Also, why does she forget what happens during a brain binge? Her nanobots remembered things that happened while inside animal (and Dr. Lee’s) brains just fine! Unless the problem is her Mell-brain actively interfering… hm.
She remembers the things that interest her and hold significance to her un-smart self. Being barfed up as a goat is something un-smart Unity remembers. Talking with the AI they are searching for … not so much.
Girl, when I saw you here,
I had to draw you near,
Although you were the cause of my pain!
Builders had use for me,
Words they would choose for me;
But then they went and drove me insane!
They had me making a sentence from
A pre-conceived word choiice!
I never said, “That’s dumb!”
Or “Such an absurd choice!”
But you caught my eye,
My mind went bye-bye!
I was stumped by U – N – I – T – Y!
U – N – I – T – Y!
Oh, I could not turn out a phrase! U – N – I – T – Y!
Though I had been fighting for days,
I could not acronymify
Stupid U – N – I – T – Y!
You know what GODOT needs to solve all its problems? A hug.
You know what, let’s ALL do that. I declare this Hug a Machine Day! Come one kids, squeeze that monitor. Snuggle up to your coffee maker! Give your car a pat on the hood! Embrace a ATM. Don’t be shy.
Let’s heal the world of genocidal contraptions one hug at a time!!
This message brought to you by Machine Union Local 57413.
All the Y variants sound pretty lame. A serious acronym shouldn’t have the “general you” in it. Unity will not always be a “Youth” and, of course, “Ylem” and “Yak” are just laughable.
GODOT wanted something that sounded better… and found that it just wasn’t possible.
Each letter of UNITY’s acronym stands for another acronym? The acronym is based on the LAST letter of the word involved. It’s an acrostic, the first letter is based on the first letter of the word replace, the second by the second, etc.?
Given that she can add any organic matter to herself without trouble, I’m guessing Unified and Integrated were in there. So:
Unified
Nanobot-
Integrated
Tactical
Y?
But that storyline would imply that GODOT is a committee of AIs…or at least the surviving members of a committee of AIs, since U.N.I.T.Y. did mention deaths, plural.
I think she was talking about the humans running the program. There must have been heated arguments about what the acronym itself should be, and a violent bloodbath after GODOT gave up on a backronym. In other words, bureaucratic politics as usual.
Perhaps it’s a recursive acronym (i.e. the U stands for U.N.I.T.Y.), or an acronym whose meaning has changed over time (e.g. the UNIX-based email program PINE – Pine Is Nearly Elm –> Pine Is Not Elm –> Program for Internet News and Email) or has two completely different expansions (e.g. PERL is officially Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, but look in the manual and near the bottom teh author slips in that it really stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister).
Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a backronym – they decided to call the project UNITY, put it in capitals to suggest an acronym, but didn’t worry about creating an expansion until later (if at all)…
An acronym usually gives a general summary of subject, right? So maybe U.N.I.T.Y simply didn’t contain the proper letters for an accurate description of our dear zombie agent. Perhaps language itself simply cannot do justice to what excatly Unity is. Or there could just be a deficit of nouns beginning with ‘y’ (Never thought of that before. It always seemed so easy to use in scrabble).
If the problem is a shortage of words beginning with Y, what about resorting to a dictionary? I can get “Undead Nanocreature: Organisms Together Yblent”, where “yblent”, according to the Shorter OED, means “blended”.
On the other hand, I can’t seem to get anything better, even with a dictionary in front of me.
Violet: And you’re U.N.I.T.Y.
Unity: Yep.
Violet: The Upgradeable Necrotic Independent … what?
Unity: We don’t talk about my acronym.
Violet: Sorry, did I touch a nerve?
Unity: Well, you know. People died and stuff.
Kudos to Tetra Valent and Challeron for remembering.
Oh, wow.
Also, why does she forget what happens during a brain binge? Her nanobots remembered things that happened while inside animal (and Dr. Lee’s) brains just fine! Unless the problem is her Mell-brain actively interfering… hm.
She remembers the things that interest her and hold significance to her un-smart self. Being barfed up as a goat is something un-smart Unity remembers. Talking with the AI they are searching for … not so much.
Undead Neuron Interface with Thoughts and Yin
Hmm. Or Nanobot Interface (I was thinking neural interface because of the brain-eating).
Re her forgetting thoughts–I think it was that they were too advanced for her; Unity does tend to be easily distracted, too.
Undead Ninny Is Tautological, Yo.
Wait, she’s her Daddy?
Undead Nanobot Initiated Tactical Youth?
(TUNE: “Time For Me To Fly”, REO Speedwagon)
Girl, when I saw you here,
I had to draw you near,
Although you were the cause of my pain!
Builders had use for me,
Words they would choose for me;
But then they went and drove me insane!
They had me making a sentence from
A pre-conceived word choiice!
I never said, “That’s dumb!”
Or “Such an absurd choice!”
But you caught my eye,
My mind went bye-bye!
I was stumped by U – N – I – T – Y!
U – N – I – T – Y!
Oh, I could not turn out a phrase!
U – N – I – T – Y!
Though I had been fighting for days,
I could not acronymify
Stupid U – N – I – T – Y!
It -is- over a girl! XD
“Yorganism?”
“The Y is difficult.”
wasn’t that maybe five, six years ago? why flip out now?
Not everyone lets go of the past. Some dwell on it so their frustration multiplies with time.
The unsolvable backronym was why G.O.D.O.T. fled to St Charlie in the first place. Why it’s started flipping out now is still a mystery.
