73: Anti-Grav Unlimited Duncan Long

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There's a new man on the Moon... and old Mother Earth is in for some incredible surprises.

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Brendan

3V is a cool term and I suggest we appropriate it.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

And in the bathroom and maybe once or twice in the kitchen if everyone is feeling saucy.

gellaho

THE RODS

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

I'm starting to feel a little loopy from 24 hours with no sleep and its great.

gellaho

Also: magnetic bubble smelters

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

What the fuck does the bit in parentheses mean?

FancyShark

Are we making up fun phrases now?

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

is he some kind of Benjamin Button reverse man?

FancyShark

THANK You!

He moonwalks

LyraV

Then he played for him the song from Trolls.

Ramb$ne Gracie

he comes in with the energy of someone stomping out

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Hanley apparently brings down the tone.

Ramb$ne Gracie

but said in idiot

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

you have 48 hours before hallucinations in my experience

They won't be fun

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

I tend to not get those until at least day four.

Ramb$ne Gracie

i went 60 but didn't get hallucinations

and i feel ripped off

FancyShark

Try to sleep before day five. That's when you die

LyraV

I get auditory hallucinations after 36 hours give or take.

Brendan

Like a theoretical Benjamin Buttonhole?

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Hehehe Benjamin Butt(on)hole.

gellaho

That's when he's talking to the reader

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

anyway, does anyone know where I can smelt my magnetic bubble? Does Staples do that?

gellaho

Expensive glow suits

FancyShark

You have to crack the suit in your hand first before it starts glowing

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

I think you need to contact a specialist, the guys at Staples just look up smelting on Yourtube.

Ramb$ne Gracie

that's a force field from dune 1984

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

I'm so sick of guys in cheap glowsuits, like some Winner's bargain bin glowsuits shmuck

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"The slow blade penetrates the glow suit."

gellaho

Time to steal and run

FancyShark

Technically, it's not hard to steal everything you can

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

This is a real roundabout way to tell the reader he made a way for people to fuck their own asses while flying without a plane.

gellaho

Compucalc the efficacy of THE RODS

1000 Space GDCs
Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"Whatever you do, dont put two in your ass with opposing poles facing each other. Poor Steve the intern was torn in half before we could get them loose."

gellaho

DEADLY RODS

FancyShark

One end of the rod is attracted to normal matter. Which means it sticks to everything

1000 Space GDCs

so what i'm hearing is that these rods are an infinite source of energy?

gellaho

Just like a little kid with a balloon

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"We lost Intern Darryl figuring out it sticks to things"

Brendan

The other end of the rod is sapiosexual for normal matter, which means it's only attracted to sentient beings.

LyraV

Everyones favorite.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Meanwhile in like a million years a whole civilization is wiped out as a random anti grav rod impacts their planet after gathering speed the entire time.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

I love when a sci-fi author says fuck you, fundamental laws of physics!

gellaho

guitar squeal

FancyShark

First you get the rods. Then you get the van.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

I think it just means the rods are really pretentious and don't get hits on their dating apps

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

It's got a sick mural of the original lineup of Hawkwind on it, from before they kicked Lemmy out for rocking too hard.

Brendan

"I'm not like you base pigs, roiling in your lusts. I can only lie there for ten minutes doing none of the work with someone I find pretentious."

FancyShark

It also has one of those stick figure families on the back window, but all the kids are just lines

Brendan

Shit, I stole your adjective for that joke.

gellaho

Phil seems like he's in the right state of mind for transporting the RODS

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

I'll allow it Brendan

Brendan

LITERS of caffinex!

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"Doctor Phil, we still havent figured out the magic rabbit clitoral and prostate stimulator attachment you wanted, but we did make a cock ring version."

FancyShark

His heart is going to be foam by morning

gellaho

What could the difference between a computer and a compucalc possibly be

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

No practice being a criminal? What about all your accessory to incest charges?

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Oh shit the computers are sentient.

This is kidnapping.

FancyShark

I'd tell you, but you'd tell me to go to the swamp

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

He aided and abetted a clone fucker and is now kidnapping sentient machines.

