page 1305 – now I want some ice cream
Just to be clear, Marshall is NOT in possession of a tiny race of ice cream people who worship him as a terrifying deity. He’s in possession of an ice cream maker which, for some unfathomable reason, comes with a user interface that requires the user to interact with tiny representations of panicky ice cream people programed to react to the user as some kind of terrible deity… which does indeed sound horrible. Insert joke about it still being better than that operating system that you hate HERE. (On a completely unrelated note, the internet cut out right in the middle of trying to post this, ironically enough)
Anyway, sorry I wasn’t around in the comments of the previous page, there’s a lot of fun speculation that definitely deserved some acknowledgement. But alas, I’ve been really trying to get out of the weeds on the various other projects I fell behind on at the end of last year, and I just haven’t had a lot of spare brain left over afterwards. And speaking of side projects, the usual reminder to check back on Friday for a new Voting Incentive!
EDIT: …aaaaand I nearly forgot again, but the new Voting Incentive is up now! (Sorry, not only am I still trying to get caught up on stuff, but I find myself actually needed to get AHEAD on a few things due to Real Life demanding some time next week)
You’d think a thing like that wouldn’t sell really well, but it’s niche market product. It actually is very popular with megalomaniacal Mad Scientists. Marshall got it from one of them as a thank you gift for saving his bacon on a nitpicking assignment (Mad Scientists are very frequently in need of having their bacon saved) The Mad Scientist was extremely grateful, and thus gave Marshall a wonderful gift that the Mad Scientist felt anybody was sure to enjoy. (And also because he had enjoyed it so much himself that he had splurged and bought 50 of them, before remembering that he didn’t really like ice cream all that much)
…and wierdly, the operating system only works on ice cream makers. In every other kind of food maker, the artificial food people suffer some form of societal breakdown and the machine becomes useless. AI scientist and philosophers alike have yet to work out the significance of this. (And you can’t just have ice cream people in a machine that doesn’t make ice cream, that’d just be weird!)
Also, just to mention, you’ve got some roaches infesting the vote incentive archives you need to go stomp on.
Yeah, I gave the spam blocker a poke to wake it back up (weird that that seems to be the one page with the most instances of spam bots slipping through, even though it’s got the same plug-ins to filter it out as all my other sites)
AI scientist and philosophers alike have yet to work out the significance of this. 😉