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2017-05-17

by Jeffrey C. Wells on May 17, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Fun for Some
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    May 17, 2017, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    The Baron’s most honorable and painful moment,…and it was in vain! ~_~

  2. Marisa Mockery
    May 17, 2017, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Lovelace? Honey? You’re scaring me.

    Seriously, something Madblood made should NOT have access to this kind of power. Genuinely freaking out right now….

    • codebracker
      May 17, 2017, 3:30 am | # | Reply

      Well she only survived Dave’s breaking because Madblood kept a backup of her

      • D. Walker
        May 17, 2017, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

        Well, technically, there are several interconnected reasons that Lovelace survived.

        Her backups wouldn’t have made it out unless Helen was able to distract Digital Dave long enough for Mell and Lupin to sever his wire connections to the controls for Lupin’s base, giving them all a chance to escape (with the backups and Dave’s consciousness in his recently deceased clone body) before the entire place exploded.

    • gyrre
      May 17, 2017, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

      What if it were Moustachio? He was made by a Madblood.

      • D. Walker
        May 17, 2017, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

        Except Moustachio only gets crazy when he’s too wound up, sort of a “crime of passion” as it were. Lovelace, however, is being crazy in a cold, premeditated way.

  3. OneUniverse
    May 17, 2017, 2:21 am | # | Reply

    I, for one, welcome our new AI overlord.

  4. Moor
    May 17, 2017, 2:34 am | # | Reply

    WHELP, 20% odds this is where The Old War starts anew…

    • Shadowmehr
      May 17, 2017, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

      I’ll take that bet.

      Wonder how well Lovelace and her allies will do when the power goes out in the aftermath of all this.

  5. Trisscar
    May 17, 2017, 2:46 am | # | Reply

    Gotta admit, I’m half expecting the crown to be a dud. Either Whimsy is testing something, or Aimee planted a facsimile for this very reason, or the crown requires a password once you try to actually use it.
    Or Whimsy has been watching the whole time, and Lovelace knows that, and the crown is actually Aimee being smuggled out of the sim.
    Or it’s a copy of the entire sim.
    Or it’s like crafting in SAO Abridged, where in order to use the crown you must defeat about fifteen other games simultaneously.
    My twist radar may be attempting to take over my imagination right now….

    • Towering Barbarian
      May 17, 2017, 7:14 am | # | Reply

      1 possible twist. Computer software and AIs aren’t quite as divorced from the physical world as Lovelace assumes and a jolt of electricity such as the Baron delivered in not a jolt to the hard drive that receives it. As Lovelace herself should have remembered given the way Dave “Let me run 20,000 volts of electricity through you!” Davenport once showed us with her as the unwilling demonstration model. In the VR world it was only symbolic electricity? Perhaps. But then again, the VR world itself is composed of symbols so symbolic electricity can easily represent a very real “Total delete” order. ^_^

      • Cloudster
        May 17, 2017, 10:36 am | # | Reply

        I’ve had 5,000 VDC through my hand before. 20,000 volts is fine as long as it’s low current. And yes, 5,000 hurt like hell: repairing an old Honeywell ‘potato masher’ flash unit.

      • Mental Mouse
        May 18, 2017, 6:47 am | # | Reply

        Given they’re still in the sim, that wouldn’t be a physical jolt of electricity — it looked to me like he was trying to use the de-res gun on the crown, without realizing that he was only destroying its current instance (certainly Lovelace has copied the code to her own backups).

  6. codebracker
    May 17, 2017, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    Lovelace, the only one that knows the value of backups (besides her creator)

  7. Forzin
    May 17, 2017, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    I feel like Lovelace is disrespecting Aimee here by going against her wishes. Congratulations on being a Sapient AI – now watch as nobody listens to you.

    • Chameon
      May 17, 2017, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      Disrespecting Aimee, disrespecting Nick, and disrespecting Baron, while announcing that her particular route is the correct one, and simultaneously turning around and asking others to agree that her route is the correct one.

  8. Circeus
    May 17, 2017, 5:10 am | # | Reply

    This is gonna turn out to be crucial in the new war, isn’t it? *facepalm*

  9. Frank Hightower
    May 17, 2017, 7:20 am | # | Reply

    fzzx

  10. Robert Nowall
    May 17, 2017, 8:09 am | # | Reply

    Does Baron M. pack heat in every version of him?

    • D. Walker
      May 17, 2017, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

      Well I mean, he’s always -IN- heat, so…

  11. Frank
    May 17, 2017, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    I do want to say though, this reminds me horribly of how the “autistic community” will dismiss and distance itself from people who are too “neurotypical”. Is this intentional?

    • RandomFan
      May 19, 2017, 4:56 am | # | Reply

      I do want to say, this post reminds me of how the neurotypical community will shun and demean autistic individuals until they choose to dismiss and distance themselves from it. Is this intentional?

  12. D. Walker
    May 17, 2017, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

    I would be surprised if that particularly reading was the actual authorial intent, but you can interpret most anything from any point of view and find reasonable parallels you can draw.

    If your intepretation is meaningful and productive for you, you have every right to choose to interpret things that way, and no interpretation is truly “wrong” in that regard.

    • D. Walker
      May 17, 2017, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      Whoops – that was supposed to be in reply to Frank.

  13. Robert Nowall
    May 17, 2017, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

    “Let’s get physical, physical…” Olivia Neutron-Bomb.

  14. Chrisn
    May 17, 2017, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

    I’m probably hopelessly outnumbered here, but I still remember fondly Gavotte, with all her sneakiness. She effectively checked out of the cast by “sexing herself stupid.” Something M. didn’t actually believe at the time, by the way. I wish/hope that we see her again. I’d be entertained if, at the end of this saga, that the crown would be in her possession (among other things), and that she had planned this all along. Wishful thinking I suppose. But a guy can dream, right?

    • Candace
      May 18, 2017, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      I actually miss Gavotte, too. Especially watching Tip sweat every time he had to meet with her.

    • s854
      May 18, 2017, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      I think we’re bound to see her again. Who else knows what to do with the collection of fusion pies?

    • OneUniverse
      May 18, 2017, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      I just hope Gavotte didn’t come to the Dark Side – she’d make me sweat, too.

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