Grrl Power #1384 – Grrl Power #1384 – Sydney’s eating problem
I’ve shown Frix wet before, so we know he isn’t all fluff like an owl. But in panel 4 there, he does look a little skinny without all his fur brushed just right. Anatomical quirk, or rule of funny? You be the judge.
Wearing a “Glowbod” would be a lot like wearing prosthetic makeup, in that it’s physically there. Or at least presents as a solid surface to touch. I would think that if you’re glued into a werewolf snout, you have to eat lunch through a straw because it takes 8 hours to get into the makeup, and the director, producer and FX team won’t let you try and eat a manwich with your fake muzzle. The main difference with a glowbod is that there’s no weight or spirit gum tugging on your forehead fuzz and pressing into your face, making you feel like you just got botox.
Cora and crew have the super advanced version of this hard light hologram system, in fact, they’re using a less comprehensive version of what Cora uses to generate her limbs and outfits. She has full sensory inputs transmitted through her hard light projections… context appropriate inputs – she doesn’t feel pain if someone stabs her in the armor plating, but she does if she steps on a lego barefoot. She can dial up or down the sensitivity of those inputs as well, naturally. The version Sydney and Co. are using has haptic feedback, and some muted temperature sensory pass through, but that’s about it.
There’s probably some algorithm (I refuse to call such a thing “A.I.”) that watches facial expression and body language and translates that to ear and tail movements, or wing twitches, or whatever extraneous body parts are included in the illusion, but it takes a while to observe a learn how the person wearing the glowbod behaves.
There is a new one coming soon, I promise!
The vote incentive is finally done!
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Panel 9 is just teeming with vote incentive potential
Was going to put up $20 for a next vote incentive bet that has Sydney in this ‘skin’
getting frisky with Frixy xD
I’d wait before placing that bet. It was strongly hinted yesterday that the next few (several?) issues would feature a montage of potential Sydney outfits. I’m guess that “Frix” has quite a few really good ones ready to show “her”.
Halo – if we don’t keep this…disguise. How long until you can pull my tail…in the bedroom? Wait was that me or? Okay (blushing) how do I suddenly know 1001 intimate uses for tails in the bedroom?”
It would be AI, just not Generative AI / LLMs, more classic AI like recommendation systems, or the more subtle ones Google used to use before they decided Gemini is above everything
Given how much in love the techbros are with their ‘AI’ systems (quotes very much intended and required), I do not want to bet how long before they decide to one-up Elon Musk and offer to have the government replaced entirely by their love affair(s).
Starting with the judiciary of course …
I think the Techbros are too busy trying to create the Omnissiah (even if unintentionally) to create an AI judiciary.
Though they might end up creating the ‘other President’ from Avenue 5.
I don’t think such an advanced society would use machine learning for that.
Machine learning is a way to bypass understanding requirements with huge swaths of comparable data, but a. I think they would have sufficient understanding of faces to be able to get a serious boost in accuracy and performance to do it with custom rules and b. I think they would need a more easily updated system to deal with new species.
Regarding the eating while in makeup/disguise, there were a few videos about this that are still floating around from back when the did Planet of the Apes. Mark Lenard even spoke about it at a Trek convention I attended. About eating on camera, I think it was a carrot or celery stick, and shoving the whole thing in the ape mouth but only being able to take a small nibble off the end.
Frix needs to get on that Vegeta neck workout routine.
DaveB swinging hard for the scaly viewership huh?
I’m down.
So interesting.
Advanced infiltration in a complete little brother style monitored society.
If you ask me this is just the tip of the iceberg.
What about vehicle tracking.
On earth the further a vehicle travels the more easy it has to make tracking it.
Airplanes broadcast their next stop, owner, product id and oa few other things loud and clear for anyone with the right equipment to pick up and publish its travel planning on the internet for everybody to read.
Boats are subject to similair scrutiny.
Cars have license plates, serial numbers, a publicly accessible license plate register and now in the EU lawfully mandated mobile connection.
Bycicles have just serial numbers.
Can you imagine the rules around FTL capable starships.
They also need to go through some gates controlled by third parties.
Do they halfway switch to mass transit, keep track of surrounding space ships to immitate, etc.
What about individual tracking.
Sure someone’s phone can’t immediately recognize Sydney based on a picture, but if lot devices know this much it’s save to assume that there are big cooperations sitting on enough data to determine the individual location and movement of entire populations(assuming some market fragmentation, due to regulation).
These cooperations won’t be fooled by some hard light disguise, since this space kobold is not in their database.
Also I’ve been assuming big cooperations are needed for this, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the public has enough access to data to be certain they can identity every individual.
You would need to fake being a certain individual or find an individual all people who don’t want to be tracked spoof to be.
Or what about casual sensor availability.
