“These old robots are unsightly, and maintaining their broken and decaying chassis is a drain on the bottom line. As part of repairing and revamping the Little House into a new profit center, I, Whimsy Corporation Incarnate, will populate the Little House with [fancy font]New and Improved[/fancy font] versions of the beloved characters these robots represent. The old robots shall be relocated to Pacific Islands Whimsy, a stalled project located in Western Washington.”
Either he’s been cloned or else Aimee is running this particular show. Though as Nick’s female half I would expect her to be a bit better with security then this. @_@
You get with what you can use on a budget…That and if you combine reality blindness it keeps normals away and those who are not afflicted might actually move away since most situations like this end with blood thirsty monsters rather than tiny unicorns with microphones.
Wait, how to theme parks even work with Reality Blindness in effect? Do people avoid Haunted House attractions now because when they get there, they just see a broken down old house in need of repair and demand their money back? Or is the opposite the case, and you can just tell people there’s a Whimsey World theme park at the address of any given talking animal supervillian’s lair, and the tourists would just start filing in and taking pictures of everything?
Counterpoint: CounterCorp Cares (TM), and our $200 million advertising budget for our $10 million charity program gives its point of view vastly greater penetration than yours. It is fiscally impossible for you to be right on this issue.
CounterCorp’s communications represent the free speech right of freely associated individuals who happen to have the legal duty to shareholders to espouse precisely those views that provide a positive economic return even if such views are opposed by all the individuals who constitute our corporation. Thus are legal humans obligated to coopt debate among the puny humans, and we take our responsibilities to you seriously.
(Not even Adam Smith called it the “Invisible Hand of the All-Benevolent God.” Though if a well funded parody of a capitalist viewpoint is wrong, applying the If A Little Is Good, A Lot Must Be Great principle yields that if you turn your back on the next Hugo Chavez, you turn your back on humanity’s future.)
Then how do you explain the public’s reaction to CounterCorp’s latest Live Service, “CountOut 76,” which longtime fans of the CountOut video game franchise recently described as “Oh god oh god everything’s on fire except the flamethrowers?”
Sociopath implies that they are held to the same ethical standards as we are. They are required to serve their shareholders’ needs. If the best thing for the shareholders is to protect the value of the brand rather than chase short term profits, then the corporation would do the right thing, even if it’s for what we might see as the wrong reason.
This actually came up in case law. The CEO of a carmaker, I forget which one, got sued by the board for doing something under the company banner that was community-oriented rather than profit-oriented and he won the lawsuit on the basis that profit motive isn’t the only way to serve the shareholders.
Everybody knows that today IS Spring.The first day of. Today was declared “1st Day of Spring” many years ago. Will this help nudge Nick toward cheerful normality?
And then they realized that calling a day “the first day of spring” had absolutely no bearing on the fact that in many areas, winter persevered on for many more weeks after that, a fact that is undoubtedly the principal reason why “the first day of spring” now falls on the equinox.
He’s not. The answer to cats in general was “no,” and the answer to this cat in particular is also “no.” He’s making no distinction whatsoever between cis-species cats and this particular trans-species cat.
Sweetheart really is prejudiced against cats, though. Kidnapping Baron Mistycorn is just one of those things that no-one other than Unity would ever think was a good idea.
Baron Mistycorn doesn’t really look much like a cat, though he is about the size of a large house cat. His attitude reminds me of some cat’s I’ve known, too.
I realize Mistycorn’s struggling against it, and having U.N.I.T.Y. in this position probably isn’t good for his continued health, but I for one would like to see them cuddling more in future strips. Some things are just too adorable.
Pay no attention to the unicorn behind the tiki mask!
Oh, let me guess.
“These old robots are unsightly, and maintaining their broken and decaying chassis is a drain on the bottom line. As part of repairing and revamping the Little House into a new profit center, I, Whimsy Corporation Incarnate, will populate the Little House with [fancy font]New and Improved[/fancy font] versions of the beloved characters these robots represent. The old robots shall be relocated to Pacific Islands Whimsy, a stalled project located in Western Washington.”
And so on and so forth.
+1
The Baron ended up with Princess Nick last time we saw him, tho.
Either he’s been cloned or else Aimee is running this particular show. Though as Nick’s female half I would expect her to be a bit better with security then this. @_@
You get with what you can use on a budget…That and if you combine reality blindness it keeps normals away and those who are not afflicted might actually move away since most situations like this end with blood thirsty monsters rather than tiny unicorns with microphones.
This group has dealt with worse on a daily bases.
Wait, how to theme parks even work with Reality Blindness in effect? Do people avoid Haunted House attractions now because when they get there, they just see a broken down old house in need of repair and demand their money back? Or is the opposite the case, and you can just tell people there’s a Whimsey World theme park at the address of any given talking animal supervillian’s lair, and the tourists would just start filing in and taking pictures of everything?
