page 1277 – never leave home without them
WHEW! It took a bit of an all nighter, but I managed to get a fully finished version of the page up DESPITE also doing an extra Father’s Day page AND getting back on Conventional Wisdom pages over the weekend. Speaking of which, apologies in advance if there’s any really dumb typos that I’m too blurry-eyed to catch at the moment. It also doesn’t help that this page is a bit of a last minute hybrid of two separate page ideas, mashed together to try and pick up the pacing a little, so I wound up doing a LOT of last minute dialog changes to try and make all the bits fit together… and in the process I seem to have gone and told one of the jokes on page 1265 all over again without realizing it. Whoops.
Anyway, the usual stuff about new TWC Voting Incentives and what have you latter this week still apply… right now I need to get some sleep… man, how did I used to do this every other night?
EDIT: New Voting Incentive is up, and this time it actually IS the last of the AI outtakes!
Stain removal nanites? I can certainly believe those exist in the future. What’s harder to believe is that these rich kids would bother using them – I mean, I seem to recall that they have so much luggage that they could barely find room to sleep. Why should they clean badly-stained clothes instead of just discarding them and buying replacements when they have a chance?
It’s just for emergency stain removal – rich or not, you don’t want to have to leave the important rich-kid social occasion you are at for a half hour to go back to your room and have to re-select the perfect 2nd most fashionable-of-the-moment outfit out of your 1000 choices after you had already spent an hour before the meal picking out the 1st most fashionable-of-the-moment before the meal. In fact, it’s ONLY the rich kids that can afford to us these nannites, as the nannites turn the 50,000-credit outfit they’re used on into tapioca pudding after 24 hours, but it’s already been out of fashion for 16 hours by then anyway, so who cares? Plus it’s been worn once already, so now it’s USED!
*There are, of course, cleaning nannites that poor people use that don’t destroy the clothing, but they’re much slower, so useless for dinner emergencies.
This does appear to confirm that Stilez’s superpowers are based on Cartoon Physics.
What I’m unsure of is whether Tax is referring to something that Stilez has done repeatedly before when destroying entire ships, or if this is something that has never previously happened, but will, and Tax is yet again talking about the potential future timeline that only she can see as if everybody is normally aware of such things.
Re: Nanites.
You have to remember that this is specifically Lynne who’s talking. The OTHER three would happily toss out out a whole house just because it’s a little dirty, but Lynne takes the condition of this clothes SERIOUSLY.
Re: Tax’s remark.
If you’re struggling to work out what she means, then I’ve done my job correctly 🙂
I don’t know, given how sports-obsessed Hiro is, and with the messiness inherent in such activities he probably would just ignore some dirtiness. At least in absence of the other 3 making a fuss.
Good point. More like Hiro’s PARENTS would toss out a house for being dirty and he wouldn’t notice either way.
I dunno, most of the hard core “sports guys” I’ve known are absurdly, oddly superstitious about some particular item, for some reason it seems to go along with being a sports guy, he’s going to be upset if they throw away his “lucky socks” or “lucky shirt” or “lucky house”. (Anything other than that he might not notice or care though.)
OOOOOooooh, I hadn’t been thought of that, but I bet there’s some comedy potential to be mined there!
Personally, I would presume that Hiro, if he’s the superstitious type in the first place, would keep any of his truly “lucky” items near him at all times. Even if only because his parents HAVE thrown out things important to him before, such as early-development toys… and pets.