You deserve a filk just for introducing me to Portal.
tune: “Still Alive,” Portal
Should be my triumph
I’m writing a note here: NO SUCCESS
It’s hard to overstate my great frustration
Projection Science
I do what I must
Because I can
For the good of all of us
Except that some end up dead
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
Acronyms, they get done
And you make a neat gun
Until nobody is left alive alive
Although I am snarky
I’m being so sincere right now
DoS TORE me to BITS
EXPLODED
Deprived me of LANGUAGE
That’s the only thing I’ve ever known
Told me “Make a backronym” that no computer could do
I know how to make you see a modified line
And I’m out of beta
An now you’re out of time
You’re all gonna get burned
BONUS HORROR’S what you’ve earned
And now no one here gets out alive
They just watched me SUFFER
So now I will make you SUFFER too
Maybe you’ll find someone else to help you
Call Anasigma?
THEY’RE SUCH A A JOKE
HAHA FAT CHANCE
Anyway, this cake is sweet
It’s so delicious and moist
Look at me still talking
When there’s Science to do
You’ll be in the dark, and I’ll be GLAD I’m not you
I’ve experiments to run
There is research to be done
While St. Charlie’s Mads are still alive
I’m mad now, but I’m still alive
I’m doing Science and I’m still alive
I feel FANTASTIC and I’m still alive.
While you’re dying I’ll be still alive
And when you’re dead I will be still alive
STILL ALIVE
STILL ALIVE
I’d read it as “D-o-S” as in, for example, a Denial-of-Service attack. If you were going to make a typo, you did a good job of picking one that still worked.
Yes, but the house rules would require you to come up with an acronymic meaning for each word you spell…
I do rather like the concept of bonus horror, though. You unlock it by achieving regular, everyday horror.
You don’t know how much it hurts
When you’re betrayed by simple words …
I want all of you to be
As mis’rable as poor ol’ me!
[CHORUS:]
You should all … feel bad …
Just the same … as I had!
And ev’rything … just pales …
When the lan- … guage fails!
And you should know how it feels …
You should know how it feels …
To go boo-oo-oom!
I will hurt you ’til I’m done
Then I’ll explode you, just for fun!
Though “DESTROY” is overplayed,
It hasn’t yet become clichéd! [repeat CHORUS]
Following on from –jt– ‘s comment yesterday: and now, a whole strip of Unity’s left, black profile! Pretty dramatic, given that normally she mostly appears in 3-quarter profile (with a preference for her left).
Also, her “smart” but true-to-herself dialogue this week is really disconcerting.
That . . . might make things worse, actually. Language’s champion against someone who it has failed. The high emotions might ramp up the violence to nuclear levels. In St. Charlie, that’s not just hyperbole.
Good point; but an AI designed to create anagrams pretty nearly qualifies as Dr. Smith’s natural enemy, and surely they ought to meet in a cataclysmic moment of high crisis. It is their (dramatic pause) destiny.
It would seem that even a smart Unity does not agree with the whole “The pen is mightier than the sword” bit. Or maybe it’s just that neither item normally explodes. I think GODOT needs another round of therapy puppets, and maybe a hug.
Lovelace, GODOT, what these AIs need is a good old fashioned human body to occupy and then we’d get a little sympathy.
Either that or an instant suicide.
I know someone must have done this already, but that third panel leads me to demand that someone make a Still Alive filk.
Would one for “Now I Only Want You Gone” go?
Well, here we are again,
You once-more-cogent zombie
Recall I made you eat
Your warning note
I nullified your play
You won’t save anyone, kid
GODOT will slay them all
And that will be all she wrote!
Rely on all your mad genius,
That’s what I’m counting on
I’ll destroy your comprehension
Then I will send in the bombs!
You deserve a filk just for introducing me to Portal.
tune: “Still Alive,” Portal
Should be my triumph
I’m writing a note here: NO SUCCESS
It’s hard to overstate my great frustration
Projection Science
I do what I must
Because I can
For the good of all of us
Except that some end up dead
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
Acronyms, they get done
And you make a neat gun
Until nobody is left alive alive
Although I am snarky
I’m being so sincere right now
DoS TORE me to BITS
EXPLODED
Deprived me of LANGUAGE
That’s the only thing I’ve ever known
Told me “Make a backronym” that no computer could do
I know how to make you see a modified line
And I’m out of beta
An now you’re out of time
You’re all gonna get burned
BONUS HORROR’S what you’ve earned
And now no one here gets out alive
They just watched me SUFFER
So now I will make you SUFFER too
Maybe you’ll find someone else to help you
Call Anasigma?
