I appreciate the small attention to details like this. An obscure geeky poster lends the credibility to the story, and it tells us about Ethan himself.
That was a great line, and humanity already giving up on itself, fantastic strip
Dodgy
3 years ago
@Tim, I was wondering about the lights Gizmo has. Are they red lights or RGB LEDs, meaning they can change to any color dependig on input? Because that would make for interresting storyline possibilities. E.g. changing to green eventually when he joins the team or switching color depending on his mood, etc. It may well be possible that Gizmo never realized he can change these colors or seen the use of it, I just wondered if it was even possible tech-wise.
Gizmo the non-Zeke walking mood ring. That’d be dusting off the old sci-fi cliché of “all the glowy lights on the robot turn red when he’s angry and blue when he’s non-murdery.” Nothing like telegraphing your intentions so everyone’s got time to duck for cover.
I’m thinking they’re prolly red cuz the angry guy who built him likes red-eyed murder bots. Might be a preference setting they can change like choosing a new theme on your PC but I wouldn’t count on it.
I would love them to use the mood ring trope if. .. if/when not zeke goes bad again no one notices until almost too late as his eyes stay green. “What? I control these things, why would I literally tell you I was planning to take over you meatbags?”
Also: Why should eyes have a light at all? Realistically the lights should be separate. A light right at the eyes hinders depth perception and a light in the eyes just hinders.
Why would Zeke have depth perception or even eyes at all? A combination of LIDAR and Sonar would be much more reliable, defeat invisibility based superheroes, etc. Could be that they are just there so he can be expressive, hence the choice of “murder-bot red”
Scortch
3 years ago
Something I’ve been pondering since they “domesticated” Gizmo. Is he going to hack the Wintereenmas drawing to get Ethan into the games?
Unless first prize is public dismemberment I doubt it.
ocramot
3 years ago
“fear-based-idiot-control-construct known as hell” is now my favorite catchphrase that I will repeat to exhaustion.
MSM007
3 years ago
I like the Japanese Empire Strikes Back poster.
TomB
3 years ago
You know, Zeke isn’t wrong. If you made Ethan your King, it would literally make you an idiot in a country of idiots led by the King of Idiots… that would kind of be like humanity throwing in the towel….
It’s not that Ethan doesn’t have a decent nature…. but his foibles and hangups just say ‘not ready for much real responsibility’.
Me-me
3 years ago
Are we finally going to get to the bottom of Winter-een-mas? Because the whole concept only really makes sense coming from Ethan, and if this Ethan didn’t do it, I still say it was Ethan from the original timeline. That would be so comic-book-ish.
Eh, not so much. I could easily see it taking off as a meme and getting group traction, especially in an Internet-and-gaming society. Kind of like how Baby Shark started as an annoying song and spun into a weird sort of brand, or Donald Trump started as an odd reality TV star and ended as a cult leader. Once something goes viral, you don’t know what a bunch of knuckleheads who resonate with it will turn it into.
Blue Griffin
3 years ago
I’d guessing Ethan is holding a copy of Hitman?
Ashi
3 years ago
Please say that XBot isn’t entering the Games Games Bowl…
Well he’s already an assassin we also don’t really know the full extent of his skills since he could of quite easily killed lucas before but it seemed he was more interested in toying with him
Also i feel like Gizmo will feel disappointed with hitman since it’s not brutal enough
Not so terrible, actually. Gaming *is* escapism, in a way, and a way to vent feelings.
If we believed that gaming caused violence, I’d be concerned. Rather, it seems like gaming is a positive outlet for some of our negative feelings, where instead of being bottled up they can be confronted without causing real harm to anyone.
Granted, that’s taking human psychology and applying it to a robot, so what do I know?
I can totally see him beating the game by getting in so deep he’s able to set up a kind of Rube Goldberg contraption of murder that spans the game’s entire scenario, where the game effectively plays itself. ??
Eldest Gruff
3 years ago
I just hope that Tim has a storyline where our lovable murderbot chooses or otherwise has an official name soon. Seeing “Gizmo” everywhere is giving me real Gremlins vibes.
KillerDragon989
3 years ago
I see the next 2 comics going like this: Ethan explaining the glory of Winter-een-mass, and the next one as ‘Gizmo’ making a throne, crown, and scepter out of boxes and declaring himself the king of said wonderful holiday!!!!
Pulse
3 years ago
hes moved from annihilation to conquest. progress!
24
time for non-zeke to be introduced to a new religion ^^
Oh Gizmo thou hast yet to hear of the godliness that is WINTEREENMAS
This is gonna be fun. 😀
If Non-Zeke a weeb at heart himself?
Otherwise, I see no reason why the “Star Wars” poster has the title written in katakana.
