Grrl Power #1298 - And it was thiiiis big...
Added 2024-10-24 10:00:09 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
After I drew this page I realized Peggy's fishing lure would probably have worked a lot better if she'd tied it just below the pommel.
This flashback involve a dirty Peggy wearing desert camo laying on the desert ground and it's all in a shadow, so naturally it looks really murky. I'm not sure what the solution for that is besides just taking some liberties with the lighting situation. I guess as long as you guys can tell what's happening it's fine, but I'd prefer having higher contrast personally.
I have no idea how well sound travels around a moderately rockey bit of desert. On the next page you see that the crash happened near the foot of a valley of sorts, which could help channel the sound I guess. All that's to say, if I had been 20 feet from an exploding RPG / tail rotor, and the subsequent crash, all of which I would assume would occur at a relatively high decibel level, it seems like that truck vroom vroom might be closer than she thinks. But I've never been thrown out of a helicopter because of how much it was rolling. But maybe she was out long enough for the flashbanh whine to fade.
Speaking of which, I think all TVs should come with a mandatory "Flashbang Whine" mute button. All it would do it mute that range of sound. Or just limit the volume to 1/8th the regular volume. It's so common in shows, like that's the only sound the gaffers are allowed to use after an explosion? It doesn't bother me that severely (though the worse my tinnitus gets, the more obnoxious it becomes) but it borderline triggers migraines in the wife. Sure, a couple of kids start flopping around from flashing pokemon lights and now every show and video game comes with a warning, but trigger a few migraines with your squealing audioscape, and no one cares. At least until someone rages out and goes on an axe murdering spree because of it. Which isn't likely, as having a migraine isn't conducive to exerting yourself or leaving the house. I'm told. I've never had one, but if they're half as bad as my wife describes, I definitely would have killed myself or someone else long ago.
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Toby Kohlenberg
2024-10-27 22:21:55 +0000 UTCI know my father and brother get them as well. My father the most frequently of us, but they both have less obvious or common of triggers. I know my paternal grandmother didn't, but I've never asked if my paternal grandfather did. He died when I was too young to find out if he did, but I suspect he did since it definitely seems to follow the male line.
Anton Schleef
2024-10-25 11:15:06 +0000 UTCSome non-obvious sources I've worked out over the decades of suffering (9 is a miserable age to start), genetics, the more ancestors that suffered, the more likely you are; allergies, particularly to Aspartame; Flashing lights; Arhythmic noises, particularly loud ones; sudden air pressure changes.
Lee T Boswell
2024-10-25 10:48:59 +0000 UTCFor the long-trange haulage trucks they're looking at being able to hot-swap batteries. So you're not looking at charging time so much as just pull over, swap out a battery for a pre-charged one and off you go again.
Justaguy
2024-10-25 08:55:39 +0000 UTCSound in the desert depends on flatness and rockiness. If it's a sandy dune desert with loose sand it's not actually going to travel that far as the sand will sort of "absorb" sound. If it's a flatter desert with hard surfaces like rocks (Think Australian outback) than it may travel much further. Also there's wind factors involved.
Justaguy
2024-10-25 08:53:14 +0000 UTCGetting a grip on the case will be trickier now.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-25 03:05:13 +0000 UTCIf Tesla's building them, they have a loyal audience. But most others will look at the Cybertruck and buy elsewhere. EVs need a boost in range and recharge times. And more charging stations wouldn't hurt.
eddi_TBH
2024-10-25 03:03:02 +0000 UTCI suspect this is why the major automakers in the US are suddenly trying to put out quality, really low cost trucks. That, and I suspect that Tesla is getting ready to start selling low cost, extended range electric vehicles. I understandnthere income work going on with new battery formulas that make the way cheaper, faster to charge, and with a higher storage capacity. (Also with a longer life in the number of charges the battery pack can take.)
