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Post by csj on Feb 27, 2023 7:59:20 GMT
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Post by madjack on Feb 27, 2023 8:06:07 GMT
Too much IQ and not enough IRQ
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Post by TBeholder on Feb 27, 2023 8:25:12 GMT
So it’s indeed a “SCRAM button not found” error.
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Post by itrogash on Feb 27, 2023 8:25:21 GMT
In which girls get progressively more tired of Kat's shit.
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Post by bicarbonat on Feb 27, 2023 8:28:18 GMT
"...Tap into nearby electric fields –" Anton, write that down!
Chekhov: [loads bullets]
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Post by ghostiet on Feb 27, 2023 8:40:10 GMT
it's as if doing this without the supervision of people who know what they are doing was a bad idea
I really hope this arc ends with Kat getting chewed the fuck out by Annie and Paz, something's gotta give. plus it's Annie's turn to finally do a call out thread after being the subject of roasts for most of the comic.
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Post by shadow3 on Feb 27, 2023 8:44:06 GMT
The first step of Omega-Kat's transformation is complete.
Next - infiltration of Omega, to be corrupted into the BBEG who devours Zimmy and becomes OMEGA KAT Z.
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Post by stclair on Feb 27, 2023 8:56:29 GMT
so that's a "yes", then.
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Post by jda on Feb 27, 2023 9:19:20 GMT
mmm, then, maybe just gotta avoid overloading, maybe just turn off any electrical devices around her, or even carry the unconscious body to an open, natural field with no electronics nearby (nor any living beings, for good measure)
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Post by lightshade on Feb 27, 2023 9:22:37 GMT
Alright, so phew, looks like Kat is out of the danger zone for the moment, at least as far as her mind is concerned. Still not gonna be entirely convinced her actual body is fine until it's shown on-panel. A LOT has happened to it in the past few minutes and the last thing Kat needs is to get back inside of it only to discover she's paralyzed from the neck down or something.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Feb 27, 2023 9:33:55 GMT
Hrm, unless Kat just needs them to NOT remove the chip and let her be for a little while "locked out of her account" must mean more than just can't move her body. If she can't clear this up quickly then these protocols she's mentioning are also preventing her from freely using her computer. If that's the case she's either only able to observe and manipulate nearby electric devices because one or more of the still-running protocols allows it or she can't access her computer at all and she's only using the interface chip to mess with stuff in her immediate area.
So what do? If Kat can't solve the problem herself things Antimony and/or Paz could do that might help include degaussing Kat (for which they probably have a tool nearby, or if not then any old CRT monitor or tv will do), putting Kat in a faraday cage that they'd have to find or construct, turning off or resetting her previous computer, questing to find the new computer's hidden location through a bunch of traps and tests to do something there, asking the robots for help, or dare I say asking Kat's mother for help (haha, j/k on that last one).
The quest for the new computer would probably be the most exciting possibility, as Kat has no doubt hidden it in a secret facility designed to defeat intruders with video-game style challenges among other things, but I think I'd prefer to observe Paz and Antimony construct the faraday cage or otherwise work together for a decent amount of time and interact with limited or no input from Kat.
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Post by mwr2022 on Feb 27, 2023 10:21:56 GMT
Heh. In which Annie and Paz keep refocusing Kat on the small issue of being immobile and possibly injured.
There’s been emotional jumps this chapter but I’m enjoying it now that it’s underway. Hoping for wacky hijinks, Kat’s flesh prison not being too damaged, and Kat acknowledging this was dangerous. I assume she’ll at least get told off by Annie and Paz for this stunt. After they help her get back into her account, of course.
On a darker note, I wonder if this reveals Kat’s transformation has vulnerabilities that Zimmy and Gamma could exploit for self-defense. Not that Z & G are know for their technical prowess.
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Post by blahzor on Feb 27, 2023 10:31:39 GMT
Kat entered her password too many times without being correct
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Post by bicarbonat on Feb 27, 2023 13:49:34 GMT
Kat entered her password too many times without being correct Try again... IN EIGHTY YEARSSSSS |
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Post by mochakimono on Feb 27, 2023 13:56:30 GMT
Something about the phrasing makes me wonder if Kat already underwent a body transfer without telling the others. Maybe the body we're seeing here is already New...? At this point, I wouldn't put it past Kat to have lab-grown a clone or two of herself to run tests off-camera. Hmm.
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Post by sosleepy on Feb 27, 2023 14:16:57 GMT
Man i hope her body is just in unconscious state and her body functions like breathing are working fine still. Because if they are not Kat might get this account banned from this game called "life". Also it would be prety scary if her body just stands up all of a sudden and starts walking on autopilot. Like sleepwalking!
