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Post by Sky Schemer on Feb 7, 2023 4:53:09 GMT
Page 2743: Paz breaks up with Kat
"It's not me. It's you."
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Feb 7, 2023 5:14:57 GMT
It might be a bad idea to interface a system that could be hacked into directly with your brain.. Oh god imagine getting a Bitcoin miner trojaned into your brain. Just 24/7 crypto |
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Post by blahzor on Feb 7, 2023 7:09:53 GMT
Yeah... Seems like Kat has been Omega the court has been using this entire time with these words
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Post by blahzor on Feb 7, 2023 7:53:53 GMT
I don't think she necessarily means that she won't see something like panels, just that there won't be actual holographic panels floating in the air that anyone can see. Kat prefaces what she says about not seeing panels anymore by saying with the new hard link she'll have access to her computer in ways she never could before. The hard link would dictate two-way information flow. Why? The previous soft connection relied on her interactions with the holographic panels, interpreting her motions as commands (and maybe words as well though that wasn't shown); that the keychain itself was required means Kat's computer needed a device or medium for manifesting the holographic panels, a beacon for Kat's exact location, or a pickup/amplifier for interpreting Kat's movements and voice, or a combination of those things. No holographic panels external to Kat means that comparable or superior information is going into Kat through the hard link. If she is only perceiving panels in a similar format to the holographic panels and then using body movements to give commands I don't think that she'd count that as a new way of access; the only advantage to the hard link would be that she couldn't easily lose the keyring. Why does the chip have to be in her neck as opposed to the back of her hand? Either the computer requires knowledge of her head/spine with a great deal of precision or it requires beneath-the-skin contact. In the former case the computer could stimulate parts of her brain remotely and then interpret the reactions in other parts, in the latter the chip may graft itself into her brain or nervous system directly and additionally may create other structures to help her process (remember her protein crystals?). While it's true that her brain would have to perceive the input somehow I feel using an invisible panels interface (where she still had to move her body) with either of those methods would be a waste, particularly as having her hands bound/incapacitated would interfere with her use of her computer. I don't have any evidence to point to say that can't be the case but why not just go to visualized concepts? It would be radically faster in both directions. I am hoping her authenticator is: think blue count two, and look for a red shoe... Gonna be awakard if she gets electrocuted a bit tho. Would explode in a big blue godlike |
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Post by aline on Feb 7, 2023 9:11:29 GMT
I am still worried about evil!Kat from another timeline having something to do with this
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Post by guntherkrieg on Feb 7, 2023 10:44:48 GMT
You merely enrolled at the Court. I plugged into it!
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Post by guntherkrieg on Feb 7, 2023 10:47:51 GMT
Another, half-formed thought: Tom has, for years, been drawing parallels between sci-fi and fantasy tropes. Robots are golems, engineering is magic, etc. And now we get the super-science version of ascending/merging with the godhead. The only thing is, in various flavours of religion/mysticism, you need to approach that final step with absolutely purity, or you'll be destroyed. Kat's treating it like she's just got a totes sweet new gaming rig.
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Post by blahzor on Feb 7, 2023 11:23:24 GMT
Decades ago
Hey, court people. I'm telling you to build this framework of a computer but it's not a computer. And it won't work until the moment you finish building it. When you do it will predict certain things with a accuracy you won't believe for decades but when you do believe it will free you of your problems... This computer will also be a teenage girl btw but don't worry about that.
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Post by madjack on Feb 7, 2023 13:56:40 GMT
Another idea: Perhaps Paz is thinking back to the time (last panel) when Kat was obsessing over the twin Annies and remembering how much stress that caused on their relationship. Kat might well end up merged with her own personal ocean, one of data rather than emotion and humanlike thought process that the NPs got. She's realising she'll probably lose Kat if this goes ahead, and maybe even if it doesn't. She might be upset enough to blow the whistle to the Court which will cause Kat to commandeer the old buried robots in self defence. Annie is pretty obviously on the This-Is-Not-a-Good-Idea train already, so if both refuse, who implants it? Maybe Loup reveals himself and merges it with her out of curiosity to see how far she can go. If not that far, he or Robot could egg the NPs on to get it done. |
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Post by Dvandaemon on Feb 8, 2023 1:45:28 GMT
Yeah... Seems like Kat has been Omega the court has been using this entire time with these words Yeah, I thought much the same thing. I thought Kat was somehow created by the Court to be Omega. Because thinking about them using the Star Ocean made me wonder, "why would they have such a problem with the Donlan's etheric based computer when, if I recall correctly, it pretty much allows anyone to do etheric things like they're in such a twist about?" and the first conclusion I reached is they don't and that was a lie. |
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Post by blahzor on Feb 8, 2023 5:41:11 GMT
Yeah... Seems like Kat has been Omega the court has been using this entire time with these words Yeah, I thought much the same thing. I thought Kat was somehow created by the Court to be Omega. Because thinking about them using the Star Ocean made me wonder, "why would they have such a problem with the Donlan's etheric based computer when, if I recall correctly, it pretty much allows anyone to do etheric things like they're in such a twist about?" and the first conclusion I reached is they don't and that was a lie. I don't think the court made Kat but the court had help to make sure Kat existed in the court at the very most |
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