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2019-02-07

by shaenon on February 7, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    February 7, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Eh, NIck. You’ve still got jour l33t m4d 5kilz! ^_^

    • Shadowmehr
      February 7, 2019, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, that can come in handy. Put Nick in the background acting as mission control, using those “5kilz” to keep tabs on the situation, he could improve their effectiveness (not that’s saying much, but . . . )

      • Candace
        February 8, 2019, 1:50 am | # | Reply

        This.^

  2. wearsshoes
    February 7, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Bet you nick realizes next strip that he can just jack into any Android he wants, same as before

    • K. Iceclaw
      February 7, 2019, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Get that guy a cyberdeck stat.

      • Max
        February 7, 2019, 3:40 am | # | Reply

        Hey, let’s see if we can sneak the budget for a Sandbenders past Sweetheart…

      • Moe Lane
        February 7, 2019, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

        Vat-cloned Jewish netrunner with a hot Asian girlfriend… I’ve never actually seen somebody run that PC in a campaign, and now I’m wondering why the heck not.

        • K. Iceclaw
          February 7, 2019, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

          You know what, they should!

        • Candace
          February 8, 2019, 1:52 am | # | Reply

          Yeah, well, he still has to actually get the hot Asian girlfriend, which he has not yet quite accomplished.

      • D. Walker
        February 7, 2019, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

        Preferably something nice, like a Fairlight Excalibur.

    • theysabet
      February 7, 2019, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

      I think at this point he’d much rather find his landing-gear.

  3. Candace
    February 7, 2019, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, meat-Nick is not really well-suited for field work, is he? They’d be better off with him running a drone from home base or something like that.

    They really need Nick to stay behind and find out the benefits of his new body. The other experienced field agents can deal with this one while Nick “finds his feet.”

    • K. Iceclaw
      February 7, 2019, 8:59 am | # | Reply

      Or, to put it in (one version of) geek/gamer lingo; put him on rigger duty and cyberspace overwatch.

      • Candace
        February 8, 2019, 1:53 am | # | Reply

        Yup, that works.

  4. Robert Nowall
    February 7, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    You’ve recovered a skill set, Nick. You can swear. Make us proud. Turn the air blue.

    • Frank
      February 7, 2019, 10:46 am | # | Reply

      Wasn’t there a monty python skit where a battle was won solely though swearing?

      • Jim Baerg
        February 7, 2019, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t recall that one.
        Is it anything like the deadly joke skit?

        • Robert Nowall
          February 7, 2019, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

          All I can think of is the All-England Summarize Proust Contest.

        • Frank
          February 7, 2019, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

          ah, that’s probably the one I’m thinking. I really have not been sleeping well

      • Candace
        February 8, 2019, 1:54 am | # | Reply

        Don’t recall, but if there wasn’t, there should have been.

  5. Pygar
    February 7, 2019, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I wish she still called him “Biscuit”!

    • Candace
      February 8, 2019, 1:54 am | # | Reply

      +1

  6. Leandro Toniut
    February 7, 2019, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I really don’t mean to sass, but can anyone explain panel 2 to me? the way I see it it seriously look like Nick is coming out of Tip’s stomach by stretching his giant neck.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 7, 2019, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      Nick has his hand on the back of his neck, with the elbow out. His sleeve must be loose and fallen down some to show so much skin.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 7, 2019, 12:42 am | # | Reply

        Dang it, you beat me by like 30 seconds! Yeah, his arm should be black, and his neck should be flesh-toned.

    • DoctorObscure
      February 7, 2019, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      I cannot unsee that now!

      • David B Huber
        February 7, 2019, 1:09 am | # | Reply

        +1

    • awgiedawgie
      February 7, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      So, Nick’s neck actually looking black makes it weird, but he’s just got his hand up behind his neck. What appears to be coming out of Tip’s stomach is just Nick’s elbow.

