Grrl Power #1192 – Cornhole-quan-do
Sydney’s ADHD is such that she can’t even stay on topic when she’s mad at someone. Well, sometimes she can, but the finger-in-the-butt tactic for dogs begs discussion about extended tactical options.
Honestly, a lot of movie fight scenes are fairly boring because they’re all so similar. Two guys slugging it out is forgettable because we’ve all seen it a thousand times. The only things that stand out are unusual moves. That’s why the fight in They Live was so memorable because it was a scuffle, not two guys throwing punches six inches over the other guy’s head. (That’s another thing that bugs me about fight scenes, but I digress.) It’s why John Wick and his point blank gunplay is memorable, why Ong Bak was memorable. Nobody throws elbows in Hollywood films. It’s also why almost everything Jackie Chan did was memorable. Yeah, he punched and kicked, but he also launched wooden clogs at people and fought drunk and grabbed dudes by their ties and dove through ladders and fought with those short Chinese benches. For the love of god, don’t let Jackie Chan near a short Chinese bench during a fight. I couldn’t find a better fight with a bench on youtube, so here’s an actual good fight sans bench. (BTW, pay attention to the fact that there are extras lying unconscious around that scene trying not to flinch while those two go ham five feet from them. They’re the real heroes.)
And just for fun, here’s the awesome fight against his own bodyguard Ken Lo in Drunken Master 2. Which as it happens does have an unusual chin to the eyeball move. Honestly, with just the right amount of stubble, that could be a crippling move. You almost never see eye-gouging, probably because it’s viewed as a dishonorable tactic, so you don’t want the protagonist doing it, and you don’t get the antag doing it because you don’t want the protag getting blinded.
Understand I’m not advocating for more fingers in the butts during hollywood fight scenes specifically. But… it would be pretty fucking memorable.
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Okay, that’s extremely logical thinking on Sydney’s part. Especially since she’s at ground zero of the lust aura. And Syd would go for eyeball licks because that’s A) something really weird she’d be familiar with and B) considering her diet, her saliva is probably worse than military CS gas.
It also shows that if one is not.. inclined? To act on the feeling the Lust Aura is building they can resist it seems.
Mind Control would not likely allow her to lick said eyeball.
It has still been a bit of a mess and likely messed up a number of command issues, with senior officers getting with cadets etc.
Including Gwen, for not stopping Sydney in the first place…
Somehow, I suspect that won’t actually come up much.
Functionally, this isn’t really ll that different from Detla’,s situation, at least for as long as Big D remains on good terms with Uncle Suckus.
… What?
Knowing that it’s artificial is probably the biggest defence. Like vehemence agro aura, Sydney could resist it because she knew her feelings were being manipulated.
I forget, is the passive node on the unknown orb filled in? or is there an unknown on the shield? Either one could be any kind of emotional or mental control protection.
To be completely honest, I’m going to wager that it will have something to do with Parfait not being enormously powerful yet, and Sydney being a combination of extremely awkward and SUPER ADHD.
*shares popcorms*
That and Parfait probably wasn’t intentionally pushing her lust, it was just going wild. Even when Dabbler was with Coot she had to keep manipulating him as she interviewed him.
Everyone who reacted to the Aura likely became very horny but not severely irrational or illogical. Arianna contacted who I presume is her husband, for instance, rather than seek out the first warm body.
The most illogical and uncontrolled one seems to be parfait. She likely got this far with Sydney not because Sydney was out of control but because Sydney was probably trying to come up with a solution until the eyeball lick thought hit her.
I’m pretty sure Arianna contacted Max, which is why Max just arrived.
That was my guess in the comic before the last one, but the previous comic showed that Max and Dabbler were not aware of the lust bomb going off in ARCHON.
Syd has also been around a succubi for a while and has had a chance to grow somewhat use to their effects. And I don’t know if it is the orbs or her personally but she does seem to be able to break out of those trances on her own
I think the biggest part is that she knows she is being influenced. After all, that was what allowed her to resist Vehemence’s violence aura.
