Comic for Monday, July 29th, 2019
If we are being honest, the second half of the “page” could have had graphics, but I felt this worked well enough, and honestly it would have taken another day to do what I had sort of planned, and the digital world graphics… I dunno, I wasn’t really feeling them this time around. Couldn’t quite nail the aesthetic I wanted and didn’t have time to really dig and figure out why (probably the lack of time to make weird planar surfaces with blocks of 01001’s in the background).
I also acknowledge that this page is weird and somewhat confusing, but let’s face it, that’s not on the graphics department.
I’m going to put Thursday/Friday down as a maybe at this point. I will try, but I’ve got a pots boiling over everywhere at the moment and only one hammer to smash them with. Wait… that’s not what you do with boiling pots? Oh…… that explains… some things….
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So let’s just aim for Monday comic at this point; I know, I know. But I warned you the Thursday (uh) comic was going to be a maybe.
There should be some new good stuff this month though. That’s not a promise per se, but like… a… “um, well, probably” 🙂
I’ll spare you the rumbling and rambling this time around, but last month was just not a comic conductive one, but in the long run things will be back to normal.
Meh, that’s fine. its good to aim for two comics a week, but not terrible if you can only do one, given how many strips aim for daily and struggle with weekly…
Comic will be up on Monday, but probably near the end of it. It is mostly done, but I am not going to get a chance to finish it till fairly late probably.
I think we’ll probably get 2 comics this week though, but that depends on how tomorrow goes.
Final panel: 7th word box [left to right, top to bottom]: “The who[le] lab uplink is-” ?
Someone should make a chassis-controller chart showing who’s running what in the aftermath. At this point, it seems that bodies count as chassis and sentient identities count as controllers and chassis-controller pairings are fluid given ideal conditions.
I think the only bodies that count as chassis are F5, F8, F10, Mir, Miko, and possibly G8.
Of that set, Miko’s an exception as a consequence of the reason that Peter is miffed with his family’s older generation.
This time I’m actually confused. Yet so, so intrigued. Anyone with more insight be willing to enlighten me?
Good news, if the page does make sense to you, it probably means you’re a least a little insane, so it not making sense is probably a good sign 🙂
I wouldn’t worry about it too much. It’s an odd page in that clarity was not the foremost goal.
Of course! It all makes perfect sense now!
Maybe I am a little insane, but it makes perfect sense to me.
Last page revealed the “Miko” is in two places at once, here talking to Mium and talking to the doctors in the real world. This Miko is a virtual interface created for her to interface with computers, but is a “copy” of Miko, so that Miko wouldn’t have two personalities.
MYM was probably capable of making this, but did not, because it gives Miko the power to freely interface with his systems, which would destroy her brain. VI Mium believes in giving flamethrowers to kids, so went ahead enabled Miko’s interface to full functionality (as this was basically what he was created for, this is something he could do).
VI Mium that Miko is talking to is the result of MYM’s VI running on Ila’s systems. It was supposed to be deleted or reintegrated into MYM after that, but could not be because it learned the Martin still exists (whatever that means). As Miko is now her own VI, VI Mium is just left over data.
As VI Mium is disconnected from Miko (and offloaded onto another system, presumably a new prototype), the scientists expected Miko’s implant to not be overloaded anymore, but because she always has to be connected to MYM/Query to stay alive/awake, Mium connected to the system now that VI Mium is not running on her (as he could not be connected to VI Mium without enabling the AA System which prevents him from running in a bunch of places at once).
Because Miko now has a fully functional VI, she immediately starting pulling way too much data from Mium, giving herself omniscient god like knowledge, but overloading her implant/brain, in something that would have killed her meat sack and forced Mium to upload her onto his servers (presumably).
She chooses not to do that (despite preferring to) because it would annoy Peter and Mium, including VI Mium, who gave her the ability to do so (flamethrowers to kids).
All the speech in the square boxes is the speech from the real world.
Doctor Martin vanished when MYM connected, because for whatever reason he cannot be in the presence of MYM (presumably MYM, the real full power one, would probably destroy him, though the nature of their relationship is not revealed).
