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Post by csj on Dec 18, 2015 15:36:08 GMT
Wheel, slope, pulley, lever, wedge, screw Edit: Slope isn't the technical term, but it's the same. Inclined plane is the proper fancified term but I'll accept slope or ramp. Sounds like someone has played  |
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Post by yla on Dec 18, 2015 16:39:24 GMT
This is an incredible perspective.
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Post by nero on Dec 18, 2015 17:55:14 GMT
Yeah you guys are just standing around talking, while we would sit comfortably and maybe have refreshments.
I'm hoping Robot doesn't get too extreme, I don't think he would physically hurt any robot that doesn't agree with him, he really wants a better life for the robots. His goal seems to be the Court
recognizing the robots as proper living beings with the same rights as any human. Maybe the Court will be smart and follow the easy route. They must be aware of at least some of their activities.
I just hate that Robot is using Kat and has gained a higher standing among the robots this way.
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Post by mordekai on Dec 18, 2015 19:31:07 GMT
As I said before: When a robotic prophet among a race of advanced sentient machines presents the Bible of Pain to his brethen, I think it may be time to take an extended vacation outside the Known Universe...  I hope Kat doesn't have to kill all the robots in order to protect Humanity... |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 18, 2015 19:40:00 GMT
Inclined plane is the proper fancified term but I'll accept slope or ramp. Sounds like someone has played super-solvers-gizmos-gadgets Nah. I played around in physics 101 (with lab). |
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Post by l33tninja on Dec 18, 2015 20:55:04 GMT
By the way, each person who can identify all the simple machines in panel 4 without searching or looking them up merits one internet. that's all it takes to earn the internet? |
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Post by ctso74 on Dec 18, 2015 21:06:25 GMT
Uhoh, dissent. Also, this seems like a point where he might start screaming 'HERETICS!' Or worse. He might quietly whisper "Heretics...", while the others warm up the paper clip machine. I wouldn't have so much trouble with Robby's mentality if he wasn't so hellbent on twisting the good intentions of those around him. That he pushes such divinity into a human's work ethic, or decides that there's some special purpose behind basic interaction between people bothers me to no end. It goes beyond defying what robots are generally useful for (as tools) and enters the realm of fetishistic daydreaming. The religion he's making, from the very beginning, is founded on assumptions that only someone with a predisposition for mysticism could ever be capable of... He's not the kind of character I can understand or sympathize with, and I'm saddened by this. Probably just me, but with almost every word, I believe you described all organized religions. I'd say "We should make a t-shirt", but there are too many words. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Dec 18, 2015 21:17:35 GMT
Guys, guys! Everything's gonna be fiiine. You watch! This will all turn out for the best. Yep. Everything's fine! By the way, each person who can identify all the simple machines in panel 4 without searching or looking them up merits one internet. that's all it takes to earn the internet? No, no. One internet. A single unit of internet. You've got a long way to go before earning THE internet. |
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Post by Gulby on Dec 18, 2015 21:24:48 GMT
I wonder if the unknown thing on Robot's CPU is his faith. Not the data but the ability to beleive in deity. I wonder what could possibly define humanity in GKC. Biological bodies ? Consciousness ? Creativity ? Mortality ? The ability to beleive ?...
Clearly, to me at least, Robot is seeking to become human, and his way for achieving that is to create a goddess, human style (the same way Coyote was created by desert people). Is that a good or a bad thing ? I don't know. But this is the purpose of the Court to "play to God" and they failed (Jeanne etc.), while Kat didn't want it, doesn't know that it is happening right now, but still is becoming something powerful, with, from and for the robot faith in her.
I hope that Robot will be the only one to really want to pursue in that way, and that he will succeed because in my opinion, he deserves to become human.
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Post by zirka on Dec 18, 2015 21:32:44 GMT
I wouldn't have so much trouble with Robby's mentality if he wasn't so hellbent on twisting the good intentions of those around him. That he pushes such divinity into a human's work ethic, or decides that there's some special purpose behind basic interaction between people bothers me to no end. It goes beyond defying what robots are generally useful for (as tools) and enters the realm of fetishistic daydreaming. The religion he's making, from the very beginning, is founded on assumptions that only someone with a predisposition for mysticism could ever be capable of... He's not the kind of character I can understand or sympathize with, and I'm saddened by this. Probably just me, but with almost every word, I believe you described all organized religions. I'd say "We should make a t-shirt", but there are too many words. I think the above paragraph can be condensed to the words worship = fetishistic daydreaming. Although that does lose some of the context...and I would not actually want that on a shirt. |
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Post by psybershadow on Dec 18, 2015 23:56:33 GMT
Wait. Guys. What if Kat uses this organic machinery to rebuild Tony's arm?
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Dec 19, 2015 1:33:55 GMT
Wait. Guys. What if Kat uses this organic machinery to rebuild Tony's arm? Previously said, but is worth repeating...  Kat might grow her hair out again just to help her be grumpy about Anthony. |
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Post by Nepycros on Dec 19, 2015 17:29:59 GMT
Wait. Guys. What if Kat uses this organic machinery to rebuild Tony's arm? Perfect, this way he'll be able to build another antennae without having to learn to write with his feet! |
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Post by Draxiss on Dec 20, 2015 23:00:04 GMT
I do like the idea that the robots' relative "creative sterility" (IF they really have it; I suspect it's come out in other ways) isn't due to something vague about being computers. (You know, the whole, "robots are soulless because they're artificial/organic/non-human" moral) Seriously, they're capable of reasoning on the same level as humans and clearly have a way to simulate emotions (which just what we do to assign values to everything.)
Anyways, S13's argument is just that they don't have the motivation to, since they don't NEED to.
Humans came up with all their crap (inclined planes, agriculture, Roboxes, doors, etc.) because at some point, they were externally motivated to.
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Post by Draxiss on Dec 20, 2015 23:02:28 GMT
Also, quite clearly those machines are Boxbot, Boxbot, two Boxbots stacked upon each other in a trench coat, Boxbot, Boxbot, and half a Boxbot.
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Post by todd on Dec 20, 2015 23:44:20 GMT
Why do I have the uneasy feeling that S13's response to the two robots in the last panel will be something like that of the man making a speech to the workers about how, come the Revolution, they'd finally get to live in luxury and east strawberries; aman in the audience protested "But I don't like strawberries", to which the orator replied "Come the Revolution, you'll eat strawberries whether you like them or not!"?
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Post by rafk on Dec 21, 2015 7:45:30 GMT
Why do I have the uneasy feeling that S13's response to the two robots in the last panel will be something like that of the man making a speech to the workers about how, come the Revolution, they'd finally get to live in luxury and east strawberries; aman in the audience protested "But I don't like strawberries", to which the orator replied "Come the Revolution, you'll eat strawberries whether you like them or not!"? He basically did that already after the events of the Torn Sea. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1451 |
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 21, 2015 10:03:17 GMT
Wait. Guys. What if Kat uses this organic machinery to rebuild Tony's arm? It's been suggested before (too lazy to look up citations). It would be a good way to end their 'feud', definitely! However, I think that Tony wants to punish himself with that inferior prosthetic for his failures around his wife and daughter, so he'd have to come to terms with that before he'd accept Kat's aid on the matter. Furthermore, I doubt Kat's planning on helping Tony at the moment, given the (self-admitted) atrocious way he's treated her over the last few chapters. I definitely hope it happens though, even if it's long-term.  |
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