Interesting indeed! While he has gone rogue, ASCII seems to have kept some human characteristics.
The pet cybercat is the most noticable one, of course, but I cannot help to wonder why he is watching the screen with his own eyes rather than to plug his electronic brain directly to the camera.
Liza's very obvious approach is also worthy of comment, and most probably hides something clever.
Interesting
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Re: Interesting
My first reaction on seeing the cyberpet is that he's modelling himslef on the old James Bond villians.Sylvain wrote: The pet cybercat is the most noticable one, of course, but I cannot help to wonder why he is watching the screen with his own eyes rather than to plug his electronic brain directly to the camera.
ASCII has always, from some reason, struck me as a somewhat theatrical character, and since being excessively theatrical seems part and parcel of villianous behaviour shown so far, taking the act to the level of watching on the screen is then just being throughly in character.
It's not that I'm apathetic, it's that I'm ..... um .... OK, it's that I'm apathetic.
Re: Interesting
Well, there are certain advantages to having youself free of this screen - perchance to perform other tasks (or even to view other screens)... just a thought.Nitwit wrote: The pet cybercat is the most noticable one, of course, but I cannot help to wonder why he is watching the screen with his own eyes rather than to plug his electronic brain directly to the camera.
Now that makes a buck's worth of sense. Remember, in his accounts of his past lives, he recalled being a dancer, an artist, and a prostitue: thus he seems the sensitive type; but also he was a fireman, indicating a passionate core. Another thing to remember: At the end all and be all, he was programmed by Rick. (Or, rather, Rick six years before UH1, and thus Rick 26 years before UH2), who is much more than likely to have built a robot with latent desires, both a malevolent mastermind and a total drama queen.Sylvain wrote: ASCII has always, from some reason, struck me as a somewhat theatrical character
It's more than I've done; I tried to build a very similair robot, and all it does is commentary on red carpet fashion.
I would have hoped to say something meaninful, or possible inciteful. But, alas.
How goes the world today? From right to left or left to right? Perhaps it runs round mad reels, turning in on itself only at long last to blow away with the leaves and gutter-trash.
How goes the world today? Top to Bottom or Bottom to Top? Perhaps it will rise high enough so that it may see the back of its own head, in a maddening tunnel of infinity.
How goes the world today? Clockwise or Counter? Perhaps it will spin itself mad, curling a spring-from into endlessness.
Or maybe, today, it will just stop.
How goes the world today? From right to left or left to right? Perhaps it runs round mad reels, turning in on itself only at long last to blow away with the leaves and gutter-trash.
How goes the world today? Top to Bottom or Bottom to Top? Perhaps it will rise high enough so that it may see the back of its own head, in a maddening tunnel of infinity.
How goes the world today? Clockwise or Counter? Perhaps it will spin itself mad, curling a spring-from into endlessness.
Or maybe, today, it will just stop.
...And I screwed up. That's what I get for tryin' to quote two people at once. Just wanted to be the first to point that out: I said that Sylvain said what Nitwit said and Nitwit said what I said Sylvain said. You see what I say I said they said they didn't say but they did say what the other said except that's what they said not what the other said?
c'est fin. or finit. or just dun.
c'est fin. or finit. or just dun.
I would have hoped to say something meaninful, or possible inciteful. But, alas.
How goes the world today? From right to left or left to right? Perhaps it runs round mad reels, turning in on itself only at long last to blow away with the leaves and gutter-trash.
How goes the world today? Top to Bottom or Bottom to Top? Perhaps it will rise high enough so that it may see the back of its own head, in a maddening tunnel of infinity.
How goes the world today? Clockwise or Counter? Perhaps it will spin itself mad, curling a spring-from into endlessness.
Or maybe, today, it will just stop.
How goes the world today? From right to left or left to right? Perhaps it runs round mad reels, turning in on itself only at long last to blow away with the leaves and gutter-trash.
How goes the world today? Top to Bottom or Bottom to Top? Perhaps it will rise high enough so that it may see the back of its own head, in a maddening tunnel of infinity.
How goes the world today? Clockwise or Counter? Perhaps it will spin itself mad, curling a spring-from into endlessness.
Or maybe, today, it will just stop.
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Nice use of cliche, Allan. I imagine that the upcoming fight will be completely one-sided, but I'm not sure who has the advantage.
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"I decline to accept the end of man [...] Man will not only endure, but prevail...." - William Faulkner
"I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and aesthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world." - Ayn Rand