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Madrox posted:And that page was immediately followed by Robot's evangelism... We haven't seem him in-panel since this page: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1430. I think we've seen everyone else in that page recently... He's probably in the background, just watching, witnessing... Cue ominous music. Robot-as-cult-leader is creepy as gently caress. He's a pretty cool dude otherwise, but every time he's near Kat I kinda get creeped out.
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The ship probably still has its original computer brain. Kat's just getting rid of this half-finished, vestigal new body. A big ol' lump of useless tissue that can't yet contain the ship's consciousness without Zimmyland to support it. Doesn't stop Robot from mythologizing the event, but Kat doesn't have to be actually killing a living conscious thing right now. And why would she? She's mad at the robots for their kidnapping and endangerment, but she seemed fine to go along with the ship's requests. She doesn't seem in a mood where she'd actually want to kill the dunce. (And she'd understand better than anybody whether the action she's about to take would kill the ship's AI.)
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MikeJF posted:If the ship's consciousness is actually in that creature and Kat is killing it... I'm a little uncomfortable right now, actually, because a 14-year-old should not be an executioner. Don't be silly. Robots aren't people!
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ConfusedUs posted:Robot-as-cult-leader is creepy as gently caress. He's a pretty cool dude otherwise, but every time he's near Kat I kinda get creeped out. Is it really a cult if you are actually correct? Like if she really is an angel from their belief system, what is wrong with what he's doing?
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They also call Kat Creator. So is she an angel or a god?
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They also call Diego "creator", since he actually created the first robots, created the "species". I wouldn't be surprised if they see Kat as a continuation of Diego to some degree. The second coming.
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Ship: "why did I ever decide it was a good idea to want to feel pain"
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Boogaleeboo posted:Is it really a cult if you are actually correct? Like if she really is an angel from their belief system, what is wrong with what he's doing? Weird religious zealots aren't cool. Even when personally they are, they're not. Mraagvpeine posted:They also call Kat Creator. So is she an angel or a god? Can't she be both?
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The real question is: can robot belief create gods from ether like human belief can?
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Ditocoaf posted:The real question is: can robot belief create gods from ether like human belief can? I'm fairly certain this was answered in the last Mort chapter as "yes". It was confirmed Kat is a psychopomp for the robots and her first robosoul was the bird wing
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aSuper Waffle posted:I'm fairly certain this was answered in the last Mort chapter as "yes". It was confirmed Kat is a psychopomp for the robots and her first robosoul was the bird wing Kat is a something. We don't know what. We can't say she's a psychopomp until she actually starts escorting robosouls. She might just have special status as a creator of a species. But yeah, it's been heavily hinted that one of the big reasons the robots want to make the jump to flesh is that that'll allow them to influence the ether.
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dragon enthusiast posted:Ship: "why did I ever decide it was a good idea to want to feel pain" Pain is just a series of error messages warning you of damage or malfunction. Self-aware robots can already feel pain.
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I don't think Kat's a psychopomp -- the ROTD people who had minor beef with psychopomps were directing that at just Annie. They kept calling her an afterlife guide even when she didn't think of herself as one yet, so you'd think they'd know if Kat was one. When they pulled out "credentials", the receptionist recognized Annie's as "gillitie medium", "afterlife guide" (represented with the Antimony symbol), and the crown symbol associated with fire elementals. Kat had a symbol appear (the Diego/creator symbol), but he had no idea what it was. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Dec 9, 2014 |
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Well Kat's escorting someone to the afterlife right now. 
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Wednesday's twist: http://youtu.be/xos2MnVxe-c
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tonberrytoby posted:Wednesday's twist: That's what I was thinking. She's not zapping it to death, she's trying to defibrillate it! 
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Let me be the first to say that the Diego card is super OP, guys!!
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Holy poo poo holy poo poo holy poo poo And Paz can see her??
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HOOOLY poo poo.
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In fact I'd say the chances of this ending with hugs and smooches between Kat and Paz are rapidly approaching zero.
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Roger Explosion posted:So just what even is Kat, anyway?  Also, But mainly, .
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if this were a darker comic the seraph bots would probably go robo-seppuku themselves; as it is, i'm pretty sure they're still going to take what she said literally and
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I'm sure when the smoke subsides Robot will be in the middle of preaching about heresy.
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What's really cool about this is that this isn't in Zimmy-vision or taking place in more-lovely-than-normal alterna-Birmingham. This is taking place in reality. Whatever Zimmy sees Kat as is exactly what Kat is.
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MikeJF posted:What just... is that smoke some kind of leftover puff of etherness or something? I think the smoke is this stuff.
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