Grrl Power #1436 – Hot tip
I think the most revelatory thing about this page is that demons have commercial brownie mix. I know I’ve shown succubi shopping before, but that was a little tongue in cheek. I was really thinking the store would really have been more like a society with alchemy, but also modern supply chains. Parfait said the biggest difference between Earth and demon society was that demons lack suburbs. That doesn’t mean that Demon Lords’ Keeps can’t have grocery stores. Really, I guess there’s no reason that a star faring species like demons couldn’t have any modern convenience they want. They could all very well have cell phones and wi-fi hotspots. They could. They have a lot of magic based infrastructure, and replacing all of that or even supplementing it all with copper wires would be a considerable undertaking, and given the feudal nature of demon held worlds, that sort of stuff is vulnerable to anyone with a shovel or a horde of burrowing demons. That’s not to say that some Demon Lords haven’t experimented with mixed infrastructure, or that newer colonies, especially one with mixed populations, don’t have a combination of tech going on.
There’s nothing suspicious about a surge of people suddenly placing large bets on “Ixah” after she trashes a bunch of competitors that had higher odds than her going into the first round. Of course, as a total unknown, anyone with a prior association with the U.C.B.A. would have better favorability. Well, maybe unless they really biffed it last time, I guess. I don’t know how odds-makers do their thing, but it seems reasonable that someone who got evaporated in the first 10 seconds the last six times they entered would have a negative chutzpah factor in the odds equation, whereas a total unknown would be chutzpah neutral. Can you tell by my vocabulary I’m an expert on statistics?
That isn’t to say that rumors of Ixah’s identity won’t spread outward from Tom’s inner circle, especially as he has interests on many planets. It’s not going to lead the Xevoarchy straight to Earth, of course. Anyone who does well in the UCBA will have a lot of mentions on Gal-net, including people and groups boosting whatever their favorite theories are. The signal to noise ratio has to reach a certain magnitude before the millions of A.I.s out there tasked to watch such things start to care.
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.
Suburbs are a really big thing in the US but not even every country on Earth has suburbs.
This kind of depends on how you define suburbs. Pretty much every relatively larger city (urbs) will have the relatively smaller towns under its influence, turning them into suburbs.
But the American suburb is indeed a unique phenomenon basically created by strict zoning regulations (itself a very recent concept) and very powerful car industry lobby. It’s also unlikely to be a long-term lasting phenomenon because it is bankrupting cities.
They don’t even have to be former ‘towns’ (or villages) swallowed up by an expanding neighbour
There are places in the world where they plan suburb-building (usually as a city expands on its own without neighbours to swallow up)
Basically, they divide the city into regions (or districts) and simply call them ‘suburbs’ (even if they don’t call them suburbs… )
There’s that going on a mile down the road from me, a small town annex the area, then barely a year later we found out that a huge suburb was going in, about 750 homes. So far in the last 3 years nearly 100 homes have gone in and an HOA was set up. I’m just waiting for one of them show up to complain about the smell of our cattle… As soon as the first batch of houses were sold I had to run off 3 kids that were shooting bottle rockets at our hay bales at 2am…
Fortunately, HOA is illegal in this country :P
We have enough trouble with the city council telling us how our houses should look, don’t need some arsehole neighbour telling us to trim the trees (accidentally planted a freaking pine tree up against the house)
You left out racism. Racism was a huge factor in the development of the modern suburb in the United States. After Brown v Board of Education, white families were looking to keep their kids out of integrated schools, so developers would build communities in suburban towns where the deeds often had race-based covenants, or at the very least where the developers wouldn’t sell to minorities. Even today, Connecticut is one of the most segregated states in the country.
When there’s something unusual about the United States, it’s almost always at least partly because of racism.
Racism was not a primary driving factor here. Brown V Board might have been a minor contributing factor, but it just happened to coincide with the construction of the interstate highway system. Considering Brown impacted a specific, relatively low population area of the country and the development of large systemized highways was as national as the move towards suburbs, the race factor gets overplayed a lot. Not to mention the fact that at the time, many of the cities that drained into suburbs had no black population at all. Most places don’t develop American suburbs because their housing systems were massively older and entrenched before the development of the car.
Larger scale transportation systems like highways did have an important effect, but racism (and more specifically legal attacks on segregated education, housing, etc.) interacted with this and contributed to the effect. This is why so many cities in the US are heavily populated by racial minorities, and suburbs are even more heavily white than the general national population.
