Grrl Power #1433 – A handful of complaints
For this page, I did google “how long do boobs take” or… something along those lines. Obviously the answer varies from person to person, and in a the cruelest twist of the knife, the age that they actually start growing varies by years, a fact that is no doubt responsible for all sorts of insecurities. If you’re the first girl in your class, I assume all the other girls get envious while you turn into a bundle of self-consciousness, and if you’re the last girl, I can only imagine the derisive remarks from the popular enboobened mean girls and boys who are jerk-butts.
Sydney is clearly trying to convince herself that big boobs are dumb. She knows the holo-boobs are temporary, and while she also knows that Frix could probably medical her up a permanent enhancement, like I said, she doesn’t particularly suffer from A-cup angst. She might be able to talk herself around to a B-cup, but among all the other reasons not to do it, she’s a very public figure and she probably wouldn’t be excited to read all the comments online about it.
All that said, Sydney’s next question will be, “So do the showers have holo-projectors in them?” She already knows they have full-length steam-free mirrors, much to her horror. Fortunately they’re optional. They’re actually part of the holo system, which does, in fact, mean there are scanners of some sort in the showers. Because Cora and crew are perverts… by our Terran and especially American standards. No scanners in the toilets though. They’re space perverts, not German. But while Sydney’s not thrilled with watching herself in a full-length mirror while she’s sudsing her gunge, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t know how to have fun with holo-jumblies in the shower. Especially if holo-system can touch up any areas she’s not fully happy with.
Hey, quick question. Is the web page slow for you guys? I can’t figure it out, because on my work computer, and the laptop I used when I was visiting my parents’ house (which I now use in our game room when I’m posting the comic some nights) the web page is unbelievably slow. Like, 20-30 seconds to refresh the page. When I’m posting the comic, I keep getting messages from WordPress that I’ve lost connection to the server and saving is disabled, and that pops on and off and I have to wait to get the new post updated. My computer is connected to the router with ethernet, and the laptop is on wi-fi. But here’s the thing – If I check the page on my phone using the same wi-fi connection, the page comes right up. Same thing on my wife’s phone. And when I checked the page on my phone using some business’s wi-fi, it came right up. I’ve tried Firefox and chrome on my work machine and laptop, and I can’t figure out what the heck is going on. Maybe it’s some plugin I’m using since both machines are running basically the same configuration, but I couldn’t guess which one might be causing it, since I’m not running a “make your own personal website dog-ass slow” plugin, but I thought I’d see if the page was really slow for anyone else.
Here is Gaxgy’s painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.
I did try and do an oil painting version of this, by actually re-painting over the whole thing with brush-strokey brushes, but what I figured out is that most brushy oil paintings are kind of low detail. Sure, a skilled painter like Bob Ross or whoever can dab a brush down a canvas and make a great looking tree or a shed with shingles, but in trying to preserve the detail of my picture (eyelashes, reflections, etc) was that I had to keep making the brush smaller and smaller, and the end result was that honestly, it didn’t really look all that oil-painted. I’ll post that version over at Patreon, just for fun, but I kind of quit on it after getting mostly done with re-painting Max.
Patreon has a no-dragon-bikini version of of the picture as well, naturally.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Page is normal speed on my end, both on 5g and local network.
Are we about to see Maxima throw the Godzilla-lite at one of the other contestants? :P
Huh. Submitting the comment did lag a little, but outside of that nothing.
Site running normal. Page loads up immediately. I’m on fiber.
Ditto, loads fine for me. The comment section avitars don’t load but that’s been a thing for years and I think it’s an issue with cross site linking to gravitar.
I’m pretty sure you could go from B to A, or A to B, without anyone noticing too much. Between yesterday’s sports bra and today’s push up bra, a tighter or looser tshirt, and the fact boobs will change size over your monthly cycle anyway, who’s going to know for sure?
Aaand Sydney want to Gainax immediately. Anime fan indeed
Or she is going full Selma Blair from “a dirty shame”.
Same type of physics it appears.
I went to the strip club scene in “The Graduate”.
Sydney is trying to spin them in opposite directions. Obviously she’s working on the Elvira Tassel Twirl trick first before going full Plastic Little.
