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2022-02-07
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2022-02-07

by shaenon on February 7, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. dvandom
    February 7, 2022, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Should’ve paid more attention during his few minutes in charge of jetpack suppression. He’d know he can steer by leaning.

    • Bob Vermilion
      February 7, 2022, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      I’m guessing it has gyroscopes to detect tipping, and then it automatically corrects. Otherwise, it would have to be impractically heavy to stay balanced with a dinosaur on top of it.

      That said, the bigger problem is that it’s rising uncontrollably. Even if Tip could tip it to change the angle, the only way to stop it going up into the death zone would be to turn it such that the amount it’s pushing up is equal to the force of gravity pulling it down. Go even slightly too far and its thrust starts pushing it down, which is bad because the thrust is at least as strong as gravity and now they’re working together. The platform would plummet, probably going into a tailspin, throwing Tip off and crash-landing at well past terminal velocity.

      (Disclaimer: not a physicist, just imagining what Randall Munroe would say if I asked him.)

      • greenknight32
        February 7, 2022, 5:57 am | # | Reply

        Plummeting would not be the problem, he could lean it over until he lost enough lift to descend gradually with no problem. The problem would be landing, he’d be moving sideways at a pretty good clip, and if he tried to stop that and hover he’d just rise again. No way he could make a controlled landing. Maybe he could ditch in a body of water…

        • skullthetroll
          February 7, 2022, 9:33 am | # | Reply

          Presumably the device has controls, Tip just doesn’t know how to use them.

          • Owlmirror
            February 7, 2022, 9:49 am | #

            Tip knows how to use them; he used the platform to fly up to the roof (with a dinosaur passenger, even). But the controls (or something affecting the controls) were shot by the goons on the roof, and now they don’t work so good maybe.

      • Semper Solus
        February 7, 2022, 1:46 pm | # | Reply

        Isn’t Tip… always Tipping?

        #sorrynotsorry

        • Robert Nowall
          February 7, 2022, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

          [insert joke about Nick and circumcision here.]

      • Robert Nowall
        February 7, 2022, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

        He’ll fall off his platforms. Sheep plummet.

      • frank
        February 7, 2022, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

        Haha Tipping!

  2. Towering Barbarian
    February 7, 2022, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Tip, if you wanted what Ira’s air support is giving him then you should have called Tigerlily instead! 😀

    (Still shipping Engelbright and Ira! 🙂 ).

    • Candace
      February 7, 2022, 1:38 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. I’m sure that Tigerlily could come up with something in a jiffy to save Tip. She would also raz him about it, but at least she would do it in a way that she and Tip would both enjoy.

      • Duane B.
        February 7, 2022, 3:04 am | # | Reply

        If Tip can’t mojo up a parachute, How about pair of parachute pants?
        Those should work in the skin horse world, although Tip might rather die than
        wear them.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 7, 2022, 9:31 am | # | Reply

      Y’know, they have other air support opitions. There’s Kay and Roger. There’s the Constitution.

      • Candace
        February 8, 2022, 1:16 am | # | Reply

        I think all those are busy with the vast profusion of attack drones.

  3. Robert Nowall
    February 7, 2022, 6:15 am | # | Reply

    Rethinking Nick’s swear censor?

  4. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    February 7, 2022, 7:16 am | # | Reply

    Victorian Era Tip would have enough petticoats to sew into a parachute.

  5. Owlmirror
    February 7, 2022, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    It’s a pity that no-one thought of using actual Korean swears and insults instead of grawlix (growlix?) swear characters.

    Or an amusing mix of Yiddish and and Korean, maybe.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 7, 2022, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

      He’s probably still learning those words as part of Korean in general in order to talk with Ginny’s family. Certain aspects of language have always fascinated him.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 7, 2022, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      The swear filter interprets intent, rather than going by a specified list of words. I would assume that was nonverbal, rather than any real words in a different language.

      • Owlmirror
        February 7, 2022, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

        What swear filter? Virginia disabled the swear filter when Nick was re-embodied.

        Any lack of swearing from Nick is from some other reason(s).

        The reason that makes the most sense to me is that Nick associates his swearing with being lonely, miserable, and immature, and now that he’s happily engaged to Virginia, and actually wants to act more mature, he’s deliberately swearing less.

      • Frank
        February 7, 2022, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

        Pork pork pork pork MUKLUK

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 7, 2022, 10:05 am | # | Reply

    I’ve got plenty to get rescued by.
    I might not have a flying cage
    That floats from low to high.
    Still, I’ve got plenty to be rescued by.

    I’ve got plenty to get rescued by.
    No rescue flight, no Engelbright
    Who comes in from the sky.
    Still, I’ve got plenty to get rescued by.

    He’s got arms to shoot with,
    Phone to hear with,
    Blades to spin with,
    Mouth to swear with.
    Someone who can fly.

    How long till I will get rescued by?
    My plight is bad, I’m getting sad,
    All before I fall and die.
    Oh, I’ve got plenty to get rescued by.

    —from “I’ve Got Plenty to be Thankful For,” written by Irving Berlin

  7. Robert Horton
    February 7, 2022, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

    Why can’t he mojo-port?

    • Frank
      February 7, 2022, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

      He has nobody to mojo with

      • awgiedawgie
        February 7, 2022, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

        He could probably mojo-port if he knew Tigerlily were waiting at the other end. But he’d have to have complete assurance and confidence that she was actually waiting there.

  8. Robert Nowall
    February 7, 2022, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

    Tip’s got his very own chopper. His very own rescue airdropper. But a whole bunch of swears doesn’t show Nick much cares. So Tip might just come hard a-cropper.

  9. Jim Janney
    February 7, 2022, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

    In Nick’s defense he’s a little busy just now.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 7, 2022, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

      He’s probably also in the middle of a battle.

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