FancyShark

oh no. We're reading David Cage

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Poor lil guys, he wont even ask if they wanna come or not.

Brendan

Compucalc is either a microprocessor or a serial stack of computers.

All I know is it's EXTREME computer one way or the other.

gellaho

Mastivista

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

don't we all love when a novel starts with action, then flashes back to two weeks earlier when the hero was stealing a hundred antigravity rods with no tension or stakes

Fatamatician: Curator

Holoshark and Modif-horse meet Compucalc

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"Mastivisa. For when you chewed up your Visa."

FancyShark

"I'll do the talking. What it is, Compucalc."

"You look like cops."

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

He has one hot fist and one lukewarm fist

Fatamatician: Curator

"beeep...neigh....beep"

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

also sentence fragment

gellaho

Phil is very observant

FancyShark

If we start talking about future stuff and bank accounts and don't get any Rex Moran, this book is a failure

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Sentence fragments are like little archaeology puzzles for now people.

And therefore good and cool.

FancyShark

Phil does have a way with fun phrases

Too bad they're not very coherent

gellaho

Pukers can't see you if you don't move

FancyShark

People vomit so much in the future, they have gangs

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

you don't fuck with the Seanbaby gang

Fatamatician: Curator

You know the look

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Oooooh I've played this game before, he needs to use the rocket launcher and circle strafe because pukers are projectiles and not hitscan.

gellaho

The nerves of steel you'd expect from a lab worker

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

a little jig

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Also the Beretta was such a 70s gun.

FancyShark

If this were a movie, Phil would be played by the child of a Hollywood legend

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

very difficult to aim but also he did it flawlessly

gellaho

Certainly am wondering that

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

My dude...........RAIL GUN was a possibility and you picked a nine mil Beretta?!

alfredo disco jakesy (69)

He's obviously wearing a red Hawaiian shirt this whole time

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

I couldn't give a shit why you have body bags

FancyShark

No, Phil. I was wondering why you were calmly getting them out after screaming when you fired your gun

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

Maybe instead of explaining that you could DEVELOP YOUR MAIN CHARACTER

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Its for the failed fuck clones.

The ones that need a longer bake time.

FancyShark

There's also some buckets

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Kraig still fucks them but he slops them into a bucket after.

LyraV

pfff bake time 😆

gellaho

That's more of a how than why

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Phil is classy and uses a garbage bag.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

I love bake time with my fuck clones

alfredo disco jakesy (69)

Why would you trade for body bags

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"Traded for them on the black market" is nerd speak for "Bought a roll of Hefty's at the Piggly Wiggly"

FancyShark

I'm surprised it took this long to confirm Phil is a dangerous loner

LyraV

I feel like you'd at least give them an actual personality.

gellaho

Sounds boring

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

maybe you could kill that run on sentence phil

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Running too fast.

His antique handgun cant draw a bead.

He might as well have a goddam musket.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

I have an unfortunate overabundance of personality so dividing between two or three of us would work wonders

gellaho

Seems perfectly normal

FancyShark

Phil went on to play John Doe in Se7en

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

I read "labbots" as "rabbots" and got briefly excited.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

@Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage you just need to kill two men, stuff them in your van, and take a long nap

gellaho

Sick burn

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

You'll sleep like a baby

FancyShark

At least he tried to say fat is normal

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

long Duncan plays with big head mode activated

LyraV

Your personality never seems an overabundance but a gift, I meant you'd be nice enough to really flesh out the character of your clones (unlike this author).

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Im imagining Phil looks like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force now.

gellaho

Thumbnail watch seems very impractical

FancyShark

I love this and will join you in this belief

Brendan

All sci-fi writers are libertarians until proven otherwise.

LyraV

Brutananadalewski

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas
gellaho

Time for nap #2?

Brendan

Carl is such a G

1000 Space GDCs

All technology in this future is stupid, impractical and has a dumb name.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

My dude, you can NOT store liquifying corpses in the same space as computers.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

yeah. At least Iain banks is the good kind of libertarian

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Its bad for your GPUs

FancyShark

Feeling depressed? Look for these symptoms:

-Lethargy

-Listlessness

-Having two rotting corpses in your van

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Leave the corpses in the bathtub.

