science +12 -1
Full credit, vlad. I've got to start marketing myself as a tasty dudes.

envika +2 -0
Full credit, science, for having the earliest surviving post on acheworld!

wazza +0 -0
we cannot lame Science. We need more of it.

onstad +0 -0
A comment left by onstad was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by joeyramoney, Krea, NeoNaoNeo, sumbitches, heatbag)

doctorother +4 -2
. . . Do you want absolution? Sir, go and make thou comments.

spinynorman +5 -0
What's really funny is that that turned out to actually be Onstad, in the end. I was just scrolling through all the comments he's left, it's surprising how many were lamed either because A. we believed it was just some internet fuckwit who had taken the name or B. we thought that by laming Onstad we could grab some internet immortality.

baryonyx +26 -0
LO, I HATH SLAIN A GOD, AND IN DOING SO, BECOME ONE!

wazza +0 -0
is... is that how they told you it worked?

asherdan +0 -0
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primal_in_the_mane +16 -0
man how did you get marked as spam on your own damn thing?

geerolla +1 -0
Mystery!

i_love_kate +0 -0
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foetus_punch +2 -1
Is permanent mystery why douchebags are so annoyink.

scorpio_nadir +0 -0
You know what we do to snitches, i_love_kate?

neonaoneo +0 -0
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baryonyx +0 -0
I hope the answer is "medals".

scorpio_nadir +0 -0
In Vlad's native land in 1976, it was basic political flowchart concept.
Fink your way to top of Motherland, kill 20 million kulaks bonus points.

tekende +10 -0
Is permanent mystery.

philosophe +2 -0
People didn't look at his status and thought it was a total dick move to impersonate Onstad.

morypcaina +2 -0
the CASE of the MYSTERY

semiquaver +0 -0
People, this is authentic Onstad. Look at his status.

baryonyx +0 -0
And if you'd check his other comments, you'd find proof, such as the fact that he is in the know on shirt-production.

the_dude +3 -0
try what i did. only $10k up front.

scorpio_nadir +0 -0
You have Leon Sumbitches blessing.

deus +0 -0
Are you harming any humans?

vreeeee +1 -1
Damn that Lie Bot!

johnthermos +12 -0
yes! is vlad!

We need a more robot-centric story in the future.

lugosh +0 -0
I second that emotion!

prius_chaser +3 -0
We need more of Vlad's problem with Andy. Andy has no soul to Vlad's dark russian brooding.

jerusalem +16 -0
Why is 1976 Vlad my 1976 Dad? This is disconcerting.

spinynorman +7 -0
I really love that the robots are making the same "winded fat man" face. It's like they slowly jogged to wherever they are.

Is tasty.

straw +4 -0
I know I'm all drunk and all, but there are a few icons I look for. Tekende's Drskradley's mine yours and maybe a few others I can't remember. Anyway, thank you for having a Stephen Fry icon because your comments are generally tops. Or maybe it's the other way around. Anyway, cheers.

mercuri0us +0 -0
Best drunk comment ever.

spinynorman +0 -0
A man tries.

atticusonline +0 -0
This is how I feel...Even drunkified.

klaus +18 -2
I totally just noticed it was spelled Flowchardt

cheeks_jd +9 -0
Is no phillipe. Is Vlad.

valenzetti +0 -1
Lie Bot is such a dick.

1000hz +6 -1
puf.

closefriend +3 -0
Is Drinkin Island inside a robot?

satch +3 -0
I think we all have a lie bot in our lives...

javemport +0 -0
I can't wait for college now.

killerlimpet +7 -0
It sucks.

chachibenji +1 -0
So sucks

pureone +0 -0
I find it hard to believe that Vlad's second line gets him nothing

zheroen +5 -1
Needs more Chucklebot.

heyman +0 -0
Last time I heard that one I laughed so hard that I fell off my dinosaur and broke my igneous thong

theoneyouwant +0 -0
vlad is a wild and crazy guy.

2kings +0 -2
these are gold!!!

bethlaham +0 -0
I like the flowchart strips, but I typically read my comics at 6:45am, so my mind is still a pile of mush..so they're too hard sometimes.

Therefore I have to read them twice, so I can honestly laugh out loud, sans mush.

scramblesthedog +1 -0
I always thought Vlad had more skillz than this.

Where is the alt text?

petitegitan +18 -0
I'm pretty sure I completely would've put out to Vlad.

mega_panda +7 -0
my name actually is Vlad, and you have no idea how rarely I here that, or how accurate this flow chart is.

chaos +1 -0
oh oh Lie Bot.

grayfox +0 -0
Best. Pickup line. Ever.

davidbowie +4 -0
We need a Liebot Flowchart asap.

tekende +7 -0
It would just have one box that says "Lie."

baryonyx +2 -0
Are you lying?---Yes---> Keep it up.
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v |
That's not true.

baryonyx +1 -0
I guess that was asking for some variety of Assetbar rape. Oh, my audacity.

shmuckeles +0 -2
yeah where's the alt text at?

wolfslice +1 -1
I doubt Lie Bot ever showed up

heatbag +1 -2
I am wishink to be Vlad.

huuugs621 +1 -0
1976 Vlad has robot pecs.

