that big clunky steampunk whatcamacallit is her brain?

one of the prototypes, yes.

it looks like a steampunk version of one of those old building sized supercomputers from the 50's that took punch cards and takes a week to calculate 1+1

Watch your mouth that's 1833's most powerful calculator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0anIyVGeWOI it could raise numbers to a power, do roots, and had a memory of several operations to use in sequence, while slowly churning out the results. 🤣

Obviously Philomela's one coming with 1 century of improvements is much better. 😝

i was joking relax everyone likes poking fun at old technology

i was joking too... hence the smiley faces. 😅 Sorry.

That thing had about less calculation power of a toy calculator and would take up to a minute to spit out the results

but still shes incredible for being based off 300 year old technology

less than 200 right now... and less than 100 in the canon timeline. 🤔

But yes. ❤️

yes i seen steampunk storys with victorian era clockwork androids before if you where about to ask

okay? I don't understand how that affects anything, it was just supposed to be me trying to explain stuff... sorry.

no its cool i know what your like

sorry.

Was it codenamed 'Christina'?
Just a little Alan Turing joke there.

Sorry i must confess my ignorance there. 😅

If it's something i know it's completely escaping my mind at the moment.

Turing code-named his prototype Ultra engine Christopher, after a childhood friend. It was a beast of a machine.

Oh! That! The prototype colossus.

Sorry, i was all like: "Wait... what? Turing and women? what?" and my brain farted.

Hmmm... given the way colossus' insides looked like... all electromechanical gears and stuff... yyyeah i can see what you mean.

She does look like an ultra-tiny colossus.

"So... do you believe machines can think?"
"...You've read my work."
"What makes you say that?"
"I'm here in handcuffs for inviting another man to touch my penis... and you're asking me whether I believe machines can think."

Don't know how accurate that biopic was. Turing had a lot of oddities that never came up, like chaining his workplace coffee mug to a radiator, and spontaneously dropping to do push-ups if some arguments got too heated.

But that exchange was funny!

Eh. fairs. 👍💖

Fair in accuracy, or the exchange's humor?

yes.

😂

I wonder if Christopher Morcom also had Asperger's.
As a guy with conditions that combine to partly mimic it, I can tell you it's hard to find someone you really relate to.

to be frank... stuff happens and sometimes you need to spend lots of money just to be told you have something nobody has yet figured out how to cure.

And so it was.
Often sucks. I've got books of personal notes and other materials about pet projects. When I die it'll all go to waste, because to everyone else it's not something to be passionate about... just random stuff.

Tears in rain, dude. Tears in rain.

Eh, it can't rain forever.

I'm referencing Blade Runner; the scene in which Rutger Hauer's character dies. The sentiment of the last lines is similar to mine.

A scene worth seeing for it's independent merits, if you aren't familiar with it. One of the great death scenes.

I understood that and was referencing "the crow" because that line felt like the best answer.

Thinking only about your death leads to leaving no legacy behind for others to remember you by.

That's my point: the only legacy I can produce will be rejected as junk because no one is interested in it like I am.

Me telling myself "this is still not good enough" and then telling others "you are not among those who will remember me because... [random reason that stemmed from the very same high expectations]" is how i basically wasted 15 years of my life clinging to the few who actually were bearing with me and i was very aware they were bearing with me...

...and they were bearing with me because i was acting that way. That. Is a self fulfilling prophecy.

One made out of high expectations towards yourself and (by habit) towards the others.

The very dialogue you mention in Blade Runner IS what creates the legacy for the "big bad" of the movie. Roy fled for all his life what was left of him was a porcupine of a man that kept distance from everybody and everything and killed the people who got too close or wanted to know too much about him. Yet he reaches out to Dekkar and by reaching out... he creates his own legacy. He creates something to be remembered by. Dekkar might never know about those silly "bastions of orion" or other stuff the actor made up on the spot. Or it might spur him to know more about Roy and what he went through.

The sequel was a mess of "misogyny orgy" that was all about how women were exploited and while it felt like it should have been used to make the bad guy feel bad... it was rather transparent in how that turned the director on. So i cannot consider that a "sequel".

What i can consider a thematical sequel is, instead, "The Crow", which is all about preserving legacy. The protagonist is somebody who already died and comes back to life knowing full well his days are numbered. He can wail and despair about his life. But his motto is "it can't rain forever" aaand by having that motto not bo about himself it becomes about himself. His legacy is already there in the people he goes to help. He is still a bringer of death, that has not changed, but he does so that the people who knew him in life will know he helped them even in death. It is the life of a man that has accepted he has to die and does not care, but tries to live so that people will know him. Because the end of himself is not the end of everything. Just of himself.

The people around you matter. A lot. Do not distance yourself. Engage with them. Even when they seem to have opposite feelings and ideals. Especially if they have opposite feelings and ideals. That is how you create a legacy. Help them until you have your dying breath. That is how you will be remembered by.

Yes, they will not be around your dying bed for you to look cool, surrounded by friends. But honestly... yeah that is limiting your own life, what you can achieve and what your life means, via invisible walls made of expectations. As if some stuff is "objectively" better than the alternatives that are available.

In any case, here. Have some fairy dust. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ make a good line out of it, sniff it fully get high in the sky and use that magic flight to distance you from yourself, so you can look at your life properly and start asking yourself if instead of closing yourself on your project it is not better to get other people involved in your project.

Reach out. Make friends VIA your project. Get people interested. Get people to remember you by, Have your project "infect" the minds and thoughts of other people, get their "mind gears" turning, basically. Bring people in your project and make friends with them. That is how you build a legacy.

I am very sorry Philomela's comic is incomplete... because it stops exactly when Wayne starts doing exactly that. All his life he had been working on Philomela by himself. That is how he lost money, house, everything. Philomela herself gets lost because of how focused he was on her alone. What changes his life is when he basically chooses to bring other people in his project, the first being his future wife who is actually the first financer.

So if you think your life sucks and you have nothing because nobody cares... change perspective and make them care.

This is how new Skill Cards are developed and tested.

Yeh, Wayne probably kept the old brain to do exactly that. 🤣

Very interesting, I love it

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