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Apr 26, 2019 09:16
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It looks like it's time to slam down.
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Apr 26, 2019 10:11
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Oh I see, an etheric cloud
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Apr 26, 2019 10:31
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Kat, this is a slippery slope to Ether as a Service. Think of all the poor robots who'll have to take out loans on their new bodies.
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Apr 26, 2019 11:39
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 A happy little cloud.
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Apr 26, 2019 12:23
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A cloud, you say? You mean like, Scott McCloud?  
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Apr 26, 2019 13:05
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Darth TNT posted:They made a mancave. Booooooo! Booooooooooo! 
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Apr 26, 2019 13:13
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Darth TNT posted:They made a mancave. A shadow-mancave.
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Apr 26, 2019 13:51
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CJacobs posted:A cloud, you say? You mean like, Scott McCloud? 
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Apr 26, 2019 13:55
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So she's moved all her stuff to the butt now, huh?
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Apr 26, 2019 18:33
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Guess we’re going to see her summon the necessary equipment next? I can’t actually recall when Kat showed her computer transferring matter. Also surprised she hasn’t mentioned her mom’s computer yet. This is Kat’s version of it, after all. I wonder if she has portable doors yet.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:50
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Guess we’re going to see her summon the necessary equipment next? I can’t actually recall when Kat showed her computer transferring matter. Also surprised she hasn’t mentioned her mom’s computer yet. This is Kat’s version of it, after all. I wonder if she has portable doors yet. It last came up here.
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Apr 26, 2019 19:10
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Oh right! Thanks. Aaand now I remember thinking then that the comic wasn’t making a big deal out of something big. Makes sense though. That’s pretty much Kat’s MO. Whether she could get it to work or not was never a question. It was just getting around to doing it.
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Apr 26, 2019 19:37
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It also came up in this thread...seven years ago.Tea-san posted:Anja and Donald have done a lot of work for the Court and the current functions of the computer that have been shown are a result of that. The computer was originally built with the express purpose of detaining Renard when they needed and it's been developed from there. There are other functions which have not been shown yet and I've known from the start that people on the internet hate things that are not explicitly spelled out, but that's not really what the comic is about. The closest thing you're going to get to a laundry list of limitations and abilities of the computer is when Kat eventually makes her own later in the story. I hope people can bear with it til then.
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Apr 26, 2019 19:55
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:It also came up in this thread...seven years ago. I actually somehow remembered reading that post more than the thing that happened more recently in the comic. Probably because I sympathized with Tom and found it amusing that people thought Anja's computer give bullshit, ill-defined powers.
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Apr 26, 2019 20:00
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https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1931
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Apr 26, 2019 21:50
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And there is still the question of who is bankrolling this or letting her use the space
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Apr 26, 2019 23:06
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Same as before, The Shadow Men And it's not like Kat ever had a shortage of material to use or anyone ever mentioned any kind of currency in the comic.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:10
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The Court is mostly empty.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:11
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Anja gave her the space, and the robots are very keen to provide her supplies.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:38
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Tenebrais posted:Anja gave her the space, and the robots are very keen to provide her supplies. What's left of them anyway, since the Seraphs seem to be the only remaining free-moving independent robots. The others are zombified by either the Defense Grid or the court chips.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:55
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Also, there's no reason to assume that the Court doesn't at least know the broad strokes of what she is working on. If the Court didn't want her making organic machines, they'd have shut her down a long time ago.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:03
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Maybe the Court's whole obsession with the ether is because of Kat's powers as the Creator stretching back, influencing things during the founding of the Court, and they're like "poo poo, you're human? We need to get on that train," and in so doing, they get Kat. Wild mass guessing gets weird when you can ignore causality.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:17
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Warmachine posted:Also, there's no reason to assume that the Court doesn't at least know the broad strokes of what she is working on. If the Court didn't want her making organic machines, they'd have shut her down a long time ago. Yeah, that's kind of the point I'm making in a sarcastic way. It's obvious the Court knows what Kat is doing and approves/benefits from it, but everyone pretends it's going on secretly.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:43
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I think ignoring causality is totally valid considering Jones
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Apr 28, 2019 22:12
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Kat being the creator of the tic-tocs is also plausible when you can throw out causality. According to the robots they have been watching since before the Court was founded and are created by a divine being. Making lifelike robotic birds is totally a thing our resident proto-divine being might do, tic-tocs randomly came to Annie's rescue that one time... which seems less random if they are Kat's creation, and the Court is mysterious enough that I could see Kat and the gang deciding at some point to finally figure out what the hell happened in the beginning of the Court.