methadone +0 -0
looks rather like a robo-beer gut to me. but hey, he was in college.

odvo +1 -0
This is what you call a character piece. I didn't know such a thing could be done with a flowchart.

saint +1 -2
i didn't know robots had nipples...this is news to me.

mortshire +1 -1
lie bot is all of my friends in middle school.

billyamericana +10 -0
I think every guy has had a night or two where he got tired of protectink himself on the couch to Monica Bellucci. I know I have.

nihraguk +0 -0
I love the title of this strip.

infodesk06 +3 -0
Hah, that a robot's internal monologue is "On? No. On? No. On? ..."

closefriend +1 -0
That's code. Code for binary. Which is also code, appropriately enough.

catoblepas +0 -0
I too enjoy how every time I read this comic I end up circling very quickly through "On? No. On? No." and I imagine that with a robot it happens basically four billion times per second until he actually turns on.

centipede_damascus +5 -0
Whatever happened to Utsheyev? Did he stay in the Old Country?

plezure +0 -0
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sonicbiology +0 -0
I think this explains why robots like to hang out with animals

phthoggos +0 -0
I guess all the views come from Asimov nerds

catachresis +7 -0
The Asimov stuff absolutely kills me in this one.

tbtabby +0 -0
Couldn't agree more.

i_love_kate +0 -0
So... Where's the Zeroth law?

tonyhighwind +1 -0
Vlad is havink no time for corny laws. Who could not figure these out? Is most basic ideas about robots.

dubreign +0 -0
iz good, no?

nurdbot +4 -1
Who gives this less that 5? why hate Vlad so much? He is beink hip to you yes?

If I ever form a gang, I am so naming it the Polish Tasty Boys.

smoothjimmyapollo +0 -0
My favorite of the flow chart strips I think.

joeyramoney +0 -0
lovin' vlad's robo-nipples.

_cheesekayke +0 -0
Alt-text, for those of you not blessed with the gift of Sight: "I want so little nitpicky email about Asimov today, I can hardly breathe." Heh.

jackparsons +0 -0
Asimov loved his IBM Selectric because it was the only device at the time that could keep up with him.

That's a hint.

arbys +0 -0
This is my favorite of these, particularly for the Asimov reference. Wish it were a poster.

mastronaut +2 -0
"Okay, Isaac. Sure thing, buddy"

Golden.

-0_0- +0 -0
an insight into the laybrinthe of the slavo-cybernetic soul

honesttom +22 -0
Ah, so the robots hang out with cats and bears and otters because they don't have to take orders from them?

epicurus +1 -0
That is hella interesting.

thegrayhoodie +3 -1
I love that the title of this one says "Flowchardt".

kickstart +0 -0
Oh man, that is incredible. I never noticed that, about the -dt. Thanks!

comrade_tom +2 -0
Dub it Like Tovarich would!
Vlad is one of the main reasons i wish there had been a soviet robot programme. seriously those guys got into space before the free world, womanising Zywiech chugging polish super bots were the next step!

saucy_jack +1 -0
What are some of the other reasons?

PS. GOGOL BORDELLO?!

agentj +6 -0
SF/X "theme music from arcade Tetris"

puguglypress +0 -0
that just pushed this comic up to a 6

thecasbah +0 -0
The Tastiest .

hardelicious +0 -0
five for the brontosaurus line.

roguecheddar +0 -0
I'm happy to learn Onstad is an Isaac Aasimov fan

justa +1 -0
In the realm of Achewood dialog that has entered the public lexicon, "Why even I call you is permanent mystery" has entered mine. For proper effect you have to do the cheesy fake-Russian accent when you say it.

arkaic +0 -0
I just love the very human interchanges between him and Lie Bot. I don't know, they just hit a chord with me.

cycerin +0 -0
i can't get enough of Vlad's Robo-Gut

mangecoeur +0 -0
I wish I was careless enough to flirt like Vlad does.

greyfield +1 -0
5 for "English Language is such movink target".

greenkoolayd +0 -0
i know an awesome chick whos studying archeology. im going to have to share that line with her.

newspaperdrone +1 -0
The recursion of "on?" - "no" makes me think far too much. Are we being told that Vlad is aware that he is off? If so, then is Vlad ever truly off? What does 'Off' actually mean? Is this conscious/unconscious recursion what gives Vlad his sentience?

Must stop reading Godel Escher Bach.

torpor +0 -0
I'm now going to spend the rest of the night thinking about robot subconsciouses. Chubby.

vulpes-aurum +0 -0
Vlad was one sexy man back in '76.

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quinlaenar +0 -0
Oh god oh god why did I do this oh god I want to take it back.

hyetal +0 -0
"Let us drink! Let us sing! Let us for one more night spit into the face of death!"

There comes a point in a man's life where he gives up trying to make something of himself and become remembered by the public at large, and all he wants is to drink and sing and spit.

Or I have it backwards, and everyone just parties their youths away until they're spent and then mellow out and lead a little life and get your name in the co-author's section of a proposal for a carburetor that runs on used Kleenex drippings, get a $5,000 grant, and feel warm and fuzzy about it like you Made A Difference for the rest of your days.

...or maybe I'm just...