Fatamatician: Curator

You know the look

gellaho

Nothing like a good instawarm after dumping a couple of bodies

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

That meal? Reheated Chinese food. No fork.

No nothing.

Just them meat hooks.

LyraV

Well that was easy, no one will ever find them there. At a place where people stop and rest.

1000 Space GDCs

Surely you could have come up with a better place to dump bodies than a rest stop.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

what would you do if your baby brained fuckclone daughter sister could chop your head off with a laser

gellaho

First order of RODS: van power

alfredo disco jakesy (69)

The dead bodies are gone. Aaaaanyway time for a snack

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Fuck you asshole. You invent a miracle of science, then steal it and your first thought is to use it to power your van.

alfredo disco jakesy (69)

I mean hell yeah borther

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Not "Shit I could improve peoples lives." or "Fuck yeah, world domination time." but "How can I get free van juice forever?"

1000 Space GDCs

Does the van even have something rad painted on it though?

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

okay one end attracts matter, one end repels it. So if you stick it in an enclosed space won't it, like, burst through one end of it?

LyraV

Not with VAN POWER

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

His vans body is made of adamantiunobtainium.

gellaho

Better not use the synthadiamond, better use the laser that randomly reflects everywhere

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

it has a mural of Kraig fucking Kraig2 on top of a holoshark

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Kraig2 has a righteous set of dude boobs.

And his hair? Literal fire.

alfredo disco jakesy (69)

Fire made of burnhot

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage
Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

how many holes did he burn through himself?

LyraV

With martian goats cheering the whole thing on.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Like this but with a sweet hog.

gellaho

Right up that tight little orbit with some sililube

Brendan

Barry 2099

Ramb$ne Gracie

well we know the rods aren't made with nysteel

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Freshly lubed rods. Alllll riiiiiiiiiiight.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

a villainous slutty redhead? Oh no, lyra won't be pleased

Fatamatician: Curator

This guy has seen how I get down

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

I feel like Kraig2 is blameless in all this.

Ramb$ne Gracie

in the mind of a hack sci-fi writer there are two women: busty red-head and busty asian woman

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Kraig2 is still getting the hang of shapes and object permanence.

1000 Space GDCs

The solution to mankind's travel problems is a perpetual motion van. checks out

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

oh please he kills Kraig and becomes the villain at the end of act 2 or I will eat any number of hats

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Or! The hero. Cos he killed his obviously evil incest clone making dad.

gellaho

Time to power the entire house via VAN ENERGY

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

Kraig is dead. Long live Kraig.

LyraV

Vans are exempt from preconcieved hair notions.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"Yeah I can use this perpetual motion machine to power my makehot box and make sweet hobo meals on the lam."

Brendan

Come on, that's reductionist. There is Asian [plotting villain dominatrix] and Asian [compliant, giggling love interest]

gellaho

Fuckin' Linda

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

she's the labs HR lady, obviously

Ramb$ne Gracie

fuckin' Linda

LyraV

You've got this shit figured OUT.

1000 Space GDCs

Man, every office has a Linda

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

eh at least it wasn't Susan or, god forbid, Lisa

Ramb$ne Gracie

hear me out, what if the busty plotting Asian dominatrix girlfriend also had red hair?

gellaho

NOTHING SUSPICIOUS. ONLY GOING 250% MAXIMUM SPEED

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"Yeah its real sad about Steve and Darryl and Garryl and Wayne. We have to stick to teh project tho so they didnt die horribly in vain."

Brendan

As long as she doesn't turn into a panda, I'm cool.

Ramb$ne Gracie

they used a panda for the clone base

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Man what a good van, it held together at 200 klicks.

Ramb$ne Gracie

she used to be one now she's a love interest

Brendan

/convert 80km to mph

Ramb$ne Gracie

80kph: still slow

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

yeah it's like what, 50? 45 mph?

1000 Space GDCs

I wonder how he gets the van to stop with an engine he can't stop spinning

gellaho

Going down to the Radio Dome to spend my centimes

LyraV

Watch out for the hi-pees.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

49.7, I'm great at everything

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"Of course, I kept a few centimes for the truck stop hookers I like to lure into my van."

