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2014-03-24

by shaenon on March 24, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Jay Eff
    March 24, 2014, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Unity doesn’t give a crap about Justice.
    She gives a crap about Snacks!

    Crap Snacks!!

    Um…

    • BRGR
      March 24, 2014, 3:26 am | # | Reply

      Snacks crap.

      • Carlos Antonio Leal Camacho
        March 24, 2014, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

        Really? Mine do not.
        I don’t think I want to know where you get your snacks, do I?

        • JET73L
          March 14, 2015, 12:20 am | # | Reply

          Pet shop.

  2. Grantwhy
    March 24, 2014, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Ah, the old “it’s a lot harder to lie to/deceive yourself when you are both in the same room” problem^

    :-p

    All ‘Smart’ Unity had to do is get Unity’s body to wake up and that should make the self deception thing goes a lot easier^.

    ^unless you’re cynical enough that even when it just you in the room your best attempts at lying to yourself don’t work 🙁

    • Andy Wetmore
      March 24, 2014, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      I don’t so much lie to myself as appeal to my baser nature. Smart!UNITY should be tempting Dumb!UNITY rather than trying to reason with her.

      • Jay
        March 24, 2014, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        Smart!Unity’s not all that smart. Not when it comes to people. Maybe she should eat a more varied diet – one that’s more than just empty mad-engineer brains…

        • BRGR
          March 24, 2014, 3:25 am | # | Reply

          Deep down you know that you need stronger moisterizer.

        • irdburns
          March 24, 2014, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

          Understanding people is not the same as being good with them.

          • davidbreslin101
            March 24, 2014, 1:32 pm | #

            True. Smart Unity knows everything about people except how to get on with them, while Normal* Unity can charm the socks off you without even trying.
            *I don’t like calling her “dumb”!

  3. EmuSam
    March 24, 2014, 3:37 am | # | Reply

    Crap snacks

  4. Eddurd
    March 24, 2014, 6:15 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I Won’t Last A Day Without You”, The Carpenters)

    It’s been some time,
    But the memory of being caught and torn to bits
    Still gives us fits!
    Now for its crime,
    You declare this swamp thing must be held accountable …
    That’s total bull!

     [CHORUS:]
      ’Cause you don’t give a crap about justice!
      No, you’re after revenge, I can see!
      Girl, you just can’t deny,
      And it ain’t no use to lie!
      See, I know, ’cause I’m you and you’re me!

    You say it’s bad,
    That Louisiana swamp that left us there to rot …
    But this one’s not!
    So don’t be mad,
    There’s no malice, only hunger in the swamp’s attack …
    It wants a snack!
     [repeat CHORUS]

  5. Dr. Steve
    March 24, 2014, 8:11 am | # | Reply

    normal UNITY outsmarted her smart Self?

    • Quin
      March 24, 2014, 8:39 am | # | Reply

      Well don’t forget she out smarted the robot that outsmarted a town full of mad scientist. Also you have to remember for a person to out smart you they have to know what your thinking. No one knows what normal UNITY thinks anyway.

    • Dave Harmon
      March 24, 2014, 8:39 am | # | Reply

      Normal Unity understands that smarts aren’t everything. “Smart” Unity may have turbocharged intellect, but at the cost of human understanding.

      (Note that “smarts aren’t everything” is literally the most important lesson I learned at Harvard.)

      • jdreyfuss
        March 24, 2014, 10:29 am | # | Reply

        She does have Mell’s brain, after all. Mell was really good at outmaneuvering the smartest people she knew, despite being, admittedly, significantly less smart.

        • Paul
          March 24, 2014, 8:02 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah, in Skin-Horse raw intelligence tends to balance itself out because the brilliant people trip themselves up constantly. Mell and Unity both get away with the direct approach because they’re not wasting energy on the overly elaborate pursuit of perfection.

          • John Campbell
            March 24, 2014, 11:20 pm | #

            “I’m sure you realize you made like fifty million stupid mistakes. But that ain’t your fault. You’re a mad genius. You’re so smart you brain keeps short-circuiting. Me, I’m not smart. I just figured out the way to beat people who can think circles around you is to push straight ahead, hard as you can.

            “And shoot them. You dig, right?”

            — Generalissma Melody Wildflower Kelly

        • Rick Kerrigan
          March 24, 2014, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

          Does unity actually have mell’s brain, or are we speaking metaphorically here?

          • John Campbell
            March 24, 2014, 11:13 pm | #

            I don’t think it’s ever been explicitly stated, but there are definite hints in both the filename story and the strip itself that Anasigma cloned the brain Unity keeps in her head from that Mell Kelly genetic material that Helen sold way back when.

          • Paul
            March 24, 2014, 11:23 pm | #

            Yeah, it has never been explicitly said one way or another, but Helen did sell some of Mell’s samples to a government super soldier project.

          • Amy
            March 25, 2014, 12:21 am | #

            The closest it ever came to being officially confirmed, that I can remember anyway, is in Narbonic when Mell was assumed into heaven. There’s one strip where Helen suggests cloning some new ones, then says, “Wait, no… I sold all her DNA samples to a government bioweapons program.” When the Director’s Cut got to that point, Shaenon said, “Yeah, so over in Skin Horse, Unity is a construct zombie with a cloned brain. Her brain apparently came from the DNA of a top assassin which was sold to the government by a mad scientist. And that’s all I have to say about that, except that it’s nice when everything falls together so neatly.” I think that’s close enough to explicit, but no, no one ever outright stated, “Unity has a copy of Mell’s brain.”

  6. Guesticus
    March 24, 2014, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    Just look at Sheldon Cooper

  7. oneuniverse2
    March 24, 2014, 10:32 am | # | Reply

    I like how Shaenon and Jeff have switched the normal trope of good/white, bad/black on Unity’s wife-beater shirt.

    • irdburns
      March 24, 2014, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

      That reminds me, where are the personality sprites in all this?

      • Shadowmehr
        March 24, 2014, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

        Right now, U.N.I.T.Y. is her own personality sprite(s).

        • irdburns
          March 24, 2014, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

          I approve of your use of Acronym. U.N.I.T.Y. and her self defined acronym vs Unity. Shame it’s too much of a pain to type.

  8. muckenhoupt
    March 24, 2014, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3qXjdOPC6I

  9. Pygar
    March 24, 2014, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

    Thanks to The Goon Show, I heard “Well played, Moriarty.” in Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s voice…

  10. Ketina
    March 24, 2014, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

    Shaenon, you’re double booked on Friday at ECCC! They have you scheduled from 1:20-2:10 with the Fogios and Jeff Wells for “Mad Science, Webcomics and You” and at 1:40-2:30 with Jennie Breeden and Danielle Corsetto for “Wit and Wisdom of Webcartoonists.”
    Where will be able able to find you on Friday afternoon?

    • Shaenon
      March 24, 2014, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

      I know. I’m going to have to bow out of the mad science panel and let Jeff cover for me.

  11. BG27
    March 24, 2014, 9:22 pm | # | Reply

    *slow clap*

  12. Knuckles
    January 25, 2022, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

    You might know i don’t give a crap,
    But that’s not going to help because I know that *you* don’t give a crap!
    Strange, isn’t it?!

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