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2017-02-09

by shaenon on February 9, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Fun for Some
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    February 9, 2017, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Which now makes me wonder what quirk of Aimee’s *was* temporarily deleted in her case! 🙂

    • codebracker
      February 9, 2017, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      It only filters your perceptuon of rude things, if you are an average guy it probably doesn’t affect you.
      I mean you wouldn’t notice anyway

  2. casimir
    February 9, 2017, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    That’s about the cutest swear I’ve ever heard

  3. Stephen Blake
    February 9, 2017, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Remind me to never have pancakes with Nick…

    • John Campbell
      February 9, 2017, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      Definitely not buttermilk pancakes.

  4. OneUniverse
    February 9, 2017, 5:40 am | # | Reply

    That “Calling Aimee” screen sorta makes me think the tech is, like, ancient (10 years ago or so). I don’t suppose Nick has a picture of “Aimee” on file? Is she like Lovelace from Narbonic?

    • Rex Vivat
      February 9, 2017, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

      Well, the comic did start almost 10 years ago.

    • mrinku
      February 9, 2017, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

      The development of the V-22 Osprey dates from 1989, and it became operational in 2007 after a looong period of development.

      To be honest, you could find relic tech in Nick going back nearly *thirty* years!

  5. Robert Nowall
    February 9, 2017, 6:04 am | # | Reply

    I’m thinking maybe Aimee *is* his swear filter. Their phrasing has so many similarities.

    • John Smith
      February 9, 2017, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      Huh. They would be co-workers, in a sense.

      • Kirt Dankmyer
        February 9, 2017, 8:40 am | # | Reply

        Probably not true, but I love that theory.

    • Mental Mouse
      February 9, 2017, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      Oh. My. That is a disturbing idea… But it certainly fits with this conversation, given that Nick hit the “pinked-up cloudland”(*) with an infinite-spawn glitch.

      * Funny, that one actually makes sense…

      • Robert Nowall
        February 9, 2017, 10:14 am | # | Reply

        I’d like to think that Nick throws so much at his swear filter that it gradually became intelligent and self-aware. Guess it took a job at Whimsey in its spare time…

    • bleIII
      February 9, 2017, 10:13 am | # | Reply

      name is literally AI me. could be an AI part of him. would anyone here describe a somewhat aware swear-filter as out of character for anasigma? or it could just be responding to his thoughts and not actually aware.

    • This Guy I Know
      February 9, 2017, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

      I’m so glad I’m not the only one who came up with that idea. It seems unlikely, but dang if all the little details don’t fit perfectly. She even hates him as much as he hates himself!

      • Robert Nowall
        February 9, 2017, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

        I think I mentioned it a couple months ago…but I could easily have seen someone else mention it and kept it in the back of my mind ever since.

    • casimir
      February 9, 2017, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      This idea has merit and not just because I like it. If Nick IS interfacing with his own swear filter maybe he can teach her to swear for reals.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 9, 2017, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

      Possible, but just as likely she’s another AI from a separate system, or another cyborg intelligence like Nick. Which would cause more amusement when they finally meet, face to . . . er, nosecone to interface panel.

  6. Dr. Steve
    February 9, 2017, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    What happens when the swear filter accidentally combines words that are meaningful – such as “blueberry waffles”

    • Frank Hightower
      February 9, 2017, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

      Remember Muklok, it learns

      • Gemma
        February 9, 2017, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

        If it hits the wrong one of Dr. Lee’s breakfast codes, it won’t have time to learn.

      • Treesong
        February 9, 2017, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

        I never knew Muklok in the first place. Who or what is that? A World of Warcraft playable character/race/thing?

        • Rex Vivat
          February 9, 2017, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

          He meant mukluk.

  7. Dementron
    February 20, 2017, 6:10 pm | # | Reply

    …Oh dear.

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