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2018-04-23

by shaenon on April 23, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. Robert Nowall
    April 23, 2018, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I wonder whether showing off Unity as a girlfriend would be a good thing or bad thing…

    • awgiedawgie
      April 23, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      Considering that Unity is more violent and voracious than the dogs in the pack, I can’t imagine how it could be a bad thing… which usually means that that’s exactly what it will turn out to be.

  2. Foradain
    April 23, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Not often that the wrongswear filter puts in a word that makes complete sense in context.

    • joycemelton
      April 23, 2018, 1:40 am | # | Reply

      “Only when it’s funny.”

    • notactuallyaperson
      April 23, 2018, 2:14 am | # | Reply

      It’s not the filter. see how it’s not smallcapped?

      • Nomi
        April 23, 2018, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

        The filter isn’t smallcapped, it’s rendered in a serif font.

    • notactuallyaperson
      April 23, 2018, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Wait, you probably meant shenanigans, not icing and dying. poo me.

      • Sheik
        April 23, 2018, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

        I thought “icing and dying” was confirmation of Nick’s total identification with what he had become, a “Biot” (Thank you Arthur C. Clarke).

        • awgiedawgie
          April 23, 2018, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

          He had confirmed that he was fully identified as a helicopter a long time ago.

          He came reasonably close to icing and dying the last time they went up to Alaska, so it’s understandable that he should be concerned about it now, since they know they’ll be heading into a blizzard.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          April 23, 2018, 10:14 pm | # | Reply

          He isn’t a biot. A biot is a fully biological, fully artificial lifeform. He’s a cyborg.

          • everlastingwonder
            April 23, 2018, 11:29 pm | #

            Or, as Nick would put it, a MOTORPARKING cyborg.

  3. Bruce A Munro
    April 23, 2018, 2:41 am | # | Reply

    You know, after a number of panels pointing out the heavy and continuing rain, and now this business about a blizzard [1], my immediate thought was “Mad Scientist weather control.” Am I developing Mad Science paranoia?

    [1] Assuming Sweetheart isn’t making it up.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 23, 2018, 5:04 am | # | Reply

      Well, there was the Weather Device that Dr. Lee gave to Ira for Christmas. Maybe Tigerlily got it up and running.

      But my first thought about the blizzard in Alaska was “It’s Al-friggin’-laska. Of course they’re having a blizzard.” Sweetheart could just be using it as an excuse to go up there.

      • Chrisn
        April 23, 2018, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

        I agree. My worth-very-little bet is that it’s the weather device: a throw-away bit at the time but maybe important now. And it’s all Virginia’s fault.

        • awgiedawgie
          April 23, 2018, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

          There are a few things (like Unity) where you’d like to blame Virginia, but then you wonder how much worse they could have been had she not turned Mad Science to sane. But yeah, the weather device was all her.

      • Alexis West
        April 25, 2018, 3:49 am | # | Reply

        Reminds me of a story I never finished about a mad scientist who tried to hold a city hostage with a weather control machine that could make it rain for three months straight. But he did it in Seattle, and no one noticed.

        • awgiedawgie
          April 25, 2018, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

          Know your audience. 🙂

        • awgiedawgie
          April 25, 2018, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

          Or the other important saying… “Location, location, location!”

  4. Ponyguy
    April 23, 2018, 7:51 am | # | Reply

    Makes me want to look up Osprey cold weather performance. I’ve never heard of a plane being brought down because of ice on the props, and he IS V/STOL, after all.

    • fromthedarkorblackwater
      April 23, 2018, 9:01 am | # | Reply

      Ice on the wings however, has brought down a number of planes.

  5. Frank
    April 23, 2018, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Nick is more worried about icing or de-icing

  6. OneUniverse
    April 23, 2018, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    So would it be bad if Virginia showed off Nick as her boyfriend?

    • Robert Nowall
      April 23, 2018, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      Nick can’t show off Virginia to his parents, unless they’re reanimated zombies. Which is possible.

      • OneUniverse
        April 23, 2018, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

        Would Nick even recognize them, and vice versa? I mean, he’s grown quite a lot since the last time his parents have seen him.

  7. awgiedawgie
    April 23, 2018, 11:42 am | # | Reply

    A real Osprey is designed to fly in ANY weather conditions, and has systems to prevent icing of both the wings and the props. Nick may not have received those systems, since he quit the military before his development was completed.

    • Daibhid C
      April 23, 2018, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      Or he has them and never noticed.

  8. Robert Nowall
    April 23, 2018, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

    When I was a pup, the others often said to me,
    Mate with us, pup, and see how easy it will be.
    I have looked all over, but no other can I find
    Who’s anyway at all like he zombie girl who’s on my mind
    I no longer look around, although the right one’s not a hound…

    I’ve got this girl who’s like a girl who’s kinda freakin’ mad.
    She’s quite a squirrel, and she’s quite a girl who makes me freakin’ glad.
    A multi-fashioned girl who has no clue,
    Unless she eats some brains straight through,
    I’ve got a girl who’s like a girl who’s kinda freakin’ mad.

  9. Shadowmehr
    April 23, 2018, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

    Yes, Sweetheart, go ahead with this. Plans based on envy have a historical precedent for working out exactly as you expect.

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