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2013-03-08

by shaenon on March 8, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Tuiteyfruity
    March 8, 2013, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    revive the old war?

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      March 13, 2013, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

      That would be consistent with a parsing of “anasigma” as “back to the end” (either the war or the period of human supremacy, perhaps), assuming “anasigma” actually can be parsed.

      Without digging too far into subtexts that ought to be left to the reader, I will put on my wizard hat and hazard that there is a tension in the name “Project Skin Horse” whose resolution — how, I have no idea — will represent the resolution of the core arc of the entire strip.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        April 10, 2013, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        Ha! I laugh at the buffoon who evidently forgot what the last letter of the Greek alphabet is (and interpreting sigma as the sum or average would be a stretch).

  2. Manifesta
    March 8, 2013, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    I should have thought of this a couple days ago, but I’m not as smart as Unity.
    tune: “Blue Christmas,” Billy Hayes & Jay W. Johnson, 1948, famousized by Elvis Presley

    I had a Brain Christmas for dinner
    And all those brains make me a winner
    Sure, the Mad Scis are smart, but I’m Genius Girl
    I’m state of the art, at least until I hurl

    I had a Brain Christmas. Delicious!
    And now I grok Violet the Vicious
    I’m quite certain I know
    That she goes com-man-do
    ‘Cause I had a Brain, Brain, Brain Christmas

    • Eddurd
      March 8, 2013, 5:59 am | # | Reply

      Well done. Thankyuh, thankyuhverimuch.

  3. Tetra Valent
    March 8, 2013, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    SPOP? SAPOP? No wonder Violet wanted GODOT. A-Sig needs better acronyms.

    C’mon, Sweetheart, no company ever tells its employees what the real mission statement is. Then they’d realize just how much they’re being used.

    • Saberbeam
      March 8, 2013, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

      Unless of course they told their employees the mission statement, knowing that they wouldn’t actually believe it.

  4. John Campbell
    March 8, 2013, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    “Synergize and propagate opportunity paradigms”? I knew A-Sig was evil, but I hadn’t realized how evil.

    (Mozilla’s spellchecker doesn’t recognize “synergize” as a word.)

    • Jacob Haller
      March 8, 2013, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      I was going to say, isn’t that every company’s mission statement? Then I thought about Google’s mission statement. Then I decided I was right the first time.

  5. Anderson
    March 8, 2013, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    ……They use the word “synergise”……

    …..”Synergise”…

    Wait, why is THIS the thing that makes me actually *hate* A-sig, as opposed to the whole murder, torture and bad facial hair policy things?

    • Max
      March 8, 2013, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry, we all have a tiny grammar nazi in us, just waiting to be unleashed. Luckily the audience of Skin Horse could care less about such things – we enjoy the comic and the company irregardless…

      • Stickmaker
        March 8, 2013, 11:47 am | # | Reply

        Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. And bravo.

  6. Eddurd
    March 8, 2013, 6:39 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Behind Blue Eyes”, The Who)

    No one knows what do
    At Anasigma …
    We’re an enigma …
    We “synergize”!

    They don’t want us to know,
    Obfuscating …
    Extirpating
    Anyone who tries!

     They say, “Do-o-o-o
     Just what you should, guys!
     Propagate those paradigms!”
     They say, “Trust us,
     We’re the good guys!”
     But with Violet,
     It’s hard sometimes!

    I don’t know what we do
    At my work, see?
    It’s all murky …
    We “synergize”?

  7. Robert The Addled
    March 8, 2013, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    that motto pretty much means to “work together to develop and spread exploitative ideas”. Could be anything at all. Politics, weaponry, socio/political ideas, commercial ideas.

    That would explain why clearance request require poetry, languages, and so forth.

    • Andy4Hire
      March 8, 2013, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      Wait, is “opportunity paradigms” the direct object just of “propagate,” like you seem to be assuming here, or of both “propagate” and “synergize”? I mean, your interpretation makes perfect sense, but I can kind of see it going the other way, too, like, “Make exploitative ideas work together, and develop and spread them.”

      But then, fluidity of meaning is kind of the point of mission statements to begin with, so there you go.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 8, 2013, 6:41 pm | # | Reply

      Of course, if they spread explotiative ideas, having something that can change the text of anything would help them become much more efficient at it.

      Now that I write that down, I’m not sure if I should be more concerned or less about that.

  8. s854
    March 13, 2013, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    They’re contractors, so of course the motto is vague (although I’m slightly surprised that it doesn’t mention customers once). The real question is what are they being paid to do right now. And that’s commercially sensitive.

  9. Beachfox
    January 26, 2018, 6:56 pm | # | Reply

    “Synergize and propagate opportunity paradigms”: Create world-views that would let us win The New War, and ensure their spread, allowing us victory before the first strike!

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