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Post by fish on May 23, 2016 7:04:14 GMT
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Post by Dvandaemon on May 23, 2016 7:07:13 GMT
Can't help but feel like their work is going to be a plot point.
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Post by fish on May 23, 2016 7:10:07 GMT
Can't help but feel like their work is going to be a plot point. Their "blasted Omega Device" perhaps? I doubt we'll find out this chapter... although, with Andrew here... huh |
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Post by arf on May 23, 2016 7:34:29 GMT
When did Bugsy last wash that dress?
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Post by csj on May 23, 2016 7:38:57 GMT
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Post by rafk on May 23, 2016 8:30:52 GMT
Distributed etheric computing with sentient computers who use their spare cycles for playing games and don't realise how they are exploited. The Court are such assholes.
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Post by noone3 on May 23, 2016 8:53:45 GMT
I bet those clothes they will get are beeing produced in a sweat shop, by other forest refugees, as we speak...  |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 23, 2016 11:20:41 GMT
Can't help but feel like their work is going to be a plot point. Although I think this exploitation is likely to be true, this could also simply be regular school work that the Foley students don't understand. Tom seems to be pretty good at taking a normal situation and examining it from an outsider's perspective. In the Chapter 15 retrospective, Tom said that the Foley students are just dumped in their bodies and not really told how anything works. That could support the idea that the Court doesn't care enough about the Foley students to give them more help. But Tom also said that Red's odd understanding of things like magnetic levitation would be looked at in a later chapter. Either way I look at it, it seems odd that Bugsy and the other Foley teachers are either complicit in the exploitation of the students, don't understand the exploitation that they are enabling, or aren't giving the students more help as they transition to being human. Maybe Year 7 in Foley is kind of like kindergarten where the students are just being kept busy and out of trouble until they develop more. |
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Post by ctso74 on May 23, 2016 13:24:07 GMT
I bet those clothes they will get are beeing produced in a sweat shop, by other forest refugees, as we speak... We could go a million times worse, and say the clothes are made of forest refugees. They're ability to see in the Ether, would make Soylent Green Socks, especially horrifying. Random Foley receiving a Soylent Green tie: "... St... Steve?" It probably is a cultural idiosyncrasy from the Forest. I recall them making their own clothes at adulthood. Am I remembering that correctly? |
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Post by keef on May 23, 2016 13:42:37 GMT
I bet those clothes they will get are beeing produced in a sweat shop, by other forest refugees, as we speak... I recall them making their own clothes at adulthood. Am I remembering that correctly? Yes: " they come of age when they are able to make their own clothes." Let's be optimistic, and hope that some of the jobs they talk about are in the etheric fashion industry. |
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Post by arzeik on May 23, 2016 19:13:43 GMT
Woah, all this really sounds like... |
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Post by calpal on May 24, 2016 1:51:45 GMT
Woah, all this really sounds like...
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No no no, they work for each other, in exchange for money. |
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Post by Trillium on May 24, 2016 4:16:31 GMT
Bugsy has a job teaching at the school...I wonder what other jobs are available for the Foley students? The students seem happy. Red was the only one that seemed unhappy with her lot until she made her hair go up. Still it does look like exploitation.
Red did leave without qualms as soon as she got a name.
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Post by OGRuddawg on May 24, 2016 13:14:32 GMT
All everyone is talking about is the very possible exploitation of these guys, and all I'm thinking is "Bugsy really loves showing off her duds."
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Post by Trillium on May 24, 2016 20:46:57 GMT
How does the court give them etheric clothing?
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 24, 2016 22:29:24 GMT
How does the court give them etheric clothing? IDK, on hangers covered with clear plastic, or folded and boxed? * Or are you asking about how the Court makes etheric clothing? If it is the latter then my guess is the Court doesn't make etheric clothing and Bugsy is making her own. I don't think we've seen enough to do better than guessing. * Sorry, I couldn't stop myself. Pronounced correctly. |
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Post by TBeholder on May 25, 2016 10:24:08 GMT
I can't help to imagine what would Smitty's face do when he hears the brief summary from Annie. Especially the eyebrows. Maybe Year 7 in Foley is kind of like kindergarten where the students are just being kept busy and out of trouble until they develop more. This applies either way. They are Foleys, after all. I can imagine an old court meeting going like this: "People from the forest here? Ew." "Free labor tho" Looks like there was a great amount of rat ass left not requisitioned, yeah. |
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