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A line of Cora’s that I had to cut for space: “I’m a hard fighting adventurer, but I also like taking care of my men. Sometimes that means running dangerous missions beside them, sometimes it means dressing up sexy and being domestic. And by “domestic,” I mean being a galactic-class whore because I. do not. Cook. or clean.”
Cora’s is very much an instant noodle kind of gal. She also won’t turn down an amazing meal at a high-class restaurant, but she’d rather build a cooking robot than spend time learning to cook.
I like the idea that watching her teammate and boss battling giant mecha and 20-story tall bioweapons is… interesting-ish. It’s background entertainment.
Unfortunately, the comic doesn’t quite support that. The team’s really only been in, uh… four major fights? Let’s see, the restaurant fight with Vehemence, the fight with Sciona’s Golem, then Sciona, then the fight in New York against Lapha’s mercs, and uh… Max’s fight against Darude. Oh, and the fight against the Ascenders in their base. So, six big-ish fights in 1400 pages? Man, I don’t like drawing fight scenes, do I? Hah. Well, Sydney was gone for 53 days when she popped into the future. Let’s assume the team got into a few fights during that time. Stuff that helped scare all the Super Villains underground.
I don’t really think Sydney would be bored by Max’s big arena fight, but right now, the battle is like a soccer match when the ball is being knocked around in the middle third of the field. I’ve literally only watched about 20 minutes of one single soccer match, but that middle third of the field is “the boring zone.” That’s when you go to the kitchen and refresh your drink. I’m convinced soccer would be 10x more interesting (which is to say, remotely interesting) if the middle third of the field was removed. What I mean about the fight is Max isn’t struggling dramatically at the moment, so Sydney’s keeping the corner of her eye on it.
I guess she’s torn between a big flashy battle and peering into the somewhat alarming sexual predilections of her space boyfriend and his crew. It turns out, Cora and Dabbler are a good match as friends. Dabbler definitely broadened Cora’s sexual horizons, but Cora is from a society that isn’t descendant from Victorian values, and has total medical security against accidental pregnancy and STD’s. Or is it STI’s now? When did that change? Anyway, she also has access to all manner of aliens and technology too, so once your succubus friend opens horizons in an environment like that, the sky’s the limit, only it’s not the limit because space travel is common place.
Here’s one of Gaxgy’s in progress shots of the painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.
I’ve finished the main picture with the nude variant. (More like the clothing is the variant, because it’s easier to add clothes than erase them.) But I haven’t finished the bonus comic yet, so I’ll update the incentives soon.
Patreon doesn’t have a nude version yet, but I’ll try and update this each week until it’s done.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
the_daily_wtf_feedDoreann has touched this particular function many, many times. In all those times, she never noticed this particular little line, dropped in by a third-party contractor that has long since cashed their check and wandered off to other things.
(user?.betaMode || !user?.betaMode) && (specialRuleCode())
My suspicion is at some point, the specialRuleCode was only supposed to run if the user was signed up for beta features. At some point, it left beta and was supposed to run for all users. I imagine the requirement was "it should also run if the user is not in the beta," and thus it was implemented exactly that way.
Of course, the real WTF isn't the tautological condition: it's (ab)using logical operators to control whether a branch runs. That, I imagine, made some developer feel like they were being clever. "user?.betaMode && specialRuleCode is so much more concise than an if statement!" they said to themselves while typing this.
Honestly, that kind of "clever" is not something I'd expect from a third party contractor. It makes me think the original line started in-house by a "clever" developer, and the third party added the || portion in just the dumbest way to implement the requirement given to them.
Either way, Doreann is ashamed that it's lingered this long in the code base, writing:
dishonor for it being there
dishonor for me not recognizing this
dishonor on my whole family
I'm just glad that we're finally breaking through and getting readership in the Klingon developer community.
mdlbearThe Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was forty years ago today (assuming I get this posted before midnight Seattle time -- it's 8am Thursday here in Den Haag). So I wrote a song: Keep the Dream Alive. It's on the Challenger tape, which is of course long out of print. I also posted it on Mastodon: "So, forty years ago I wrote a song…" - Indieweb.Social.
I think it's one of my better songs -- I should try to sing it more often.
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Kinda wish I would have made plushies of that Lovin' Lamb in the background.
Excuse me, Shirley Sheep. How could I forget. She's a mature ovine.
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It only took TEN YEARS but I’m back baby, and so are the Dragon Doctors. (this is what I get for sticking Aki and Goro in a time warp, I’ll have to be nicer to them). Who wants some more? I DO.
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