|
Post by violet on Oct 28, 2009 15:50:28 GMT
It strikes me that this is not the first time Robot has called Kat an angel. There's also an extra part on his CPU that could serve any number of interesting purposes. (“Oh, that? That's just the ECC—Etheric Consciousness Co-processor.”)
|
|
|
Post by Snes on Oct 28, 2009 16:21:14 GMT
It strikes me that this is not the first time Robot has called Kat an angel. There's also an extra part on his CPU that could serve any number of interesting purposes. (“Oh, that? That's just the ECC—Etheric Consciousness Co-processor.”) Why would they bother sticking something like that on a convicted felon? My thought was that the extra part was some sort of restraint in case the criminal bots escape. Just push a button and they power down or get back in their cell or something.
|
|
|
Post by crysiana on Oct 28, 2009 16:26:49 GMT
I always assumed the extra blue bit was the etheric part of some machine design; basically that it was the sort of thing that Mrs. Donlan's necklace was and it linked to some etheric supercomputer deeper inside the Court. When machines rebuild themselves, they can't replicate the chip, which would partially explain the decline in design - the etheric component is lost when they repair themselves, over time.
|
|
|
Post by violet on Oct 28, 2009 16:32:20 GMT
Why would they bother sticking something like that on a convicted felon? My thought was that the extra part was some sort of restraint in case the criminal bots escape. I was thinking it was a part of the original design of certain robot CPUs. Perhaps all robot CPUs (implying that Kat had only seen non-sentient CPUs before, which seems a bit unlikely), but CPUs in the Seraph line, at least. A restraint device would seem unusually forward-thinking for the court robots. If it is something like that, I wonder why they haven't activated it yet.
|
|
|
Post by tyler on Oct 28, 2009 16:40:48 GMT
Maybe he just likes Mirror's Edge?
|
|
|
Post by Seth Thresher on Oct 28, 2009 19:20:14 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Ulysses on Oct 28, 2009 19:30:57 GMT
Curses! I was wrong about the Angel being Jeanne. But I guess the picture would be part of the shrine, so she couldn't watch over herself. Well done to people who thought it must be Kat.
Robot seems particularly lithe in his new body. I guess Kat made manouverability a major factor in the design. Apparently we can't say the same for fingers.
|
|
Pig_catapult
Full Member
Keeper of the Devilkitty
Posts: 171
|
Post by Pig_catapult on Oct 28, 2009 21:44:18 GMT
I gotta say, I laughed aloud when I read that last speech bubble. Tom knows us way too well.
|
|
|
Post by warrl on Oct 28, 2009 23:15:19 GMT
There's also an extra part on his CPU that could serve any number of interesting purposes. (“Oh, that? That's just the ECC—Etheric Consciousness Co-processor.”) Why would they bother sticking something like that on a convicted felon? What makes you think they stuck it on a convicted felon? I would put it the other way around: S13 had a processor with an ECC, and as the other such processors either malfunctioned and had to be scrapped or got completely absorbed into robot-manufacturing and -maintenance roles - and the number of non-ECC robots steadily increased - eventually he became such an aberration that the other robots tried to shut him down.
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 29, 2009 0:01:41 GMT
Why is it that we don't think that all robots have the blue part on their CPUs?
|
|
|
Post by Seth Thresher on Oct 29, 2009 0:23:47 GMT
I don't. They probably all do.
|
|
|
Post by Jiminiminy on Oct 29, 2009 0:26:07 GMT
Because Kat seemed surprised that it was there, but likely had seen one (or more) without it before, considering she had a 'normal' point of reference. (" Well, it looks like a normal CPU...") However she didn't know what the blue part is, implying that it was something she'd never seen before. While she might just be stating that it's an ordinary thing that she doesn't know the purpose of, it's more likely that it was the first time she'd seen it, or anything like it. It is not a 100% definite answer, but it can be easily interpreted as Kat having seen one without it before, which means that not all robots have them.
|
|
|
Post by Seth Thresher on Oct 29, 2009 0:30:46 GMT
I dunno. I figure that she wasn't apt to disassembling court property? I think if she went around cracking open robots left and right she's have at least gotten detention by now.
|
|
|
Post by Jiminiminy on Oct 29, 2009 0:35:58 GMT
She seems apt enough to form an expected normality. Also apt enough to know how a docking station works, though that could be attributed to studies rather than trial. Like I said though, it's not 100% definitive, so not everyone is going to follow it.
Besides, what's to say she hasn't gotten a detention?
|
|
|
Post by sandjosieph on Oct 29, 2009 1:25:56 GMT
Off to see the angel! The wonderful angel of... GKC?
|
|
|
Post by Jiminiminy on Oct 29, 2009 2:20:59 GMT
Given the present situation, that Yellow Brick Road seems less yellow and more vertical.
|
|
|
Post by Per on Oct 29, 2009 2:27:07 GMT
All Diego-spawned robots may have a blue part if they hold the Jeanne-loving and Young-hating subroutines.
|
|
12th
New Member
Posts: 8
|
Post by 12th on Oct 29, 2009 2:47:01 GMT
She seems apt enough to form an expected normality. Also apt enough to know how a docking station works, though that could be attributed to studies rather than trial. Like I said though, it's not 100% definitive, so not everyone is going to follow it. Besides, what's to say she hasn't gotten a detention? I honestly doubt she's vivisected court robots. She seems to mostly take them in stride. It's not exactly like a cpu is something that only court robots are going to have, she could easily be fairly familiar with robotics technologies and the workings of court bots without actually having seen the cpu of one before that point in time.
|
|
girly
New Member
Posts: 1
|
Post by girly on Oct 29, 2009 23:45:43 GMT
Jack's behind everything theory #261
I think these robots are Jack's. He's already shown an extensive knowledge in robot mechanics, like we saw in the last chapter, and the speech bubble in the last panel isn't all... roboty.
Plus, he already doesn't like Kat, so maybe he's against sky watcher calling her an angel.
|
|
|
Post by warrl on Nov 2, 2009 16:38:03 GMT
It wasn't Sky Watcher that called her an angel, it was Robot.
|
|