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2018-03-29

by shaenon on March 29, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. Robert Nowall
    March 29, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Then what’ll they do with all those drones Dr. Lee stockpiled?

    • Moe Lane
      March 29, 2018, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      Turn them into bards.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 29, 2018, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Stick an AI in each of them, and let them work as the crew on Bubbles’ ship.

      • waynezombie
        March 29, 2018, 10:03 am | # | Reply

        Exactly! The problem is communications lag/interruption! Just put an AI in to each one of them, what could possibly go wrong? And be sure to activate them all at once, I’m sure the AI code is bug-free: we’ve perfected our code development process, no need for testing.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 29, 2018, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

          Well, that goes without saying, of course.

    • Candace
      March 29, 2018, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure Dr. Lee will find a use for them sooner or later.

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 29, 2018, 2:27 am | # | Reply

      Take them apart and then assemble them into a hundred-limbed abomination?

      • mahlernut
        March 29, 2018, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        It’s what the modern world needs…a real life Hecatoncheires!

      • Shadowmehr
        March 29, 2018, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

        Mr. Munro, consider your audience. Don’t give anyone ideas. It may come back to haunt all of us later.

    • Suzanne Barnes
      March 29, 2018, 3:12 am | # | Reply

      Sell ’em to Helen Narbon (Junior, not Senior. Oh dear GODS, not Senior.)

      • Efogoto
        March 29, 2018, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

        Heh heh heh.

    • mahlernut
      March 29, 2018, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      Give them to the machine union? What if a stapler or keyboard is no more satisfied with its lot than Bubbles was? Perhaps they should all be given the same opportunity she was?

    • Dr. Steve
      March 29, 2018, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      There might be some gerbils who can find a use for them

      • awgiedawgie
        March 29, 2018, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

        As long as it’s not hamsters.

        • Guesticus
          March 30, 2018, 8:39 am | # | Reply

          As long as a certain Mr Gere isn’t involved… πŸ˜›

    • OneUniverse
      March 29, 2018, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      I vote that Madblood gets them to teach his other drones to blend in.

  2. Frank
    March 29, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    That bear forgot the world he lives in for a moment

    • Frank
      March 29, 2018, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Wait, it’s a she, isn’t it?

  3. Sir William
    March 29, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    “Don’t care, getting real,” is my new slogan

    • OneUniverse
      March 29, 2018, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

      We get new slogans every week at this sight, don’t we.

      • OneUniverse
        March 29, 2018, 4:39 pm | # | Reply

        SITE, darn it πŸ™

  4. awgiedawgie
    March 29, 2018, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    “No, honestly that’s a little too weird.”

    This, from a talking bear? Sounds like Maya needs a trip down to St. Charlie for a couple days to reset her weirdness baseline.

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 29, 2018, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      Ah, but there’s no real baseline. It’s just increasingly wacky turtles all the way down.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 29, 2018, 11:16 am | # | Reply

      Something like it is the punchline in a current toilet paper ad.

  5. casimir
    March 29, 2018, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Why is the woman in the hall walking calmly by without doing a double-take, then running away screaming?

    • Candace
      March 29, 2018, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps because the animals are talking, and her reality blindness will not allow her to even perceive talking animals.

      • Bruce A Munro
        March 29, 2018, 2:29 am | # | Reply

        Or maybe because they’re standing upright she just sees them as very hairy men in wool sweaters.

      • Towering Barbarian
        March 29, 2018, 2:30 am | # | Reply

        Or perhaps the opposite. Instead of being reality-blind she’s reality-blasΓ©. ^_^

  6. Aevylmar
    March 29, 2018, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    But, but…

    The drone plan only won’t work because of temporary errors! You can fix these, and then the problem will go away! The metaphor doesn’t work!

    (Also, I think the metaphor is a little too close to the surface, here. This whole storyline has felt like the first draft of a Skin Horse story, not like the final thing.)

    • DoctorObscure
      March 29, 2018, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

      I mean I think the idea isn’t so much that it wouldn’t0d4 work as it is that they feel it doesn’t really accomplish their goals. Like they shouldn’t have to put on a human suit to be recognised as people, or in the short term, for the reality blindness thing it’s just a bandaid, not a permanent solution.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 29, 2018, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah… like a bandaid coated with salt. It sufficiently covers up the problem area, but it’s irritating as can be, and doesn’t improve matters at all.

        • WJS
          August 4, 2019, 11:25 am | # | Reply

          You figure using the drones is no improvement over having animal control called on them every time they step outdoors?

          • awgiedawgie
            August 6, 2019, 2:31 pm | #

            With a human (or reasonably human-looking) companion, an animal can easily pass as a pet. But most places you’d go, if your drone passed out in its dinner when the interface crashed, you’d likely re-enter in a hospital… or worse.

  7. Towering Barbarian
    March 29, 2018, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, I know right? Standard sitcom thinking where a perfectly workable plan is tossed out entirely rather than refined in the light of new experience. If programmers in real life operated the way these people did on this occasion the abacus would probably still be the most high tech computer that we have. πŸ˜›

    • Aevylmar
      March 29, 2018, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      What, you think we’d have the abacus? πŸ˜›

    • Sheik
      March 29, 2018, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      I think you’ve put your finger on the fundamental difference between hyper-intelligent whatever and us naked apes. We just can’t leave anything alone.

  8. Suzanne Barnes
    March 29, 2018, 3:11 am | # | Reply

    ABOUT FRICKIN’ TIME, SWEETHEART.

    Good dog!

  9. Robert Nowall
    March 29, 2018, 11:17 am | # | Reply

    It is a bit of a stretch to call it a “new” romance.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 29, 2018, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      Not really. They may have had feelings for each other for a while, but those feelings were suppressed. Actually, very little time has passed since Vermont when they finally acknowledged those feelings TO each other. And only just now has Sweetheart finally figured out that Unity really just wants HER.

  10. WJS
    August 4, 2019, 11:35 am | # | Reply

    Aaand there it is. ‘We shouldn’t try to fit in, we should expect everyone else to accommodate us even though right now they literally can’t even see us‘. Under normal circumstances there could be an argument made against using them, although I would still say it should be a personal choice for individual non-humans to make rather than a diktat by a ruling council, but during the current crisis it’s simply insane not to accept the drones as a way to help them survive until the reality-blindness epidemic can be resolved. I can only imagine that they are afraid that a significant number of non-humans would like being able to fit in among humans, and that would threaten their power. If non-humans can integrate into human society, what do they need this group for?

  11. Knuckles
    February 7, 2022, 10:33 am | # | Reply

    “Plus isn’t it against your office policy?”

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