Me, I think that when Unity finally gets her hands on whoever’s responsible for the destruction of one of her favorite things in the world, it’s gonna be very, VERY ugly for them. They will Not Have A Good Day. Or any days afterwards, probably… I mean, just look at that expression. O_O
Typical, and similarly to human education…A robot that is poorly designed or raised will, inevitably, reveal its’ defects, smoke pouring out of its’ ears, mouth, or eyes. A better question would be, how could a robot smoke a cigarette. To which my response would be, with an utter lack of elegance, given this current situation.
Unity’s expression in panel 4 is “shock and awwwwwww.”
Picking up on yesterday’s earworm talk, for reasons I can’t hope to explain, I’ve had Gilbert O’Sullivan songs running through my head for days. For you young’uns, he’s an Irish singer who had a lot of pop hits in the ’70s, all of them dead catchy in the most annoying way. (I still thought he was awfully cute.)
His most famous song was the über-depressing “Alone Again, Naturally” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ELnhjGw4Zs), which I hereby filk for your earworming pleasure.
The Mender-Fairy’s dead and gone
She found she just couldn’t go on
She chose seppuku
As who wouldn’t do
Rather than being Whimsy’s pawn
I’m Mary, this is Gus
There’s not many more than us
Here’s that Gerald thing
Oh, please God, don’t sing
I can’t take that sappy theme song
Our park is a wreck, full of dreck, falling apart-re
But I don’t give a rat’s patoot
I smoke and channel Sartre
This ride is just a trap
With dancing pigs and crap
This World of Love’s—as you see—
Decrepit, sad and seedy
You know…..I’m actually sorta tempted to get into the illegal arms trade to make a giant fortune with which to start a giant entertainment company (or buy one)….just so I can have an amusement park where the twee-looking rides are entirely sarcastic. Because 1. That’d be awesome and 2. Money and fame are fleeting, crying disillusioned children are forever.
Awww, see the angsty robot people!
Awww, see the angsty robot people!
Mary and Gussie,
Stuck in a park that is broken and falling apart …
They have no heart!
Poor Mender-Fairy,
Since she was dying, she went and abandoned the ride …
Chose suicide!
Angsty robot people,
Who smoke and wear berets …
Angsty robot people,
How do they spend their days?
Listen to Sweetheart,
Saying “You know, this is not quite as bad as I feared …”
Although it’s weird!
Unity’s shocked now,
Ride that she loved is now broken and twisted and sick …
She’ll sh*t a brick!
Angsty robot people,
Depressing, dark, and drear …
Angsty robot people,
Abandon hope, ye here!
How would seppuku work for animatronics anyway? It is ritual disembowelment followed by beheading by your second before you dishonor yourself further by reacting to the pain of having your guts in a puddle in front of you.
Hydraulic rupture followed by smashing the controllers? Where would the seat of consciousness even BE to do a proper beheading equivalent? Dropping the CPU and drives into a monster shredder?
Digital seppuku consists of deleting your own executable and source code files, overwriting them twenty times with random data, starting a process that will sleep for one second and then do the same to all core files, and crashing.
Your second is still needed; somebody has to delete the backups.
That brings up the question of a digital ‘soul’. Is a copy or a restored backup really the same individual? Even in the case of Lovelace- there was ‘missing time’, and each individual is the net sum of all their experiences.
I (need to go check the books) think that Lovelace even said something to the effect of “it wasn’t really me” when she met Dave at Mom-Madblood’s house when Mel was there.
From the wikipedia article: “In Japanese, the more formal seppuku, a Chinese on’yomi reading, is typically used in writing, while harakiri, a native kun’yomi reading, is used in speech.”
(The difference is basically that Seppuku is the formal, Chinese pronunciation, while Hara Kiri is the less formal Japanese version. They’re written the same in Japanese, though.)
I confess I’m curious as to what Nick’s reaction to all this is. Also, is the Little House one big AI and each of these is a puppet controlled by it, or is each robot a separate intelligence.
Also, why haven’t the robots been freed from the ride yet?
Not sure if it means anything, but in the strip when we meet Mary and Gussie (http://skin-horse.com/2013/with-and-have/), Mary is wearing all-white and Gussie is in all-black. No, while both have elements of each color in their design, Mary’s is predominantly back, and Gussie’s is predominantly white–a reversal. Not sure if meaningful, but it’s sort of interesting.
It does kinda fit the ‘jaded’ behavior in todays strip. I wonder if the dark glasses is due to the historical fame (think child actors gone bad) and darkening of the personality – or is it like Dave’s glasses – that we don’t see his eyes until he’s (pun intended) ‘gone thru the looking glass’ into mad-land.
Is it just me, or were a certain webcomic artist and/or her author friend somewhat less than impressed by Mercenary Mouse-Land during their last visit?
I’m both amused and depressed, all at once…
Me, I think that when Unity finally gets her hands on whoever’s responsible for the destruction of one of her favorite things in the world, it’s gonna be very, VERY ugly for them. They will Not Have A Good Day. Or any days afterwards, probably… I mean, just look at that expression. O_O
Seconded.
That is the emotive equivalent of the match in front of the fuse.
…..also, how the hell can a robot smoke? **headscratch**
Typical, and similarly to human education…A robot that is poorly designed or raised will, inevitably, reveal its’ defects, smoke pouring out of its’ ears, mouth, or eyes. A better question would be, how could a robot smoke a cigarette. To which my response would be, with an utter lack of elegance, given this current situation.
At least she’s not like Burai King Boss from Casshern. He smoked cigars and the smoke came out of his ears.