The robot is not ordering posters and decorating the back room of the store…
Maybe he should be lol
At the very least: he could, because he got access to the stores WiFi lately.
I appreciate the small attention to details like this. An obscure geeky poster lends the credibility to the story, and it tells us about Ethan himself.
Except for with at least one throne.
Ethan should have just responded with “Yes, boltbag, bow before the new Master of Mankind!”
Fear-based-idiot-control-construct. FBICC. What the Fbicc.
That is one Fbicc of an awesome phrase.
Otherwise known as Qanon.
That was a great line, and humanity already giving up on itself, fantastic strip
@Tim, I was wondering about the lights Gizmo has. Are they red lights or RGB LEDs, meaning they can change to any color dependig on input? Because that would make for interresting storyline possibilities. E.g. changing to green eventually when he joins the team or switching color depending on his mood, etc. It may well be possible that Gizmo never realized he can change these colors or seen the use of it, I just wondered if it was even possible tech-wise.
Gizmo the non-Zeke walking mood ring. That’d be dusting off the old sci-fi cliché of “all the glowy lights on the robot turn red when he’s angry and blue when he’s non-murdery.” Nothing like telegraphing your intentions so everyone’s got time to duck for cover.
I’m thinking they’re prolly red cuz the angry guy who built him likes red-eyed murder bots. Might be a preference setting they can change like choosing a new theme on your PC but I wouldn’t count on it.
I would love them to use the mood ring trope if. .. if/when not zeke goes bad again no one notices until almost too late as his eyes stay green. “What? I control these things, why would I literally tell you I was planning to take over you meatbags?”
Ok, that I could see.
Now I imagined them being dot-matrix displays.
Also: Why should eyes have a light at all? Realistically the lights should be separate. A light right at the eyes hinders depth perception and a light in the eyes just hinders.
Why would Zeke have depth perception or even eyes at all? A combination of LIDAR and Sonar would be much more reliable, defeat invisibility based superheroes, etc. Could be that they are just there so he can be expressive, hence the choice of “murder-bot red”
Something I’ve been pondering since they “domesticated” Gizmo. Is he going to hack the Wintereenmas drawing to get Ethan into the games?
Unless first prize is public dismemberment I doubt it.
“fear-based-idiot-control-construct known as hell” is now my favorite catchphrase that I will repeat to exhaustion.
I like the Japanese Empire Strikes Back poster.
You know, Zeke isn’t wrong. If you made Ethan your King, it would literally make you an idiot in a country of idiots led by the King of Idiots… that would kind of be like humanity throwing in the towel….
It’s not that Ethan doesn’t have a decent nature…. but his foibles and hangups just say ‘not ready for much real responsibility’.
Are we finally going to get to the bottom of Winter-een-mas? Because the whole concept only really makes sense coming from Ethan, and if this Ethan didn’t do it, I still say it was Ethan from the original timeline. That would be so comic-book-ish.
Eh, not so much. I could easily see it taking off as a meme and getting group traction, especially in an Internet-and-gaming society. Kind of like how Baby Shark started as an annoying song and spun into a weird sort of brand, or Donald Trump started as an odd reality TV star and ended as a cult leader. Once something goes viral, you don’t know what a bunch of knuckleheads who resonate with it will turn it into.
I’d guessing Ethan is holding a copy of Hitman?
Please say that XBot isn’t entering the Games Games Bowl…
Naw, pretty sure they’d consider using bots cheating.
“Yes, let’s give an omnicidal robot a game where he plays an assassin. Clearly this is a good idea”
Well he’s already an assassin we also don’t really know the full extent of his skills since he could of quite easily killed lucas before but it seemed he was more interested in toying with him
Also i feel like Gizmo will feel disappointed with hitman since it’s not brutal enough
Not so terrible, actually. Gaming *is* escapism, in a way, and a way to vent feelings.
If we believed that gaming caused violence, I’d be concerned. Rather, it seems like gaming is a positive outlet for some of our negative feelings, where instead of being bottled up they can be confronted without causing real harm to anyone.
Granted, that’s taking human psychology and applying it to a robot, so what do I know?
I can totally see him beating the game by getting in so deep he’s able to set up a kind of Rube Goldberg contraption of murder that spans the game’s entire scenario, where the game effectively plays itself. ??
I just hope that Tim has a storyline where our lovable murderbot chooses or otherwise has an official name soon. Seeing “Gizmo” everywhere is giving me real Gremlins vibes.
I see the next 2 comics going like this: Ethan explaining the glory of Winter-een-mass, and the next one as ‘Gizmo’ making a throne, crown, and scepter out of boxes and declaring himself the king of said wonderful holiday!!!!
hes moved from annihilation to conquest. progress!
Clearly he hasn’t heard about Trump…
That burn… ?