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2019-02-26
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2019-02-26

by shaenon on February 26, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. wearsshoes
    February 26, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Nick didn’t sea that naval attack coming.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 26, 2019, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      Well, no one expects to be attacked in port.

      • Ken
        February 26, 2019, 9:52 am | # | Reply

        I bet Baron Mistycorn was made in Japan! Plus he’s not all that bright. At least it wasn’t a *flying* Japanese Zero naval attack in port.

        Hm, does this mean war?

    • Dr. Steve
      February 26, 2019, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      A friend could have lint him some additional resources from his or her own navel forces

    • Robert Nowall
      February 26, 2019, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      A three-pronged attack, too.

    • warpzone32
      February 26, 2019, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

      Meh. I’d still ship it.

      • sweetuncleLeslie
        February 27, 2019, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, ship it. And work like Hell to figure out how to FIX it before it comes back from the customer…yeah, I’ve worked in the Valley, doing one-offs of the most advanced etc etc in the world, and you can RULE your market if you send me

        your budget for the year….(Just be BEST, y’all….)

        • warpzone32
          February 28, 2019, 5:00 am | # | Reply

          Everyone bow in supplication to the one thousand three hundred and thirty seven hacker who’s so good, they don’t need to go through Monster.com or whatever! No, they find their corporate clients by googling vaguely-related phrases and posting comments for free in webcomics comments sections.

          Only a hip young silicon valley programmer would be so jacked in to the Matrix that they have no idea what ‘shipping’ means in a fandom context. Sweet Uncle Leslie is totally not a bot, troll, or spammer, but is clearly the heroic programmer our startup ventures need to build login pages or android apps or “live services” or whatever the buzzword du jour is today.

  2. Alphaghoul
    February 26, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    They just need a vr helmet, their mobile base probably has one.

    • Bruce A Munro
      February 26, 2019, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      And if not, Dr. Lee or Jones could undoubtedly build one. Of course, there might be a password…

    • Shadowmehr
      February 26, 2019, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

      They don’t even need a VR helmet. Nick’s brain still has that DARPA-grade cybernetics stuck in it. Get him near a wifi signal, he might just figure out how to connect to the net without an Osprey body.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 26, 2019, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

        You’re assuming he still has the cybernetics. Virginia removed his overrides, so it’s never been made clear how much hardware she had to remove to do so, or how much she was able to leave attached.

  3. Pygar
    February 26, 2019, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Dave only needed a wire in his nose…

    • awgiedawgie
      February 26, 2019, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      And if Dave were here, he could undoubtedly set Nick up. Oh, wait… we have Virginia, who specializes in this sort of thing. And this would be a good excuse to get her and Nick alone together.

    • Seph
      February 26, 2019, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      Dave was Mad. They can bend the laws of reality.

      • thevinylreviewer
        February 26, 2019, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

        So is Ginny, only she hasn’t realized it yet.

  4. Valerie Kaplan
    February 26, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    I’ll have to remember that last line, as I often identify.

  5. glitterboy2098
    February 26, 2019, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Nick has reverse Adam Jensen going on. “i didn’t ask for this”

  6. warpzone32
    February 26, 2019, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Something something male-to-female adapter something something daisy-chain something something stripping the shielding can actually degrade the signal something something gold core something something trade-off between flexibility and torrent speed.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 26, 2019, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

      Wow. I have never seen something 40% dirty before. You non-specific canid, you.

      • warpzone32
        February 27, 2019, 9:00 pm | # | Reply
      • warpzone32
        February 27, 2019, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

        sassy rejoinder

        (Note: previous reply was this in caret brackets. Somebody needs to fix this before Little Bobby Tables comes along and posts a comment!)

        • awgiedawgie
          February 27, 2019, 10:41 pm | # | Reply

          I’m assuming by “caret brackets”, you mean less-than and greater-than characters. WordPress assumes that anything between those characters is HTML code, and is either executed or discarded (if it’s not an allowed HTML tag).

          Below is a line testing one method of displaying those characters.

          If it worked, I’ll explain what I did.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 27, 2019, 10:43 pm | #
          • awgiedawgie
            February 27, 2019, 10:45 pm | #

            Bugger. It didn’t work. There may be other methods, but I haven’t discovered them yet.

          • warpzone32
            March 1, 2019, 2:48 am | #

            Yeah, sounds like a Bobby Tables situation waiting to happen. I, for one, welcome our new maliciously-named overlord.

  7. Bruce A Munro
    February 26, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Man, the Baron is giving Karma the (metaphorical) finger like he thinks he’s Mell or something.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 26, 2019, 2:56 am | # | Reply

      He’s just pissed because he knows Nick is right about Aimee.

  8. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    February 26, 2019, 6:23 am | # | Reply

    You know, I’m liking the Baron less and less.

    • Ruggs
      February 26, 2019, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      No kidding. Denying access to friends, being controlling–that’s classic abusive behavior. Serious red flags here, so far.

      • Nomi
        February 26, 2019, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

        I never liked the Baron. He’s a twee asshat.

        • sweetuncleLeslie
          February 27, 2019, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

          Yup. A low-level POS, hardly worth a hominid’s attention ever.
          He used to represent the lowest standard of behavior Nick could aspire to. You know, where he hung out whenever he could.

      • warpzone32
        February 26, 2019, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

        Also, you know… the whole running-a-bloodsports-ring-for-desperate-refugees thing.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      February 26, 2019, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

      There is still time for character growth, but not for backsliding. They’re setting you up, Baron. They’re going to spike your licensed merchandise. You need a new job tomorrow or next month you’ll be trying to book a speaking tour with James Damore.

  9. Robert Nowall
    February 26, 2019, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    I’d suggest the drone interface helmets, but I would’ve thought they got left behind on Nick’s now-abandoned helicopter body.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 26, 2019, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

      Either that, or they’re back at SH headquarters.

  10. nebulousrikulau
    February 26, 2019, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    But the Baron forgot to do the standard USB insertion kata. Try to insert, fail, turn plug over, fail. turn plug over again, success.

    • warpzone32
      February 26, 2019, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      Standard procedure must be aborted when there’s a known risk the device may try to turn YOU over after the first insertion attempt.

  11. Robert Nowall
    February 26, 2019, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

    Baron M’s plug-jab really gets Nick to show off his blue eyes to great effect. And with his blond hair thrown into the mix, he’s looking less and less like the Jewish stereotype we debated a few weeks ago.

  12. Pygar
    February 26, 2019, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    Hey! Nick has blue eyes!

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