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2019-02-28
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2019-02-28

by shaenon on February 28, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Sora Hjort (@SoraHjort)
    February 28, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Time to bring out Hitty, that Humidifier is asking for it anyway.

    • Bruceski
      February 28, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Hitty? You’re thinking small. The building.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        February 28, 2019, 1:58 am | # | Reply

        What do the rules say about tag‐teams?

      • Frank
        February 28, 2019, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

        Doesn’t hitty control the building?

        • Gyrre
          February 28, 2019, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

          Yes.

  2. OneUniverse
    February 28, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    It is nice to feel like family.

  3. awgiedawgie
    February 28, 2019, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    So, Nick… You’re saying you couldn’t hack your way into the VR?

    I’m disappointed.

    • ShenHibiki
      February 28, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      He’s working against himself, with less resources than the one defending the place.
      Aimee is -inside- the tech, creating the walls he needs to bypass meat-style.
      He’s smart enough to know when he has himself in a disadvantage~

      • Sora Hjort (@SoraHjort)
        February 28, 2019, 8:23 am | # | Reply

        Right. Before he could go at grey matter speeds. But now he has to deal witha fleshy analog interface, thus to be referred as: meat speed.

        • thevinylreviewer
          February 28, 2019, 10:48 am | # | Reply

          Not to mention that Aimee can probably overclock the host computer’s processors and think faster than brain speed. Now, she won’t think *better* than him, but with more time to plan each move she might as well be smarter than him by a good margin.

          I could force a draw if I had two minutes for each move and Kasparov had only one. And I’m not a great chess player!

          • PotatoEngineer
            February 28, 2019, 11:12 am | #

            I’m pretty sure that I could force a draw against Kasparov if I had two minutes for each move and he had one second. And he wasn’t allowed to think during my moves.

            I am a terrible chess player. (But I’m decent at Knightmare Chess.)

    • K. Iceclaw
      February 28, 2019, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      He’d need a line in with enough bandwidth to get in. Those are being competed for atm, so…

  4. rinku
    February 28, 2019, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    While I miss Nick in his proper body, I’m enjoying the interactions between these two. Nick is pretty much the only grounded one on Sweetheart’s team, and now he has a meat body we get these nice moments.

    • Barbara K
      February 28, 2019, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Poor Nick. Grounded in so many ways. Practical, unable to fly, and wired by a 3-prong plug.

      • Dr. Steve
        February 28, 2019, 10:01 am | # | Reply

        Double pun score!

  5. Robert Nowall
    February 28, 2019, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    If they hadn’t gone rogue, they could have showed their badges and shut it down. Maybe they still could show them and fake it.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 28, 2019, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      You have a point. Just the sight of a badge may be enough to send many of the contestants running, considering the questionable legality of the activities. Perhaps the threat of losing their union privileges would help, too.

  6. WuseMajor
    February 28, 2019, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    Given that she works in civil service, I’d think Sweetheart would be well aquatinted with Catch 22 requirements and nonsensical circular justifications.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 28, 2019, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

      She is. Which why now that’s she’s a free agent, she considering chucking the whole thing. Before, it was only a wished-for option. Now, it could be reality!!

      Okay, obviously she’d never do it, but the fantasy would help give her the much needed lift to finish the job.

  7. Sasha Honeypalm
    February 28, 2019, 10:32 am | # | Reply

    The only way to protest a death match by winning a death match… is to challenge the person running the death matches.

    • Barbara K
      February 28, 2019, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

      There’s always Capt. James Kirk’s solution to the “no-win” Kobayashi Maru Problem. Alter the parameters of the conflict via hacking. (Otherwise known as “cheating”.) Let Tip distract Aimee. Considering how easily a female presence can upset Nick, one smile from Tip should blow a resister somewhere.

  8. Paul the Grey
    February 28, 2019, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

    It’s an interesting point, that Nick thinks of the robots as his people. Regardless of his current chassis, he’s still a product of mad science and a card carrying member of the machine union. He thinks of himself as a robot. And why wouldn’t he? He’s an orphan and recluse who had almost nothing to gain or lose in his human life, but fell into something that felt meaningful and comfortable. Now Nick has a commuity of his own. Sweetheart has the rest of Doctor Bramm’s pack, and the nonhuman rights movement. Unity has the zombie rights movement and the necropolis. And now Nick has Aimee, Baron, and the robots.

  9. Theris
    February 28, 2019, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    “We could go find less ridiculous clients”.
    Sweetheart, didn’t those many, many years at work teach you there is no such thing as a sane client? Anyone who could possibly be “normal” is probably reality blind by now.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 28, 2019, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

      She didn’t say “we could go find sane clients” or “normal clients.” She said “less ridiculous clients.” That implies that they’ll still be ridiculous.

  10. Andy4Hire
    February 28, 2019, 7:25 pm | # | Reply

    Nick’s line in the fourth panel is pure poetry. Which is just as well, because I can foresee myself having a lot of occasions to recite it.

    • The J is Silent
      February 28, 2019, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

      It is a very, very, Jewish sentiment.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 28, 2019, 11:06 pm | # | Reply

        It’s a very, very human sentiment (and in Skin Horse, it extends even to non-humans). Jews don’t have a trademark on loyalty and solidarity… or stupidity.

        • Knuckles
          February 9, 2022, 11:24 am | # | Reply

          Wouldn’t be the first time a jew looked down upon their people acting incredibly stupid and proceeded to lay down some law.

          Nick sadly is not equipped with any stone tablets in this case.

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