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2013-04-01

by shaenon on April 1, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Tuiteyfruity
    April 1, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    This is a best idea ever, and so much can, and probably will, go wrong

    • Hadashi
      November 10, 2013, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

      Drive may have been a euphemism.

  2. Anderson
    April 1, 2013, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    These meetings drone on and on….

  3. WuseMajor
    April 1, 2013, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    …Does that make him transsexual?

    • Hugin
      April 1, 2013, 3:17 am | # | Reply

      Likely closer to genderqueer. He’ll likely still identify as male, which is his birth gender. And given that Violet isn’t his actual body, just a drone he operates, Violet’s sex probably has less of an effect on his mentality than the sex of his helicopter.

    • Jay
      April 1, 2013, 3:33 am | # | Reply

      Erm, well…

      If he still identifies as male but his ‘body’ is ‘biologically’ female, then yes, he’d be transgendered.
      But if Nick identifies as female while piloting Violet, then yes, you could say she had a transgender history.

      The catch is, of course, he actually identifies as non-human (it’s how he qualified for SH assistance after all) and sees the helicopter as his ‘real’ body… so the point might be moot!

    • jdreyfuss
      April 1, 2013, 8:07 am | # | Reply

      I’d say since it’s a remote operated drone, the fact that its pilot is male doesn’t make him (the pilot) transgender, even if that pilot is a transhuman and would thus occupy only the female body.

      • War
        April 1, 2013, 9:00 am | # | Reply

        It was also indicated that Violet’s last pilot was a male. Making her more similar to Tip- a male transvestite.

        • War
          April 1, 2013, 9:04 am | # | Reply

          Or more of a female impersonator? Tip has gone full drag before but he did not use a female character to play the role (if I’m getting this right). Violet’s last pilot was a male but had a whole separate female character playing the role.

          Either way, Nick is going to be nick. Just with boobs and a vulva.

          • jdreyfuss
            January 22, 2020, 2:36 pm | #

            But not nipples, apparently.

  4. Ben Jims
    April 1, 2013, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    In Soviet Russia, vehicle drives YOU!

    i’m so sorry for making that joke there really isn’t any excuse

  5. Moe Lane
    April 1, 2013, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    Seeing as Nick used to be – still may be – a client with a specific problem (loss of old body) that could be kind-of, sort-of remedied by his request (new body)… can they actually say no?

    • jdreyfuss
      April 1, 2013, 8:05 am | # | Reply

      Losing his old body isn’t a problem for him though. He identifies as a V-22 Osprey and not as a human piloting a V-22 Osprey. There may be some ethical questions about the freedom of transfer an accepted transhumanist may be afforded, but there’s no question about whether he misses his old body in favor of the plane.

  6. Eddurd
    April 1, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I Want To Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart”, Patsy Montana)

    I wanna drive the robot body,
    I wanna pilot Violet Bee!
    I wanna sit and stand and hold the hand,
    Hand of Miss Virginia Lee!
    I wanna take her out for dinner and a show,
    Then we’ll go back to my place!
    I wanna drive the robot bo-o-o-o-dy,
    So I can suck some face!

    • Classic Steve
      April 1, 2013, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      Kinda surprised you spoofed that song without retaining “Sweetheart.”

  7. AussieGriffin
    April 1, 2013, 7:10 am | # | Reply

    I am reviewing this web comic for Sexual Futurist and will post a link when A) The raw video is uploaded onto my channel. (Next hour or two.) and B) When the channel edits things together with the strips I recommended. (Next week or two.)
    A.G.

    • AussieGriffin
      April 1, 2013, 8:20 am | # | Reply

      The review is now up and you can listen to it here:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtaumhfxers
      You’re welcome guys! ^.^
      A.G.

  8. Dave Van Domelen
    April 1, 2013, 9:03 am | # | Reply

    The term for a guy operating a female body remotely is “average MMO player”.

    • War
      April 1, 2013, 9:06 am | # | Reply

      That too. lol.

    • Wayne Zombie
      April 1, 2013, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

      It’s funny how many guys have a problem with men running female avatars. I run both male and female, so does my wife. A friend of mine described it perfectly: if I’m going to spend hours in front of a computer watching someone run, I want them to have a nice butt.

  9. Mental Mouse
    April 1, 2013, 9:09 am | # | Reply

    I note that her last “pilot” didn’t actually identify with the role in the crunch either — to his detriment, as he might have done better by keeping “her” mouth shut. (And did we ever figure out what caused that sudden communications break?)

  10. Jim Baerg
    April 1, 2013, 10:58 am | # | Reply

    Is Nick getting crap past the radar (or the swearfilter)?
    IINM in Shakespear’s time fishmonger was slang for something sexual (mybe pimp?)

    • Miserichord
      April 1, 2013, 11:20 am | # | Reply

      If the swear filter blocked every word that has ever been used as a vulgarity, obscenity or in a blasphemous manner, Nick would have a very hard time communicating.

      • il biggo
        April 1, 2013, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

        Heh, you wrote “hard”.

      • Steve Jackson
        April 2, 2013, 1:52 am | # | Reply

        Also “blocked,” “used,” and “have.” You vulgarian you!

    • Grantwhy
      April 1, 2013, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

      From what (very) little I know of the english language, in Shakespeare time just about every word was slang for something sexual.

  11. Dewy
    April 1, 2013, 11:25 am | # | Reply

    Actually he could use the argument that having an avatar that could be seen to be his pilot might make him a little less conspicuous. Throw a flight suit and a helmet on her and he can land at just about any civilian strips or pads a lot more covertly. A lot more covertly than a talking, obnoxious and pilotless craft would be anyway.

    Oh, and give her a new last name, like Ferro.

    • Stickmaker
      April 1, 2013, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      “We tried a Black guy, but he kept getting pulled over” from _Men in Black_.

  12. Sandy C
    April 1, 2013, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

    I am still not convinced that Violet herself doesn’t have some degree of autonomy, a la rogue Seven of Nine-style; either that, or her pilot has been pretty inconsistent. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen, but it’ll be interesting to see. Oh yes.

    • Stickmaker
      April 1, 2013, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      More like Lunevka from Girl Genius.

  13. Stickmaker
    April 1, 2013, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

    I can understand missing hands. This way he can *AHEM* perform “maintenance” on himself.

  14. SamD
    April 1, 2013, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

    This is my new favorite Skin Horse strip….

  15. Shadowmehr
    April 1, 2013, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

    Anyone else hear the tolling of an iron bell in panel 3?

    • casimir
      April 1, 2013, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

      No, but I did hear the drone of a V-22 Osprey.

  16. MisterTeatime
    April 1, 2013, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

    Um. What is wrong with this idea, exactly?

    • Smithnik
      April 1, 2013, 9:25 pm | # | Reply

      Sure. What could possibly go wrong in giving control of a humanoid drone of unknown powers and capabilities to a sexually frustrated, semi-sane used-to-be-a-human-geek AI who now lives inside the electronics of a helicopter…

  17. Grantwhy
    April 1, 2013, 9:47 pm | # | Reply

    Silly question but, would Nick be able to control/drive Violet properly?

    I know ‘she’ has a gyroscopic array so standing up isn’t going to be a problem, but what about moving limbs?

    How much of the fine motor (no pun intended) skills is built into the body, and how much is from the remote operator?

    Nick is so integrated into his body/airfraime, I wonder if he is even capable of using/controlling humanoid limbs any more?

  18. Peregrin
    April 2, 2013, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    Unity’s giving it some thought.

  19. OneUniverse
    September 8, 2021, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

    Eight years later and I still laugh at this particular strip.

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