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Post by Alexandragon on Dec 19, 2012 13:46:35 GMT
That's can't be good... So red eyes are for evil or just angry state?
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Post by smjjames on Dec 19, 2012 14:03:54 GMT
The red eyes have nothing to do with evil, all of the robots with visible colored eyes do that. Red seems to indicate anger or high danger alert or something. In doorbots case, he mostly just seemed to be grumpy.
Also, in spring heeled jack, the robots that were with the security guys had orange eyes, which I guess is serious mode or something.
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Post by eskhn on Dec 19, 2012 14:12:24 GMT
I can't help but wonder how these other Seraphs know this is number 13. Educated guess, since S13 was the one who got busted out?But S13 was busted out by another robot! With an interesting design. Riding a giant white wolf.
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Post by atteSmythe on Dec 19, 2012 14:29:35 GMT
Nooo, Montgomery, why?
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Post by Nnelg on Dec 19, 2012 14:38:48 GMT
Wow, that was fast. Hmm. it seems that this chapter has taken an abrupt turn, a "Mood Whiplash" if you will. So much for a gushing love filled chapter about Relationships. And good riddance! (Although, the tone for this one could still be too dark...)
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 19, 2012 17:10:43 GMT
The red eyes have nothing to do with evil, all of the robots with visible colored eyes do that. Red seems to indicate anger or high danger alert or something. In doorbots case, he mostly just seemed to be grumpy. Also, in spring heeled jack, the robots that were with the security guys had orange eyes, which I guess is serious mode or something. I find it amusing that we managed to have this conversation every single time robots with red eyes show up in the comic.
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Post by goldenknots on Dec 19, 2012 17:38:37 GMT
Shadow will have to go find Antimony and she and Kat will give the robots a talking-to. I hope they catch them before our Robot (S13) gets scrapped.
Won't be as simple as that, of course, but I'm expecting the chapter to go that way in broad outlines.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Dec 19, 2012 17:52:37 GMT
Oh, Snap! (sorry)
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Post by Tobu Ishi on Dec 19, 2012 17:57:09 GMT
Boop-be-doo!
Doo? :3
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Post by aaroncampbell on Dec 19, 2012 18:07:27 GMT
Wait, that wouldn't be Montgomery -- he only says "Doo!" or at most, "Boop-be doo!" and then scarpers off. He's harmless, a good-natured guy. Kinda like this guy; I wonder if they were related? That would make me happy. No, I think the guy on today's page may be Montgomery's "friend" who tells him what to do. I don't like him so much. Gives me the vibe of a malicious caretaker.
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Post by lunarluminesce on Dec 19, 2012 18:41:50 GMT
The red eyes have nothing to do with evil, all of the robots with visible colored eyes do that. Red seems to indicate anger or high danger alert or something. In doorbots case, he mostly just seemed to be grumpy. Also, in spring heeled jack, the robots that were with the security guys had orange eyes, which I guess is serious mode or something. I tend to agree with your eyes theory. From green eyes while sitting with Shadow, Robot's eyes turned an orange-yellow colour when the other robot spoke, before they turned red when he saw the group. These are basically basically stoplight colours, which are probably meant to indicate the danger, or seriousness of a situation a robot has found themselves in. In Robot's case (and certain others), this is probably mixed in with emotional responses. Poor Shadow looks scared. I hope he doesn't get dragged into this, and the two of them get out of this sticky situation...relatively OK at least. I have to say, with a large team of robots of the same original type sent after him...I don't think punishment for 'various troubles' is the whole truth of why they were sent to find him. The robot Annie encountered told her his CPU was being studied, in order to understand the 'behaviour of criminals'. That may be a part of it, but I'm inclined to think they meant to study the part of the forest he had seen. They either weren't finished analyzing what they saw, or feel Robot's possible knowledge may prove dangerous to their own studies...Just a thought.
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Post by Georgie L on Dec 19, 2012 20:13:36 GMT
Interesting that the two lights on his face signal mood. I wonder what was going through Kat's head when she soldered down that circuit. Think not just robot does that, so it may have just been she borrowed pre-existing eye tech from the court.
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Post by Marnath on Dec 19, 2012 21:33:19 GMT
Interesting that the two lights on his face signal mood. I wonder what was going through Kat's head when she soldered down that circuit. Bioshock. To expand this into a useful answer for the people who did not play Bioshock, the mini-bosses are called big daddies and they wear diving suits with huge drills on the arm. Normally they'll leave you alone, and you can tell they're calm by the green light shining out of their helmet. If you get too close to them or the little girls they protect, they'll come to alerted status which is yellow. You'll get a rough shove and some incomprehensible gibberish shouting and you'd better move away quickly. They'll keep a sharp eye on you until you return to a respectful distance. Red indicates hostility, and you'll usually see that right before you get smashed into a fine red paste after accidentally shooting one that was behind a thug.
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Post by Nnelg on Dec 19, 2012 22:30:01 GMT
Think not just robot does that, so it may have just been she borrowed pre-existing eye tech from the court. As an engineer, I can tell you that much is absolutely certain. A self-contained module as complex as a robotic eye takes more effort to build from scratch than actually constructing a robot does. And Kat wouldn't have had the means to have done so, anyways (at the very least she'd have needed a cleanroom).
