The whole point of the new people is that they die. They were court puppets, but now they are real boys.
They aren't objects anymore, they can't be replicated or owned like a computer can be. They make their own choices now and the only reason those choices are meaningful is that they are living creatures now, instead of appliances.
Stop being moronic.
>Not having backup capability
We have been over this already, after the transfer, it becomes too big and too complex to be backup-able.
We have been explicitly shown that the Robots could handle having flesh bodies while still running on their AI chips. The Robots where fully able to handle the new inputs of data that brings and the expanded awareness.
The only reason for for the transfer to destroy the original AI chips, is if Kat deliberately designed it that way to ensure the destruction of the AI race. No more backups, no more being able to switch out their bodies to accomplish tasks, no more chance of uplifting the world by brings true AI to help world.
Nope Kat just want them to be humans, she is just erasing everything they where for nothing.
>The only reason Kat becomes a god is because she happened to sign a contract of ownership that she didn't read that she got from an already existing god >None of that fantastical coyote nonsense from the early comic where belief creates etherical beings or whatever >Becoming an immortal being through contractual obligation
How did we get here?
If it was cleverly written, sure.
If you want an actually good version of Kat, watch Pantheon. It's incredibly good and sadly overlooked a lot because it was on a network no one watched and had 0 advertising. They managed to get it renewed for a second season on Amazon I think and somehow pulled off a perfect ending at perfect pacing despite having less time than originally intended. It's what this comic should have been. It's a complete story with all its themes intact and it's all based on stellar character writing instead of characters becoming moronic for a bit in order to shoehorn in some unneccessary twist or whatever.
No, it has very little to do with The Matrix. Not sure how you'd come to that conclusion. There's virtually 0 overlap between the two, until maybe some moral questions at the very end, like about rights of machines and humans etc.,but even then, not really similar at all.
I encourage you to watch it. It's a lot like Gunnerkrigg, actually, but short and never craps the bed.
>It's a lot like Gunnerkrigg
Not in its setting, of course, but in terms of what the story is about, or at least whatever I think the story of gunnerkrigg might still be about at this point. Most of gunnerkrigg's themes have been thrown in the garbage. I have no clue what Tom is even going for anymore.
Pratchett Discworld series empowered gods and other supernatural entities with belief. Om had strength because people believed in him. Om lost strength when people began to worship the power structure of Om's religion, instead of Om himself.
Pratchett would have a god appear because she was believed in. God by contract is inane. It never happened in a single book. Contracts are human things, full of flaws, loopholes, and occasional spelling mistakes. If gods could be made by contracts, the god of friendliness could become the god of frondliness just because nobody double-checked the word carefully enough on paragraph 43. Then, afterward, the God would find some way to evade all its responsibilities on an argued technicality, and the god would be in the clear unless you could find a good celestial class action lawyer.
Pratchett might write that there's an ancient power inherent in social constructs - in the belief that an agreement has been made and that certain words are binding when all parties understand the meaning in their hearts - but you can't just draft up a legal form and become a god by getting some inscrutable papers notorized.
>but you can't just draft up a legal form and become a god
Seeing that there is much more involved here than that, it's not really the case here either, so it's not a valid critique.
The pages where they explained the contract and how Kat was obligated to become their god barely made sense at all.
>You're using a magic device which breaks contract rules to enter make a single-use contract be multi-use! We have to send you to prison! >Oh, what if I sign a different contract, then? >Oh, okay, here's your ascension to godhood. Sign here.
Not even the characters seemed to understand what happened. It's not clear if the little ghost even knows what he's talking about. It starts simply - if you own something its yours, and if it's stolen, it's stolen, if it's lost, it's lost. Okay. But then it becomes an inscrutable legal contract that Kat just kinda signs because some god-entity whined about the number of licenses. Heck, she didn't even SIGN it. She pressed a button that said "I agree". It was a ToS.
The pages where they explained the contract and how Kat was obligated to become their god barely made sense at all.
>You're using a magic device which breaks contract rules to enter make a single-use contract be multi-use! We have to send you to prison! >Oh, what if I sign a different contract, then? >Oh, okay, here's your ascension to godhood. Sign here.
Not even the characters seemed to understand what happened. It's not clear if the little ghost even knows what he's talking about. It starts simply - if you own something its yours, and if it's stolen, it's stolen, if it's lost, it's lost. Okay. But then it becomes an inscrutable legal contract that Kat just kinda signs because some god-entity whined about the number of licenses. Heck, she didn't even SIGN it. She pressed a button that said "I agree". It was a ToS.
>but you can't just draft up a legal form and become a god
Seeing that there is much more involved here than that, it's not really the case here either, so it's not a valid critique.
Actually NOW I remember. Pratchett did have supernatural lawyers, but they were always depicted as being bad, dumb, and incapable of critical thinking because they felt that everything in the universe should be a settled and agreed upon constant. They actually sucked life and meaning out of things, and resented subjects like the personhood of Death.
>>The only reason Kat becomes a god is because she happened to sign a contract of ownership that she didn't read that she got from an already existing god >>None of that fantastical coyote nonsense from the early comic where belief creates etherical beings or whatever
How does one mean the other doesn't apply either?
welcome to tertiaries mindset, they don't care about the story, they want to continu the meme they love so much ad nauseam, at all cost, including ignoring pages that don't match, or siply go into schizo mode and rewrite reality to fit the outraged rant they prepared beforehand.
Not having backup capability is a pretty serious design flaw. What was Kat thinking?
The whole point of the new people is that they die. They were court puppets, but now they are real boys.
They aren't objects anymore, they can't be replicated or owned like a computer can be. They make their own choices now and the only reason those choices are meaningful is that they are living creatures now, instead of appliances.
Stop being moronic.
