unlimited Class Helping Build Low Income Housing (Jimmy Carter was the frontrunner in this event until he passed away.)
– Unlimited Class Cleaning up Pollution and Garbage
The Number One Rule to the entire competition, of course, is that you have to put in the work yourself. This means someone like Deus can’t win by simply spending absurd amounts of money to buy a school for free adult education, or buy a bunch of food replicators, or pay to have an entire city built for those with low income/fixed disability benefits.
I’ve got a few ideas:
-Unlimited Class Teaching a Disobedient Child
-Unlimited Class Being Curious To Help Kickstart Someone Else to Have Empathy
-Unlimited Class Changing the Built Environment to Encourage Good Behavior
-Unlimited Class Grappling with the Structural Consequences of Your Actions While Still Doing Net Good
Not sure of the name but there’s a webcomic where a super has regeneration and donates her organs but it’s pretty messed up. She can’t be anesthetized so everything she donates leaves her in horrific agony but she’s basically mentally ill and feels compelled to donate to save everyone. The only thing the title character could do was blackmail another super into super-charging her regeneration otherwise the woman would be donating all the time and never have time to do anything else. Poor woman needs therapy but clearly the system’s set up not to get her any since it exploits her so they don’t have to get donations from normals.
I also remember another novella the female main character had immortality to a degree, but her body’s regeneration would require shutting off the heart so it could regenerate things. This led to a tragedy of errors where she ends up in an emergency room where they’re trying to save her while her power keeps shutting her heart off so it could repair her until they think she’s dead. As a result her husband has her organs donated and just as she finishes regenerating everything she’s cremated which finishes her off, but the epilogue a girl who got her heart is shown suddenly without scars showing she’s inherited the woman’s immortality. It also implies as long as you removed and transplanted the heart successfully you could make anyone immortal.
I make a man mountain joke in the previous thread and here we got one, plus a living explosion…
Apple, pen, pen, apple, pineapple theory says the get combined in a weird way.
Like suddenly Living explosion suddenly finds itself in a dark, dank cave. Man mountain suddenly looks like he’s gonna erupt. And is trying to hold it in.
“Looks like we have ourselves another prison marriage, Bruce. Oh what’s with that face, like you haven’t been to jail before.”
“Seems we’re registering more explosions internally… similar in nature to … and there goes Eat more Chicken and man mountain’s eyes have crossed. Is he doing the PeepeePoopoo dance? “
How would Deus interpret such? A threat? A promise?