    • ShenHibiki
      February 7, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      I was also seeing a lng nec for a couple seconds, so you’re not alone on that XD

    • Zinc
      February 7, 2019, 9:07 am | # | Reply

      You’re right, the art is somewhat ambigious. I fixed it.
      https://i.imgur.com/KsWLRZM.png

      • Leandro Toniut
        February 7, 2019, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

        +1 for helpfulness

      • Candace
        February 8, 2019, 1:58 am | # | Reply

        Worthy!

  7. Leslie
    February 7, 2019, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    JEEZ we’re all so EZ! We can be led hounding by a perfectly normal snapshot….

  8. David B Huber
    February 7, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Or Dr. Lee can show up with a gift of powered armor crafted from Red Knight’s castoffs only to have Nick discover his cybernetics can control the suit instinctively just as he did the Osprey!

    Together they become “Dr. FeelGood and her Naughty Knight”!

    • Dewy
      February 7, 2019, 10:58 am | # | Reply

      OOOOR…you know, the Department of Jetpack Suppression is just down the hall…the closed office…that someone has managed to steal a shirt from already…Hmmm…

  9. Alphaghoul
    February 7, 2019, 4:37 am | # | Reply

    Why can’t he just fly as a human piloting a jet?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 7, 2019, 5:29 am | # | Reply

      Apart from playing video games – which I wouldn’t trust to provide anyone with the real skills for flying – Nick has no experience as a human piloting an aircraft.

      He wasn’t a human in a helicopter. He was the helicopter. So he knows how to operate the aircraft, but he doesn’t know how to operate a human operating the aircraft.

      • Mgnostic
        February 7, 2019, 11:03 am | # | Reply

        I would expect that Nick could pick up flying conventional aircraft fairly quickly. He would probably find the interface to be clumsy but he would still have the memories of flight dynamics, navigation and communication.

        • awgiedawgie
          February 7, 2019, 11:30 am | # | Reply

          Problem is, he has no memory of operating the controls. He wouldn’t be any better than a flight instruction trainee. He may know the book from back to front, but he hasn’t logged a single hour in the cockpit. He’s very knowledgeable of what an aircaft – specifically, an Osprey – needs to do in the air, but no concept of what a human needs to do to make an aircraft do it.

          • Candace
            February 8, 2019, 2:02 am | #

            Yeah, I agree. A total immersion VR set-up might work for him, but otherwise, he would need some practice. His video-gaming experience would probably help, though, since most stuff is fly-by-wire these days.

  10. ruggs
    February 7, 2019, 10:22 am | # | Reply

    Does Nick now have jacks in his neck, ala Neo, courtesy of Tigerlily? Or is that too newage? What sorts of jacks would you have from the era of…

    Oh. Oh no… XD

    • Robert Nowall
      February 7, 2019, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

      We’ve established he has a plug.

      • Moe Lane
        February 7, 2019, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

        Wait, when?

        • Robert Nowall
          February 7, 2019, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

          When he said he used to be circumcised.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 7, 2019, 4:02 pm | #

            Wrong kind of plug. We need one to interface with a machine, not one that interfaces with another human.

          • Robert Nowall
            February 7, 2019, 4:15 pm | #

            Sure, be picky. And look into adaptor cables.

          • Jo Woodman
            February 7, 2019, 8:00 pm | #

            I’ve heard of male connectors but this is ridiculous!

  11. Sheik
    February 7, 2019, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

    Oddly there might be a solution at hand.
    Dr. Lee might be able to adapt some of Unity’s nanobots to _build_ a jack for Nick, one that he can use to control just about anything remotely, including any drones that would make themselves available..

    • awgiedawgie
      February 7, 2019, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

      That is a disturbingly reasonable solution. And a reasonably disturbing one as well.

      • Shadowmehr
        February 7, 2019, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

        Those are the best kind. 😀

  12. Mental Mouse
    February 8, 2019, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    “Jack into any drone he wants”… Hmm, isn’t there a room full of drones smack in the middle of Anasigma’s base?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 8, 2019, 7:33 am | # | Reply

      I suspect that they have some kind of built-in security features to prevent someone other than the designated operator from controlling them. Kind of how your neighbour at Starbucks can’t simply jack into your bluetooth headphones.

      That said, Nick is a consummate hacker, so he might be able to defeat such security features.

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