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Marigold's OOPS!

0 (0%)

The entire internet is mad at me!

1 (2.2%)

Only one thing to do: Cat GIFs? LOTS of Cat GIFs.

2 (4.4%)

Here, Marten! Open it and see! Tee hee!

1 (2.2%)

Oh, hey, Emily invited you too!

0 (0%)

Yeah, what'd you think it was, a love letter?

0 (0%)

OH MY GOD YOU ARE PRECIOUS (Sh-shut up! Shut it all the way up!)

10 (22.2%)

Party at Emily Azuma's parent's lake house! (And Cristi's handwriting!)

2 (4.4%)

You should invite all your friends, too! There's plenty of room!

0 (0%)

A thousand people would probably be too many. (How big is your parents' lake house?)

0 (0%)

Faye with the watiress outfit - "Hey, Buttass, what's up?"

2 (4.4%)

Emily the intern is throwing a party, wanna come?

0 (0%)

Dora: Am I invited? Marten: Oh yeah, def- (Tai: AAH! AAAAH!)

1 (2.2%)

Tai: One of my interns is throwing a party. Wanna come?

1 (2.2%)

Marigold walks by. (DAT A$$)

15 (33.3%)

Angus gets caught "peeking"

3 (6.7%)

GIBBS-SMACK!

5 (11.1%)

What was that? NOTHING!

2 (4.4%)

Total Members Voted: 43

[jwhouk]

And we start things off for a new month with a new poll!

It's also the last week of my 44th year on this planet. YAY!

[PthariensFlame]

Or, as my mother would say, you're halfway to 90.

[Method of Madness]

Wait, you said you were turning square. 45 is not a square!

[Is it cold in here?]

They do own their own bodies. There was a Q&A on Tumblr  that mentioned this. I wonder if Station is an exception.

[Method of Madness]

They do own their own bodies. There was a Q&A on Tumblr  that mentioned this.

I guess the canon discussion's gonna get carried over to this thread?  Assuming they actually do, then I guess Marigold didn't so much buy the new chassis, but loaned Momo the money to buy herself a new chassis.

[Pilchard123]

AnthroPCs owning their bodies is a nice thought. Feels odd that I'm thinking that, since I'm happy that things that (yet) don't exist have rights. It did throw up a few questions in my mind though:

• Can a human own an AnthroPC chassis with no resident AI?
• Could there be a case where a human buys the chassis without a personality and then gives it as a gift to an AI? Would this be seen more as the human giving a conditional gift of money?
• If AIs can transfer between chassis(essesessseseses), which we know they can, are there AnthroPCs that have multiple bodies and switch between then in the same way that we would change clothes?
• Can AIs sell their bodies?
• Can AIs steal bodies by transferring into an empty one that they don't own?
• Is damaging an AI's body considered bodily or property damage or something else entirely? Does it matter if the body is inhabited?

[Carl-E]

We have the case of Winslow transferring into the practice boyfriend.  Of course, that was with permission, and he didn't like it much (except for the hands...)

[jmucchiello]

Wait, you said you were turning square. 45 is not a square!

Sure it is. It's the square of approximately 6.708203932499369

Maybe he meant he was becoming L7 (which looks more like a rhombus, in this font).

[Carl-E]

Method, you're confusing jwhouk and skewbrow. 

[Method of Madness]

I am. They have similar avatars and birthdays, so I guess I saw birthday in one thread and assumed the same person was talking about their birthday here, ha.

[Skewbrow]

Or, as my mother would say, you're halfway to 90.

YB: "Ninety per cent of your trip on this planet is half uphill" the other half is downhill

[Ph2]

They do own their own bodies. There was a Q&A on Tumblr  that mentioned this. I wonder if Station is an exception.

Does Station really even have a body? All we've seen is him projecting, I would hardly call that a body. If he has some sort of solid computer he uses I suppose that would be his body. Otherwise, well, I guess he's like a ghost.

[Mr_Rose]

In one sense, Station's "body" is the station itself; any physical computer core(s) would be his brain-analogue. As for ownership, I imagine whoever put the hardware up there, assuming it wasn't J E-C's private fortune, might have things to say on that matter, though I could see them deciding that the computer core(s) are Station's alone and that he is free to leave at any time via the dedicated ejection mechanism.

[jwhouk]

Method, you're confusing jwhouk and skewbrow.

I was gonna say. I'm not 49 yet.


As to Station: what happens if/when Station's orbit decays to the point where it can't be sustained? Can he switch to an AnthroPC body, or would that be just too much for him?

[Method of Madness]

Yeah, sorry about that, J. As for Station...I don't know, he'd probably have a backup server prepped for him should that ever happen. It's not like they wouldn't know it in advance.

[Omega Entity]

Wouldn't they have thrusters on something that big and expensive to keep the orbit from degrading, though?

