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2021-07-22

by shaenon on July 22, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. Rozni Yusof
    July 22, 2021, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    “It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

    • Snow_Cat
      July 23, 2021, 8:45 am | # | Reply

      I could never be known for subtlety. :p

      • wizard4169
        September 16, 2021, 10:13 am | # | Reply

        If you have a reputation for subtlety, then you’re not subtle enough. If you’re a true master of subtlety, no one will notice you doing anything, and you’ll get a reputation for being lucky.

  2. Jerry Aethers
    July 22, 2021, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Repressive conservatism can only be so creative.

  3. awgiedawgie
    July 22, 2021, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Phrases you’ll never hear in the bedroom: “So… was that as anti-climactic for you as it was for me?”

  4. Towering Barbarian
    July 22, 2021, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    Pffft! Confirmation of the see!singly obvious is always useful. Particularly if they revealed *where* in the building it is so that there need not be time wasted going from room to room looking for it. 🙂

    • David B Huber
      July 22, 2021, 3:47 am | # | Reply

      They may already know where it is not.

      • Acoustic Rob
        July 22, 2021, 8:52 am | # | Reply

        Holy heck, they set this joke up *eleven years ago*?

        • John
          July 22, 2021, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

          Are you surprised? The set up the mech-annex waaaaay back when they started collecting the nuclear devices. Gavotte straight up said that that was the goal.

    • Robert Nowall
      July 22, 2021, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

      Well, Tip, Unity, and Sweetheart *were* out of the office when it started.

  5. David Palmer
    July 22, 2021, 3:03 am | # | Reply

    Google translate says maragda is Catalan for emerald. Time to complete their yellow-brick roadtrip.

    • Jay
      July 22, 2021, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      I hope they get to walk on Mr Green, myself.

    • evilmidnightlurker
      July 22, 2021, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      Ah, like smaragdine!

    • Robert Nowall
      July 22, 2021, 10:54 am | # | Reply

      It also came up (but I have no source) that it’s a slang term for marijuana, too.

      • khn0
        July 26, 2021, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        everything is a slang term for marijuana. Seriously, I know some people who started making them up without vowels to lose the cops spying phone lines.

    • BMunro
      July 22, 2021, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

      In the books, the Wizard returns and learns actual magic, becoming an important Friend to Oz. I doubt there will be a redemption arc for Mr. Green: perhaps he gets accidentally carried off in the Mother Ship to the bee planet? (They can find a spot in the local zoo for him: terrestrial evil mastermind, male – do not feed or provide with advanced technology .)

  6. Robert Nowall
    July 22, 2021, 7:00 am | # | Reply

    Then there will be that epic fight between Annex One and the Maragda Building!

    • Shadowmehr
      July 22, 2021, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      You joke, but A-Sig does have a staff of leashed madboys and -girls, so responding the entire building is not out of the realm of possibility.

      • Robert Nowall
        July 22, 2021, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

        What joke? I figured they’d fight like the knock ’em sock ’em robots.

  7. Robert Nowall
    July 22, 2021, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    They traced it down to a source. It’s back to DC, but of course! It’s the Maragda Building—what a shocker so thrilling. A VR world search tour-de-force.

  8. Dana Lexa
    July 22, 2021, 11:34 am | # | Reply

    Okay, I joked about crypto yesterday, but I’m not surprised that Lovelace is the one to bring it up. Lupin seemed like the kind of nerd that would have gotten into crypto (and maybe made his own coin) and she spends more time on the internet, dealing with people and politics in the physical world, than most of the AI in Aimee’s server seem to. So she’d have a lot of reason to use a purely digital currency.

    Also, as usual in Skin Horse, the progression of her facial expressions is fantastic and really sells the bit

    • warrenrose4254
      July 24, 2021, 10:35 am | # | Reply

      Is Lovelace is her own cryptocurrency? Hmm…

  9. Christian Rose
    July 22, 2021, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    To the emerald city we go!

    • Robert Nowall
      July 22, 2021, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

      I thought they just left Seattle.

  10. mickeyjf
    July 22, 2021, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

    The envelope, Please…

  11. blitzgamer210
    July 22, 2021, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

    Lovelace, no, no mining the scam currency responsible for speeding climate collapse!

    • D. Walker
      July 22, 2021, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

      She’s an AI, what does she care if the climate collapses so long as her server can be maintained?

    • Towering Barbarian
      July 22, 2021, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

      I thought it was cow burps that were doing that? 😀

      • BMunro
        July 22, 2021, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

        Every little “bit” helps.

      • SVGeezer
        July 23, 2021, 12:26 am | # | Reply

        Cow burps were maintaining her server? Did I read that right?

  12. Mooring
    July 22, 2021, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

    “We’re gonna need to infiltrate Anasigma HQ! How can we possibly hope to do that?”
    Jonah: “… I have been preparing for this day for a thousand lifetimes. (Somebody get me a wrench.)”

    • awgiedawgie
      July 22, 2021, 6:56 pm | # | Reply

      Indeed.

    • Dewy
      July 23, 2021, 11:02 am | # | Reply

      Well, it’s actually super easy to infiltrate Anasigma. Jonah’s expertise are more along the lines of how to exfiltrate.

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