If there were justice in that world Moray would be the jam in their sandwich.
Darnel D Cooper
2023-07-09 19:53:52 +0000 UTC
Headcanon accepted.
KCkittysnores
2023-07-09 19:12:29 +0000 UTC
Ayyy! Zlata doing a technicality! Good on them!
Daniel Rydberg
2023-07-09 19:06:09 +0000 UTC
We haven't seen Zlata's lower torso yet, so I choose to believe she moves around on robot tendrils like Doc Ock and everyone's just nonplussed and no-selling it. Or maybe she's on a hoverboard.
Creeperkry
2023-07-09 18:21:47 +0000 UTC
473 Millsive?
Todd Ellner
2023-07-09 13:07:56 +0000 UTC
So Jeph: now that you’ve introduced us to Zlata over several days, we are going to all be heartbroken if she doesn’t get the job!
(eyes go into your-kid-wants-this-specific-puppy mode)
Mad Marie
2023-07-09 12:07:09 +0000 UTC
So Marten
SheepFace2000
2023-07-09 11:30:24 +0000 UTC
Except Zlata, she apparently sees him more like Daddy/senpai
TubaGinger
2023-07-09 11:26:57 +0000 UTC
When Marten is the dad figure, the rest of the complex must be Muppet Babies
MikeT
2023-07-09 08:45:08 +0000 UTC
It's a loophole in the general rule of not disrespecting spreadsheets
Carin Maja Brooks
2023-07-09 05:54:09 +0000 UTC
Sure, but have you ever jests what comes from the mouths of babes? What they are looking for at CubeTown is whacky ideas.
chroniclesoffire
2023-07-09 05:19:18 +0000 UTC
I suspect it’s a lot like how there is a friendly rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge in rowing and University Challenge. Maybe also comedy.
Miyaa
2023-07-09 05:11:19 +0000 UTC
Marten is now everyone’s dad in cubetown apparently.
Chris Crowther
2023-07-09 05:06:15 +0000 UTC
I cannot read about Cubetown without mentally starting to lay out a Department of Grown-ups at this point.
Yonatan Zunger
2023-07-09 03:36:23 +0000 UTC
As much as I'd like that I don't think it'd happen. she doesn't have the right personality for them. She's much closer to being their "new pintsize"
Rémi Beaulieu-Dubé
2023-07-09 03:29:18 +0000 UTC
I'd be curious to know that too! My impression is that the Station collected around Dr Ellicott, while Cubetown is funded and staffed by these mysterious benevolent AIs. I'm sure there's plenty of science to be done, and neither place is hurting for money.
Nicolas Demers
2023-07-09 03:20:45 +0000 UTC
Right???
Julie Mason
2023-07-09 03:14:45 +0000 UTC
So, I'm on yet another reread (YARR?) of the entire run, and the medical doctor on Dr Elicott-Johnson's station says "this station is the greatest collection of brilliant minds in human history ." Cubetown is also a science collective. I wonder what the odds are of an overlap or even better, a rivalry? Does Station know the director? Are they colleagues? Brothers in spirit? Nemeses?
Ron Hamann
2023-07-09 02:40:36 +0000 UTC
is it just a matter of time until marten and claire are in a triad with moray?
runrin
2023-07-09 01:52:33 +0000 UTC
I get the impression that the printer secretly runs Cubetown, and the Director exists merely as a figurehead to draw attention away from this fact.
Dean Reilly
2023-07-09 01:50:35 +0000 UTC
"The best kind of correct for an aspiring bureaucrat" --Hermes Conrad
Paracog Steadham
2023-07-09 01:29:17 +0000 UTC
It's not even a loophole, she's just right
MayLaBelle
2023-07-09 00:42:39 +0000 UTC
That kind of loophole is going to get you those points back, Zlata
Carin Maja Brooks
2023-07-09 00:37:38 +0000 UTC
Technically correct beats quad Jacks
MikeT
2023-07-09 00:26:48 +0000 UTC
First!
Mad Marie
2023-07-08 23:47:47 +0000 UTC
Here I thought this was a separate Underling List
enchantedsleeper
2023-07-08 23:35:21 +0000 UTC
Zlata is entirely correct, but also just the fact that Moray thinks an unofficial party list should apply to work related job transfer stuff also speaks to how much Cubetown needs a Claire
DVW
2023-07-08 23:30:03 +0000 UTC
In Cubetown, fortune favors the weird.
OldGoat
2023-07-08 23:16:19 +0000 UTC
Ha, Zlata will make a great assistant
PostRetroism
2023-07-08 23:00:12 +0000 UTC
Zlata posts "First!" on some Cubetown message board.