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2019-05-17

by shaenon on May 17, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Alphaghoul
    May 17, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Oh yeah, why cant they just have a mad scientist invent a way to get the clockwork guys into the digital vr?

    • jwghaller
      May 17, 2019, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      I feel that the word ‘just’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that question.

      • felbloodreaper
        May 17, 2019, 10:26 am | # | Reply

        Madness covers a multitude of handwaves in this universe.

      • Chameon
        May 17, 2019, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

        jwghaller has a point.

        You’re mixing up Mad Science and sane science here. There needs to be a reasonable end result that has the universe being taken over by the cicada-people of benthlon 4 for that to make sense as an endresult of Mad Science.

        An adapter is something I could reasonably see the ‘not-Mad’ Virginia doing, but someone would need to mention it to her. She’s sane in that she can follow directions.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 17, 2019, 9:03 pm | # | Reply

      That’s kind of like asking the sun to just be a night light.

  2. Robert Nowall
    May 17, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if they read the books or just saw the movies.

    • Barbara K
      May 17, 2019, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      …probably played all related video games, then wrote a few of their own, with dialogue in Sindarin.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 17, 2019, 1:08 am | # | Reply

        Nick was always looking for new languages to cuss in.

      • Dr. Steve
        May 17, 2019, 9:09 am | # | Reply

        too bad programming languages have names like “cobol” instead of Sindarian

        • W.
          May 17, 2019, 9:23 am | # | Reply

          Well, there’s always Python and technically Aimee’s castle [i]is[/i] a model.

        • awgiedawgie
          May 17, 2019, 9:44 am | # | Reply

          There’s also Euphoria. Which is a pretty fitting name for a virtual paradise.

        • cloudster
          May 17, 2019, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

          Nah, if he wants a language to cuss in – or at – those would be APL or Perl. Or Lisp.

          • Carl Fishman
            May 17, 2019, 3:02 pm | #

            My sister, a long-time programmer for an insurance company, used to cuss at COBOL a lot.

          • il biggo
            May 17, 2019, 7:10 pm | #

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_library)
            “Using curses, programmers are able to write text-based applications without writing directly for any specific terminal type.”

        • Robert Nowall
          May 17, 2019, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

          That’s the problem with these made-up languages—not *enough* swear words.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 17, 2019, 8:30 pm | # | Reply

      Read the books, saw all the movies several times over, set up virtual recreations so they could roleplay as Frodo, etc., etc.

  3. casimir
    May 17, 2019, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    This is so good I can hardly stand it!
    Makes me wish that I could have a walking talking feminine me.

    • Mental Mouse
      May 17, 2019, 7:20 am | # | Reply

      “Oh give me a clone, of my own flesh and bone, with the Y chromosome changed to an X”….

  4. Historian
    May 17, 2019, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    So, inquiring minds want to know…
    Is making out with your feminine self in VR masturbation or incest? Discuss…

    • Jacob Melino
      May 17, 2019, 4:08 am | # | Reply

      The term is “selfcest”.

      • Efogoto
        May 17, 2019, 5:19 am | # | Reply

        Not intermonosexual?

      • Shay Guy
        May 17, 2019, 5:32 pm | # | Reply

        Correction: “incesturbation”.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 17, 2019, 8:27 am | # | Reply

      Does his feminine self have a crush on Dr. Lee too?

      • Towering Barbarian
        May 17, 2019, 8:41 am | # | Reply

        Prof. Madblood (Or possibly Tip) would be more her type. ^_^

        • Barbara K
          May 17, 2019, 10:31 am | # | Reply

          Aimee/Tip ship?
          Tip’s ability to mirror people’s interests (geeky or otherwise) should be able to attract even her. His ability to lust-teleport anywhere could get him into her virtual world, if the interest was there. Plus, Tip’s already causing a strong emotional response in Nick, who tends to blush a lot when he’s around. (O.K., yeah, Nick’s ALWAYS blushing.) Why is Nick always saying how much Tip disgusts him? (“I think the lady doth protest too much.”)
          All she’d need to do would be to hack into the code for the “purity test” (like James Kirk’s Kobayashi-Maru solution).
          Would Tip want her? Who doesn’t he want? (Unless Tigerlily’s mojo’s keeping him very busy…)

          • awgiedawgie
            May 17, 2019, 10:57 am | #

            But, Tip’s promiscuity took a sharp downward trend after he fell for Tigerlily. And now that he’s finally gotten together with her, he may not want anyone else.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 17, 2019, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      Point of note: It’s not his feminine self. It’s a female copy – a distinct individual. So it’s just like a twin sister. So I believe the term would be “twincest”.

      But we are speculating idly, since there’s no reason to assume they want to make out. He’s so stuck on Dr. Lee that even his digital duplicate wasn’t interested in Lovelace.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 17, 2019, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

        “Brother and sister” seems the simplest way of describing the relationship between Nick and Aimee. I think we tried out “father and daughter” briefly, but it doesn’t fit.

    • Forrest M Davis
      May 17, 2019, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      See previous discussion of clone-cest between Lazarus Long, Lorelie Lee, and Lapis Lazuli in the great Robert Heinlein’s “Time Enough for Love”. For those who have not already had the pleasure, DEFINITELY read this book (and as many other Heinlein works as you can get your hands on).

      • Robert Nowall
        May 17, 2019, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

        Read it when it came out…missed those overtones till a decade later.

  5. Frank
    May 17, 2019, 11:25 am | # | Reply

    When did this comic get so geeky oh right

    • Efogoto
      May 17, 2019, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      About here.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 17, 2019, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe a little after that… like here.

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