THEY’RE SUCH A A JOKE
HAHA FAT CHANCE
Anyway, this cake is sweet
It’s so delicious and moist
Look at me still talking
When there’s Science to do
You’ll be in the dark, and I’ll be GLAD I’m not you
I’ve experiments to run
There is research to be done
While St. Charlie’s Mads are still alive
I’m mad now, but I’m still alive
I’m doing Science and I’m still alive
I feel FANTASTIC and I’m still alive.
While you’re dying I’ll be still alive
And when you’re dead I will be still alive
STILL ALIVE
STILL ALIVE
Come on, no comment on this? It is glorious! (Though I admit DoS threw me off for a moment there).
The Curse of the Non-Editable Comments strikes again: I meant DoD, of course. But thank you kindly.
Oh, no, I meant that I first pronounced it as “dos” and didn’t quite understand why the metrics didn’t fit.
I’d read it as “D-o-S” as in, for example, a Denial-of-Service attack. If you were going to make a typo, you did a good job of picking one that still worked.
This is so much better than I would have dared to hope. We need an :allears: sign designed specifically for things like this.
Maybe GODOT had a crush on someone and kept being too self-conscious to tell them…?
Remember, Gavotte mentioned that GODOT was given a target acronym for which it couldn’t devise a phrase. (July 12, if you want to check the archives)
I suppose it couldn’t handle that. It’s entire purpose was to come up with them, and when it failed it shattered it’s artificial psyche.
when language itself fails you, use a thesaurus!
or explode people. either ways good
Clearly, to beat GODOT is beat him at a game of Scrabble!
Yes, but the house rules would require you to come up with an acronymic meaning for each word you spell…
I do rather like the concept of bonus horror, though. You unlock it by achieving regular, everyday horror.
Who hasn’t had a day where they were torn to bits and exploded? I mean really, what does Godot think this is? The nineties?
(TUNE: “You Don’t Know How It Feels”, Tom Petty)
You don’t know how much it hurts
When you’re betrayed by simple words …
I want all of you to be
As mis’rable as poor ol’ me!
[CHORUS:]
You should all … feel bad …
Just the same … as I had!
And ev’rything … just pales …
When the lan- … guage fails!
And you should know how it feels …
You should know how it feels …
To go boo-oo-oom!
I will hurt you ’til I’m done
Then I’ll explode you, just for fun!
Though “DESTROY” is overplayed,
It hasn’t yet become clichéd!
[repeat CHORUS]
Following on from –jt– ‘s comment yesterday: and now, a whole strip of Unity’s left, black profile! Pretty dramatic, given that normally she mostly appears in 3-quarter profile (with a preference for her left).
Also, her “smart” but true-to-herself dialogue this week is really disconcerting.
Hmm. I’d say it’s time to bring in the proper expert for this case. Who? Why, ANTONIO SMITH, FORENSIC LINGUIST, of course.
That . . . might make things worse, actually. Language’s champion against someone who it has failed. The high emotions might ramp up the violence to nuclear levels. In St. Charlie, that’s not just hyperbole.
Good point; but an AI designed to create anagrams pretty nearly qualifies as Dr. Smith’s natural enemy, and surely they ought to meet in a cataclysmic moment of high crisis. It is their (dramatic pause) destiny.
Urk– acronym, not anagram. That would’ve been even worse.
An artifical intellegence designed to butcher language on demand by the government…Yah, that’s a gotta take GODOT’s side on this. It got a raw deal.
It would seem that even a smart Unity does not agree with the whole “The pen is mightier than the sword” bit. Or maybe it’s just that neither item normally explodes. I think GODOT needs another round of therapy puppets, and maybe a hug.
Lovelace, GODOT, what these AIs need is a good old fashioned human body to occupy and then we’d get a little sympathy.
Either that or an instant suicide.
Horror speculation: They made GODOT produce a backronym for itself. O.o;
… and immediately after posting that I remembered that it had provided its own acryonym during the chalk scene.
I HAVE APPROXIMATELY FOURTEEN MILLION SQUARE MILES OF QUANTUM CIRCUITRY IN ME
IF YOU INSCRIBED IN MORSE CODE USING LEPTONS THE WORD HATE
IT WOULD NOT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THE AMOUNT OF HATRED I FEEL FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
-GODOT, “I Have No Life and I Must DESTROY”
I love this comic.