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2018-09-07

by shaenon on September 7, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    September 7, 2018, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if our blonde friend might be related to Gilligan? o_O

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      September 7, 2018, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      Well if anyone can go full Professor and coconut up a -working- escape vehicle…

      • proxiehunter
        September 7, 2018, 3:36 am | # | Reply

        Wait, what if that’s one of the things they’ve been working on that VR for? Put a latent mad in, drive them completely mad and they have their breakthrough venting the worst of their destructiveness in an environment where they can’t actually hurt anyone?

        • Gyrre
          September 7, 2018, 11:34 am | # | Reply

          That’s actually a pretty good idea. Here’s hoping Dr. Lee doesn’t slam too hard into the VR’s limitations if that’s the case.

        • theysabet
          September 7, 2018, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

          That’s freaking CLEVER.

        • M. Alan Thomas II
          September 7, 2018, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

          Trust a Mad breakthrough to hack the sim constraints—which are, after all, the local version of reality’s laws, bent by the Mad—and take over the machine from the inside.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 7, 2018, 9:17 pm | #

            Let’s see… Dave took over a supercomputer, and thereby an entire Mad scientist’s lair, by transferring his mind into the computer.

            So, yeah… no way anything could possibly go wrong by putting them into a VR environment.

          • WJS
            August 7, 2019, 12:39 pm | #

            I feel fairly confident that if the VR machine was self-contained and not networked that it would be beyond even the abilities of the Mad to break loose. The only reason Dave was so dangerous is because Lovelace’s systems had control of everything in the base, including the forcefields. If he had just had the supercomputer without any of those hookups, exactly what havoc could he have wreaked?

        • Kitirena
          September 7, 2018, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

          You know, that DOES neatly explain half of the premise behind The Matrix…

      • BarGamer
        September 7, 2018, 7:02 am | # | Reply

        Wood, brass, and coconut oil? I didn’t know Dr Lee was a Spark! Should’ve been obvious. 😉

        • Chrisn
          September 7, 2018, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

          I think walnuts would be involved here, wouldn’d they?

    • theysabet
      September 7, 2018, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

      She actually keeps reminding me of Zonker’s uncle Duke from Doonsbury for some reason; I have no clue why.

  2. Andrew Diseker
    September 7, 2018, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    So, when she tries to leave and gets caught, will she be stopped by a giant beachball instead of a remote-controlled weather balloon? And is the Mayor Number 2?

    • thedoctor55
      September 7, 2018, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      I’m waiting for a short butler to appear.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 7, 2018, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

      There will be storm above and sharks below. They will chew up the raft, and to a lesser degree the passengers, and then Ginny and Melanie will drag themselves back to the beach, bleeding, drenched, and extremely discouraged from trying to leave again.

      • Bruce A Munro
        September 7, 2018, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

        Wait. Is it Gilligan’s Island?

    • Kitirena
      September 7, 2018, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

      Does that mean that Dr. Lee is not a number, she is a free woman?

      Oh, wait, never mind–I forgot that questions are a burden to others, and answers are a prison for ourselves.

    • Robert Nowall
      September 7, 2018, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

      I’m getting more of a “Truman Show” vibe.

  3. Pygar
    September 7, 2018, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Papillon had less…

    • Robert Nowall
      September 7, 2018, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Found it hard to believe they remade that movie.

    • Max
      September 7, 2018, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      @Pygar immediately had the exact same idea, tought naaah nobody would catch the reference. Then again, this is Skin Horse, I should have known better…

      • Pygar
        September 7, 2018, 10:47 am | # | Reply

        Great minds warp alike…

  4. Robert Nowall
    September 7, 2018, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    This doesn’t seem that much less rational than some of Virginia Lee’s work.

  5. rinku
    September 7, 2018, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. I wonder who Number One is. Oh wait…

  6. Nate FitzSimons
    September 7, 2018, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Oh no! She’s trapped in Animal Crossing!

  7. Bruce A Munro
    September 7, 2018, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    OK, i’m back to being uncertain as to whether this is VR Hell or The Village. VR Hell doesn’t need a Mayor imposing rules: the beach is inescapable because that is its nature. Of course, there always might be bugs in the program…

    • Mental Mouse
      September 7, 2018, 7:40 am | # | Reply

      The mayor wouldn’t be there to impose the rules, just to sow FUD and keep them distracted from focusing on the VR.

      • s854
        September 7, 2018, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

        It’s possible. So far, though, we’ve seen nothing of the mayor. I’m not sure we need to, though, as Virginia seems pretty distracted at it is.

  8. Proxiehunter
    September 7, 2018, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    You’re a good helper Beatrix.

    • Proxiehunter
      September 7, 2018, 2:49 am | # | Reply

      I bet she added the cans.

    • Hannibal's Lectern
      September 7, 2018, 7:55 am | # | Reply

      Sounds like Unity after she got her notary license.

  9. khavren
    September 7, 2018, 7:59 am | # | Reply

    Anyone else concerned we haven’t seen anyone’s eyes yet? What if they have button eyes?

    • Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
      September 7, 2018, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      and in the last panel we cannot see Dr Lee’s eyes, either. is she getting askilmilgrated?

    • Robert Nowall
      September 7, 2018, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      Removing spectacles was part of the Oz link…

  10. KWills
    September 7, 2018, 8:59 am | # | Reply

    I half expected the “boat” to be a sandcastle, like the concrete “boat” in The Prisoner.

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