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2019-08-24

by shaenon on August 24, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Moe Lane
    August 24, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    No, Virginia! This is NOT how you avoid talking about your feelings!

    • awgiedawgie
      August 24, 2019, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      On the contrary… This is exactly how she avoids talking about her feelings.

      • Moe Lane
        August 24, 2019, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

        …Point taken.

  2. David B Huber
    August 24, 2019, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    I’ve got a bad feeling about this…

  3. Towering Barbarian
    August 24, 2019, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Ginny has precisely the level of self-preservation instincts I would expect from any Spark. ^_^

    • zap15
      August 24, 2019, 1:55 am | # | Reply

      Girl Genius? cause thats place I heard the word spark and self preservation in the same sentence

      • Jay
        August 24, 2019, 4:39 am | # | Reply

        Those do *not* come in the same sentence in Girl Genius.

        Well, unless it’s von Zinzer complaining to Snaug or Higgs or whoever’s there that Sparks don’t *have* a sense of self-preservation, but y’know!

        • Towering Barbarian
          August 24, 2019, 7:16 am | # | Reply

          I’ve long ago decided that the reasons Sparks have minions like von Zinzer is that the minions will have the self-preservation impulse *for* them and maybe talk them out of doing the more stupid things. Even the Baron seemed to have his one physician around for that purpose. ^_^

          • Moe Lane
            August 24, 2019, 7:35 pm | #

            Agreed, but *nobody* has a minion like von Zinzer.

        • Freezer
          August 24, 2019, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

          It really depends on how deep into the Madness Place a Spark is for how much self-preservation instincts they have. A new, strong Spark tends to have the self-preservation instinct of a dodo.

          • s854
            August 24, 2019, 10:52 pm | #

            Nothing wrong with dodos; they survived for tens of millions of years on Mauritius before they went extinct. Self-preservation instinct of a human, maybe?

      • Towering Barbarian
        August 24, 2019, 7:18 am | # | Reply

        That’s the one. I like “Spark” well enough that I instinctively apply it to any mad scientist these days as well as to “sane” scientists of Ginnys caliber. ^_^

        • John Smith
          August 24, 2019, 10:13 am | # | Reply

          It’s a nicely evocative term.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 24, 2019, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      You mean somewhere below the level God gave celery? Yeah, that tracks.

  4. pdp15
    August 24, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    No wonder he can’t get the transceiver working, it’s missing a critical S …

    • waynezombie
      August 24, 2019, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      How funny and true, I had to go back and check!

      • awgiedawgie
        August 24, 2019, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

        And if you go back and check, Shaenon has spelled it “tranceiver” every single time she’s used it. It’s not incorrect, whether you agree with it or not. That spelling has been in common use since the middle of the last century.

        • warpzone32
          August 25, 2019, 1:08 am | # | Reply

          You ee, pdp15? It’s illy to criticize the author for miplacing letter.

  5. thedoctor55
    August 24, 2019, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Just lock lips with him Ginny! I bet that’ll get his transceiver working! (If you know what I mean.)

    • Candace
      August 24, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      That probably would have been a better approach, given Nick’s reaction in the last panel.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 24, 2019, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      It would certainly have been the move that Nick would prefer.

    • OneUniverse
      August 24, 2019, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

      So it’s an aroused emotional state that sets the transceiver into action? (or tranceiver, whatever your preference). How is that going to affect his flight pattern if he suddenly gets “relaxed”?

  6. PAUL B HYSON
    August 24, 2019, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Insane and yet brilliant

    • Efogoto
      August 24, 2019, 2:12 am | # | Reply

      and not just a theorist – she put her idea to work immediately!

    • Frank
      August 24, 2019, 2:36 am | # | Reply

      nono, remember, she’s the sane one

      • kiralamouse
        August 24, 2019, 7:37 am | # | Reply

        You’re assuming Mad is the only form of insane. Rule of thumb in the Narboniverse: no featured character is sane.

      • Darkstarling
        August 24, 2019, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

        She’s so sane she’s come out the other side.

      • DaisyFM
        August 24, 2019, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

        Why have we been trusting her to tell us she’s not mad all this time?

      • John Campbell
        August 24, 2019, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

        She’s not a Mad Scientist. That’s not the same thing as being sane.

  7. Candace
    August 24, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Oh, dear. This doesn’t seem to be eliciting the reaction from Nick Dr. Lee apparently hoped for.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 24, 2019, 9:45 am | # | Reply

      Well, no one’s actually shooting at her yet, so technically she’s not in danger.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 24, 2019, 10:28 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. Where she’s standing, they might miss and hit him.

  8. Sleepy John
    August 24, 2019, 10:28 am | # | Reply

    If Dr. Lee built “blueberry muffins” into UNITY as an override command, I wonder what she built into Nick?

    • Sleepy John
      August 24, 2019, 10:29 am | # | Reply

      Aside from the one Ira used. One that does the opposite of disabling him, I mean.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 24, 2019, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

        She removed all the overrides that were previously installed. I doubt she put in any new ones, simply because of her feelings for him, and the invasion of his personal liberty it would be.

        • warpzone32
          August 25, 2019, 1:10 am | # | Reply

          Well I mean… she put in wifi. Why not put in beneficial overrides?

          • awgiedawgie
            August 25, 2019, 12:17 pm | #

            Because an override – by its very definition – defeats his ability to choose. It may seem beneficial, but it would still be someone else forcing him to do something.

            She put in the wifi so he can control his helicopter body without going through yet another risky brain transplant (although to be fair, with Virginia at the reins, the risk factor seems to be pretty low). But it’s just another body part. He still has to choose to use the tranceiver. And just like learning to walk, he has to figure out how to make it work.

  9. Robert Nowall
    August 24, 2019, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    Wasn’t that last time when the guy in green armor from Anasigma HR dangling her over the side of Annex One? Probably he’s not available anymore, but couldn’t somebody else do the same?

    • OneUniverse
      August 24, 2019, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

      Well, Tip could try flirting with Ginny, and that could set Nick’s tranceiver off.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 24, 2019, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

        That would piss Nick off, but I’m not sure that’s the proper method of excitement to activate his tranceiver.

        • Robert Nowall
          August 24, 2019, 5:51 pm | # | Reply

          Well, Dr. Lee could [lengthy bit of self-censorship involving downright pornographic sex acts] and maybe that’d excite Nick enough.

  10. BMunro
    August 24, 2019, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

    ‘Last mission?’ “Too old for this?’ Not only is she calling on them to shoot her, but she’s deliberately taunting narrative causality.

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