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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

It's like she's punching them with her BRAIN.

Chapter 7 – Page 21

on October 25, 2010
Chapter: Chapter 07
└ Tags: Franzington, Frigg, Micholuszek
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  1. Gilded Dragon
    Gilded Dragon
    October 25, 2010, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Wow. Way to put them in their places.

  2. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    October 25, 2010, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Go, Frigg! Psych ’em out. YEAH.

  3. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    October 25, 2010, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    …Wait, what?

    • Gravedigger
      Gravedigger
      October 25, 2010, 3:33 am | # | Reply

      I have no idea how to process this page.

      • Doop doop
        Doop doop
        October 25, 2010, 5:44 am | # | Reply

        Welcome to Calvinball 2.0! Now known as Friggball or Frigg’n Chess.

        • gwydion78
          gwydion78
          October 25, 2010, 11:16 am | # | Reply

          I’d put in my vote for Frigg’n Chess.

        • Jack Vermicelli
          Jack Vermicelli
          October 25, 2010, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

          Fizzbin, anyone?

  4. Kimberly T
    Kimberly T
    October 25, 2010, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I never learned more than the basic moves for each piece, but I’ve heard that a great deal of chess strategy is psychological warfare. Frigg seems to have figured that out now. And I’m sure she’s already familiar with how a high percentage of the male population can only think with one head at a time… X-D

    • Niall
      Niall
      October 25, 2010, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      I’m proud to say that I’m one of the few not in that large percentage of men. If Frigg tried that tactic on me, I’d be amused more than anything else.

      • Miklanin
        Miklanin
        October 25, 2010, 6:03 pm | # | Reply

        I dunno if I can agree with amused. Not at first, anyway. I think no matter which “dominant head” male group one falls into, coupled with knowing Frigg likes to break stuff / people, would cause that brief moment of, “Wait, what? -ness” …and then the amusement would show up all fashionably late n’stuff.

      • zack of hiskatana
        zack of hiskatana
        August 4, 2011, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

        amused, flattered, even overbalanced. neither of which would last long while the game was on.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        June 25, 2013, 9:46 am | # | Reply

        In that neither of your heads works?

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      October 25, 2010, 3:46 am | # | Reply

      Actually, there isn’t a lot of psychological warfare in chess, you can’t psych your opponent out, because they should just be playing the best move they can.

      There’s a lot of psychological warfare in something like poker, where your opponent has incomplete information and you’re trying to mislead them, but you psyching someone out is never part of a game’s strategy when all players have complete information.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        October 25, 2010, 9:24 am | # | Reply

        Well, recall that part of Chess is seeing more than your opponent. Or pretending you do, It may not necessarily be that your opponent doesn’t have complete information, but that you can make them feel they don’t.

        The most iconic, unnerving phrase when you play Chess I think it “Are you sure you want to do that?”

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          October 26, 2010, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

          If you’re pretending that you’re better than you are at chess, this isn’t going to actually give you an advantage, because all the game information is public, a game is only ever a psychological game if players are trying to second guess the other players.

          Let’s take checkers as a better example. You could use the same arguments to say that checkers is a psychological game, but checkers is a solved game – from the initial position, it’s possible for the first player to always win, so long as they always make the right choice. There is no psychological element to it, because there’s no guesswork.

          • SotiCoto
            SotiCoto
            June 25, 2013, 9:50 am | # | Reply

            That is only if you’re playing strictly by the rules… or if the game isn’t serving as a distraction from a concealed purpose.

      • BT
        BT
        October 25, 2010, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

        ANY game can be psychological.

        • Dojang
          Dojang
          October 25, 2010, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

          you could even say that all games ARE psychological…right down to 1p games like solitare.

          emotional and mental state plays a big part in how well we operate in a problem-solving or reaction-time capacity.

          • ahdok
            ahdok
            October 26, 2010, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

            a psychological game is one where you gain advantage from misleading your opponent. You can’t do that in a game where they have all the information. You might be able to intimidate them or psych them into making a mistake, but that’s not part of the game in any way.

            You could equally argue that all games are life-threatening because you could always kill your opponent to secure the win, or that all games involve cards, because you can replace the pieces with cards.