I can’t remember what orbs have the passive powers filled in, but it’s possible that one of them, maybe the mystery one, gives her some protection to mental influences. Not complete protection, but maybe a +3 to save. When she was in the shield with Vehemence and subject to the violence aura, she was able to resist it, somewhat. She was, slowly, losing to the urge to grab the PPO, but it wasn’t immediate.
As an aside, my favorite Jackie Chan joke:
Q: Who would win in a fight between Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan?
A: If the room is empty, Bruce Lee, but if there is a paper clip on the floor, Jackie Chan.
Disagree highly with the Jackie Chan vs Bruce Lee. The quantity of non-fighting materials is fully part of the equation and sadly a paper clip falls in weapon. Banana falls fully into Jackie Chan wins but Bruce Lee gets to eat it before slipping on it so technically just a really weird lunch?
You can see in the second-to-last panel, Parfait’s eye is pretty bloodshot. eeee-yuck, it’s probably burning up in the socket!
She’s off her after dinner mint meds the doc prescribed.
The power of ADHD. Sydney is never lost in the moment for very long.
Been updating for the last 15 minutes so I could read and sleep. Wonder if the aura is immediately shut down
If – IF – the text balloon is any indicator, I suspect that yeah, it’s already down.
Not gonna lie, I cannot imagine being able to stay in sexy mode after having my eyeball licked. Admittedly, however, I am not a Beholder.
Thede is def gonna be a little fallout over this one.
Turns out that the Lust Aura stopped awhile ago, and everyone is just caught up in the moment.
The delivery guy from UPS, the passing mail clark and the person in Reception though are currently discussing a new arrangement while the humidty clears.
I guess now is not the time for a pink eye joke.
*makes the sign of the cross*
“One in the pink, or one in the stink.”
I regret nothiiiiiiiinnn…..
Thats a new one. Lick the eye break the lust.
I am sure there is a kink for that somewhere *shudders*. But way to go Sydney on breaking free from Parfait’s clutches even if it wasn’t an ill meant moment. Hopefully the two makeup their friendship is just to cute a pair of lil dorks.
Oculolinctus, It has been one of my favorite strange facts ever since i read this comic https://www.deviantart.com/rimfrost/art/Comic-Licking-78249492 15 years ago xD
That’s the first time I hear to do that with a dog, is that a variation of the ‘bite their ear to show who’s in control’? Which I think is also proven to be inaccurate, but sounds to make more sense than the butt thing. Maybe she was still under the influence of the lust aura to make her think like that.
I actually have found in practice that you could settle an aggressive dog by flipping him on his back, and getting a firm grip on his neck with your teeth. The triggers their submission instincts.
It also fills your mouth with dog hair, though. Bleah. But it works like a charm.
I can personally confirm flipping a dog like a pancake, gripping him by the throat, getting in its face and warning him not to do that again with a serious growl in your voice will make a dog trying to dominate you regret his choices…
We were dogsitting my Sister’s malamute. I discovered he’d peed on my stuff in an Alpha move. Snapped at me when I tried grabbing him to rub his face in it as punishment. So I flipped him like a pancake, latched a hand on his throat, got RIGHT in his face and made it plainly obvious *I* was the Alpha…
Well, to do that without getting your face chewed off pretty much requires that you be capable of readily killing the dog with your bare hands (if you can keep the dog pinned and its muzzle controlled well enough to bite at its throat without getting bit yourself, choking the dog to death or utilizing lethal grappling maneuvers should be well within your capabilities), it makes a good deal of sense that the dog would submit. I do wonder if the teeth are necessary – would a firm grip with your fingers on the throat suffice? Of course, using your teeth makes the story more likely to make it to the news – “Dog Bites Man” isn’t news, but “Man Bites Dog” is, after all.
Just forcing them onto their backs and then growling should be enough in most cases, as on their back a dog is defenseless and it knows it. Speaking from the experience of living with dogs for 18 years.
I have been told that the best thing to do with a dog biting you is to stick your arm down his throat.
