Grrl Power #1292 - Pod psychology
Added 2024-09-12 10:00:10 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
You see, it's like the Odd Couple, except one of them is like My Favorite Martian, and the other is a relentlessly ravenous amoeboid covered in eyeballs and teeth. I speak of course of Pirpo the Enlightened Loves Azbblethog the Jubilexian. It's funny if you enjoy sophisticated, layered humor and obtuse references. Plus there's a ton of fart jokes. Don't worry, Pirpo does fart at least once. It's not totally racist against Jubilexians. Though to be fair, their language is called Flatulese.
I'm not saying Garamm was a therapist before turning to mercenary work, but it's possible he has a minor in a Mental Health field. Or possibly he just has a subscription to Brain Fancy magazine. A favorite among psychologists and Illithids.
There have been plenty of shows and books with Space Doctors, but imagine being a space psychiatrist. I don't mean like Deanna Troi. Calm down, she was a counselor. She was a psychologist at best. I mean like having to deal with different brain chemistries, or like, some Starship Troopers bug scuttles into your office and is like "I just don't feel as connected to the hive mind as I should be. I had an independent thought the other day and it really scared me." Or having some race that goes into heat, except it's not sexual heat, but a compulsion to bake pies or lick the knees of as many different species as possible. Managing those prescriptions would require a supercomputer.
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I absolutely did not get that one. LOL! I was just saying you're a unique mind we don't want to lose, and I caught "Pod Psychology" out of the corner of my eye, and made the Pod->pod person connection, then mentioned my desire for you NOT to become a pod person. Then Karl decided to try and psyop me into thinking you already WERE a pod person, and we're HERE. I know you aren't a pod person, but I'm still not sure if Karl is or not.
Gelatinous Cube
2024-09-14 22:04:51 +0000 UTCYa didn't expect the guy who looks like the dictionary definition of "dumb alien muscle" to have deep insights into your exact current mental state, didja Peggy? XD
Cha0sniper
2024-09-14 10:19:13 +0000 UTCI'll be on the lookout. But if that's in response to the page title, it's a reference to "Pop Psychology" only they're talking about feet, so "pod" as in "pseudopod." I know it's obtuse, but sometimes at 11:30 at night, the creative juices are just a trickle.
Dave Barrack
2024-09-13 14:15:02 +0000 UTCIf you count anime, you probably have. I found "Manga! Manga!" an excellent guide to idiom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga!_Manga!_The_World_of_Japanese_Comics
eddi_TBH
2024-09-13 03:12:02 +0000 UTCExploding out of her chair like a Polaris missile.
eddi_TBH
2024-09-13 03:05:15 +0000 UTCShe sure distracted Peggy. Mission accomplished?
eddi_TBH
2024-09-13 03:01:39 +0000 UTCMake a Sanity roll.
eddi_TBH
2024-09-13 03:00:52 +0000 UTCWell, I suppose I don't! Of course, you could be a pod person trying to get me think Dave is a pod person already, only to sneakily pod him yourself later! I. Expect. Pod People.
Gelatinous Cube
2024-09-12 21:33:21 +0000 UTCI watched a lot of anime that was just a sit com in Japanese. Ranma 1/2, for instance, and Lum.
Opus the Poet
2024-09-12 21:24:03 +0000 UTCThe Pratchett character I was referring to was Mr Tulip, the muscle of a criminal pair sent to sabotage the budding newspaper company in “The Truth”. He was not the brightest of souls, had a speech impediment, a desire for a drug habit, and a tendency for arson - but also an encyclopedic knowledge of art history, and a compulsion to remove artworks from the building before he burnt it down. https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Tulip#:~:text=Mr%20Tulip%20(other%20names%20unknown,he%20would%20like%20to%20steal.
KnightRider007
2024-09-12 20:19:36 +0000 UTCGuido and Nunzio! Wow, that’s a blast from the past!! Loved Robert Asprin’s stuff.
KnightRider007
2024-09-12 20:10:01 +0000 UTCMy parents' dog has a compulsion to lick the knees of as many species as possible, as often as possible. I need a space psychiatrist to help her.
SantaTheHutt
2024-09-12 19:14:35 +0000 UTCLapha: "Really Sydney ?, that's your take away from my antisocial behavior?, in any case I have all the alien sitcom energy I can handle right here..."
Terence Bryant-White
2024-09-12 18:54:07 +0000 UTCTrust Sydney to be the voice of chaos, lightning the mood via ADHD :P
Brett
2024-09-12 18:16:59 +0000 UTCGaramm is budding like a frikkin' onion, isn't he?
Tim
2024-09-12 17:31:27 +0000 UTCI love the menu on that board. Very simple and to the point.
Anton Schleef
2024-09-12 17:08:36 +0000 UTCWait, she has rails for that 'train' of thought? I thought it was just a jumbled mess of cars all over the place, sorta like the Train Graveyard in Final Fantasy VII.
Anton Schleef
2024-09-12 17:07:31 +0000 UTCShe is very good with that.
Anton Schleef
2024-09-12 17:06:19 +0000 UTCNow that I think of it, if Harem (that is her name right... lol) can get over the difficulty of doing those 5 things at once while being distracted by the other 4 in the same room, then she probably would make a great band, and probs would have a career in show biz if not for with Archon.
Reigys
2024-09-12 16:31:37 +0000 UTClol. Garamm peeling the sudden onion layers and showing off. Neat. Now show Anvil doing her stand up comedy and Harem doing her entire band! jk, but seriously, I wonder what they all do when they aren't saving people besides socializing and such.
