Page 52. Lovely view from that hillside road.
I made a lot of progress on Kickstarter stuff, but I need to take off one more update week to make sure everything will be ready by ECCC. Some good news: I received the final book proofs, and they’re outstanding. Take a look!
I also posted my spring schedule of appearances here. The goal is to have Kickstarter fulfillment underway in time to sell the new books at ECCC. So far I’m on track. Website tweaks are also on their way. Thanks for your patience!
Angry Brendan Pinsky is Hot Brendan Pinsky.
Angry Brendan Pinsky reminds me so much of Angry Dan Dreiberg (also Hot Dan Dreiberg)
That’s a suspiciously specific denial. Did Brendan even mention memories?
Oooooh good catch.
What could be even worse:
Brendan’s friend on the phone, whomever he or she is, might:
know that someone has stolen Brendan’s memories, but this “friend” might be hinting that the friend, or [the friend + the friend’s company], are not the ones…[who stole or copied Brendan’s memories].
Maybe. Or it could be the mystery person has guessed by what Brendan has said what was stolen and so is simply stating the facts clearly. Keep in mind Brendan’s circle of associates are all rather intelligent and talented people.
Also…has anyone else got the feeling the reason why mystery person is blanked out is because mystery person was a former romantic interest? So it stands to reason this person may know quite alot about Brendan.
Cool! Good points.
-Rolls around and screams cause of this update- XD
“Copied and decrypted by someone on the outside.”
Now that is a whole lot of fully loaded ominous.
Hmm. If Brendan is referring to an outside, what the heck is he on the inside of in relation to it? This is strange. Brendan just doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to join in a cabal.
Wait a sec, Brian never said it was -memory- data … >:O
Well, think what Brendan does and it’s GOT to be memory data. The person on the line sounds suspiciously robotic to me.
I’m thinking there’s an outside chance this phone voice is some version of Al as an AI, with nothing but his tech skills and not much personality. I’m thinking that the phone voice is an AI of some kind anyway, and that ALL of the AIs know Al is back and why.
Shit’s about to get real because of that presumed slip up :O
That is not a “no”
Come on dude, that is no way to talk to your ex.
…I’m not the only one who’s getting an “ex” vibe from all of this, right? …Right?
Nah, I’m getting a ‘bot vibe. “I do not follow the meaning of what appears to be a facetious question”. That’s got Turing fail written all over it.
(Ha. Androids and apostrophes. I could write a book.)
Brendan, he said “memory data” but yooo don’t specify what kind of data it waaas.
[Sideways squint]
Oh. And _now_ I see I’m not the first to notice that.
Oops. (Whistles) :)
Actually, since the speech used is very _precise_, we have careful declarations that:
‘We don’t offer decryption/interpretation/theft services’ (doesn’t mean we won’t do it for ourselves). ‘We wouldn’t breach your security’ (specific, but didn’t mean someone else didn’t) and ‘something between us this a ‘personal’ matter, the _I_ wouldn’t be directly involved. (Specific enough whatever was done, they didn’t get their own hands dirty.)
As a related aside, is anyone else thinking this guy sounds like an AI?
blue is probably trying to trap you:
we don’t (presumably) know the entirety of the discourse (present and past) between pinsky and this Mystery Person; furtherly, it may just so happen that, in terms of “context,” the only (or primary) sort of data brendan does work with is of the Memoried-kind.
brendan long-has-been getting confronted with Al Clones, y’know; thus it is more than possible that, by now, bren’s ‘gone public’ about it, in an attempt get that to Desist & Cease.
so.
why wouldn’t word about this Discrepancy (and the efforts to curb it) have reached someone in the presumed-Elevated Position as the individual with whom pinksy currently confers?
for, NOTE!
the co-conversator had also dropped the phrase matters that are personal while Defending.
the (unsolicited) re-resurrection of brendan’s Sempai qualifies as being rather “personal.”
da?
´just sayin’.
I’m thinking, given what Brendan works on, the memory data thing would be an assumption, not a confession.
This person seems too smart for that.
i don’t, actually, know of anyone with whom brendan would take up this sort of Tone, besides Lee. . . . .
…..so we may be getting introduced to a new character, soon!
blue.
give me a laugh: ensure she or he is incidentally-related to one of The Girls, that tee-tee hangs out with
Just read through this and I’m loving it! Totally hooked! I especially like the flashbacks because,well, Al is WAY hotter with the full beard. ;)
I just found this comic and I’ve already read through it 3 times
I noticed that there’s hardly a scene that has both Brendan and Al where they’re not looking at or talking to each other. In fact, I can only name two, at the party and during the drive to Sterling, and even then they just interact less. Also, if they are apart they’re usually thinking about each other. It’s this really subtle, interesting touch that lets you know how important they are to each other.
That said, it’s really the details that make this webcomic just that one step above completely fantastic and makes me a huge fan
Can’t wait for the next update!
I betcha Brandon made a robot copy of himself at some point which decided it needed some companionship.