Nah I think that’s for tigers.
Mountain lions it works. Tigers just bite and swallow.
Now, eye gouging? That works on basically everything that’s got eyes, if you can pull it off.
This whole conversation reminds me of a neighbor when I was a kid; They owned a St Bernard, and had trained it to respond to “Sic ’em!”; It would run up to you, front paws on your shoulders, and severely lick your face.
That would soil your briefs if you weren’t already in on the joke.
Big enough dog and you’re just not going to have an arm anymore.
So Sydney had her licked?
Only one of the tonguelashings that Parfait is likely to get after this incident.
Just use the Pathfinder 2e logic of succeeding your will save, then add insult and injury by dunking on the succubus in consecutive turns for 2d6 free psychic damage.
Just imagine, Max Ordering extra willpower training for everyone and when they complain, Max points out sydney retained control while at ground zero
“Retained control” might not be entirely accurate.
We need more information.
That said, yeah, nobody is going to want to be out-classed by *jingles keys*…
Regained control.
Attained control.
Something like that.
Math did ok.
I’ve been thinking about Math for a while, actually.
I suspect that part of his schtick is an extreme awareness of his own body and mind.
It is very possible that once he was essentially ordered to be less of a hopeless lech, he started treating self-control as something a martial discipline, properly. Now, obviously there are going to be limits to that for a “meer mortal,” but given that it seems that he & Jabbers were sparring (again) at the time, I think that probably accounts for his greater control.
That’s all speculation, of course, but I feel reasonably confident out the probability.
Her ADHD not only provides her with an initiative bonus, she may be “too distractible to fixate“.
No…more like too fixated to distract.
all of the above?
It isn’t about willpower, because no one else knew there was something they should even try resisting. They just felt horny and went for it. Sydney knew there was mind control and the situation was dangerous and therefore was the only one who made a willpower check to begin with.
That said, at least the guard needs to work on his discipline.
Considering how everyone else struggled against the effects and how far she had advanced on Sydney… I say she did pretty well all things considering.
Remember they have literally hypnotic powers and can even make others not attracted to women suddenly become very attracted. Dealing with one suddenly falling into a lust pit making everyone forgot what they should be doing to just (censored) is hard… Getting the first idea that might work when every other thought is focused on not stopping it is hard enough.
Props Sydney and maybe get something to help deal with future incidents like this one.
Sydney has demonstrated resilience against auras before.
When Dabbler blasted the entire command staff with her lust aura (to flush out the invisible minder), Sydney was least affected and first to recover (I think).
During the restaurant brawl she managed to keep herself controlled enough to not succumb to Vehemence’s aura, and realised when she started slipping.
In Galtyn, when Parfait accidentally hypnoboobed her, she revealed to have been paralysed by the effect but not zonked-out (resulting in her boob-smashing both Dabbler and Parfait and being quite angry about the way those two talked about her)
And now she shook off Parfait’s lust aura when it was at least partially directed at her (and partially at Parfait herself).
Could possibly the unknown amazeball have a single passive unlocked for ‘resistance against mind alteration’?
During the restaurant fight Sydney was bubbled off. When she got bubbly with Kevin, she quickly developed angry thougts until Kev turned off the aura.
Syd resisted it inside the bubble for a bit, he only dropped it when he realized his aura wasn’t getting to everyone anymore. Like trying to jump-start a car and the jumper cables come loose mid-crank.
She didn’t do it to flush out X, that was just a side-effect that she had already known about
I believe You are correct, it’s a side-effect of the orbs, they defy detection by magical or mechanical methods, it only makes sense that would extend to Sydney to a degree.
> Considering how everyone else struggled against the effects
I’m not sure “struggled” is the right term, given that they weren’t aware anything was wrong they needed to struggle against. Sydney did, so she could focus her willpower on resisting.
Kinda hard to pull off “finger in the butt hole” unless they’re naked, though, so you’re not going to see that in most fights.
My go to, in the event I actually get in a serious fight again, (God forbid, I’m in my 60’s now.) is the index finger in that pocket right behind your ear lobe. “TW-17”, technically.
