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Agile Thinking

🕑 Added 2023-07-11 20:26:06 +0000 UTC

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Clifton Royston

But as we all learned a long time ago, Claire is the true Kwisatz Had'erscotch.

Greville Whittle

There are many ways to combust

William Burns

3.6 Roentgen , not great not terrible...

David Durant

What was Zlata doing before and does someone need to be doing that job now? Reactor tech...?

Daniel Rydberg

Gotta give Zlata cred for inventing the underling to the Librarian position before it even existed.

Stephen Wells

Nobody else knows that Claire and Marten take turns being the one who does the Librarian Voice in bed.

Mad Marie

Internally combust, like a vehicle engine? Did you mean to use the word “spontaneously”?

Stephen Wells

Marten, Moray and Zlata as the Three Musketeers, the trusted agents that The Librarian can dispatch to do her bidding.

Diptych

Technically, I don't think either of them has actually worked as a librarian. Marten's a library assistant and Claire only just got hired for her first post as a qualified librarian.

Chris Crowther

"Number One" is a Royal Navy expression; Patrick Stewart used it instead of "XO" because he's British (even if his character is French).

MercuryBuddha

Considering how long Clair and Martin have been working as librarians together I'd suggest he'd be her number one to her captain and whoever else would be the assistant/aide, to use a Star Trek analogy.

BookBeard

Get her angry enough and you might externally combust.

William Cole

Sure, I COULD view the world in hyperspectral ultra-high resolution, but I find the experience of imperfectly corrected astigmatism so much more AUTHENTIC!

Joseph Bonnar

-I'd- internally combust if I ran into an angry Hannelore.

Joseph Bonnar

OOK.

Adam Abbott

For hot swapping different magnifications and/or different points of view.

Katrina Urmson

Maybe they can’t afford repair/replacement, or also, don’t want it. Maybe they prefer the look of things with an extra lens for whatever reason, the way some people prefer non-digital photography?

MikeT

Swing and a miss, strike 2

Doc Gumby

Yup, heard Zlata's last line in Marcy's voice. The glasses help.

ValdVin

Claire is going to be busy as The Librarian. I suggest she delegate the SH! training--Marten has the experience. (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2212).

Joshua O'Madadhain

...and then you took an ILL request to the knee?

Yelling Bird

I like where this is going!

Yelling Bird

I used to be a librarian...

Greville Whittle

If they are responding this way to Marten and Claire, they'd probably internally combust if they encountered an angry Hannelore.

Onyx

Yeah I was going to say there's a lot of crossover between the Dom voice and the Librarian voice.

Thisguy

That, and he did work in a library for years.

Mad Marie

Library Science!

For the same reason humans wear clear non-prescription glasses: fashion.

Chris Heg

The glasses are purely decorative.

David Durant

Are we saying that The floating black slab that emits a low hum might be an evolved Companion Cube?

Kermit Woodall

Rephrasing... Why would an Android have poor vision that they need corrected with glasses... When they could just have the eyes replaced or fixed?

Eric Sieck

...friendship?

SheepFace2000

firm, organised, authoritative attitude, whip, glasses,

Simon Green

Uh, yeah, me too. Goats are so cute.

Brian Mann

Same reason they need faces.

Brian Mann

I miss Goats.

Brian Mann

@Uniquitous: Now, there's no use crying over every mistake.

Michael DK

Anyone surprised Marten has The Voice has perhaps forgotten his mother was (is? I forget if she’s retired) a professional dominatrix. The Venn Diagram between skills required to be a librarian and to be a dominatrix is closer to a circle than many people realize.

Alan Wiggs

Marten once walked the librarian Wyrding Way, but he met Claire and realized his journey was complete

Alan Wiggs

To look smart, of course

Cameron W.

Zlata and Marten are going to end up with a Patti/Marcy friendship, aren’t they?

Stephen Wells

Claire is a very loyal person. Moray will be her right-hand doofus.

Uniquitous

Or is it the other way 'round?

To look librarian-er

Valk

fashion

James Redekop

I dunno, I get a doof-vibe from her, though maybe a different tone than Moray or Beeps (who each have their distinct tones, too).

Kermit Woodall

Why would a robot/android need glasses?

Jonathan Taves

For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.

John A. Aiken, Jr.

Moray, Beeps, and Liz, maybe. Zlada doesn't come across as a doofus; quite the contrary.

Simon Green

Beer is the mind killer, beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, hopefully via the kidneys.

Simon Green

They do what THEY CAN because they must.

Jon Callas

One of my favorite things I once saw was an apology card that said on the outside something akin to, "I'm truly sorry that I called you an idiot" and on the inside it said, "I thought you already knew!"

Leak

Goopfy.

Bill Silvia

Nobody knows, that's why they hired Claire.

Bill Silvia

I think Moray is also thinking of Claire as more Chief of Operations than Librarian.

Ed Marshall

oh my god I would protect moray forever, she is a perfect goofball

Carin Maja Brooks

Marten can use the Voice. He is the cheese bath haberdash

James Redekop

It's a good thing Beeps is back in MA... If the Moray, Zlata, and Beeps ended up in the same room, the doof density might result in a black hole of doofusishness.

Uniquitous

They do what they must.

Sean Kinlin

Marten: "Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done, is done."

Miyaa

I’ve spent a good ten years in academia. They barely do any science there in real life, why should Cubetown be any different?

Ísabel Pirsic

social science experiments ftw

mathw

Does anybody in this place actually do any science??

Sean Kinlin

Goofy goop.

Sean Kinlin

I think Moray is inductee #1 to Claire's cult of personality. Or at least, she fancies herself such.

Ísabel Pirsic

The Voice truly is inside of *everyone* 😵☢️✴️

Tannerbot

Moray is such an adorable doofus. I have no idea where she is gonna be slotted into the cast herd, but right hand A.I. isn't on the list, I don't think.