Canada also has suburbs like the US does. Canada did not have segregated schooling like the US did. Ergo segregated schooling likely had little actual effect on the existence of suburbs.
You think CANADA, never had racialised housing systems? All the decendants of british colonialism haven’t dealt with enough of their history of evilly exploitative behaviour
You realize that, for all intents and purposes, everyone was racist up until WWII? The West was sufficiently horrified by the Holocaust to pull back. Other places, not so much.
Even the Eastern Orthodox Church (you know, the spiritual guide of the people that gave us the term “pogrom”) has yet (to my knowledge) to accept that their treatment of Jews has been problematic.
Moreover, there are very sound evolutionary reasons to prefer in-group associations to out-group. Which is why toddlers are racist.
Yes, racism is bad. The fact that this is not much disputed in the US is good, and NOT the actual standard in the world.
Rising antisemitism, both in the US and globally, demonstrates just how primitive we really are as a species.
Thank you Lurker314, thank you.
Alleged racism in these United States is used as a bludgeon to enforce “white guilt” and to keep black voters’ emotions raw. The reason is to try to keep Americans voting for Democrats, i.e. marxists.
And yet antisemitism, a.k.a. Jew-hatred, somehow doesn’t count as racism.
So I have to dispute “primitive” humanity: our political tactics can be quite complex.
Can you take all the political drivel elsewhere? There’s a whole world-wide web of sites where you can go and spew ignorance at each other which isn’t this particular website.
Marxists wish the Democratic party was even half as Marxist as you people constantly claim it is. The only reason there are any Marxists in the Democratic party is because they have nowhere else to go that has any chance of electoral success in the United States of America. They have no hold over the party, and are only marginally less unwelcome there than they are in the Republican party.
Calling Democrats “Marxist” is the funniest thing I have heard in my entire life. You’re just outing yourself as having no idea what you’re talking about.
Calling Democrats “Marxists” is how Republicans try to lure more moderates to their side. Both parties are right-wing by the standards of most countries. I’d contend we don’t even have two parties, since once you get up to the Senate, they all have the same donors and therefore serve the same people. They’re really just two factions of the same party that vie for power via very large, formal popularity polls.
And lets not forget racism leading to white flight
Since when does ARCHON have a catgirl on its staff?
Note the feathers, that’s Varia (touching Jabberwokky).
… I can’t wait to hear the justification for this one.
If you want the most comfortable seat in the house, just move the cat(girl).
Look at the smirk on Math’s face. He thinks it’s comfy there.
Took me forever to figure that out. (Well, a good 10 minutes.)
How’d that happen? Can Jabberwoky poof into animal forms too?
Jabberwokky’s superpowered martial arts (different combinations of speed, agility, striking power, toughness) tend to be animal themed. When Varia gets gestalt powers from a super, the powers are sometimes related (like magnetic powers from Jiggawatt or ride-along teleport from Harem).
Vahriah’s gestalt doesn’t always work like that: it is often a corresponding (or synchronous) power (like what Steve Brinich listed) butt it’s not always that case, because she can get a power from a non-super person
I was wondering that, so I looked at the tags. I guess the catgirl form comes from Jabbs.
I didn’t realize before now that the tags cover everyone in the page, unlike the Who’s Who, which only covers those that speak (most of the time). So that’s good to know.
Actually, DaveB left Lapha off the tag list….
SPEAKING OF WHICH
Lapha: Yessss I got her feet! I mean, not that I like feet or anything. I’m not weird about feet, I don’t have a thing! In fact, I HATE FEET THEYRE GROSS *storms off in tears*
I think that might be Varia in a gestaltform. She’s the only character not obviously on the page (Mr Amorphous is at the pool table way back in the shot), and considering the catgirl has her feathers in her hair and has the same haircut, that sounds likely.
I think more *fox*girl than catgirl. Wrong ears for a cat, and she’s more Red Fox colored, IMNSHO.
I agree for the most part, but the tail isn’t floofy enough for a foxgirl.
There is a specific breed of cats, forgot the name at this moment, which has the exact color pattern foxes are famous for. Reddish orange all over, with white belly and black tips. Distinguishable from regular foxes by the much shorter snout, noticeably shorter ears, and barely floofy tails. See above comic.
Though it’s very out of character for me to argue *against* fox-girls.
You are not arguing against fox-girls, you are teaching people about both :)
Red foxes have black fur on the feet and lower legs, and fluffy tails. The only thing foxlike about her is the orange/white fur.
