*Possibly* worse in some ways then asking him over the phone (Bad enough that not being able to see the woman’s body language might be!) is pulling him out of a sound sleep to ask that one after having left him alone to go out with other guys.
I’m not sure there’s any way the relationship diplomacy circuits or the relationship assessment logic circuits could come online quickly enough to guide a question like that to the optimal ending under conditions like that and I would argue that those circuits need to be in peak condition in a circumstance of this sort. ^_^;
Mind you, not seeing body language could actually help, as Nick currently HAS no body language and doesn’t seem the sort to be great at reading it either. “Please speak clearly and precisely.”
He has some body language, at least once in a while. He’s been known to make rude gestures with his airfoils, for example. And I get the feeling that, whatever his deficiencies when interacting with other people, with Ginny Lee he pays close enough attention to read her pretty well. But either way, I don’t envy the position she’s put him in right now.
At least his organic processor is responding normally, which is to say, doing what anyone’s would when asked a question like that.
Um… Nick is no longer acting like a brain in a tank, that’s strictly machine behavior. Living things do not issue text messages when they go into shock.
Possibly he pushed his vital signs out of the permitted envelope…. (Or just overloaded the wrongswear filter? )
I figure this is more a “pacemaker texting your doctor” type thing (is that a thing? I vaguely remember that being a thing) in that it’s not Nick talking, but his machine override, as if he’s having a heart attack (as much as you can have one without a heart or body) or something.
Is the Organic Processor Nick’s Meatware or part of the Mensch/Maschine interface? If the Meatware/Brain-in-a-Jar portion of Nick crashed, the interface level should be handling the base functions & responding to input; if the Meatware overloaded the Mensch/Maschine interface and That level is in reboot, then the response is pure Hardware.
Even if organic brains don’t really do that, it’s a great punch line. I viewed it as the cyborg equivalent of a thought balloon, anyway.
The other way to look at it is that Nick’s brain went so blank that the computer interface interpreted it as a crash. I can certainly see that happening, after that question over the phone.
If you’re making a cyborg helicopter death-machine for the Air Force, “how do you feel about me” would sound like a perfectly good phrase to set up as a backdoor, right? Who’s going to fall in love with it, really?
….yyyyeah. Hope that’s not it. (The Violet Bee backdoor wasn’t the sort of thing you could trip by accident… did she avoid saying it to Nick because it would work on him too, or was that in case he’s bugged by Anasigma?)
Dr. Lee’s power word: kill isn’t the sort of thing you could trip by accident… as long as her creations avoid dangerous places like the IHoP. Given that she hung up on Nick and had Unity cover her ears before pronouncing it, I have to assume it works on them, too, and probably on everything Dr. Lee’s ever made.
What concerns me more is: has she ever told Nick and Unity that they’d be well advised to avoid going out for breakfast?
That was one of the first things Unity asked about Nick, way back in one of the first storylines. To paraphrase “so what tasty breakfast treat can’t I order when going through the drive-through with him?”
For all of those who wondered if a helicopter could faint, here’s your answer!
I wonder how many of his memories will come back with the “reboot”. They are probably backed up on a daily, if not hourly basis; a crash might set him back to the last one. In which case, he won’t remember this conversation, and might have to go through it again. (Okay, I just scared myself a little.)
Long-term complication or short-term punchline? Stayed tuned to this channel to find out.
Really, Ginny? You’re going to ask that question over the phone?
You ARE insane… or at least, precisely as devoid of interpersonal common sense as UNITY suggests.
mnem
For the same reason you don’t text someone that you’re breaking up with them, that’s why.
“A man doesn’t travel 4,000 miles just to prove he’s a louse. He could do that in a letter, like I always did.”
Well, she was going to go there in person, but UNITY talked her out of it.
I fear to imagine what a “…core dumped” might mean in this sort of setup…
let me be the first to say “oh shit”
*Possibly* worse in some ways then asking him over the phone (Bad enough that not being able to see the woman’s body language might be!) is pulling him out of a sound sleep to ask that one after having left him alone to go out with other guys.
