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2017-02-04

by shaenon on February 4, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Fun for Some
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    February 4, 2017, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    So in other words, (rereading yesterday’s strip), dimples actually meant dimples? O_O

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/to-work/

    • Daniel Maxwell-Ross
      February 4, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      He said “dimples” after crashing back out into the real world.

  2. Jon
    February 4, 2017, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Oof. You mean the players don’t just look Whimsy, they *think* Whimsy? Terrifying is right…

  3. Efogoto
    February 4, 2017, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    Well … he did think to test every possible way to use it for porn. He just didn’t swear about it. Now if he could just learn to say “sophisticated adult entertainment”, he’d be ready for polite company. HA!

  4. Robert Nowall
    February 4, 2017, 6:17 am | # | Reply

    If Baron Mistycorn doesn’t have a butthole, won’t it get kinda messy when he craps himself? I mean, messier than if he had one.

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      February 4, 2017, 6:39 am | # | Reply

      Not with magic!

    • s854
      February 4, 2017, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      It needn’t be all that messy. You can just throw his bag away.

    • casimir
      February 4, 2017, 9:48 am | # | Reply

      This is not a subject I wish to contemplate over Saturday breakfast.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 4, 2017, 11:21 am | # | Reply

        Would you prefer to discuss it over Sunday dinner?

    • reynard61
      February 5, 2017, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      Obligatory unicorn poop video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q

  5. codebracker
    February 4, 2017, 6:41 am | # | Reply

    I’ve read that as a wilhelm scream

    • comicsgal
      February 7, 2017, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      So did I.

  6. maarvarq
    February 4, 2017, 6:48 am | # | Reply

    He didn’t think to swear, but he still thought of using the scenario for porn. Interesting…

    • Robert Nowall
      February 4, 2017, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      Porn is just going to be so…unsatisfactory in the Whimsey VR world…

      • roberttheaddled
        February 4, 2017, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

        I’m sure it’ll depend on how mentally intrusive the interface is. The JLN and CN gaming novels have some interesting takes on it – some even going so far as to have life support in ‘gaming pods’.

  7. Shadowmehr
    February 4, 2017, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    I like how the fairy can call that terrifying without losing the smile on her face. Which is a bit unnerving in its own right, come to think.

    • Mental Mouse
      February 4, 2017, 8:35 am | # | Reply

      Not to mention that she knows exactly how creepy it is, laughs about it, and did it anyway. Newsflash, Nick — you’re not only a tester, but a test subject as well!

      • Dr. Steve
        February 4, 2017, 8:48 am | # | Reply

        Good madscience recursion

    • WarpZone
      February 4, 2017, 10:47 pm | # | Reply

      *Glados voice* The fairy is not capable of contemplating existential horror. Or, at least, the fairy is not capable of indicating that it has contemplated existential horror.

  8. AuthorX
    February 4, 2017, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

    Touche, that is actually pretty terrifying

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 4, 2017, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      And gets moreso the longer you think about it.

  9. Smithnik
    February 4, 2017, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

    “What is more terrifying, a pride of lions, or the rabbit that survives amongst them.?”

  10. WuseMajor
    February 4, 2017, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

    It depends on how you define “swearing”. He used the term “rasin brain” and was still kinda jerkish, so he was still swearing just using PG level terms. It’s arguably a step up from his current situation where the swear words are random, since he can convey meaning more accurately.

  11. Scott Free
    February 4, 2017, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

    “I Just Crapped Myself, and I Don’t Have a Butthole” was one of Harlan Ellison’s lesser-known short stories.

    • dexitroboper
      February 4, 2017, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

      It was collected in “Last Dangerous Visions”

      • Shaenon
        February 4, 2017, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

        Curse my comments section and its lack of “like” buttons. Harlan Ellison jokes are always correct.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          February 4, 2017, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

          I’ve always preferred the musical adaptation, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Sing.

          Featuring original music by John Cage

      • Robert Nowall
        February 5, 2017, 6:29 am | # | Reply

        Are you sure it wasn’t in “The Least Dangerous Visions?”

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          February 5, 2017, 7:06 am | # | Reply

          I thought that was by Richard Connell

  12. Kyle
    February 5, 2017, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    Oh my god. I’ve written server-side software and joked about it all my life: every system works perfectly until you let somebody use it, it’s easier to train users than it is to understand them, word filtering never works…

    … but what Whimsy does really does transcend this entire class of problems! Instead of using QA to make sure the server is programmed correctly, it’s using QA to make sure the players are programmed correctly! Wonderful! Please, Whimsey Corp., let me be one of your cell-analogue. It doesn’t even have to be a brain cell-analogue, I’m not choosy. Liver’s good enough for me!

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 5, 2017, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      Years later, after the second purge, the sons of the survivors would shake their heads from within the forgotten sub-basements out of sight of the death squad’s searchlights, cursing the naïvety of their ancestors who’d lived in fear of nationalists and religious extremists, never once giving any notice to the real enemy lurking right under their noses plotting the downfall of democracy: disgruntled computer programmers.

    • OneUniverse
      February 5, 2017, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, crap! Yet another reason to hide under my comforter and ignore the world.

  13. jdreyfuss
    January 29, 2020, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure how, but I got so scared I pooped your pants.

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