It works kind of like a Vulcan nerve pinch, except for the screaming…
Technically you could put your hand into their pants to get to their butt hole. But unless you’re intensely grappling, it would be really hard to hit. Hell, it would be hard to hit in a naked fistfight. At least one on one.
Just jamming your finger into the area even while they’re clothed should have sufficient effect
It works. Just ask John Hopoate!
I was just thinking about him, imagine making the news for doing that in a footy game.
Doesn’t have to enter, just get uncomfortably (or too comfortable) to get their attention
And how many dogs do you know who wear pants?
And now we come to the consequences of the apparently rapey part of succubi.
Teenagers are impulsive.
They are also kinda repulsive
Few of them impulsive enough to ignore a partner telling them to stop.
You would assume that consent is something that is heavily drilled into them from the moment they can talk. Succubi being what they are is just a fact of their existence, but they have been shown to care about their reputation with other races. They have to be to get willing masters. Parfait has just unintentionally confirmed several of the worse assumptions about succubi, at least ones that don’t involve their history as spies and assassins.
I also find it strange that her lust aura effects the whole building. Implication I got from when Dabbler has used it is that it only worked on people who were aware of the succubus’ presence (sight, sound, etc)
So either it working through walls is somehow unique to Parfait, or Succubi have far more morally dubious abilities and danger. There is the question of how far you can take some sort of “suggestion magic” before it becomes a form of mind control.
I am leaning towards it just being a thing Parfait can do, effecting everyone in a radius would be very inconvenient for the wizards who made succubi. You wouldn’t want your servants to be unable to do their jobs, or everyone in wizard college to know every time you activated your sex doll homunculus.
Interesting points.
It may simply be a matter of training to control the output…I’m thinking something like how nuclear reactors work in terms of fuel rods, shielding, etc.
Or, it might be something to do with her admittedly unusual parentage, with her being part efreeti & part djinni as well.
I’m sure we’ll find out.
They probably have Fae levels of rules over consent, mainly surrounding how to gain consent.
Sydney’s bustier than she lets on! :)
That’s what I was thinking too!
Welcome to the magic of push up bras
(who needs magic to hypnotise men?)
she just needs to bust loose.
Either how she is holding herself, or lust aura has some side effects.
Always has been. We’ve had WoG since basically the beginning that her self-image is flatter than her real body.
I like Parfait, but having her carelessly do attempted/partially successful rape is uh, not good. And the insistence on making every page comedic just makes it even more uncomfortable to read. Some topics need to be treated seriously.
I suspect that will be coming.
And I suspect it will actually be Dabbles who does it.
Which is probably for the best.
I suspect it won’t. Dave has shown in the past that when the issues with succubi come to the forefront it’s either laughed off or has a pretty dumb explanation. Keep in mind he called the people who had an issue with this “peal clutchers” too.
We shall see.
I don’t recall the prior responses, but from your description sounds like it might be something along the line of TVTropes’ “Rule of Funny”, which is how I’m viewing it — in fiction, it’s expected to occasionally invoke violations of how things would go In Real Life(tm), i.e. breaking conventions, or the laws of physics, or normal laws/ethics/behavior, etc., if it makes the tale sufficiently more funny, or cool, or sexy, or whatnot. That’s what makes fiction more entertaining than nonfiction (usually).
In short, it’s fiction, don’t take it too seriously if the characters get flattened by an anvil or some other thing that would normally be out of bounds in real life. Anyone who does get too huffy about it (aside from maybe pointing out “don’t try this at home, kids”) is likely appropriately labeled a pearl clutcher.
I mean you also have fiction informing people who aren’t familiar with norms around sex and making them think “it’s not that big a deal if your partner doesn’t stop when you tell them to”.
If that’s pearl clutching then people who engage in safe sane consensual BDSM are all pearl clutchers.
For a one off gag yeah you deffinitely can get away with being flippant about lots of things. The shock of how it is treated is part of the punchline. But with it part of a longer plot like this just makes the whole thing irreverant.
