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2019-05-21

by shaenon on May 21, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. awgiedawgie
    May 21, 2019, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    I can’t believe Unity didn’t think of throwing the battle action dudes at the airstrike drones.

    • David B Huber
      May 21, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      She probably did! But if Dr. Lee had a hand in designing the drones they probably have a Cockroach Reflex Avoidance Circuit and are very hard to hit… (Though watching the battle action dudes flail about trying to grab one would be super entertaining!)

      • awgiedawgie
        May 21, 2019, 10:48 am | # | Reply

        Cockroach Reflex Avoidance Protocol – C.R.A.P.

  2. David B Huber
    May 21, 2019, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    That is *such” a Unity thing to do! 🙂

    I wonder if Dr. Lee would have hesitated to outfit Unity with flight armor if asked?

  3. Carl Muckenhoupt
    May 21, 2019, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    This is going to be the impetus for getting Nick back in the air, isn’t it?

    • David B Huber
      May 21, 2019, 1:19 am | # | Reply

      I wouldn’t mind seeing Nick don flight armor. But I bet he could take over the entire drone force remotely!

  4. Bruce A Munro
    May 21, 2019, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    Well, there’s your problem right there – you sewed them all onto one arm! That’s simply not an aerodynamically stable arrangement.

    • warpzone32
      May 21, 2019, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

      Her problem was she didn’t eat their brains first before designing her flight-meat.

  5. Sparks
    May 21, 2019, 2:52 am | # | Reply

    I feel like in Nick’s case, it’s not RL (Real Life), it’s SL (Surreal Life).

    • Shadowmehr
      May 21, 2019, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

      Sometimes I think that statement applies to all of us.

  6. Seph
    May 21, 2019, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    Of course, at the moment Nick can’t fly either. Bit of a bollocks really.

  7. Robert Nowall
    May 21, 2019, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    Can Nick really be *sure* he’s back in RL? (Which I assume stands for “real life.”)

    • Dr. Steve
      May 21, 2019, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      Because it is stranger than fiction. Which, from a fictitious person’s perspective is, shall we say, unreal.

      • Dr. Steve
        May 21, 2019, 9:39 am | # | Reply

        Is Nick fictitious or am I? Flip a coin.

        • Robert Nowall
          May 21, 2019, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

          Can one ever be sure of the reality of what happens outside his head?

        • emusam
          May 21, 2019, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

          Nick is fictitious. You probably are too, but there’s *something* wondering whether you’re literal or literary.

      • dornbeast
        May 21, 2019, 10:25 am | # | Reply

        Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction always makes sense once you get to the end.

        • awgiedawgie
          May 21, 2019, 10:42 am | # | Reply

          Fiction makes sense because it has been well thought out, and often revised several times. Real life does not afford such luxury. Real life is like the first rough draft, but you’re stuck with it.

        • John Campbell
          May 21, 2019, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t know about that. Did you watch the Game of Thrones finale?

          • awgiedawgie
            May 21, 2019, 3:00 pm | #

            I think that would be a good example of one that wasn’t well thought out.

          • Robert Nowall
            May 21, 2019, 11:23 pm | #

            Haven’t watched it, haven’t read the books. Let’s just say I’ve formed a dislike to endless series books that (a) don’t answer everything before the end of the books, and (b) make you buy all the other books to know what’s going on. (I’d say more, but it would also involve a lengthy tirade about George Railroad Martin, his working habits, and probably his politics, too.)

          • awgiedawgie
            May 21, 2019, 11:39 pm | #

            I watched part of the first season, and decided it wasn’t my taste. The only thing I’ve really heard about the finale was that it sucked, and left a lot of questions unanswered. I haven’t heard anything good at all about it. So I’m just as glad I didn’t get wrapped up in 8 seasons just for it to end like that.

          • Candace
            May 22, 2019, 1:46 am | #

            I don’t know about that. I would say a lot of what happened in the last GoT episode was foreshadowed, some of it from quite some time ago. I actually think the GoT ending mostly worked, and I was not dissatisfied with it.

          • Robert Nowall
            May 22, 2019, 6:50 pm | #

            Let us all hope that a certain finale for a certain online comic we all know and love and read regularly doesn’t end as badly as that.

  8. warpzone32
    May 21, 2019, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    Throw things.

    I’m not kidding, Unity. You can shape your meat however you want and perform trigonometry in your head.

    THROW THINGS.

    • Candace
      May 22, 2019, 1:46 am | # | Reply

      This.^

  9. emusam
    May 21, 2019, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

    He’s carrying his sister. ^_^

    • Daibhid C
      May 21, 2019, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

      She ain’t heavy…

    • awgiedawgie
      May 21, 2019, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

      Not just carrying – he’s protecting her.

      • Shadowmehr
        May 21, 2019, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

        She is the MacGuffin for this storyline.

  10. Daibhid C
    May 21, 2019, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

    Tune: Parklife by Blur (to the extent that there is a tune to Parklife by Blue)

    Unity is sewing birds to herself in what we apparently call,
    Real life!
    Battle action dudes are launching airstrikes with the aim of ending our,
    Real life!
    I’ve just come from VR, I was chatting to Aimee there,
    In a cyber replica of a Whimsy theme park,
    And now I’m back in meatspace and looking around,
    And if anything this seems weirder and more random.

    All the robots,
    So many robots,
    And they all fight for the chance,
    To log out of their,
    Real life.

    Know what I mean?

  11. warpzone32
    May 21, 2019, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

    Also, I don’t remember the details but couldn’t Unity have just seeded those bird corpses with nano-goo so they become independent instances of her? And then they could go fly into the drones’ rotors, or drop rocks on the drones’ rotors, or whatever?

    • ngmatt
      May 21, 2019, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

      she could have but she is currently not running on large amounts grey matter so it probably didn’t occur to her

      • warpzone32
        May 23, 2019, 10:12 am | # | Reply

        That’s why you bite the heads off of birds *before* sewing them to your arms!

        • awgiedawgie
          May 23, 2019, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

          Bird brains are tiny. So she’d still not be running on much grey matter, and then the birds wouldn’t be able to see where they were going, even if they could function as her own drones without heads.

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