I was going to say it’s a bit hard to live off the grid when you’re in a hundred foot plus high walking building, but with almost everyone reality blind, it’s actually plausible. Asig’s strategies are working against them here.
I guess they could just bring the grid with them. And who needs reality blindness when you could just claim you’re shooting a live-action Transformer movie?
Looking through the archives I realize this isn’t the first time I’ve had a character refer to any large robot as “a Voltron,” but Andrew’s working on a Voltron book right now and I wanted to give him a shout-out.
Also, just wanted to say that I love the characters and story you guys have built. I know it’s probably coming to an end soon, so I just wanted to say that I appreciate the gift you’ve given us.
Vending machines? With their giant robot they could smash-raid the Doritos factory. The reality-blind people would wonder what could have punched that big hole in the roof – meteor strike?
With the abilities of Drs. Lee and Jones they could probably build something to recycle the building’s sewage output into top grade prime rib and champagne.
True, Dr. Steve, true. Although in this case, the answer to “Why don’t you kiss her instead of talking her to death?” is obviously because he’s busy stuffing his face with looted junk food.
Nicely, he could probably get Dr. Lee to remove the weapons if/when he gets his body back. I look at them as atrophied limbs. Doesn’t use them, willing to die not to use them. Or, sometimes bodies fit, but don’t fit. In his case, he’s lucky because he’s mechanical.
@Leslie, that was in the mirror universe, so I wouldn’t count that as Nick. That was the “Nick” the government project was intended to produce.
And I went back and checked… No, he did not use his guns on the Alaska mission. He flew in accompanied by other gunships, but no one had to fire on anyone.
HE really wasn’t that much ‘into food’. Some of you probably remember what THAT was like, BEFORE the damn food shows. Gobble,we’re ALL pigs and turkeys now.
Nick might be a Reformist Jew. They don’t bother with Kosher. I had a Reformist girlfriend that ate bacon and pork just like any other food. She didn’t like ham, though. Thought it tasted “too sweet.”
It’s the only thing I wouldn’t miss. What you don’t think about is all the combinations that are treyf… you can’t combine dairy products with beef, for instance.
I got the distinct impression that Nick is Orthodox. He complained on his journal about someone leaving a cheesesteak stuck behind his O2 tanks, and said
“I don’t even remember anybody coming on board with a cheesesteak, that shit’s treyf as fuck.”
He also went to the trouble of having maintenance fit his helicopter body with a mezuzah, and said
“anyway the other reason it took so long was theres a fuckin long wait for the rabbi. Rabbi Krupnik, only Black Ops rabbi in the DC area. i was afraid it was gonna be weird gettin my door done but he was super fuckin chill. after the blessing we talked for awhile about how to work with some of the laws that are hard to keep if your not human. like i cant totally shut off my power on Shabbas yknow? he says my case aint too bad, he knows this oyster kibbutz up the coast and them bastards got problems.”
There’s a reason you thought he was from Philly. But that’s before he was a chopper. So whoever had the cheesesteak on board didn’t necessarily get it in Philly. And since Nick didn’t even notice anyone bring it in with them, we’ll never know.
But if I ever go to Philly myself, I’m gonna remember to look for Pat’s or Geno’s.
I did think it had something to do with Jonah Yu and Nera Vivaldi.
There’s some argument that if you haven’t had a cheesesteak from Pat’s or Geno’s, you haven’t had one. But I can’t get there easily, so I go to a place that makes it in the traditional way.
With three nuclear power plants at their disposal, all they have to do is contract with almost any commercial power provider to supply power during the cooling season, or better still during maintenance shutdowns. And if a power company has an emergency shutdown they will pay a fortune just to keep from paying penalties for their own contract shortfalls.
Both parties could make a fortune on the fuel savings, and the advances on the contract alone would have Skinhorse rolling in it.
People have little appreciation of just how big a business Electric Power is.
They don’t have three nuclear power plants. They have three portable fusion reactors about the size of VCRs. It is very unlikely that even all three together compare with a nuclear power plant. Power plants are huge.
Sweetheart looks SO ashamed <3
Not ashamed. Annoyed her girlfriend told the junkfood craving twentysomething where the junk food was. There went her food resources
Both.
I was going to say it’s a bit hard to live off the grid when you’re in a hundred foot plus high walking building, but with almost everyone reality blind, it’s actually plausible. Asig’s strategies are working against them here.
I guess they could just bring the grid with them. And who needs reality blindness when you could just claim you’re shooting a live-action Transformer movie?
Looking through the archives I realize this isn’t the first time I’ve had a character refer to any large robot as “a Voltron,” but Andrew’s working on a Voltron book right now and I wanted to give him a shout-out.
I’d say this one was more of a Macross.
Can’t help but feel that Mazinger Z references would be more in Tigerlily’s wheelhouse. Then again, she’s already stooped to nuclear power.
