Seriously, what could be worse than being possessed by your own undead creation, and forced to make out with “that Jones woman”? Or a worse blow to the ego than having a robot fall asleep after just one kiss? But at least – just maybe – we’ll finally know what those blasted walnuts are for!
They probably never did. That was probably just to mess with her. Whether Ira would approve of this is a separate matter but it’s possible that there’s only so much even he can do against the corporate culture he helped to establish.
My bet is it would have been _easier_ for her to dismantle Nick, since she built him, but that they have plenty of staff that could have done it only slightly less efficiently, but they wanted a final loyalty test.
But the whole premise of her work is making it so that anyone with her degrees would be able to make another one, and that they can be repaired. She’s not actually Mad.
As I’ve said before, being Mad doesn’t necessarily mean that one cannot build things that the sane can comprehend. But the fact that she CAN comprehend things that sane people cannot is a good indication that she is, in fact, Mad.
Sure, but… is there anyone with the same knowledge pool as her that was able to check over her work to confirm that her science is actually reproducable? Studying both neurology and engineering is already kind of a rare combination, even before consider the knowledge she obtained from studying mad science, and you limit the pool of checkers to those with appropriate classification.
Her claim to fame was that she was able to reverse engineer Mad science creations, and re-engineer them so that “normal” scientists could reproduce them. Ergo, no one needed the same level of knowledge or skill that she had for them to be able to confirm that she was successful. The whole point was that someone who did not possess her level of knowledge could understand it.
While it is not proof positive, the fact that A-Sig has kept her around all this time – despite Ira clearly knowing about her frequent visits and collusion with Skin Horse – is a pretty good indication that she was definitely able to do what she claimed.
Janie possesses personal boundary integrity. Her mirror neurons are mounted on the sun visor of her mind and can be flipped up against the roof when in danger of becoming a distraction.
I suspect the Harkonnen gambit. Janie’s offer depended on “a pal in Cryptography”. Janie may have been sincere, but the jacket is closer than the coat.
What she doesn’t know is that there is only one copy of the key to the loyalty restrooms, and it also opens the loyalty janitor’s closet, because you have to scrub the toilets yourself.
codebracker: We haven’t met anyone who has admitted to having been extirpated yet, and I don’t recall us ever being given any details of anyone who has (Timmy was obviously just an actor). Given the sort of place Anasigma, you don’t need anyone to actually know anything for a rumour like that to run rampant.
I don’t actually think we’re about to find out, though. Virginia hasn’t suddenly become expendable. The war isn’t over.
Sadly, Dr. Lee chose Nick over Mr. Green, even though Ira gave her many chances to prove her loyalty. I fear his reaction may well be “If I can’t have you…” etc.
My inner Mad would whisper that extirpation involves being suspended by one’s wrists and engulfed in a vortex of walnuts which abrade the flesh from your bones (starting at the ankles), followed closely by the shea butter based regeneration spray which permits 55 minutes of quiet anticipation until the next session…
That is, if my inner voices were still on speaking terms with me! đ
Oh, wouldnât that be the perfect plot twist! Well, heâs been using several other pseudonyms all along, so why couldnât âAri Greenâ be another?
On the surface, sure… until theyâre challenged (or one of them turns traitor). And really, Ira is pretty laid back, especially considering the labyrinth that is his mind.
On of the things I find interesting about this comic in general is that there people who can see what’s really going on and there are people who choose to live in a reality of their own making. One group is called Mad and the other is called Sane.
Based on the definitions of those words, the labeling seems backwards.
But itâs not as simple as just two groups. Being Mad means being able to think and create things that seem to defy the basic laws of nature â doing things that should be impossible. True, it may be a bit of a misnomer, but the Sane are simply those who are not Mad. Obviously, all of the Mad can see the Madness. But of the Sane, there are those who can see and accept the Madness as real, and there are those who block it out â those are the Mundane.
@Jeffrey: Yes, sorry. It was toward the “Harkonnen Gambit” comment. I’ll try to stop making messages that only work as a direct response for now.
I think I might understand the comment now anyway. “Harkonnen gambit” may in this instance may be a flippant way of saying “take the most convenient option when there’s not a huge difference in outcome”, if “the jacket” (which is shorter but still keeps you warm) is grabbed because it “is closer than the coat” (which also shields part of your legs from the wind but is aaaal the waaaay over theeeeere).
She’s about to be disappointed again…I bet extirpation isn’t even half as bad as stuff she’s been through already.
Seriously, what could be worse than being possessed by your own undead creation, and forced to make out with “that Jones woman”? Or a worse blow to the ego than having a robot fall asleep after just one kiss? But at least – just maybe – we’ll finally know what those blasted walnuts are for!
At this point I’m kind of guessing it’s just a blank room with a bowl of walnuts on the floor. They’ll clean up the body in a month or so.
I’m not sure I’d want to be Janie when not being able to help Nick drives Ginnie Mad. >_>
I’m pretty sure I’d want to watch the video feed with a bag of popcorn, however.
Popcorn while watching that feed? You have a stronger constitution than I do, clearly.
Does this mean they don’t need her to help dismantle Nick now?
They probably never did. That was probably just to mess with her. Whether Ira would approve of this is a separate matter but it’s possible that there’s only so much even he can do against the corporate culture he helped to establish.
My bet is it would have been _easier_ for her to dismantle Nick, since she built him, but that they have plenty of staff that could have done it only slightly less efficiently, but they wanted a final loyalty test.