            • Dojang
              Dojang
              October 26, 2010, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

              you’re missing my point. i’m not talking psych warfare, i’m talking about the role that psychology plays in our ability to play games.

              if you’re in a bad mood, your solitare’s unplayable.

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              June 25, 2013, 9:52 am | # | Reply

              If that isn’t “part of the game”, you’re playing an incomplete game.

          • Intruder
            Intruder
            October 26, 2010, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

            Ideally, you play the board and not your opponent, but even so it sometimes pays to choose an opening your opponent doesn’t typically favor. And blitz chess can be a different animal entirely. I’ve spent many an evening trying to figure out if my brother is an idiot or just daring in under 10 seconds.

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        October 26, 2010, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

        At top levels of play it approaches the pure analytical form, but a LOT of chess is mental. I play well, but I used to go to pieces as soon as I made a mistake. Learning to play through the errors vastly improved my game. In addition, I don’t think very many moves ahead, but I am very good at looking 3-4 moves ahead ALL OVER the board. During my opponent’s turn I quickly spot every possible move and figure out an answer to it, so when they move a piece I have an immediate response. Done properly this is VERY intimidating, and with the right level of haughty sneer can completely throw people off their gme.

      • Tolrick
        Tolrick
        October 29, 2010, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

        Frigg is establishing right now that even if there isn’t psychological warfare in chess by itself, there can certainly be some between the players independant of the game.

        And messing with your opponent’s head, no matter what the subject matter, affects their playing.

    • Dojang
      Dojang
      October 25, 2010, 4:51 am | # | Reply

      actually, i’m not sure the percentage is as high as modern sitcoms would have kimberly T believe.

      now, women’s attentionspan and proximity to a shoe sale? there’s a statistic.

      • matt w
        matt w
        October 25, 2010, 8:11 am | # | Reply

        Whoa, rpgs + webcomics + chess = sexism. Didn’t see that coming.

        • Hawk
          Hawk
          October 25, 2010, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

          Yeahhhhhh…..

      • Kimberly T
        Kimberly T
        October 27, 2010, 12:45 am | # | Reply

        Modern sitcoms, nothin’… two decades in the USN. I’ve seen boys in uniform do some amazingly idiotic things for the sake of gettin’ some.

        And your statistic regarding women and shoe sales would be…?

        • Shadow4eternity
          Shadow4eternity
          November 24, 2010, 4:44 am | # | Reply

          Unless there are sharp, bladed weapons or new holsters for my guns, I will not go anywhere near a shoe store. Gun store, knife store, farm store, work wear store, or surplus military definately. Shoes=no. Gotta love generalizations that don’t apply to most people

  5. Mutters
    Mutters
    October 25, 2010, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    “Oh Dear”

  6. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    October 25, 2010, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    …Wait, what?

  7. 1d4caltrop
    1d4caltrop
    October 25, 2010, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    She’s licking a queen. Does that count as this comic’s first official sapphic act?

    • Kenkins
      Kenkins
      October 25, 2010, 1:16 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know. We’ll need to see it drawn again with a more dramatic close-up.

      Perhaps the entire comic space.

      In slow motion.

    • G@T0R
      G@T0R
      October 25, 2010, 10:39 am | # | Reply

      While the queen may be female, she also happens to be fairly phallic-looking, which has the desired effect on the gnomes. In the spirit of compromise, we can call this opener a queen’s bi-gambit or a bi-queen’s gambit.

  8. Devious_Psychopath
    Devious_Psychopath
    October 25, 2010, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    There is something wrong with this page… and I can’t decide what it is.

    • Meirnon
      Meirnon
      October 25, 2010, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      There’s no “BOING!” sound effect coming from the gnomes in the last panel. That’s what’s missing.

      • Alice Macher
        Alice Macher
        October 25, 2010, 12:40 am | # | Reply

        “SCHWING!” would also be acceptable, if a bit dated.

        • Hawk
          Hawk
          October 25, 2010, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

          I am wondering if the expression worn by the gnome in blue counts as “boing”…the other one looks a touch disturbed, or even alarmed. Blue Boy there seems intrigued at least.

    • Malificus
      Malificus
      October 25, 2010, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      A slow bass beat with mood lighting?

