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2018-07-16

by shaenon on July 16, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. OneUniverse
    July 16, 2018, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Brain cells ain’t skin, but I bet the swamp based computer games are really lame, Nick.

  2. Robert Nowall
    July 16, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    “The Cypress is *likely* saved” doesn’t even look like a substitution. Swear filter, you let us down.

    • Frank
      July 16, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      What about “blooming”?

      • Robert Nowall
        July 16, 2018, 12:26 am | # | Reply

        Well, that was better, but not as good as what we’re used to.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        July 16, 2018, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

        Crikey

    • Daibhid C
      July 16, 2018, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

      This happened on Thursday as well. “Those little [darlings] can really [mess] you up.” The swearfilter has apparently figured out how to replace words with words that actually fit in the sentence. I don’t know what this foreshadows, but I’m prepared to bet that somehow, it ain’t good.

      • Robert Nowall
        July 16, 2018, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

        Well, the last nine substitutions (unless I missed one), were “fat,” “spit[holes],” “drizzling,” “drizzling,” “darlings,” “mess,” “likely,” and “blooming.” Maybe the swear filter *is* trying to communicate with them.

  3. David B Huber
    July 16, 2018, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    It’s not like the Cypress has any reason to harbor a tinge of resentment towards humanity…

    • awgiedawgie
      July 16, 2018, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

      ‘Hmmm… do I destroy humanity for all they have done to me, or do I spare humanity because a human risked his life to rescue me, and he would be lonely without all the womenfolk?’

      • Towering Barbarian
        July 16, 2018, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

        If the Cypress is female she might very well go with Option 2. ^_^

        • Shadowmehr
          July 16, 2018, 7:24 pm | # | Reply

          I know Tip has mojo, but would it affect plants? Especially so many plants over so wide an area? It boggles the mind.

          • Jon
            July 16, 2018, 9:32 pm | #

            There is much about Tip that boggles the mind. Just ask his co-workers.

  4. Dr. Steve
    July 16, 2018, 9:35 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile, in the Asimov universe, on the planet Gaia…

    • OneUniverse
      July 16, 2018, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

      Since status is shown by name length, my name is now U.

      • Robert Nowall
        July 16, 2018, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

        “Let me call U something, it will make the day.
        Shorter names are better, we will have to say.
        Names are status symbols, and a bitter pill.
        Let me call U something, or it’s all downhill.”

    • Jon
      July 16, 2018, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

      Nice.

  5. tremor3258
    July 16, 2018, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    I know Skin Horse is currently unauditable thanks to the whole reality censor issue, but Sweetheart’s eventually going to get hauled before a subcommittee.

  6. Benedict Ide
    July 16, 2018, 11:49 am | # | Reply

    Sure, he doesn’t have skin… but does he have horse?!

    …no, I don’t know what that means either.

  7. Robert Nowall
    July 16, 2018, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

    [Nick:]

    I’ve got no skin in the game.
    I have nothing, in any part of me.
    Without it wouldn’t be smart of me.
    I’ve got no skin in the game.

    Don’t ask me to make a claim.
    And I’ll tell you myself that you spitholes can go straight to hell.
    I see what I see, I insist, so darlings, you go to hell.
    And I’ve got no skin in the game.

    I’ll contradict what you think come what might,
    Just to be a drizzling-mess pain,
    Despite an annoying voice that comes in mid flight,
    And repeats, repeats in my brain.

    [Chorus:]

    Don’t you know, you tool,
    You know you’ll give in.
    Forget reality.
    Come back to insanity.

    [Nick:]
    And each time I hear worlds like this in my ear.
    I will stop…and then I’ll give in.
    Though I’ve got no skin in the game.

    [Chorus:]

    Will give in, will give in,
    Will give in, will give in,
    Yes, yes, will give in, will give in…

    —from “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” Cole Porter. (Think the Four Seasons version, not Sinatra.)

    • casimir
      July 16, 2018, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

      Well, I think Frank would be proud to sing this version.

  8. Pygar
    July 16, 2018, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

    So, Nick, you fuel and maintain yourself? There isn’t one particular set of “skin” that means the world to you? “The skin you want to be near” or, indeed, somewhat past?

    • Jon
      July 16, 2018, 9:33 pm | # | Reply

      True. But that’s a pretty solid punchline.

  9. Shadowmehr
    July 16, 2018, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

    Tip should let Nick know what had happened to him in the Mirror Universe. Aircraft-grade aluminum skin becomes mighty precious mighty quick when it’s yours at risk.

  10. Robert Nowall
    July 16, 2018, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

    For what it’s worth, Nick *was* complaining about his skin being ripped off by Rhodey in the last storyline.

  11. WJS
    August 6, 2019, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

    Hmm, I’ve kind of been assuming that the authors would never write things in such a way that the team would have to choose a side in the New War, but this one makes me question that assumption a little.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 6, 2019, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

      The only way anyone can not choose a side in a war is to stay out of it entirely. Remaining neutral is nearly impossible (yes, I said ‘nearly’ not ‘totally’) if you are anywhere near the action. And Skin Horse is far too close to the epicenter for that.

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