Not that a gestalt form of a human has to directly correspond to a specific animal or species, of course.
Does Garamm know who “Tom” is?
Is that Varia sitting with Math & Jiggawatt, or is she standing next to Heatwave?
Is Achilles being reflected in that glass, or is he behind it?
I’m pretty sure the one standing next to Heatwave is Jiggawatt. The one lying across people’s laps is Jabberwokky.
Note that Jabberwokky is now is the same room with Dabbler without being restrained and without going all punchy-punchy-kissy-kissy. My read on the situation is that the apparent unusual duration (p547) of the charm spell (p237) was actually Jabberwokky expressing a hitherto repressed attraction to women (her comments about not being into women except at parties, p237), a change which continued after the charm spell wore off. The punchy-punchy-kissy-kissy thing was her still being in denial and blaming everything on the charm spell, but it looks like she’s gotten past that.
No, that ‘punchy-punchy-kissy-kissy’ thing was real, and, after Maxi unclenched, Dabs and Jabs were able to ‘fixed’ what went wrong
Jabbers appears to have gotten over it when Parfait sent out a huge lust aura.
Why would Garamm know who Tommy is?
He is simply looking side-eyed at Dabbles because of her outburst
I asked because Garamm’s reptilian face is hard for me to read. I think his visual field must be similar to a horse or a bird, so a sideways look is normal for him, but he always looks somewhat surprised to me. But Dave B. has shown him to be a sophisticated thinker, so I won’t be surprised if we learn that Garamm has heard gossip about Tom & Dabbler “off-camera”.
Re: Jiggawatt/Jabberwocky, didn’t Jiggawatt first appear with white hair? (Hence my confusion.) Was Jabberwocky the pink were-leopard, or was that someone else?
The longer this story gets, the more confusing it can be. Does it have a Fandom page where we could keep the bio’s up to date for Dave B.?
There’s a fandom wiki page (grrlpowercomic.fandom.com) where I’ve been adding content as time allows.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
The most helpful reminder of who is whom in the cast here on the webpage for me is the portrait row at the top, but it only shows the same short list of main grrls all the time.
Jiggawatt did have white hair in her first appearance, but DaveB changed it because he thought she was too similar to Storm from X-Men. Jabberwokky has animal-themed martial-arts superpowers. The pink were-leopard is Pixel.
The “Who’s Who” is supposed to help readers keep the characters straight, but they’re generally only listed if they have a speaking part on the page.
Just don’t call Pixelicious a panther (or play the theme music) :P
Ah yes the moment where you can’t tell if specific timing, telepathy extra range hearing… Or family team tactics is the reason for the sudden tag team made to break your line of thinking.
When is it paranoia… Or just general common sense?
As we all know succubus and their ability to quickly learn how to twist those ‘laws and rules’ to their own benefit like a Fae or a lawyer looking over a poorly worded document.
Oh heck yes, Varia catgirl form. I think she’s having fun having a tail, by the look of things.
Hey, how did Parfit lose her collar there?
Oops!
Well, her collar is smaller (and thinner) than most others, so easy to overlook
So, wait. if Tom can telepathically yell at Dabbler any time, why was he out of contact for so long?
It might have been she was blocking him, or he was so pissed at her he didn’t bother. Or it might take a lot of power over distance. Either way, he’s wanting in on Max’s ringer deal, I can’t blame him. Better that then better that than him calling the people running this uber cage match.
Perhaps they decided to open a telepatic channel after their intimate reunion in the quarry.
… Did you not read the box at the top of panel two?
Go back and read it, we will (not) wait
The irony of her Name being Parfait and eating dry brownie mix is noted and amused by. Look out for Everyone if she does the Other type of brownie.
That explains why she couldn’t stop!
I haven’t seen the movies ‘Moneyball’ or ‘The Big Short’ but I’ve seen clips.
Would any of that apply here?
Do contestants have to TRUTHFULLY list their planet of origin on the entry form?
Could she be disqualified on a technicality?
AIs might recognize that she deviates from the charts of previous contenders.
(Yeah… they’re using spreadsheets!/s)
I didn’t know second half betting was a thing until I looked it up. So, given that galactic bookies have had millennia to polish their art, I am guessing there’s something like rolling odds that allow you to place a bet at any particular moment. The odds go down the longer Tom waits though. Get in on the second… third… fourth… etc. floor, Tom.
