Comic for Wednesday, Jul 23, 2025

[Darth Fluffy 368]

Comic for Wednesday, Jul 23, 2025

Lavender does not seem to be quite tuned in on Hope's wavelength. But she is making an honest effort.

[mlooney 3,768]

Hope has some interesting bits of knowledge about 21st-century America. For example, she knows about TV, but not what they look like. And of course her seminly complete knowledge about transformation guns.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,653]

 

Are we getting some actual definition regarding the borders between magic and alien tech? 

 

[mlooney 3,768]

51 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

 

Are we getting some actual definition regarding the borders between magic and alien tech? 

 

That border is very fuzzy, given that Tedd was able to take TFG effects and make a wandable spell out of them.

[mlooney 3,768]

Side note. Lavender, at least in this page, is the first female form that looks like they need to wear a bra. She's got that “I'm an adult woman with large breasts” droop to her.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

Side note. Lavender, at least in this page, is the first female form that looks like they need to wear a bra. She's got that “I'm an adult woman with large breasts” droop to her.

Bearing in mind they are part of her transformation, and they can be whatever she wants them to be. Uniboob? Sure, why not? A triple set? Sure!

We need to get more creative with our actual prosthetics. Lighting up, embedded speakers, motion actuators, . . . Where's the creativity, guys and gals?

[mlooney 3,768]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

We need to get more creative with our actual prosthetics. Lighting up, embedded speakers, motion actuators, . . . Where's the creativity, guys and gals?

The number of women that need full replacements that could use the tech bits is a lot lower than the number of women who just have implants under fleshy bits.  Just saying. A light bright enough to be seen through inches of human flesh would get really hot, which would be less than ideal.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

4 hours ago, mlooney said:

The number of women that need full replacements that could use the tech bits is a lot lower than the number of women who just have implants under fleshy bits.  Just saying. A light bright enough to be seen through inches of human flesh would get really hot, which would be less than ideal.

I agree, you would have to use a low power array of sources near the surface, some biological variant of laptop displays. Maybe we could reverse engineer octopus color cells.

[mlooney 3,768]

10 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Maybe we could reverse engineer octopus color cells.

There is a GMO food joke in there someplace, but I'm too tired to go looking for it.

[ijuin 609]

On 7/23/2025 at 4:17 AM, mlooney said:

Hope has some interesting bits of knowledge about 21st-century America. For example, she knows about TV, but not what they look like. And of course her seminly complete knowledge about transformation guns.

Well, television sets before the switch to digital broadcasting were those square, boxy Cathode Ray Tubes, as opposed to the flat panel widescreen type seen today. Hope’s memory of TV from Pandora may have been primarily of the older style.

And yes, the distinction between TV sets and monitors is mainly a matter of what they are used to display, rather than how they are constructed—many TV sets can be used as decent-quality monitors.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

8 hours ago, ijuin said:

Well, television sets before the switch to digital broadcasting were those square, boxy Cathode Ray Tubes, as opposed to the flat panel widescreen type seen today. Hope’s memory of TV from Pandora may have been primarily of the older style.

And yes, the distinction between TV sets and monitors is mainly a matter of what they are used to display, rather than how they are constructed—many TV sets can be used as decent-quality monitors.

Modern ones generally have a monitor input or two or three; back in the day this was generally not true. Many early 8 bit machines included an rf adapter to allow the monitor signal to feed a TV, generally allowing a selection between two low end channels.

 

[mlooney 3,768]

13 hours ago, ijuin said:

Hope’s memory of TV from Pandora may have been primarily of the older style.

If Pandora didn't pass on cars, I'm a bit curious why she passed on anything about TV sets in general.

[ijuin 609]

6 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Modern ones generally have a monitor input or two or three; back in the day this was generally not true. Many early 8 bit machines included an rf adapter to allow the monitor signal to feed a TV, generally allowing a selection between two low end channels.

I seem to recall that the PS3 and XBox360 were the first generation to forego the red-yellow-white RCA connector cables in NTSC regions, but they were already designed with the anticipation of the digital broadcasting switchover impending within their lifespan.

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

If Pandora didn't pass on cars, I'm a bit curious why she passed on anything about TV sets in general.

From what we know of Pandora, she may have wanted to pass on something that required knowledge of some pop culture reference from a TV program.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

18 hours ago, ijuin said:

From what we know of Pandora, she may have wanted to pass on something that required knowledge of some pop culture reference from a TV program.

She was chronically bored. It is possible she was addicted to human TV.

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35 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

It is possible she was addicted to human TV.

That would explain her being chronically bored.

[mlooney 3,768]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

It is possible she was addicted to human TV.

Well, generic Immortal did say 

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"At a minimum, we're able to call meetings and discuss things with any other immortals willing to show up."

"You do this to discuss important issues?"

"Well, we can, but it's mostly a reacting to big TV shows thing."

 

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-018

So, yeah it's possible.