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Post by arf on Dec 9, 2022 8:03:55 GMT
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Post by basser on Dec 9, 2022 8:25:16 GMT
Next week: the gang confronts Tony, ready to fight to convince him to let them use The Device. Tony offers no resistance and simply leads them to his office, where he turns on his monitor to reveal a gigantic spreadsheet. Can Kat master macros in time to save the world?
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Post by aline on Dec 9, 2022 8:30:45 GMT
Next week: the gang confronts Tony, ready to fight to convince him to let them use The Device. Tony offers no resistance and simply leads them to his office, where he turns on his monitor to reveal a gigantic spreadsheet. Can Kat master macros in time to save the world? Come one, this is too grim and realistic for the tone of the comic *shivers* |
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Post by bicarbonat on Dec 9, 2022 8:36:22 GMT
I wonder if the Omega device is going to have some new things to "say" about Kat when she's in close proximity – namely, regarding that legendary mechalike goddess aspect.
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Post by jda on Dec 9, 2022 9:08:47 GMT
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Post by jda on Dec 9, 2022 9:10:47 GMT
Next week: the gang confronts Tony, ready to fight to convince him to let them use The Device. Tony offers no resistance and simply leads them to his office, where he turns on his monitor to reveal a gigantic spreadsheet. Can Kat master macros in time to save the world? So the end of the World and History is about Tony's computer running out of Swap space, uh. |
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Post by noone3 on Dec 9, 2022 10:13:37 GMT
Using a machine called "Omega device" to find someone seems an overkill, don't you girls have like phones or facebook?
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Post by csj on Dec 9, 2022 11:42:15 GMT
ok but
what DID they put in the food
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Post by csj on Dec 9, 2022 11:43:55 GMT
how dare p=724 lie to us like this
this is an outrage!
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Post by madjack on Dec 9, 2022 11:52:18 GMT
how dare p=724 lie to us like this this is an outrage! Oh dear. Kat's about to make things a whole lot worse. |
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Post by ctso74 on Dec 9, 2022 14:42:00 GMT
They probably have a dozen different ways to find Zimmy. Kat just wants to mess with the Omega Device. Can you blame her?
I guess I'd ask it a series of increasing complex paradoxes. There's no way that could end poorly.
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Post by pyradonis on Dec 9, 2022 17:35:20 GMT
how dare p=724 lie to us like this this is an outrage! Pretty sure tracking through the food is simply the most convenient way for mass surveillance (Jones only said "generally" after all). We don't know yet how complex it is to operate the Omega Device, or to interpret the results it spits out. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Dec 9, 2022 17:42:26 GMT
Next week: the gang confronts Tony, ready to fight to convince him to let them use The Device. Tony offers no resistance and simply leads them to his office, where he turns on his monitor to reveal a gigantic spreadsheet. Can Kat master macros in time to save the world? My god, it's full of VBS! |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Dec 9, 2022 17:43:22 GMT
They probably have a dozen different ways to find Zimmy. Kat just wants to mess with the Omega Device. Can you blame her? I guess I'd ask it a series of increasing complex paradoxes. There's no way that could end poorly. "Predict span of surface area if Reynard folds himself in half 34 times" |
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Post by knowit on Dec 9, 2022 19:12:29 GMT
Oh! You know, it occurs to me that one of the problems I remember being mentioned for being able to predict the whole universe is the device's size would have to be ginormous on a universal scale, but the entire court exists outside normal space dimensions entirely
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Post by Runningflame on Dec 9, 2022 19:46:30 GMT
Next week: the gang confronts Tony, ready to fight to convince him to let them use The Device. Tony offers no resistance and simply leads them to his office, where he turns on his monitor to reveal a gigantic spreadsheet. Can Kat master macros in time to save the world? Come one, this is too grim and realistic for the tone of the comic *shivers* Every dystopia runs on Microsoft Excel. |
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Post by rafk on Dec 9, 2022 20:29:00 GMT
Using a machine called "Omega device" to find someone seems an overkill, don't you girls have like phones or facebook? Also the Court tracks people with tracking devices in the food, right? I am sure that I remember that from the early days. I think this is Kat making excuses to see what she wanted to see already. |
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Post by hnau on Dec 9, 2022 22:44:57 GMT
how dare p=724 lie to us like this this is an outrage! Pretty sure tracking through the food is simply the most convenient way for mass surveillance (Jones only said "generally" after all). Also the Court tracks people with tracking devices in the food, right? I am sure that I remember that from the early days. implies that Zimmy is not tracked by the Court. Don't know what she eats, though... |
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Post by storyteller on Dec 10, 2022 2:19:36 GMT
how dare p=724 lie to us like this this is an outrage! Pretty sure tracking through the food is simply the most convenient way for mass surveillance (Jones only said "generally" after all). Also the Court tracks people with tracking devices in the food, right? I am sure that I remember that from the early days. implies that Zimmy is not tracked by the Court. Don't know what she eats, though... Given that the Angel reveal had the Angel with wires going to her eyes... And Zimmy's sensitivity to being tracked... And her relationship with time being distinctly not linear... They may accidentally scare Zimmy bad. Which given that she's expecting Court action coming soon - this may go sideways at mach 12. |
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Post by Ophel on Dec 10, 2022 3:03:16 GMT
...
