Oh look, they know eachother, good to know that Nick doesn’t have any competition from his counterpart, I mean he’s married but still. How much you wanna bet Unities gonna and each Ginny’s counterpart?
None of her is alive. Her “Brain” is nanites, which are all over. The meat is dead. Hurray! I was pedantic about robotic zombie life functions in a world with literal magic.
Her brain contains some sort of useful function, because it was cloned from a certain person for that purpose. Whether or not it needs to be alive to function is a separate question, however.
It is my impression that the nanites – her “essence”, if you will – keep the brain alive. It is the living brain that allows her to have thoughts more complex than “lightsabers are cool”.
Even the best A-Sig strike teams tend to be weak on situational awareness, since such people tend to realize early on A-Sig is run by murderous loonies, which does not tend to instill the loyalty required for strike teams.
To be honest, if she brought light beer and she remained on beer duty, that’s a little bit on everybody. And if she brought light beer, she remained on beer duty AND you and your buddies didn’t bring a side cooler with your own stash then…softball might not be the sport for you.
…at least she brought beer, and not diet soda. Tip would’ve probably brought some mineral water (or twee mixed drinks with cure little umbrellas or floating flowers in them); Unity would’ve hogged a case of antifreeze or motor oil and Nick…probably warm orange soda.
What’s the next revelation? Dr. Lee regularly cooked popcorn in the break room microwave, then audibly crunched on it at her desk? She always picks the bathroom stall right next to one in use? She asks questions at all-staff meetings?
Having heard this theory, I want this to be true. We’ve already seen that U.N.I.T.Y. can control multiple “host” bodies before, she can certainly control her old body and a new form.
OK… this is up there for one of my fave Skin Horse strips ever. Just the simple perfection of Dr. Lee using Unity’s head as a distance weapon. And panel three in all its head-nomming glory. Sigh… thanks, Shaenon and Jeffrey!
Indeed! And… there should be a new *word* (and it should be a neologism) for this sort of glorious oddity, outstanding weirdness. Something like “gloroddity” or even more specific to the source. Perhaps “Shannonoddity.” To be used in a sentence as: “Did you see that show last night? It was a total Shannonodity!” The floor is open for suggestions!!!
Generally, it’s both, since you don’t usually have an actual enemy during training. The more important question is whether they trained using live ammunition.
Ew. A mouthful of hair.
I’m quite sure Unity’s eaten worse.
But Sweetheart won’t like the hairballs she spits up later.
She seems to handle the ones made of dog hair alright
If we needed any more proof that Dr. Lee is evil…
Light beer. The worst.
Bah! Pale lagers are a perfectly serviceable beverage!
That’s using your… er, her head.
Oh look, they know eachother, good to know that Nick doesn’t have any competition from his counterpart, I mean he’s married but still. How much you wanna bet Unities gonna and each Ginny’s counterpart?
Anyone who though Unity wasn’t still dangerous, think again.
Her body is probably doing damage, too – likely it’s more effective without the dead weight of her head slowing it down.
That doesn’t sound that different from when her head is attached.
Since her brain is the only part of her that’s technically alive, I’d say it’s her body that’s “dead weight”, not her head.
None of her is alive. Her “Brain” is nanites, which are all over. The meat is dead. Hurray! I was pedantic about robotic zombie life functions in a world with literal magic.
Her brain contains some sort of useful function, because it was cloned from a certain person for that purpose. Whether or not it needs to be alive to function is a separate question, however.
It is my impression that the nanites – her “essence”, if you will – keep the brain alive. It is the living brain that allows her to have thoughts more complex than “lightsabers are cool”.
She considers the term “dead weight” offensive
“Differently animated weight”, then?
Even the best A-Sig strike teams tend to be weak on situational awareness, since such people tend to realize early on A-Sig is run by murderous loonies, which does not tend to instill the loyalty required for strike teams.
I am living for how much every one of her ex-coworkers just hates Dr Lee.
To be honest, if she brought light beer and she remained on beer duty, that’s a little bit on everybody. And if she brought light beer, she remained on beer duty AND you and your buddies didn’t bring a side cooler with your own stash then…softball might not be the sport for you.
…at least she brought beer, and not diet soda. Tip would’ve probably brought some mineral water (or twee mixed drinks with cure little umbrellas or floating flowers in them); Unity would’ve hogged a case of antifreeze or motor oil and Nick…probably warm orange soda.
Oh, no. Nick is a gamer. He’d bring Mountain Dew Code Red. Bleargh.
Big stack of Monster or Red Bull
He’d bring Mt. Dew Game Fuel.
What’s the next revelation? Dr. Lee regularly cooked popcorn in the break room microwave, then audibly crunched on it at her desk? She always picks the bathroom stall right next to one in use? She asks questions at all-staff meetings?
Worse than popcorn: tuna sandwiches.
If your coworkers are evil and they all hate you…
Eat the head off, get a staple gun or emergency needle and thread from Tip… and she’s back in the fight- two against one!
Having heard this theory, I want this to be true. We’ve already seen that U.N.I.T.Y. can control multiple “host” bodies before, she can certainly control her old body and a new form.
OK… this is up there for one of my fave Skin Horse strips ever. Just the simple perfection of Dr. Lee using Unity’s head as a distance weapon. And panel three in all its head-nomming glory. Sigh… thanks, Shaenon and Jeffrey!
Indeed! And… there should be a new *word* (and it should be a neologism) for this sort of glorious oddity, outstanding weirdness. Something like “gloroddity” or even more specific to the source. Perhaps “Shannonoddity.” To be used in a sentence as: “Did you see that show last night? It was a total Shannonodity!” The floor is open for suggestions!!!
Shannonesque?
It’s Shaenongloriously bizarre!
Supercalifragilistickexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
nom-nom-nom-CRUNCH!-schlorp-Ahhhhh…
“Atrocious is in the ear of the victim.”
I’ve got to hand it to Dr. Lee. She found a way to gameify brain-schlorping!
The word sounds atrocious, not the munching.
“If you say it loud enough, you’ll always sound precocious!”
“SuperShaenonSchlorpaliciousAnasigmadocious!”
Oh, very nicely done.
Trained WITH or trained ON? There is a difference after all..
Generally, it’s both, since you don’t usually have an actual enemy during training. The more important question is whether they trained using live ammunition.
I read “trained on” in the sense of “trained as members of” rather than “trained by using as target practice”.
With Anasigma, I would assume the latter.
Those are some much improved firearms.
Little Semi-auto pistol, tactical shotgun, and bullpup SMG are all recognizable.
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Lunch in the middle of a firefight
(Apologies to Iggy Pop)