And bout 5x the size of a Raknar
Today I am 26 years old! Not really a milestone, but still a good enough excuse for laser-tag and bowling.
Also, just wanted to say that I love the characters and story you guys have built. I know it’s probably coming to an end soon, so I just wanted to say that I appreciate the gift you’ve given us.
Aw…thank you so much. And happy birthday!
Vending machines? With their giant robot they could smash-raid the Doritos factory. The reality-blind people would wonder what could have punched that big hole in the roof – meteor strike?
With the abilities of Drs. Lee and Jones they could probably build something to recycle the building’s sewage output into top grade prime rib and champagne.
That makes me wonder where the biomass for Nick’s clone body came from…
He’s probably mostly repurposed soda, given what Dr. Jones used to make her clone-o-mat.
Oh, just kiss him already.
youth is wasted on the wrong people
Ah, that day when I realized that old people in fact perfectly understood what teenagers wer going through. We just didn’t CARE.
True, Dr. Steve, true. Although in this case, the answer to “Why don’t you kiss her instead of talking her to death?” is obviously because he’s busy stuffing his face with looted junk food.
It must be a real bringdown to go from being an awesome cyber weapon to merely human. I’d be pounding the junk food too!
Nick is not a gun.
No really, he is most emphatically not a weapon to the point he was willing to die over it.
Just because he was very adamant about not wanting to kill people, that does not change the fact that he was very much a weapon.
Nicely, he could probably get Dr. Lee to remove the weapons if/when he gets his body back. I look at them as atrophied limbs. Doesn’t use them, willing to die not to use them. Or, sometimes bodies fit, but don’t fit. In his case, he’s lucky because he’s mechanical.
I could be remembering wrong, but I think he actually did use them on their Alaska mission.
He used armaments against the Veggie Ben Franklin. Blew him into the weeks’s salad.
@Leslie, that was in the mirror universe, so I wouldn’t count that as Nick. That was the “Nick” the government project was intended to produce.
And I went back and checked… No, he did not use his guns on the Alaska mission. He flew in accompanied by other gunships, but no one had to fire on anyone.
How was he ever skinny in the first place?
The same way many of us were. A lack of money and a hyperactive metabolism.
That. Youth covereth a multitude of sins.
Age has little to do with it: some people just can’t get fat no matter how long they live for or how they live
HE really wasn’t that much ‘into food’. Some of you probably remember what THAT was like, BEFORE the damn food shows. Gobble,we’re ALL pigs and turkeys now.
Lee, aren’t you supposed to be asleep?
That said, you know how to find your whirligig boy even when he’s out of his proper body. Good on you.
How much of that junk food is kosher?
According to the Frito-Lay website, at least three kinds of Doritos are kosher. So Nick’s in the clear. For now.
Nick might be a Reformist Jew. They don’t bother with Kosher. I had a Reformist girlfriend that ate bacon and pork just like any other food. She didn’t like ham, though. Thought it tasted “too sweet.”
And here I thought ham was a reason _not_ to go kosher.
It’s the only thing I wouldn’t miss. What you don’t think about is all the combinations that are treyf… you can’t combine dairy products with beef, for instance.
I got the distinct impression that Nick is Orthodox. He complained on his journal about someone leaving a cheesesteak stuck behind his O2 tanks, and said
He also went to the trouble of having maintenance fit his helicopter body with a mezuzah, and said
Somewhere I got the impression he was from Philadelphia—no idea where. But if he is, that means Pat’s or Geno’s.
There’s a reason you thought he was from Philly. But that’s before he was a chopper. So whoever had the cheesesteak on board didn’t necessarily get it in Philly. And since Nick didn’t even notice anyone bring it in with them, we’ll never know.
But if I ever go to Philly myself, I’m gonna remember to look for Pat’s or Geno’s.
I did think it had something to do with Jonah Yu and Nera Vivaldi.
There’s some argument that if you haven’t had a cheesesteak from Pat’s or Geno’s, you haven’t had one. But I can’t get there easily, so I go to a place that makes it in the traditional way.
Nick could live off of Dr. Lee. But she’s unemployed now, too!
With three nuclear power plants at their disposal, all they have to do is contract with almost any commercial power provider to supply power during the cooling season, or better still during maintenance shutdowns. And if a power company has an emergency shutdown they will pay a fortune just to keep from paying penalties for their own contract shortfalls.
Both parties could make a fortune on the fuel savings, and the advances on the contract alone would have Skinhorse rolling in it.
People have little appreciation of just how big a business Electric Power is.
Too big to fail, but not so big that it couldn’t flail a bit…
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/22/pge-braces-for-anticipated-two-year-bankruptcy.html
They don’t have three nuclear power plants. They have three portable fusion reactors about the size of VCRs. It is very unlikely that even all three together compare with a nuclear power plant. Power plants are huge.
He speaks my language!