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2019-07-29

by shaenon on July 29, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Robert Nowall
    July 29, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    KT had a job, and she wasn’t alive.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 29, 2019, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      But did she buy cake?

      • Robert Nowall
        July 29, 2019, 1:04 am | # | Reply

        You can’t buy cake, you can only rent it.

        • Guesticus
          July 29, 2019, 9:16 am | # | Reply

          Just don’t leave it out in the rain (unless it is Candy Rain)

  2. ngmatt
    July 29, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    and this is why normal unity is better then smart unity

    • sweetuncleLESLIE
      July 29, 2019, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      Did I miss something here? What was IN the cake?

      • awgiedawgie
        July 29, 2019, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

        Eggs, milk, wheat… nothing unusual. She’s not Smart Unity right now. She just wants to save the people because they gave her cake. But the point is that she wants to save them.

  3. Alphaghoul
    July 29, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Dammit Virginia! When are you gonna step up and be a mother!

    • Robert Nowall
      July 29, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      Nine months after she goinks Nick?

      • Shadowmehr
        July 29, 2019, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

        She’s an expert in biomechanics. It might not take a full nine months or she might arrange six or seven goinkings before it becomes an issue. Even money that any such combination would have rotors and wifi capability at the outset (I refuse to say birth until confirmation of the presence or absence of external gestation pods).

        • warpzone32
          July 30, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

          Just say Spawn.

          Regardless of the mechanics of how sapient half-helicopter creation works, I guarantee the gamer would approve.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          August 9, 2019, 6:08 am | # | Reply

          I take it mad biology is rather more Lamarckian than normal biology?

          Also: I just tried to imagine what a half-human half-helicopter baby would look like, and it’s horrifying.

  4. Rimwolf
    July 29, 2019, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Discussions of moral behavior are often difficult, but this is definitely one of the strangest.

    • Moe Lane
      July 29, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      It gets to the right answer, though.

  5. chh01
    July 29, 2019, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Unity has been watching Simpsons reruns again.

    • Candace
      July 31, 2019, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      That would actually explain a lot about Unity.

  6. Robert Nowall
    July 29, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Forget them, if their kitchen’s empty.
    Forget them, if they’ve got no ca-a-a-a-ake.
    Don’t let them feed you forty-one, you.
    ‘Cause they can’t give you cake they haven’t baked.
    Unity, they never dreamed about you.
    They’ll make you sick, you wait and see.
    So don’t regret now, just let it reset now.
    Forget them, and please come back with me.

    —from “Forget Him,” Tony Hatch. Sung by Bobby Rydell.

  7. K. Iceclaw
    July 29, 2019, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    That *is* one of many kinds of value, yes.

  8. awgiedawgie
    July 29, 2019, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Okay, so Unity has a one-track mind as well.

  9. s854
    July 29, 2019, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Unity probably doesn’t realise how little they pay people on the walnut farm.

  10. Pygar
    July 29, 2019, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    She’s brighter than this guy…
    http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3300/fc03298.htm
    Faint praise, I’ll admit…

    • s854
      July 29, 2019, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

      Pygar: You’re telling me. The big delay in the “trolley car problem” wouldn’t be repairing the damage caused by hitting those people, it would be from the inquiry to work out how it was able to hit people even with all of the safety systems in use. We just don’t have enough information available to work out how to minimise that sort of delay.

  11. BMunro
    July 29, 2019, 5:27 am | # | Reply

    ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
    Unity levels up to “functional” sociopath!

    (A bit late, but now that I think of it, would a strong innate desire to eat puppies and children count as a disability, legally speaking?)

  12. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    July 29, 2019, 6:35 am | # | Reply

    Is one of U.N.I.T.Y.’s body parts taken from a Homo economicus?

    • Frank
      July 29, 2019, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she has been in every kind of animal

  13. Guesticus
    July 29, 2019, 9:15 am | # | Reply

    Is it strange, or ‘normal’, that the undead killing eating machine values human life more than Doc Lee? o_O

    • Daibhid C
      July 29, 2019, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

      Unity’s ethics currently seem to be at the “Hooray, the people whose names I know are saved” level, while Dr Lee is looking at the big picture and all the people whose lives will be in danger if trying to rescue nice-seeming baddies jeopardises the mission. She also has more experience of nice-seeming A-Sig workers, like the one who got her extirpated. (And, lets be honest here, herself.)

      I mean, personally, I’m with Unity here, but I can see Ginny’s point.

  14. Xerxes Aragon
    July 29, 2019, 11:08 am | # | Reply

    Is that a door opening directly into outer space behind Ginny’s head in the first panel?

    • awgiedawgie
      July 29, 2019, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      It appears to be a door that is open to the outside. It looks like it’s nighttime, so you can see the stars above and the ground below. So the only question I have is why is it just sitting there wide open? Do they not have automatic door closers in this high-security facility?

      • Candace
        July 31, 2019, 1:54 am | # | Reply

        They probably disabled the automatic closing function. Someone might get hurt by having a door closed on them.

  15. Barking Monkey
    July 29, 2019, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

    The cake is a lie.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 29, 2019, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

      Isn’t it always? Never trust cake.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      July 29, 2019, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

      But pi is forever

      • Rimwolf
        July 29, 2019, 6:27 pm | # | Reply

        Pi? Pi is so irrational that it’s transcendental.

      • Robert Nowall
        July 29, 2019, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

        It sure goes on that way.

    • Guesticus
      July 30, 2019, 8:03 am | # | Reply

      Cake is fake, pie is lye, eating too much of either will kill you

  16. Robert Loughrey
    July 29, 2019, 8:13 pm | # | Reply

    Well…. its progress, I guess.

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