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WCDT Strips 3566 to 3570 (11th to 15th September 2017)
Zog:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Sep 2017, 02:14 ---
In this country 'cash-in-hand' implies a transaction that the tax man will be unaware of and not receive his share of. Is that the case over there? I can certainly imagine Roko paying for the work out of personal funds, but having it off the books seems unlikely.
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I do not know how much variation there is within the US but I am from the southeast and live in the southwest and would take "cash in hand" to mean payment when service is rendered and what you are speaking of to be "under the table".
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Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Sep 2017, 18:19 ---She said as much. It was an EMP gun. She was conscious but unable to move while her squad mates were butchered. Thank God I cannot imagine what that's like.
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Ummmmh not quite what she said (comic 3463): She said she was incapacitated by "a powerful EMP" - no indication as to whether she was conscious at the time her squadmates died (Also no specifics whether the EMP was generated by a handgun, grenade, high-altitude nuke etc).
Pilchard123:
Huh. I thought there was A strip that went into more detail, but I couldn't for the life of me find it.
blt:
Bubbles has mentioned previously that her sense of smell actually serves as a sophisticated chemical weapons detector. So I don't put much stake in the idea that a "smell weapon" could incapacitate AI soldiers; if their hallucinations from tea aren't at least partly under their control I have to imagine Sarin or VX would be a mess and defeat the whole purpose of having a sensor.
My pseudoscience headcanon for the tea hallucination is that their sense of smell normally runs as a background process and just feeds the analysed outputs to her higher consciousness. But by focussing on the input data directly and possibly intentionally rerouting it into her conscious thought, she is able to purposefully get the hallucinations based on the scent data. Sort of like a deep mediation.
Case:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 17 Sep 2017, 02:49 ---Huh. I thought there was A strip that went into more detail, but I couldn't for the life of me find it.
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Yeah, searched quite a bit myself - I forgot that the grand revelation of what the memory is about comes after the Spookybot/Emily-mind-diving arc, not before.
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