Ok. That sounds reasonable, and a good completion to my incoherent thoughts.
-so we are now expecting the “garbage left over”/ VI Mium to have it’s own body. But will it be an autonomous process? Based on everything we’ve seen so far there seem to be protocols and directives in place to prevent Mium from running two autonomous systems simultaneously. The first conversation between VI Mium and Miko, suggested the reason Mium was down was becuse he couldn’t run two autonomous copies.
And the way VI Mium talks “I will be puzzled by what I have done”, it sounds like he will integrated back into the MYM and be another distributed process, as opposed to an autonomous entity, which is what he seems to be now.
– but then there’s the copy that got rebooted in the consul’s office? And the copy of Mium runnign around on Central (Presumably F5?). Is that autonomous? Or does Kor’s world technology allow mium to run distributed between dimensions?
I have a week of vacation coming off. I might just spent part of it carefully re-reading the entire archive.
Kid Mium, or VI Mium, or now “Garbage Left Over Mium” cannot run without the AA system, likely because he has an Eidos Key; a black box program that cannot run on normal computers because it’s logical process is “unknown”. It is what makes magic work, and likely what drives free will, making humans more than purely reactionary meatbags (that last is just a personal theory of mine). Miko has an Eidos key so he could run on her, but it was overloading her to have two people running on her implant/brain at once.
Likely what Mir/Martin/The Gaggle of Scientists/+Miko have done is adapted one of the prototypes to run like the AA System (or like a human) so that Vi Mium can run it – this was probably done by using the tech from Miko’s implant + her knowledge of past experiments + Mir’s knowledge of making Ila + Martin seemingly being second only to Peter in terms of “knower of mysterious things”.
But we don’t know for sure yet.
And I have found I reread the archive about once every few months, and rarely don’t find anything new. While the old comics are a bit harder to parse visually, there the character interactions are always great and informative.
Wait? So Vi Mium will be a SMAI with an Eidos Key? Now it makes sense why everyone was up in a tizzy.
But my question still stands? Will he be an autonomous process, or still part of the Mium Entity?
The implant that Miko(female) has is interfaced with various MYM nodes via a communication chips harvested from Kor’s World mecha. The enhanced implant wouldn’t have been allowed on Central but it is what has allowed Miko to not be essentially disabled/bed ridden. Initally MYM operated the implant but has slowly been changing Miko, via edios edits, using Miko’s avatar as a template to not need the implant. This has taught MYM huge things about how edios operates.
I think, even though it was not explicitly explained, the AA System is so named because it is an autonomous autocaster. That would explain why its use is restricted to MYM running on one node.
Thanks Amaranth. It makes marginally more sense after reading your comments… although I am still somewhat confused as to what “Look at this data, this is – she’s pulling, that’s impossible. The who lab uplink -” means. The first part is an odd way of saying “Look at the data she’s pulling, this is… ah… impossible”. The second part only makes sense to me if it should be “The WHO lab uplink…” (or “THE WHO-LAB UPLINK…” where the “-” is used to indicate the “WHO” is linked to the word “LAB”… whereas by itself it seems slightly non-sensical: perhaps it is meant to read: “WHOSE LAB UPLINK…”, in which case it makes sense (in an incomplete way, since the remainder of the sentance is missing after all).
I suppose this is the pitfalls of having a prose heavy comic (a good thing in this case) where all the text is in uppercase (although maybe a bonus for the author: easier to hide things in plain sight?) Honestly, I don’t mind: but part of the point of having uppercase & lowercase is to help distinguish things in the written word… the most obvious of which is names become immediately obvious (which they are not)… but also with incomplete sentances (ahem, like on this page) to help distinguish the start of sentances or interjections. It’s probably the main reason I find this page confusing: I am relying solely on punctuation for reading cues: but the use of “…” vs “-” for trailing sentances (i.e. when one starts or ends mid-stream) does not seem consistent?
I think the “who” in “the who lab uplink” is a mispronounced “whole”.