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2012-09-04

by shaenon on September 4, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Terry Smith
    September 4, 2012, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    *Almost*……

  2. War
    September 4, 2012, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    I love Unity.

  3. Eddurd
    September 4, 2012, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter”, Fred E. Ahlert & Joe Young)

    I’m gonna grab a pen and write myself a memo,
    And tell myself it came from me!
    I’m gonna let my colleagues know
    That’s I’ve been talking with GODOT …
    I’m gonna tell myself, “Don’t eat this!”
    Don’t make me repeat this!

    I will describe in detail how I got a demo
    To see the things it wants me to see …
    I’m gonna grab a pen and write myself a memo,
    And tell myself it came from me!

  4. drbrain
    September 4, 2012, 6:55 am | # | Reply

    i hadn’t realized before that she had shame 🙁

    • Sean K.
      September 4, 2012, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      I think she only has it when she’s in this heightened state of awareness.

      Hmm. For UNITY, brains seem to be the fruit of knowledge (which makes sense, really…)

  5. E.T. The Eccentric Type
    September 4, 2012, 7:31 am | # | Reply

    Not to nitpick, but isn’t there an “a” in “colleagues”?

    • Efogoto
      September 4, 2012, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

      Not to confirm that, but yes it is.

  6. Kirt Dankmyer
    September 4, 2012, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    I really hope that they can resolve this without destroy GODOT. She sounds like she’d be fun to have around once the rampaging stops.

  7. Chappy123
    September 4, 2012, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    Has anyone understood a SINGLE WORD Godot has said? (Besides “Go down”) 😮 I completely can”t understand him/her/it.

    • woozy
      September 4, 2012, 10:07 am | # | Reply

      I understood *every* word GODOT has said. It’s the phrases and sentences I’m having trouble with.

      • Hugin
        September 4, 2012, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

        They’re acronyms, but many are unworkable. The last panel is “ADD” which describes UNITY somewhat, but the others? I’m thinking “What The Pluck”(stupid wordfilter) and…no clue, sorry.

        • woozy
          September 4, 2012, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

          My very first thought was that they were acronyms but none of them worked. My second thought was they were word games. (And I thought I was clever from figuring out “I come between Man and the Deed of his hand” == “maniac” untill it was pointed out it was poetry.) Now I figure he is simply paraphrasing literature. “I can see you dog” was the shining and the rest… well who knows.

          • Dewy
            September 4, 2012, 6:43 pm | #

            You’d almost think the writer had a degree in literature. Or something.

            My, GOD. I just found out I don’t know how to spell literature. I’m illiterate spelling literature!! Or I could just be slightly drunk.

          • Eraser820
            May 16, 2015, 4:40 pm | #

            I’m pretty sure everyone is overthinking things here. GODOT is speaking in seeming riddle but it’s more a they like to speak in borrowed words thing. Thus you don’t need to go any deeper than a first level interpretation such as the deal with “I come between man and the deed of his hand” is simply an affirmation that UNITY is correct in how the message is being presented. Pretty easy to arrive at, coulda borrowed a line from Kyrie Eliseon by Mr Mister and said “Somewhere between the soul and soft machine Is where I find myself again” Either way the basic idea is GODOT is admitting to interfacing with them at a level below the conscious processes but more refined than manipulating sensory impulse or receptors. Therefore it sits right between the mind and the body.

  8. FlyingFish
    September 4, 2012, 10:25 am | # | Reply

    How very Memento.

  9. Klyfix
    September 4, 2012, 11:02 am | # | Reply

    So GODOT is nuts and wants to kill everybody?

    • Klyfix
      September 4, 2012, 11:03 am | # | Reply

      Hmm, or should I say is waiting to kill everybody.

  10. Shadowmehr
    September 4, 2012, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

    So G.O.D.O.T. is making highly literate grafitti all over the place, and has brought both Skin Horse and Anasigma there. Why do I get the feeling that his/her/its plan is to simply make creepy quotes around both teams until they wreck the place trying to stop him/her/it. (Clever, if true.)

    • Miserichord
      September 4, 2012, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

      If what I suspect is true, G.O.D.O.T. isn’t leaving any graffiti.
      There was no writing on the Moon, otherwise thousands of sightings would have occurred, prompting world wide panic.

      Instead, these writing are either directed hallucinations, are being projected directly to the retinas, or possible to the visual cortex.

      • woozy
        September 4, 2012, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

        Isn’t that what Unity deduced?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        January 23, 2014, 5:20 am | # | Reply

        Well, it was described as “controlled parodeilia”, so it wouldn’t actually be hallucinations or projected images at all, but rather causing us to perceive things as looking like other things, even though they don’t really.

        Parodeilia is just when your pattern-recognition acts up and makes you see resemblances between things that aren’t actually connected and frequently don’t really look all that much like each other, like a burnt patch on a piece of toast that looks like the face of Christ, or a shadow in a picture taken by the Mars Rover that looks kinda like the famous picture of Bigfoot, or even just the fact that walnuts look kinda like brains. A smiley face sign doesn’t actually look anything like a human face, but we recognize it as one anyway.

  11. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    January 23, 2014, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    That oughta be a on a t-shirt too

  12. kicking_k
    February 3, 2014, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve just been on a huge archives binge and have been thinking all through that Unity is just like a preschooler! (I have two children under three.)
    Know thyself, Unity.

  13. Knuckles
    January 20, 2022, 11:45 am | # | Reply

    It really says something when you’re arguably more adorable than the puppy dog in your team.

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