Reigys
2024-09-12 16:30:26 +0000 UTCAnd Sydney with the tension breaker
Justaguy
2024-09-12 16:28:04 +0000 UTCShe is probably just excited for the novelty of it. She will almost certainly get bored of it sooner or later
Reigys
2024-09-12 16:21:23 +0000 UTClol. The picture of her moving so quickly to be in middle of her orbs without making them do that is kinda funny to me for some reason
Reigys
2024-09-12 16:20:42 +0000 UTChow do you know he isn't already a pod person?
Karl Hesmondhalgh
2024-09-12 16:19:35 +0000 UTCOr he's thinking of all the "Galactflix and Chill" in their future.
Seth Ruskin
2024-09-12 16:13:25 +0000 UTCIt's been a while, but I think the referenced TP characters were two thugs tasked with guarding Nobby Nobbs when he fell afoul of a plot to fake him a noble background and thus the rightful King of Ankh-Morpork (a job he did not want).
Buddha Buck
2024-09-12 15:22:03 +0000 UTCI'd watch the hell out of some alien sitcoms!
Tom Weatherly
2024-09-12 15:21:25 +0000 UTCOne can be very perceptive in psychological counseling and still fall for a three-card monte hustler.
Mark Magagna
2024-09-12 14:55:54 +0000 UTCThey're getting used to her sudden derailments.
Mark Magagna
2024-09-12 14:53:18 +0000 UTCSydney, it's rare enough for human sitcoms to be worth watching....
Stephen Gilberg
2024-09-12 14:52:46 +0000 UTCEven Sydney's orbs are unimpressed. She jumps up and they're like, "Yeah, she'll sit back down in a sec. No need to jump out of our comfortable orbit..."
Czarzhan
2024-09-12 13:36:48 +0000 UTCOr Silent Bob when suddenly starts talking.
Marc Vun Kannon
2024-09-12 13:33:01 +0000 UTC"I Love Lasering!" It's about a kookie low-tech red-head that is given a high-tech weapon. Shenanigans ensue!
Town Crier
2024-09-12 13:31:25 +0000 UTCAaaaaaand the tension is broken! It's so broke, that it won't be able to walk for the rest of its life-* Hmm? What? Inappropriate? I don't see how, as the tension was broken... Fine! Sorry. *grumble*
Town Crier
2024-09-12 13:29:50 +0000 UTCi don’t remember a Pratchet one. I will always remember Asprin’s “Guido and Nunzio” from Myth Adventutes
Philip Brown
2024-09-12 13:27:53 +0000 UTC“I’m fluent in flatula Jim! Took two years of it in high school.”
Aaron Mauthe
2024-09-12 13:10:51 +0000 UTC“Garamm, stop being perceptive.”
Philip Masters
2024-09-12 12:32:33 +0000 UTC*Sydney cues up 'Emergency Emotional Distraction Attack'* Activated! EEDA successful! Emotional Emergency defused! (Too bad her "bomb defusing" lessons didn't go quite so well...)
JasonAW3
2024-09-12 12:22:56 +0000 UTCDave, your brain is a treasure. Stay you. Be sure not to get replaced by a pod person or something.
Gelatinous Cube
2024-09-12 12:03:58 +0000 UTCHAHA! I didn't even notice that. Great catch!
Gelatinous Cube
2024-09-12 12:02:02 +0000 UTCSydney's hair wins again! No pin can contain it XD
Playwars
2024-09-12 11:58:23 +0000 UTCHA HA, She stood up so fast, the orbs have yet to catch up.
Peabody
2024-09-12 11:54:49 +0000 UTCWatching Alien sitcoms as a pair of alien-human friends must be an exercise in patience for the alien, havin to explain the cultural nuances of 90% of the jokes and situations xD
Sarazarus
2024-09-12 11:04:04 +0000 UTCLove Frix's look in the last panel. A 'that's my gal' smile.
Graeme Thorburn
2024-09-12 11:02:53 +0000 UTCThe most important takeaway from that. A+ Sydney.
DonnieRamesJio
2024-09-12 10:53:05 +0000 UTCI love this trope, of the meathead or jock character suddenly becoming erudite and eloquent when the conversation swings around to their area of interest and expertise (Sir Terry Pratchett pulled off a notably excellent example, of a literal thug who had a professional level of art history and appreciation) Particularly appropriate in this case specifically because it's *lizard*-alien, who we would associate with limb regeneration.
KnightRider007
2024-09-12 10:51:58 +0000 UTCSo Garamm isn't just an emergency escape lizard, he also doubles as an emergency exposition lizard?
Torabi
2024-09-12 10:37:55 +0000 UTCWord of the day: DeHam. Thank you, Dave. Our lives are now all the richer.
Michael Obert
2024-09-12 10:20:22 +0000 UTCIllithiids just read Brain Fancy for the articles. No, really! Also: Lapha. Expects. Ninjas.
Cat Tillinghast
2024-09-12 10:13:20 +0000 UTC"De-ham" is wonderful! :,-)
Thomas Dorner
2024-09-12 10:09:39 +0000 UTCAwfully observant for a lizard that fell for that stupid sorority trick. Must have a limited supply of blood with so much having to flow to the tail...
Kizik Ucalegon
2024-09-12 10:07:56 +0000 UTCIt seems that having Sydney's memories was not enough to prepare Lapha for Sydney's Sydneyness. Nice to see how her friends did see it coming
Fogel
2024-09-12 10:07:14 +0000 UTC*insert Space Sitcom Laugh Track*
3of4
2024-09-12 10:03:22 +0000 UTC
