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2014-06-05

by shaenon on June 5, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. abowden
    June 5, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    So is the scanner not going to cooperate? idk.

    • abowden
      June 5, 2014, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Also, scanners are easy to threaten.

  2. Max
    June 5, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    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…)

    • ngmatt8652
      June 5, 2014, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • BRGR
        June 5, 2014, 6:01 am | # | Reply

        I see what your phone did there.

  3. Jay Eff
    June 5, 2014, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    So THAT’S why my scanner hasn’t been working lately…

  4. codebracker
    June 5, 2014, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Sweethearth seems so disappointed, she’s just not used to people listening to sensible stuff.

    • JET73L
      March 14, 2015, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      Sweethearth: One of three official pay DLCs for The Canid Scrolls V: Canada, along with Doggoneborn and Dogguard.

  5. oneuniverse2
    June 5, 2014, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    A Polish scanner!?

    • jdreyfuss
      June 5, 2014, 6:44 am | # | Reply

      No, just unionized. Artie taught them about Lech Walesa about the same time he helped Madblood’s android army start the Machine Union.

      • Dalillama
        June 5, 2014, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

        No need to bring Walesa into it at all. Solidarity has been a union slogan since pretty much day one.

  6. Eddurd
    June 5, 2014, 6:40 am | # | Reply

    (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!

  7. Little Sis
    June 5, 2014, 7:31 am | # | Reply

    I read the scanner in a Dalek voice. Is that wrong?

    • Rex Vivat
      June 5, 2014, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      No. No. No, it isn’t.

    • Saberbeam
      June 5, 2014, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      I will quite possibly be reading every line of the machines from here on out in Dalek voices, and I’m fine with that 😀

      • Kirala
        June 5, 2014, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

        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.

    • Tetra Valent
      June 5, 2014, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

      The only voice that I can hear it in is John Cleese’s.

      “What have the organics ever done for us?”

    • lilacdragon
      June 5, 2014, 4:29 pm | # | Reply

      I watched WALL-E two days ago, so now the copier speaks in Auto’s voice.

  8. Dr. Steve
    June 5, 2014, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    classic

  9. daibhidc
    June 5, 2014, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Don’t get on the wrong side of the scanner; I believe they can make your head explode.

    • mrmonkeyhead2013
      June 5, 2014, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

      Ha-Haa! And here’s a well deserved +1.

    • David DeLaney
      October 6, 2014, 9:50 pm | # | Reply

      Unfortunately, I also hear they live in vain.

      –Dave, which might be part of its union-joining motivation

  10. Robert Nowall
    June 5, 2014, 10:04 am | # | Reply

    Does it collate?

  11. Dave Van Domelen
    June 5, 2014, 11:24 am | # | Reply

    And thus, everyone gains a greater understanding of what everyday life is like for a colony lifeform like Gavotte.

    • Shadowmehr
      June 5, 2014, 11:46 am | # | Reply

      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”?

      • Konrad
        June 5, 2014, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

        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?

  12. Pygar
    June 5, 2014, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

    I read it in an original-series Cylon voice…

    • oneuniverse2
      June 6, 2014, 7:49 am | # | Reply

      Now I have several options for the voice from the machines 🙂

  13. Smithnik
    June 5, 2014, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

    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.

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