Ramb$ne Gracie

i want to know what a centimeme is

1000 Space GDCs

How has he had a van this long and not prioritized painting a dragon on it? Baffling.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

after the nuclear holocaust mankind's first priority will be inventing clunky new terms for everything

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

1\100th of a dollhour.

gellaho

You nerds will not let me skip these boring technical details

gellaho
gellaho

See: Duncan agrees with me

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

Is the radio dome near the love dome? That little old cyber place where we can get together?

1000 Space GDCs

This is uncomfortably close to what I'm doing in my actual job.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STICK THE ROD IN FOR FUCKS SAKE PHIL! GARRYL ISNT GONNA TEAR HIMSELF A NEW ONE LITERALLY!"

"Wait tear what now?"

"Too late, bye Garryl!"

gellaho

The computers really want to smash though

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

"here's basically what me, and Jason, did: we"

JUST TELL US WHAT YOU'RE DOING ASSHOLE

gellaho

When will they install those fear circuits

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Aw hell yeah Pleasure Dome.

1000 Space GDCs

Is this author also an engineer?

1000 Space GDCs

Oh man, deep Rise of the Dragon cut

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Best game you can lose via public nudity charges.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

sometime before a long long time ago

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Poor lil computers.

I imagine they have little pixel faces like the girl robot in WALL-E

gellaho

You're a weird guy, Phil

1000 Space GDCs

The computers in this book are almost as abused as the ones in the Hardy Boys.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

lookin all "^o^" and shit when you ask them to connect to the internet.

LyraV

Sure it's the computers whispering to you, not your inner demons.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

oh good thanks lyra, I was starting to worry I might have to take those meds after all

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

okay but flying van is legitimately bad ass, but my guy........you could have just gotten a pilots license and not spent years inventing Chitty Chitty Meth Bus.

gellaho

The test flight goes poorly in a number of ways

1000 Space GDCs

This is basically the armor building montage from Iron Man, but with a van, and somehow lame.

Brendan

SHE HAS A NAME IT'S EVE GOD

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

Eva I think

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Not to mention you cant really fly so much as hover with intent without like.......CONTROL SURFACES AND SHIT THAT VANS DO NOT HAVE.

Brendan

Eve is her robot name.

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH?

Brendan

Eva is the name fleshapes gave her

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

The world Military is always ready in case Mars Attacks

gellaho

There goes half the ROD supply

gellaho
Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Legit making myself happy thinking about WALL-E

gellaho

Duncan, I know you know those aren't called coin phones

gellaho

Phil is now living the Van Life

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Hahahaha another dork ass science fiction writer decided flying van was more plausible than wireless phones.

gellaho

Good to know about the dino teats

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Get dunked on by THE FUTURE, PALEO-DORK!

HAH I KNEW THEY HAD SCALEY UDDERS!

Reptile tits confirmed!

gellaho

Bopper design, my good man

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

Dinocow teats is what I would have written in a parody of all this nonsense

Satire is dead

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Hahahaha we beat it to death with a shovel in 1958 as a suspected Communist infiltrator.

The Bush family still has Satire's skull.

Ramb$ne Gracie

all hail deconstruction

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

angry Javo intensifies

gellaho

Glad you guys are taking the dinocow as a serious detail

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

yeah I'm sure he'll be swallowed by a dinocow at some point

LyraV

Reptile milk, they bred them for the milk right? Why else woud you mention the udders specifically?

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

lyra I love you and I want you to talk more BUT

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

If a sassy teen rollerblading courier lands a magnetic clamp on his van and goes for a sky ride, I have a letter to write.

Lehcar, Dog si ym Natas

you have to understand that when you ask questions like that you risk someone answering them

And by someone I mean djonin

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

Also me.

FancyShark

[takes out first binder]

gellaho

Turned all the grocery stores into Chuck E Cheeses

Horse Boxing Flippant Sausage

I didnt get this by keeping my mouth shut.

gellaho

How many centimes to a cred

FancyShark

It's too much to ask that this turns into Five Night's at Freddy's, isn't it?