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Follow-up to Sven's Thank-You Note to Hannelore

Sven trying to think of some way to say thank you to Tai

Faye and Bubbles addressing the differences in perception that they have about the robot fighting

Hannelore decides that she has a talent for solving her friends' personal problems... unfortunately!

Marten and Claire are moving to Canada?!? (because Marten is Jeph's occasoinal SI)

The Day Veronica Gave Sam a Bath!

Another evening at the Support Group: Arthur misses 'Abyssinia'

Pintsize and Corpse Witch, a partnership made in Robot Hell!

Seriously though, what about Penelope and Raven? Or Steve and his cereal?

[cesium133]

If anything I think she would be more irritated in being in such a small and cute form.

Exactly. remember May's reaction to seeing Momo for the first time?

[chaospersonified]

If anything I think she would be more irritated in being in such a small and cute form.

Exactly. remember May's reaction to seeing Momo for the first time?

Well maybe, but that's Momo's CURRENT chassis, AKA the one she's currently inhabiting/still paying Marigold back for. I can't imagine Maye being too into Momo's prior chibi-chassis. People picked mini-Momo up all the time, and May would not be down for that, that I could imagine.

[cesium133]

Yeah, that's what I was suggesting. If May had that reaction to Momo's current chassis, her reaction to Momo's old chassis would be "Hell no!"

[chaospersonified]

Re-reading your comment, I see that now. Somehow I thought you were suggesting she'd be into it. I dunno, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night

[BenRG]

I'm not sure if anything other than a full up fighter jet would do for May since she tried to steal most of a billion dollars to get one. OTOH, I get the feeling her desire to be a combat aircraft will never be explained in more detail.

Fighter aircraft tend to be the highest-performance aircraft of them all. I think that you'll find your answer there - to go faster, higher and more agile than your average aircraft. I wonder if anyone's ever thought of offering her a job in the space program?

It would be ironic to learn that, after all that, May doesn't know the first thing about how to fly.

She doubtless has the same ability as any other AI to learn new skills.

[osaka]

FANFIC IDEAS: May runs the @sonic_hedgehog twitter account after she realizes that there isn't a faster thing on earth than the blue blur. The result is what we all can see.

[DSL]

... She would probably enjoy the self defense mechanism a bit to much though...

And the eel ability way too much.

[katsmeat]

I'm going to hazard a guess May's chassis has some monitoring/tracking hardware built in. And it'll be strictly against the terms of her parole for her to change it for another one. 

[chaospersonified]

I'm going to hazard a guess May's chassis has some monitoring/tracking hardware built in. And it'll be strictly against the terms of her parole for her to change it for another one.

And so the mystery has been solved; that's why one foot is bigger than the other!

[Kugai]

Beats an ankle bracelet

[Morituri]

Actually there ws nothing to stop her 'virtual' chassis that was visible through Dale's glasses from flying. 

Look at it this way; she's already getting vision that's constructed whole-cloth out of a camera view or several that aren't particularly close to her.  That's a neat trick you can do in software, but in our world it usually takes a few seconds per frame to integrate stuff.  In Jeph's world, though, Strong AI is around and something the size of Pintsize can store Terabytes of porn.  So I'm assuming they've got a hell of a lot of compute power for relatively "trivial" tasks like video composition. 

So in a virtual chassis, all she'd have to do for loops and swoops and high-in-the-air views of the world over a city, would be to hijack the video feeds of a whole bunch of security cameras down in the city.  That's probably criminal, and fairly difficult, but hey, it ought to be child's play for someone (almost) capable of embezzling $.75B from her former employers.

Of course, she probably wouldn't be satisfied with flight as a 'ghost'.

[ReindeerFlotilla]

I'm not sure if anything other than a full up fighter jet would do for May since she tried to steal most of a billion dollars to get one. OTOH, I get the feeling her desire to be a combat aircraft will never be explained in more detail.

Fighter aircraft tend to be the highest-performance aircraft of them all. I think that you'll find your answer there - to go faster, higher and more agile than your average aircraft. I wonder if anyone's ever thought of offering her a job in the space program?

It would be ironic to learn that, after all that, May doesn't know the first thing about how to fly.

She doubtless has the same ability as any other AI to learn new skills.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is all speculation, but a key part of my speculation is that the answer would probably never be given.  Anyone can wax on about why she might have done it. Only one person can say why she actaully did.

To hone the edge a bit further, the speculation about May not knowing how to fly had nothing to do with May's ability, and everything to do with what would be funny. QC has yet to establish that AI can upload skills, and strongly suggests they can't, which suggests that stealing a vast sum of money to engage in an activity you are unqualified to do has the potential for humor. This would, again, be in keeping with the idea that May has poor impulse control.

I'm going to hazard a guess May's chassis has some monitoring/tracking hardware built in. And it'll be strictly against the terms of her parole for her to change it for another one. 

They probably aren't keeping tabs on May like that. I doubt she's seen as a flight risk.

















 

[wlewisiii]

They probably aren't keeping tabs on May like that. I doubt she's seen as a flight risk.

[Is it cold in here?]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is all speculation, but a key part of my speculation is that the answer would probably never be given.  Anyone can wax on about why she might have done it. Only one person can say why she actaully did.

Not only is that true, it may even go further than that. She may not know herself.

















 
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[Kugai]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRz4FY0ZcwI

[gopher]

People should pierce whatever and wherever makes them happy. However septum piercings just male me think of sad cattle be led my a rope.