This is a multi-round tournament, and this is the first preliminary. Of course you can place bets in the alter rounds
I was reading articles on betting after the Super Bowl. Bookies will take bets on anything, scores, # of yards, passes, how many times receiver Kevin catches in the third quarter, etc. Bets on the fly shouldn’t be a problem for a high tech civilization.
I have no idea what method they are using, but I’ve read stories where this method is described: The final odds can change at any moment based on how much, in total, is bet on each participant. In this method, the bookies always get their (fair?) cut. The final payouts are only paid for by others’ bets, spread fairly among the winners’. So your winnings will go way down if too many others follow you in your scam. Regardless, if it’s a league style setup rather than single-elimination tourney, it’s a good idea to lose a few matches on porpoise. That way you can scam them harder. Just like a relaxing night of poker.
Why do people say higher odds to indicate a higher chance, when in betting high odds indicate large winnings due to a low chance? Higher odds -should- mean less likely, darnit!
Odds are often expressed as e.g. “145 to 1”, or “3 to 1”. The number 145 is bigger than 3, so people say it’s higher.
What words people use are sometimes not logical. Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
“What words people use are sometimes not logical. Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?”
In this particular case, George Carlin humor notwithstanding, there IS a perfectly logical explanation. Because the names we ascribed to roads came about long before mechanical cars existed.
A Driveway is a private road (sometimes quite short) that that connects a main thoroughfare to one or a small group of structures, such as a house and stable / garage or similar. Driveways evolved into something people parked on later because they lead directly to lived in dwellings, before the first Garages were designed to accommodate them.
A Parkway is generally defined as a landscaped, scenic road, often with limited access, or a landscaped thoroughfare. The term is particularly used for a roadway in a park or connecting to a park from which trucks and other heavy vehicles are excluded. Historically, these were scenic, recreational routes, but many have evolved into commuter roads. Obviously we drive on Parkways because that’s what they were originally designed to be used for, just back before cars, with carriages or on horseback.
The first parkways in the United States were developed during the late 19th century by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as roads that separated pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, and horse carriages
Where did they store their carriages when they weren’t using them? If they didn’t have garages?
Carriage barn, with the horses. Had a “painted lady” Victorian 4 square that I spent my early youth in. Instead of a garage, we had an aforementioned carriage barn, complete with hay loft.
And it wouldn’t have taken much to convert it to fit an automobile
That look of concern in panel 5 needs to be a reaction image.
Wait, did Dabbles just say she can lie to Tommy?
That’s definitely not something she did not have not to keep from saying, no.
I think that counts as disclosing relevant information to the other party, she could try to exploit it but instead she lets him know that she could.
Yes she did, and that Tommy Boy does not yet know this.
Dehydrated Kimchi flakes aren’t bad. They add a nice bit of heat and sour to a dish.
Is it just two people happy on the couch? Or three?
Not counting Jabs herself
Dude, you know that is Maxima and you know Dabbler is a complete sociop *ahem* bit maniupulative. You don’t need to ask, place the bet.
To be fair, we do not know if Xuriel is what other Succubi would consider sociopathic. What would that even be in a species that survives on manipulating others (non-succubi), with a history as twisted. Not to mention being proud of depending on another being for their survival?
Psychopathy is generally defined by having impaired empathy and remorse, exhibiting anti-social behaviour and ego-centric traits. (The bold and disinhibited qualifiers are rather subjective and hard to use as diagnostic)
I would say that Xuriel does show empathy and the capability of remorse. It may be diminished or misdirected but then humans are essentially her food. Feeling empathy for your food is not generally a good survival strategy, so it being diminished is understandable. What little we have seen of her interaction with other Succibi (all three of them) does not show a particular lack of empathy. Intense dislike is not a lack of empathy, and she felt more than a little concerned for, and protective of, the young Succubus who was abducted.
Similarly I would not say she shows significant anti-social behaviour. She is shown as being pretty social most of the time. I think we have not seen enough of her interacting with other Succubi to see if she is social towards them. Nor do we know how social Succubi are as a species.
She tends a bit towards being ego-centric, but I am hesitant to say she is to a problematic degree, never mind a pathological one.
She is bold and uninhibited, but not in the way the DSM thinks those words mean ;)
She is a bit manipulative, but in truth not all that much if you look at the comics (at least in so far as I remember them)
She certainly likes to thumb her nose at authority and is more than a little arrogant. She likes to poke fun at people and troll them, but when the situation calls for it she can be considerate and helpful.
In other words, she is a interesting and multi-dimensional character in a story that is not all about her. There is a reason why she is one of the most popular cast members.
