I mean – at least the implants could explain why he’s still in the machine union? Like – that added to how he really feels like he’s a helicopter and was a helicopter for years and years…
Could be the union doesn’t have any provisions for ejecting members. I mean, even in this universe, what are the chances of a machine becoming something that is no longer a machine?
The same answer might apply both ways: just because a channel exists doesn’t mean the receiver has to read it, and the transmitter may not be capable of causing damage through overload. The Mike is cordially asking Nick to open his port and make himself vulnerable to exploitation. But if Mike likes him, then the exchange should be strictly professional, so I am baffled by Nick’s ill timed security concerns.
Nick’s cybernetic implants are the ports that allowed his brain to interface with his helicopter body. His brain’s just a brain encased in jelly, remember? It needs interface ports.
Although I, too, completely forgot about them until the tamogotchi mentioned them.
If I had to guess I’d suppose they’re just the input/output ports Dr. Lee had to add to his brain to interface with his aircraft body during the original operation.
If I have to guess, I’m thinking the implants are just the input/output ports Dr. Lee added to his brain during the original operation to allow interfacing with his aircraft body. It’s hard not to think that if Tigerlilly had anything to do with it the implants wouldn’t be more…flamboyantly? obvious.
You young whippersnappers with your fancy USB cables. Back in my day we had to jam ethernet cable up our nose, or even co-ax, and we gal-durned well liked it! And we needed a separate power cord up in there too!
You must be referring to Chad Fowler, inverter of the punch card body mod programming language, STAPPL. It’s a myth that he was ever actually hanged. That mob just chased him away from the convention center carrying salt shakers and bottles of lemon juice.
(Apologies to IRL Chad Fowler, who wrote a nice book called The Passionate Programmer. Your name just happened to line up with a dumb joke I wanted to make on the interwebz. In recompense, please enjoy this free plug for your book!)
Nick feels violated already, and no one’s even touched him.
Yeah, hard to blame Nick. I’m kind of feeling violated just reading the last couple of panels. Where’d the brain bleach get off to?
I’m running out for some more and to get the trepanation tools sharpened. I’ll get you a quart as well.
Maybe after dinner and a dozen roses…
Compared to The Mike, Tip might begin to look like halfway-decent company.
Big, meaty data packets coming your way!
Chuck Tingle? Is that you?
“Pounded In The Butt By An Egomaniac Microphone”
I mean – at least the implants could explain why he’s still in the machine union? Like – that added to how he really feels like he’s a helicopter and was a helicopter for years and years…
Could be they need the dues he pays.
Could be the union doesn’t have any provisions for ejecting members. I mean, even in this universe, what are the chances of a machine becoming something that is no longer a machine?
Dave did it. Twice.
Well, yeah. But he’s Mad. (And he was only the union’s human liaison, not an actual union member.)
Wait, Nick had cybernetic implants this entire time? Was that ever established?
And he never *used* them for anything in a no-holds-barred machine-fight?
And the other machines never did anything to *him* through them in a no-holds-barred machine-fight?
“It’s ironic. He was immune to our most powerful computer viruses and electromagnetic fields… because we never deployed them.”
The same answer might apply both ways: just because a channel exists doesn’t mean the receiver has to read it, and the transmitter may not be capable of causing damage through overload. The Mike is cordially asking Nick to open his port and make himself vulnerable to exploitation. But if Mike likes him, then the exchange should be strictly professional, so I am baffled by Nick’s ill timed security concerns.
Ummm… it ain’t exactly security Nick is concerned about.
Like anyone would notice a couple extra gigs of porn in his head.
Don’t visit hackers, kids. It can expose your computer to porn sites.
Nick’s cybernetic implants are the ports that allowed his brain to interface with his helicopter body. His brain’s just a brain encased in jelly, remember? It needs interface ports.
Although I, too, completely forgot about them until the tamogotchi mentioned them.
It has never been made clear exactly what Nick’s implants are, or what they do. So it is possible that they are more than just ports.
And yet we can probably safely assume they’re pretty basic, and that he can’t see through walls or shoot lasers out of his nostrils.
He just needs to fight enough bad guys to unlock more Praxis Points!
Are those implants left over from when he was in his real body, or are they part of the ‘additions’ made by Dres Lee and Jones?
If I had to guess I’d suppose they’re just the input/output ports Dr. Lee had to add to his brain to interface with his aircraft body during the original operation.
It’s now been upgraded to gigabit wireless, of course, because it’d be a shame not to.
If I have to guess, I’m thinking the implants are just the input/output ports Dr. Lee added to his brain during the original operation to allow interfacing with his aircraft body. It’s hard not to think that if Tigerlilly had anything to do with it the implants wouldn’t be more…flamboyantly? obvious.
Whaddya mean? Dosen’t everyone have implants? I mean… Oh… you don’t know about.. uh… never mind..
Shhh! youre scaring the normals!
Some of us don’t have the implants in our heads.
I have quite a bit of metal in my head, but I wouldn’t exactly say I have implants.
If I’m remembering right Nick’s original organic body was turned into Generic Protein for the Army.
She’s not talking about his original organic body. She said “real body” – i.e. the helicopter.
That is indeed what I mean.
Pounded by data.
Is *that* what they’re calling it these days?
Come to think of it, how Camazotz know about Nick’s cybernetic implants?
Probably discovered them when draining Nick’s nervous system. Kinda disturbing that Cammy may have in fact downloaded all of Nick’s memories.
Maybe then he’ll put them to better use and romance Dr. Lee.
Huh, and I here I thought he’d jack into the VR with a usb cable up the nose.
You mean like Dave Davenport did in “Narbonic”?
You have to be well and truly Mad to pull that off.
You young whippersnappers with your fancy USB cables. Back in my day we had to jam ethernet cable up our nose, or even co-ax, and we gal-durned well liked it! And we needed a separate power cord up in there too!
In MYYYY day we had to separate our consciousness into 1.44 megabyte files.
1.44MB? Try finding a place to stick one of them 8 inch floppy disks that only held 128KB!
And when you tell that to kids these days they act like they don’t believe you.
Pah, we had to punch HOLES in our dangly bits for each line of code, then wait for them to heal over before we could program a second line.
Oh, punch cards were fun, weren’t they?
But what about hanging chads?
You must be referring to Chad Fowler, inverter of the punch card body mod programming language, STAPPL. It’s a myth that he was ever actually hanged. That mob just chased him away from the convention center carrying salt shakers and bottles of lemon juice.
(Apologies to IRL Chad Fowler, who wrote a nice book called The Passionate Programmer. Your name just happened to line up with a dumb joke I wanted to make on the interwebz. In recompense, please enjoy this free plug for your book!)