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My Lovely Horse posted:It just occurred to me that 130 years is one heck of a long time to keep unpowered electronics in a wooden crate, with uncontrolled climate for at least a few decades of that, and expect them to still work fine and all information to be intact.
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Robo was built to last pretty much forever, right?
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Jul 31, 2015 20:22
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wiegieman posted:Robo was built to last pretty much forever, right?
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Hyperactive posted:Kinda? He's tough as hell but stuff has to get replaced every so often. Whatever his brain is, it's taken a lot of beatings over the last 100 years, and he's come out of all of them fine. An extended dormant period might not be that bad? Maybe? How long is it taking you to write these posts, if you count the time spent cackling?
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Did Tesladyne have Robo's full schematics? Or is it just enough to rebuild everything not important to the "automatic intelligence" parts? Could they download his memories and reload him into a completely new Robo?
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Depends on what they're stored on, really. Normally I wouldn't fancy his chances much but it's not like there's any real reference for a storage time of 1 1/3 decades except maybe "phonograph cylinders still work if you're very lucky". But then those are Edison's tech.
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8one6 posted:Did Tesladyne have Robo's full schematics? Or is it just enough to rebuild everything not important to the "automatic intelligence" parts? And even if it were possible to copy and upload his mind, there's still the question of the continuity of that consciousness, re: why ALAN went through a hell of a lot of trouble to NOT just upload himself across the internet in Ghost of Station X. quote:How long is it taking you to write these posts, if you count the time spent cackling?
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Aug 1, 2015 13:36
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Aug 2, 2015 08:54
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Are we getting a pacific rim plot? Please say we're getting a pacific rim plot.
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A.o.D. posted:Are we getting a pacific rim plot? Please say we're getting a pacific rim plot.
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Hyperactive posted:It's entirely fair to describe The Ring of Fire as the Jason Bourne vs Pacific Rim crossover fanfic you never knew you needed. Well, at least a comic can't have shaky cam.
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Aug 3, 2015 06:00
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I'm sure there's some Javascript trickery that says otherwise.
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Hyperactive posted:It's entirely fair to describe The Ring of Fire as the Jason Bourne vs Pacific Rim crossover fanfic you never knew you needed. Gonna have to disagree with you on not knowing I needed that.
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Here is a non-exhaustive list of other story amalgams I know I want: Pacific Rim/Law and Order Pacific Rim/ Mountains of Madness Pacific Rim/Steel Magnolias CSI:New York/Innsmouth Citizen Cane/Homestar Runner Gordon Gekko/Sesame Street Neon Genesis Evanwhatever/Battletech
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Lurdiak posted:Well, at least a comic can't have shaky cam. A.o.D. posted:Here is a non-exhaustive list of other story amalgams I know I want:
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Aug 3, 2015 13:47
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I'm not saying I have a list, but if you could somehow pull off Alien vs. Predator vs. Asterix...
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm not saying I have a list, but if you could somehow pull off Alien vs. Predator vs. Asterix... "Ils sont fous, ces xénomorphes!"
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A.o.D. posted:Here is a non-exhaustive list of other story amalgams I know I want: So, Strong Bad having a raps battle with a white dude from Virginia? (  The movie is Citizen Kane)
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Gaz-L posted:So, Strong Bad having a raps battle with a white dude from Virginia? Ahh yes, the mean streets of Fredericksburg, home to a bunch of colonial reenactment tour sites that VA school children are ferried through every year of grade school, civil war battlefields, and a million lovely antique stores for old folks to paw through to find the best tacky nick-knacks for their colonial brick homes.
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Gaz-L posted:So, Strong Bad having a raps battle with a white dude from Virginia? Don't tell me, tell that to the android OS. Gunjin posted:Ahh yes, the mean streets of Fredericksburg, home to a bunch of colonial reenactment tour sites that VA school children are ferried through every year of grade school, civil war battlefields, and a million lovely antique stores for old folks to paw through to find the best tacky nick-knacks for their colonial brick homes. All in search for the long lost Aunt Gert.
