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Kat responding to, "You're the angel!" with, "Sure, dude," cracks me up. Good to see that she's not getting a swelled head over the whole robot messiah thing.
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John Campbell
Kat responding to, "You're the angel!" with, "Sure, dude," cracks me up. Good to see that she's not getting a swelled head over the whole robot messiah thing.
Not denying it, though.
I'm almost hoping that this robot is actually talking about his time working in the wood-shop which they are on the roof of.
"I sawed it all!"
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That's a pretty cute little robot. Maybe a little too cute.
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Candle Jack
I wouldn't call him cute. He reminds me of a really stocky Pintsize, and that takes away any possible cute-ness he could have. At least for me.
Also, gotta love Rey's expression in panel 5. He's been surprised before, but not that much. :smallbiggrin:
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Marnath
I wouldn't call him cute. He reminds me of a really stocky Pintsize, and that takes away any possible cute-ness he could have. At least for me.
Pintsize would be cute if he weren't... Pintsize.
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John Campbell
Pintsize would be cute if he weren't... Pintsize.
Yeah, and this is even cuter.:smallbiggrin:
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Fat robots always unnerve me.
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So they've got confirmation of Shadow's story, and know Robot was captured; but where do they go from here? Unless Chubby-bot knows where the Seraph models hang out, or Kat can track Robot's body, this could be a problem...
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It looks like Rey is still keeping a close eye on Quartsize. He really got a scare off that guy I guess. :smallbiggrin:
Do stuffed wolves have adrenaline? :smallamused:
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Marnath
It looks like Rey is still keeping a close eye on Quartsize. He really got a scare off that guy I guess. :smallbiggrin:
Do stuffed wolves have adrenaline? :smallamused:
Maybe it's psychosomatic adrenaline?
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Cutest widdle wobot evar!:smallbiggrin:
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If the trap is so obvious you can spot it a mile out, does it still qualify as a trap?
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Depends on whether the protagonist falls for it or not.
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Belril Duskwalk
If the trap is so obvious you can spot it a mile out, does it still qualify as a trap?
Yes. Just a very poorly concealed trap. :smallbiggrin:
The thing is, who'd be wanting to trap Kat? Quite obviously the Seraphs knew someone - almost certainly Kat and Annie - would be coming and are making it easy for them to follow. Why, I have to wonder...
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I don't know, I think it might not be a trap. I mean, he's an eyewitness robot. Should a robot deliberately impair another from performing his duty, by not letting him witness all relevant information?
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Mauve Shirt
Depends on whether the protagonist falls for it or not.
Isn't "Walking into a trap when fully realizing it is a trap" somewhere in the protagonist's job description? Then it is up to protagonist to either fake being being surprised to reassure the antagonist that he has outsmarted our hero, or to announce that trap is obvious and hero walked into it anyway because he is so superior to the villain that he can afford to take the risk.
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Qwertystop
I don't know, I think it might not be a trap. I mean, he's an eyewitness robot. Should a robot deliberately impair another from performing his duty, by not letting him witness all relevant information?
This is pretty much what I hope to be true - court robots always spill their guts in front of eyewitness robots, because that's what they're for.
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Yuki Akuma
This is pretty much what I hope to be true - court robots always spill their guts in front of eyewitness robots, because that's what they're for.
Yeah exactly! What's the point of having a robot whose entire job its to watch things happen and then tell someone who can do something about it of you don't let them watch the critical bits?
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Remember, Annie once got through a door by wearing a pair of fake antenna, and telling the door robot that "Of course I am a robot, because I say I am a robot, and robots never lie" (or something to that effect). Court Robots are not well versed in the arts of secrecy and subterfuge.
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Remember, Annie once got through a door by wearing a pair of fake antenna, and telling the door robot that "Of course I am a robot, because I say I am a robot, and robots never lie" (or something to that effect). Court Robots are not well versed in the arts of secrecy and subterfuge.
Also, this. Your theory appears to be correct. Although it could still be a trap.
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Oh yes, obviously not a trap. (eye roll)
Why is Robot on his knees? Normally prisoners do that when they're exhausted or beaten down, but Robot's a robot; would that apply to him?
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eee
Oh yes, obviously not a trap. (eye roll)
Why is Robot on his knees? Normally prisoners do that when they're exhausted or beaten down, but Robot's a robot; would that apply to him?
Takes less energy?
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Qwertystop
Takes less energy?
Maybe he is switched off?
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Maybe they took a drill to his knee joints?
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Marnath
Maybe he is switched off?
Or better yet... what if that's not actually him! Or rather, its just his body. The chip that houses his personality is elsewhere.
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To what extent is Robot still a court robot? If he still has any of his original programming, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that it's just Prisoner Subroutine 35-A: Slump helplessly. Prisoner Subroutine 35-B is "Snap out of it and try to warn your rescuers that it's a trap, but be too late."
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headwarpage
To what extent is Robot still a court robot? If he still has any of his original programming, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that it's just Prisoner Subroutine 35-A: Slump helplessly. Prisoner Subroutine 35-B is "Snap out of it and try to warn your rescuers that it's a trap, but be too late."
Well... He started out as a malfunctioning Court robot. Then he was given an arm that was a tree, and puppeted by a shadow. Then he was put into two non-Court bodies (the camera-and-speaker rig and the mouse)Then his chip was put in an old model that apparently had some programming hardcoded. Then another non-Court body.
So how much of the cliche is hardwired instead of programmed?
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Don't you just hate it when your batteries die unexpectedly?
:smallbiggrin:
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In the distance, Kat's Dad wonders why his car unlocked.
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Well, if it comes to worst, Annie can probably melt them to slag by now. But I'm sure she'd prefer to avoid that.