Seriousness is a good contrast to comedy, can even make the comedy hit harder when done right. And Dave has shown he can treat things seriously. Sydney’s experience being trapped alone on the Alari homeworld a good example.
Things being presented as jokes doesn’t change the content of what that thing is. You can’t say a racist joke without saying racist things afterall.
But really it’s just like Ichneumon said, based on past experience, I’m mainly worried that Dave is going to brush aside the fact that Sydney has just had a friend do, at minimum, aggravated sexual assault and possibly also rape against her while ignoring her explicitly telling them to stop.
Dabbler shutting down “things that make sex happen” is quite a statement.
But I also expect Dabs will have her big sister hat on, rather than her succubi-make-things-sexy hat on.
Also my thinking.
To complete the square, we have finger-in-the-eye, which is a cornerstone of Stooge-Fu; and tongue-in-the-butt, which would DEFINITELY escalate things with Parfait in a way that Sydney does not appear to have wanted.
The last time anything like that ever came up to me was when my German Shepard managed to sneak into our bedroom when my (newlywed) wife and I were busy, when you’re looking at your partner’s face and you suddenly feel a cold, wet nose, EVERYTHING stops! I could almost hear something deflate. (yelling ensues…)
Damn. They got pretty far before Sidney de-escalated. Guess she tried less extreme attempt to get her attention but they just were mistaken for foreplay.
Definitely curious about the fallout of this, but given that Dabbler’s other friend got away with little more than a mild scolding for turning a supervillain into pasta sauce, I’m not expecting more than a lecture, an extensive but ultimately temporary strain on their friendship and Sidney being made to do extensive PT and laps. Don’t quote me on that, though.
I don’t really see this as Sydney’s fault, tbh.
I do expect that Dabbles will keep lots of whatever it was Parfait was saying she needed on hand, though.
Let’s not forget, the girl did specifically try to explain what was happening and how to stop it before she was overwhelmed.
That count for a lot, in my book.
It’s not that I see this as her “fault”, but Max is not gonna let this go without at LEAST a very stern lecture and a “Discuss if it’s okay with us first next time!” warning. She’s military, after all, and we’ve seen how she punishes subordinates before.
In Sydney’s defense, she _did_ consult with one of the in-house experts.
And had Anvil’s approval with Max off-base and busy.
Gwen is hardly an ‘expert’
She willingly summoned a walking sex crime.
She absolutely shares fault here.
Just because she suffered from her actions doesn’t absolve her of fault. Imagine alone how many marriages are fucked now because Sidney can’t use common sense for one moment in her life.
Sydney is not at fault here. She summoned a friend who happened to be an still in training succubus. That’s not ‘willingly summoning a walking sex crime’ as you put it.
How was she supposed to know her friend whom she had previously seen in complete control would lose that control? I Sydney had known something like this would happen she likely would have asked Dabbler about it before summoning Parfait.
> Imagine alone how many marriages are fucked now
None.
Arianna phoned her spouse. Gwen went for her porn stash. Anvil got her vibrator.
No-one destroyed their marriages over this.
ok, Ariana is married
Anvil, all 5 Harems, Max, heatwave, peggy, are all single. of the named characters.. who else is married?
also, not every spouse considers infidelity a death sentence, and in this situation may have wished for a call (like Ariana did) but have a little understanding, as well as some jealousy. (being horny can be fun I’m told)
You mean the supervillain that was torturing Sydney and was about to shoot her in the head in an attempt to collect her balls?
That supervillain?
To be fair, that super villain was about to kill a teammate.
And I didn’t object to killing him to save Sidney. But she didn’t have to do it in a way that made Sidney lose her lunch, or produce so much gore that even the supervillain’s KIDNAPPING VICTIM was like “Dude, even *I* think that was excessive.”
I admittedly have questions about the conditions that prompted the development of that sort of ordnance.
*concerned meme*
I’m not going back there… but didn’t she say that this was in her ‘less lethal’ pile?
