Page 27. Three years ago a commenter asked why I chose to make their computer systems Mac-lookalikes when something closer to Linux might be more accurate. It’s because I wanted this cute little computer mascot to be the one telling Brendan that the person he loved was brain dead.
“Have you tried shutting it off and then turning it back on again?”
-Back by unpopular demand, its Rochi and Sprite!
Oh God, I need a Kleenex.
Oof, right in the feels. :(
Here comes a certain military medical…
That cute little mascot just made it hurt more.
Truly we have all wailed in the face of Sad Mac and Chicago, if usually for less intense reasons.
Mhm, yes we have.
First you obliterate my precious feelings, then you reduce me to a human puddle with that explanation. Awful.
heh.
you’re such a cool villainess, buru-chan
how wrong is it that your commentary made me laugh? I mean you’re the one who had the thought in the first place so like. same hat.
poor Brendan. god. Sulla (or whoever) DID do the right thing.
The brain itself is never converted into data, correct? It’s scanned, and then the results of that scan is the data for the brain. So Brendan is talking like he’s saving Sterling, but in reality he’s effectively just making a duplicate of Sterling he can use to help himself. From Sterling’s own perspective there’s just death forever, with all issues staying unresolved. As far as I know Brendan never brings that up, like it doesn’t even matter. All that matters is his own view of things, as he’s demonstrated on multiple occasions. A self-centered person