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2013-03-29

by shaenon on March 29, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Anderson
    March 29, 2013, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    We’ll just be waiting for GODOT……to come back.

    • Tuityfruity
      March 29, 2013, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      Oh god I laughed so hard!

      I haven’t even read the book, I just know if it!

      • The Office Pedant
        March 29, 2013, 8:35 am | # | Reply

        “Je suis comme ça. Ou j’oublie tout de suite ou je n’oublie jamais.”

        • spinkitty
          April 21, 2019, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

          Translation: “I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. ”
          (Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot)

  2. Foxhack
    March 29, 2013, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Manipulate minds?

    Only of those who believe everything they read.

    • Anderson
      March 29, 2013, 1:22 am | # | Reply

      But on those grounds, Tip and Sweetheart are saying something completely meaningful and *we* are the ones getting GODOT’d. What can we trust now?!!! [/conspiracynut]

    • Towering Barbarian
      March 29, 2013, 3:11 am | # | Reply

      Foxhack,
      That sorta assumes that he was being truthful about his limits in which case we are relying upon the famed and well-known truthfulness of those who deal in illusion. It also assumes that he wouldn’t seek and obtain a workaround on that. The speed of a silicon mind compared to the speed of a human time might very well have made interaction with Our Heroes seem a leisurely hobby while he was doing hat. >_>

    • Kanta
      June 22, 2016, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      The way he makes the words appear is by manipulating the pattern-recognition parts of people’s brains.

  3. Amonduul
    March 29, 2013, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    DUN DUN DUN!

    Although I wonder, does that refer to the story of GODOT or this story line in general? Guess will find out tomorrow.

  4. Axel
    March 29, 2013, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    W. What?

  5. Grantwhy
    March 29, 2013, 2:56 am | # | Reply

    I ….. I ……. I actually guessed the ending?

    *shock*

    comments–> http://skin-horse.com/2013/by-forces/

    I think I need a drink and a good lie down :-p

  6. TSOJ
    March 29, 2013, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    About a month ago, GoComics had a drawing of five signed prints to celebrate getting 80,000 FB likes, including 2 prints from Nancy, and one each from Tank McNamara, Close to Home and something that’s not any of the others. Guess which one I picked..

    • Shaenon
      March 29, 2013, 4:06 am | # | Reply

      They used my print! Boss!

      • TSOJ
        March 29, 2013, 4:32 am | # | Reply

        And it looks most cool, too. Now I have to get it framed.

  7. mittfh
    March 29, 2013, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    Meh, there was no need to qualify “The End” with “(Almost)” – we’ve seen that trick before in “Choose”… 🙂

    • Axel
      March 29, 2013, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

      Damn you, do you know how much time I lose every time someone references that arc, making me go back to check one detail only to get sucked into the whole story again?

  8. Eddurd
    March 29, 2013, 6:42 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I Will Survive”, Gloria Gaynor)

    Our mission had begun, and a goal we had …
    We found the train St. Charlie, full of scientists so mad!
    For our date, we can’t be late!
    For GODOT we cannot wait!
    Just what’s in store … if can make it through that door?

    But Unity … could see it all!
    She’s intelligent enough to read the writing on the wall!
    Chowing down on cerebellum,
    Gotta find her team and tell ’em,
    They’re perplexed … because GODOT can alter text!

    But Violet Bee … then lit her fuse!
    She said, “I’m gonna blow you up!”, but Doctor Lee said, “I refuse!”
    She put on Armageddon’s brakes
    By saying “buttermilk pancakes”!
    Though it’s absurd … Virginia knew the secret word!

    No more GODOT! But did he die?
    We cannot be completely sure, he was a powerful A.I. …
    But it seems someone can amend
    Their speech, what does this all portend?
    We’ve reached the end! Is this the end? (Almost!)

    • Garth
      April 4, 2013, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      Not _Still Alive_?! Come, come!

  9. jdreyfuss
    March 29, 2013, 6:51 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, is it a joke to end the storyline or is it really A DELICIOUS TREAT FOR THE EARS AS WELL AS THE EYES?

    • Sparks
      March 30, 2013, 4:02 am | # | Reply

      Clearly it is a COINCIDENTAL OCCURRENCE OF NO SIGNIFICANCE WHATSOEVER.

  10. jdreyfuss
    March 29, 2013, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    That would have worked better, but the font tags apparently didn’t take.

    • casimir
      March 29, 2013, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

      …but it was a very nice try.

  11. Dr. steve
    March 29, 2013, 8:17 am | # | Reply

    Could that barista be Caliban?

  12. Hope Eternal reigns
    March 29, 2013, 10:25 am | # | Reply

    I suspect GODOT is hiding in some of the unused space in UNITY’s brain.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      March 29, 2013, 11:20 am | # | Reply

      Or if there just happened to be some improperly decommissioned cybernetic hardware lying around that GODOT could inhabit…

      I bet peach form #31 specifically addressed issues of this kind. The rules exist for everyone’s safety. Bureaucrats are the real-life superheroes.

  13. Hope Eternal Reigns
    March 29, 2013, 10:26 am | # | Reply

    It is a BAD thing when one misspells one’s own name.

  14. nemryn
    March 29, 2013, 11:15 am | # | Reply

    Oh come on!

  15. Tehbeefer
    March 29, 2013, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

    Nicely done, I approve!

  16. Shadowmehr
    March 29, 2013, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

    Well, I’ll never be able to look at that font the same way again.

    He’s probably coming back for the final reel, but what’s a cyborg intelligence going to do now?

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