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2021-03-02

by shaenon on March 2, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. palenoue
    March 2, 2021, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    After effects of hamster rainstorms:
    https://youtu.be/w-DNjeGcTmk

    • serpentrose
      March 2, 2021, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve recently started taking drugs that sedate my hamsters. Wish I’d known I could do that sooner.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 5, 2021, 6:14 am | # | Reply

        You take the drugs, but the hamsters are the ones that are sedated? How does that work?

        • serpentrose
          April 5, 2021, 8:56 am | # | Reply

          Metaphorical hamsters in my mind that refuse to STFU.

  2. Tiff Hudson
    March 2, 2021, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    I want to see the hamsters’ flying island!!!

    • awgiedawgie
      March 2, 2021, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry, that was destroyed. And no one inside the box knows anything about it besides Lovelace.

  3. casimir
    March 2, 2021, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    …just two words of caution…

    …hamster poop.

    • Daibhid C
      March 2, 2021, 6:05 am | # | Reply

      Pretty sure nobody poops in Virtual Whimsyworld.

      • SVGeezer
        March 2, 2021, 8:47 am | # | Reply

        Does that mean there is a DARK Virtual Whimsyworld where everything poops, for starters?

        • Bruce A Munro
          March 2, 2021, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

          That’s where the bad robots go. (Cue musical number)

          • Pygar
            March 2, 2021, 6:10 pm | #

            Bad robots? Hamsters? Let us pray they don’t get together! Narbonic flashbacks…

          • BMunro
            March 2, 2021, 10:27 pm | #

            Was meant to be a Futurama rather than a Narbonic reference, but that’s an interesting notion too.

  4. evilmidnightlurker
    March 2, 2021, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    I’m guessing Baron found a way to maintain his outside self in the sim and doesn’t want anyone there to know.

  5. Candace
    March 2, 2021, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    You know you love it, Nick.

  6. Bear
    March 2, 2021, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Aimee’s really leaning in on this Whimsey Princess thing.

  7. Frank
    March 2, 2021, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    Yup, entirely logical

    At least when you factor in rule of cute

  8. eddddd the mad genius
    March 2, 2021, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    how do multiple versions of nick attract total babes??

    • Shaenon
      March 2, 2021, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

      I mean look at him.

      • Pygar
        March 3, 2021, 12:10 am | # | Reply

        That’s what we mean!

        • Robert Nowall
          March 3, 2021, 4:59 am | # | Reply

          Wonder how Duplicate Nick is doing?

  9. maarvarq
    March 2, 2021, 6:16 am | # | Reply

    You’d like to do what, Lovelace?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 2, 2021, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      Live there. She finished the thought in the next panel.

  10. David B Huber
    March 2, 2021, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    It’s good to see Lovelace and Aimee becoming friends.

    Aimee is the literal embodiment of Nick’s inner Whimsy princess and has proven herself one of very few people who can be trusted with the mind control powers of the Crown.

    Whimsey Corp created better than they knew.

    • Sheik
      March 2, 2021, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Far better than _anyone_ could know.
      There has to be some kind of intelligent error detection and elimination algorithm far in advance of anything we know that has prevented Whimsy World from crashing or being corrupted into oblivion. This might be built into each of the AIs independently in cross check fashion.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 2, 2021, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      Let’s hope they don’t get too friendly. ‘Cause it would just about break the heart of that foulmouthed foul-minded little animatronic unicorn. Unless he’s got something else stashed in his private space.

  11. Robert Nowall
    March 2, 2021, 6:57 am | # | Reply

    And them without a canopy.

  12. adam
    March 2, 2021, 7:02 am | # | Reply

    Poor hamsters. They very much prefer being on the ground.

    I wonder whether Lovelace’s thinking is affected by Whimseyworld mind control.

  13. Pygar
    March 2, 2021, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

    Hamsters… In the Shaenonverse, harbingers of doom…

  14. Davio Vignola
    March 2, 2021, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

    Kind of reminding me of Mabel world, here

  15. Shadowmehr
    March 2, 2021, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

    I hope they land safely, or this going to get a lot less cute in a hurry.

    • BMunro
      March 2, 2021, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      It’s a virtual reality, so physics are entirely optional. They probably never fall fast enough to hurt – either themselves, or those they land on.

      • M
        March 2, 2021, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

        Even in this universe, they’ll be fine: “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-
        yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft.” JBS Haldane, On Being the Right Size.

        • BMunro
          March 2, 2021, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

          It’s all about volume to surface area rations. But hamsters are larger than mice, so I’m not sure about their terminal velocity.

  16. darkshallfall
    March 2, 2021, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

    I would want to visit a world with hamster rain. Anyone who loves animals would.

    • Pygar
      March 3, 2021, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      splut… splut… schplap… schplutschplut-schplut…
      “Oh, I’m singing in the (splat) rain, just (schplut) singing in the rain…”

  17. David B Huber
    March 2, 2021, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

    I must admit, Lovelace’s comment about “if we survive all this” has me concerned.

    What does she know that we don’t?

  18. caelomius
    March 2, 2021, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

    So Aimee and Lovelace are into each other right?

    • Pygar
      March 3, 2021, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      I like to think Lovelace is somehow ancestor to Shaenon’s Space I.T. person, Eydie… E.D. as in Davenport, I hope!

  19. onanan
    March 3, 2021, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    up to this point I sincerely thought Lovelace and Aimee were already dating. Though I guess if Aimee is still single, her reaction on last Saturday’s strip makes more sense.

  20. Seph
    May 13, 2021, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    Best get out of here before they start quoting Ayn Rand at you.

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