>I like the weakness of flesh
> I'd trade my immortality for the illusion of free will
>Oh no I've been stabbed!
Fricking dumb.
Agreed as a member of the fleshies but I dare say those metal men have different values to us.
They weren't immortal to begin with. If their processor chip got to be destroyed, then they die too.
Use flawed models on the peasants
she was thinking about hot wet spanish puss of course
Hot wet Spanish puss
How did you figure out her password!!!
She actually changed it.
It's "steaminghotfirecrotch69" now
>Annie when she's about to feast on divine romani cooch
>Not having backup capability
We have been over this already, after the transfer, it becomes too big and too complex to be backup-able.
We have been explicitly shown that the Robots could handle having flesh bodies while still running on their AI chips. The Robots where fully able to handle the new inputs of data that brings and the expanded awareness.
The only reason for for the transfer to destroy the original AI chips, is if Kat deliberately designed it that way to ensure the destruction of the AI race. No more backups, no more being able to switch out their bodies to accomplish tasks, no more chance of uplifting the world by brings true AI to help world.
Nope Kat just want them to be humans, she is just erasing everything they where for nothing.
>The only reason Kat becomes a god is because she happened to sign a contract of ownership that she didn't read that she got from an already existing god
>None of that fantastical coyote nonsense from the early comic where belief creates etherical beings or whatever
>Becoming an immortal being through contractual obligation
How did we get here?
an immortal being through contractual obligation
Feels like something Adams, Pratchett or Gaiman would've come up with
If it was cleverly written, sure.
If you want an actually good version of Kat, watch Pantheon. It's incredibly good and sadly overlooked a lot because it was on a network no one watched and had 0 advertising. They managed to get it renewed for a second season on Amazon I think and somehow pulled off a perfect ending at perfect pacing despite having less time than originally intended. It's what this comic should have been. It's a complete story with all its themes intact and it's all based on stellar character writing instead of characters becoming moronic for a bit in order to shoehorn in some unneccessary twist or whatever.
Isn't that just a shitty matrix ripoff with a shitty graphics and designs?
No, it has very little to do with The Matrix. Not sure how you'd come to that conclusion. There's virtually 0 overlap between the two, until maybe some moral questions at the very end, like about rights of machines and humans etc.,but even then, not really similar at all.
I encourage you to watch it. It's a lot like Gunnerkrigg, actually, but short and never craps the bed.
>It's a lot like Gunnerkrigg
Not in its setting, of course, but in terms of what the story is about, or at least whatever I think the story of gunnerkrigg might still be about at this point. Most of gunnerkrigg's themes have been thrown in the garbage. I have no clue what Tom is even going for anymore.
I'll give it a watch
If I don't like it i'll piss in your coffee
>If it was cleverly written, sure.
I meant purely conceptually
Pratchett Discworld series empowered gods and other supernatural entities with belief. Om had strength because people believed in him. Om lost strength when people began to worship the power structure of Om's religion, instead of Om himself.
Pratchett would have a god appear because she was believed in. God by contract is inane. It never happened in a single book. Contracts are human things, full of flaws, loopholes, and occasional spelling mistakes. If gods could be made by contracts, the god of friendliness could become the god of frondliness just because nobody double-checked the word carefully enough on paragraph 43. Then, afterward, the God would find some way to evade all its responsibilities on an argued technicality, and the god would be in the clear unless you could find a good celestial class action lawyer.
Pratchett might write that there's an ancient power inherent in social constructs - in the belief that an agreement has been made and that certain words are binding when all parties understand the meaning in their hearts - but you can't just draft up a legal form and become a god by getting some inscrutable papers notorized.
>but you can't just draft up a legal form and become a god
Seeing that there is much more involved here than that, it's not really the case here either, so it's not a valid critique.
The pages where they explained the contract and how Kat was obligated to become their god barely made sense at all.
>You're using a magic device which breaks contract rules to enter make a single-use contract be multi-use! We have to send you to prison!
>Oh, what if I sign a different contract, then?
>Oh, okay, here's your ascension to godhood. Sign here.
Not even the characters seemed to understand what happened. It's not clear if the little ghost even knows what he's talking about. It starts simply - if you own something its yours, and if it's stolen, it's stolen, if it's lost, it's lost. Okay. But then it becomes an inscrutable legal contract that Kat just kinda signs because some god-entity whined about the number of licenses. Heck, she didn't even SIGN it. She pressed a button that said "I agree". It was a ToS.
Actually NOW I remember. Pratchett did have supernatural lawyers, but they were always depicted as being bad, dumb, and incapable of critical thinking because they felt that everything in the universe should be a settled and agreed upon constant. They actually sucked life and meaning out of things, and resented subjects like the personhood of Death.
THAT'S what all this is like.
Imagine calling middle management lawyer a god
>>The only reason Kat becomes a god is because she happened to sign a contract of ownership that she didn't read that she got from an already existing god
>>None of that fantastical coyote nonsense from the early comic where belief creates etherical beings or whatever
How does one mean the other doesn't apply either?
Kat chapter with a decent amount of dialogue per page. I'm happy for now even though the plot is fricking stupid.
Where is Jones. I'm no longer asking.
Also Kat looks fricking dumb in the first panel.
Oh look at that, the logical sequence of events is occurring.
>looks at thread
And morons are b***hing about it anyway because we're reaching "b***h eating crackers" levels.
It was vague in one panel so the entire comic doesn't make sense and it shit - them
>so the entire comic doesn't make sense
But it does. And things were quite clear.
welcome to tertiaries mindset, they don't care about the story, they want to continu the meme they love so much ad nauseam, at all cost, including ignoring pages that don't match, or siply go into schizo mode and rewrite reality to fit the outraged rant they prepared beforehand.