JasonAW3
2024-10-24 19:07:29 +0000 UTCThe scene in that one James Bond movie, where the guy in Russia is picking up Bond in a Trabant? (A very ugly Soviet small car) the guy needed to do a quick repair using, as I remember, a screwdriver, a pipe wrench, and then, finally, performed what I tend to refer to as, "manual kinetic impact maintence". In short, he used a small sledgehammer, and gave the engine a whack. It started right up. Worse; as I understand it, this was based on real incidents with that particular type of car. In short, it may have been small, ugly, and broke down a lot, but repairing it was easy, and when it ran, it ran pretty well. With the occasional maintenance and repair issues, it was supposedly pretty reliable...
JasonAW3
2024-10-24 18:56:08 +0000 UTCDepending on the knife, tieing the line just above the pommel might cause it to come off when pulled. If the pommel has a hole through it, for a wrist strap, that would be the place to tie the wire. As they keep changing combat knives, it's hard to tell which she would have. Also, given that she's still more than a bit shook by the crash, the partial amputation of her leg, and that she not only has a busted helicopter on top of her, but she's behind enemy lines, probably concussed, with a bunch of hostiles about to asses the situation, it's likely she's not thinking with a pure analytical mind at the moment.
JasonAW3
2024-10-24 18:02:50 +0000 UTCworth noting that Helicopter pilots & crew wear hearing protection at all times while flying, so Peggy's hearing would be protected until the impact & roll.
Sardines are us
2024-10-24 17:07:56 +0000 UTCImprovise, adapt, get yer gun.
BJ
2024-10-24 17:07:07 +0000 UTCThe Hilux is designed not only to be reliable, but to be *repairable* basically anywhere with a basic set of tools. THAT's why it's popular in pretty much any kind of remote area with limited access to a proper workshop.
Magraal
2024-10-24 15:29:26 +0000 UTCAside from my random source-less ones (only once or twice a year) mine are only triggered by sound, specifically heavy bass. I avoid concerts and dance clubs like the plague because of that, but most of the time I'm migraine free. Of course, when I do get one I'm 'lucky' in that I don't get increased sensitivity to light or smell. Instead I get sensitivity to motion (specifically MY movements, even if it doesn't cause my head to move) and increased sensitivity to sound.
Anton Schleef
2024-10-24 14:13:50 +0000 UTCThis. I had a coworker who was always talking shit about my migraines come in one day and apologize. He had done something stupid and given himself a concussion. I've always described my one and only concussion as a high 7, low 8 on the migraine scale. He couldn't fathom going through that on a weekly basis. Thankfully, my only triggers are smells and the weather, not the kind of thing that can be triggered very easily. The rest are just my brain being a bastard.
Sororitas Cupid
2024-10-24 13:45:48 +0000 UTCSound travels well in rocky desert terrain, especially when it is cold. That being said, the terrain can make it difficult to locate the exact direction from whence the sound comes.
Town Crier
2024-10-24 12:54:41 +0000 UTCPlease take liberties with the lighting situation. My eyes are old and distinguishing between different grades of shadowy murk is a challenge. We're used to spotlight lighting and other non-diegetic lighting from TV and movies done for emphasis and clarity, please feel free to use them yourself.
Greg Morrow
2024-10-24 12:06:40 +0000 UTCOh, depending on the type and severity of the migraines your wife gets she's probably underselling them, not overselling. It's hard to describe the level of torment inducing pain that is a migraine, but for those of us who do suffer from them, we ALL feel that anyone who intentionally triggers one should be in violation of the Geneva conventions for torturing civilians, and have their mutilated corpse mounted as an example of what happens to those who violate that agreement.
Anton Schleef
2024-10-24 12:05:47 +0000 UTCCept when it's in the hands of a 17 year old who thinks he's all that.
Justaguy
2024-10-24 11:25:14 +0000 UTCThe Toyota Hilux is so durable that Top Gear couldn't kill it in their TV special
codesurfer
2024-10-24 11:14:44 +0000 UTCMissing a "you" in the first panel as I think it is supposed to say "the last thing you want to hear"
Forecaster
2024-10-24 11:01:29 +0000 UTCI’m Australian. I know what a Toyota Hilux is. A bloody reliable Ute. So it’s sound doesn’t hold the same sense of dread as Peggy has of it, since if you’re in the middle of nowhere in Australia, it probably means that help is coming.
Thisguy
2024-10-24 10:18:06 +0000 UTC
