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2015-03-30

by shaenon on March 30, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. ngmatt8652
    March 30, 2015, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I KNEW IT!

  2. Alphaghoul
    March 30, 2015, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I would have been the first commenter if my phone would stop screwing up with this website. I’m confused about panel 3, why does he say she’s still wearing the hat?

    • ngmatt8652
      March 30, 2015, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      she is still in the drone

      • John Campbell
        March 30, 2015, 12:36 am | # | Reply

        I’m not sure she’s actually been in the drone at all since the Institute got hold of it. She’s in the VR interface, but I think the Institute/Goldbug/Anasigma (if there’s a difference) has hijacked the signal and diverted her into a simulation.

      • Stig
        March 30, 2015, 1:11 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think she got anywhere near the drone.

    • doubleW
      March 30, 2015, 1:17 am | # | Reply

      If you can’t see the effect correctly on your phone, panel three has two versions of Nick’s dialogue overlapping each other, one of which is the ‘wearing the hat’ comment, and another berating her for a lifetime of failure.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 30, 2015, 5:40 am | # | Reply

      Consider yourself lucky. This one comic I go to, whoever posts first this past week, gets a reply from some kind of troll pitching a get-rich-quick scheme. A couple of times I thought it was something about me.

  3. Ron Armstrong
    March 30, 2015, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    They are about to discover they have pissed off the wrong puppy!

    Go get ’em Sweetheart!

    • Nate FitzSimons
      March 30, 2015, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      No coffee cup shall be safe.

  4. Persona
    March 30, 2015, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Well, that settles it. Sweetheart’s in a simulation.

    But if it were Goldbug behind it, wouldn’t there be an awful lot more bad spelling?

    • Morgan Heacock
      March 30, 2015, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

      The poster that never used correct grammar.

  5. Foradain
    March 30, 2015, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Well, I think that answers the question posed by some borderline profanity by Nick earlier in this story… Even if it wouldn’t have actually been covered by his censor suite. ^_^

    • Robert Nowall
      March 30, 2015, 6:58 am | # | Reply

      That should be how Sweetheart figures it out—she’s quite intelligent, despite certain appalling lapses in judgment here and there.

      I think it also answers why Goldbug wouldn’t let Nick hijack the drone, too.

  6. jbevan70
    March 30, 2015, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Well, I sure hope somebody picks up that phone… because I f**king called it!

  7. Jerry Aethers
    March 30, 2015, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    I am looking forward to Sweetheart’s rampage of constructive civil engagement over this.

    • chrisn
      March 30, 2015, 11:42 am | # | Reply

      Dear Lord, please no concrete-stepping!

  8. Foradain
    March 30, 2015, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Looks to me like the question posed by some borderline profanity from Nick has been answered. Even if the borderline profanity in question wouldn’t have been caught by his Censor Suite. ^_^

    • Foradain
      March 30, 2015, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      My apologies for the (near) duplicate post. My desktop is screwing up the site just like Alphaghoul’s phone is.

  9. Delta Echo
    March 30, 2015, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Half-Life 3 Goldbugtrix glitches confirmed.

  10. Nat
    March 30, 2015, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Full mental breakdown in 3…2…

    Oh, and “First”.

    • Foradain
      March 30, 2015, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      Umm, sorry. ^_^

      That turns out not to be the case.

      No, you’re probably right about the FMB. The other thing, not so much…

    • Nat
      March 30, 2015, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      Um, never mind on the second part of my comment. None of the rest of you were showing on my screen when I typed that.

  11. Delta Echo
    March 30, 2015, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    (and dang, the “strikethrough” HTML code doesn’t work.)

    • Rex Vivat
      March 30, 2015, 11:00 am | # | Reply

      Wait, really? Let me try it…

  12. Shay Guy
    March 30, 2015, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    I think I’m reading this right:

    “You got kicked out of your dogpack and you’ve been screwing up ever since-“

  13. --jt--
    March 30, 2015, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    What was that – back when Nick was introduced to SH – about an impossible natcho-cheese(?) smell in the cabin? Maybe it’ll be the *lack* of that smell that really gets Sweethearts attention.

