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2016-01-11

by shaenon on January 11, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Jay Eff
    January 11, 2016, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    What Sergio doesn’t realize is that Artie’s powers DO prevent TIP from barfing freeze-dried Now & Laters..

  2. John Campbell
    January 11, 2016, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Oh, come on, Artie, you call yourself superintelligent? I saw that one coming.

    I suppose he has always been weak on figuring out what Mell’s brain is going to do. Maybe it’s just too straightforward for him to understand.

    • ngmatt
      January 11, 2016, 2:32 am | # | Reply

      I think he just can’t predict mel’s brain with a conscience

    • BMunro
      January 11, 2016, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

      I think his problem is that he isn’t accounting for Rule of Funny in his calculations.

    • Robert Nowall
      January 11, 2016, 5:47 pm | # | Reply

      “Dumb people make mistakes. Geniuses really screw things up.”

  3. Chris
    January 11, 2016, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    “I can’t predict every weird thing Skin Horse does.” may be my new favorite line.

  4. DarkStarling
    January 11, 2016, 3:28 am | # | Reply

    He’s right, it is parlor tricks. I’ve said this before, but alot (not all, but alot) of what he does is actually cold reading combined with engineering the circumstances to favor certain outcomes.

    • Jack
      January 11, 2016, 5:41 am | # | Reply

      Indeed. For those who haven’t read Narbonic, towards the end Artie is called out on the fact that for all he claims to be good his actions have greater negative consequences than those of the evil characters.

      • Dr. Steve
        January 11, 2016, 10:02 am | # | Reply

        Or, that could be part of the normal structure of the universe. Action –> Reaction –> Explosion!

  5. BrokenEye, The True False Prophet
    January 11, 2016, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    Well then you should probably read the comments section more

    • oneuniverse2
      January 11, 2016, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      Just because those in the comments sections predict that Skin-Horse will do *every* conceivable action doesn’t make it a good prognostication tool.

      • Rex Vivat
        January 11, 2016, 8:41 am | # | Reply

        “Congratulations to those who figured this out. In my mind I am picturing a dart board with every available space riddled with darts.”

        • chrisn
          January 11, 2016, 11:47 am | # | Reply

          The sacred darts are never wrong!

        • Ogden Wernstrom
          January 11, 2016, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

          I think I hit every square on my own. The jackpot for guessing the plot got so high, I could cover the board and guarantee myself a net profit, even if I had to share the payout with a couple lightweights who only picked a single combination.

  6. Robert Nowall
    January 11, 2016, 8:48 am | # | Reply

    So the freeze-dried Neapolitan made even Unity sick.

    • Guesticus
      January 11, 2016, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      Who mentioned anything about Unity being sick? o_O

      • Robert Nowall
        January 11, 2016, 9:28 am | # | Reply

        Didn’t think she favored barfing it back up…

        • DarkStarling
          January 11, 2016, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

          It’s UNITY though…

          • Candace
            January 12, 2016, 12:22 am | #

            Yeah, I figured Unity barfed up the Neapolitan astronaut ice cream on purpose to see if it came out multicolored like it was when it went in.

  7. Robert Nowall
    January 11, 2016, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    All of a sudden I’m wondering if it *is* Artie—or at least the Artie of their happentrack. Gerbils are pretty much genetically the same, aren’t they?…maybe if you zap them with a transmogrifier they’ll all come out like that…

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      January 11, 2016, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

      …Dana? o.O;

    • WJS
      July 28, 2019, 2:57 am | # | Reply

      I doubt it, I’m pretty sure Helen specifically designed his human form to be the way it is. It’s not the default form of human gerbils.

  8. Robert Nowall
    January 11, 2016, 10:10 am | # | Reply

    Hey, man, oh, I’m so alone, you know,
    Hey, man, oh, Sergio, I should have known, I gotta—
    Hey man, Skin Horse is straight outta time!
    This glasses-faced man just took a bite of my crime!
    Hey, man, I’m wracking my brain!
    Hey, man, it’s all been in vain!
    Hey, man, well, it’s a further damn-damn
    I said I had to seize it but I then I…

    Oh, I’m keen on you, man, ‘cause I can’t afford to kick it!
    I’ve got a case of self-pity!
    Oh, I’m keen on you, man, ‘cause you can’t afford to wreck it!
    You know my case of self-pity…
    Is freakin’ bright…I’m all right.

    —“Suffragette City,” David Bowie. ‘Cause somehow it seems appropriate today.

  9. Smithnik
    January 11, 2016, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

    I DID warn you all about the astronaut ice cream.
    Since it’s Unity, I wonder if it came back up with the stripes intact?

  10. Shadowmehr
    January 11, 2016, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, follow me here . . .
    1. Freeze-dried ice cream is organic in nature, if heavily modified.

    2. U.N.I.T.Y.’s nanotechnology is designed to infect organic materials.

    3. Her appetite is great enough that consuming more than one packet is not out of the question.

    1 + 2 + 3 = There might a semi-sentient ice cream blob wandering around the complex. Which is both awesome and slightly disgusting.

    • oneuniverse2
      January 11, 2016, 8:17 pm | # | Reply

      I’m not sure I needed that image in my head.

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