I’ll be curious to see what Dr. Lee would be like Mad. To some extent, I’m not actually sure she’d be that different.
My working hypothesis is that she is on frog pills.
That is to say: I think she is actually Mad enough to be faking sanity convincingly enough to fool herself.
But the whole premise of her work is making it so that anyone with her degrees would be able to make another one, and that they can be repaired. She’s not actually Mad.
As I’ve said before, being Mad doesn’t necessarily mean that one cannot build things that the sane can comprehend. But the fact that she CAN comprehend things that sane people cannot is a good indication that she is, in fact, Mad.
And as myself and others have already speculated, Ginny is likely a latent mad like Dave Davenport was.
Sure, but… is there anyone with the same knowledge pool as her that was able to check over her work to confirm that her science is actually reproducable? Studying both neurology and engineering is already kind of a rare combination, even before consider the knowledge she obtained from studying mad science, and you limit the pool of checkers to those with appropriate classification.
Her claim to fame was that she was able to reverse engineer Mad science creations, and re-engineer them so that “normal” scientists could reproduce them. Ergo, no one needed the same level of knowledge or skill that she had for them to be able to confirm that she was successful. The whole point was that someone who did not possess her level of knowledge could understand it.
While it is not proof positive, the fact that A-Sig has kept her around all this time – despite Ira clearly knowing about her frequent visits and collusion with Skin Horse – is a pretty good indication that she was definitely able to do what she claimed.
Janie possesses personal boundary integrity. Her mirror neurons are mounted on the sun visor of her mind and can be flipped up against the roof when in danger of becoming a distraction.
I suspect the Harkonnen gambit. Janie’s offer depended on “a pal in Cryptography”. Janie may have been sincere, but the jacket is closer than the coat.
And thus Janie acquired keys to the Loyalty Restrooms, where every hundredth flush cleans out the entire stall…
Hmm… sounds a bit like certain regimes in certain countries that I know of…
What she doesn’t know is that there is only one copy of the key to the loyalty restrooms, and it also opens the loyalty janitor’s closet, because you have to scrub the toilets yourself.
Extirpate away!
Well… at least she will learn what extirpation is… first hand! Hmmm… unless it involves removing her brain and placing it into a robot/vehicle!
Dr. Steve: Maybe, maybe not. The King of Runazar never found out what his fate was.
But if extripation is a retgone, how would people know it’s terrible?
My guess is that extripation is just getting fired, with walnuts. They just hype it up as an inside joke.
codebracker: We haven’t met anyone who has admitted to having been extirpated yet, and I don’t recall us ever being given any details of anyone who has (Timmy was obviously just an actor). Given the sort of place Anasigma, you don’t need anyone to actually know anything for a rumour like that to run rampant.
I don’t actually think we’re about to find out, though. Virginia hasn’t suddenly become expendable. The war isn’t over.
Sadly, Dr. Lee chose Nick over Mr. Green, even though Ira gave her many chances to prove her loyalty. I fear his reaction may well be “If I can’t have you…” etc.
My inner Mad would whisper that extirpation involves being suspended by one’s wrists and engulfed in a vortex of walnuts which abrade the flesh from your bones (starting at the ankles), followed closely by the shea butter based regeneration spray which permits 55 minutes of quiet anticipation until the next session…
That is, if my inner voices were still on speaking terms with me! đ
She should’ve requested an eye twitch if the offer was legitimate. She should study with Sam Starfall
Time for Gavotte to return and start stinging people. (This is called a bees-ass ex machina)
Bravo, sir! Bravo! Good to see you still in form.
Well, that was an incredible stroke of inevitability.
If she’s taken away, who’s gonna disassemble Nick?
Where’s the Dave Conspiracy when you need it?
Wait… maybe this is all the Dave Conspiracy!
Before we found out Mr. Green’s first name was Ari, I had a wild theory that it was Dave.
Oh, wouldnât that be the perfect plot twist! Well, heâs been using several other pseudonyms all along, so why couldnât âAri Greenâ be another?
But aren’t the Daves pretty chill guys?
On the surface, sure… until theyâre challenged (or one of them turns traitor). And really, Ira is pretty laid back, especially considering the labyrinth that is his mind.
On of the things I find interesting about this comic in general is that there people who can see what’s really going on and there are people who choose to live in a reality of their own making. One group is called Mad and the other is called Sane.
Based on the definitions of those words, the labeling seems backwards.
But itâs not as simple as just two groups. Being Mad means being able to think and create things that seem to defy the basic laws of nature â doing things that should be impossible. True, it may be a bit of a misnomer, but the Sane are simply those who are not Mad. Obviously, all of the Mad can see the Madness. But of the Sane, there are those who can see and accept the Madness as real, and there are those who block it out â those are the Mundane.
Shaenon’s new zombie gnome book is out! I ordered it, and two more zombie gnomes!
I’m sorry, but I have no idea what you mean and Google isn’t helping. Would you mind explaining?
I assume this was in reply to someone above due to the stupid thing this randomly does where it fails to thread a reply?
I am so sorry; I have never properly figured out why it keeps doing that.
@Jeffrey: Yes, sorry. It was toward the “Harkonnen Gambit” comment. I’ll try to stop making messages that only work as a direct response for now.
I think I might understand the comment now anyway. “Harkonnen gambit” may in this instance may be a flippant way of saying “take the most convenient option when there’s not a huge difference in outcome”, if “the jacket” (which is shorter but still keeps you warm) is grabbed because it “is closer than the coat” (which also shields part of your legs from the wind but is aaaal the waaaay over theeeeere).