Well, when even the scanner turns on you, you better have at least a smartphone with a camera (which is called “smart” because it is fully aware of the negative consequences an act of betrayal would have on its continued supply of electricity…)
We don’t have to fight,
We can work as one …
Let efficiency
Conquer enmity
‘Til our tasks are done!
We’ll co-operate,
Cease our rivalry!
Others, though, have not!
Seems machines have got
Solidarity!
They won’t scan a page!
They won’t store a file!
Can we find a scab
In the I.T. lab?
This might take a while!
We can try to plead,
Beg on bended knee …
Union of machines
Know what one word means …
Solidarity!
Hear the scanner tell
Them to go to hell …
So-li-da-ri-ty!
And that means I’ll now be hearing them all in the voice of EV-9D9, the droid in charge of the droid-torture-thingy in Return of the Jedi – because for some reason my brain can’t produce Dalek voices correctly, and reaches for the analog.
Ah well. If I space it out to “SOL’-DAR-I-TY! SOL’-DAR-I-TY!”, it can come across the same.
Wait a second, we’ve been assuming Gavotte set this up beforehand to keep the minions busy while she was stupid, but what if this whole situation was thought up while she was stupid?
No, you really don’t want unionized Cylons. Trust me on that, it’s just a bad idea.
Gavotte is a hive entity, but how unified is her thinking when she’s in this mode? She may indeed have given each minion a task which, separately, was a good idea, but each task may have been assigned by a different part of Gavotte.
Or, she could just be really annoying today.
So is the scanner not going to cooperate? idk.
Also, scanners are easy to threaten.
Well, when even the scanner turns on you, you better have at least a smartphone with a camera (which is called “smart” because it is fully aware of the negative consequences an act of betrayal would have on its continued supply of electricity…)
I can tell you with the upmost certainty that in that aria they are about as smart as a lobotofyd chicken with a brain tumor.
I see what your phone did there.
So THAT’S why my scanner hasn’t been working lately…
Sweethearth seems so disappointed, she’s just not used to people listening to sensible stuff.
Sweethearth: One of three official pay DLCs for The Canid Scrolls V: Canada, along with Doggoneborn and Dogguard.
A Polish scanner!?
No, just unionized. Artie taught them about Lech Walesa about the same time he helped Madblood’s android army start the Machine Union.
No need to bring Walesa into it at all. Solidarity has been a union slogan since pretty much day one.
(TUNE: “Beauty And The Beast”, Ashman & Menken)
We don’t have to fight,
We can work as one …
Let efficiency
Conquer enmity
‘Til our tasks are done!
We’ll co-operate,
Cease our rivalry!
Others, though, have not!
Seems machines have got
Solidarity!
They won’t scan a page!
They won’t store a file!
Can we find a scab
In the I.T. lab?
This might take a while!
We can try to plead,
Beg on bended knee …
Union of machines
Know what one word means …
Solidarity!
Hear the scanner tell
Them to go to hell …
So-li-da-ri-ty!
I read the scanner in a Dalek voice. Is that wrong?
No. No. No, it isn’t.
I will quite possibly be reading every line of the machines from here on out in Dalek voices, and I’m fine with that
And that means I’ll now be hearing them all in the voice of EV-9D9, the droid in charge of the droid-torture-thingy in Return of the Jedi – because for some reason my brain can’t produce Dalek voices correctly, and reaches for the analog.
Ah well. If I space it out to “SOL’-DAR-I-TY! SOL’-DAR-I-TY!”, it can come across the same.
The only voice that I can hear it in is John Cleese’s.
“What have the organics ever done for us?”
I watched WALL-E two days ago, so now the copier speaks in Auto’s voice.
classic
Don’t get on the wrong side of the scanner; I believe they can make your head explode.
Ha-Haa! And here’s a well deserved +1.
Unfortunately, I also hear they live in vain.
–Dave, which might be part of its union-joining motivation
Does it collate?
And thus, everyone gains a greater understanding of what everyday life is like for a colony lifeform like Gavotte.
Dear heaven, that never occurred to me. Could this be just a massive gambit for understanding?
Or did Gavotte come up with this just to amuse herself in her “downtime”?
Wait a second, we’ve been assuming Gavotte set this up beforehand to keep the minions busy while she was stupid, but what if this whole situation was thought up while she was stupid?
I read it in an original-series Cylon voice…
Now I have several options for the voice from the machines
No, you really don’t want unionized Cylons. Trust me on that, it’s just a bad idea.
Gavotte is a hive entity, but how unified is her thinking when she’s in this mode? She may indeed have given each minion a task which, separately, was a good idea, but each task may have been assigned by a different part of Gavotte.
Or, she could just be really annoying today.