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2021-03-08

by shaenon on March 8, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. Alphaghoul
    March 8, 2021, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    It’s Pitch Black not code black

    • awgiedawgie
      March 8, 2021, 1:55 am | # | Reply

      You expect a digital construct of a creature that can’t even drink Mountain Dew to know that?

    • OneUniverse
      March 8, 2021, 8:03 am | # | Reply

      Code Black is probably Baron’s personal blend of Pitch Black and sweetened coffee . Coffee ☕, mmm.

      • CBob
        March 8, 2021, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

        Java Monster 300 time yet? Tho if it’s twitchingly oversweet there’s always Bang! Tastewise, a quart or so of sweetened cafe con leche is an artwork of alertness.

      • Gyrre
        March 8, 2021, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

        Sounds worse thanregular coffee (I don’t do bitter).

        • CBob
          March 9, 2021, 10:51 am | # | Reply

          In other news, coffee really doesn’t need to be bitter. Try sweet Vietnamese iced coffee. When it’s well made, it’s VERY rich and potentially lethal to diabetics & anything with a low LD50 sensitivity to caffeine.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    March 8, 2021, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Oh, come on! Everyone knows that Mountain Dew Throwback is the only way to go. 🙂

    • Exasperation
      March 8, 2021, 1:19 am | # | Reply

      Live Wire for me, thanks.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 8, 2021, 1:58 am | # | Reply

      I prefer the Cherry Citrus Game Fuel, but I don’t know if Mt. Dew still makes it. So Live Wire is a close second.

      I gotta say I’m not a big fan of the new “Major Melon”.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 8, 2021, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      “They call it that good ol’ Mountain Dew / And them that refuse it are few / I’ll hush up my mug if you fill up my jug / With some good ol’ Mountain Dew…”

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        March 8, 2021, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

        So the Baron drank Code Red and it swelled up his head?

        • Robert Nowall
          March 8, 2021, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

          He served Baha Blast for a Vegas repast.

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      March 9, 2021, 1:12 am | # | Reply

      They’ve stopped making it because of pandemic related shortages. 🙁 🙁

  3. Theris
    March 8, 2021, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    Hm… *google*
    Oh, so it’s soda. I was expecting alcohol.
    …There’s a Mountain Dew wiki?

    • arqyx
      March 8, 2021, 6:27 am | # | Reply

      https://mountaindew.fandom.com/wiki/Mountain_Dew_Wiki

    • Nerrin
      March 8, 2021, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      Fun detail! “Mountain dew” was originally slang for a certain kind of alcohol, so you’re not 100% wrong! I was given to understand it was more of a moonshine thing, but according to Wikipedia it’s specifically an old nickname for Highland Scotch.

      • jdreyfuss
        March 8, 2021, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

        No, in the case of the soft drink they definitely named it after moonshine. The original advertising for it centered around a drunken hillbilly.

        • David B Huber
          March 8, 2021, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

          “Yahoo! Mountain Dew! It’ll tickle your innards!”

          • Towering Barbarian
            March 9, 2021, 11:46 pm | #

            “It’s go-o-o-od!” 🙂

        • Towering Barbarian
          March 9, 2021, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

          Back in the day it’s big rival was a soda of the same flavor called Kick.

          The jingle for that one was…

          “Give me some Kick, I want some more!
          Give me some Kick, I want some more!
          Give me some Kick, I want some more!
          Kick like a kick like a mule!”. 🙂

          • awgiedawgie
            March 10, 2021, 12:50 am | #

            Kick wasn’t all that much of a rival. Mello Yello was far more popular than Kick, but even Mello Yello can’t compete with Mountain Dew.

            Kick was made by Royal Crown, and frankly, none of their soft drinks were any good. Kick was only on the market for 7 years. Mello Yello, on the other hand, has been around since the 70s, and is still going.

  4. BMunro
    March 8, 2021, 5:14 am | # | Reply

    Mountain Dew fountains? It’s like the Neckbeard Gamer terrestrial paradise: all it needs is a Cheetos tree.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 8, 2021, 8:09 am | # | Reply

      Paradise? Pumping any carbonated beverage through a fountain like that would make it go flat within minutes. No one would want to drink it.

      And your Cheetos would go stale.

      • Sasha Honeypalm
        March 8, 2021, 10:28 am | # | Reply

        Good thing they’re virtual fountains, then.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 8, 2021, 10:54 am | # | Reply

          Touché. With virtual fountains, they could be made to never go flat (or become contaminated with bird poop), so it really could be paradise.

          • W.
            March 8, 2021, 1:25 pm | #

            Big CO2 tank. The Cheetos tree grows sealed bags of Cheetos so no stale Cheetos as if they wouldn’t all be scarfed down anyway!

          • Robert Nowall
            March 8, 2021, 5:15 pm | #

            This virtual world really is the Big Rock Candy Mountain, then.

      • StClair
        March 8, 2021, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

        It’s Mountain Dew, it’s damn near flat to start with.

        (I drank far too much of the stuff in college, I speak from experience.)

        • awgiedawgie
          March 8, 2021, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

          You must not have been drinking the stuff in the glass bottles pre-1990. That was definitely not flat. (Either that or you had a crappy bottling company)

  5. Robert Nowall
    March 8, 2021, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    Anybody *but* Nick gotten into this place since Baron M. created it?

    • adam
      March 8, 2021, 6:01 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, that’s what I am confused about. If this is Baron’s personal paradise, why bother making it accessible for guests?