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Apr 29, 2019 02:33
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i hope boxbot is ok
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Apr 29, 2019 02:55
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What'd he spit out?
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Apr 29, 2019 12:30
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There Bias Two posted:What'd he spit out? Coyote's tooth.
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Apr 29, 2019 12:36
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Kat being the creator of the tic-tocs is also plausible when you can throw out causality. According to the robots they have been watching since before the Court was founded and are created by a divine being. Making lifelike robotic birds is totally a thing our resident proto-divine being might do, tic-tocs randomly came to Annie's rescue that one time... which seems less random if they are Kat's creation, and the Court is mysterious enough that I could see Kat and the gang deciding at some point to finally figure out what the hell happened in the beginning of the Court. And you know, Kat has a thing for birds.
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Apr 29, 2019 12:44
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I'd been wondering when that tooth would come back into the story. Have we seen it at all since Parley accidentally cut shadow loose with it?
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Apr 29, 2019 19:06
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Ok, we're all in agreement that when Arthur activates, his glistening bespoke Adonis-class chassis is going to burst from the pod while the Pillarmen theme plays, right? ARISE, MY (ROBOT) MASTERS
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Kat being the creator of the tic-tocs is also plausible when you can throw out causality. According to the robots they have been watching since before the Court was founded and are created by a divine being. Making lifelike robotic birds is totally a thing our resident proto-divine being might do, tic-tocs randomly came to Annie's rescue that one time... which seems less random if they are Kat's creation, and the Court is mysterious enough that I could see Kat and the gang deciding at some point to finally figure out what the hell happened in the beginning of the Court. If you take Coyote's tale of how when a dying man in a desert imagined him as a god, he not only existed then he always existed, then the same logic can be applied to Kat. If Kat creates a race of robots that are etherically active in the future and they see her as a deity, she will always have been a diety, hence why the robots see her as the angel in the current time. Jones also, probably.
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Tupperwarez posted:Ok, we're all in agreement that when Arthur activates, his glistening bespoke Adonis-class chassis is going to burst from the pod while the Pillarmen theme plays, right? DOES THIS EXCITE YOU, JULIET
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Apr 30, 2019 16:01
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Tupperwarez posted:Ok, we're all in agreement that when Arthur activates, his glistening bespoke Adonis-class chassis is going to burst from the pod while the Pillarmen theme plays, right? I was thinking "Sword of Damocles," personally.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:03
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Warmachine posted:I was thinking "Sword of Damocles," personally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdufVsPXtCE
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Demiurge4 posted:If you take Coyote's tale of how when a dying man in a desert imagined him as a god, he not only existed then he always existed, then the same logic can be applied to Kat. If Kat creates a race of robots that are etherically active in the future and they see her as a deity, she will always have been a diety, hence why the robots see her as the angel in the current time. Yeah, I’m implicitly shoving all that into my hand wavy talk of ignoring causality. Jones was around millennia before the humans who (probably) dreamt her up died. Coyote and all the other beings who claim to have created the world can truthfully say they did, even though Jones can attest that she saw nothing of the sort. All because some people who died believed they existed. Coyote does (did? does) not exist but for the belief that he does. The first death of a living robot is going to be a huge moment.
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Loup probably doesn't know about the tooth. Seems more and more likely that the other gifts are memories Coyote was trying to hide from Loup/Ysengrin.
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...You think Coyote’s tooth is sharp enough to cut Loup in half back to Ysengrin and Coyote? Maybe it was a contingency plan and that’s why he made extra sure that no one in the Forest knew about it when Annie stayed that one time.
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