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That was something I was actually wondering about since I saw Robo mention he gets RSS feeds in his head: if they've been able to modify him after the fact to add stuff like his "headphone" or if his centuries-ahead-of-its-time fancy robot brain was just that adaptable. If it's the former, then I do hope we eventually get to see Atomic Robo and the Carefully Hidden Feet, where an adventure in the '90s forces Robo to A) enter cyberspace B) replace at least one limb with a gun and C) wear a trenchcoat.
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Wanderer posted:That was something I was actually wondering about since I saw Robo mention he gets RSS feeds in his head: if they've been able to modify him after the fact to add stuff like his "headphone" or if his centuries-ahead-of-its-time fancy robot brain was just that adaptable.
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Yay! Robo's back! (But seriously, I didn't expect the jumper cables to fry him)
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bunnyofdoom posted:Yay! Robo's back!
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Hyperactive posted:I mean, not to kill the tension, or the suspicion of disbelief or whatever, but y'know, it would be dumb to have a book called Atomic Robo and then have no atomic robot in it. It'd be like making a Punisher movie where the main character has no skull on his shirt.
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Hyperactive posted:I mean, not to kill the tension, or the suspicion of disbelief or whatever, but y'know, it would be dumb to have a book called Atomic Robo and then have no atomic robot in it. Worked for Captain America.
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Endless Mike posted:Worked for Captain America. There was always a guy filling the role. Aaaaaaaaaand the film franchise guarantees that if you wait a little while, then the comics will always revert to Steve Rogers as Cap
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There's still a lot that could happen with Robo before this point, if you wanted to go back and tell those stories. I was half-expecting a volume or two of one-shots set at various points in Robo's past with the framing device being the remaining Tesladyne employees trying to find some way to bring him back when the jumpers didn't work.
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Just curious, but, once the issue is over, will the half pages be merged together or kept as they are? Just a thought that crossed my mind.
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A.o.D. posted:Citizen Cane/Homestar Runner If you want it that badly I'll give it to ya: HR: 'Wosebwud' SB: 'What the crap, it's just a sled.' That'll be $50.
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Covok posted:Just curious, but, once the issue is over, will the half pages be merged together or kept as they are? Just a thought that crossed my mind. It's not inconceivable that we'd merge the half pages into full pages at some point in the future, but it's not a priority right now.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:If you want it that badly I'll give it to ya: That is, verbatim, a quote directly from my mind as I typed that.
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Hyperactive you and your team do amazing work, but I must ask that you more forcefully whip whomever makes the Dr. Dinosaur's True Dinosaur Facts because I need more of them in my life.
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A.o.D. posted:Neon Genesis Evanwhatever/Battletech Look up 'Space Runaway Ideon' and prepare to cry.
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Who What Now posted:Hyperactive you and your team do amazing work, but I must ask that you more forcefully whip whomever makes the Dr. Dinosaur's True Dinosaur Facts because I need more of them in my life. MAYBE.
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Hyper, unrelated to Atomic Robo, but I've been stuck in an accounting job I've hated for three years and I can't thank you enough for Warbot in Accounting. That drat comic has managed to get me through some really rough times, because no matter how bad it gets, at least I'm not Warbot.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:Hyper, unrelated to Atomic Robo, but I've been stuck in an accounting job I've hated for three years and I can't thank you enough for Warbot in Accounting. My favorite thing about Warbot is the final storyline we have planned for it. I have no idea if we'll ever have a chance to work on it, which is probably a good thing, because it honestly makes the rest of it look like a pleasant walk in the park.
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Hyperactive posted:Hey. Life is short. Find something you can tolerate ASAP! Now I really want to see it.
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Hyperactive posted:Hey. Life is short. Find something you can tolerate ASAP! I'm shoving my wallet at the screen but it doesn't seem to be making this happen, please advise.
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A.o.D. posted:Here is a non-exhaustive list of other story amalgams I know I want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adtYk1ovvEc Hyperactive posted:My favorite thing about Warbot is the final storyline we have planned for it. I have no idea if we'll ever have a chance to work on it, which is probably a good thing, because it honestly makes the rest of it look like a pleasant walk in the park. Could this maybe be a stretch goal on the next kickstarter you guys do? I could see Warbot as part of the Atomic Robo universe. Well, thematically at least. Not so much tonally.
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