She is a literal succubi-supremacist and recently mind controlled the entire team to keep them from getting angry at her sister for, unintentionally, magically roofie’ing them into #$%&ing each other.
Yeah, she is great.
Yeah, she kept them calm until everything could be explained, or would you have preferred a bunch of supers forming a lynch mob for a fucking accident?
Parf didn’t know it would affect the entire building, nor that it would be that strong
I think you forgot about the continued coverup which is, as we commonly say, drastically worse than the crime.
To the point where it might be part of a buildup where dabbler turns out to be the grand antagonist of the entire series, having carelessly and recklessly manipulated the inferior humans for her own gain all along like a gaslighting domestic abuser (while having her fun).
What coverup?
You talking about what happened after Parf’s screwup? Where she came clean the next day after everyone had the time (and assistance from Dabbles) to recover and to calm down from the aura?
Parf did not ‘get away’ with anything, she just wasn’t lynched as so many readers wanted
They did not come clean about having dosed everyone in a psychic “I really needed that” field afterwards.
She should have just said yes. Then told him to do it quietly so the odds don’t drop.
Perhaps tell him not to bet too much or he will make less money on the deal *and* antagonize the people running the ringer. But they may be able to determine how much money is currently bet on Maxima, which may already be a lot given that vast numbers of places are betting.
Changing odds doesn’t matter to anyone who has already placed a bet. You can bet that the people “in the know” locked in their bets (and the associated odds) well before Max/Ixah threw her first punch.
That’s not true in any betting I ever did. You can place your bet when it’s 1000 to 1, but if large bets come in, then the odds change to reflect the betting $ results, not the initial odds line or whatever it was when you bet. So your bet could end up winning at 1.05 to 1 if everyone bets on it (depending on the law, there’s usually a minimum win % required, they aren’t allowed to “win” you less than you bet).
It’s true in all the betting I’ve ever done, which is admittedly limited. In organized (legal USA) gambling, you place a bet and get a piece of official paper (or more recently an electronic app verification, which I have never done). That piece of paper lists the condition(s) of your wager (who will win, by how much, how long it will take, or whatever limits you want to set), the amount you wagered, the odds, and the payout on win. If the conditions of your wager are met, you win the payout and cash in the slip. If not, the paper is worthless and gets tossed.
If the odds could change after you place the bet, then bookies would always change the odds before the end to avoid payouts. No one would bother to place early, more risky bets and instead wait until the last second.
Or for this specific instance, if the final payout depended on final odds (assuming 1:1 for a toss-up one-on-one final match), why would anyone place a wager before the final match?
Basically, the bet (and the odds at the time) is valid as long as the conditions are met, even if the odds change during the event
So, someone who places a bet early at greater odds will win more than someone who placed a bet later when the odds were smaller, even if the bet is the same
Bookies can change the odds at any time, they can not, legally, change bets already made
It really is kind of interesting that Maxima is doing so well. Sure, she is uber powerful on earth, but she is up against the best of the best in the galaxy now. Of course, the fight isn’t over yet, so we’ll see. It will be interesting to get Maxima’s take on the fights between rounds, or at the end. She might come out and say something like “I was giving those guys 110% effort and was only barely able to make my win” or I dunno, some indication that there was a struggle. Kevin could enter this competition as well and do really well I think. Sounds like wimpy ol’ Hiro would do ok as well, not sure.
Maxima’s super abilities alone probably wouldn’t do it, but remember that her golden skin comes from an Nth-tech symbiote (or liquid metal cybernetic ‘implant’, or something….). That’s the part of her power she can dial to focus on a particular trait.
Supers are already extraordinary compared to spacetech (note how readily Archon dismantled the Fel troopers, despite those being considered a serious threat to spacetech-equipped forces, even before Maxima one-shotted their carrier), and Maxima has something of a double-dose of Superness from her own powers as well as the geode-symbiont. She even shocked NthAniel when he looked at her with his “powers-sight” or whatever it was that let him visualize the abilities of Supers.
Kevin could probably handle the tournament if he wasn’t part of the first bout, there’s not too much time between bouts, and he is able to stay close enough to the action to charge up from it. If he had to go into it with nothing or just whatever he has leftover in the tank, he probably wouldn’t last long enough to power up to the point of being able to really compete. Note he had to stand back for the big diner fight so he could charge up before engaging the heroes. Hiro could probably do decently well – I believe one of Cora’s crews compared him to a spaceship after the Fel fight – but I suspect some of the combatants would be outside his capabilities. Obviously his shirt wouldn’t survive more than a few seconds (if it even managed to last until the bout started).