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Post by ctso74 on Feb 27, 2023 14:55:42 GMT
The quest for the new computer would probably be the most exciting possibility, as Kat has no doubt hidden it in a secret facility designed to defeat intruders with video-game style challenges among other things, but I think I'd prefer to observe Paz and Antimony construct the faraday cage or otherwise work together for a decent amount of time and interact with limited or no input from Kat. Now I'm imagining Weekend At Bernie's hijinks, involving Annie, Paz, and Kat's drooling comatose body for biometrics. The entire time, Kat's disembodied voice is trying to guide them the labyrinthine security. Could the first chapter page, show Kat taking control of a buried body to help out? Will the NPs freak the hell out when they see it? |
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Post by mglvna on Feb 27, 2023 16:07:14 GMT
Well, this should be easy. She just needs to answer some quick password recovery questions about her account. Stuff like "What was the name of the street you grew up on?" and "When was the first time you decided to play god?" Simple stuff.
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Post by maxptc on Feb 27, 2023 16:32:14 GMT
"It's called a simulcast Annie, it's very fancy and definitely not somthing to worry about. I mean, it's not like anyone else but me could login to my body, and I'm the only me right?"
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Post by Gemini Jim on Feb 27, 2023 16:59:15 GMT
Rey: "Hey, if you're not using that, can I...."
Annie, Paz, and Transformer-Kat: NO!
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Post by Igniz on Feb 27, 2023 17:06:57 GMT
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Post by Gemminie on Feb 27, 2023 17:18:50 GMT
Annie asks Kat's disembodied voice whether she uploaded her mind to her new computer, but Kat denies that. But she says that her new computer has some conflicts because of all the new experimental features she added to it. We see the small camera that Kat is watching from. Paz is looking at Kat's unconscious body with concern. Annie interrupts Kat as she lists off the new features she added (possibly the subset of them that she thinks may be causing the problems). Kat says she's fine, that it was the coil overloaded and not the implant, and that she's now locked out of her body in some way, likening it to being locked out of one's computer account. This doesn't make a lot of sense. What kind of conflicts would result in this? Well, Kat lists the features she added, but I'm going on the theory that she's thinking about the ones that caused the conflict. Of course, Annie interrupts her, so we likely don't have a complete list. The ones she lists are: - Protocol to protect her from electric shock (is she talking about her body? or her consciousness?)
- Protocol to tap into nearby electric fields
- Protocol that prevents movement during high electrostatic (interrupted ... guessing high electrostatic charge events, or the like) (but movement of what?)
She additionally says the coil (assuming that's part of the activator gadget) overloaded. That may have caused an electric shock, invoking the protocol to protect her body. There may also have been a high electrostatic whatever, preventing "movement" (could this mean movement of her consciousness?). Clearly she's able to tap into nearby electric fields, though, since she can modulate voltage to the degree of affecting a speaker, and she can access a camera and microphone. It's still not clear exactly where her consciousness is, if she denies that it's in her new computer and she's locked out of her body. Is it in the chip? Is it somehow in the circuitry around her in the lab?
If my guesses here are correct, she should be able to access her body again once the protocols have determined that the electrostatic event is over. But we don't have a lot of information here.
I'm with pyradonis; this is a strange departure from our characters' normal behavior. It's as if Annie and Paz have no agency in this sequence of events. They were clearly shocked by what Kat wanted to do, but they went right ahead and did it anyway. That strange disconnect could have been fixed by showing them voicing their concerns, at least to each other, but deciding to continue with it because if they don't, Kat will just find a way to do it without them. And it's presented as if Kat commonly experiments on her own body, which we haven't ever seen her do before, not even once – it hasn't even been suggested, to my recollection. However ... I'm recalling that the chapter title is "An Aside (in which Kat goes too far)" – I'm not sure what part of this would be an "aside," which in theater is a character talking to the audience but not heard by the other characters, so it doesn't affect the plot in any way. What if this is going on in an alternate timeline, and it's being shown here either because this version of Kat is going to affect the main timeline soon? Or, what if we're seeing this for contrast, because a similar sequence of events is going to be shown in the main timeline but with people making different decisions?