I to am concerned with what made developing that round seem like a good idea.
then I am reminded of some of the ‘stunt’ guns made in the US, and I am terrified that I know how.
No, she said, “Maxima asked us to us ‘nonlethal,’ but…”oops.”
I assume it’s for targets that can take lots of punishment when collateral damage is a concern. The Unwinder will stop an enemy who needs to be cut into small pieces. You could use grenades, but that will throw shrapnel at people in the vicinity, whereas Sydney was (physically) fine right next to an Unwinder going off.
> Dabbler’s other friend got away with little more than a mild scolding for turning a supervillain into pasta sauce
Because no one could prove it was wasn’t necessary to kill him defending Sydney’s life. And once it does appear necessary to kill him, the state the body is left in becomes a side note. Gory isn’t a problem. Murder would be, but Maxima thought it was defense of others, not murder.
Is that Astarion I see in panel 6?
https://youtu.be/h2vUWzv4KnY?si=UFHjiBkaH0hygEuc
https://youtu.be/6CNAL3kFRDo?si=Xx3I2NznkVrg5HhZ
You’re welcome, all my Astarion fans. ^_^
That’s who I saw so either he’s a fellow BG3 player or maybe we just play too much. :)
Huh, resisting that is impressive work by Sydney. She’s had more experience than most people with manipulated emotions, but still!
Does the ADHD actually make you less vulnerable, because you’re used to moderating sudden impulses?
Hyperfixation is a thing, not gonna lie.
This has nothing to do with why my FFXIV character went from having not touched the Fishing job for ten years to being level 1 -> 78 about 24 hours, complete with getting the cool flying shark mount.
Nope, these are entirely unrelated
*cough*
Uh…
Y-yeah.
*zero eye contact*
Totally.
That’s what I was thinking!
…her Adhd is what allowed her to brea free of the lust aura release, she just distracted herself from it ^^
ironically, it seems that in Japan, licking your sexual partner’s eyeball is actually a thing they do (it actually developed into a health crisis)
Because of course they did.
They invented tentacle porn, so why does this surprise literally anyone? X’D
I’m sure they didn’t invent it, but they did make animated sequences and art depicting it. ;}
“RELEASE THE PINK LATEX KRAKEN!!!”
I wonder if in years yet to come they will conclude that part of Japan’s birthrate issues was the enormous number of kinks they pioneered. young people got too intimidated to try anything.
Heh.
No…
It just happens that economically prosperous and stable societies tend to have lower birth rates, as there is more focus on quality of life than on large families for the sake of large families.
Of course, then you run into late stage capitalism, where people suddenly face the fact that they no longer have the resources to support a family at all, and as the drive for wealth extraction from the labor class towards the parasite class intensifies, birth rates continue to decline.
Bharda: “Of course, then you run into late stage capitalism, where people suddenly face the fact that they no longer have the resources to support a family at all, and as the drive for wealth extraction from the labor class towards the parasite class intensifies, birth rates continue to decline.”
I’m sorry, your sentence contains only four emotionally stacked buzzphrases smuggling in unsupported premises. In order to be a proper Hero Of The People, you’d need to cram in at least three more in order to demonstrate sufficient Support Of The Revolution(tm). Maybe add in a “Bourgeois Imperialist Running Dogs”, that’s always a crowd-pleaser. Report to the Council for additional reeducation, Comrade.
In the meantime, feel free to compare the median household incomes in whatever countries meet your hand-wavy (non)definition of “late stage capitalism” against the median household incomes in the various Worker’s Paradise Republics and get back to us regarding where it’s actually easier to “have the resources to support a family at all”. For extra credit, explain why there are mass net migrations of people choosing to leave the latter and move to the former (when they’re allowed to leave at all, of course). While you’re at it, compare and contrast median household incomes in real-world examples of “early stage capitalism” and “mid-stage capitalism” vs “late stage capitalism” (across time in the same area(s), not across disparate regions).
Okay, let’s do.
