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2019-03-04

by shaenon on March 4, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. palenoue
    March 4, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Can’t wait to see the cheerleader outfits.

    • OneUniverse
      March 4, 2019, 1:02 am | # | Reply

      Do you think the outfits would come in my size?

      • Frank the mouse
        March 4, 2019, 1:08 am | # | Reply

        In this universe? They come even in MY size!

        • rylen
          March 4, 2019, 7:52 am | # | Reply

          If we’re lucky, they’ll dress up Annex One.

          • Robert Nowall
            March 4, 2019, 9:40 am | #

            Have you noticed Nick and Dr. Lee are wearing Annex One gear?

          • awgiedawgie
            March 4, 2019, 7:53 pm | #

            If they can find some drop cloths with the Annex One logo, I’ll bet Tip could iron some pleats and make a big ass skirt for the building.

          • David B Huber
            March 4, 2019, 8:22 pm | #

            Now THERE’S a worthy Makeover challenge for Tip!

  2. Moe Lane
    March 4, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    It’d be a real shame if somebody’s subconscious decided to sidetrack all of this with a blurtedpout “I love you.”

    • Matthew Sheets
      March 4, 2019, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      I Know

      • D. Walker
        March 4, 2019, 5:52 pm | # | Reply

        *chewbacca howling*
        *carbonite freezing noises*

  3. dvandom
    March 4, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I expect a lot of the AIs have Asimov routines and won’t be able to actually fight back against fleshsuit!Nick.

    • Towering Barbarian
      March 4, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      That would be one. Another might be Nick’s hacking skills though I would be surprised if he didn’t think of that angle himself. The third possibility would be that Nick’s time as a full conversion cyborg has made him into what the Paranoia game would call a “machine empath”. ^_^

      • David B Huber
        March 4, 2019, 12:19 am | # | Reply

        +1

      • Max
        March 4, 2019, 3:26 am | # | Reply

        And the fourth is that he is very conveniently completely immune to EMP now. Even if not all his adversaries tun on electricity, a good deal of them should be…

        • Bruce A Munro
          March 4, 2019, 3:36 am | # | Reply

          “Funny isn’t it? The human was impervious to our most powerful magnetic fields, yet in the end he succumbed to a harmless sharpened stick!” – Robot General, Futurama

        • Chris
          March 4, 2019, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

          Fifth, most of his opponents are probably along the lines of coffeemakers and fluorescent lamps.

    • Jay
      March 4, 2019, 5:34 am | # | Reply

      What respectable mad scientist in the Narboniverse would waste time on Asimov routines?

      • Rimwolf
        March 4, 2019, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

        There’s a certain amount of unnatural selection at work, in that mads who don’t install them in their creations might end up having their careers terminated by said creations.

        • Efogoto
          March 4, 2019, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

          Heed me! I am your CREATOR!!!!

          • awgiedawgie
            March 4, 2019, 9:13 pm | #

            Yeah… that’ll work.

    • K. Iceclaw
      March 4, 2019, 11:07 am | # | Reply

      Also, as buggy as it is, the meat design still has a few million years of pretty harsh stress-testing and QC on any metal it’s going to run into, so…

  4. Robert Nowall
    March 4, 2019, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    Give ’em an “F,” Nick.

  5. bergerjacques
    March 4, 2019, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    This question may have already been asked and answered, but…
    Wouldn’t the Moustachio/Hitty powered Annex One mecha be an eligible participant in these games?

    • Daibhid C
      March 4, 2019, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Nope, Unity suggested that, but Annex One is not a Machine Union member. Hitty and M are, but they could only enter if they stopped running Annex One, which I think would then fall over or something.

      • bergerjacques
        March 4, 2019, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

        Oh yeah … http://skin-horse.com/comic/when-he-stretched/

        • Knuckles
          February 9, 2022, 11:42 am | # | Reply

          Moustachio could probably enter on his own, but Hitty disconnecting from Annex One would probably bring it down.

