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2015-04-24

by shaenon on April 24, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. darkstarling
    April 24, 2015, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    And here I assumed it was ASig screwing with her head, and Goldbug just had a vested interest in it. This is actually Goldbugs idea of THERAPY?

    • codebracker
      April 24, 2015, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      I thing it was a worst case scenario simulatio designed to drive people fully mad so they can study them, because like Beta said braking through is a traumatic event and most mads destroy everything for miles around. That’s why they do it safely in a simulation.
      Unforunately for them, Sweetheart is just too pesimistic for it to have an effect on her, so I expect those running the simulation to go mad.

      • B
        April 24, 2015, 2:05 am | # | Reply

        “I always figured the end of the world would be my fault” apparently It’s easier to drive her insane thru bad spelling and grammar than global extinction events, she is already emotionally prepared for the extinction event and it being her fault.

        • Max
          April 24, 2015, 3:55 am | # | Reply

          “I always figured the end of the world would be my fault” – and that is not on a t-shirt, why exactly?

          • Quin
            April 24, 2015, 7:48 am | #

            Welp… She may have just passed evil scientist sanity test. Blow up the world? Meh. Incorrect spelling? DESOTRY ALL PAPERS!

            Sounds about the average thought process and logic of most mad scientists.

  2. jbevan70
    April 24, 2015, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Gavotte!

    • oneuniverse2
      April 24, 2015, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

      That is my immediate reaction!

  3. codebracker
    April 24, 2015, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    As a mad scientist creation, you’d think she’d learnt not to tempt fate by now.

  4. Persona
    April 24, 2015, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    Gavotte is still dumb? Daaaaang.

    • ngmatt
      April 24, 2015, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      it might be the simulation getting her wrong, like it did with nick

      • D. Walker
        April 24, 2015, 3:37 am | # | Reply

        So their data is out of date or incomplete, or both. We can maybe use that to figure out how they’re getting it. Their source had to be present for Gavotte’s sexing herself stupid and quite possibly hasn’t been present since, and also clearly wasn’t present for the “pork” scenario (which happened in the field).

    • Freddie Freelance
      April 24, 2015, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      This may not be Gavotte: it may be a Goldbug simulation, Goldbug inserting itself into another entity’s simulation, another entity inserting itself into Goldbug’s simulation, Gavotte’s daughter Pavane, another unknown daughter (possibly related to Gavotte’s dumbing down?), some unrelated/previously unknown swarm mentality, or a combination of two or more of these possibilities.

  5. Michael Brewer
    April 24, 2015, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Personally I’m kinda hoping that she admits her feelings to herself at the end of this.

  6. greenknight32
    April 24, 2015, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    Maybe Goldbug is Gavotte’s daughter swarm.

  7. Foradain
    April 24, 2015, 4:47 am | # | Reply

    Apparently there are some bugs in the simulation…

    • Shadowmehr
      April 24, 2015, 9:21 pm | # | Reply

      Thumbs up.

  8. Robert Nowall
    April 24, 2015, 5:52 am | # | Reply

    Why did Sweetheart figure the end of the world would be her fault? Besides, it isn’t. It wasn’t her fault the door was defective and wouldn’t close.

    Welcome back, Mme. Gavotte…if that is you…

  9. David Breslin
    April 24, 2015, 8:21 am | # | Reply

    Yellowstone seems to be in the scientific press a lot lately. First, a scary little map of the likely distribution of the ash layer after an eruption; then the discovery of a second, bigger magma chamber under the first one. Nothing about a seam of special magma-igniting coal yet, happily.

    • Lady Erzsebet
      April 24, 2015, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

      And it plays a big role in a series I’m currently reading.

  10. bergerjacques
    April 24, 2015, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    “We’ve been fighting a losing battle …. for fifteen years, but I never thought I’d see the final face-off in my lifetime. And I never dreamed, that it would turn out to be the bees. They’ve always been our friend.” — A little appropos quote from The Swarm. It loses something without Michael Caine saying it.

  11. Alex
    April 24, 2015, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    I feel that someone has to make this reference, so I might as well bite the bullet. “No, not the bees, not the bees! They’re in my eyes, my eyes! Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
    I feel dirty inside.

    • Shaenon
      April 24, 2015, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/17/bee_spill_washington_semi_truck_accident_s.html

      • pdp15
        April 24, 2015, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

        Was that from buzzfeed?

      • Alex
        April 25, 2015, 11:32 am | # | Reply

        Huh, so that’s where the bees Obama told everyone not to worry about came from.

  12. Shadowmehr
    April 24, 2015, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

    What are the odds that Gavotte is just using obfuscating stupidity, and this is her managing to invade the simulation to help break Sweetheart out of it?

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