I’m not sure there’s any way the relationship diplomacy circuits or the relationship assessment logic circuits could come online quickly enough to guide a question like that to the optimal ending under conditions like that and I would argue that those circuits need to be in peak condition in a circumstance of this sort. ^_^;
Mind you, not seeing body language could actually help, as Nick currently HAS no body language and doesn’t seem the sort to be great at reading it either. “Please speak clearly and precisely.”
He has some body language, at least once in a while. He’s been known to make rude gestures with his airfoils, for example. And I get the feeling that, whatever his deficiencies when interacting with other people, with Ginny Lee he pays close enough attention to read her pretty well. But either way, I don’t envy the position she’s put him in right now.
At least his organic processor is responding normally, which is to say, doing what anyone’s would when asked a question like that.
(TUNE: “It Had To Be You”, Isham Jones and Gus Kahn)
He had to reboot …
He had to reboot …
His thinking is trashed!
His cranium crashed!
Now isn’t that cute?
At quarter ’til three,
A call from Doc Lee …
Right out of the blue,
Asked, “How do you
Feel about me?”
His flesh-and-blood brain
Could not take the strain!
He had to re-start,
His virtual heart
Feeling the pain!
But if romantic’ly they relate,
How in the harp will they consummate?
He had to reboot,
Right from the root,
He had to reboot!
I’m copying this one for other occasions
Thank you.
…and drunken dialing claims yet another victim…
Huh. She actually made his brain blue screen.
Looks like Unity was right. He really wasn’t ready.
Um… Nick is no longer acting like a brain in a tank, that’s strictly machine behavior. Living things do not issue text messages when they go into shock.
Possibly he pushed his vital signs out of the permitted envelope…. (Or just overloaded the wrongswear filter?
)
I figure this is more a “pacemaker texting your doctor” type thing (is that a thing? I vaguely remember that being a thing) in that it’s not Nick talking, but his machine override, as if he’s having a heart attack (as much as you can have one without a heart or body) or something.
Is the Organic Processor Nick’s Meatware or part of the Mensch/Maschine interface? If the Meatware/Brain-in-a-Jar portion of Nick crashed, the interface level should be handling the base functions & responding to input; if the Meatware overloaded the Mensch/Maschine interface and That level is in reboot, then the response is pure Hardware.
Even if organic brains don’t really do that, it’s a great punch line. I viewed it as the cyborg equivalent of a thought balloon, anyway.
The other way to look at it is that Nick’s brain went so blank that the computer interface interpreted it as a crash. I can certainly see that happening, after that question over the phone.
If you’re making a cyborg helicopter death-machine for the Air Force, “how do you feel about me” would sound like a perfectly good phrase to set up as a backdoor, right? Who’s going to fall in love with it, really?
….yyyyeah. Hope that’s not it. (The Violet Bee backdoor wasn’t the sort of thing you could trip by accident… did she avoid saying it to Nick because it would work on him too, or was that in case he’s bugged by Anasigma?)
Dr. Lee’s power word: kill isn’t the sort of thing you could trip by accident… as long as her creations avoid dangerous places like the IHoP. Given that she hung up on Nick and had Unity cover her ears before pronouncing it, I have to assume it works on them, too, and probably on everything Dr. Lee’s ever made.
What concerns me more is: has she ever told Nick and Unity that they’d be well advised to avoid going out for breakfast?
That was one of the first things Unity asked about Nick, way back in one of the first storylines. To paraphrase “so what tasty breakfast treat can’t I order when going through the drive-through with him?”
For all of those who wondered if a helicopter could faint, here’s your answer!
I wonder how many of his memories will come back with the “reboot”. They are probably backed up on a daily, if not hourly basis; a crash might set him back to the last one. In which case, he won’t remember this conversation, and might have to go through it again. (Okay, I just scared myself a little.)