Aw heck Pohl, you can’t just go around bamboozling your frens!
I wonder what she’s gonna wear underwater? Her cozy sweater will only hinder her movement. Do they make heated wetsuits?
That is a good question. How does a race that can’t handle the cold deal with underwater life? Seawater, to quote Bioshock, is colder than a witch’s [breasts], and even lakes tend to be around the 50’s and 60’s Fahrenheit.
Yes, a very good question. They’re amphibians… Possibly their temperature control metabolism kicks into a different mode that works more efficiently when they’re breathing water?
I’ve been wondering this myself. If she goes into a state of torpor below a certain air temperature, she should have trouble much faster in water of the same temperature, since the heat transfer rate is drastically higher.
The internet tells me that the temperature near the bottom of Lake Michigan is somewhere around 4C year-round, so pretty darned cold, and unless they live quite near the shore they’re presumably adapted to be fully functional at that temperature.
If they do live near the shore (or higher in the water column farther out), then summer temperatures are a lot warmer than that, but it still seems like the entire species would be forced into a sort of hibernation during the winter unless they wore wetsuit-type thermal clothing.
I suppose it’s possible that they only start to have trouble at sub-freezing temperatures, which don’t ever occur in the water but become an issue in the air during the winter months.
I remember from earlier in the series that there was a mention of hibernation during the winter months. This only increases my curiosity, as they will be visiting the refugee village during the winter. Maybe it’s set up in a man-made lake? And if so, is it heated to accommodate it’s residents?
I can hardly wait to see what the village is like!
Nah, hobbies cost less money. It’s a darn fine vice though.
Shooting most pistols with webbed hands though – slide bite would be kinda hard to avoid. Stick with hammerless revolvers or tech-9/semi auto SMG clones.
In a society of refugees of a civil war, it might not be politic to make light of war crimes,… OTOH, it might very funny graveyard humor…. Hard to say. POhl would know.
I had guy in my platoon once Jewish guy wore his yarmekle under his helmet kept kosher all that. First time through the gas chamber for Gas mask training. Looks dead at the drill sargent and says Drill sargent… I got a bad feeling about this last time one of my people went in one of these he had to be cleaned up with a dust pan.”
I nearly choked on my water tube. the DI turned a purpleish color (which was a pretty trick for an African American guy) and spent 2 hours trying not to laugh. 2 other drill sergeants couldn’t keep the composure they were laughing like heyenas while trying not to choke to death on the CS gas all the while WE were getting smoked because someone had the audacity to laugh at such a horrific joke. HE was laughing his ass off.
remember Dark humor is like food not everybody gets it. Some people are awesomely horrific sense of humor USUALLY people that have had the Darkest happenings to them.
Especially jews.
a few years of ‘microaggressions’ and you get whiny and triggered; a few centuries of second-class citizenship, you get angry; but literally millennia of oppression and massacre, all over the world? At some point, you’ve just gotta laugh.
Depends on the person. Lots of jews get very offended by jokes like that one listed above. Some don’t. Making dark humor jokes about your own people is not that common; s’all I’m saying.
YOU! That hurt! You made coffee come out of my nose! I’m not reading comments you make during morning coffee break, anymore. That hurt. Old people looked at me accusingly, with burning disdain in their eyes… like, “what could possibly be that funny, this early?”
Every time I try and explain what was so funny to my parents after I laugh so hard that it hurts, I can’t breath and/or I cry, I just get blank looks. OTOH, my dad manages to find the dude with the racist puppets funny, and I can’t stand him.
I definitely remember some people disliking how Pohl asked to examine it and suggested Selkie try not wearing it all the time, probably referring that.
No, Mikael is right, there was a bit where Pohl suggested minimizing wear of the bow once he saw the message being displayed. I’ll update this with a link when I’m not being sneaky at work.
I found Selkie last week and after reading it all the way through I just had to do it again. Now I am seriously debating if I should just start over again. I just love the story characters and the conflicts. My only complaint is that there is not more, which is a compliment if you think about it.
This being Selkie, I don’t know if she’d develop an interest in firearms as in guns… or a gauntlet o’ flame and burninating. Probably the latter, in winter. And then discarding it due to dehydration.
Aw heck Pohl, you can’t just go around bamboozling your frens!
I wonder what she’s gonna wear underwater? Her cozy sweater will only hinder her movement. Do they make heated wetsuits?
That is a good question. How does a race that can’t handle the cold deal with underwater life? Seawater, to quote Bioshock, is colder than a witch’s [breasts], and even lakes tend to be around the 50’s and 60’s Fahrenheit.
Yes, a very good question. They’re amphibians… Possibly their temperature control metabolism kicks into a different mode that works more efficiently when they’re breathing water?
I’ve been wondering this myself. If she goes into a state of torpor below a certain air temperature, she should have trouble much faster in water of the same temperature, since the heat transfer rate is drastically higher.
