Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 25-29 October 2010 (1781-1785)
St.Clair:
WALL-E kept a pet cockroach. It seemed to work out okay for him/them.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Oct 2010, 20:56 ---Pintsize's motherboard is in his head? I thought it was in his torso. Of course Marten is a guitar nerd rather than a computer geek, so maybe the cricket actually immolated itself on some other circuit-board.
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It would actually make sense that Pintsize's main operational motherboard be in his head- he can remain fully operational and aware even when fully disconnected from the chassis, as well as said chassis being completely hot-swappable as well. This leads me to believe that the head contains Pintsize's motherboard, RAM, a battery and a base amount of boot storage memory, while the chassis contains the main power supply, ports, at least one secondary drive, weapons and whatever other accessories might be mounted within. Since Marigold can "bypass the chassis hardware", that would seem to strongly suggest that AnthroPCs can operate with just the head being functional.
Kugai:
Does this mean that Winslow will now embark on terrible and protracted revenge against Pintsize?
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 28 Oct 2010, 21:13 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Oct 2010, 20:56 ---Pintsize's motherboard is in his head? I thought it was in his torso. Of course Marten is a guitar nerd rather than a computer geek, so maybe the cricket actually immolated itself on some other circuit-board.
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It would actually make sense that Pintsize's main operational motherboard be in his head- he can remain fully operational and aware even when fully disconnected from the chassis, as well as said chassis being completely hot-swappable as well. This leads me to believe that the head contains Pintsize's motherboard, RAM, a battery and a base amount of boot storage memory, while the chassis contains the main power supply, ports, at least one secondary drive, weapons and whatever other accessories might be mounted within. Since Marigold can "bypass the chassis hardware", that would seem to strongly suggest that AnthroPCs can operate with just the head being functional.
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This gives me images of the disembodied heads of Futurama...
And the strip has a familiar ring, harkening back to the first known computer "bug" (a moth wedged into a relay) in Harvard's Mark II computer.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Oct 2010, 20:56 ---Pintsize's motherboard is in his head? I thought it was in his torso.
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Have we hit a comic singularity discontinuity?
Marten did use his torso as a cereal bowl at one point, while his head was vehemently protesting. That also suggests that the torso does not contain anything vital. I agree that in 1414 with the torso open it does look like the motherboard is in there.
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