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2014-10-17

by shaenon on October 17, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Landis963
    October 17, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    …Is that a yarmulke?

    • Rex Vivat
      October 17, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      At least she seems to respect his religion, if not his self image.

      • Landis963
        October 17, 2014, 12:21 am | # | Reply

        Not for the first time, I question Panoptica’s priorities.

      • Landis963
        October 17, 2014, 12:22 am | # | Reply

        Not to mention those of the Avengers/Justice League, of which her department is an obvious parody.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        October 17, 2014, 4:58 am | # | Reply

        Does he wear a yarmulke in helicopter mode? How would we even be able to tell?

        • Jon Lennox
          October 17, 2014, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

          He has a mezuzah up on his door.

          (Seriously.)

          • Foxhack
            October 17, 2014, 4:56 pm | #

            … there’s a Black Ops Rabbi out there.

            Huh.

      • Dave
        October 17, 2014, 5:15 am | # | Reply

        I bet she looked up his parents in his file and gave it to him without bothering to find out if he was actually practicing or not.

        • jdreyfuss
          October 17, 2014, 8:00 am | # | Reply

          He practices, because he’s mentioned keeping kosher, but I don’t recall him wearing a yarmulke in his daily life when he was human. Plenty of observant Jews don’t.

          • Danny in Canada
            October 17, 2014, 10:57 am | #

            in the “Nick as human” strips, he’s wearing a VR helmet at all times. Whether there was a yarmulke under the helmet is a question of how many processor cycles Anasigma was willing to devote to details that Nick would never see (for instance, that simulated Nick had no pancreas).

          • freemage
            October 17, 2014, 5:59 pm | #

            Well, many non-religious Jews choose to maintain some cherry-picked customs, including both the yarmulke and keeping kosher. When your religion, your culture and your ethnic identity are all overlapping Venn diagrams, it gets interesting.

    • oneuniverse2
      October 17, 2014, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      I was hoping it was his data port, like they used to use before Wifi.

  2. Werlitten
    October 17, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Only one and a half million? Seems a bit low for that sort of thing.

    • John Campbell
      October 17, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      There’d be more, but Cerebriac ran out of hard drive space.

      • Simberto
        October 17, 2014, 4:43 am | # | Reply

        WIth this, we can make a rough estimation of Cerebriacs storage space. If the average film about butts has a size of 200 Mb (Maybe some of them are short films about small butts, and others full-length DVDs about enormous butts (It was hard to avoid the temptation of writing …about your mother)), Cerebriac has a storage capacity of 300 Tb. Or at least that is how much Nick has access to. If we further assume that Nick does not ONLY have films about butts, we can up that estimate by maybe an order of magnitude to 3Pb.

        Oh, also this shows that despite thinking of himself as a helicopter, Nick is still attracted to humans, not some sexy slim Apache. Or i guess that the amount of Helicopter porn available is greatly limited. Could be a case of discrimination actually, access to porn is a basic right after all.

    • oneuniverse2
      October 17, 2014, 10:35 am | # | Reply

      I would think Nick would focus on butts that resemble Virginia’s

    • Ahruman
      October 17, 2014, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

      Those are just the ones recorded in the past week.

  3. tuiteyfruity
    October 17, 2014, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    NICK’S GOT A KIPPAH!

  4. Eddurd
    October 17, 2014, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    You asked for it … I originally sent this to Shaenon back in December of 2008. She even used it for a Sunday filler.

    http://youtu.be/19uxfmXRx80

    • Feech
      October 17, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      That’s great! I never saw it when it was used on a Sunday.

    • Michael
      October 17, 2014, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      FANTASTIC!

    • Barking Monkey
      October 17, 2014, 6:11 am | # | Reply

      I was singing along out loud by 1/3rd of the way through. How can Nick resist?!

    • Norman
      October 17, 2014, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      And there we have Nick’s real value to the team: His action figure is selling better. ^_^

    • oneuniverse2
      October 17, 2014, 10:38 am | # | Reply

      Now I have to figure out if I want more of my acquaintances to read this comic because of this tune.

    • mickeyf
      October 17, 2014, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Wow. That brought a tear to my eye….

    • Shadowmehr
      October 17, 2014, 7:23 pm | # | Reply

      (slow clap)

      It is an honor to be in the presence of a master.

      (heel click)
      (formal bow from waist)

    • Anson
      October 17, 2014, 11:23 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, that’s perfect. And dare I say, catchy too?

    • Landis963
      November 3, 2014, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

      I keep trying to sing along but “extr’ordinarily” keeps slipping me up. I get caught a syllable behind.

  5. metaceryn
    October 17, 2014, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    1.3 million of those films are due to Jeph Jacques and David Willis.

    • Dhraakellian
      October 17, 2014, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      Because it’s obligatory: Damn You, Willis!

      (and now I want to see Pintsize with a profanity filter. I bet it’d be hilarious to see BOLTS disease run though that.)

      • Ser Pentrose
        October 17, 2014, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

        Pintsize with a profanity filter like Nick’s? That would be _disking_ hilarious!

    • GammarayCanon
      October 17, 2014, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

      Damn Willis.

  6. Pygar
    October 17, 2014, 3:44 am | # | Reply

    Why, oh why, do I always see blankness instead of YouTube links? Have to inspect the page elements to find ’em…

    Terrific song, though! I get a sort of Link Hogthrob Deliberately Noble vibe from it… like when the Pentagon names stuff.

    My own claim to musical fame ended when my mother caught me singing my version of the Astroboy theme song… All I recall involves writing his name in the snow, and where his machine guns fired from…

    “Astroboy, when you go, write your name in the snow…”

    • Robert Nowall
      October 17, 2014, 5:21 am | # | Reply

      Didn’t know Astroboy could do that…

  7. Robert Nowall
    October 17, 2014, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    Panel Two gets to the core of Nick’s problem.

  8. Daibhid C
    October 17, 2014, 6:13 am | # | Reply

    Wait, the humanity snobs have a supercomputer? I bet it doesn’t count as a full member!

    • This Guy I Know
      October 18, 2014, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

      I’m imagining that Cerebriac is a superhero with a brain that can be used as a supercomputer. Don’t ask me how it works.

    • Landis963
      October 18, 2014, 10:47 pm | # | Reply

      The X-men have Cerebro, Superman used to have Brainiac before it went flaky on him (IIRC). I see no reason why AG-I can’t have Cerebr-iac.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        October 18, 2014, 10:54 pm | # | Reply

        Superman’s super-computer really ought to be called the Super Computer

  9. Wofmanjim
    October 17, 2014, 10:32 am | # | Reply

    Well, he omitted the ‘Best of’ compilations.

  10. xiombrag
    October 17, 2014, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    Well, if he’s storing porn of humans, I can kinda understand why she’s confused that he self-identifies as a helicopter.

    But then, that’s just prejudice against cross-species love. If a cyborg helicopter can be called a “species”…

  11. jennibrock
    October 17, 2014, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

    He likes filmed butts and he cannot lie.

  12. Guesticus
    October 17, 2014, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

    Sir Mix-a-lot was ahead of his time 😛

  13. Guesticus
    October 17, 2014, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

    Eddurd/b>: you need to come up with a tune for Archon over in “Grrl Power” 😀

  14. Circeus
    April 11, 2017, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    The question is how is there ONLY 1.5 million such files?

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