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Storel:
Wow, I like the way you think through the details. You've taken Pintsize's porn obsession and turned it into a plausible source of income, you've explained how people keep making dents in Pintsize and throwing him into walls without really hurting him, and you've given us a really insightful explanation of Bubbles's situation that may not be exactly what Jeph has in mind, but rings true anyway. Very nicely done!

(Somehow I doubt that Marten and Faye can afford enough bandwidth to support The Internet Pornography Server -- you'd need something like a T3 line, I'd think -- but meh, details.)

BenRG:

--- Quote from: Storel on 18 Aug 2015, 22:59 ---(Somehow I doubt that Marten and Faye can afford enough bandwidth to support The Internet Pornography Server -- you'd need something like a T3 line, I'd think -- but meh, details.)
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People wonder what Pintsize does with his time when Marten and Faye are out and now you know; he's at the server farm he's rented on the other side of town both administering and personally updating the IPS's archives. For him, it is both a business and a personal passion!

Morituri:
Yah, one way or another I figure the Internet Pornography Server has to pay for its own bandwidth. 

I think though that most of the stuff I said about Pintsize (damage-resistant military chassis, used to have a honkin big laser weapon, etc) is all Word Of God here.  About the only thing I added would be to actually name his chassis series - which, being classified, wouldn't have been explained to the civilians anyway. 

But what would you call a military bot built to look like a civilian anthroPC but containing a lethal laser weapon?  'Infiltrator' is the only mission profile I can come up with, and that would explain why Pintsize never talks about his military career. 

I tried to softpedal it somewhat with Bubbles - leave a lot of room for this to not fall down horribly depending on what Jeph writes.  But when I was writing her I had a real person in mind - he came back from the Gulf War on a medical discharge, and he's doing his best but not quite okay.  I see the twitches and things when he hears little click noises and he breaks out in a cold sweat at the smell of gasoline.  Don't know exactly what happened, he doesn't talk about it.  But he doesn't trust himself with weapons.  And Bubbles' whole body is a weapon, so.... I invented the screamer circuit for her.

Is it cold in here?:
I also really liked the insight that Pintsize might be putting on his childish act to get people to underestimate him.

He didn't have a military career, though. He got the military chassis by accident when a strange chain of events delivered it to Best Buy.

Also impressive was the sympathetic and understated analysis of Bubbles.

DSL:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Aug 2015, 12:39 ---He didn't have a military career, though. He got the military chassis by accident when a strange chain of events delivered it to Best Buy.

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Pintsize wouldn't be the first to BS about having been a vet, for whatever tangibles or intangibles he thought might accrue ... Used to be a guy who showed up at vets' funerals in north-central Ohio in full Marine dress uniform. Front-page pic of him saluting at a ceremony in one of the local papers, and then some real vets called him out. Things got mildly ugly, and he went to ground.

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