April 30, 2015
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Reminder, all old incentives are going up on the Facebook at the beginning of the new month~ in case you missed any. I’ll have a special incentive up on the 1st as well, since the 1st is a good day to do that kinda thing. Thanks for reading.
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Deeper than the Deep Web?
Reveals!
condensation, u-huh…
And he just stubbed his toe. And has some Mars Dust in his eyes.
Gen 1 Levi is pretty chill.
http://goo.gl/pwjPff
(snort. gag. sprayed coffee) !x!
Chortle, snerk, choke on adult beverage…
And that’s when Bex realizes she’s in the middle of nowhere with a mentally unstable psychopath, but doesn’t want to believe that at first. Well, okay, she doesn’t know enough about his mental instability yet. This can get scary.
A very powerful moment.
Not a psychopath. Unstable, sure, psychopath, nope.
And he might play it off as a joke in the next line… which, yanno, doesn’t help much with the whole unstable perception.
Heh, well, okay, maybe not psychopath. But somewhere in the murderer cathegory. “I hid the body well. They won’t find it.”
murder would require sentience. I’m not sure AI qualifies.
Hmm. Maybe. We aren’t clear on how sentient the AI are. Or why he… hid the… body.
There are killings of humans that don’t count as murder, and reasons you might hide a body that wasn’t your kill.
But, adding to that. Psychopaths wouldn’t be crying over their victims.
I am exaggerating, of course.
Well, technically, he is a thief who feels in his bones that the LEVI is his rightful property. Hiding it is functionaly pointless, like dragging a boat to the middle of a desert to spite the repo man who would sell it to another sailor, but now it’s useless. LEVI is his Precious, and if he can’t pilot it, no one can. I suppose that makes him a manic obsessive with increasing paranoid tendencies. Paranoids are still capable of selfless emotions, like compassion and empathy, (unlike a psychopath), but are unable to keep them a priority in the front of his mind when perceived threats manifest. For example, if he ends up killing her, I guarantee he will feel immediate remorse as he recalls her family when he calms down. A psychopath, at best, would be indifferent to her as a person, at worst, well, I’d rather not go into that.
Aw shit it’s happening!
I drove the Chevy to the Levi but the Levi don’t fly…
SIGH
(I laughed)
…uh ohhh
AIs, huh? So the one that Bex’s kids got, is that just a toy or does it have some personality in it?
Maybe it’d be like some kid’s version of Siri or something, haha. Too much AI would be kinda sad for the toy once it gets lost on a roof or smashed into someone’s window by accident… oh no I’m sad thinking about it haha
“The AIs were staging a rebellion, so we SSHd into their Cloud and dialed them back to just above stupid.”
“Science can only be one of two things: it can be a tool, or a toy” G.K. Chesterton.
Did you see the “Animatrix” shorts, “The New Renaissance” parts 1 and 2? It drives home the importance of not creating disposable intelligence. Planned Obsolescence and wasteful consumerism must NOT be applied to truly sapient machines, yet between bad habits and the machines being very gradually developed, we might not even notice that we have done it until it is too late. A sapient mind is not a tool, but either a slave or a work partner, not a toy, but either an unwilling jester or a playmate. If we are to play god we must be responsible ‘gods’, and if we can’t be, then we need to draw a line in the sand of technological progress and say NO FURTHER.
Whoah. Cool reveal.
I find it especially touching that LEVi called him by a nickname. Is it smart enough to come up with things like that on its own?
No, they’re just buddies :] So they call each other by nickname.
This is getting creepy.
Love it!
Aww, robot bud.
Out of curiosity, is LEVi pronounced ‘lev-ee’ ‘lev-eye’ or ‘lee-vye’? I’ve been pronouncing it ‘lee-vye’ and it occurs to me that that might not actually be correct. If it’s ‘levitating imager’ is ‘lev-eye’ the correct one?
It’s pronounced the same as the word “levee,” which rhymes with “heavy.”
He ain’t LEVi, he’s my brother…
Oh my god…
oh my gawshhhhhhhh I’m not sure if I’m heartbroken or very, very worried.
There’s got to be a Damned Good Reason for hiding a Perfectly Good LEVi.
I was confused why losing a flying camera was such an emotional thing up until now. Obviously it was expensive, so I knew it was a big deal, but I didn’t realize it had an AI. So he lost a friend, which makes more sense.
It’s a lot more than a camera as well, it’s a pretty extensive (and expensive) tool for mapping, analyzing and utilizing the chemistry/ geology of extreme areas. I decided to cut the technical details of what it does but you can still get an idea in the glossary, where I went through the trouble of defining all the words I ended up cutting from the script, haha. But yeah he’s also a cute buddy :3
I was convinced for a while that there had to be a missing PERSON named Levi, (who perhaps named his invention after himself, for fun); I just couldn’t grasp how Mike would be so distraught (and in trouble) over a probe, but NOW I’m getting it.
SHF repeaters? Like little deploy-able signal transmitters that can be dropped every once in a while to relay the feed back to the central station?
Exactly~ expounded upon in the recent vote incentive
Hmmm… In an earlier page, Goto says “LEVi’s dissapearance.”
Damn. Re-reading and that last panel is just. A+