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Just Space Me Now ep 13: Maybe He Really Is A Mathematician...

🕑 Added 2025-11-19 12:47:35 +0000 UTC

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Matthew C. Darby

Wait, cali is in author avatar/wikipedia mode, is she a cyber Hermione?

jmundt33a

The name is…a little misleading. It’s a digital mask, not body defense.

Crochet4Joy

So apparently personal shields are insufficient to completely block a Stop Drop hit, though good for identity obscuring...

Graham William Kidd

Jill's a Lumberjack, but she's OK, She's OK ...

Brenton Clark

Medbed Ted, not yet dead, very well read, it must be said

Cyn Virtue

Love the new earpiece and I love Steve upside down!

Have another taco

Oh hell, this is sounding awfully like the opening to a TTRPG campaign I once played in. Except that story began with a boring pre-flight announcement from the moon to Proxima Centauri. Our FTL system was also based on conduits that greatly reduced travel time between stars. The engines needed to for interstellar conduits had to be large, though. And the conduits were supposed to be 100% safe, although conduit entrance and exit points were known for piracy in the less-well-civilized planets. A descendant of the guy who invented the FTL engine figured out that NEITHER of those two things are true and built a ship that could punch into other ships conduits and create its own despite being way smaller and more maneuverable than the large craft that didn't need a ferry for interstellar travel. And the only people who knew it were the pirates who'd kidnapped him. YES our game's Sci-Fi was a mix of Niven's Known Space, Dune, Babylon 5, Firefly, and Outlaw Star. The plot was definitely not great SF/F literature, it was friends entertaining each other. And yes, there's a lot of tropiness in what we played. Still, a fun story involving a dangerous discovery about the nature of interstellar flight sounds like great fun!

Mara Saunders

YASSS, the plot thickens! I love CA-roline LI-ndley asking the real questions, and the ship SHIPPING Med Bed Ted and Bren! (I know I’m not original- I see others made these connections before I came to comment, thinking I was so clever. Still, very amusing!). St3v3 is amazing as always. Eddie seems nice but a bit oblivious. I’m not seeing sparks between Bren and anyone else just yet, but holding out hope for a queer romance doesn’t seem like it will pay off, so my money is either on med bed ted or a third male love interest, yet to be introduced. Also, I’d love a sneaky peek into how Caroline & Henry the Hot Editor are going, and if any of these new characters happen to have his face!

Leonard Richard Stanway

3.14159265 in the sky!

Daniele

I hope so. 🤣

Lars Gottlieb

Is Hot Mathematicians a romance novels trope?

Liz C

Thank you for that Lionel Ritchie earworm…

Janellea Macbeth

It’s practically a guided invitation!

StephanieGail

Same! Things had been fun so far, but this episode is where I felt the plot give a satisfying *click*. Strap in, here we go!

StephanieGail

Oooooooooooooh. This is an excellent installment! :D

Smitty Halibut

Ooo, the Ship pun. I hadn’t picked up on that. Well played. Jill: if it wasn’t intentional, just lie to us and take the credit. It’s brilliant.

Smitty Halibut

Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that. :-)

Discworld4eva

Also loving the series so far! On a similar vein where should I drop a link for a possible fight review?

JWLM

I love the use of Martingale as a surname. Congrats on a very clever (and relatively subtle) statistics reference.

jmundt33a

Approved.

Geoff Lamb

Cali's AI language protocols are a direct descendant of 21st century LLMs which were trained on fanfic probably. Possibly leading to a time paradox where Cali was trained on Caroline's novelisation of what is going on right now!

T R P Watson

I am arbitrarily calling Caroline infecting CALI, the Carolingian Romance Virus

Abigail Poirier

Huzzah for you, and huzzah for us! It feels like you're bringing us along on your/Caroline's/Bren's adventure and I love it so much! Also quite a big fan of CALI's inappropriate/personal questions. Pretty smart of Caroline, haha. The story is just getting gooder and gooder!

Winslow

Then it's not an author fight it's a tech problem 😆

Winslow

That "call me Bren there's no one here to impress" line is definitely going to come back to haunt her when she does need to impress someone later. 😂

electric shaman

As someone boring enough to collect gimmicky USB sticks: I've seen a range from a life-sized hammer to a chip of plastic barely larger then a hole in the connector. And this is we real world technology. God knows what they'll think up in a galaxy far far away.

Eva Schiffer

LOL, Cali standing in for Caroline. If you won't answer her questions outside the story she's going to ask them in-fiction, Bren! :D

Anders

I wonder if we'll get a Jacob/Edward dynamic. Or maybe all three can live happily in a polycule.

Anders

Does one data stick really look that different from another?

Cassandra

Bren: says goodbye to love interest 1. Bren: sends hot former best friend home. Caroline: I will make your computer system haunt you. Also, loving Ted's backstory! I kind of like him better than Eddie, but that could just be me.

Katarina Ivancik

Cali is Caroline’s self-insert 😂

WhiteBuffalo

I am LOVING the Space me now series!

Lisa

Of course he is a mathematician! He used plural verbs with "data", not singular! At least where I am, that's a pretty big sign you have lived in an ivory tower!

Dallas Hockley

This hits me with joy the same way “grand theft equine” did. Just seems to cause the series to “arriv3” in my head and establish itself. ❤️

Ann Brookens

Agreed. Steve is delightful!

Raphaela

I second that! And I'll third, fourth, and fifth it too if that's what it takes to make the book happen. 😁

Raphaela

The question therefore becomes: What was Ted up to that he couldn't avail himself of his private starship and his staff of pilot(s) and bodyguards? This could become extremely interesting -- and, from Bren's perspective, likely "Chinese" curse values of "interesting"!

Ann Brookens

Whew! Medbed Ted returns to the story with a REALLY interesting background! And what is with CALI and the intrusive personal questions???

Christoph

Steve is the greatest character in this series and nobody can change my mind. Great video.

Kristian Köhntopp

This book, the sci-fi romance, which you are definitively not going to write. I will buy it. And I will make all my friends buy it. I will also support you in selling the rights to Netflix, but don't let that stop the book project that you definitively won't be doing.

Jill Bearup

Shielding means you just look like a big fuzzy blob on camera. You can tell their species, but basically nothing else 😁 (I have probably not explained this particularly well and expect many confused comments when the video goes public)

jmundt33a

So…is Caroline taking over CALI to force answers to romance questions? I guess that “transport a lonely billionaire” scenario from vid 1, wasn’t an idle threat. Poor Ted. No ship pilot or personal security? His sisters and cousins will be VERY cross with him when he gets home. FUN stuff!😁

Rix Scaedu

Loving this story! On a completely different note, where should I drop a link to a video for possible armour review?

Melita_H

CALI (who I now wonder if Ted's family had because they invented it or some such) asking if Bren is pleased to get to meet Ted again, haha... The ship ships them in more ways than one! 😂 And ooh, this episode sheds some light on things indeed! 😲 Also, I love that little interaction interlude with St3v3! 😆💖

Renee - EnsembleofWolves

omg so many delights in this episode! I love Steve on the ceiling and the green med bay, I love how insistent Bren is on doing things on her own despite Caroline's insistence, and oh man are those the same power conduits running through her ship?!?