      • Meirnon
        Meirnon
        October 25, 2010, 4:34 am | # | Reply

        Woah, slow down there! We’re not exactly at the rule 34 point, yet.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        June 25, 2013, 9:53 am | # | Reply

        Ah… so someone else acknowledges the Porn-Beat.

  9. GreenIntern
    GreenIntern
    October 25, 2010, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    Well. That sure is a thing.

  10. Admiral Squish
    Admiral Squish
    October 25, 2010, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Grk! *head a-splodes*

  11. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    October 25, 2010, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Time to break out the Barry White and Jello shots.

  12. Faceless Minion
    Faceless Minion
    October 25, 2010, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Good lord.

  13. coffeecult
    coffeecult
    October 25, 2010, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    This, quite possibly, is my favorite Frigg page. and there are so may to choose from….

  14. Metaldude
    Metaldude
    October 25, 2010, 2:07 am | # | Reply

    Cool! I think she broke the gnomes! Also, if it was your intention to arouse those of your readers attracted to Frigg, it worked.

  15. Dojang
    Dojang
    October 25, 2010, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    not jedi?

  16. John B
    John B
    October 25, 2010, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    Ah, Frigg, ever the professional. If she cannot smash their bodies, she will smash their MINDS.

  17. Sortelli
    Sortelli
    October 25, 2010, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    I clearly need to start playing chess more often

  18. Tsenzei
    Tsenzei
    October 25, 2010, 2:35 am | # | Reply

    I have a sudden urge to play chess.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      October 25, 2010, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      Start by choking the bishop.

      • G@T0R
        G@T0R
        October 25, 2010, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t have the admin privileges to give you a gold star but you sir, have won a free internetz.

        • Hawk
          Hawk
          October 25, 2010, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

          Indeed.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        October 25, 2010, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

        Thank you, thank you. It is with great honor that I accept this interwebz award for the lulziest sex/masturbation-related reference made in the past 24 hrs. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my mom, my imaginary girlfriend, the great spaghetti monster and, of course, Sir Patrick Stewart. You guys make it all worthwhile.

        • Tsenzei
          Tsenzei
          October 26, 2010, 3:44 am | # | Reply

          It is because, good sir, you have “Seen Everything.”

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            October 26, 2010, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

            “Again”. ;)

      • Phil
        Flo
        October 26, 2010, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

        Luckily, I have the authority needed for the task.

        Gold Star.

        • Cote
          Cote
          October 29, 2010, 2:50 am | # | Reply

          The alt text did me in.

          So do the Gold Stars.

          All of them.

          Cheers,

          Cote

  19. Odo
    Odo
    October 25, 2010, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    “When it comes to force…” Well that is the job of the tank — exerting force. She’s just be placed into a situation where the force needs to be applied with something other than her favorite axe.
    None of the team is totally stupid — they just have modes of operation that are their favorites.

  20. ahdok
    ahdok
    October 25, 2010, 3:47 am | # | Reply

    Also, I can kill you with my brain.

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      October 25, 2010, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      I’ll be in my bunk.

  21. TexasNinjaBuzzard
    TexasNinjaBuzzard
    October 25, 2010, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    I HAVE TRAUMA. YOU HAVE TRAUMATIZED ME NOW.

  22. Nathaniel VonLypathronpicaplasty
    Nathaniel VonLypathronpicaplasty
    October 25, 2010, 5:31 am | # | Reply

    I have no idea what to think… and I heartily approve. This comic may have made me Frigg’n bi.

    • Korbl
      Korbl
      October 25, 2010, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

      “Everyone’s Bi for Frigg”?

      • Aurix
        Aurix
        October 25, 2010, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

        Bi-Frigual? Friggsexual? Bi-Frigious?

  23. Frank
    Frank
    October 25, 2010, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know what just happened (or maybe I do) but get the next Frigg page up!!!

  24. Aboulic
    Aboulic
    October 25, 2010, 8:29 am | # | Reply

    wow… i thought it was disturbing when Faye Dunaway did it to Steve McQueen… I suppose if you stood the gnomes on top of each other they’d add up to one Steve McQueen, …. then…..
    No! bad mental image! No! BADBADWROOONNNNNGGG!

