There’s still an easy solution to all this….just get Unity in. If she can accidentally break through 20ft of reinforced concrete then the tanks shouldn’t be too tricky.
Clearly GODOT planned ahead better than I had thought. Perhaps he placed the Tech Support request himself, to make sure the Tech Guy arrived on schedule.
I like Anderson’s solution, though I expect glass-substitute to be a bit tougher than codebracker’s glass, as the designers of the Brain-o-Mat (perhaps Casey and Andy, by the name^_^) will have found the first time that it broke down that ordinary glass is too fragile to last until the Tech Guy gets there.
As someone who used to do a *lot* of data entry, I can tell you that brains are, indeed, important. Of course, I was proofreading on the fly, interpreting the scribbles in the field entries and correcting typos…
RTFM is essential for certain equipment. Keeping the reactor from going foom in a bad way until you WANT it to go foom (such as the self destruct sequence.
Additionally some mad equipment is designed to be mad-proof, how else to have any equipment to rebuild the lab after the last FOOM.
Reactors must be critical/SLIGHTLY supercritical to produce power – subcritical reactors are expensive paperweights.
A properly trained brain-dead zombie (awake for a day and a half) can properly respond to a power plant casualty (immediate actions to support the on-watch shift) before completely waking up.
Whoops…this is the Therac-25 all over again.
There’s still an easy solution to all this….just get Unity in. If she can accidentally break through 20ft of reinforced concrete then the tanks shouldn’t be too tricky.
This is not going to end well for me, is it?
for YOU?
… what do you know that we dont?
I know how tasty I am.
Ah, a fellow Funky Mad Genius, I see. Welcome to the club. May you survive or die in an amusing manner, whatever your preference.
This is what you get for having such a complicated sketch request.
I’m pretty sure every guest appearance has uttered some close variation on those words.
just punch it, it’s glass
(TUNE: “Dirty Laundry”, Don Henley)
I’m on St. Charlie, it’s the train of trains!
Lurching down the hallway in my mortal remains!
Do I have a need for brains?
I do data entry!
I’m a-tappin’ on the keypad all the live-long day,
Putting in the numbers in an accurate way …
That is how I earn my pay!
I do data entry!
Listen to me sob
At the Brain-O-Mat!
Can I do my job?
(Please don’t answer that)
(x2)
Hear the technician as he tells the room
Normal operation will now shortly resume …
Then we hear a big ka-BOOM!
What of data entry?
There’s panic spreading up and down the hall!
Will the tech guy charge us for a service call?
Do I need a brain at all
To do data entry?
Can I ascertain
How to hit the keys,
All without a brain?
(Do not answer, please)
(x2)
Clearly GODOT planned ahead better than I had thought. Perhaps he placed the Tech Support request himself, to make sure the Tech Guy arrived on schedule.
I like Anderson’s solution, though I expect glass-substitute to be a bit tougher than codebracker’s glass, as the designers of the Brain-o-Mat (perhaps Casey and Andy, by the name^_^) will have found the first time that it broke down that ordinary glass is too fragile to last until the Tech Guy gets there.
It’s never useful to RTFM. That’s one thing that’s the same in reality and mad science.
Especially when there’s an AI trying to kill you that specializes in changing written words. Yeah, that’s gonna end well.
Does anyone else see early Zeta Vincent in the data entry zombie? Character design easter egg, intentional callback, or happy accident?
I can see it now that you say that.
Wow, this is like validation for every programmer or sysadmin who didn’t want to write documentation, ever. “Luckily, it’s all in my head!”
As someone who used to do a *lot* of data entry, I can tell you that brains are, indeed, important. Of course, I was proofreading on the fly, interpreting the scribbles in the field entries and correcting typos…
Okay, NOW they have a real problem.
I suspect that Mister Hawaiian Shirt is about to become the main course at a zombie luau. Mmmm, long pig…..
“Hey! Stop that! I’m not enough to go around!”
“Now, you wanted the dark meat . . . , and you wanted the light meat . . . , and who got the arm?”
Killer tomatoes or killer zombies, when the line works, the line works.
I doubt U.N.I.T.Y. will be able to dissuade them with ketchup, though.
Ohh.. simultaneously defanging Unity… and bringing Zombie Apocalypse to the train!
RTFM is essential for certain equipment. Keeping the reactor from going foom in a bad way until you WANT it to go foom (such as the self destruct sequence.
Additionally some mad equipment is designed to be mad-proof, how else to have any equipment to rebuild the lab after the last FOOM.
Reactors must be critical/SLIGHTLY supercritical to produce power – subcritical reactors are expensive paperweights.
A properly trained brain-dead zombie (awake for a day and a half) can properly respond to a power plant casualty (immediate actions to support the on-watch shift) before completely waking up.
Holy crap! The tech guy is Roky Crikenson!