I’m glad these two are main characters again. I know Jonah had the reset thing, but why is he clairvoyant now? I reread the chapter and when did he get that?
Having to go through longer and longer resets would probably start to drive him mad as he began spending months and months and then years and years reliving the same things.
That said, at the end of the chapter where he kept resetting, he quite clearly had a glimpse of the future without having to die. Somehow he has gained a degree of precognition entirely separate from the death resets.
“The plus side of having been crushed by spike walls and electrocuted and masered and tasered and burned to death by fire-breathing amphibians, if there can be said to be one, is that you have emerged from the experience with a somewhat unpredictable and unreliable ability to catch occasional glimpses of the future due to the aforementioned trans-dimensional energy exposure. It’s come in handy a couple times during your investigations of cryptic and covert phenomena, and now it’s brought you to the attention of yet another hidden cabal within this shadowy world…” https://scrivnarium.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/skin-horse-pick-your-path-style-story/
If it’s not plot-spoilers, I’d REALLY like to know from the authors if Jonah is reliving things or if this is just him having developed a Chronotech score?
I’m pretty sure it’s mind-powers that he got at the ending of the choose storyline. They were also mentioned near the ending of the Grillo Parlante storyline, right here: http://skin-horse.com/comic/2014-09-10/
But if Mr. Green really is Future Jonah, that doesn’t preclude both versions from existing in the same time. However, actually making physical contact with each other could prove catastrophic, as in the movie Timecop, when future McComb touched past McComb, causing both iterations to disintegrate… painfully.
To: All kitten nuzzlers, puppy wranglers and cotton candy spinners
From: Living resource care
Re: Professional conduct
It has come to our attention that a former individual forwarded an email titled “Lighthearted Double Entendres” which included several phrases which could be misinterpreted as work orders, leading to the early retirement of 7 teammates and updated physical and mental capability inventory of 19 others.
I would like to remind all family members that fraternization is prohibited for your safety. We maintain a fun work environment that encourages humor unless it is not workplace relevant or bears inappropriately on the workplace. Incorrigible partners are subject to light discipline.
And then maybe we’ll finally find out exactly what extirpation involves. I mean, I know what the dictionary says it is, but the dictionary says nothing about walnuts or shea butter.
You are truly a strange cat. I’ve never met another feline who enjoys bondage or spanking. Then again, I’ve met relatively few anthropomorphic felines.
I know this isn’t exactly the strip for this comment, but I just reread Narbonic again, and part of me desperately wants to know if Lovelace and Madblood reconcile eventually.
Well, speaking in the strictly emotional sense of “reconcile”, I’d have to say they did not. Her objective in “leaving” Madblood was to go open-source. As a piece of open-source software, any or all of her code could be utilised by Madblood, but he could never again “own” her.
Then again, there may have been more to her “emancipation” than simply going open-source. The area of law concerning sapient AIs is kind of vague, and she did have Mell as her lawyer, so there enters a random element. Artie couldn’t always predict what Helen was going to say or do, because she was mad. And Mell has something of the mad genius in her as well, even if she isn’t a scientist.
But since we’re wondering things about Narbonic, I wonder why Helen didn’t simply strap Dave to a table and tell him about the Tinasky Study business. Her agreement with Artie was that she either tell Dave the truth or let him go. She chose to let him go. She never even considered telling him the truth as an option. I suppose that she so strongly resented her mother that she couldn’t bring herself to push Dave over the brink, and she knew that telling him the truth would very likely do just that. Rational thinking should have told her that Dave was going to go full mad, <regardless of where he was employed, so sending him away to live a “normal” life was futile. But she was thinking emotionally, not rationally. If she had kept him strapped in until the initial throes of going mad wore off, she could have avoided the whole Arctic Base disaster.
I have no idea why people keep asserting that Mell is Mad. It has been stated again and again, in and out of story, that Mad Genius is a genetic condition that Mell does not have. That was even a plot point back in Doppelganger Gambit.
I didn’t say that she was mad. But she does have something of mad genius. She has a certain unpredictable quality about her. Even by her own admission, she was only a couple of sanity points ahead of Helen.
Oh no! They’re going to give the puppies mad science cotton candy with unseen side-effects and the puppies will escape and steal someone’s car!!!
Either that, or the puppies are the ones running the cotton candy bar and parking cars.
Imagine how Jonah Yu will react when he realizes there are a bunch of us reading his adventures online.
I’m glad these two are main characters again. I know Jonah had the reset thing, but why is he clairvoyant now? I reread the chapter and when did he get that?
I would guess it is a side effect from standing by the Gate too long.
Probably this. At the end of “Choose” he had flash vision of moments in his future with Nera.
I think that’s what his resets look like from the outside. I could certainly be wrong.
Having to go through longer and longer resets would probably start to drive him mad as he began spending months and months and then years and years reliving the same things.
