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2013-04-19

by shaenon on April 19, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Marcus
    April 19, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    This will end well.

    • reynard61
      April 19, 2013, 7:30 pm | # | Reply

      Or at least “Faaaaaabulous”-ly…

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    April 19, 2013, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    I’d like to think that what Nick really said was “yarbles,” but his internal censor has a very extensive dictionary.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      April 19, 2013, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      … of course it’s more than possible that his filter has no dictionary but merely leeches off Nick’s own guilty knowledge. That would preclude all but the most elaborate attempts to bypass the filter.

    • jdreyfuss
      April 19, 2013, 6:14 am | # | Reply

      Damn, bet me to it. I can definitely see Nick swearing in Burgess-tongue.

      • Sam Setter
        October 26, 2018, 6:24 pm | # | Reply

        Definitely the case, I can’t remember, might be all the way back in “I Believe I Can Fly” Nick proved his filter is intelligent and able to gauge intent. He started using IIRC some word that was not profane but was obviously being implied to be an insult and after about the 4th utterance it start getting censored as well.

    • Hadashi
      November 10, 2013, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

      Actually the most likely word to use there is the very English word: boll****.

      • Darkstarr
        May 3, 2016, 6:51 am | # | Reply

        What, we’re not allowed to say “bollocks”? What a pain in the Khyber!

  3. Rex Vivat
    April 19, 2013, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    If you see Tip’s smile as a beard and the line dividing his teeth as his mouth, you’ll find it very hard to unsee. Or is that just me?

    • Pseudo
      April 19, 2013, 1:38 am | # | Reply

      Just you. I see what you mean, but that perception does not dominate for me.

  4. Altarboy
    April 19, 2013, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, so many possibilities for Nickdrone. How about “baby butch” with a hint of the femme, like some light makeup? Kinda boring as a makeover, but I think watching Nick play it would be hilarious.

    • Grantwhy
      April 19, 2013, 2:53 am | # | Reply

      loligoth?

      I think that would have to be one of the most unlikely options … but in defense of my suggestion:

      (1) I think that is a look the drone-body could do well
      (2) it would annoy Nick more than just about any other look
      (3) a detailed outfit, drawn for most of a storyline, would give the artist nightmares :-p

      or, if they need to infiltrate a mad genius’s confectionery factory, lollygoth?

      hmmm … going to talk to sapient robots? Any chance they will mistake the Nick drone for ‘one of us’?

    • drbrain
      April 19, 2013, 3:54 am | # | Reply

      nick kind of has “hippie baby-dyke” down already, with a hint of frum.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 19, 2013, 6:16 am | # | Reply

        To be fair, Frum should come somewhat naturally to him, even if he isn’t actually Orthodox.

    • caelo
      April 19, 2013, 5:17 am | # | Reply

      Tip is a master at cross-dressing as it is and really has never crossed the line of what feels “ok” for the victim to wear. That is he’ll probably give nick a hair cut he lie and make him look m,ore like dude.

      • Danny in Canada
        April 19, 2013, 7:45 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, but to give someone a haircut implies that you expect their hair will grow back. Which it might not.

        • kag
          April 19, 2013, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

          Do we even know what tools are required to cut Nick’s “hair”?

    • Saberbeam
      April 19, 2013, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      This is Nick’s golden opportunity to do some cosplay of his favorite anime, manga, tv show, comic book, etc. character.

      • Voyager
        April 19, 2013, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

        And because of what I was reading just before this, I’ve now got this horrible mental image of Zerhakker as Pirogoeth.

  5. wykstrad
    April 19, 2013, 5:26 am | # | Reply

    In this strip about a brain in a tank controlling a robot body via Wi-Fi while bonding with an ex-military transvestite conflict-resolution therapist, the least believable detail is the idea that Nick would roll his pant cuffs.

    • Ira
      April 19, 2013, 8:07 am | # | Reply

      It makes sense to me. He’s wearing clothes that he borrowed from Chris which are too big for him. Rolling his pant cuffs is for convenience, not fashion. He doesn’t give flatbread what you think about it.

    • Dr. steve
      April 19, 2013, 8:35 am | # | Reply

      Ooooohhhh… brain in a tank… when does Helen get to use the drone? Oops wrong timeline.

  6. Kwaj
    April 19, 2013, 9:21 am | # | Reply

    Nick’s filter has gradually begun bowlderizing more appropriately – I love it.

  7. Axel
    April 19, 2013, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    Tip knows how to make readers happy.

  8. Shadowmehr
    April 19, 2013, 6:51 pm | # | Reply

    Using vacation time to visit a amusement park that creeps people out, probably squabbling and cursing all the way there and back?

    Sounds pretty standard.

  9. Robert The Addled
    April 19, 2013, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

    If you can convince Nick it is LARP-ing…….

    • David McKenney-Barschall
      April 19, 2013, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      But is Nick okay with being cross-cast?

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