Sure hard light fools camera’s, but does it fool radar, sonar, gravitational wave detection and psychic scanners.
Oh and money.
With the introduction of crypto currency tracking money flows went from a diplomatic nightmare to something that can be approximated in someone’s garage. These people are probably way more advanced, so tracking money flows is probably an automatic feature in every payment device.
I’m very certain they already have a laundring scheme, but do they also have a reverse laundring scheme to make expenses non-relatable to their person.
You only focused in the tech side of this ecuation…
…add magic to the mixture.
Well int the grrlpower verse there’s a magic equivalent to x-ray scanning as demonstrated on Sydney’s orbs and that is an issue, because her orbs actually detectable by absence through this scanning technique.
As such they would probably need to fill Sydney’s orb container with something magically active, but uninteresting.
There is magic veil busting tuned against succubi veils, but maybe also effective for other purposes.
Succubi tuned attractiveness spells can be used in fingerprinting techniques, but I don’t think that is that commonplace to get through the little brother requirement. Maybe important for Maxima’s disguise.
AEolith mind reading is in the same non-little brother category.
Also thanks to succubi history magic seems great at mind based analysis.
In the tech category, while universal translators help communicating they also allow for immediate language recognition and thus origin recognition.
On the category of mind based analysis would space port scanners have MRI capability.
If it can learn beyond it’s programming and self evolve, it’s AI (artificial intelligence). If it can only do what it’s programmed to and is completely bound by it’s protocols, it’s a VI (virtual intelligence). The main difference is the learning ability, AI can learn and even create without outside input while VI is completely dependent on outside input for instruction, learning focus and creation.
By that definition all fora and wikis are ai and neither handwriting recognition and facial recognition are ai.
Forums and wikis do exactly what the editors tell them to do. They are in no way an AI.
You’re a pretty sucky chatbot if you don’t do mostly to fully what the users tells you to do and wikis and fora become illegal file hosting sites pretty fast if they do exactly what their users tell them.
Most to all have as such all kind of automatic systems screwing with their desires(moderation).
Also that wasn’t part of eldestdawns definition.
Wonder if the orbs have a feature like this hidden in them? Disguises/cloaking would fit quite well together as an option somewhere. Maybe stuck under the Comms orb? Since it’s got the Truesight and Telepresence.
Might also require at least one orb link in the skill tree, given it’s solid. So either the forcefield or lighthook orbs. Or both . Assuming the physical isn’t just an upgrade, but I don’t think it would be separate like that, given that whoever created the orbs, would likely have already encountered the same thing via sensors easily seeing through it. Outside of maybe being the ‘training wheels’. Or having some lesser use. A ‘preview’ mode?
But it would be pretty funny if Sydney ends up unlocking a bit of the orbs skill tree from this, only to find out on next level up. Since she has done something similar, outside of that really being a ‘skill grinded and auto-applied the point once it was earned’ or something.
Even if they don’t they offer some serious tricks to make her disguises much better.
Flight and featherfall can help her imitate some large species.
The comm orb can help her fake sensoric imput she doesn’t have(+teleport for screwing with movement analysis).
The air orb allows her to produce arbitrary breathing patterns.
The Lighthook allows her to fake limbs.
The forcefield orb screws probably with all kinds of Sensors and at least allows her resist physical attacks.
Just noticed the left fang. Yeah, adorbz about covers it.
Speaking of orbz, I presume the projection also masks her orbiting hardware? Or will she need to go with the original solution of coaxing them into a carrier?
Panel 9 without context might be considered NSFW…
You did that on purpose!
Honestly, if the lamp actually could track ovulation schedules genuinely, there are a lot of women who would do just about anything to get one of them!
AI is a useful tool, but we’re seriously doing it wrong. There’s a time for learning and there’s a time for having learned, and i feel the galactic civilization you’re depicting is mostly well into the ‘learned’ stage as far as stuff like this disguise go. To be clear, I’m not saying that there’s an end of things to know. But there is an end to having your daily experience be subjected to blunders because your disguise system’s vendor doesn’t know what to anticipate you’ll encounter and providing you with software that can attempt to figure something out is worth the risks of providing you with software that can mistake a common scenario for something novel and do something truly bizarre to attempt to compensate for it.
Is plum being misspelled a typo or just him pronouncing it weird?
Bloody Chadra-fan and their natural echolocation ruining perfectly good holo-disguises…
I’m sorry but I must ask about the tongue (Not like that you gutter heads). I mean is the tongue affected by the holo magic or is she walking around with a human sized tongue in a dog sized mouth, because that’s a lot of empty space. However if her tongue is longer what happened to her original mouth then. Is it still there or was it sent to a different dimension. I didn’t expect to get this invested but now I can’t stop thinking about this. And now I have a hundred more questions, damn it.