Nothing wrong with being a german pervert, we like to be methodical and thorough. All with the correct written permissions, safety standards and TUV/DIN/ISO certificates.
The lavatory cubicles in one of the Cafes in Koeln are made of glass that turns frosted when you lock the door. The Germans do toilet humour better than anyone except the Japanese with their singing urinals!
Cora explained that all Space humans are abductees from Earth and/or their descendants.
I doubt the idea that no alien ever abducted a German. Ergo, there must be Space Germans (and hopefully of the gemütliche beer+pretzel variant), and it follows there are likely Space German perverts. Maybe even in Cora’s lineage.
On a related note, the world seems to have weird ideas what typical German kinks are.
I live in NJ and a bit slow.
I refreshed the page when I saw the question and it took twenty seconds to try and refresh. Then had a busy logo as I began typing this reply.
I hope that helps.
DeSantis, even now, you can easily afford reduction surgery x five, if you need it.
Or you can afford some hypertech gadget, like an antigrav bra, that will give allow you to have your boobs pain-free.
I don’t feel sorry for you.
Does surgery even work long term on a superpowered body?
Apparently calorie consumption doesn’t change it, nor does exercise. If you’re a super, you have the sort of body that takes great genetics, lots of targeted exercise, and dehydration before the photoshoot. But it’s effortless.
I’m thinking it’s a reality distortion field and any change goes into the superion field (or some other handwavium).
Neither Sydney nor Peggy are supers, so they can change.
Does she know that for certain, or is she extrapolating from normal, non-Super humanity? Isn’t she considerably stronger and more resilient than normal humans even when all of her bodies are out, getting even stronger when not all are active?
On a different note, I’d be very sad to see Sydney permanently upsize. I’m happily married to a woman with her body type and think she’s perfect – and very, very sexy – just the way she is.
<1 sec page load, Windows, Firefox, 500 Mbs fiber
Try running Firefox is safe mode (i.e., w/o any extensions), to see if any of them are the problem.
Still going on about that German toilet myth? If you ask why we produce that sh*t, remember that most of our production is export-oriented.
How jaded they’ve become, that they prefer discussing hard light (hooray for Red Dwarf) holo-boobs when Maxima is fighting titans on the big screen while looking virtually naked…
Given the choice of watching hyperviolence on TV or strippers showing off in the room, which would you honestly pay more attention to?
(BTW the TV hyperviolence can be paused, rewound, zoomed in and enhanced, free camera, etc. for study and picking apart at one’s leisure.)
Aye, slow to load here, based out of Colorado (if that makes any difference)
Normal speed. Nebraska. Fiber. Firefox.
Busty Sydney looks GOOD!!!
Normal load speed here in California. Also – I ‘bloomed’ early as a kid – had ‘B’ cups by age 11, ‘D’ cups by age 17 and back-aches starting at age 15 with ‘C’ cups. ‘D’ cups are a literal pain, but it inspired me to do daily stretching exercises from teen onwards: hip curls that stretch the spine. The exercises help with the back pain.
I am currently age 68, still have ‘D’ cups – but unlike everyone else I know who are age 50+, I was 5’5″ as a teen and am still 5’5″ now. Everyone else seems to loose height from spinal compression, but I have not. So…yay?
You probably consumed enough calcium rich food as a kid. Keep up the calcium & vitamin ‘D’ to keep Osteo at bay.
Very nice Lady just up the road is now bent double with Osteoporosis, it will probably kill her in a few years as the bend will compress her lungs, as it did to author David Weber’s mother. Men can suffer from Osteo too.
As someone with basically double-double-double-extra-wide feet (13 EEEEE), I can confirm that the proportions on that downcoming foot are just about perfect. Good job.
I’m glad to see you actually commenting on the downside of large breasts. Sure they are fun during sex and flirting. But their weight, them getting in the way or just blocking your field of view. A lot of people don’t ever think of these things, unless you live with giant boobs.
UMBRage is pretty tough if something the size of an ant compared to him can lift his foot without going through it.
It’s explained WAY back between comics 67 and 68 in Dabbler’s first Science corner: she uses zero range telekinesis.
