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2020-01-24

by shaenon on January 24, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. WuseMajor
    January 24, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    If you’re not perpetrating evil, are you *really* a mad scientist?

    • dexitroboper
      January 24, 2020, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      There are good mad scientists but their citation rate in the Journal of Malology are really low so they don’t get funding.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 24, 2020, 5:00 am | # | Reply

        That’s the New Journal of Malology.

        • waynezombie
          January 24, 2020, 8:31 am | # | Reply

          Sadly the non-evil Mads had a low survival rate while reproducing results due to typos, kinda skewed the balance.

    • BMunro
      January 24, 2020, 2:10 am | # | Reply

      Good mad scientists do exist, but are considered deeply creepy by the rest of the mad science community.

      http://narbonic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2004/12/041202.jpg

    • wykstrad
      January 24, 2020, 2:45 am | # | Reply

      That Narbonic strip has always made me wonder if Willy Wonka qualifies as a good or evil mad scientist.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 24, 2020, 4:53 am | # | Reply

        I would say good. He was quirky and creepy, but that doesn’t make him evil.

        • Max
          January 24, 2020, 6:57 am | # | Reply

          Sooo… Chaotic Neutral?

      • shikomekidomi
        January 24, 2020, 6:32 am | # | Reply

        Depends on how many of those kids actually survived.

        • 5-tons-of-flax
          January 24, 2020, 9:01 am | # | Reply

          He claims that they all survived. I think the theatrical version (1973) shows the families of the rejected kids leaving the factory, but I might be misremembering.

        • Nix
          January 24, 2020, 9:01 am | # | Reply

          In the books, canonically… basically none? Wonka was *definitely* as evil as they get. Dahl was a horror writer who found horror also worked well when writing for children, after all.

          • Bernerlb
            January 24, 2020, 1:50 pm | #

            In the book, all kids survive. You get a short view of them at the end. Mike TV is stretched to basketball height and Veruca and father have fish bones and garbage in their hair. Always loved that part. In the movie, it’s much more ambiguous. Speaking of the Gene Wilder movie, of course.

  2. sweetuncleLESLIE
    January 24, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    If you’re working WITH them, you may not be crazy, but you ARE facilitating EVIL.
    So, you’re sane, but EVIL. Like your government job? like working for the BANK?
    So you’re a ‘good cop’? Uh-huh. Think about it. The story line is like a game trap….
    keep following it and eventually youmake a choice you can’t reverse….

  3. David B Huber
    January 24, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Kudos to Seph for anticipating the caffeine drip!

  4. David B Huber
    January 24, 2020, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Surely Tip has contacts who could secure Lt. Eris a position at Triple Canopy?

  5. Union terms
    January 24, 2020, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Continuous caffeine drip? Good wifi? Cute brain parasite with a scent of French vanilla? Access to all that knowledge that can’t be found on the Internet? No need to worry about extirpation? It would have to be one heck of a non-evil job offer.

    • Candace
      January 24, 2020, 2:11 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, it does sound like the biomass is actually less evil than Anasigma. And clearly has far better employee benefits.

      With Dr. Lee on board, Skin Horse could provide some of those things, but not all of them. If Tigerlily came back, SH could do better, but would certainly struggle to be able to offer all of the things available within the biomass.

      Mr. Green could stand to learn some things from the biomass about employee recruitment and retention.

    • mickeyjf
      January 24, 2020, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      That’s all just the “sign up bonus”. It expires in 30 days.

  6. Jay
    January 24, 2020, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Wait, is Tip saying the biomass wants unstable intelligence, or that Anasigma wants the biomass’ intelligence to be unstable?

    …Are Ari *and* HT both steepling their fingers and laughing evilly?

    • wykstrad
      January 24, 2020, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      The latter, I think. They’re using mad intelligence as a firing pin to detonate the gestalt entity, the way a nuclear explosion is caused by a bunch of simultaneous smaller detonations. It’s… a neuron bomb.

    • casimir
      January 24, 2020, 3:19 am | # | Reply

      Is H.T. able to do that?
      The steepling thing I mean.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 24, 2020, 4:58 am | # | Reply

        H.T. doesn’t have fingers, per se, but I can easily picture a tiger sitting there doing something very similar with his paws.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 24, 2020, 5:08 am | # | Reply

      Tip is saying the biomass wants their unstable intelligence.

      I have a hunch that Mr. Green didn’t think that part through. He doesn’t think of non-humans – and therefore, the biomass – as intelligent creatures, so he just thinks the biomass has been killing off all the previous teams they’ve sent in, not absorbing their intellect.

  7. Duth Olec
    January 24, 2020, 7:23 am | # | Reply

    Offer them a job at Skin Horse! I mean, it’s not really a job, since there’s no pay now, but I kind of doubt the biomass gives out much of a salary either.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      January 24, 2020, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      Tip could offer the biomass a job at Skin Horse, and cut out the middleman.

  8. Robert Nowall
    January 24, 2020, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    I thought they were the first team of mad scientists sent in.

  9. Ken
    January 24, 2020, 10:17 am | # | Reply

    Wait, if the Biomass wants mad scientists, how come the bear kept killing them?

    • awgiedawgie
      January 24, 2020, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      How do you know the bear wasn’t killing duplicates?

    • Shadowmehr
      January 24, 2020, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

      Who says the bear was “killing” the scientists? It was mostly filled with plant matter, it probably was forcibly assimilating them into the collective.

  10. Author X
    January 24, 2020, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

    Isn’t this just how job-hunting always works? Trying to find the least evil option with the best benefits?

  11. Shadowmehr
    January 24, 2020, 8:57 pm | # | Reply

    There should be a happy medium somewhere, some lab she can research in without causing too much havoc to the rest of humanity. Dang it, why did Eureka go off of Syfy?

    • Ms. Neutrino
      January 24, 2020, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

      That would qualify as one heck of a non-evil job offer.

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