  6. Robert Nowall
    March 4, 2019, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Nick Zerhakker! Nick Zerhakker! Plunge into these games!
    Show those wimps you’re not afraid of being hacked and maimed.
    Nick Zerhakker! Nick Zerhakker! Work it in the clutch!
    Height, buddy, height, height, height, doesn’t matter much.
    Nick Zerhakker! Nick Zerhakker! We know you’re not nuts.
    Show those robot warriors that you can spill your guts.
    Nick Zerhakker! Nick Zerhakker! We will cheer for you!
    Stand, pep squad, let us watch them run him through.

    —from “On Wisconsin.”

  7. sweetuncleLeslie
    March 4, 2019, 11:23 am | # | Reply

    Hey Robert….nicely done. Strange game our genes or something make us engage in. Well, it weeds out the most aggressive, I guess.

    If Nick survives(likely) Ginny better make some haste with her plans or one of the cheerleaders may well be his FiRST.

    Also I wish she had programmed into him some physical close-order military drills….you know, like Unity’s Russian buds drilled into her? Although from centuries of online gaming, he ought to have gathered something.
    Oh well, I’m learning all the time.

    • Daibhid C
      March 4, 2019, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      The cheerleaders consist of two male/female couples, who seem pretty content with each other.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 4, 2019, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

        I can’t imagine Tip passing up a chance to dress up as a cheerleader. Maybe you guys can imagine him passing it up but I can’t.

        • Shadowmehr
          March 4, 2019, 8:42 pm | # | Reply

          Right now, I wish I could imagine him passing up this chance, I really do.

    • David B Huber
      March 4, 2019, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

      Dr. Lee’s main competition is likely to be Lovelace!

      • awgiedawgie
        March 4, 2019, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

        Not likely. Nick (two Nicks, even) already turned her down.

        • David B Huber
          March 5, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

          Rejection could simply encourage Lovelace to try harder. Nick could find himself the prey in a Sadie Hawkins Day race! (figuratively speaking)

          Alternatively, Nick could dive into the VR World to talk with Aimee, run into Lovelace on a similar mission, and retire for coffee to compare notes…

          • awgiedawgie
            March 5, 2019, 2:18 am | #

            Just because Lovelace still thinks he’s hot, and may still want him, doesn’t mean she’s competition. I’m a lot more like Nick than I’d like to be, and I’m quite confident that as long as Virginia exists, there is no competition.

            Plus, we can probably assume that Aimee’s server is not connected to the internet (surely the Baron wouldn’t risk her getting infected or corrupted), so it’s quite possible that Lovelace is not inside.

  8. Barbara K
    March 4, 2019, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    The calm, optimistic expression on our prescient pep-squad member suggests that positive probabilities prevail.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 4, 2019, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

      Awesome alliterations abound!

  9. bergerjacques
    March 4, 2019, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

    I think it would be wise to seek out Bubbles as either a participant or major sponsor. Did she join the machine union or … did she cross union lines because “Service is My Only Joy.”

    • Robert Nowall
      March 4, 2019, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

      She might be a member…but she didn’t go out when they went on strike.

      • bergerjacques
        March 5, 2019, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

        I just encountered the page in which Bubbles, in her original state, declined to join the strike.

  10. Gyrre
    March 4, 2019, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

    Is the advantage ‘lateral problem solving’ or years of watching Robot Wars and the like?

  11. Shadowmehr
    March 4, 2019, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

    Well, given the makeup of the cheer squad, Nick might just get that armor, built by a team instead of one mad, er, irked scientist. Dr. Lee on superstructure and brain/machine interface, Chris and Marcie on power and exterior weapons, Nora programming, and Jonah pointing out the most favorable probabilities for success. Whatever other benefits Dr. Lee might think he has, this team will at least triple it.

  12. DaisyFM
    March 4, 2019, 9:06 pm | # | Reply

    I hope Nick gets back in a helicopter body. This must be like torture for him.

  13. Bruce A Munro
    March 4, 2019, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    Are they vengeful nerds? Popular culture informs us nerds are at their most effective when out for revenge.

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