Page 5. It’s safe here.
I think I’ve found a way to allow people to edit their comments, as requested. And after updating some other parts of the site, I quickly broke and then fixed my admin dashboard. WordPress, you’re a piece of work.
O Human Star
by Blue Delliquanti
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I saw the post on twitter and tumblr about the problem and for a moment I thought about suggesting to take a picture of the page with a phone or something then tweeting and/or posting on tumblr the entire page. But just before the update was fix I thought to myself “I’m an idiot.”
I wanted to help.
I think it’s funny that the bold robot work at the cafe has to wear a bandana. :-)
it’s so that little metal flakes does not shake off into the consumables, you see
it doesn’t seem very bold to me… it looks away as soon as Al notices it, after all.
(because al is such a curmudgeonly-old cad, randomly intimidating the automatons, y’see)
“Let me be clear” Davysperbs. Did you mean bold robot or bald robot?
Well that isn’t suspicious at all. And I really like the patterns on the more human-looking robot’s face.
panel 2: That little robot on the banquet thinks like me. Always bring a book. You never know when you’ll have some free time.
The last three panels! At first I didn’t get it, but then I realized the robots were staring at Al. Then they go back to working like there’s nothing to see there :)
Which actually reminds me of the ballerina robot in the first few pages too, how happy she seemed to have met Al.
I checked the previous page of Al and Sulla in the street. ALL the robots are looking or staring at Al.
I would guess that all robots have an almost religious feeling about him.
LOOK! It’s the creator!!!
Just what Alistar likes, lots of attention from the masses.
:-(
why did al Mean Mug those poor robos?
(you cad)
[p.s. — the edit option is in full effect now.
thanks, blue!
but i wonder if that timer also limits how long one has before one may no longer go makin’ changes?
(i guess i’ll find out in a few moments, won’t i?)]
(yikes!
that’s kinda steep!!)
(l.m.a.o. — 2 hours is quite sufficient, blue!)
Good! >:P
I think he’s just being kind of generally curmudgeonly… “Stupid humanoid robots messing with my world view!”
i totally pictured alastair saying that with a homer simpson voice
(“curmudgeonly” — ya don’t get to see this word very often!)
I know, it’s kinda nice to get a chance to use it!
thank blue for granting you the opportunity!
(heh heh heh)
I wonder what Stella means by it being ‘safe’ there? The employees are both clearly robotic and there’s another such person reading a book in the corner. To me, that line reads with the implication that sometimes the city isn’t safe for artificial life, that maybe there’s animosity or hate crime, or something. But we know the business is booming and there seems to be an even mix of natural and artificial life walking around; one would think it’s a non-issue.
Then again, all of this has happened within the last 17 years, which is pretty quick, so maybe part of the population feels threatened? That line of Stella’s just seems important to me.
Safe: She means that its a cafe with other people just like them in there. Its not a big secret so they can talk about AI in there without any humans getting weirded out. Im sure there are humans that arent to keen on the whole robot thing.
“Syn ORG Tea more”
“Synorgtea more”
“synergy more”
“more synergy”
I should go to bed…
I’m guessing that by ‘safe’ Sulla means just that Al has nothing to be afraid of. Also, is it named after Stanisław Lem? Nice!
Just started reading today, really enjoying it. Nice artwork and the feels when they finally got together totally hit the mark. Looking forward to how it progresses. I just wanted to ask wether the coffeeshop, Lem’s, was a homage to Lem the sci-fi author?
I guess Lem’s cafe is in honour of Stanislav Lem, who wrote The Cyberiad, a wacky but wonderful robot sci-fi book