whosit
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So totally a self-portrait.
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Post by whosit on Jul 13, 2010 3:57:55 GMT
Poor Kat... her frustration has grown with her hair.
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Post by legion on Jul 13, 2010 7:30:16 GMT
Poor Kat... her frustration has grown with her hair. That's it! The hair! Kat is possessed by them!
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Post by eightyfour on Jul 13, 2010 7:50:56 GMT
Poor Kat... her frustration has grown with her hair. That's it! The hair! Kat is possessed by them! How about her hair is the source of her supernatural engineering skills? Just like the biblical Samson! ;D
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whosit
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So totally a self-portrait.
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Post by whosit on Jul 13, 2010 8:21:33 GMT
Katerina Donlan: mind hair-controlled genius, or supernally gifted angst-fest? We'll find out in the next exciting edition of DR. DISASTERand the HAIR FROM HIMALIA!!![/size][/font][/size]
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 13, 2010 9:47:10 GMT
Somebody please tell me Kat's hair is not made of etheric spiders. @_@ returning to more sane hypothesis: She wants to be as good as Diego, but right now she's got to be wondering if being as good as him means being as nasty as him. It's a little like using whatever scientific discoveries the Nazis made in the torturing of people, and having to decide if the knowledge gained by such means is really worth using, or if the price was too high. I really like this analogy of Diego = Nazi scientists. If Kat's really serious about wanting to become a really great roboticist, she's going to have to confront that fact. Unless Tea-San's intention is to have Kat turn to the dark side... it's a bit ironic that BFF Annie and Kat are such opposites in terms of their reliance on nature and magic vs. science and technology, when past GC history seems to suggest conflicts between the two forces are almost inevitable.
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Post by TBeholder on Jul 13, 2010 11:02:31 GMT
I think Kat feels intimidated by the elegant simplicity of Diego's machines. She strives to be as good or better. Yeah. (grabs eightyfour and prepares itself to raid the cookie shelf). Aw, poor robots. Don't take it out on them, Kat. Don't take it out of them, Kat. "Confound it all! I will never be able to make such an elegant robot...unless I first make some kind of weird arrow and have William It should be Janet, to reenact with the opposite sex in all roles. shoot my unrequited love with it!" This is the thought bubble that didn't make it into the comic for layout reasons. Why you guys are so mean to poor Jack? ;D
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Post by GK Sierra on Jul 13, 2010 16:40:03 GMT
Those wires on the arm look like the could get tangled easily. I don't predict a long career in cricket for this robot.
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Post by the bandit on Jul 13, 2010 21:04:08 GMT
Real Kat's hair is slightly longer.
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Post by tyler on Jul 13, 2010 22:30:30 GMT
Given what Robot's ALREADY capable, I think Kat may be setting her sights a mite high so far. She's made quite an impressive body. Then again, she made an anti-grav drive for a flying bike, so y'know, I suppose I'd have set my sights high in her position.
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Post by Dvandaemon on Jul 14, 2010 2:43:06 GMT
There are those rare few occasions when everything clicks together like magic, and you set the pencil/mouse/tablet/guitar/wrench down and sigh contentedly and can't wait to see what people say about it. These happen too rarely to count on fingers of one hand. The rest of the time a perfectionist has to settle for "blast it, this sucks". Poor Kat. You know you can't get those sleek designs if you're not using etheric means to power your robots. Otherwise, clunky. I'm a massive sufferer of this and won't draw the simplest drawings unless there's a sure chance of success
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Post by beekay on Jul 15, 2010 19:25:08 GMT
Can we take a moment to state the obvious: robot's body is not actually attached to that arm.
Granted, robot is a CPU device that can be transferred to other bodies. His voice is coming out of that speaker, so he could be somewhere inside of that rig. However consider what an etheric robot is. Kat has been subjected to and possibly tormented by the knowledge that etheric robots can work brilliantly without any "electrically driven components at all!" (420).
Now take a moment, Kat has had plenty of time to comes to terms with this knowledge, just like we as a culture have had plenty of time to just deal with the Nazi Scientists. If there is no muscle, nor any motorized equivalent, the limbs must be moved by some sort of etheromagnetic levitation. Robot's "will" is carried through to ether to the limbs and the ether around it, or possibly inside it, moves said limb. Breathe in, breathe out.
Now rigorously-minded scientists don't care if something is magic, the care if it can be repeated, prefferably in a laboratory setting. If we consider the Court to be a giant laboratory the large number of robots working there today, yesterday, and the day before qualify. Kat has learned to work quite brilliantly within the confines of her understanding. However, there's something just at the edge of her understanding...
Robot manages to control his limbs without wires, so shouldn't he be able to control them wirelessly? Show of hands, who is using wireless internet right now? It should work, and more than that, it is the next level of Kat's techno-magical abilities to be able to control technology with her mind. After all, if Annie can access her blinker stone, and Mom can access her computer(-ish thing), Kat could access a computer chip that controls a robot.
At least by logic. The problem, as seen from this comic, is that Robot has no natural telepathy. He either needs to be attached to the rig or else requires an obscene number of add-ons to control his etheric robot elbow, let alone his ridiculously human robot hands. So in short, it works, but not perfectly, and while there's no reason it shouldn't work perfectly, there's also no reason for it to work in the first place. Jargon Jargon Technobabble Strange Words indeed.
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Post by the bandit on Jul 15, 2010 20:45:29 GMT
Can we take a moment to state the obvious: robot's body is not actually attached to that arm. Granted, robot is a CPU device that can be transferred to other bodies. His voice is coming out of that speaker, so he could be somewhere inside of that rig.... I thought it would have been obvious to state that, given the unlit eyes and open hatch at the back of the head in Panel 1, that robot's CPU had been transferred to the rig for testing of the arm.
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