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Amanda Smith

Brant confirmed, and also they’re good dogs

Chauncey

I knew Grint gave me some serious Pintsize vibes.

James Redekop

They should have known better than start a whacky hyjinks research group. You start with *serious* hijinks, and work your way up to whacky.

Tannerbot

Pintsize must never make it there.

Michael Boettger

Faye's business sense/ Brant's purloined upgrades... "So tell me, what would you like your butt to do?" Bubbles" Faye, no!"

Simon Green

Strict quantification of wacky hijinks sounds like Nobel Prize material for the first researcher to present the full mathematical theory

Dean Reilly

As part of his research, Breg had an entire wacky chase cued up- vegetable cart, two guys carrying a sheet of glass, 'Yackety Sax' playing on the PA, the whole deal!

Sean Kinlin

Agreed. Clearly their hijinks are much too silly.

Byron Wright

Martin is now head of "Wacky AI Hijanks". His years of dealing with Pintsize gives him insight into stopping this sort of thing from happening.

BobC

Run Forrest, Run! I mean Brount.

Benson Kalahar

"The wacky hijinks lab," is the name of my new startup.

Yelling Bird

Oh, Pintsize would LOVE this place. For the 20 minutes or so before it became a smoking crater anyways...

Miyaa

Oh god he’s Pintsize’s Canadian brother. No wonder he got kicked out of Canada!

Sean Kinlin

Seems like none of these labs have good Brant loyalty.

TV4Fun

Is that Cosette in a new job?

Julia Allen-Hesse

Ok but why are they researching hijinks .. what the pants did they think was gonna happen geeperz

Nicholas Lopez

IS THAT A ROBOT HORSE IN THE BACKGROUND!?

jaelte

Oh? Are you sure it's not Brount?

jaelte

Grunk.

Chris Driggers

The phrase “souped up legs” is killing me.

Rich Holmes

PATISSERIE TATTOOS POUTINE is the new CORRECT HORSE BATTERY STAPLE

Rich Holmes

Brant isn't the researcher, he's the subject. A cure is imminent! NARRATOR: It was not imminent.

Jim Feldman

Was she the one hiding behind the shrubs?

schmod

I'm not sure how he'd cope with being the least-weird AI on the island

Tom @ Magic Chopstick Games

They have an ongoing beef with the applied zany antics division No like LITERALLY, it’ll completely fill the fourth quadrant in a matter of weeks at this rate

Elf Sternberg

The fact that neither Brant nor Pintsize is aware of the Invisible Emu project is probably a huge blessing.

ValdVin

My guess is they thought that putting it in an actual lab would make hijinks easier to keep track of and (if needed) head off. That did, of course, backfire.

Mitch Megaw

Is Brant’s department hiring?

MikeT

Hopefully it was liberated from Hanner's mum?

skinnybdink

in a non-gay way i love Zach Brampff

Adam

Souped up vs Suped up! I thought it was the latter and of course, had to look it up! "Souped up is the correct spelling (and gets more search engine hits than suped up, at that). The term souped up predates the invention of superchargers and initially referred to any horse that had been injected with something to increase its speed."

Joseph Bonnar

The frightening thing here is how Martin (Marven? Oh GOD that's dug into my neurons now for good and all!) wound up recognizing the real danger to the planet and has stepped forward to protect us all.

Joseph Bonnar

And when the two Brant hunters ask Martin who his room mate is, and he responds, they will both scream and flee his presence.

Astrid Hayward

I'm getting serious Horizon Zero Dawn vibes!

doorbender

Brintsize ship Brintsize ship Brintsize ship

Flash

Of course that department exist

PixelThis

Yelling "There he is!", was undoubtedly a mistake

Mitch Megaw

This isn’t about your blasted legacy this time! I will FINALLY be able to test my hypothesis of “In sufficient quantities, can marinara sauce be used as brake fluid”

Joseph Bonnar

You're just trying to unconfuzzle me! It's really... Maurice!

Joseph Bonnar

And inaccurate, to boot. More accurately? "There he WAS!"

Joseph Bonnar

And so are their walks, Sean. They should NEVER have run that Monty Python marathon.

Joseph Bonnar

Rich, I'm reading the NARRATOR's comment in Morgan Freeman's voice. For which I thank you.

Lisa

Martin is referring to Pintsize, right? I love that he calls him his "roommate." It seems like a step up in respect. Many of the other AI characters have been treated as full humans for awhile now, but it seemed like Pintsize had some of the residual family-pet vibe that was established in strip #1. Being "Martin's roommate" instead of "Martin's companion AI" puts them at the same level, and I'm into it.

Marshall

Are we SURE that Brant ISN'T Pintsize???

Bagge

Do they research wacky hijinks or do they do wacky hijinks while researching?

Kallisti Kilmer

I want to see more of background robohorse :)

Brooks Moses

They thought they would have an excuse to steal dermal sensors and high-speed legs from all the other labs, obviously. The question is, "What did the people who let them create a hijinks research lab think was gonna happen?"

Leak

Ye gods NO! Never the two shall meet!

David Paul

Brant: "I want to be able to launch my butt into low-Earth orbit!" Faye: "Ah. I'll have to call our consultant about that." *rings Melon*

David Paul

And an overcrowded getaway vehicle where he has to hang on to the legs of the guy hanging out the back.

David Paul

Shit, now I have to change my passwords (again)...

David Paul

But then, due to the Creative Misunderstanding subdepartment, an entire herd of beef cattle (somehow they manage to get Belmont Red from Australia) occupy every building in the fourth quadrant.

Czarzhan

Brant beta-tests wacky hijinks and sends the results to Pintsize for real-world implementation.

Czarzhan

It's why he got that body model, but failed in his report to mention how the new shape would affect his behavior. This is testing types of delinquent behavior that works in this form.

Levi

Now I WANT them to meet

Paul Johnson

Now when I meet people and wonder if they are AI, I can't just go with hair color and skin tone, I have to look for the joint where the neck and torso meet. I mean, I wouldn't care, but what if my bidet was broken?

Carl Cravens

Rereading from the beginning and I'd forgotten that Pintsize was an "AnthroPC" and it's implied that he functioned as Martin's computer. It's kind of weird.

Miyaa

I have a feeling he’d be thrilled.

Amazing Stace

one day a year robohorse gets to be robounicorn

legobil

That Bronkt seems like an amuzing fellow.

Hugh Eckert

Although letting Brynt and Faye meet and connive together would probably also be a mistake.

CaseyAEC

I think they will make him director of the group.

wargrunt42

Is Marvin paranoid of androids?

innpchan

Why not both?

Sean Kinlin

Good point - they should really have been sneakier.

Sean Kinlin

I sense that there is going to be some Cubetown robohorse fanfiction.

ValdVin

oh, yeah, hanging a sign over the street, the whole deal!

Ursus Ridens

Brant: beware the grey goose.

Darla Donahue

I can see the validity of the Wacky Hijinx group. In modern high reliability data centers we have a program called "Chaos Monkey" that randomly shuts off critical servers. The threat of it makes sure system designers build systems that are never vulnerable to single server outages and can automatically recover properly. Without that threat they commonly cut corners when nobody is looking and stuff fails more often. Brant could fill a similar role. Access security, prototype redundancy, proper rebuild documentation and useful margins on deadlines are all ensured to be good in the cube, espcially once word gets out on how the Graphene Team had to struggle so. My guess is when you compare prototypes, the replacement nanoscale dermal touch sensor prototype is even better than the original and that it's much better documented and thought through. So there is value to Hyjinx and improved research quality is an end result. You just know the Director can see that kind of connection, even if it's counterintuitive to mess up your own research.