Must be an electronic cigarette.
Dunno. Kinda look rolled.
And an iron lung.
Unity’s expression in panel 4 is “shock and awwwwwww.”
Picking up on yesterday’s earworm talk, for reasons I can’t hope to explain, I’ve had Gilbert O’Sullivan songs running through my head for days. For you young’uns, he’s an Irish singer who had a lot of pop hits in the ’70s, all of them dead catchy in the most annoying way. (I still thought he was awfully cute.)
His most famous song was the über-depressing “Alone Again, Naturally” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ELnhjGw4Zs), which I hereby filk for your earworming pleasure.
The Mender-Fairy’s dead and gone
She found she just couldn’t go on
She chose seppuku
As who wouldn’t do
Rather than being Whimsy’s pawn
I’m Mary, this is Gus
There’s not many more than us
Here’s that Gerald thing
Oh, please God, don’t sing
I can’t take that sappy theme song
Our park is a wreck, full of dreck, falling apart-re
But I don’t give a rat’s patoot
I smoke and channel Sartre
This ride is just a trap
With dancing pigs and crap
This World of Love’s—as you see—
Decrepit, sad and seedy
Very nicely done! And yes, I remember Gilbert O’Sullivan all too well. I don’t know if I can top that.
Oh, heck, I’ll give it a shot.
Poor Unity.
This is the sound of a black-ops military zombie’s organic nanogoo-circulation unit (a.k.a. heart) breaking.
I believe she refers to it as her “chest engine”.
If her spring winds down, is she still jaded?
That assumes they’re actually wind-up, and that the key isn’t just decorative. These are atomic-age creations…maybe they’re nuke-powered?
You know…..I’m actually sorta tempted to get into the illegal arms trade to make a giant fortune with which to start a giant entertainment company (or buy one)….just so I can have an amusement park where the twee-looking rides are entirely sarcastic. Because 1. That’d be awesome and 2. Money and fame are fleeting, crying disillusioned children are forever.
I would go to that theme park every day it was open.
Ok, now I have an idea for an Oculus Rift enabled project.
(TUNE: “Eleanor Rigby”, The Beatles)
Awww, see the angsty robot people!
Awww, see the angsty robot people!
Mary and Gussie,
Stuck in a park that is broken and falling apart …
They have no heart!
Poor Mender-Fairy,
Since she was dying, she went and abandoned the ride …
Chose suicide!
Angsty robot people,
Who smoke and wear berets …
Angsty robot people,
How do they spend their days?
Listen to Sweetheart,
Saying “You know, this is not quite as bad as I feared …”
Although it’s weird!
Unity’s shocked now,
Ride that she loved is now broken and twisted and sick …
She’ll sh*t a brick!
Angsty robot people,
Depressing, dark, and drear …
Angsty robot people,
Abandon hope, ye here!
Nice ose-filk, Eddurd!
Excellent filk, and excellent trivia question: the one song of the Beatles in which they perform no musical instruments.
Excellent!
How would seppuku work for animatronics anyway? It is ritual disembowelment followed by beheading by your second before you dishonor yourself further by reacting to the pain of having your guts in a puddle in front of you.
Hydraulic rupture followed by smashing the controllers? Where would the seat of consciousness even BE to do a proper beheading equivalent? Dropping the CPU and drives into a monster shredder?
DIGITAL seppuku, so it probably consisted of deleting files.
The disembowelment would be replaced by a core dump, probably.
Digital seppuku consists of deleting your own executable and source code files, overwriting them twenty times with random data, starting a process that will sleep for one second and then do the same to all core files, and crashing.
Your second is still needed; somebody has to delete the backups.
That brings up the question of a digital ‘soul’. Is a copy or a restored backup really the same individual? Even in the case of Lovelace- there was ‘missing time’, and each individual is the net sum of all their experiences.
I (need to go check the books) think that Lovelace even said something to the effect of “it wasn’t really me” when she met Dave at Mom-Madblood’s house when Mel was there.
THANK YOU for using seppuku rather than hara kiri! I hate it when people use the vulgar for the ultimate act.
Would you kindly tell me what’s the difference?
From the wikipedia article: “In Japanese, the more formal seppuku, a Chinese on’yomi reading, is typically used in writing, while harakiri, a native kun’yomi reading, is used in speech.”
(The difference is basically that Seppuku is the formal, Chinese pronunciation, while Hara Kiri is the less formal Japanese version. They’re written the same in Japanese, though.)
I confess I’m curious as to what Nick’s reaction to all this is. Also, is the Little House one big AI and each of these is a puppet controlled by it, or is each robot a separate intelligence.
Also, why haven’t the robots been freed from the ride yet?
Not sure if it means anything, but in the strip when we meet Mary and Gussie (http://skin-horse.com/2013/with-and-have/), Mary is wearing all-white and Gussie is in all-black. No, while both have elements of each color in their design, Mary’s is predominantly back, and Gussie’s is predominantly white–a reversal. Not sure if meaningful, but it’s sort of interesting.
It does kinda fit the ‘jaded’ behavior in todays strip. I wonder if the dark glasses is due to the historical fame (think child actors gone bad) and darkening of the personality – or is it like Dave’s glasses – that we don’t see his eyes until he’s (pun intended) ‘gone thru the looking glass’ into mad-land.
Huh. I guess if someone was gonna make me feel sorry for some animatronics in a comic strip… I shouldn’t be surprised.
Is it just me, or were a certain webcomic artist and/or her author friend somewhat less than impressed by Mercenary Mouse-Land during their last visit?
Who’s the black-haired lady (I think?) in the background?