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2020-11-13

by shaenon on November 13, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Alphaghoul
    November 13, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Lol, looks like hat obsession with bloodlust is multiversal, not just with Jagermonsters. Yes I know that some people consider them the same universe.

    • dvandom
      November 13, 2020, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      http://www.dvandom.com/drawings/unityhat.JPG

  2. awgiedawgie
    November 13, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    You can’t really blame Echo Bravo for being a little perturbed. After all, he’s just been informed that he ranks somewhere lower than a rat.

    • D. Walker
      November 13, 2020, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      I would think he’d be used to hearing that from everyone, though…

      • awgiedawgie
        November 13, 2020, 12:29 am | # | Reply

        Doesn’t make it any less annoying to hear. Especially when it’s from someone you really didn’t want to hear it from.

    • DaisyFM
      November 13, 2020, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      Hot take: A sapient rat is basically a human. He’s just being a bigot.

      • D. Walker
        November 13, 2020, 2:05 am | # | Reply

        Wrong tack to take, easily argued that they’re not remotely ‘human’.

        The proper argument is that a sapient is a -person-. If someone can accept that a friggin’ corporation can be a person, they can accept that actual creatures can be.

        • awgiedawgie
          November 13, 2020, 2:41 am | # | Reply

          Precisely.

          A “person” is defined as “a self-conscious or rational being”. So any being – organic or inorganic – self-aware enough to argue that it is a person, is, by definition, a person.

          But “humans” are an actual species, and totally unrelated to rats except for the fact that they’re both mammals.

          • Simberto
            November 13, 2020, 5:00 am | #

            I’d disagree here. You can probably write a pretty convincing chatbot arguing that it is a person right now. Doesn’t make it a person, because it isn’t self-aware at all, it is just programmed to make one specific argument.

            It is the chinese room problem. You can probably build a non-person device which indistinguishly fullfils any criteria for being a person you can come up with.

          • awgiedawgie
            November 13, 2020, 10:50 am | #

            That’s why I specifically said “self-aware enough to argue” rather than simply saying “able to argue”.

          • D. Walker
            November 13, 2020, 11:36 am | #

            The Turing Test is a thing for a reason, and even that is a pretty low bar to clear which doesn’t prove personhood.

          • somdudewillson
            January 12, 2023, 9:53 am | #

            Simberto, I’m not sure “if we define personhood, things we didn’t originally consider people might pass it” is really that strong of an argument.

        • DaisyFM
          November 13, 2020, 10:04 am | # | Reply

          I mean, he’s still being a bigot no matter what you call them.

          • Towering Barbarian
            November 13, 2020, 11:47 pm | #

            Not really. He’s not obliged to like it when the girl he is interested in seems into another guy no matter what species the other guy might be. @_@

  3. Tiff Hudson
    November 13, 2020, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    My wife concurs on the importance of hats.

  4. Robert Nowall
    November 13, 2020, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    So long as Niue isn’t around.

    • David B Huber
      November 13, 2020, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      That would be hilarious! Have Alfa and Niue become “new best friends” just as Echo shows up decked out in top hat and tails…

      • Andy4Hire
        November 13, 2020, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

        Now I want to see this happen in-strip.

        • Robert Nowall
          November 13, 2020, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

          “I’d tip my hat to you, but I haven’t got a hat.”

  5. palenoue
    November 13, 2020, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 13, 2020, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

      What about plans that require a hat to function?

  6. DaisyFM
    November 13, 2020, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

    • Robert Nowall
      November 13, 2020, 11:23 pm | # | Reply

      Weren’t you in the cast of “The Producers?”

  7. Thenardyr
    November 13, 2020, 3:26 am | # | Reply

    Jeez, when Echo Bravo is the voice of reason…

    • David B Huber
      November 13, 2020, 8:00 am | # | Reply

      He is displaying personal growth, referring to “..that Valiant guy”. It’s likely Echo was the one who began thinking of Valiant as a person (rather than an objectified romantic ideal).

    • casimir
      November 13, 2020, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, but now he’s thinking, “…fancy hat equals sexual tension. Got it!”

  8. jdreyfuss
    November 13, 2020, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    Really, it’s his fault for not having a fancy hat. Sure, you could argue that they have to use those colanders in order to connect to the drone, but he could have made some effort to gussy his up a little.

  9. darkshallfall
    November 13, 2020, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

    If this keeps up, I have a feeling she might go rogue and join everyone. xD I mean, his hat is fancy, for a rat.

  10. Zero
    November 14, 2020, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    His hat lets him control a robot. That’s a pretty dang fancy hat.
    She’s just unimpressed because she has one, too. But his hat is still fancier than Valiant’s!

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