[DSL]

At the risk of resurrecting the whole "but which way does it spin?" thread ... yeah, seems you'd want something like that, just for insurance and fine-tuning the orbit. You wouldn't need a delta of more than a few m/s. The station probably avoids the most likely cause of orbital degradation -- atmo drag -- because, judging from Jeph's drawings, it's in high LEO but not quite GEO. I say "probably" because Jeph describes an orbital period of about 90 minutes, consistent with low LEO comparable to the shuttles and ISS in the real world -- and ISS does have orbital-maintenance thrusters.

EDITED to correct last reference from GEO to LEO. Duh.

[FunkyTuba]

I'd love to know more about Station, but I suspect we'll have to wait for Jeph to get back around to constructing an arc that includes him. We spent so much (awesome) time up in space, I'm guessing we'll catch up on several of the other story lines that have been back-burnered before going back there.

[Is it cold in here?]

Jeph said in a Tumblr Q&A that Station is too big to fit on normal server hardware.

AnthroPCs can sell their bodies: Pintsize was pondering what to do with the money if he sold his military-grade hardware and traded down to a civilian model.

[Omega Entity]

Speaking of character Twitter accounts crossing over into the comic...

[cesariojpn]

This comic may be based on something that actually happened on Marigold's Twitter a few days ago. Warning: actual Borderlands 2 spoilers in that link, click at your own risk.

It's okay, I already saw the hentai comic.

[Kugai]

Meow

[Soulsynger]

YB: "Ninety per cent of your trip on this planet is half uphill" the other half is downhill

What about the remaining 10 percent? °O

[Sidhekin]

YB: "Ninety per cent of your trip on this planet is half uphill" the other half is downhill

What about the remaining 10 percent? °O

Flat.

[Soulsynger]

YB: "Ninety per cent of your trip on this planet is half uphill" the other half is downhill

What about the remaining 10 percent? °O

Flat.

So for 10 percent of your life you don't age? What? Getting increasingly confused here.

[Omega Entity]

90% is half uphill... so, 45% is uphill, 45% is downhill, and 10% is flat?

[Akima]

Wouldn't they have thrusters on something that big and expensive to keep the orbit from degrading, though?

I think so. And propulsion technology is more advanced in the QC-verse than in our world, judging from the SSTO space-plane that took Hanners, Marigold and Marten into orbit.

[Somebody]

Jeph said in a Tumblr Q&A that Station is too big to fit on normal server hardware.

Isn't "Station" just the human subroutine (re: Friday's comic) rather than the whole AI, though? Wouldn't that be severable if it came down to it?

Wouldn't they have thrusters on something that big and expensive to keep the orbit from degrading, though?

I think so. And propulsion technology is more advanced in the QC-verse than in our world, judging from the SSTO space-plane that took Hanners, Marigold and Marten into orbit.

Which itself would give the station a boost every time it docked (unless they horribly cocked up the direction of docking relative to the station spin and orbit, which is unlikely).

[akronnick]

It's possible that the station is higher than LEO. Maybe it was constructed in situ from raw materials mined on the Moon and asteroids. If it was high enough, it would have less atmospheric drag to deal with, which could be done with some kind of ion drive. It could even be at Earth-Moon L1 and use the orbital resonance to keep it in place.

[Border Reiver]

Moving from high philosophical discussions on whether or not the cartoon AIs actually own their own "bodies" to slightly less elevated philosophy - "How many cat .gifs are necessary to placate the internet?"

[LordVaughn]

At least with calculations
X*5(y) X being the threshold of cute kittens a person can take before becoming a writhing mess of temporary diabetes, y being the aww factor of each cat.

[Mr_Rose]

It's possible that the station is higher than LEO. Maybe it was constructed in situ from raw materials mined on the Moon and asteroids. If it was high enough, it would have less atmospheric drag to deal with, which could be done with some kind of ion drive. It could even be at Earth-Moon L1 and use the orbital resonance to keep it in place.

Unless the windows were giant viewscreens, L1 doesn't match the depiction. Nor does GEO for that matter. And "a little bit higher than LEO" is smack in the middle of the VABs, a very bad place to put a tank full of squishies. Plus Spaceship apparently got them there in a time comparable to a transatlantic flight even with his "miss" of the station on the first orbit so a very great deal further than LEO seems ruled out by that too, unless Spaceship has a) magic rockets with super-high thrust and near-infinite specific impulse and b) inertial dampers to stop a splatting the cargo.
In which case, Station should be able to park wherever he damn well pleases because he wouldn't have to worry about petty things like "gravity" and "drag" at all.
But why would anyone think going to space was special then?