In other words, she extends her own flight energy field around the object she’s lifting to maintain structural (or molecular) integrity when lifting it.
You forget: that’s part of Maxi’s power-set, the same way Soupcan can lift a Boeing jet just from the nose (or when Maxi lifted the ecnalubmA that Sydney was hiding from the day star under, way back when… )
Maxi could go through his foot like a stepped-upon nail, but she’s choosing to just lift him (way more intimidating)
..Soupcan? That’s SOME typo auto-coorrect error.
Dave, there are MAY reasons for slowdowns, from noisy/bad links to viruses, to a disk going bad (BACKUP!), so I would do all of the above and also power down and up your computer. Winblows needs to be reset once in a while. Do the backup FIRST before anything else. Get a 2TB USB3 HDD external and copy everything.
Page loads in under 2 seconds here.
Windows does NOT need to be reset if you keep it clean. You can even run some tools that scan your registry for orphaned entries to optimize it.
The notion that Windows needs a reset is as outdated as the version it applied to (Windows ’98 and Windows ME)
Halo has gone from gorgeous to goddess. She may be having awe effects on others now
“Sidney, the fight?”
“Uh, oh, i forgot, hehe, jiggles”
Regarding your laptop being slow to load up, you said it is on Wi-Fi, right? Which Wi-fi standard, b, g n, or 6? Depending on how old the laptop is, it might not be using the current standard of Wifi 6, which is a big improvement over the older standards. You also need a router that supports that standard to make use of it, though. Have you tried connecting the laptop to the wired connection as well?
C’mon U.M.B. Rage! This is bullshit. They brought in a ringer. The fix is in! Also I gotta believe super privilege also applies to back muscles and thus boobage relief. Don’t feel bad Syd, none of these ladies are playing fair.
Yeah, that seems to be about right: natural-born ‘large tracts’ tend be slightly easier to live with because, as Daphne said, if it takes four or five years to ‘come in’ then you spine and back muscles have time to adjust (kinda like how babies start out barely able to hold their heads up and it takes time for their neck muscles to cope: to head off {pun intended :P } any comments, did say “kinda like” not “exactly the same”)
Point being: if you have time for the rest of the body to adjust to a gradual change (and not just bewbies) then it’s easier than having them slapped on in one day
Um, fat isn’t mostly water. You could make the argument that human breast tissue contains water, but it’s still mostly adipose tissue which is 80% lipids… And lipids are in general less dense than water.
This is correct. Human body fat is only 10-15% water, with most of the rest being, well, fat (lipids). Human breasts aren’t 100% fat since they are actually glands, so would have more water than pure fat tissue, but still.
The real reason very large breasts feel so disproportionately heavy is they are unsupported “dead” weights that hang and swing freely. As an example, anyone who’s experienced in carrying heavy packs knows that you can much more easily carry weight with a rigid frame pack supported by your entire back and hips than a basic bag with shoulder straps.
All true, but it is worth noticing that the density of human fat tissue is 0.9 to 0.92 g/cm3 compared to 1 g/cm3 for water, so not much of a difference.
I’m guessing it’s also because that weight is located relatively far from the balance point when you’re e.g. standing. It’s on top of your chest, so there’s…leverage to consider.
Muscle tends to be much more central, so it’s not as noticeable. Plus, well, it’s muscle. So moving it around is easier. And it generally takes much longer to grow.
Though you do still have momentum.
As for how you keep them from going in different directions: that’s what the Over-The-Shoulder Boulder-Holders are for
For me, the only ‘problem’ with the page is posted messages don’t show up straight away (a known issue) and sometimes messages that were up temporarily disappear after posting something (ie the post number goes down), which can make things slightly frustrating when there is a message would like to reply to that is suddenly not showing up again
Is the Referee going to call a Time-Out and check for cheating?
Maxima may be gaining unwanted attention.
How much money for coming in second?
Also…B should be sufficient for now. It’s a little awkward that it’s her boyfriend who puts them in.
And being able to summon a ‘not a black hole’ is perfectly fine?
Literally the only way to cheat is if she was multiple people.
