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2020-01-15

by shaenon on January 15, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Alphaghoul
    January 15, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    I don’t get the exploding brains bit, at first I thought it was Nick saying that. Also I went back to an update once and didn’t get at all the joke that I said Sweetheart made that I said works on two levels, but all will be forgiven if director English makes a return.

    • dornbeast
      January 15, 2020, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      I think the “exploding brains” is a reference to Tip’s stylish, but remotely detonated, collar.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 15, 2020, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      Nick: “I ain’t going if his brains blow up.”
      Unity: “I’ll go! I’ll go!”
      Sweetheart: “No exploding brains, Unity.”
      Unity: “Aw.”

    • Alphaghoul
      January 15, 2020, 5:39 am | # | Reply

      Oh right! It’s so obvious now, they still need to figure out the bomb collar.

  2. palenoue
    January 15, 2020, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    No exploding brains!

    Unless they’re Weird Al’s.

  3. Ogden Wernstrom
    January 15, 2020, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Tangent regarding Sabine Hossenfelder’s complaint regarding a lack of progress in theoretical physics —

    Humans can understand quantum gravity and general AI, but it will take the effort of many minds put together, and the surgery may not be reversible.

  4. Towering Barbarian
    January 15, 2020, 3:27 am | # | Reply

    *secretly hopes that Miss Eris and Mr. Deathtrap both make it through OK* ^_~

    • Ms. Neutrino
      January 15, 2020, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

      You’n’me both, kid.

  5. Duth Olec
    January 15, 2020, 6:57 am | # | Reply

    I can’t tell if Tip if being sarcastic in the last panel or if he genuinely misses their nonsense. Or maybe it just says something about how they’re still preferable to deal with than the mad scientists working for Anasigma.
    Nah it’s probably sarcasm.

    • David B Huber
      January 15, 2020, 7:30 am | # | Reply

      I read it as a sincere longing to return to the weirdness he’s grown comfortable with.

      “Home: That place where, when you HAVE to go there, they HAVE to take you in.”

    • Sheik
      January 15, 2020, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      There’s no reason it can’t be both sarcasm and longing. You have to take into account the mutual bonding under rather trying circumstances.
      Comrades can get that way.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 15, 2020, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      I think he genuinely misses them. They might be weird to most people, but they’re family to him.

      • Shadowmehr
        January 15, 2020, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

        Better the devil(ishly chaotic) you know than the plant-based monsters you don’t.

  6. Robert Nowall
    January 15, 2020, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    “I ain’t goin’ down if his brains blow up!” Isn’t that a country song?

    • awgiedawgie
      January 15, 2020, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      If it ain’t, it needs to be.

      • Robert Nowall
        January 15, 2020, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

        Well don’t look at me. I already did one this week.

    • Forrest M Davis
      January 15, 2020, 7:19 pm | # | Reply

      Feels like it ought to work nicely tune-wise with Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks”, but I don’t have the chops to write it myself…

    • Andy4Hire
      January 15, 2020, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

      Possibly you’re thinking of “Ain’t Goin’ Down (‘Til the Sun Comes Up)”, recorded by Garth Brooks in 1993 and written by Brooks, Kent Blazy, and Kim Williams.

      Regrettably, neither my body nor my brain has the energy to write a complete filk tonight, although this would be a really fun one to try. But here’s a refrain. If anyone wants to try some verses, go right ahead.

      REFRAIN:
      Ain’t goin’ down if his brains blow up
      Ain’t ridin’ in while that collar’s stuck
      I don’t wanna scrub his cerebral muck
      Ain’t goin’ down if his brains blow up

  7. David B Huber
    January 15, 2020, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

    +2

  8. Saberbeam
    January 15, 2020, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart: “No exploding brains Unity, they’re hell on your liver, and livers are a pain to replace”

    Unity: “But baaaabe!”

    Sweetheart: “No buts! You’re the one that always complains about how working around an opened ribcage tickles something fierce.”

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