Look at me,
I’m so useless as a guy to oversee;
And I’m glad I can say it all aloud,
At Aimee’s command,
I am Misty, it’s way out of hand.
Come this day,
And a thousand robo-fights are underway,
Banging together with the sound of metal blows,
It fills me with fear,
I am Misty, and judgment is near.
Can’t you see that it’s hopelessly wrong?
And it’s not what she wants me to do.
Don’t you notice these stooges pay the cost,
They don’t get all black-and-blue.
All alone,
And I can’t get through to Aimee on the phone.
And I’m watching for their right hook and their left,
Their push and their shove,
I’m just Misty, and apropos of…
It’s the arena problem… Except without the body guards and the crowd\audience is also arena fighters who had brutally beaten up their opponents and only haven’t beaten you up because they need your key… Which is also only because you have kept them divided long enough not to just hang up and beat you up before stealing everything.
He probably is actually letting victors in, he just means giving preferential treatment to those who haven’t fought yet… which means Nick will have to win in the arena to be allowed in… and probably find another arena there
So who should be the one to step to the front of the line?
Nick, with his cybernetic interface and Union card?
Hitty and Moustachio as past champions?
Annex One as Big Man On Campus?
Or – Tip with puppet gladiators?
Hmmmm…Tip with his puppets would be most likely to send them running.
But in which direction? Would they run away, or lustfllly pile on top of him in a massive mechanical orgy, stripping off their outer plastic and metal casings to bare their motors for “action”?
Nick – as the outside-world version of the Ruler of the VR – is probably in the best position to bail the Baron out, by taking his place as the administrator of the application process, preferably making it appear like he is being forcibly removed, so it doesn’t look like the Baron is merely handing over the reins.
I also have to wonder how much computer equipment was left behind in Annex One, and whether it could be utilised to provide Aimee more real estate.
Well, that’s always been the attraction for VR. It allows one to “escape” from reality, and “live” in their fantasy world. Trouble is, the reality is still there waiting, and it’s not going to get any better while you’re off hiding from it.
And if a few thousand AIs get themselves uploaded permanently into Aimee’s VR, they’d better hope and pray that nothing happens to that server, or they will all simply cease to exist.
Translations:
Unity: Man, that humidifier was really steamed.
Baron: You don’t wanna know how they can get a guy into hot water.
Was it boiling mad or just a little hot under the collar?
She’s gonna give him an attack of the vapors.
A bad case of rising damp. Still, who knew the Baron would be wet behind the ears?
(I was going to add a pun on ‘misty’ but got sidetracked wondering if ‘Mistycorn’ was a family name or the title of the estate of which he was Baron?)
“…never knowin’ my right foot from my left, my hat from my glove, I’m Misty, too much in love.”
…which in turn inspires…
Look at me,
I’m so useless as a guy to oversee;
And I’m glad I can say it all aloud,
At Aimee’s command,
I am Misty, it’s way out of hand.
Come this day,
And a thousand robo-fights are underway,
Banging together with the sound of metal blows,
It fills me with fear,
I am Misty, and judgment is near.
Can’t you see that it’s hopelessly wrong?
And it’s not what she wants me to do.
Don’t you notice these stooges pay the cost,
They don’t get all black-and-blue.
All alone,
And I can’t get through to Aimee on the phone.
And I’m watching for their right hook and their left,
Their push and their shove,
I’m just Misty, and apropos of…
—from “Misty,” Errol Garner and Johnny Burke.
The atmosphere is definitely thickening here.
You mock, but I only want to me hydrolyzed into bones, *after* I die.
Don’t forget what the other appliances, like water coolers and clanks, have messed up.
When she gets mad, steam comes out of her ears.
So… It’s a perpetual state of robot gladiatoral combat because any victor would automatically be seen as getting preferential treatment?
It’s the arena problem… Except without the body guards and the crowd\audience is also arena fighters who had brutally beaten up their opponents and only haven’t beaten you up because they need your key… Which is also only because you have kept them divided long enough not to just hang up and beat you up before stealing everything.
He probably is actually letting victors in, he just means giving preferential treatment to those who haven’t fought yet… which means Nick will have to win in the arena to be allowed in… and probably find another arena there
So who should be the one to step to the front of the line?
Nick, with his cybernetic interface and Union card?
Hitty and Moustachio as past champions?
Annex One as Big Man On Campus?
Or – Tip with puppet gladiators?
Hmmmm…Tip with his puppets would be most likely to send them running.
But in which direction? Would they run away, or lustfllly pile on top of him in a massive mechanical orgy, stripping off their outer plastic and metal casings to bare their motors for “action”?
Nick – as the outside-world version of the Ruler of the VR – is probably in the best position to bail the Baron out, by taking his place as the administrator of the application process, preferably making it appear like he is being forcibly removed, so it doesn’t look like the Baron is merely handing over the reins.
I also have to wonder how much computer equipment was left behind in Annex One, and whether it could be utilised to provide Aimee more real estate.
They made a Clone-o-matic out of a coke machine. I’m sure they can make a VR helmet for Nick out of a piece of string. 🙂
…..and a kettle!
Did Jonah bring his colander along?
payoff for nick keeping his machine union membership in three, two, one.
Perhaps they could cut a deal with a friendly dehumidifier…
Nick still identifies as a helicopter, human body notwithstanding.
Hmm…
My contention has always been that the reason VR is so popular is that the real thing is horrific.
Well, that’s always been the attraction for VR. It allows one to “escape” from reality, and “live” in their fantasy world. Trouble is, the reality is still there waiting, and it’s not going to get any better while you’re off hiding from it.
And if a few thousand AIs get themselves uploaded permanently into Aimee’s VR, they’d better hope and pray that nothing happens to that server, or they will all simply cease to exist.
Or to put it another way, they don’t see it’s a case of all heads with one neck.
The fact that it’s a humidifier making such a threat is actually kind of brilliant, as moisture wreaks havoc on insufficiently-protected systems.