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2021-01-29

by shaenon on January 29, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. Derek Baker
    January 29, 2021, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Now I want a “Black Ops Softball” tee.

    • Ysabet
      January 29, 2021, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      Me too! I live near a large USAF base; please, please sell these! 😀

  2. Frank
    January 29, 2021, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    He’s literally a big bad black ops helicopter! He doesn’t do discrete! (though hopefully he does do stealth)

    • Alexander Hammil
      January 29, 2021, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      He’s a brain in a jar simultaneously operating his helicopter and drone bodies: he does discrete instances constantly.

      • Robert Nowall
        January 29, 2021, 6:06 am | # | Reply

        I think Nick’s brain is in his meat. (Geez, that sounds kinkier than I thought it would.)

        • Regret
          January 29, 2021, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

          Since when does Nick have meat? Did I miss something?

          • awgiedawgie
            January 29, 2021, 3:22 pm | #

            Apparently you did. He refers to his humanoid body as his “meat peripheral”. And yes, that’s where his brain is currently housed.

          • VickiC
            January 30, 2021, 2:10 pm | #

            Tigerlily grew a replacement body to house Nick’s brain that Gin had rescued from Anasigma’s discarded brains tip.

        • Drago Whooves
          January 29, 2021, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

          it’s in a jar made of bone

  3. Ysabet
    January 29, 2021, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Y’know what, Nick? There is NOTHING hotter than a man who truly appreciates what he has. (Okay, except maybe for the woman who has *him.* That’s pretty damn hot too.)

  4. david pablo cohn
    January 29, 2021, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    I used to tell people, “When I die, I want to come back as me.” Now I’m not so sure…

    • Frank
      January 30, 2021, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

      When Zombie, Helicopter, and Swarm of Bees are suddenly options, i don’t think anyone’s sure

  5. Theris
    January 29, 2021, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    Baron is in love with Aimee, Nick’s female clone. If anything, he’s envious of Ginny.
    Proof : she’s the one he’s been insulting the entire time.

    • Simberto
      January 29, 2021, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      Now that is an interesting take. Does make a lot of sense actually.

      And all of the over-the-top “bro” stuff is him dealing with his emotional problems arising from his complicated perception linking the women he loves with a man, and thus making him possibly slightly gay, which absolutely clashes with his self-image.

    • NutjobGTO
      January 29, 2021, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

      …
      ***brain explosion.gif***

  6. Robert Nowall
    January 29, 2021, 5:23 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know about “the hottest supergenius on Earth,” but she’s right up there.

    • Nedlum
      January 29, 2021, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      Well, Nick hasn’t met Lupin “Wolf” Madblood, has he?

      • Robert Nowall
        January 29, 2021, 10:04 am | # | Reply

        Hadn’t thought of him (I don’t swing that way). But there’s Helen Narbon, and Tigerlily Jones…I always thought Imogene Frog was cute…

        • Mgnostic
          January 29, 2021, 10:42 am | # | Reply

          How old is Helen and Dave’s daughter at this point? She might be too young at this point in the timeline but ummm, time travel.

        • Regret
          January 29, 2021, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

          Do Mad Scientists count as super geniuses though? They use some form of Mojo to bend the laws of science, instead of truly understanding how things work.

          • Robert Nowall
            January 29, 2021, 3:19 pm | #

            Well, (1) I’ve never been convinced Dr. Lee *isn’t* a mad scientist, and (2) a lot of them seem like the bright geeks one sees at MENSA meetings.

          • awgiedawgie
            January 29, 2021, 3:26 pm | #

            Conversely, one doesn’t have to be a super genius to be a Mad scientist. Which is why a lot of Mad scientists end up killing themselves, or creating something hideous that in turn kills them.

    • WuseMajor
      January 30, 2021, 1:51 am | # | Reply

      Honestly, I was thinking more Artie actually. But if we want to confine it to female supergeniuses, I think I agree with him.

      But then, I don’t guess I really count mad scientists as supergeniuses

  7. Oliver
    January 29, 2021, 6:38 am | # | Reply

    Bit harsh coming from Nick, seeing as he tends to be a dick to everyone too…
    Hoping the conclusion includes an explanation as to why anybody would want to date him, let alone an intelligent and good looking person….

    • awgiedawgie
      January 29, 2021, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      That explanation was given years ago. Nick was willing to die rather than to compromise his principles. Virginia described him as “the bravest man I know”.

      And Baron is getting worse – at least for the moment. I’d be more worried if Nick didn’t notice, since he’s the closest thing to a friend that Baron has.

      • Andy4Hire
        January 29, 2021, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

        True. And I also get a vibe that, now that Nick is in a romantic relationship, Baron is lashing out because he feels betrayed by, and simultaneously feels afraid of losing, the one person he’s realistically been able to think of as a friend in who knows how long.

  8. bergerjacques
    January 29, 2021, 9:58 am | # | Reply

    *Deep breath.*

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So cute…. All I lack is a large doe-eyed furry kitten emoji.

  9. RoofPig
    January 29, 2021, 10:10 am | # | Reply

    Oh no. Nick’s just been in a simulation since… real early times, isn’t he? That’s gonna be a heartbreaking reveal, but things are just going TOO well for him.

    • Nix
      January 29, 2021, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      Metafictionally, of course he has, and so have all the characters. The simulation is called “being fictional” and the characters are running, in an intermittent and out-of-order fashion, inside Shaenon’s head. It’s a very unusual story that has the characters realising this is the case though, let alone doing something about it (though a good few of them have been written).

      • Robert Nowall
        January 29, 2021, 9:30 pm | # | Reply

        Well, there’s the “typewriter in the sky” theory, that, in any fictional universe, the most hated person, the enemy of all that is good and holy, is the writer, who created the situation and put these characters in it.

        • BMunro
          January 29, 2021, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

          Then there’s Jasper Fforde’s “Thursday Next” series [1], where characters in books often are aware they are fictional, but don’t mind so much: for one thing, they can sometimes leave for the real world, and vice versa for normal humans.

          [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday_Next

  10. Shadowmehr
    January 29, 2021, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

    In his own way, Nick can be very romantic and eloquent.

  11. maarvarq
    January 30, 2021, 5:43 am | # | Reply

    Ginny blush number not sure, but at least #32.

    • BarGamer
      January 30, 2021, 5:59 am | # | Reply

      I’m gonna need links. For… reasons. *Sweats.*

      • maarvarq
        September 8, 2021, 7:21 am | # | Reply

        Ginny blushes #36. See #35 for 31-34 (which survived moderation), and #30 for 1-29.

  12. jdreyfuss
    January 30, 2021, 10:56 am | # | Reply

    He could be discreet about it. But he won’t.

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