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Post by Lightice on Dec 20, 2012 2:22:54 GMT
To expand this into a useful answer for the people who did not play Bioshock, the mini-bosses are called big daddies and they wear diving suits with huge drills on the arm. Normally they'll leave you alone, and you can tell they're calm by the green light shining out of their helmet. Everything in Bioshock is colour-coded that way. Even security cameras emit red light if they are hostile, or green if you've hacked them to your side. Ditto for turrets, bots and so on. Ofcourse the Big Daddies are the most prominent face of the franchise, so I guess they come to mind first.
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Post by Marnath on Dec 20, 2012 5:03:41 GMT
To expand this into a useful answer for the people who did not play Bioshock, the mini-bosses are called big daddies and they wear diving suits with huge drills on the arm. Normally they'll leave you alone, and you can tell they're calm by the green light shining out of their helmet. Everything in Bioshock is colour-coded that way. Even security cameras emit red light if they are hostile, or green if you've hacked them to your side. Ditto for turrets, bots and so on. Ofcourse the Big Daddies are the most prominent face of the franchise, so I guess they come to mind first. There are people who don't shoot the cameras and turrets?
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Post by skellig on Dec 20, 2012 5:58:53 GMT
Was shadow2 not found inside under mysterious circumstances? And Robot was in a box? Why was shadow2 there? Could they be related?
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Post by unrequited on Dec 20, 2012 13:43:36 GMT
Never has the "OKAY THAT IS QUITE ENOUGH THANK YOU" image macro been more appropriate. I second this motion. Looks like we can put down our discussion of robot gender and put on our action hats, yay!
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Post by Per on Dec 20, 2012 18:53:08 GMT
I can't help but wonder how these other Seraphs know this is number 13. Getting found out (and swiftly neutralized) seems like it might be a scenario Robot would be running in his head over and over again... could he be having the equivalent of a nightmare?
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Post by ethelmercaptan on Dec 20, 2012 23:40:51 GMT
I wonder what'll happen when "The Angel" gets mad at them for breaking his arm? Or maybe they're not part of Robot's cult and that's why they're trying to get him? I looked back through the archives, and there's never been a seraph-type robot coming to see the shrine.
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 20, 2012 23:49:43 GMT
I wonder what'll happen when "The Angel" gets mad at them for breaking his arm? Or maybe they're not part of Robot's cult and that's why they're trying to get him? I looked back through the archives, and there's never been a seraph-type robot coming to see the shrine. Nice work, now we know that as well.
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Post by Doomrider on Dec 21, 2012 0:23:15 GMT
HAHA. This is shaping up to be a very interesting chapter.
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Post by lukaswhite on Dec 21, 2012 0:31:01 GMT
Shadow is soooo cute in this comic! He is like a stuffed animal~!
But seriously, my prediction; they take him to Robot Court (pun intended), Annie/Kat/Shadow/Renard try and save him but get caught, Parley/Smitty come in with a dramatic cavalry, and then they escape.
Then Jones gives the obligatory expository-lecture on robot culture.
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Post by icekatze on Dec 21, 2012 0:43:09 GMT
hi hi Curses! You beat me to the punch!
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Post by rafk on Dec 21, 2012 3:46:32 GMT
For some reason I immediately saw a parallel between this strip and Coyote grabbing Ysengrin's skull to drain his memory. Sinister.
It really wouldn't surprise me if at some stage Coyote had successfully infiltrated the Court with shadows in robots...
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Post by Georgie L on Dec 21, 2012 6:54:29 GMT
Was shadow2 not found inside under mysterious circumstances? And Robot was in a box? Why was shadow2 there? Could they be related? I thought he was born of the glass eyed men from DogTree, I think he did say he was born in the court didn't he? Mayb e I'm misremembering
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Post by smjjames on Dec 21, 2012 14:14:57 GMT
Was shadow2 not found inside under mysterious circumstances? And Robot was in a box? Why was shadow2 there? Could they be related? I thought he was born of the glass eyed men from DogTree, I think he did say he was born in the court didn't he? Mayb e I'm misremembering If so, then where are the other glass eyed people? That's part of the mystery as well.
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Post by Georgie L on Dec 21, 2012 21:53:08 GMT
Wasn't the reason he originally wanted back into the forest because he got left behind?
Then the reason he went back was cause he didn't hate the court, but the rest of the glass-eyed men demonised him for it.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 21, 2012 22:45:06 GMT
We don't really know how Shadow got to the Court in the first place. He somehow knew that the Forest should have been his home, and even though he understood English he didn't know how to form sounds himself (which he was able to learn that after just a few months in the Forest).
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Post by quetzhal on Dec 22, 2012 1:31:25 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=661So a while back, Kat told he robots that Diego was not a nice man. She also told them that love makes you act in strange ways. I'm wondering if they might have interpreted her words to mean that love is the emotion that made Diego that way. And Robot loves Shadow now, platonically or otherwise, so... I hope it doesn't go where I think it might. Even though it would be really amazing foreshadowing >_>
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