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2019-08-13

by shaenon on August 13, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Moe Lane
    August 13, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Awwww.

  2. sweetuncleLESLIE
    August 13, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Huh. And now, we go to the FOOT SWEEP!!

    • dranorter
      August 16, 2019, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

      Or foot swap

  3. dvandom
    August 13, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    The Battleship movie was a lot better if you read the novelization first. It told both sides of the story.

    • Gyrre
      August 13, 2019, 2:36 am | # | Reply

      The Dare Devil movie novelization was just better period.

    • Dr. Steve
      August 13, 2019, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      Does it provide backstory? I mean, what happened B-4?

      • Saberbeam
        August 13, 2019, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

        Huh, I think that may well win you the internet for today Dr. Steve 😀

  4. Alphaghoul
    August 13, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    How are the battleship boardgame and movie an example of classic and new? Also I think that she means that the recording toys are the narcs and is apparently crying about it.

    • BMunro
      August 13, 2019, 2:57 am | # | Reply

      The battle was won by a WWII warship, IIRC. And that’s a sweat drop, I think.

  5. wykstrad
    August 13, 2019, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    It’s funny to think that, if you created Furby today, it actually COULD learn how to talk based on your speech patterns and record everything you say, like people were erroneously afraid the original was doing, but now people would still buy it as long as it, like, told you the weather forecast and played music on command.

    • Gyrre
      August 13, 2019, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      And the damned thing would then “mistakenly” dial a random number from your contacts list, and “mistakenly” switch to speaker phone and “mistakenly” keep the call open until either the recipient hung up or you and whomever were talking stopped talking.
      [Alexab Siri, and Cortana have all done this sort of thing.]

      • soft
        August 13, 2019, 9:11 am | # | Reply

        I had heard about Alexa doing that, and even tried the echo and dot for a bit and noticed quite a few times the ring lit up listening to me even though I never said “Alexa”. I ended up packing her back into her respective boxes and bought Google Home Hub (display screen) and Mini. So far I haven’t noticed anything with that one.

    • cloudster
      August 13, 2019, 10:46 am | # | Reply

      There is/was a Furby Alien Autopsy site that was quite awesome. Some day I (or somebody) should look to see if it still exists, it was a lot of fun.

      • Lady E
        August 13, 2019, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

        I think it still is if the following was the site:
        http://www.phobe.com/furby/index.html

    • Seph
      August 13, 2019, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      I remain deeply uncomfortable with the idea of having an always-on microphone in my house that is not under my full control. Who knows what information it could be gathering?

    • David Vignola
      August 13, 2019, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

      I heard from my father-in-law, who worked in military technologies, that Furbies were considered high security risks and banned from installations. Something about recording what’s going on around them.

      • wykstrad
        August 14, 2019, 12:21 am | # | Reply

        They were banned, because the advertising claimed that they “learned” how to speak by listening to you. Government offices thought they might “learn” some classified phrases and banned them.

        In reality, though, the marketing was misleading. Furbies did gradually add new words to their vocabulary over time, but they were all predetermined words stored in their hard drives, added to the toy’s list of phrases at fixed intervals. They had no ability to record people or repeat their words back.

  6. awgiedawgie
    August 13, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Aaaaand… It was almost a perfect leg-sweep setup, but the short attention span wins again.

    • greenknight32
      August 13, 2019, 2:36 am | # | Reply

      Problem is, they were both distracted. Though both were using the same simple-minded ploy, neither was ready for it.

      Doesn’t look like either of them has (had) any brains (for lunch).

    • Seph
      August 13, 2019, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      I’m curious as to what two people simultaneously attempting to legsweep one another would look like.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 13, 2019, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

        I’m envisioning one of those pairs figure skating moves where they’re facing each other with one leg outstretched, and it ends with both of them sprawled across the floor.

  7. rinku
    August 13, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    She LITERALLY just mentioned the Battleship Movie!

    Always hard to tell with Unity, but Trinity *may* be slower on the uptake.

    • cloudster
      August 13, 2019, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      I think they’re the only two who saw the Battleship movie, aside from reviewers.

    • Daibhid C
      August 13, 2019, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      I think the fact Unity mentioned the Batttleship movie is why Trinity is commenting on the fact Unity saw the Battleship movie. And yes, it took three panels, but she had a lot on her mind: coming up with her brilliant tactic, falling for the exact same tactic, etc.