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Post by guntherkrieg on Feb 27, 2023 17:25:32 GMT
I really hope this arc ends with Kat getting chewed the fuck out by Annie and Paz, something's gotta give. Good luck, this is No Accountability, the comic. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Feb 27, 2023 17:27:40 GMT
Man i hope her body is just in unconscious state and her body functions like breathing are working fine still. Because if they are not Kat might get this account banned from this game called "life". Also it would be prety scary if her body just stands up all of a sudden and starts walking on autopilot. Like sleepwalking! "Oh don't worry, that's just my Night Person" |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Feb 27, 2023 17:28:36 GMT
"It's called a simulcast Annie, it's very fancy and definitely not somthing to worry about. I mean, it's not like anyone else but me could login to my body, and I'm the only me right?" Next: Omega logs into Kat's body. |
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Post by blahzor on Feb 27, 2023 20:41:07 GMT
Annie asks Kat's disembodied voice whether she uploaded her mind to her new computer, but Kat denies that. But she says that her new computer has some conflicts because of all the new experimental features she added to it. We see the small camera that Kat is watching from. Paz is looking at Kat's unconscious body with concern. Annie interrupts Kat as she lists off the new features she added (possibly the subset of them that she thinks may be causing the problems). Kat says she's fine, that it was the coil overloaded and not the implant, and that she's now locked out of her body in some way, likening it to being locked out of one's computer account. This doesn't make a lot of sense. What kind of conflicts would result in this? Well, Kat lists the features she added, but I'm going on the theory that she's thinking about the ones that caused the conflict. Of course, Annie interrupts her, so we likely don't have a complete list. The ones she lists are: - Protocol to protect her from electric shock (is she talking about her body? or her consciousness?)
- Protocol to tap into nearby electric fields
- Protocol that prevents movement during high electrostatic (interrupted ... guessing high electrostatic charge events, or the like) (but movement of what?)
She additionally says the coil (assuming that's part of the activator gadget) overloaded. That may have caused an electric shock, invoking the protocol to protect her body. There may also have been a high electrostatic whatever, preventing "movement" (could this mean movement of her consciousness?). Clearly she's able to tap into nearby electric fields, though, since she can modulate voltage to the degree of affecting a speaker, and she can access a camera and microphone. It's still not clear exactly where her consciousness is, if she denies that it's in her new computer and she's locked out of her body. Is it in the chip? Is it somehow in the circuitry around her in the lab?
If my guesses here are correct, she should be able to access her body again once the protocols have determined that the electrostatic event is over. But we don't have a lot of information here.
I'm with pyradonis; this is a strange departure from our characters' normal behavior. It's as if Annie and Paz have no agency in this sequence of events. They were clearly shocked by what Kat wanted to do, but they went right ahead and did it anyway. That strange disconnect could have been fixed by showing them voicing their concerns, at least to each other, but deciding to continue with it because if they don't, Kat will just find a way to do it without them. And it's presented as if Kat commonly experiments on her own body, which we haven't ever seen her do before, not even once – it hasn't even been suggested, to my recollection. However ... I'm recalling that the chapter title is "An Aside (in which Kat goes too far)" – I'm not sure what part of this would be an "aside," which in theater is a character talking to the audience but not heard by the other characters, so it doesn't affect the plot in any way. What if this is going on in an alternate timeline, and it's being shown here either because this version of Kat is going to affect the main timeline soon? Or, what if we're seeing this for contrast, because a similar sequence of events is going to be shown in the main timeline but with people making different decisions?
the weird thing Kat is using 2 different cameras to look through. i assume she's materalizing them like the speaker so why? testing out things while still in this scenario meaning she's not even taking this seriously |
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Post by fia on Feb 27, 2023 20:51:10 GMT
not me alternately laughing and being horrified
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Post by blahzor on Feb 27, 2023 20:53:10 GMT
Man i hope her body is just in unconscious state and her body functions like breathing are working fine still. Because if they are not Kat might get this account banned from this game called "life". Also it would be prety scary if her body just stands up all of a sudden and starts walking on autopilot. Like sleepwalking! i mean if you create a new species in your basement you don't worry about body death if you're mind is still there.. The bodies are also modular on top of it while being organic |
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Post by drmemory on Feb 28, 2023 1:12:39 GMT
So if Kat's mind is not in her body, does that mean it could be taken over by someone else? Omega, for example?
I could imagine that being a way in which Kat could kill Zimmy w/o Kat being involved at all.
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Post by sosleepy on Feb 28, 2023 1:35:46 GMT
Man i hope her body is just in unconscious state and her body functions like breathing are working fine still. Because if they are not Kat might get this account banned from this game called "life". Also it would be prety scary if her body just stands up all of a sudden and starts walking on autopilot. Like sleepwalking! i mean if you create a new species in your basement you don't worry about body death if you're mind is still there.. The bodies are also modular on top of it while being organic True. But there could be more consequences still. I wonder if she might anger some god or some other kind of etheric force (like arbiter Saslamel) by moving her consciousness between bodies if the original dies. And this sounds like it could be a serious violation since that would disrupt the way of things in GC world because after a human dies his soul should be absorbed into the Ether and the world should keep spinning.... well, if i remember it correctly. |
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