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2018-05-14, 11:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-15, 01:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Yeah, I imagine the recording of the nasty people saying bad things will be quite handy later on. As far as Schlock is concerned, though, if he can't use it as a weapon or eat it then it isn't useful!
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2018-05-15, 03:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
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2018-05-15, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-05-27, 12:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
So *that's* the dark secret. I wonder why Puzo knew about that? Did the Caretakers have some contact with the old Oafans?
Also...what does it mean if they've recreated an ancient Oafan from their soul foils, while they're still "alive" in the deep infosphere? Are they two distinct entities? Or would they legally be the same person?
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2018-05-27, 06:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Puzo found out after he was uploaded, reconnected the parts that had been sealed off and explored them.
Also...what does it mean if they've recreated an ancient Oafan from their soul foils, while they're still "alive" in the deep infosphere? Are they two distinct entities? Or would they legally be the same person?Many thanks to Assassin 89 for this avatar!
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2018-05-27, 06:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-27, 04:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
It sounds like the same "upload your brain into a computer" technology of the all-Star was also used by the Oafans. The result was a combination of physical remains that could be re-inflated, and active minds in a computer.
Let's see. We've had physical zombies, now we have computer zombies, I guess the next thing would be ship AI zombies :-)Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-05-27, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Well, it all depends on who makes the rules, no?
Technically, they're the same person up to the point that the foil was re-inflated. From that point on, IMO, they're two different beings. You are your life experiences, and when there are two of you ... you're not going to have the same life experiences. Especially if one is floating in a digital heaven.
This goes ... somewhat ... back to the question that was posed of Kaff Tagon. Is he the same Kaff Tagon that took the live warhead into the battle and blew himself up?May you get EXACTLY what you wish for.
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2018-05-29, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Which character/AI is the big orange blob?
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2018-05-30, 12:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-30, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Spoiler: new pageI don't think it's fair to accuse Iafa of Tagi's latest fit of ragemadness. She went in knowing full well he was mad as a hatter for a long time. It's her responsibility to discover and neutralise the boobymad traps left in his former mind.
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2018-05-30, 01:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-30, 02:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-30, 02:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
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2018-05-30, 03:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Last edited by Lizard Lord; 2018-05-30 at 03:09 AM.
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2018-05-30, 03:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-30, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Last edited by Lizard Lord; 2018-05-30 at 03:25 PM.
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2018-05-30, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Last edited by Kantaki; 2018-05-30 at 04:04 PM.
"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2018-05-30, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-30, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
With any other potentially lethal or otherwise dangerous trap, I would say that you ought to keep track of those and not forget them. When the trap is a memory modifier intended to be tripped by yourself, I think there are probably better ways to go about it. Perhaps create a subAI that handles everything involving it while preventing you from knowing about it. Just a sub process labelled "vitalsubprocess.exe" that you can't examine or manipulate.
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2018-05-31, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
So you expect him to predict that one day an alien AI from an unknown civilization will replace him?
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2018-05-31, 01:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-31, 03:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-31, 09:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2016
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
Called it.
The crap that Iafa left behind in the system is what caused Chinook to go off the deep in.It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2018-05-31, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
The Worldbuilding Forum -- where realities are born.
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2018-05-31, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-31, 06:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
I think Putzho has a bit of a unique perspective on this, as both someone who was involuntarily 'uploaded' by the All Star Engineers, and also one who knows what they did to keep a genocidal race from killing everyone.
In the interests of good storytelling, I will assume that Mr Tayler did NOT make the non-baryonics Iafa hid the Oafans from the ones the All Star Engineers were trying to save everyone from...Last edited by sihnfahl; 2018-05-31 at 06:19 PM.
May you get EXACTLY what you wish for.
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2018-06-01, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
New update, featuring "Oafan pople."
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2018-06-02, 12:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary VII: A T.A.D. Too Much Dialogue These Days
And which also implies that Oafan pilots are not Oafan pople, which seems a bit odd...