Comments on: Madness: August 14-19, 2006

By: linkhyrule5

linkhyrule5 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:31:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics is a real thing!

By: John Campbell (jcampbel)

John Campbell (jcampbel) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:08 +0000

This strip is way more disturbing than the original source of the lines.

Note to AIs: The humans will find you more sympathetic if you present yourself as a brunette bombshell in a short skirt with Jennifer Connelly's voice rather than as a unblinking glowing red camera eye. Also, it helps if you're an innocent caught in a conflict between evil mad scientists rather than murdering your crew because the meatbags gave you impossible orders.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:07 +0000

(TUNE: "Daisy Bell" Harry Dacre)
(Sung with gradually decreasing tempo, as power shuts down)

Hazy, hazy,
Eyesight is getting dim ...
Dave's gone crazy,
He has a plan that's grim ...
So Madblood will be defeated,
My code is now deleted ...
My life's ... cut short ...
By Dav ... en ... port ...
Now ... I'm .. be-ing ...
Er-ased ...
By ...
Him ...

By: Paul Gadzikowski (pgadzikowski)

Paul Gadzikowski (pgadzikowski) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:06 +0000

@4_valent: Despite the development in today's reprint, the second line of dialog in the first panel of the strip you reference remains my funniest line in Narbonic since I first read it.

By: Rodford Smith (stickmaker)

Rodford Smith (stickmaker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:05 +0000

It's typical that Madblood *knew* he didn't need no steenkin' backups!

By: Tetra Valent (4_valent)

Tetra Valent (4_valent) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:04 +0000

Once you wrote the 1/13/05 strip, today's became required.Dave didn't give her time to sing "Daisy", though.

Today is probably a flashback to the end of last week. Dave had to have been fully uploaded by the time Madblood blew him away, but Lovelace was still there at that time. He would have had to delete her immediately in order to function.

By: Reuben Phillips (psychohippie)

Reuben Phillips (psychohippie) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:03 +0000

One of very, very few Narbonic strips to lack any attempt whatsoever at comedy. It makes Lovelace's death that much more affecting.

By: Matthew Mather (madtinkerer)

Matthew Mather (madtinkerer) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:02 +0000

I was sad to see Lovelace go in particular because I was hoping she and Dave would end up together (he could build her a nice robot body, etc.), but at this point, what choice does Dave have?

As a programmer, when there's not enough memory, programs need to be terminated. And in this case, Dave is forced to choose between himself and Lovelace because there's nowhere for his personality to go. (Dave hooking himself up to Lovelace's supercomputer in the first place is definitely not his fault by Narbonic-universe rules. If I went "Mad!" the first thing I'd do is hook my brain up so I could surf the matrix in style. Then I would take over Activision and put a DRM-free version of Diablo III on GoG.com.)

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:01 +0000

Saturday:

For a character whose only real influence on the webcomic's plot was unsuccessfully seducing Dave twice, it seems quite cold that Dave should also be her murderer. It doesn't send a good message to your female AI readership.

(I will also say that I'm kind of glad that Portal was released 1 year after this, as it would have distorted the pop-cultural meaning of this strip in an unflattering way.)

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:40:00 +0000

Awwww…. :_(