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2019-03-06

by shaenon on March 6, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. thedoctor55
    March 6, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    I laughed at that way harder than I should have! Thank you Shaenon & Jeff! 🙂

    • Toby Fernsler
      March 6, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Somehow it’s funnier now, knowing it was written last century, on a physical medium, and only just now uploaded.

      • Robert Loughrey
        March 6, 2019, 9:22 am | # | Reply

        what?

  2. David B Huber
    March 6, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Just how does the Baron know that, hmm?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 6, 2019, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      I was kind of wondering the same thing. Of course, he was around for the untimely demise of his creator, but other than that, I shudder to think of the possibilities.

      • RandomFan
        March 6, 2019, 1:43 am | # | Reply

        I mean, his creator was killed by an angry mob. Do you think the mob would have *stopped* when his creator was dead? I don’t. The fact that Baron’s still around implies the mob lost in the end, but in the middle… Well, Baron probably didn’t kill anyone- but he might well have fallen on a dead mobster in the panic.

  3. David B Huber
    March 6, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    From Nick’s expression in the last panel, I gather he had more chutzpah than plan…

    Clearly his nascent abilities – whatever they are! – have yet to be revealed…

  4. jayosako
    March 6, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    All these squares make a circle… all these squares make a circle… all these squares make a circle…

    • Efogoto
      March 6, 2019, 1:17 am | # | Reply

      Or, as Roger Miller said, “Squares Make The World Go Round”

    • awgiedawgie
      March 6, 2019, 2:22 am | # | Reply

      It’s hip to be square.

  5. Leslie
    March 6, 2019, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    Everybody knows since long before the Marquise of Queensbury….that important
    circles are squared….the marriage ring, by children. Organized fights like the Baron’s running kept wars from breaking out as followers fought over possession of
    the fallen champion’s body. Boxing was a social improvement over the little militia wars that were constantly
    a danger. Go figure. We’re brutes.

    Marriage was probably also a ‘taming’ method for our species….thank you, Goddess.

    • Barbara K
      March 6, 2019, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      An Anthropologist friend posited that women domesticated men by providing a steady supply of fermented alcoholic stuff.

      • Sheik
        March 6, 2019, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

        And it would seem the first thing they did with their liberation 10,000 years later was try to get the stuff banned.

        • Barbara K
          March 6, 2019, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

          Once men started mass-producing the stuff, we lost the ability to control them with it.

  6. Alphaghoul
    March 6, 2019, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    So, what’s his plan here?

    • OneUniverse
      March 6, 2019, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      Do you mean the Baron or Nick? Mistycorn probably is running up the odds on some betting scheme and Nick will run around the square until the opponent loses battery power

  7. =Tamar
    March 6, 2019, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    That warning might actually help, if the robots decline to injure Nick because they don’t want to risk the smell.

    • nebulousrikulau
      March 6, 2019, 8:20 am | # | Reply

      Well, maybe.
      But how many robots do you know who even HAVE an olfactory sense?

      • Dr. Steve
        March 6, 2019, 8:57 am | # | Reply

        Well… I once had a dog that had no nose…

        • Robert Nowall
          March 6, 2019, 10:43 am | # | Reply

          How did he smell?

          • Efogoto
            March 6, 2019, 1:05 pm | #

            Terrible. Especially when wet.

  8. Robert Nowall
    March 6, 2019, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    Oh, this just keeps getting better and better. I hope Dr. Lee has a spare body for Nick afterwards.

    • Sheik
      March 6, 2019, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

      She’s bright. I’ll bet the machinery she used to build the first body is merely mothballed, not dismantled.

  9. Darwin Smith
    March 6, 2019, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    Does Nick even have any aftermarket parts anymore? Once his brain was removed from its containment, are the interfaces still there?

    • Sheik
      March 6, 2019, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      It would be simplest to just leave the “aftermarket parts” in place. I speculated before that Nick could jack into just about anything with a little help from Virginia and a few of Unity’s nanobots. And for all we know the “improvements I snuck in anyway” Tigerlily included something like that.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 6, 2019, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

      His brain still had cybernetics in place when Virginia rescued it (she mentioned that when she was searching for it). She had to operate on his brain to remove his overrides, but it was never made clear how much – if anything – she had to remove, and how much she was able to leave in place.

    • Rimwolf
      March 6, 2019, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      Virginia said his brain is “threaded with cybernetics”, and that she promised to get his “real body back”, so she would have had no reason to remove them.

  10. Christian Rose
    March 6, 2019, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

    What no one realizes is that because Nick still has his cybernetics, he can still jack in and out of electronics… Including the annex building…

    (Hint, this is how Shannon gets out of drawing a giant fight scene.)

    • awgiedawgie
      March 6, 2019, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

      We know it’s fusion-powered, but how much of Annex One is electronic, and how much is spring-controlled? Nick’s cybernetics may be completely incompatible with Tigerlily’s system.

  11. Shadowmehr
    March 6, 2019, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

    If this is the Baron’s idea of an inspiring speech, no wonder he’s losing control of the arena. Much more of this and Nick won’t need rotors to take flight.

  12. Anthony
    March 6, 2019, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

    Oooo! Certamen reference! Ars magica for the win!

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