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Post by Gotolei on Dec 11, 2015 8:02:25 GMT
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Post by Angry Individual on Dec 11, 2015 8:05:48 GMT
You give a robot an arm, and suddenly they're a poet.
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Post by psybershadow on Dec 11, 2015 8:13:59 GMT
16:4
And so the ecstatic disciple did climb skyscrapers, his new hand held to the sky as if to touch the sun. And thus, we knew sensation.
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Post by calpal on Dec 11, 2015 11:20:22 GMT
So how long before Robot gets an organic buddy to share these sensations with him?
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Post by yhbc on Dec 11, 2015 11:28:54 GMT
Shadow is organic now, remember? Or at least three-dimensional.
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Post by calpal on Dec 11, 2015 12:31:46 GMT
Shadow is organic now, remember? Or at least three-dimensional. Yeah, I don't quite fully understand where Shadow stands in terms of being an unquestionably real and biological being. Real, yes. Biological? Well, he eats food and has three dimensions to him now, but... I mean, he WAS a Shadow... Speaking of, we haven't seen Shadow in quite a while now, right? |
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Post by l33tninja on Dec 11, 2015 13:50:25 GMT
You give a robot an arm, and suddenly they're a poet. more like a prophet |
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Post by ctso74 on Dec 11, 2015 14:11:59 GMT
Rather psychedelic sounding. But in the GCverse, psychedelics may allow people to interact with the Ether to a limited extent, so...
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Post by speedwell on Dec 11, 2015 14:34:52 GMT
I just sat down with my netbook in the Starbucks at the Galway bus station and read this, and as soon as I did, Boston's "More than a Feeling" came on the store music. Woooooooo......  |
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Post by Trillium on Dec 11, 2015 15:43:19 GMT
16:4 And so the ecstatic disciple did climb skyscrapers, his new hand held to the sky as if to touch the sun. And thus, we knew sensation. Robot has touched the sky and his world is not hollow. |
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Post by atteSmythe on Dec 11, 2015 17:06:49 GMT
This should be a perfectly smooth transition. Nothing bad could come of this.
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Post by Gotolei on Dec 11, 2015 17:33:28 GMT
Point brought up on /co/ - this isn't S13's first time having an organic arm. Same side, even. He didn't exactly make a big deal out of it back then, and seemed to have full control over it even before being possessed. Granted wood probably doesn't give much sensory input but it's not exactly robotic either. |
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Post by calpal on Dec 12, 2015 0:59:27 GMT
Point brought up on /co/ - this isn't S13's first time having an organic arm. Same side, even. He didn't exactly make a big deal out of it back then, and seemed to have full control over it even before being possessed. Granted wood probably doesn't give much sensory input but it's not exactly robotic either. No, different sides. If you compare both pages, Robot's wooden arm is actually on his right side. The new biological arm is on his left. Few reasons why he didn't make a big deal of it back then: 1) Didn't see Kat, couldn't associate having a new arm with divine providence; 2) Arm was given to him by Ysengrin; but most importantly, 3) Even though the wood is indeed biological, the old wooden arm was merely seen as a replacement for the one that he didn't have in the first place; it didn't matter if it was made of rock or wood or any other form of material the Forest could provide, it only mattered that it replaced the arm he didn't have. Robot's new arm, however, is a replacement for his entire being; this arm is a representation of what is meant to replace the body that he currently has, to usher in a new form of existence. |
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Post by arf on Dec 12, 2015 1:49:06 GMT
I had been going to comment on how the new arm compares with the wooden one (I'd add that was given by Ysengrin long before Kat got to tinkering. Robot was known to have strange ideas before that, however.) Another thing to speculate on is the arm design. Is this a coincidence? (The Arrow first appeared in the same chapter that Robot started getting preachy. Also, may contain birds) |
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Post by Sauzels on Dec 12, 2015 2:40:41 GMT
Somehow I get the feeling he isn't just going to show Shadow. Shadow is organic now, remember? Or at least three-dimensional. Yeah, I don't quite fully understand where Shadow stands in terms of being an unquestionably real and biological being. Real, yes. Biological? Well, he eats food and has three dimensions to him now, but... I mean, he WAS a Shadow... Speaking of, we haven't seen Shadow in quite a while now, right? But the shadow people as a whole, in turn, used to be biological. Probably. Maybe more ethereal than biological. Which leads me to wonder: have we ever explored whether or not Shadow can go/look/whatever into the Ether? |
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Post by warrl on Dec 12, 2015 2:42:02 GMT
Point brought up on /co/ - this isn't S13's first time having an organic arm. Same side, even. He didn't exactly make a big deal out of it back then, and seemed to have full control over it even before being possessed. Granted wood probably doesn't give much sensory input but it's not exactly robotic either. No, different sides. If you compare both pages, Robot's wooden arm is actually on his right side. The new biological arm is on his left. Few reasons why he didn't make a big deal of it back then: 1) Didn't see Kat, couldn't associate having a new arm with divine providence; 2) Arm was given to him by Ysengrin; but most importantly, 3) Even though the wood is indeed biological, the old wooden arm was merely seen as a replacement for the one that he didn't have in the first place; it didn't matter if it was made of rock or wood or any other form of material the Forest could provide, it only mattered that it replaced the arm he didn't have. Robot's new arm, however, is a replacement for his entire being; this arm is a representation of what is meant to replace the body that he currently has, to usher in a new form of existence. Another: the wooden arm was a dead stick. This arm is alive. |
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Post by The Anarch on Dec 12, 2015 17:14:58 GMT
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Post by csj on Dec 13, 2015 7:04:25 GMT
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Post by corvis on Dec 14, 2015 2:54:33 GMT
No, different sides. If you compare both pages, Robot's wooden arm is actually on his right side. The new biological arm is on his left. Few reasons why he didn't make a big deal of it back then: 1) Didn't see Kat, couldn't associate having a new arm with divine providence; 2) Arm was given to him by Ysengrin; but most importantly, 3) Even though the wood is indeed biological, the old wooden arm was merely seen as a replacement for the one that he didn't have in the first place; it didn't matter if it was made of rock or wood or any other form of material the Forest could provide, it only mattered that it replaced the arm he didn't have. Robot's new arm, however, is a replacement for his entire being; this arm is a representation of what is meant to replace the body that he currently has, to usher in a new form of existence. Another: the wooden arm was a dead stick. This arm is alive. I agree with calpal that the meaning is more important than the material. Also, Ysengrin's "gift" to S13 was not a dead stick. He dropped a seed into the empty socket, and it grew into a wooden arm. |
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