1: “Emotionally stacked buzzphrases,” is an emotionally stacked buzzphrase, used in this case to dismiss documented and reported facts. Real incomes have been falling against productivity gains for decades, at the same time that the cost of living has been increasing – during periods of control by either flavor of neoliberalism – and this itself has coincided with declining union membership (and rampant union busting, thanks Ronnie Ray-gun) and the offshoring of labor to nations with loose or nonexistent labor laws. If wages (ie the price of labor) had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage alone would be well over $20 an hour.
You may not like the language used to summarize all this long-hand information, but that’s irrelevant.
2: Your regurgitation of tired-ass red scare tropes from the Cold War – “reeducation” – demonstrates that you not only don’t know what you’re talking about, but are hoping to use the strategy of “winning by controlling the conversation and looking to be on the offensive,” which is both bog standard reactionary/conservative nonsense, and so threadbare at this point that even the least educated can’t help seeing it as the deflection it is. Basically, “never be defending” is now well enough known that nobody is really buying it, and I’m not obliged to play your game.
Feel free to strut around the board, though, we all know what pigeon chess looks like.
3: Nobody is talking about “Worker’s Paradises” except you, who are dragging them through as a red herring to deflect from the material critique of “fewer and fewer people can actually afford to have and raise families as result of capitalist systems further concentrating wealth in fewer and fewer hands.” Irrespective of whether or not some other place is doing better or worse under a different system, the facts about _this_ place – the US Imperial Core – remain unchanged, and nobody is interested in playing whataboutism games with you.
The fallacy of relative privation is no more acceptable now than ever it was, and it is a _tired_ old dog.
4: Strangely enough the fact that there is a bad situation for the labor class here does not mean that there can’t be relatively worse situations elsewhere. For example, I imagine there are a lot of people in a specific part of eastern Europe right now that are super motivated to move, given that there is a literal shooting war happening right in their own home town. Same-same ethnic minorities in India. Or Africa. Or Southeast Asia.
Basically, even someone otherwise content with their life someplace else, once ordnance fills the air, will be motivated to be someplace else.
Okay, good talk.
Now feel free to take your butthurt and bother literally anyone else.
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I agree very much!!!
If you personally aren’t a billionaire, then you are far more likely to be a climate refugee then retire in your lifetime.
“Temporarily embarrassed millionaire”
It also turns out that we can invent many other very pleasurable and/or addictive pastimes that have a far lower barrier to entry.
That finger in the butt is a legal move in various wrestling styles. Also known as “Oil Check”.
It’s against all combat rule sets I’ve checked though that isn’t wrestling specific.
It’s weird when rules aren’t fully contained in text sometimes. Often if something normally banned isn’t listed so you check, it turns out it is banned. In MMA (basically toy fighting for adults) for example the text always says controlled falls / throws are permitted though even when they are used the ref calls them uncontrolled. Very few martial arts use uncontrolled falls. Nobody wants student’s injuring other students. Maintaining control assists following into groundwork.
It’s not *legal* legal, but it’s not something a ref is going to usually watch for.
Source: wrestler for two years in school, did some amateur mat rolling as an adult.
Often you see wrestling styles where you can win, or at least score a point when you can get your opponent to the ground while you remain standing. That is, as combat sports where preparations for the battlefield when the rules were made, because on a battlefield when you go to the ground you are out of action, very likely dead. Many opponents around that like to do the stabby stabby with grounded enemies.
You can call that historic, or even obsolete in a modern context. But still, these styles are what they are. Not every combat sport needs to be good in MMA. Not every fencer needs to be good in “All melee weapons allowed”. There are specializations.
Not everyone who is down, is out of the fight, hence the ‘stabby stabby the grounded enemies’
P.S. I don’t know what nonsense Sidney’s been taught about dogs but I don’t care how viciously I get bitten, I am not putting any part of me in a dog’s asshole. That’s disgusting and unhygienic. Whoever said that probably just had a fetish.
Dont think I didnt see asterion back there.
Sydney is related to Steve Irwin?
