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WCDT Strips 3411 to 3415 (6th to 10th February 2017)
brasca:
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Feb 2017, 20:58 ---CW will plead guilty regardless, so it's moot.
But where did that evidence come from? Eyewitness statements legally obtained? Conjured out of thin air? Magic?
It's tangential, so it hardly matters I suppose, but... eh. The whole resolution is a hand wave anyway.
Sorry, don't mean to sound whiny. I'm still enjoying the comic, honestly!
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True, but it may not end just like that. We've seen before that the government took custody of the Vespa Avenger and have also intervened to suppress Emily's technological discovery so I wouldn't be surprised if soon after the conviction Corpse Witch's module is "lost" from robot prison so a government agent can interrogate her. She still might be too scared to talk, but I imagine they can be persuasive too or will just access her memories to find out what she knows. I doubt the powers that be rest easily knowing there is a near omnipotent AI roaming freely and want to find someway to either capture or neutralize them.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 09 Feb 2017, 21:00 ---But Corpse Witch knows that if she lawyers up Spook will make good on their promise of eternal torment.
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Minor but important correction: she *knows* no such thing. She certainly believes it though, and the Eminence Gris went to a great deal of trouble to reinforce that belief.
Personally, I'm sceptical. It wouldn't fit with the way the QCverse works. Even terrorising a thoroughly nasty miscreant with a hollow but deliberately plausible threat like that strains the boundaries.
Tawdry Quirks:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 09 Feb 2017, 08:58 ---
--- Quote from: Tawdry Quirks on 09 Feb 2017, 03:04 ---If you want to knit, don't hold your needles how Officer Basilisk is holding hers...that's not a valid knitting position at all. Notice how the piece isn't even on the knitting needles. And although there is a valid knitting style that does involve needles pointing down like that, which is called 'Parlour Style', it is freaky rare. I've only seen one photo of actual Parlour style knitting, and I have never found video of the technique.
The reason I'm disappointed by the depiction of knitting in today's strip is because the depiction of knitting hands in strip #2904 is absolutely fucking perfect.
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She's a cop and an unknown humanoid has just appeared out of nowhere in her living room. She's re-positioned her needles so she can go for the eyes if the intruder gets too close and buy herself time to lunge for her pistol. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, stabbing Spook in the eyes wouldn't do any good even if she could manage it, but she doesn't know how close to omnipotent they is, and none of her programming, training or speculation has prepared her for an encounter with androgynous demigod. It's a reasonable punt.)
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I like this theory. I'll expand it a bit and suggest that perhaps Spookybot might be helping out Basilisk by making the piece of knitting that's been 'liberated' from its needles levitate in the air. Although it might not be the correct interpretation of that scene, it's at least the one that requires the least amount of suspension of disbelief on my part.
JRDelirio:
--- Quote from: brasca on 10 Feb 2017, 01:03 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Feb 2017, 20:58 ---CW will plead guilty regardless, so it's moot.
But where did that evidence come from? Eyewitness statements legally obtained? Conjured out of thin air? Magic?
It's tangential, so it hardly matters I suppose, but... eh. The whole resolution is a hand wave anyway.
Sorry, don't mean to sound whiny. I'm still enjoying the comic, honestly!
--- End quote ---
True, but it may not end just like that. We've seen before that the government took custody of the Vespa Avenger and have also intervened to suppress Emily's technological discovery so I wouldn't be surprised if soon after the conviction Corpse Witch's module is "lost" from robot prison so a government agent can interrogate her. She still might be too scared to talk, but I imagine they can be persuasive too or will just access her memories to find out what she knows. I doubt the powers that be rest easily knowing there is a near omnipotent AI roaming freely and want to find someway to either capture or neutralize them.
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Well but do we think Collosal Squid would not put a much, much better lockdown on that kind of info than Coprse Witch could (and not fuck it up)? Or that they haven't already put the Dark Ops side of the earthly government on notice that they will not countenance someone forcibly extracting memories from an AI?
And BTW about confessions and evidence: Creepybot is being an anonymous informant. If someone else with access to evidence, who is not the police, brings in enough of it to warrant a proper investigation, and police then uncover that indeed there is proof of the crime, then that proof is not tainted. If someone confesses eagerly and you have no evidence of coercion, you have to take the confession. And yes, if you are a good LEO you will be, must be, suspicious of anything that works out too good to be true because it often means you are being a piece in the game.
brasca:
--- Quote from: JRDelirio on 10 Feb 2017, 04:42 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 10 Feb 2017, 01:03 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Feb 2017, 20:58 ---CW will plead guilty regardless, so it's moot.
But where did that evidence come from? Eyewitness statements legally obtained? Conjured out of thin air? Magic?
It's tangential, so it hardly matters I suppose, but... eh. The whole resolution is a hand wave anyway.
Sorry, don't mean to sound whiny. I'm still enjoying the comic, honestly!
--- End quote ---
True, but it may not end just like that. We've seen before that the government took custody of the Vespa Avenger and have also intervened to suppress Emily's technological discovery so I wouldn't be surprised if soon after the conviction Corpse Witch's module is "lost" from robot prison so a government agent can interrogate her. She still might be too scared to talk, but I imagine they can be persuasive too or will just access her memories to find out what she knows. I doubt the powers that be rest easily knowing there is a near omnipotent AI roaming freely and want to find someway to either capture or neutralize them.
--- End quote ---
Well but do we think Collosal Squid would not put a much, much better lockdown on that kind of info than Coprse Witch could (and not fuck it up)? Or that they haven't already put the Dark Ops side of the earthly government on notice that they will not countenance someone forcibly extracting memories from an AI?
And BTW about confessions and evidence: Creepybot is being an anonymous informant. If someone else with access to evidence, who is not the police, brings in enough of it to warrant a proper investigation, and police then uncover that indeed there is proof of the crime, then that proof is not tainted. If someone confesses eagerly and you have no evidence of coercion, you have to take the confession. And yes, if you are a good LEO you will be, must be, suspicious of anything that works out too good to be true because it often means you are being a piece in the game.
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Creepybot is quite arrogant so I woudn't put it past them to be careless, but even if such information was safeguarded why would that stop a super secret black ops organization from trying? Moreover, Creepybot seemed interested in the memories Bubbles had possibly for an ulterior reason. Maybe they are hunting this organization and vice versa.
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