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2019-03-07

by shaenon on March 7, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. awgiedawgie
    March 7, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I think Nick proved at The Little House that he’s immune to “cute”.

    • K. Iceclaw
      March 7, 2019, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      Not exactly immune, more nauseated.

      And frankly that thing is so adorable it crosses over into suspicious.

  2. Pygar
    March 7, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Elementary school was a while back, but IIRC, Camazotz was not a happy place…

    • awgiedawgie
      March 7, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know what you studied in elementary school, but Camazotz is a Mayan vampire god. The name literally means “Death Bat”.

      • Owlmirror
        March 7, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

        Camazotz was where Meg & Charles Wallace Murray’s father tessered to. “A Wrinkle in Time” is usually read in elementary school.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 7, 2019, 12:45 am | # | Reply

          That explains my confusion. I’ve never read it (nor have I seen the movie). But given the meaning of the name, I’m not surprised that it was not a nice place in the book.

          • Bruce A Munro
            March 7, 2019, 1:18 am | #

            Essentially it’s 1950s Cookie-Cutter Suburbia Hell, ruled over by a giant mind-controlling brain.

          • Robert Nowall
            March 7, 2019, 11:08 am | #

            Well, the movie, from the reviews and comments, seemed like another in Hollywood’s endless string of “let’s crap on everybody’s treasured childhood memories” movie releases. I picked up a new copy of the book and reread it—which was interesting but didn’t hold up that well.

            I did pick up on a number of things I hadn’t back then, though.

          • Lady E
            March 7, 2019, 12:09 pm | #

            There were no “treasured memories” from A Wrinkle in Time. It was a heavy-handed morality thump with a whiny protagonist who needed others to save her. I disliked it as a child, and I hate it as an adult. I’m purposely skipping the movie.

          • Robert Nowall
            March 7, 2019, 5:30 pm | #

            The movie took all that away—that was the complaint. Also changed character ethnicities like they were their underwear.

          • Lady E
            March 8, 2019, 12:14 pm | #

            Robert Nowall, if the movie took out the heavy-handed morality, and made Meg less whiny and gave her more actual agency, it’s better than the book.

          • Luke Somers
            March 12, 2019, 9:07 am | #

            The movie replaced about half of the crippling flaws of the book with brand new crippling flaws.

        • greenknight32
          March 7, 2019, 1:36 am | # | Reply

          I ‘m pretty sure I read it in elementary school (about 50 years ago) and was not impressed, I don’t remember a lot of details about it. Too much of a kiddie book, I was into adult science fiction by then.

          • Darkstarling
            March 7, 2019, 10:25 am | #

            It’s not really science fiction, it’s science fantasy.

            And yeah, Cookie Cutter Suburbia Hell sums it up.

          • David B Huber
            March 7, 2019, 11:21 pm | #

            A Wrinkle in Time has always been one of my favorite stories!

            If pressed to summarize it, I’d say “You don’t have to save the world. Just each other.”

        • Owlmirror
          March 7, 2019, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

          Ana Mardoll has been slowly doing a careful chapter-by-chapter deconstruction of aWiT:

          http://www.anamardoll.com/2018/09/index-time-quintet.html

          And I have to admit that she picks up on a lot of character and plot inconsistencies in the book, just as she did in the Narnia deconstructions she’s done.

  3. OneUniverse
    March 7, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Yep. He’s hosed. Send in Bubbles.

  4. Owlmirror
    March 7, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Nice “A Wrinkle in Time” reference.

    I note that Cammy does not seem to have a sling, or any other force projection weapon.

    Nick: “Hi Cammy. I’m Nick. My hobby is getting pocket pets to forfeit.”
    Cammy: ” Hi Nick! How do you get pocket pets to forfeit?”
    Nick “If you say you forfeit, really really loudly, I’ll feed you a meal.”
    Cammy: “Yay! I forfeit!”

  5. Robert Nowall
    March 7, 2019, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    I spy, with my little eye…three Madblood robots in the crowd.

    • LDDestroier
      March 7, 2019, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

      Oh damn, I didn’t notice. Good eye.

      • Andy4Hire
        March 7, 2019, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

        Me, neither! Holy carbs! Well spotted, Robert Nowall!

  6. Bruce A Munro
    March 7, 2019, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Judging from the description, shouldn’t it be something more on the lines of Candy Crush?

    • dornbeast
      March 7, 2019, 1:27 am | # | Reply

      No, because match-3 games are money-drinking vampire programs. This is a life-sucking vampire machine.

      • Bruce A Munro
        March 7, 2019, 1:30 am | # | Reply

        I was under the impression they drank both, but you know best.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 7, 2019, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      Oh, the description fits pocket pets, too. And they were around before Candy Crush.

    • Lady E
      March 7, 2019, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      It looks suspiciously like a Tamagochi.

  7. jrwences
    March 7, 2019, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    The way I remember it, if you don’t clean up after them, they will poop themselves to death.

  8. heckblazer
    March 7, 2019, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    Camazoootz!
    https://static3.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Camazotz-Hellboy.jpg

  9. Leslie
    March 7, 2019, 3:44 am | # | Reply

    Small, innocuous….obviously very dangerous. Prescription: Long, heavy stick. Practice golf swing,
    aim toward other likely opponents, especially those containing blood.

  10. Dr. Steve
    March 7, 2019, 4:30 am | # | Reply

    Terrifying!

  11. warpzone32
    March 7, 2019, 4:43 am | # | Reply

    Man. Last Tomagotchi circuit battle I saw, everyone was themselves.

    • warpzone32
      March 7, 2019, 4:44 am | # | Reply

      Dang it I forgot the brackets thing again. That was (shipping.) They were (shipping) themselves. Because Nick’s V-chip or whatever.

  12. Frank the mouse
    March 7, 2019, 6:44 am | # | Reply

    “The only way to defeat me, is to figure out where my off switch is!”
    “I’m doomed!”

    • awgiedawgie
      March 7, 2019, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      “Or, I can simply remove your battery.”
      “Nooo!! That’s cheati………….”

  13. Robert Loughrey
    March 7, 2019, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    Given the name, I’m guessing its “secret move” is mind control.

  14. Jo Woodman
    March 7, 2019, 11:45 am | # | Reply

    You beat Cammy by forgetting to feed her or clean up her poop for three days.

  15. Owlmirror
    March 7, 2019, 11:56 am | # | Reply

    I didn’t get it at first, but: “Glass Joe” => “glass jaw”.

    He could also have hoped for a kill-easy heel.

    • bergerjacques
      March 7, 2019, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      He was also the first, easily defeated opponent in the popular boxing video game “Punch Out.”

  16. Ponyhome
    March 7, 2019, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

    This is going to fill him with as much pride of accomplishment as the monster kid battle in Undertale. “Looks like easy EXP.”

  17. Shadowmehr
    March 7, 2019, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

    This is definitely going to be a curb-stomp battle. The question is: for whom?

  18. Clifton
    March 10, 2019, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    For reference, Camazotz = “Death Bat” in Mayan, name of the Vampire Bat God. Truth in advertising, I guess.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 10, 2019, 4:12 am | # | Reply

      Yes, I mentioned that… three days ago.

  19. Knuckles
    February 9, 2022, 11:50 am | # | Reply

    Well those things *do* absorb your life…

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