Unfortunate implication, Parfait could be a crocodile…
Just as long as she’s not a stingray
Parfait works pretty quickly. Pretty sure Sydney still had her top on when this started.
So she’s vanilla flavored? [Rimshot]
…because she’s sobered by a break from very vanilla- uh- “actions”? Not entirely sure how to actually word this. Basically I spend waaay too much time visiting EH and have seen eyeball stuff but it’s more the reference to butt stuff that inspired the attempt at a joke. Although now I wonder if succubi can get pinkeye.
Also I though it was down the dog’s throat? Why would you want to touch their butts?!
Their throat is behind their teeth, so that seems like a really bad idea
Well the idea is to make them gag. Dissuade further biting for at least a few seconds.
It happens during rugby tackles… well, I’m not going to say *frequently*… but it happens.
Parfait is lucky that Sydney ‘Trillion’ Scoville did not have one of her customary dinners.
I do not think that the doctor can heal a ten million scoville lick of a non-human eyeball…
Sydney got her food in her eye once and it only turned her into mini Sagat for a while.
Max and Dabbler should show up at this point and what happens next is up to your imagination…!
You need to watch Everything Everywhere All At Once for unusual objects being used for fight scenes.
Any Jackie Chan (or Charlie Chaplin) fight scene
Charlie Chaplin teaching Jackie Chan how to fight would make a great flashback scene for a movie… He could spar against the Three Stooges, who are weaing yamaka with their gi.
there was something like this in a Jackie Chan movie, once, but I forget the actual movie title. Jackie’s character’s name sounded like John Wayne.
“Shanghai Noon”
A young Chaplin showed up in the sequel (can’t remember the name of the sequel, but it was also a pun)
thanks, yes, that was it!
The thing about the fight scene in They Live is that the actor was a professional wrestler. If anyone knows how to make a fight look interesting, that’s who.
Given the number of kisses and lack of clothing, I’m thinking Sydney took more than a moment to get to this point of resistance. Pretty sure SOME time (and activity) has passed…
Is that Astarion from BG3 in Panel 6?
When a succubus says “come again” it could have several meanings.
Multiple entendre communication is a mandatory multi-season course for succubi.
Sydney once again demonstrates tactical thinking under pressure and comes up with an unusual but workable solution. Honestly, she should be in Archon just for that – the fight with Vehemence would have resulted in either his death or the teams’ defeat if not for her thinking.
Ok… Since great martial arts and other fight scenes were mentioned…
The final fight scene in Master Killer 2 – Return to the 36th Chamber is also rather memorable because the hero uses techniques he learned while being punished for trying to get into the temple… by doing repairs on said temple. So he’s incorporating things like strips of bamboo used to quickly assemble scaffolding to literally tie up his opponents’ limbs during a fight in a textile dye factory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ1mW_hKdDE
And in the final fight the bad guys are all fighting with folding benches… while they all end up fighting on building scaffolding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5VIk-BOtG8
Here’s the final fight in Who Am I? with Jackie Chan where Jackie uses an opponent’s tie against him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNsj3oOQosU
Now… If you want an all out great martial arts movie with memorable fights all around… watch Chocolate (2006, starring JeeJa Yanin). The IMDb summary is “An autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother’s debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.” (She basically watches martial arts movies constantly and has the ability to mimic abilities. Think of someone like the Taskmaster from Marvel.) Here’s the memorable final battle that includes a one on many fight on an 18″ wide third floor window ledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTy6JKfb80
It comes soon after her fight with a guy who can best be described as a severely Tourette’s afflicted breakdancer. (It’s a lot cooler than it sounds, because it makes his fighting style very unpredictable.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-QOCV6LTA
And the major result of this strip for me is, I want to make a Chinese bench. They seem to be surprisingly sturdy and that size and shape would actually be pretty useful in the workshop.
Finger in butt? There’s a Jitsu for that.
10,000 years of pain. (Or shame if happens in public. )
It’s “Thousand Years of Death” A rather unfitting name given it would likely be far more painful than deadly.