    Then again, probibly not. I don’t recall that bitch ever using her nose like a proper dog.

  14. Nate FitzSimons
    March 30, 2015, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    http://inception.davepedu.com/

    • Deja Moo
      March 30, 2015, 11:53 pm | # | Reply

      That leads to a Big Red Button. _I’m_ not going to push it!

      • Rex Vivat
        March 31, 2015, 12:10 am | # | Reply

        Don’t worry, it’s harmless. (What? Someone had to push it!)

  15. eddurd
    March 30, 2015, 2:58 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Sundown”, Gordon Lightfoot)

    Now our Sweetheart’s been at work through the whole darn night,
    But she just noticed something that is just not right …
    Somehow … it makes her say, “Whoa,
    Now my own mental breakdown is in stereo!”

    Now she always tried her best, doing what she could …
    Captain Bram called her “bad dog” but she knows she’s good!
    Somehow … she’s got to hold on,
    ‘Til the neg-a-tive voices in her head are gone!
    Somehow … our fa-vo-rite pup
    Is determined to do the job, she won’t give up!

    Now she hears another voice, and it tells her that
    She’s still wearing the electronic V.R. hat!
    Somehow … she just has to see
    That she’s still stuck in virtual reality!
    Somehow … the readers have known
    Anasigma has gotten through and hacked the drone!
    Somehow … I feel in my gut,
    That ol’ Nick’s gonna kick some cybernetic butt!

  16. Robert Nowall
    March 30, 2015, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    Well, now that we know…from “Excitable Boy,” Warren Zevon.

    Well, she went to the Institute inside the drone.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    She was isolated, she was all alone.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    Well, she’s just a gaslightable dog.

    The friggin’ poster kept her up all night.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    And no matter what they didn’t get it right.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    Well she’s just a gaslightable dog.

    Whe she tried mad science the results were poor.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    And when she went to dinner she couldn’t shut the door.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    Well she’s just a gaslightable dog.

    And she burned all the puppies when the door wouldn’t close.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    And her long-dead master whacked her on the nose.
    Gaslightable dog, they all said.
    Well, she’s just a gaslightable dog.

  17. irdburns
    March 30, 2015, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    Mwaha

  18. TheLivingNick
    March 30, 2015, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    Dear god do the comments pile up fast, its barely past 8! I can’t compete.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 30, 2015, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      Well, five days a week, I don’t get home from my job till just after 5:00 am (usually), and I don’t have net access at work (besides that I’m working), so only rarely can I get to the front of the line of comments.

  19. Marisa Mockery
    March 30, 2015, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

    Does this mean Nick is okay? He would have had to figure out a way to get out of his black hole to interact with Sweetheart, right?

    Also, I reeeallly hope Sweetheart figures this out soon. And kudos to Shaenon for writing this so well 🙂

    • Rex Vivat
      March 30, 2015, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      He did get out. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t another Goldbug simulation.

      • Marisa Mockery
        March 31, 2015, 12:01 am | # | Reply

        I must have missed that day. Thanks for the link! I was getting really worried about him ^^;

  20. Shadowmehr
    March 30, 2015, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

    Well, the inception is starting to crumble around her. Sweetheart is beginning to get a glimmer of what’s really going on. Hopefully she’s smart enough to use her bureaucratic skills to turn this around on whoever’s running the program.

    Why is the song “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor” starting to run through my head? 😀

    • Rex Vivat
      March 30, 2015, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

      Let The Coffee Hit The Floor.

  21. colomon
    March 30, 2015, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

    YESSSSS!!!!!

  22. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    April 1, 2015, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Fleas? Madhouse Five?

    Damnit, there need to be more existential sci-fi stories, and not just because I’m running out of puns

  23. Gyrre
    April 1, 2015, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

    Ooo! The Miamasta approach! I love it when I find out my favorite webcomic creators read the same ones I do.

  24. WJS
    July 25, 2019, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

    So it has been a VR simulation. I realised it was a simulation fairly early, but figured it was one with actors rather than a VR one.

  25. jdreyfuss
    January 27, 2020, 10:38 am | # | Reply

    Holy SHINS

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