Different dogs. The attack dogs only understand German; these are the unpredictably motivated service dogs that sometimes give out love maulings, per Monday’s comic.
I’m very glad you’ve seen the light and opted for subtitles, rather than the all-too-common dubbing. It’s much preferred. Though, of course, the real intellectuals don’t need either and just learn the original language to appreciate all the subtleties that are lost in translation.
One would think that giving dogs human level intelligence and then failing to give them the ability to talk to humans is missing a trick, but most mad scientists really don’t like it when their own creations keeping pointing out the flaws in their plans and telling them they’re doing something stupid.
I was thinking that maybe they had talking animal companions at an earlier stage of affairs but eventually moved to the current model after being defied (e.g., animals tried to keep them from blowing themselves up) too many times.
Counterpoint: talking animal companions help keep Mad scientists from getting lonely, which can become a real problem for them, what with accidentally (or not) killing off all their henchmen.
I’m talking about St. Charlie, which already has an abundance of other Mads and intelligent constructs and so on to talk to. Being lonely isn’t the problem for them as it is for the prototypical mad scientist working alone in a secret tunnel or ruined castle or their mom’s basement.
(Also: a great many of us here in what we laughingly call the “real world” find companionship in non-talking cats and dogs.)
As always seems to happen with NHS’s, they gave the dogs human-level intelligence but forgot to account for the fact that something with human-level intelligence and a dog’s personality will still, ultimately, act like a dog and not a human.
Also, is a human body magnetic enough to fire from a railgun, or do they employ some kind of transport pods that are fired via railgun?
Probably are a few Mads self-experimenting enough to embed sufficient metal in their bodies to travel by railgun without having to use one of those pesky transport pods.
Doctor Madblood was right. Madness really is the better coping mechanism.
St. Charlie is probably happier not knowing what the sentient housecats think.
Meh. All they have to do is mention the possibility (or lack thereof) of their survival.
Translating from the German?
No, no. The dogs only understand German. They don’t speak it.
It was the accent that fooled me.
Yeah, a lot of foreigners mistake that accent for German, but it’s really Danish.
Different dogs. The attack dogs only understand German; these are the unpredictably motivated service dogs that sometimes give out love maulings, per Monday’s comic.
In that second panel, one of the translation boxes should probably have two stars, so we know which dog is saying what.
Or perhaps the first dog is saying both comments at once (somehow) while the second dog is just saying ‘woof’?
Of course. Wasn’t that obvious?
I’m very glad you’ve seen the light and opted for subtitles, rather than the all-too-common dubbing. It’s much preferred. Though, of course, the real intellectuals don’t need either and just learn the original language to appreciate all the subtleties that are lost in translation.
Yay! The dogs are still ok!
Woof!
Woof woof. Woof.
Arf.
Growf!
I like everything about this.
One would think that giving dogs human level intelligence and then failing to give them the ability to talk to humans is missing a trick, but most mad scientists really don’t like it when their own creations keeping pointing out the flaws in their plans and telling them they’re doing something stupid.
Scratch out mad scientists and insert politicians and you have just described the entire US political system.
Also, thinking through the consequences of one’s actions ahead of time is, erm, not a trait generally associated with mad scientists.
I was thinking that maybe they had talking animal companions at an earlier stage of affairs but eventually moved to the current model after being defied (e.g., animals tried to keep them from blowing themselves up) too many times.
Counterpoint: talking animal companions help keep Mad scientists from getting lonely, which can become a real problem for them, what with accidentally (or not) killing off all their henchmen.
I’m talking about St. Charlie, which already has an abundance of other Mads and intelligent constructs and so on to talk to. Being lonely isn’t the problem for them as it is for the prototypical mad scientist working alone in a secret tunnel or ruined castle or their mom’s basement.
(Also: a great many of us here in what we laughingly call the “real world” find companionship in non-talking cats and dogs.)
Also, if Mad Scientists thought things through, there wouldn’t be any need for Mad Tech Support…
As always seems to happen with NHS’s, they gave the dogs human-level intelligence but forgot to account for the fact that something with human-level intelligence and a dog’s personality will still, ultimately, act like a dog and not a human.
Also, is a human body magnetic enough to fire from a railgun, or do they employ some kind of transport pods that are fired via railgun?
Escape pod = railgun. “That’s St. Charlie.”
Probably are a few Mads self-experimenting enough to embed sufficient metal in their bodies to travel by railgun without having to use one of those pesky transport pods.
Are those the engineer and the conductor? Good to see them.
But they aren’t wearing their hats.
They’re not part of the problem, they’re just doing their jobs. It’s not on them if the system is screwy.
The humans are now doggy fetched. They’ve started into the homestretch. So into the driver, get ready to fire, and now all the dogs woof and kvetch.
I’m sorry, but… talking doggies! See also on IG/TT/YouTube: HungerForWords WhatAboutBunny and BilliSpeaks