Corporations, as collective entities, are always sociopaths.
Counterpoint: CounterCorp Cares (TM), and our $200 million advertising budget for our $10 million charity program gives its point of view vastly greater penetration than yours. It is fiscally impossible for you to be right on this issue.
CounterCorp’s communications represent the free speech right of freely associated individuals who happen to have the legal duty to shareholders to espouse precisely those views that provide a positive economic return even if such views are opposed by all the individuals who constitute our corporation. Thus are legal humans obligated to coopt debate among the puny humans, and we take our responsibilities to you seriously.
(Not even Adam Smith called it the “Invisible Hand of the All-Benevolent God.” Though if a well funded parody of a capitalist viewpoint is wrong, applying the If A Little Is Good, A Lot Must Be Great principle yields that if you turn your back on the next Hugo Chavez, you turn your back on humanity’s future.)
Then how do you explain the public’s reaction to CounterCorp’s latest Live Service, “CountOut 76,” which longtime fans of the CountOut video game franchise recently described as “Oh god oh god everything’s on fire except the flamethrowers?”
Sociopath implies that they are held to the same ethical standards as we are. They are required to serve their shareholders’ needs. If the best thing for the shareholders is to protect the value of the brand rather than chase short term profits, then the corporation would do the right thing, even if it’s for what we might see as the wrong reason.
This actually came up in case law. The CEO of a carmaker, I forget which one, got sued by the board for doing something under the company banner that was community-oriented rather than profit-oriented and he won the lawsuit on the basis that profit motive isn’t the only way to serve the shareholders.
Only problem is: Baron M doesn’t work for WhimseyCorp anymore. He quit at the end of the VR WhimseyWorld storyline.
Yay! Cuties!
I wonder if the server hosting Aimee is in residence?
Well, she did want to turn the defunct Whimsy World VR into a home for wayward AIs. So I’m guessing yes.
I wondered when we would see the Baron again.
Probably Unity recognized his voice.
Or all the horn carvings…
I think he got the idea from an old Dick van Dyke movie…
Mary Poppins?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lt._Robin_Crusoe,_U.S.N.
Wonder how the Baron will react to Nick in the flesh? Good for Sweetheart.
If she allowed UNITY a cat, it would eventually BE H.T.
And we’d get to see UNITY bust him .loose from his stripes. (ooops…service talk
recurring. Pay no attention. Will subside soon.)
Aww, I was hoping it was the Madblood bots.
The Madblood bots got dismantled by hamsters to make pilotable walking suits.
Only the two dozen who tried to abscond to Canada for reprogramming. The other 14,976 are fine.
“The Madblood bots got dismantled by hamsters to make pilotable walking suits.” is such a great sentence.
Everybody knows that today IS Spring.The first day of. Today was declared “1st Day of Spring” many years ago. Will this help nudge Nick toward cheerful normality?
Naw. “When I was a helicopter, I didn’t have to deal with hay fever!”
And then they realized that calling a day “the first day of spring” had absolutely no bearing on the fact that in many areas, winter persevered on for many more weeks after that, a fact that is undoubtedly the principal reason why “the first day of spring” now falls on the equinox.
The Baron’s got the wrong end of the stick here… Unity’s body may be fleshy, but certainly not feeble! Also: Another call-out to the Wizard of Oz?
He’s confusing “feeble” with “fragile”.
How sturdy is the Baron? Let’s see how he does vs a pack of angry werewolves!
Okay, Unity, you and Nick hold Baron M. by a leg each and make a wish.
Oh c’mon, Sweetheart; he could *learn* to meow and you’d never have to worry about a litterbox! Don’t be a speciest!
He’s not. The answer to cats in general was “no,” and the answer to this cat in particular is also “no.” He’s making no distinction whatsoever between cis-species cats and this particular trans-species cat.
*She
I’m just so woke I can’t remember gender anymore.
warpzone32: Table is masculine, if that helps.
Sweetheart really is prejudiced against cats, though. Kidnapping Baron Mistycorn is just one of those things that no-one other than Unity would ever think was a good idea.
Baron Mistycorn doesn’t really look much like a cat, though he is about the size of a large house cat. His attitude reminds me of some cat’s I’ve known, too.
we’re all agreed that big mask is a bionicle, right?
Yes. Yes we are.
Agreed, that is.
I realize Mistycorn’s struggling against it, and having U.N.I.T.Y. in this position probably isn’t good for his continued health, but I for one would like to see them cuddling more in future strips. Some things are just too adorable.
He’ll be fine. His body’s not feeble flesh, after all.
Maybe not flesh, but compared to Unity’s zombie strength, still feeble.