The internet tells me that the temperature near the bottom of Lake Michigan is somewhere around 4C year-round, so pretty darned cold, and unless they live quite near the shore they’re presumably adapted to be fully functional at that temperature.
If they do live near the shore (or higher in the water column farther out), then summer temperatures are a lot warmer than that, but it still seems like the entire species would be forced into a sort of hibernation during the winter unless they wore wetsuit-type thermal clothing.
I suppose it’s possible that they only start to have trouble at sub-freezing temperatures, which don’t ever occur in the water but become an issue in the air during the winter months.
I remember from earlier in the series that there was a mention of hibernation during the winter months. This only increases my curiosity, as they will be visiting the refugee village during the winter. Maybe it’s set up in a man-made lake? And if so, is it heated to accommodate it’s residents?
I can hardly wait to see what the village is like!
Not a bad idea. Firearms are a fun hobby.
Nah, hobbies cost less money. It’s a darn fine vice though.
Shooting most pistols with webbed hands though – slide bite would be kinda hard to avoid. Stick with hammerless revolvers or tech-9/semi auto SMG clones.
In a society of refugees of a civil war, it might not be politic to make light of war crimes,… OTOH, it might very funny graveyard humor…. Hard to say. POhl would know.
I had guy in my platoon once Jewish guy wore his yarmekle under his helmet kept kosher all that. First time through the gas chamber for Gas mask training. Looks dead at the drill sargent and says Drill sargent… I got a bad feeling about this last time one of my people went in one of these he had to be cleaned up with a dust pan.”
I nearly choked on my water tube. the DI turned a purpleish color (which was a pretty trick for an African American guy) and spent 2 hours trying not to laugh. 2 other drill sergeants couldn’t keep the composure they were laughing like heyenas while trying not to choke to death on the CS gas all the while WE were getting smoked because someone had the audacity to laugh at such a horrific joke. HE was laughing his ass off.
remember Dark humor is like food not everybody gets it. Some people are awesomely horrific sense of humor USUALLY people that have had the Darkest happenings to them.
Especially jews.
a few years of ‘microaggressions’ and you get whiny and triggered; a few centuries of second-class citizenship, you get angry; but literally millennia of oppression and massacre, all over the world? At some point, you’ve just gotta laugh.
found the horrible person
Depends on the person. Lots of jews get very offended by jokes like that one listed above. Some don’t. Making dark humor jokes about your own people is not that common; s’all I’m saying.
There’s also the disparaging remarks and quotes around micro-aggressions and being whiny.
YOU! That hurt! You made coffee come out of my nose! I’m not reading comments you make during morning coffee break, anymore. That hurt. Old people looked at me accusingly, with burning disdain in their eyes… like, “what could possibly be that funny, this early?”
same
Every time I try and explain what was so funny to my parents after I laugh so hard that it hurts, I can’t breath and/or I cry, I just get blank looks. OTOH, my dad manages to find the dude with the racist puppets funny, and I can’t stand him.
You gotta laugh or cry! I usually pick laugh too.
As a veteran, I’ve heard similar stories from other Vets. Still funny as all get go though.
The more horrific the event/aggressor the stronger the humor typically.
Every time I see Pohl I love him even more.
*Todd looks at Transcript* NOOOPPPPEEE!!!! Selkie: awws…
OK, we need fan art/guest strip of Selkie breaking the fourth wall. Possibly with the Terrorhammer.
I don’t trust that doctor. I don’t like the fact he’s alone after the sketchy shit he pulled with the bow
You’re thinking of Then, the agent who took the emitter in to custody. Pohl is the doctor from the hospital.
I definitely remember some people disliking how Pohl asked to examine it and suggested Selkie try not wearing it all the time, probably referring that.
That’s still Then, not Pohl. “Then” is a name, not the English word “then”.
No, Mikael is right, there was a bit where Pohl suggested minimizing wear of the bow once he saw the message being displayed. I’ll update this with a link when I’m not being sneaky at work.
No, I’m for sure thinking of Phol. He just gave me bad vibes after the bow incident and I’m still not over it
I feel bad for Pohl, he had to cut the webbing off hands to become a doctor.
I found Selkie last week and after reading it all the way through I just had to do it again. Now I am seriously debating if I should just start over again. I just love the story characters and the conflicts. My only complaint is that there is not more, which is a compliment if you think about it.
” THE BEST KIND OF CORRECT!”
Phol’s even geekier than I thought he was. X3
idk what it says about me but when kids are being this seriously obnoxious I kind of want to smack them.
Maybe I shouldn’t have kids.
You could borrow some, test drive, see if you like them.
Worked for me, but by then it was too late to have my own. Still … Leasing is nice.
People tend to notice and get somewhat flustered and stern if you return their children damaged.
If someone’s gonna break my kids it’s gonna be me.
Right? For me I’m glad it’s a comic and therefore text because I can’t stand hearing children’s voices.
This being Selkie, I don’t know if she’d develop an interest in firearms as in guns… or a gauntlet o’ flame and burninating. Probably the latter, in winter. And then discarding it due to dehydration.