And I doubt anyone could sneak on or off that area without being detected.
This is the kind of fight where, basically, everything the contestants do on the field would be considered cheating. Except maybe losing on purpose so that certain groups of betters win or loose thier bets.
This is just a preliminary round. She has to win this to even have a shot at finishing in the money.
Dave, how old is your computer?
Last year I had a desktop that was something like 15-odd years old. It ran my games, but in the last few years it was getting more & more hiccup-y. I used to leave it running for prolonged periods, but near the end I had to reset it every couple of days.
& yes, its ability to process web pages was also starting to suffer. I would have to reload pages that used to take only a few seconds to load, because they just….well…wouldn’t.
Last year I got a new rig (Well, new to me, but a hell of a lot better overall). All of those issues I had? Instantly gone. Including the issues with website loading.
Could it be your computer is just complaining about kids on its lawn?
Normal speeds in the Midwest on my phone/wifi.
For those of you who have been blessed by the tit fairy or have children who are going to be look up DDP Yoga. It strengthens your core muscles which are back, shoulders, and hips which are where women have problems with.
“but I thought I’d see if the page was really slow for anyone else.”
It is both fast and slow for me.
It is fast to see the image, formatting and all the writing on the page.
But there is something after everything relevant is drawn that 40 seconds to load or time out. Might be two different things.
If your browser decided not to show the image before that part, it would probably be treated as a whole page timeout.
Tablet, 5G sans wi-fi, under an airport flight path.
Grrlpower site suffers from signal loss about like any other website for me.
Follow the diagnostic advice others have offered.
The odds on Maxima will change after this, her first bout.
And other contestants will be gunning for her in succeeding rounds.
Where’s Cora’s projector? Doesn’t she normally wear it on her back even on-board ship? I remember her wearing her old mech limbs for a massage session b/c the projector got in the way.
[On the site – I reread recently, and most of the time it was fine, but there were periods where it was “dog slow” or even timed out constantly.]
The backpack holoemitter is probably a combat grade one. Cora probably wouldn’t need the ability to MegaMan her arm into a plasma cannon in a masseuse parlor.
AI driven DDS wars are only a matter of time. Or lack of it, on servers. Shut ’em down.
“We” probably should, but I suspect it’d be a bit like trying to get rid of all nukes.
I honestly thought it would look weird just putting huge boobs on Sidney’s frame. But this looks surprisingly normal and not uncanny…
I went from an A cup to a G cup set of implants overnight when I was in my mid 20s, and now that I’m in my 40s I have upgraded those to M cup implants. I’m larger then Dabbler on a 5’7 body frame for reference, and they weigh a bit over 10lbs on my body. I instantly jumped 6 cup sizes the first time, and 6 more cup sizes the second time.
I have never once experienced any back pain ever from them. Back pain from large boobs is typically due to just not wearing a properly fitting bra for an extended period of time, and from not doing core strength exercise ever. I’ve gone through life with zero back pain and massive breasts for multiple decades now.
… she is right about them getting in the way a lot though. :p
I don’t think Sydney’s next question would be “Are there holo-emitters in the showers?” but rather “Are there holo-emitters in your quarters, Frix?”
The real complication with lifting UMBRage would be keeping from just making a Max-sized hole in the ground, but as others have mentioned she can just use her flight power to keep that from happening
I can relate to DaveB’s first paragraph in his commentary from a male perspective. Puberty didn’t begin to hit me until my junior year of high school, LONG after all of the other boys had already developed. I was so embarrassed in gym class that I wanted to just hide in a corner to change. The hormones eventually kicked in but for all those years in junior high and high school when I was waiting to mature the feelings of inferiority were painful. Muscle development is also tied into that, so any bully that was looking to feel tough knew who the weakling was they could push around.
Also, the page loads normally for me. Winslow 11 and Firefox.
I am having issues with conectivity on some sites…. resumably, it is related to some DOS attack by a bad state actor and we are seeing the side effects.
On a different topic, I used to watch The Six Million Dollar Man when I was a kid, and it always bothered me when he took his shirt off and you couldn’t see a seam where his artificial arm joined. Nice that it shows on Cora.