It’s like Marvel comics.
Earth should technically not have this huge an impact upon interstellar empires that literally span galaxies….and yet they do. Further, Earth has more super-powered and offensive capabilities that the other Empires never really want to cross us. (Except in What If? comics where the plot armor is discarded.)
Plus, at this point, Max is so ludicrously God-Tier that this storyline will be to her what World War Hulk was to the Hulk……except with more pg-13 toplessness.
Dabs should immediately inform Harem about this and probably say yes he should bet on her. Once he’s bet on Max he has no reason to risk his investment by invading Earth or encouraging anyone else to.
It looks like Math is in his happy place with Jabberwocky draped across his lap.
Well he has quite the nice view too…
Powdered Kimchi is a thing that exists. You can get it at Walmart if Kimchi is your thing and you need it in powered form.
Hopefully prank-call telepathy isn’t a thing that exists.
or the equivalent of war-dialing.
Those two have the equivilent of a dedicated hard-line to each other because it’s through Xuri’s leash.
Hacking into one of those is pretty hard.
Parfait is channelling Sydney….
Not the only thing she did to Sydney…
A demon figuring out a way to subvert a pact compelling them to tell the truth?
Must be a day ending in “Y”.
“inking the store would really have been more like a society with alchemy, but also modern supply chains. Parfait said the biggest difference between Earth and demon society was that demons lack suburbs. That doesn’t mean that Demon Lords’ Keeps can’t have grocery stores. ”
I’d argue that suburbs reduce the number of grocery stores, not increase them. suburbs are residential-only zones, not mixed zones, so they can’t have grocery stores in them. I’d say that all zones that exclude grocery stores reduce the frequency and thus the total number of grocery stores.
I suggest “Basic Economics” by Thomas Sowell. It includes a chapter on how the “A. & P.” grocery chain failed to survive the transition to interstate freeways, ubiquitous automobiles, and suburban growth. There are plenty of reasons for giant retail stores that include grocery sections to exist. If we are now transitioning to an internet & delivery model, don’t expect every corporation to succeed at it.
The more I learn about the Tantalis sisters, the more I want to meet their mom.
She’s going to be able to seduce people with cookies.
What? Dabs and Parfait now both have shown an interest in baking. They must have gotten it from *somewhere*!
Moms, plural (she has at least two)
Plain brownie mix is a good way to moderate brownie intake. I can eat a whole plate of chewy warm melty straight fron the oven brownies. It takes me almost a week to get through a box one teaspoon at a time.
Incidentally they could make Brownie and other mixes not require any ingredients, just water and bake, but they found through studies that if people had to add some ingredients, that those brownies tasted better.
Requiring an egg wasn’t to change the taste; it was to change the attitude of the cook.
When box mixes first appeared they used dehydrated/powdered everything (eggs, butter, milk, everything required was in the box except liquid). But home cooks didn’t trust the mixes, saying it wasn’t “cooking”. It was just rehydrating something made by a machine. It was “cheating”.
The simple change of eliminating the powdered egg and requiring a fresh one be added along with the water completely changed the attitude of the cook. Now the home cook was combining ingredients and baking something themselves, albeit with a little assistance from Mrs. Crocker. The effect on the final product was negligible.
Something that just randomly occurred to me. Demons are just aliens with bad PR on Earth. They’re just regular people, and there are a few/bunch/maybe millions among us.
So where are the angels? Do I need to start waiting for the (other shoe)(penny) to drop?
We saw a few during the introduction to the Council of Evil (and Sci-fright)
According to Dabbler, there are a number of species that have been mistaken for angels (including the Alari), and there are actual angels who are annoyed about it (p613).
Hm, depends on how succubi digestion works. Probably already processed the stuff but wouldn’t mix if normal stomach stuff happens. Also weirdly specific to swallow all of that. Guess you get to eat brownies without getting to enjoy the best part if it somehow cooks them inside her? Will she also start swallowing hot coals till her internal temperature rises to 350F for an hour?
She’s part efreet, so she probably can raise her internal temperature to much higher than 350℉.
Hm, depends on how succubi digestion works. Probably already processed the stuff but wouldn’t mix if normal stomach stuff happens. Also weirdly specific to swallow all of that. Guess you get to eat brownies without getting to enjoy the best part if it somehow cooks them inside her? Will she also start swallowing fire till her internal temperature rises to 350F for an hour?