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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: WhyNot on 06 Apr 2011, 04:06

Title: Pintsize origin...
Post by: WhyNot on 06 Apr 2011, 04:06

Some of you all have most likely seen this already, but it's the origin of Pintsize!!!

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/05/reeti-the-media-center-pc-thats-also-a-robot/

Enjoy!!!
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: akronnick on 06 Apr 2011, 05:12
"There must be some kind of way out of here,"
Said the joker to the thief...
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: TheEvilDog on 06 Apr 2011, 07:50
Huh, and there was me thinking that Pitsize's origin was that someone (perhaps Marten or one of his parents) went to a store and bought the little fecker.  :roll:
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: O8h7w on 07 Apr 2011, 07:45
Actually, I have a feeling it may be the other way round... Pintsize has been around for seven years, after all. And the company behind this cute PC calls themselves young on their webpage. However, I didn't succeed in verifying this...  :x
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 07 Apr 2011, 14:33
Oh no. It's all making sense now. The sf elements in QC are because Hannerdad will open a time portal sometime upwhen from us with its downwhen locus in the past of the QC universe. The QC people will get the, um, benefit of our future AnthroPC technology.
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Kugai on 07 Apr 2011, 15:54
Pintsize is a rouge Deceptacon
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: DSL on 07 Apr 2011, 20:10
Oh no. It's all making sense now. The sf elements in QC are because Hannerdad will open a time portal sometime upwhen from us with its downwhen locus in the past of the QC universe. The QC people will get the, um, benefit of our future AnthroPC technology.

Hannerdad is one of Asimov's "Eternals"?
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Blackjoker on 07 Apr 2011, 21:05
I hold to my old idea that Pintsize was a save pennies purchase, in fact some of my idea might even be validated in this..though then again maybe not.
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 07 Apr 2011, 21:19
That would explain why he's such a low end model.
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Method of Madness on 26 Apr 2011, 23:32
I've always figured that QC took place in the present, but with several major differences in the QCverse's past, like the existence of Hannelore's dad.  (Think of it like Watchmen, in that universe by 1985 they had free unlimited energy)
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Border Reiver on 27 Apr 2011, 09:18
"There must be some kind of way out of here,"
Said the joker to the thief...


Are you one of the Final Five?
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: akronnick on 27 Apr 2011, 11:30
I am the last Cylon!!
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Carl-E on 27 Apr 2011, 12:33
Oooh - now I want an animated avatar with the eyeslot and the little moving red LED...

What do you mean, cylons don't look like that anymore?  [\GOM]
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Apr 2011, 12:36
You mean something like this (http://www.wmbwizardworks.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cylon-avatar-animated-eye.gif)?
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Border Reiver on 28 Apr 2011, 09:38
More like this (http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/IL-series).
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Apr 2011, 21:02
No, Madness had it right.  But I thought about it some more, and I'm not ready to change out of the dinner jacket and bow tie. 
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Apr 2011, 23:14
I'll change if you do.
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Apr 2011, 23:33
Dude, why?
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Method of Madness on 29 Apr 2011, 00:06
Because neither of us should.
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Kugai on 29 Apr 2011, 00:45
I caint help ya there son.
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Border Reiver on 29 Apr 2011, 04:49
No, Madness had it right.  But I thought about it some more, and I'm not ready to change out of the dinner jacket and bow tie. 

After the port and cheese have made the rounds though it's alright though?  Isn't it?
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Carl-E on 29 Apr 2011, 06:23
Cartainly, but I like to wait until after cigars in the study. 
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Kugai on 29 Apr 2011, 14:47
As Bogie would say

"Real men drink Scotch and smoke Cigarettes."
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Carl-E on 29 Apr 2011, 18:23
Yeah, well...

He also died of cancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart#Death) at the age of 57. 

Nine years before the first surgeon general's warning came out. 

[sigh] time to change.  I can't look at an avatar that depresses me. 
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Kugai on 29 Apr 2011, 22:41
Well, mine's cheerful
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Apr 2011, 12:37
Damn it, I didn't think you actually would.  Now I have to change because I stupidly said I would.

Modifier: Then again, this fits more with my name, I suppose (although Pintsize always was more madness than method)
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Border Reiver on 30 Apr 2011, 12:37
As Bogie would say

"Real men drink Scotch and smoke Cigarettes."

Guess I'm only half a man...
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Kugai on 30 Apr 2011, 16:47
Hehe
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Delirium on 30 Apr 2011, 20:35
wasn't Pintsize some kind of military prototype that was accidentally stocked on some department store shelf?

it's been years so my memory is foggy
Title: Re: Pintsize origin...
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 30 Apr 2011, 23:08
Pintsize was originally a stock 8600 but had his chassis replaced by an accidentally purchased military M-31. Details and links to relevant comics on the wiki.