I don't like where this is going.
I could imagine them messing with the omega device could make things go pear shaped in different ways.
It may cause the court to find Zimmy faster, getting to her first.
It might cause Zimmy to go haywire, as others suggest.
It might cause the start of... Divine Kat
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Post by justcurious on Dec 10, 2022 3:07:25 GMT
Does anyone think Kat might be planning to do something with the Omega device that the Court never thought of doing? Could it be something to do with what Gamma said about her stopping the Court from going down a sinister path?
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Post by jda on Dec 10, 2022 7:02:22 GMT
Next week: the gang confronts Tony, ready to fight to convince him to let them use The Device. Tony offers no resistance and simply leads them to his office, where he turns on his monitor to reveal a gigantic spreadsheet. Can Kat master macros in time to save the world? My god, it's full of VBS! A veriTABLE nightmare |
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Post by drmemory on Dec 10, 2022 7:33:26 GMT
The only things we know about the Omega device are that it is able to predict the future and that it is supposed to enable the court to see into the ether. We're missing a lot of detail about both capabilities. Limitations and scope and such... Oh, and we're pretty sure Omega is a computer (or computer program). Or at least it started out that way!
How much of the future can it predict, and how far out? Do you have to write queries or is there a model running all the time and you can just look at it? I believe the slug sex event that Tony and Surma witnessed was an example of the kind of precise prediction it can make, but I'm wondering whether the court can just browse around and find something or if they have to ask it what will happen at a specific date and time and place. Or maybe it's the other way around and they had a prediction of something important involving slugs and walked back through the model until they found that event? No idea really but I'm really curious about how this all works!
For the ether access capability, I'm very curious indeed about that! Can anyone use it? Can you throw it up on a display? That could be creepy. This is so different from the future prediction capability that it seems odd to me. The prediction stuff doesn't do well when the ether gets involved (see problems caused by Annie not dying as predicted) yet Omega can also look into the future? Are both of those things really the same device?
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Post by Igniz on Dec 10, 2022 9:00:13 GMT
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Post by blahzor on Dec 10, 2022 17:17:46 GMT
This is implying the court showed her stuff they made in trying to convince her. You gave a god ideas on what can be done and she'll do that and more in far less time
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Post by blahzor on Dec 10, 2022 17:21:11 GMT
how dare p=724 lie to us like this this is an outrage! I mean if youre gonna switch to her energy you might need a way to find her. Just because they don't doesnt mean they can't track her |
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Post by drmemory on Dec 11, 2022 4:53:47 GMT
A thought: If Kat goes looking for the court's pride and joy, Omega, and tries to use it... might that not get a reaction from the court? Guess we're going to find out what they really know about her and her robots soon!
Also, can Omega really find Zimmy when it couldn't find Loup? Assuming that was true, of course. I suspect that just hacking into the food-tracking system might be easier and provide better results.  |
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Post by rabbit on Dec 11, 2022 17:29:38 GMT
how dare p=724 lie to us like this this is an outrage! Oh dear. Kat's about to make things a whole lot worse. Kat's expression in that last panel does seem to have a mad scientist vibe to it. And as Schlock Mercenary teaches us in Maxim 14: "Mad science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?"
Related musing: Could Omega have predicted that Kat is a mecha-goddess and orchestrated events to attract her to itself?
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Post by Runningflame on Dec 11, 2022 22:51:28 GMT
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Post by novia on Dec 12, 2022 8:20:00 GMT
A thought: If Kat goes looking for the court's pride and joy, Omega, and tries to use it... might that not get a reaction from the court? Guess we're going to find out what they really know about her and her robots soon! Also, can Omega really find Zimmy when it couldn't find Loup? Assuming that was true, of course. I suspect that just hacking into the food-tracking system might be easier and provide better results. I bet Robot knows where Loup is. |
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