Yeah, the Baron has definitely reverted back to his earlier and sleazier self. I’d thought Aimee’s influence had changed that. I wonder what’s been happening with her? @_@
Perhaps the power of the Crown was only a start, and once the best and brightest AIs have proven their mettle, Aimee will assimilate them and become… almost as powerful as Nick?
“The One” is an underrated popcorn movie. On the surface it screams Matrix knockoff, but on a deeper level, it’s more like screaming through a gag while locked in a steam chest.
And by the collar of slave Leia, I have no idea what Nick was getting at.
How, exactly, does it scream “Matrix knockoff”? It’s nothing whatsoever like Matrix. And I have no idea what you were getting at with “like screaming through a gag while locked in a steam chest.”
Sounds like the Robot Olympics take place in “meat world”. So the winners get uploaded to VR and the losers have to remain mundane? I wonder if Nick will discover his cybernetics allow him to shift back-&-forth at will?
Will Nick choose the Osprey avatar in VR? Or will he prefer to remain a heartbreaker
Bruce A Munro: ‘fraid not. Rule 42 (as amended) states “All robots more than 100’ high to leave the arena”. And crushing the being who could upload you to his server would be counterproductive.
There is no way in a hundred years Ira could hope to successfully imitate the Baron’s particular brand of cheerful sleaze. Not to mention the Baron’s occasional swings to unexpected nobility. ^_^
I mean, he could literally get a job or rob a bank (reality blindness!) and use the money to purchase more rack space, and that would be a more efficient and long-term solution to the “too many AIs” problem, but whatever, this plan makes sense.
(It’s still a BAD plan, but at least I can comprehend what the words mean now.)
warpzone32: Money isn’t the only issue. If you use too much energy it makes you easy to spot, and not just for Skin Horse. Much like how the police can tell you’re growing weed when your neighbour’s electricity bill goes through the roof.
You’d need to find out if the Whimsyworld EULA permits you to move it to another server anyway.
What Whimsy says is irrelevant. The project was never rolled out. It was cancelled, and the server and its contents now belong to the Baron. And he no longer works for Whimsy.
A. There’s a difference between copyright and EULA. There’s nothing in copyright law that says you can’t transfer digital content from one medium to another, as long as you still only have one copy.
B. You’re assuming that Whimsy had already copyrighted the software before they scrapped it. I’ll grant you, that’s a fair assumption, but it’s still just an assumption.
awgiedawgie: The fact that it exists as a creative work means that there’s a copyright. That’s the Berne Convention for you. And we know the copyright wasn’t originally held by Baron Mistycorn as he didn’t create it.
Since there’s a copyright, copying bits of the code to third party machines (as would happen when running a server) isn’t something Baron Mistycorn could do without consent, and so there needs to have been an agreement which gives him permission to do that sort of thing. Who knows what that agreement contains?
Yeah, the Baron has definitely reverted back to his earlier and sleazier self. I’d thought Aimee’s influence had changed that. I wonder what’s been happening with her? @_@
Perhaps the power of the Crown was only a start, and once the best and brightest AIs have proven their mettle, Aimee will assimilate them and become… almost as powerful as Nick?
“The One” is an underrated popcorn movie. On the surface it screams Matrix knockoff, but on a deeper level, it’s more like screaming through a gag while locked in a steam chest.
And by the collar of slave Leia, I have no idea what Nick was getting at.
How, exactly, does it scream “Matrix knockoff”? It’s nothing whatsoever like Matrix. And I have no idea what you were getting at with “like screaming through a gag while locked in a steam chest.”
And now I’m just daydreaming about Slave Leia.
She is worth daydreaming about. ^_^
I dunno. Like Nick, I could think of worse ways to go about it.
One individual’s heaven is another’s hell: do you get to pick your own universe?
No. Walnuts. You only get to pick walnuts.
And only marginally accurate ones at that.
The Daughters of the Air need to send Lovelace back to re-evaluate… things
..
Oh, she’s probably in the crowd, cheering on the Gladiators. She had a bit of a dark side.
Will this be on Netflix?
Sounds like the Robot Olympics take place in “meat world”. So the winners get uploaded to VR and the losers have to remain mundane? I wonder if Nick will discover his cybernetics allow him to shift back-&-forth at will?
Will Nick choose the Osprey avatar in VR? Or will he prefer to remain a heartbreaker
“Or, by being over 200 feet tall, because they could frankly stomp us flat.”
Bruce A Munro: ‘fraid not. Rule 42 (as amended) states “All robots more than 100’ high to leave the arena”. And crushing the being who could upload you to his server would be counterproductive.
Maybe Aimee’s puberty exploded. It’s been a while, and free of the childish bonds
of Whimsy Corp….
Didn’t Mustacio and Hitty already win the Robot Olympics?
Or, at least, destroy and escape the Robot Arena of Death?
Are we sure this is the actual Baron Mistycorn and not a virtual manifestation of Ira/Mr. Green to ensnare Nick again.
There is no way in a hundred years Ira could hope to successfully imitate the Baron’s particular brand of cheerful sleaze. Not to mention the Baron’s occasional swings to unexpected nobility. ^_^
You’re right. Ira would be against it.
en garde, BOOM!
This looks like a job for Hittie and the Ramshambler!
I mean, he could literally get a job or rob a bank (reality blindness!) and use the money to purchase more rack space, and that would be a more efficient and long-term solution to the “too many AIs” problem, but whatever, this plan makes sense.
(It’s still a BAD plan, but at least I can comprehend what the words mean now.)
warpzone32: Money isn’t the only issue. If you use too much energy it makes you easy to spot, and not just for Skin Horse. Much like how the police can tell you’re growing weed when your neighbour’s electricity bill goes through the roof.
You’d need to find out if the Whimsyworld EULA permits you to move it to another server anyway.
What Whimsy says is irrelevant. The project was never rolled out. It was cancelled, and the server and its contents now belong to the Baron. And he no longer works for Whimsy.
I don’t think that’s quite how copyright works, you know.
A. There’s a difference between copyright and EULA. There’s nothing in copyright law that says you can’t transfer digital content from one medium to another, as long as you still only have one copy.
B. You’re assuming that Whimsy had already copyrighted the software before they scrapped it. I’ll grant you, that’s a fair assumption, but it’s still just an assumption.
awgiedawgie: The fact that it exists as a creative work means that there’s a copyright. That’s the Berne Convention for you. And we know the copyright wasn’t originally held by Baron Mistycorn as he didn’t create it.
Since there’s a copyright, copying bits of the code to third party machines (as would happen when running a server) isn’t something Baron Mistycorn could do without consent, and so there needs to have been an agreement which gives him permission to do that sort of thing. Who knows what that agreement contains?
There’s only a copyright if they can prove that they created it.
I think I’ve figured out thr Baron’s voice: Ed Asner or Vic Tyback.
Weird Al?
I figured Arnold Stang.
I always hear him as John Cleese. He’s a Baron, so I figure he shouldn’t sound American.
Laser Fencing? Ronald Reagan eat your heart out: this is how you do a Project Star Wars
Ooooh boy. Get the sodas ready and the popcorn popped, boys and girls, this is going to get fun. 😀
The challenge is to build a fence out of exploding lasers without, yourself, being exploded, right?
Or I guessss a lightsaber fight also sounds cool…