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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Isyrion on 08 Jul 2017, 12:23 ---I'm getting the vibe that Jeph really wants to have Alice Grove done ASAP (He has basically said so) and is now rushing his narrative a bit.
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This. He's killed the narrative arc all at once, almost as if he's lost interest in the comic and just wants to shut it down.
I'm kind of disappointed -- this leaves a lot of plot threads hanging, and I've have liked to see them play out. (For instance, what's the history between Alice and Sedna? Why is the world a simulation? How did the decision to make that happen take place? What was the nightwalker, and why did it want Gavia's nanotechnology? I can go on...)
A Duck:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 08 Jul 2017, 22:04 ---This. He's killed the narrative arc all at once, almost as if he's lost interest in the comic and just wants to shut it down.
I'm kind of disappointed -- this leaves a lot of plot threads hanging, and I've have liked to see them play out. (For instance, what's the history between Alice and Sedna? Why is the world a simulation? How did the decision to make that happen take place? What was the nightwalker, and why did it want Gavia's nanotechnology? I can go on...)
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According to Jeph, everything was planned out from the start. He's doing it fast because he's excited to finish it, not because he's bored.
Also, nothing says this fictional universe has to be dropped after AG is done.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 04 Jul 2017, 07:17 ---I suspect that Gavia and Ardent were MI (notice that I used 'Machine Intelligence', not 'Artificial Intelligence' - that matters) algorithms, created by meshing the algorithms of their 'father' and 'mother' and creating something new in a way that mimics how a child's genetics are created from their parents' genetics. Whilst they are code on an electronic media, they are still naturally-developed rather than the product of a deliberate and directed manufacturing process like Bubbles or Pintsize. This level of randomisation is what leads to personalities that the Praeses cannot predict or control beyond very limited levels.
I'm wondering if the Praeses were originally meant to be arks - designed to carry the intelligence of billions of humans to some new home upon which time they would have been re-embodied on the target world. When you think about it, digitising the crew and colonists makes a lot of sense. You still have a full active crew but you only need power to maintain the electronic environment and you can have as many unsuitable target systems as you like as the crew presumably would not age. However, the Praeses decided that they didn't want to go anywhere and just hung out in GEO instead. Maybe they thought that the throw-backs on Earth would die out eventually and they could reclaim the planet.
Then, maybe someone decided to kick them out of their holding pattern, one way or another.
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That's a good theory and perhaps to keep these billions of personalities are kept active in these simulations rather than remaining dormant for thousands of years. They are seemingly born, live out a longer than baseline human life span, die, and begin the process again. Ardent's full name is Ardent Cardamom Vicissitude XVI. Perhaps that number is actually his 16th incarnation.
http://www.alicegrove.com/post/100546047509/theres-nothing-higher-than-the-sky-stupid
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 08 Jul 2017, 20:07 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 08 Jul 2017, 18:02 ---I don't get it. Why rush through to the end if you're not going to bother with an ending? Am I missing something?
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jeph's tweet I posted had 12 tabs on the top... I take that to mean there are 12 more comics to go, and then "that's it"
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Ahhhhh, I misinterpreted that as those being the most recent twelve, I thought it was over. Complaint withdrawn.
Sorflakne:
--- Quote ---Armour that is resistant to projectiles and blunt impacts could potentially be vulnerable to bladed and piercing weapons (knives).
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Little late to reply, but Kevlar is useless against arrows and a knife will go through it with a good stab.
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