Maybe GODOT just discovered that she wasn’t supposed to be called U.N.I.T.Y. at all. It was a typo for “UNIT Y”.
Upgradeable Necrotic Independent Terrorizing Youth?
U -unliving
N – neurophage
I – integrated
T – through
Y – because we like you
You know what GODOT needs to solve all its problems? A hug.
You know what, let’s ALL do that. I declare this Hug a Machine Day! Come one kids, squeeze that monitor. Snuggle up to your coffee maker! Give your car a pat on the hood! Embrace a ATM. Don’t be shy.
Let’s heal the world of genocidal contraptions one hug at a time!!
This message brought to you by Machine Union Local 57413.
Clearly a forgery, or the Local number would be correctly expressed as: 1110000001000101
“People died… because of your acronym.”
And apparently they still are.
Uplifted Nanobots Inhospitable To You
Unhelpful, Negligent, Irresponsible Terrifying Youth
Unified Necrotic Independent Thought… Yak
Come on, GODOT. It’s five letters. You can do better than that.
All the Y variants sound pretty lame. A serious acronym shouldn’t have the “general you” in it. Unity will not always be a “Youth” and, of course, “Ylem” and “Yak” are just laughable.
GODOT wanted something that sounded better… and found that it just wasn’t possible.
Do zombies age? (Granted, most movie zombies don’t last long enough to tell.)
Unified Necrotic Intense-Trouble-when-Yawning.
’cause, you know, she goes on a rampage when she gets bored. And… yeah, no, never mind. 🙂
Upgradeable Necrotic Independent Trainable Yahoo?
Um, isn’t this The Door everyone was trying to open?
This probably bodes ill for our undead heroine, but she’s been in worse situations (like in the swamp).…
Ahh.
Each letter of UNITY’s acronym stands for another acronym? The acronym is based on the LAST letter of the word involved. It’s an acrostic, the first letter is based on the first letter of the word replace, the second by the second, etc.?
Or the Y stands for Yorganism?
I got nothing.
Given that she can add any organic matter to herself without trouble, I’m guessing Unified and Integrated were in there. So:
Unified
Nanobot-
Integrated
Tactical
Y?
…Yewnit? **shuffles quietly away**
I like the sideways literary-theatrical reference of UNITY sitting on a park bench while talking to GODOT.
John Campbell called it immediately, back on July 11.
2 years earlier, Unity had noted that, “We don’t talk about my acronym.”
But that storyline would imply that GODOT is a committee of AIs…or at least the surviving members of a committee of AIs, since U.N.I.T.Y. did mention deaths, plural.
I think she was talking about the humans running the program. There must have been heated arguments about what the acronym itself should be, and a violent bloodbath after GODOT gave up on a backronym. In other words, bureaucratic politics as usual.
Perhaps it’s a recursive acronym (i.e. the U stands for U.N.I.T.Y.), or an acronym whose meaning has changed over time (e.g. the UNIX-based email program PINE – Pine Is Nearly Elm –> Pine Is Not Elm –> Program for Internet News and Email) or has two completely different expansions (e.g. PERL is officially Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, but look in the manual and near the bottom teh author slips in that it really stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister).
Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a backronym – they decided to call the project UNITY, put it in capitals to suggest an acronym, but didn’t worry about creating an expansion until later (if at all)…
An acronym usually gives a general summary of subject, right? So maybe U.N.I.T.Y simply didn’t contain the proper letters for an accurate description of our dear zombie agent. Perhaps language itself simply cannot do justice to what excatly Unity is. Or there could just be a deficit of nouns beginning with ‘y’ (Never thought of that before. It always seemed so easy to use in scrabble).
Undead Necrotic Intelligence That Yells
Well I think it fits pretty well.
I said so!
Couldn’t or Wouldn’t? U.N.I.T.Y. is *far* from unbacronymable.
But does GODOT have *pride* in his acronyms and simply refuse to all the potential U.N.I.T.Y ones? Or is there some other reason he couldn’t do UNITY?
Jes’ sayin’…
If the problem is a shortage of words beginning with Y, what about resorting to a dictionary? I can get “Undead Nanocreature: Organisms Together Yblent”, where “yblent”, according to the Shorter OED, means “blended”.
On the other hand, I can’t seem to get anything better, even with a dictionary in front of me.
…and a small part of a small circle is completed…Causing a infinity of further circles…
Undead
Nano-tech- based
Indestructible
Tactical
Individual
See the problems lies because GODOT used a Y instead of an I, easy fix really.
Or we could use Yutz. She is kind of slow when not high on brains. As my memaw use to say, when in doubt, use Yiddish.
Undead Necrotic Invincible Terror, Y’alls.
I found this while searching for something else.
http://skin-horse.com/2010/todays-comic-299/
July 3, 2010 from “Brave Little Toasters” as Violet is first meeting the Skin Horse team.
Violet: And you’re U.N.I.T.Y.
Unity: Yep.
Violet: The Upgradeable Necrotic Independent … what?
Unity: We don’t talk about my acronym.
Violet: Sorry, did I touch a nerve?
Unity: Well, you know. People died and stuff.
Kudos to Tetra Valent and Challeron for remembering.
BTW, July 5 – 12 show Violet being repeatedly rejected by Tip as they meet each other.
Undead Nanites Ina Terrifying Youth
United necrotic inteliginses terrorizing you
the Ultimate Nanite Infested Terror of the Year
Universal Nanite Intelligence Training Yoke
Undead Necrophilia In training you.
She totally learned that from Tip.