[Pilchard123]

Unless the windows were giant viewscreens, L1 doesn't match the depiction. Nor does GEO for that matter. And "a little bit higher than LEO" is smack in the middle of the VABs, a very bad place to put a tank full of squishies. Plus Spaceship apparently got them there in a time comparable to a transatlantic flight even with his "miss" of the station on the first orbit so a very great deal further than LEO seems ruled out by that too, unless Spaceship has a) magic rockets with super-high thrust and near-infinite specific impulse and b) inertial dampers to stop a splatting the cargo.
In which case, Station should be able to park wherever he damn well pleases because he wouldn't have to worry about petty things like "gravity" and "drag" at all.
But why would anyone think going to space was special then?

J E-C could well have developed magic rockets with super-high thrust and near-infinite specific impulse and intertial dampeners. After all, he did invent the robot hamster.

[SleeperCylon]

How do you spoil a video game?  19 out of 20 are 100% predictable from the first thirty minutes.

[jwhouk]

What would be the creepiest thing to think about with an AnthroPC?

The AI inside finds it relaxing to not be bombarded with billions of inputs at once.    1 (3.4%)
The AI inside is using some of its subroutines to count down to a certain date and time...    5 (17.2%)
In its spare time, it's not only running the SETI screensaver, it's scanning the internet for anime pron.    2 (6.9%)
They don't "own" their own chassis.    7 (24.1%)
They don't really NEED their own chassis, as they're actually an AI personality.    3 (10.3%)
Momo and Winslow are the exceptions; Pintsize is the RULE.    7 (24.1%)
Pintsize actually LIKES it when Faye throws him against the wall.    3 (10.3%)
Memes like Waffles and Spathe Ham annoy the crap out of them.    1 (3.4%)
Station is actually considering "downsizing" to an AnthroPC chassis.    0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 29

[Redball]

How do you spoil a video game?  19 out of 20 are 100% predictable from the first thirty minutes.

More specifically, since I don't know the game in question (or any other, for that matter), could someone tell me which of Marigold's tweets contained the spoiler and, briefly and either generically or hidden, how it gave away a plot point?

[Black Sword]

So, does a massive amount of cat GIFs work to soothe an inflamed internet? I've never actually seen that in action, so I wouldn't know.

[PthariensFlame]

So, does a massive amount of cat GIFs work to soothe an inflamed internet? I've never actually seen that in action, so I wouldn't know.

More seriously, I don't think you can prevent all of the Internet from being inflamed, just a fragment of it; what soothes one portion will irritate another.  It's like a genetic chimera, each of whose components are allergic to different stuff.

[jmucchiello]

You wouldn't measure it in catgifs. You'd probably need move into kilocatgifs or megacatgifs.

[Skewbrow]

FWIW feeding "cat gif" to google gives 439 million hits.

Edit: My bad pun - my duty to explain. Knowing that Jwhouk is a baseball fan I tried to paraphrase Yogi Berra's "ninety per cent of baseball is half mental". I will include into my will the request that my son will settle his old man's debt to the bad pun jar.

[Welu]

I really like the way Marigold grabs her hair when she's freaking out. I'm fairly sure she's done it before but can't archive-fu one up.

EDIT: Found one!

[cesium133]

How do you spoil a video game?  19 out of 20 are 100% predictable from the first thirty minutes.

Warning: Civ4 spoiler ahead.

Montezuma will declare war on everyone.

[Mr_Rose]

Yeah, but at least he's pretty upfront about it bein' all transparently xenophobic right from the start and all. It's the backstabbers that turn on you five years into a research/trade agreement that really annoy me (I'm looking at you, Nobunga)…

(Still want the next Civ game to have the next SMAC game as a semi-standalone companion/expansion pack)

[Rockman]

I really like the way Marigold grabs her hair when she's freaking out. I'm fairly sure she's done it before but can't archive-fu one up.

I feel like I've seen it before too, but this is all I could find off-hand. Same kinda "OH GOD CATASTROPHE" vibe though, which is pretty entertaining.

[jwhouk]

I really like the way Marigold grabs her hair when she's freaking out. I'm fairly sure she's done it before but can't archive-fu one up.

EDIT: Found one!

She apparently gets it from her dad.

[Akima]

It's not the Red Chinese!

[Tobimaro]

I checked the Marigold Twitter feed, and I cannot find the "offensive" post.  But, then again, I have not played Borderlands 2 (and I do not plan on playing it).  Plus, I do not care about spoilers in video games as I tend to use GameFAQS to help me out with some difficult games.

[Asterus]

I checked the Marigold Twitter feed, and I cannot find the "offensive" post.  But, then again, I have not played Borderlands 2 (and I do not plan on playing it).  Plus, I do not care about spoilers in video games as I tend to use GameFAQS to help me out with some difficult games.

(click to show/hide)

It was really just two words: "RIP Bloodwing". Basically, it informed everyone that A) Mordecai from the first game returns in BL2, B) His class feature is an actual character, and C) Said class feature dies at some point.

(Modified to put the spoiler in spoiler tags - Method)

[PthariensFlame]

It's okay, Marten, I totally thought that it was a love letter too.

[Method of Madness]

I wonder what sort of box social Emily is throwing!