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2018-10-19

by shaenon on October 19, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. Robert Nowall
    October 19, 2018, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” —Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 3, 2020, 4:39 pm | # | Reply

      I was getting some of that too, what with Ms. Apis’ flower-tending and her violent reaction to anything not being just so.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    October 19, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Doom is merely another word for Destiny. ^_~

    • Gyrre
      October 19, 2018, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      Wait, is that from you or a quote?

      • Towering Barbarian
        October 19, 2018, 5:56 am | # | Reply

        That one was from me. As I understand it doom really is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for destiny and that we have northern mythology and general outlook on life to thank for the fact the word carries the current connotations that it does. Tolkien does have some of his characters use that word as a substitute for destiny in LOTR and given his academic specialty I wouldn’t want to be the one to try telling him he was using it wrong. ^_^

        • Midwestmutt
          October 19, 2018, 8:10 am | # | Reply

          The Domesday Book was a census survey for tax assessment.

          • John Schilling
            October 19, 2018, 10:01 am | #

            Taxes being one of the two classic inevitabilities, that book did truly record their doom and their destiny.

        • Daibhid C
          October 19, 2018, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

          This is used in the current Justice League comic to present the name “the Legion of Doom” as being based on something other than “We’re the bad guys and we know it.” The idea is that Luthor thinks his gang is bringing humanity to its destiny.

  3. Ogden Wernstrom
    October 19, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Mme. Delphi is not wrong. Reintegration would presumably mean losing her identity. It’s dying for a literally bigger cause. but it’s still kind of dying.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 19, 2018, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      Didn’t Tuvix carry on something fierce about his separate identities?

      • woozy
        October 19, 2018, 12:30 am | # | Reply

        Worst episode ever.

        (except for all the others.)

        • Dave
          October 19, 2018, 12:40 am | # | Reply

          I dunno, I always liked the Moral Question it proposed.

        • Manifesta
          October 19, 2018, 6:33 am | # | Reply

          I’m still horrified by the way everyone turned on Tuvix. “Yeah, we know you’re a unique sentient being, yadda yadd yadda Prime Directive, but we like our other friends better, so we’re just gonna kill you. Buh-bye”

          • Towering Barbarian
            October 19, 2018, 12:05 pm | #

            I’d argue that the Prime Directive was toast either way since the alternative was to consign two lives to the garbage bin instead of just one. If we go with the John Mills “The greatest good for the greatest number thesis then restoring the original two really was the right thing. @_@

          • Dave
            October 19, 2018, 12:07 pm | #

            That’s why I loved that episode. Getting Tuvok and Neelix back means killing Tuvix, but allowing Tuvix to live means Tuvok and Neelix effectively die. Which murder is better?

          • Robert Nowall
            October 19, 2018, 5:23 pm | #

            “I have stood next to death and people liked him better.” Dan Fielding, “Night Court.”

          • BRGR
            October 21, 2018, 2:53 am | #

            Why didn’t they keep Tuvix and restore Tuvok and Neelix from backups?

    • BRGR
      October 21, 2018, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      If parts are integrated into a bigger system, the parts don’t lose their identity.

  4. palenoue
    October 19, 2018, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Which doom contains the most nectar?

  5. awgiedawgie
    October 19, 2018, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    You’re doomed if you do, and doomed if you don’t.

    Doom the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

    Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a doom.

    • Candace
      October 19, 2018, 2:29 am | # | Reply

      +1000

    • Gus Wiedey
      October 19, 2018, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      Since Madam Delphi can see the future, does that make this a doom with a view?

    • tremor3258
      October 19, 2018, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      Very well done!

    • Cloudster
      October 19, 2018, 11:11 am | # | Reply

      Don’t forget Doomnation Alley, though perhaps the shade of Roger Zelazny would.

    • Rimwolf
      October 19, 2018, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      Well I’ll be doomed

  6. Max
    October 19, 2018, 4:00 am | # | Reply

    Well she might actually be not even wrong – it’s well known that every new piece of hardware that hackers (in the “maker” sense) get their hands on gets Doom ported to it first thing. So I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there would be an actual copy of Doom running in some corner of this place… :)))

  7. greenknight32
    October 19, 2018, 7:13 am | # | Reply

    A literal doomsayer.

  8. Moor
    October 19, 2018, 9:08 am | # | Reply

    Skee Ball –> All Bees, K?

    • matteo
      October 20, 2018, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

      OMG.

  9. Kat
    October 19, 2018, 9:14 am | # | Reply

    Madam Delphi must be the queen then.

    • Daibhid C
      October 19, 2018, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      I suspect the still unseen Mayor Queen is the queen, but maybe that’s too obvious.

  10. Robert Nowall
    October 19, 2018, 10:15 am | # | Reply

    I suppose it’s broadly progress since all of them are broads…

  11. markhh
    October 19, 2018, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    Ginny wants her to progress to the egress for an apian congress. But I digress.

  12. Owlmirror
    October 19, 2018, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

    Madame Delphi’s line in panel 2 reminds me of an old humorous quote:

    I’ve gone into hundreds of fortune-teller’s parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. —New York City detective

  13. Sybracus
    October 19, 2018, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    I’m wondering if she means the archaic meaning of doom? Not disaster, but judgment.

  14. davidbreslin101
    October 19, 2018, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, what? [searches Delphi+bee] “The Delphic priestess is often referred to as a bee, and Pindar notes that she remained “the Delphic bee” long after Apollo had usurped the ancient oracle and shrine.” I did not know that.

  15. Shadowmehr
    October 19, 2018, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

    Madame Delphi has pointed out the upside of the classic Morton’s Fork argument; it takes the pressure off. If all decisions lead to the same end, then you might as well make it interesting.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 19, 2018, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

      So what you’re saying is, all roads lead to doom, so you might as well take the scenic route.

      • Shadowmehr
        October 20, 2018, 10:37 am | # | Reply

        Exactly!

  16. The Occupant
    October 19, 2018, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    You smart folks probably already noticed this, but the second temple of Delphi to Apollo was built by bees, according classical myth.

  17. Owlmirror
    October 19, 2018, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

    Delphi sure says “DOOM!” a lot, doesn’t she?

    Dance
    Oon (or Out),
    One
    Mind

    • Owlmirror
      October 19, 2018, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

      Damn. And extra “o”, there.

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