saber
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Post by saber on Apr 9, 2015 2:03:26 GMT
The SVV is, as far as we know, a way of bringing dead things back to life, a very dangerous way. So when connected to mechanical it adds some confusion. i suppose it could be an attempt to hook up Ulm and the Beast's systems together, but that seems unfair to Ulm.
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Post by Schefflera on Apr 9, 2015 2:38:43 GMT
Specifically it seemed to involve using the donor's nervous system and possibly life energy to help sort of jump-start the (usually dead) recipient. Introducing a mechanical participant is rather confusing, but I'm not sure "it would be confusing otherwise" is a convincing sign that they completely jumped topics.
The previous page also suggests that what Agatha's been working on is a way to reconcile all the components of the new experimental train. I... guess a heavily modified SVV could involve having a human take over systemic control of a train "body" without necessarily leaving their own....
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andyab1000
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Archivist Extraordinaire
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Post by andyab1000 on Apr 9, 2015 9:45:58 GMT
Eh, nobody's required to like everything. I don't know what's not to like about that one, but it's up to you. Edit: On the phrase "organic to mechanical" -- couldn't that just refer to the SVV itself? You connect one thing to another; it's not reserved for movement.... Chust makink vit de note: Herthinner writes lots of stuff here. Hyu know pipples dot writes dot much on sumtink deye dun't like? Herdthinner iz alvays makink vit der jokes. Dere iz an implication of consciousness transfer. "Organic to mechanical" haz been used in that context. Go check der archives (Volumre 10, hy tink) vhere Der Kestle-in-Otilia's-body explains tings to Agatha.
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Post by Schefflera on Apr 9, 2015 20:14:11 GMT
Eh, nobody's required to like everything. I don't know what's not to like about that one, but it's up to you. Edit: On the phrase "organic to mechanical" -- couldn't that just refer to the SVV itself? You connect one thing to another; it's not reserved for movement.... Chust makink vit de note: Herthinner writes lots of stuff here. Hyu know pipples dot writes dot much on sumtink deye dun't like? Herdthinner iz alvays makink vit der jokes. Dere iz an implication of consciousness transfer. "Organic to mechanical" haz been used in that context. Go check der archives (Volumre 10, hy tink) vhere Der Kestle-in-Otilia's-body explains tings to Agatha. I do know Herdthinner's stories! I also know people who write even more than that about things they don't like, actually, but that's neither here nor there: I understood her to like the Girl Genius story as a whole but lack enthusiasm for one particular plot element. If I was wrong to take her at her word when she said so, I beg your pardon and hers. I believe this might be the page you're referring to. On rereading, the exact phrase doesn't appear -- we get "transfer of organics and mechanics" and "across systems mechanical and biological" and finally "artificial to organic" -- but it's close enough that my mind went straight to that scene too, before I considered that it made more sense for them to still be talking about the same procedure as in the previous panel. Of course, Sparks making sense tends to be a shaky assumption in general.
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Post by jsstryker on Apr 9, 2015 23:15:17 GMT
Hy vants zum cake too! Cake iz verra, verra goot eckspecially eef it iz zay hay cherman chocolate cake or hay carrot cake!
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Dagrun
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Gott's leetle feesh in trousers!
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Post by Dagrun on Apr 10, 2015 0:02:26 GMT
Hy luff cake, too! Hespecially vit da budder-kream icink! Yum!
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Herdthinner
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Dun make me use my Outdoor Voice!
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Post by Herdthinner on Apr 10, 2015 1:44:26 GMT
Vat de-?
Hy vas stuck at de labor camp today und couldn't see all dis fon stuff until now.
Und hy tot pipple only tokked about me vhile screaming in rage at de heafens, or vhen handing sumvun money to "take care uv me." Sumtimes both at vunce (or so hy hear)!
Tenk hyu for de kind vords! CAKE ALL AROUND! Hy vould rather haff cake dan my brain in a klenk. Yas? Who's vit me on dot?
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Hy may as vell komm klean vit hyu all dot my "jokes" haff been part uv a highly complex study hy haff been conducting in de hopes uv getting admitted to TPU! Dot's right! Hy iz trying to be a Schmott Gorl!
De vorking title uv de treatise iz A Komparative Examination uv de Relationship in Diverse Stimuli uv de Social Order Tectonics und Boogaloo Adaptations in Accordance vit Doctrines uv Madboys und Englishmen, vit Emphasis on Foundational Precepts uv Liturgical, Cutaneous, und Scatological Premises for SQVIRREL! Binding Anthropological Growth Pertaining to Undercurrents uv Political KILL DOT SQVIRREL Morays, Analyses, und de Go Team Venture Derivative uv SUMBODDY KILL DOT SQ
Hy iz verra sorry. Hy vill continue dis after hy take care uv a sciuridae problem. Sumboddy pleaze hand me my hunting trousers!
(De cake iz a lie)
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Post by Schefflera on Apr 10, 2015 3:06:35 GMT
*pauses to admire Herdthinner's postcount of 1234 before it goes away*
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vonluftschiff
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Ho! Dot guy? Smek heem sum MORE!
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Post by vonluftschiff on Apr 10, 2015 8:04:27 GMT
Ho ja. Cake iz goot. Zeetha has der right idea. Cake iz yust vot hy vould use for distracting crezzy pirate qveens. Dere iz dis gingerbread hy make...
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