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2014-10-03

by shaenon on October 3, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. pdp15
    October 3, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Helen is on Level C???

    • ngmatt8652
      October 3, 2014, 2:18 am | # | Reply

      something tells me that mell is working for Asig and stole the cure for them, but what your saying is a possibility

      • Michael
        October 3, 2014, 5:21 am | # | Reply

        It’s been strongly implied that Unity’s brain is Mell’s brain, so if anything, Mell “was” working for Asig.

        • Daniel
          October 3, 2014, 6:10 am | # | Reply

          Remember that Virginia was working on reverse engineering the cure, and Sergio advised her to stop.

        • waytoomanyUIDs
          October 3, 2014, 6:56 am | # | Reply

          IIRC correctly, Helen was selling tissue and DNA samples from the staff to finance her work, and Mell worked as an assassin for hire for a while

    • Prodigal
      October 3, 2014, 3:18 am | # | Reply

      If so, then it’s still being Beta tested.

      • Matt Buchwald
        October 3, 2014, 8:09 am | # | Reply

        Here is one ‘internet won’ certificate. Bravo.

      • oneuniverse2
        October 3, 2014, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

        Let us hope it isn’t Momma Narbon

  2. jbevan70
    October 3, 2014, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, I predict we’ll be seeing Helen and her team make an appearance soon.

    • Anson
      October 3, 2014, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      And as the villains it seems.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        October 3, 2014, 3:45 am | # | Reply

        Huh… and here I thought they were always villains

        • BMunro
          October 3, 2014, 4:41 am | # | Reply

          No honor among mad scientists?

          It occurs to me that this may be false information planted by Asig to make sure Tigerlily makes a break for it: Helen is a villain, but why would she want to put a weapon that can take her powers away in the hands of an organization which is in direct competition for the world-domination thingy?

          (Heck, maybe 80s chick is a plant. [1])

          [1] No, not the gun-slinging lily variety.

          • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
            October 3, 2014, 4:57 am | #

            Just because they have it doesn’t mean she gave it to them

        • irdburns
          October 3, 2014, 8:40 am | # | Reply

          Asig is Testing it. That means they’ve got a partial version reverse engineered and are trying to bring it online.

          • Shadowmehr
            October 3, 2014, 7:26 pm | #

            Seconded.

          • Anson
            October 3, 2014, 10:06 pm | #

            I suppose with a transdimensional window, it wouldn’t be hard for them to steal the current formula.

  3. nebulousrikulau
    October 3, 2014, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    Megalomania is such a WONDERFUL illness.

    And Mad Science too.

  4. Robert Nowall
    October 3, 2014, 5:55 am | # | Reply

    Could have been worse. They might’ve vaccinated for mad genius. Then no one would have any fun…

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      October 3, 2014, 6:08 am | # | Reply

      Oh ye of little faith. There may do away with Walton’s Disorder, but there are loads of ways in which one can be mad, and many of them are not mutually exclusive with genius. Woo! Woo!

    • Rex Vivat
      October 3, 2014, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      How exactly would you vaccinate against a genetic disorder?

      • BMunro
        October 3, 2014, 11:10 am | # | Reply

        Gene-modifying viruses?

        • Rex Vivat
          October 3, 2014, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

          What I mean is, that would be a cure, not a vaccine.

      • Anson
        October 3, 2014, 11:32 am | # | Reply

        With MAD SCIENCE! Which makes the whole thing extra awkward.

  5. Eddurd
    October 3, 2014, 6:37 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Call Me”, Blondie)

    Lurking in the Institute, way down on Level C,
    Just found out some heinous crud they want to do to me!
    Might be shutting down my brain!
    Turn my thoughts to pure mundane!

     Cure me!
     Cure my brain!
     Turn my synapses to cellophane!
     Cure me!
     Sanity
     Is just pure manure, they’re sure they’re curing me!

  6. Brian R Whitacre
    October 3, 2014, 8:48 am | # | Reply

    “C64”? Is that the legendary Commodore 64?

    • mickeyf
      October 3, 2014, 9:54 am | # | Reply

      Make you wonder what their (in quotes) “Mainframe” is…

      • jdreyfuss
        October 4, 2014, 8:06 am | # | Reply

        Given that “cloud server” is just a cooler name for “remote mainframe,” I’m guess that their “mainframe” is a mainframe.

    • oneuniverse2
      October 3, 2014, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      Security by obsolescence

      • jdreyfuss
        October 4, 2014, 8:07 am | # | Reply

        You mean like this?

        • oneuniverse2
          October 4, 2014, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

          Exactly! Most of the likely hackers wouldn’t know which end to shove in what slot.

  7. bergerjacques
    October 3, 2014, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    She’s an early 80’s scientist, so yeah. OOOHH, Is it possible she could recruit ELIZA to assassinate SIRI?

    • MarkHH
      October 3, 2014, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      Tell me more about … SIRI

  8. Michael Brewer
    October 3, 2014, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    Given that “hacked” and “mainframe” are in quotes, I have to wonder if she’s being euphemistic. Say for “voices” “in her head” or something.

    • Daibhid C
      October 3, 2014, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      They’re in quotes because in the 1980s that was what we did with words associated with the “internet”, since we all knew it wasn’t a real thing.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      October 3, 2014, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

      Might have something to do with the fact that computers don’t have mainframes anymore. Not since the seventies. Which, of course, has never stopped fictional characters from hacking them.

      [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcywf9mwF5U&w=560&h=315%5D

      • Rex Vivat
        October 3, 2014, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

        You kidding? There are a lot of modern mainframes, and a lot of places that still use them. It’s just that back then it was more or less the only way to get a powerful computer, which isn’t true anymore; but even nowadays they have their benefits and are still in use.

      • roberttheaddled
        October 3, 2014, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

        I’m w/ Rex. MANY industrial facilities still have ‘mainframe’ style software even if its no longer run on/as a single giant computer.

        Right down to the white/green/amber writing on a black background in the GUI when you open it on a desktop windows machine.

  9. davidbreslin101
    October 3, 2014, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    Off panel, UNITY looks down at her “Lurch for the Cure!” T-shirt and is briefly troubled.

  10. Dungeonmaster Jim
    October 3, 2014, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

    So, the 50s/early 60s, the funky 70s and new wave 80s have been heard from. Where is the Age of Aquarius hippie to complete our set?

    • Shadowmehr
      October 3, 2014, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

      The 60’s madgirl is actually a mad chemist. She managed to pick the lock on the medicine storeroom and mix up something to, er, “expand her consciousness” as a herald of the Age Of Aquarius. When the staff discovered she could actually levitate and the walls were looking like something out of a Beatles cartoon in a 20 foot radius around her, they used ropes and grapnels to quietly drag her into an isolation cell where they can observe her while waiting for whatever-it-was to pass through her system (20 days so far and counting). The first part of Tigerlily’s plan is get some coat hangers to put together a device to reunite her astral body with her physical body so the rest of them can use her psychic abilities in conjunction with their own devices to effect their escape.

      They will, of course, hide her sitar first. They may be mad, but they’re not that crazy.

  11. oneuniverse2
    October 3, 2014, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

    Is there an equivalent of the “Bechdel test” for comics? I think this week ranks right up there.

    Mell must use the same type of hair product, so maybe she’s trying to shrink the market

    • James Moar
      October 3, 2014, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      You just use the same Bechdel Test.

      Do Tigerlily strips pass it, though? She’s always talking about The Man.

      • Gemma
        October 3, 2014, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

        I’d say that The Man is more of a concept. She also had no problem calling Sweetheart ‘The Man’ when she met her, so there’s that.

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