  25. Severo Jr.
    Severo Jr.
    October 25, 2010, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    That’s what I call a Diplomacy check!!!

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      October 25, 2010, 9:04 am | # | Reply

      Check… And MATE.

      • Locke
        Locke
        October 25, 2010, 9:35 am | # | Reply

        I see what you did there.

  26. Locke
    Locke
    October 25, 2010, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    Now would be pretty awkward timing for the gnomes to inform her that they’re gay.

  27. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    October 25, 2010, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    I’m gonna play chess with ya woman, gonna lay ya by the chessboard…

  28. Harrowed
    Harrowed
    October 25, 2010, 10:32 am | # | Reply

    Mwahahahahahaha! /cheer for Frigg.

  29. Beef
    Beef
    October 25, 2010, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    Does anyone have the urge to play chess suddenly?

  30. DCB
    DCB
    October 25, 2010, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    You really don’t have to play by the rules to beat someone over the head with them.

  31. david
    david
    October 25, 2010, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    Substituting violent unprofessionalism for another kind of unprofessionalism, aye?

  32. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    October 25, 2010, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

    Chess will never be sexy. Frigg makes a valiant effort though.

    • Nate
      Nate
      October 25, 2010, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

      Imagine two sexy librarians playing strip chess. There’s at least four moves left till checkmate, but they’ve run out of clothes and need to figure out a new….. penalty for loosing a piece.

      • The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
        The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
        October 25, 2010, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

        The sexiness there isn’t with chess, it’s with the librarians. You could just as easily say “Imagine two sexy librarians playing strip water polo,[…]” and it would have the same effect.

        • The Indomitable Eric
          The Indomitable Eric
          October 26, 2010, 11:15 am | # | Reply

          That reasoning circumvents the possibility of anything that isn’t sexy ever being made sexy, because it’s not the subject itself that’s sexy, it’s X, Y, or Z that’s being sexy.

          • Phil
            Flo
            October 26, 2010, 11:19 am | # | Reply

            X+Y*Z = 1Sx

            X = Variable 1 (Librarians)
            Y = Variable 2 (Chess)
            Z = Relevance to sexually formative moments in your upbringing
            Sx = Unit of measure indicating degree of sexiness as relative to perception.

          • King of Zeroes
            King of Zeroes
            October 26, 2010, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

            Suddenly, Sexy Mustard!

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          October 26, 2010, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

          Imagine a massive chess set where all the pieces are pretty men or ladies (as your preference suits.) – and they remove their clothes when they’re “taken”

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      October 26, 2010, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      strip chess.

  33. The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
    The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
    October 25, 2010, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

    The strip that started a thousand downloads to My Pictures.

  34. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    October 25, 2010, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    …Did… did Frigg just seduce gnomes?

    I think this is one of those mindgames things… they’ve been schooling her ass because they were focused on the game… she’s got them upset/confused/aroused(?) and now the game is the last thing on their minds….

  35. Silvermane
    Silvermane
    October 25, 2010, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

    Hahahahahahahahaha!! XD I can’t… stop… laughing at those last two panels!! Frigg is so awesome!!

  36. TexasNinjaBuzzard
    TexasNinjaBuzzard
    October 26, 2010, 2:17 am | # | Reply

    How many diseases did she just get by tongueing something that generations of filthy filthy gnomes have grubbed over with their filthy gnome fingers? Everybody knows, gnomes are even filthier than Canadians. Ick.

    Man, panel four is an absolute triumph of WTF expression. There is not a single thought going on behind those eyes; she has completely destroyed whatever process they had.

    • Animaniac
      Animaniac
      October 27, 2010, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      She’s the tank, one can assume a good Con save vs. grubby fingered yuck

  37. ahdok
    ahdok
    October 26, 2010, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

    (to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it)

    If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic!
    If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic!
    If it’s shorter than it’s wide,
    You can turn it on it’s side,
    Then it’s longer than it’s wide, and it’s phallic!

  38. I don't know what to put here.
    I don't know what to put here.
    January 22, 2014, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    Frigg is best pony.
    She’s…
    Fecking awesome.
    Oh, shit, wait

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