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2012-11-23
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2012-11-23

by shaenon on November 23, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Andrew
    November 23, 2012, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    While it takes an app on Android to get the dogs to kill on command, Siri will probably do it at will on the iPhone 5. Not saying either is better, just saying both take different routes to kill you.

    Why, yes, I’m drunk on egg nog. Drank the whole glass container! (So wish I never discovered I’m in walking distance to Whole Foods.)

    • Tiff Hudson
      November 23, 2012, 2:18 am | # | Reply

      It’s always good to have a supplier of intoxicating beverages within stumbling distance.

  2. Dave Van Domelen
    November 23, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Ironically, GODOT had nothing to do with this death.

    • Blofeld's Cat
      November 23, 2012, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      “I’m sorry Dave…”

      I suspect GODOT changed how the late security guard read the German translation.

      • Jay
        November 23, 2012, 7:45 am | # | Reply

        GODOT could also be messing with the *dog’s* perception…

        Is that Tip, or a giant ham?

        • Manifesta
          November 23, 2012, 9:36 am | # | Reply

          A setup like that deserves a punchline, but I’m torn between “Is there a difference?” and “That’s what he/she said!”

      • Prodigal
        November 23, 2012, 9:04 am | # | Reply

        The “according to this” part of what the security guard says looks like something of a clue.

        Also, still alive! I’m still alive!

  3. Fishface
    November 23, 2012, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    Dear god i want to see this as an indie game. kill the spacestation/ Sealab/ Underground base by misleading text changery.

    • Mr. Eldritch
      November 23, 2012, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      I guess that’d be pretty easy to do with a Space Station 13 mod during a malf AI round; just give the AI access to all the GUIs at will.

    • Anderson
      November 24, 2012, 12:03 am | # | Reply

      It would be interesting if you used an adaptive AI and had the player have to survive against the AI. At first it just messes with you and you can follow instructions to get around it…then it changes the instructions…then it tries changing it in other ways to try to trick you into doing the wrong thing some other way….

      The difficult thing would be making sure it was actually playable without being nintendo-hard and entirely trial-and-mostly-error.

  4. Eddurd
    November 23, 2012, 4:10 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “If You’re Happy And You Know It”, traditional)

    Kill your handler, ’cause the Android App demands!
    Hit the jugular and drop him where he stands!
    “Fetch a beer” he wasn’t saying,
    ‘Twas instead the word for slaying!
    Kill your handler, ’cause the Android App demands!

    “Kill your handler,” say the words upon our screens,
    And dogs do what he says, not what he means,
    So they killed him without thinking!
    (Guess they solved his problem drinking)
    Yeah, they went and chewed the guy to smithereens!

  5. Dr. steve
    November 23, 2012, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    Or… for SNL fans… the dog might use poetry to… ummm.. beat the rap…

    Something on the train ain’t right
    Kill my handler, kill my handler
    Watchdog yiping – yes, I bite!
    Kill my handler, kill my handler
    Hear his reading
    Ap is dreck
    Next his train
    I’ll start to wreck!
    Got no reason —
    What the heck!
    Kill my handler, kill my handler
    C-I-L-L …
    My hand – ler …

    • Manifesta
      November 23, 2012, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      This is wonderful! And thanks for the reminder of how good Eddie Murphy used to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0up_MjsLk.

  6. Foxhack
    November 23, 2012, 9:09 am | # | Reply

    Android? That’s exactly what the new iOS would do!

  7. Sandy C
    November 23, 2012, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

    But, but, “schickt mir ein Bier” sounds nothing like…

    Hold on. Now my dictionary says that they’re cognates. Glory be to GODOT!

    • JET73L
      February 20, 2015, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

      “Put me on a bier”, perhaps?

  8. Shadowmehr
    November 23, 2012, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

    So G.O.D.O.T. can anagram in different languages. And we’ve seen him(?) draw arrows in other comics. Aside from the zombie apocalypse (pending), what happens when he actually starts altering blueprints and design specs from some of the madder residents of St. Charlie, or even the latin names on some of the medications being created/for the mad medical doctors and pharmacists? Given the trains habit of appearing, well, anywhere, this could be a bigger armageddon than anyone dreamt of.

  9. Anvildude
    November 23, 2012, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, you think that Mad Scientists actually use blueprints?

    • Katrika
      November 23, 2012, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

      Didn’t Madblood have blueprints for his Arctic Base?

      • John Campbell
        November 23, 2012, 9:35 pm | # | Reply

        Madblood keeps backups, too. He’s sometimes not a very good mad scientist.

        (At least he doesn’t neglect his beakers of colored fluid.)

    • Scott's Folly
      November 24, 2012, 4:10 am | # | Reply

      They’re generally a last resort, but there are some things that can’t really be explained to the minions doing the heavy/dangerous work without reference to physical media. After all, it would be beneath the dignity of any self-respecting Mad to do such things personally. And while the Igor and Misanthropie lines are renowned for their anticipation, the more economical minion is not quite as user-friendly.

  10. Axel
    November 23, 2012, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

    If only they’d gotten the voice input/voice output app instead of the text phrasebook! Curses!

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