That said, at the end of the chapter where he kept resetting, he quite clearly had a glimpse of the future without having to die. Somehow he has gained a degree of precognition entirely separate from the death resets.
Got a sort of Duncan Idaho thing going on.
I’m pretty sure it’s because he’s lived versions of this many, many times.
“The plus side of having been crushed by spike walls and electrocuted and masered and tasered and burned to death by fire-breathing amphibians, if there can be said to be one, is that you have emerged from the experience with a somewhat unpredictable and unreliable ability to catch occasional glimpses of the future due to the aforementioned trans-dimensional energy exposure. It’s come in handy a couple times during your investigations of cryptic and covert phenomena, and now it’s brought you to the attention of yet another hidden cabal within this shadowy world…”
https://scrivnarium.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/skin-horse-pick-your-path-style-story/
He already knows, he’s just trying not to let on.
If it’s not plot-spoilers, I’d REALLY like to know from the authors if Jonah is reliving things or if this is just him having developed a Chronotech score?
I’m pretty sure it’s mind-powers that he got at the ending of the choose storyline. They were also mentioned near the ending of the Grillo Parlante storyline, right here: http://skin-horse.com/comic/2014-09-10/
Now I have the feeling that I’ve read this strip before…
Now I have the feeling that I’ve read this strip before . . .
Now I have the feeling that I’ve read this comment before…
Spooky!
Wow, that deja vu just keeps flaring up again and again, don’t it? Like malaria.
Obligatory Monty Python deja vu reference…
I wonder when Jonah will discover that there is no Mr. Green until he becomes him.
Spoilers, as River would say.
But if Mr. Green really is Future Jonah, that doesn’t preclude both versions from existing in the same time. However, actually making physical contact with each other could prove catastrophic, as in the movie Timecop, when future McComb touched past McComb, causing both iterations to disintegrate… painfully.
I hope not, that’s a stupid cliche that makes no sense.
To: All kitten nuzzlers, puppy wranglers and cotton candy spinners
From: Living resource care
Re: Professional conduct
It has come to our attention that a former individual forwarded an email titled “Lighthearted Double Entendres” which included several phrases which could be misinterpreted as work orders, leading to the early retirement of 7 teammates and updated physical and mental capability inventory of 19 others.
I would like to remind all family members that fraternization is prohibited for your safety. We maintain a fun work environment that encourages humor unless it is not workplace relevant or bears inappropriately on the workplace. Incorrigible partners are subject to light discipline.
Does that “light discipline” include bondage and spanking?
Maybe there’ll be extirpation.
And then maybe we’ll finally find out exactly what extirpation involves. I mean, I know what the dictionary says it is, but the dictionary says nothing about walnuts or shea butter.
Light discipline should cause minimal damage to fixed structures and attentive bystanders.
Bondage and spankings? Where? I want some too, nyao!
You are truly a strange cat. I’ve never met another feline who enjoys bondage or spanking. Then again, I’ve met relatively few anthropomorphic felines.
I know this isn’t exactly the strip for this comment, but I just reread Narbonic again, and part of me desperately wants to know if Lovelace and Madblood reconcile eventually.
Well, speaking in the strictly emotional sense of “reconcile”, I’d have to say they did not. Her objective in “leaving” Madblood was to go open-source. As a piece of open-source software, any or all of her code could be utilised by Madblood, but he could never again “own” her.
Then again, there may have been more to her “emancipation” than simply going open-source. The area of law concerning sapient AIs is kind of vague, and she did have Mell as her lawyer, so there enters a random element. Artie couldn’t always predict what Helen was going to say or do, because she was mad. And Mell has something of the mad genius in her as well, even if she isn’t a scientist.
But since we’re wondering things about Narbonic, I wonder why Helen didn’t simply strap Dave to a table and tell him about the Tinasky Study business. Her agreement with Artie was that she either tell Dave the truth or let him go. She chose to let him go. She never even considered telling him the truth as an option. I suppose that she so strongly resented her mother that she couldn’t bring herself to push Dave over the brink, and she knew that telling him the truth would very likely do just that. Rational thinking should have told her that Dave was going to go full mad, <regardless of where he was employed, so sending him away to live a “normal” life was futile. But she was thinking emotionally, not rationally. If she had kept him strapped in until the initial throes of going mad wore off, she could have avoided the whole Arctic Base disaster.
I have no idea why people keep asserting that Mell is Mad. It has been stated again and again, in and out of story, that Mad Genius is a genetic condition that Mell does not have. That was even a plot point back in Doppelganger Gambit.
I didn’t say that she was mad. But she does have something of mad genius. She has a certain unpredictable quality about her. Even by her own admission, she was only a couple of sanity points ahead of Helen.
Am I the only one here imagining Nera being played by Alex Kingston thanks to that last panel? -_^
I kinda think Alex is too old to play that part: Maybe Helen Alpha or Beta?
The reference is to a character she played, once known as Melody Pond, but more famous under an alias (courtesy of a round-trip translation)…