  8. thedoctor55
    August 13, 2019, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Well,this is going nowhere fast!

  9. thedoctor55
    August 13, 2019, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    A “New” recruit for Skin Horse?

  10. Duth Olec
    August 13, 2019, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    Can’t wait for them to become best friends.

  11. Jim Phillips
    August 13, 2019, 8:01 am | # | Reply

    I must confess that I did see the BATTTLESHIP movie. However, there were mitigating circumstances: just a few weeks before I had been on a tour of the Battleship Missouri, the same one used in the movie (if you are ever on Oahu, it’s worth it to get the hours-long deep interior tour).

    • Shadowmehr
      August 13, 2019, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

      If we’re confessing, I saw it too, just out of curiosity. It wasn’t that bad, a good flick for an afternoon’s entertainment, but not a classic by any standard.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 13, 2019, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

        … which means it probably will be a cult classic in 20 years. Sort of like some of the horrible films that came out of the ’60s. Oh, who am I kidding? The ’70s and ’80s, too.

  12. Christian Rose
    August 13, 2019, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    *Quietly slips out the back door after not understanding the 90’s joke. Google’s Ferbie from comments. Finally gets joke.*
    First time I’ve been too young to get a post 60’s joke.
    I’m in my early 20’s, sue me.

  13. Salty
    August 13, 2019, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    It’s almost like they were…made for each other.

  14. Robert Nowall
    August 13, 2019, 11:08 am | # | Reply

    Somebody actually saw the Battleship movie?

  15. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 13, 2019, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

    Come on, people, defeating your moral opposite twin is easy. You just force them to decide between their own survival and the greater good.

  16. Daibhid C
    August 13, 2019, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

    Now, now, perfectly symmetrical lack of violence never solved anything!

  17. Seph
    August 13, 2019, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

    TBF, furbies are definitely evil—and not cuddly evil. Dr Narbon–type evil. Those DONKEY WRESTLERS will kill you in your sleep.

  18. Ikkir
    August 13, 2019, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

    Really, cant wait for them to try using the control phrase on each other.

  19. Efogoto
    August 13, 2019, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

    Unity and Trinity: Each a perfect blend of duplicity and gullibility.

  20. Bear
    August 13, 2019, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

    Soooo, Unity and Trinity are both essentially piles of proto-sentient nano-goo that think lightsabers and battleship movies are cool. Aaand, some random selection of human-shaped flesh to allow them to be more focused and interact with the world more conveniently. But that last part is optional.

    I gotta ask, what’s the result if you put both of them into a large pot and stir? Does the resulting pile of proto-sentient nano-goo have both sets of memories? Does it hate itself – even to the extent that these two hate each other?

    And this is relevant because, what’s the expected outcome of these two fighting each other? And how is it different from both of them being stirred together in a pot?

    And in an unrelated question that may become important later… If there’s a Unity and a Trinity, there’s bound to be a Binity somewhere. And being on the lookout might not be a bad idea.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 13, 2019, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

      Unity is the union of half black & half white (more or less), so technically, she is the “binity” version. Trinity is three colours. The only time we ever got to see a single-colour version was in the mirror universe when Mirror Unity swapped parts with our Unity, so both of them were uniformly coloured.

  21. David Vignola
    August 13, 2019, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

    https://gizmodo.com/man-redefines-horror-by-building-a-singing-furby-organ-1822924179

    • awgiedawgie
      August 13, 2019, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

      I am definitely not clicking on that. What has been seen cannot be unseen. And I really don’t want that ingrained in my memory for all of time.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        August 14, 2019, 12:01 am | # | Reply

        You must click the link. Then you will understand. In the link there is love. In the link there is meaning. Give us your address so we can hold your eyes open and share the experience with you.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 14, 2019, 12:51 am | # | Reply

          Do your worst. I will hold the line against the link.

  22. David B Huber
    August 22, 2019, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

    I’ll save this for the next time I need to cleanse my eyes of Leonard Nimoy singing “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”…

  23. Knuckles
    February 9, 2022, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

    *South Island Theme plays*

    You might know everything I’m going to do,
    But that’s not going to help, because I don’t know anything I’m going to do!
    STRANGE, ISN’T IT?

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