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Title: How will Credomar end?
Post by: mbarker on October 31, 2009, 04:15:28 AM: With a bang from Pi?
Or a whimper heard round the habitat from Ebby (with the help of Credomania, the broadcasting service that brings you all the dirt that we can see)?
Or...
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: mbarker on November 02, 2009, 05:07:27 AM: Oh! Pi did a ka-thoom and a whimper, "I swear, that was an accident."

And ennesby is right there with congratulations.
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: happyman on November 02, 2009, 06:59:44 PM: I for one am not at all convinced this is actually the end. Although it certainly adds a new dimension to the question "How could it get worse?"
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: little wilson on November 02, 2009, 07:18:16 PM: Oh, how true Pi's (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090909.html) words were....
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: mbarker on November 03, 2009, 02:36:09 AM: Quote from: happyman on November 02, 2009, 06:59:44 PM
I for one am not at all convinced this is actually the end.
true, true. But it is certainly going to complicate things. Now can Kevyn reconstruct our favorite robot despot? Should he?
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: mbarker on November 03, 2009, 02:38:18 AM: Quote from: little wilson on November 02, 2009, 07:18:16 PM
Oh, how true Pi's (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090909.html) words were....
And he wasn't even aiming at Lota!
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: little wilson on November 03, 2009, 05:58:22 AM: Quote from: mbarker on November 03, 2009, 02:38:18 AM
And he wasn't even aiming at Lota!

I know. Which makes the (retrospective) irony of his statement all the better.
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: happyman on November 03, 2009, 04:20:09 PM: Quote from: mbarker on November 03, 2009, 02:36:09 AM
Quote from: happyman on November 02, 2009, 06:59:44 PM
I for one am not at all convinced this is actually the end.
true, true. But it is certainly going to complicate things. Now can Kevyn reconstruct our favorite robot despot? Should he?

Maybe convincing Kevyn to do it will be the next part of the arc?
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: mbarker on November 04, 2009, 01:55:01 AM: Heck, just watching him agonize over it... and consider what happens to Credomar without Lota... I can rebuild him, but should I? Oh, that could be fun! Add in ghosts of Lota (after all, an AI might very well not be exactly where the physical body is, right?) and we are set for some serious agony.
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: ryos on November 04, 2009, 02:28:57 AM: I'm just waiting for the angry mobs when they find out LOTA is dead...and who is responsible.
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: mbarker on November 04, 2009, 05:20:28 AM: But wait... the head is talking! So who's behind the head?
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: ryos on November 04, 2009, 06:08:50 AM: Clearly, LOTA has uploaded himself to the cloud. ;D
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: happyman on November 04, 2009, 05:32:34 PM: To be completely honest, keeping his brain in his body would have been a really stupid thing for Lota to do. It's far too vulnerable. One of the advantages of being an AI is making backups a la Petey, and then hiding them in the safest place imaginable. Why I didn't see this coming, I'll never know. I would imagine that Lota is in no sense dead. It's only one small piece of hardware that would need to be replaced.
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on November 04, 2009, 06:36:16 PM: Lota probably IS Credomar now, and that's why he wants to get rid of all the people. :)
Title: Re: How will Credomar end?
Post by: happyman on November 04, 2009, 08:05:23 PM: Quote from: Peter Ahlstrom on November 04, 2009, 06:36:16 PM
Lota probably IS Credomar now, and that's why he wants to get rid of all the people. :)

Maybe. I'd bet almost anything that this relates to the reason Credomar was built in the first place. The whole "Not really a habitat" thing has been given too much screen-time to be wasted now.