      • jdreyfuss
        March 8, 2021, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

        It’s possible he programmed it similar to how Professor Madblood programmed Lovelace to take only his orders when she was running his moon base, but did it by visual similarity, except Baron did it dumber and programmed it to treat the occupant that way on the assumption that no one else would ever show up.

        On the other hand, the program changed Nick’s clothes and there’s a security program, so he had to have given at least some thought to the possibility of others finding their way in.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 8, 2021, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

        It’s not accessible to guests. Anyone who could conceivably be considered a “guest” in Aimee’s world – including Aimee herself – is nothing more than a digital construct.

        Nick is not limited in the way everyone else in here is. Nick is a machine. (Yeah, yeah, I know… “That’s what she said.”)

    • Frank
      March 8, 2021, 7:39 am | # | Reply

      It isn’t, that’s just how he wants these clowns to treat him

  6. Mike Conner
    March 8, 2021, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    Orange is clearly the best! And now that I actually have diabetes, I reeeeeeally miss it

    • Xerxes Aragon
      March 8, 2021, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      I’m diabetic too, but I just can’t stand 99.9999% of the diet and zero drinks on the market. Diet Mt. Dew and Crystal Light are pretty much the only things that even remotely palatable. And sometimes I cave in and just live dangerously.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 8, 2021, 10:29 am | # | Reply

        I’d rather drink plain water than Diet Mt. Dew. There’s just something about that “diet” aftertaste that makes my skin crawl.

        • jdreyfuss
          March 8, 2021, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

          There was a vending machine at my college that sold Caffeine Free Diet Mountain Dew. What’s the point?

          • awgiedawgie
            March 8, 2021, 2:21 pm | #

            Exactly. That’s just yellow water with a bad aftertaste.

          • Trivena
            March 10, 2021, 4:18 am | #

            I miss caffeine free. All you can get here now is the caffeinated stuff, and I don’t get on well with caffeine.

    • Jim Baerg
      March 8, 2021, 11:03 am | # | Reply

      FWIW I have diabetes & from checking blood sugar with test strips I find I *can* indulge my sweet tooth without spiking my blood sugar horribly, *IF* I do it immediately before some sort of physical activity.

  7. avatarjk137
    March 8, 2021, 8:31 am | # | Reply

    I’m a Voltage man myself. The sweet, tingly taste of teal.

    • BarGamer
      March 11, 2021, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

      One of the many things I miss about GA that I can’t get at a sane price in CA, Voltage. Anyone else know of a good substitute for Publix’s Mojo Rotisserie Chicken?

  8. awgiedawgie
    March 8, 2021, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

    And once again, any comment I make on older comics is swallowed up in the aether. Anyone else having this problem? And if so, is there a fix for it?

    My comments post just fine on current comics, but on anything more than a year or so old, they just disappear.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 8, 2021, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

      New comments on something a year or so old? Or older comments on older comics? Haven’t tried lately, just done it a couple of times altogether. (I checked one I made, and it’s still there.)

      • awgiedawgie
        March 8, 2021, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

        New comments on older comics. It’s been a problem for me for several months now. And it’s not device-specific. It happens whether I’m using my phone, or my old laptop, or my brand new laptop.

        • David B Huber
          March 8, 2021, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

          awgiedawgie, I just picked a random strip and added a comment from my phone as a test.

          It will be interesting to see if it persists.

          • awgiedawgie
            March 9, 2021, 2:16 am | #

            And I just tried replying to your comment. The page said “submitting comment” like it usually does, but then my comment doesn’t appear like it does on current strips. And if I try to post the same reply again (since the first one didn’t show up), it says “Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!” It’s incredibly frustrating.

  9. Seph
    March 8, 2021, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

    Mountain Dew is not generally available in any of the countries I’ve lived in, so I have no idea what it tastes like. I assume it’s mostly sugar with a side order of caffeine?

    • Ahno neemus.
      March 8, 2021, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

      With an aftertaste of motor oil, yes.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 8, 2021, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve never indulged in motor oil, so I can’t speak to that. But it is quite syrup-y. It’s like carbonated sugar syrup, with a shot of orange juice (yes, it actually has orange juice in it), and a bit more than “a side order” of caffeine

    • Shadowmehr
      March 8, 2021, 9:50 pm | # | Reply

      It is a favorite of gamers, programmers, and other people with reason to stay up all night. Caffeine wouldn’t survive in it.

    • Shufflecat
      March 8, 2021, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

      @Seph: The normal fluorescent yellowish-green variety is muskmelon flavored soda (it doesn’t say that on the can/bottle, but that’s what it is).

      Imagine a non-alcoholic Midori and soda water cocktail, with that sticky corn syrup aftertaste American soft drinks all have.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 8, 2021, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

      Up till the mid-seventies, it wasn’t available in upstate New York, where I grew up—I got my first taste of it on a visit to North Carolina.

  10. shikomekidomi
    March 15, 2021, 6:04 am | # | Reply

    @ shufflecat I’m curious as to how you arrived at that conclusion, given it doesn’t taste like that to me and the label lists orange juice from concentrate as the primary natural flavor.

    • Shufflecat
      March 18, 2021, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

      I’ll admit I’ve never tasted a real muskmelon. It’s not unusual for artificial flavors to be… distinct from the flavors they’re trying to replicate, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the “muskmelon flavored” stuff I’ve had doesn’t actually taste like muskmelon. And if Mountain Dew is made of orange juice, they certainly did a great job at making it taste nothing orange.

      But I challenge anyone to take a sip of Midori and not describe the taste as “Mountain-Dew flavored cough-syrup”.

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