Enthusiasm is GOOD. Lets just stay away from beer while enthusiasm is high.

I'm waiting on Crusader to act... not wanting to do any unilateral action unsupported.

...with Good reason.  Time to go APE-SHIT!  :)
This message was last edited by the player at 19:27, Fri 01 Apr 2022.

He's jumping to a ship? I see we are quite a ways in on our Ape-Out playthrough. Remember, this is an unrated game, so no excessive blood or naughty language during your rampage!

"Unleash... THA' MON-KEY!!!"

'snicker' but yeah we are in some Serious crap here... 'Nick Fury vs SHIELD: The LMD War', all over!"

Yeah, time to go all King Kong on their asses....

There is a theory that we are already being directed by an AI. It is just so subtle we dont notice it.

I have no evidence to refute that notion. But what choice do we have but to continue trying to fight FORCE using the system as it stands.  "Shrug" Is there really any alternative? We go rogue, and we have the villians AND the Authorities after us.
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In reply to Crusader (msg # 934):

No one can tell you what The Matrix is.  You have to see it for yourself.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:58, Sat 02 Apr 2022.

The Matrix is a massive hologram meant to keep your mind occupied while your mechanical jailers harvest you for electrical power that is likely used solely to retain the prison, as the power required to run such an advanced mechanical society seems to come from other sources, likely nuclear. Do not worry. If this sounds completely insane to you, it means you are still rational.

A fight between one AI and another? VEGA vs Skynet isn't too bad. I can certainly think of worse employers. They won't forget to write the paycheck, unless they are programmed to do so.

But of course, the guy running the bot would say that. Winter Herald doesn't really distinguish between organic and mechanical "life" - to him, both have value. Asking him to clarify that stance would likely result in an unnerving philosophical lesson.

With that in mind, not all life is equal to him. Animals who attack humans do not get put on trial, just as defective machines that inflict harm do not. Only entities that cross what seems to him to be an arbitrary self-awareness threshold and can communicate it get treatment as "life," a definition he intends to explore further.

I've just been trying to figure out the best way to play the character as I go. The best I've gotten is that he's a paradox. He's designed for subtle warfare, but he's got the ethos of Superman.

As a result, he's determined that his current purpose is to engage in the business of deciding who lives and who dies, while attempting to keep the number of "dies" as low as possible. Once the conclusion becomes "no deaths" or "necessary," they pursue the goal with the precision of Baymax - there is no hesitation, although he might archive the event and the logic sequence leading to it with a tag titled "remorse" that this is the way it has to be, if deaths are required.

He intends to expand on that purpose. After all, more data about what he's fighting for would be useful.

Hikari is a Robotics engineer.. Not a robopsychologist... that's Waaay too deep for him...

Looks like you are having a blast over there.

In reply to Goliat (msg # 939):

Yeah, Hikari is actually kinda spooked by FORCE... no way to know who to trust anymore! He'll want to stay near Bellissima and her mind powers cause there is currently no way to passively detect these automations other then they have no minds for her to read.

Hello, I am a real man. Do you like skateboards?

True fact ~ Nick Fury has slept with more android LMD 'Life Model Decoy' Women than real ones!  Is he insensitive... or just not picky.  Bet you can guess which.

Hmmm.. I wonder if Hikari should go the whole  "Doc Otaku" from M&M vilians.. and make himself 3 'Teen-Angel' Sexaroid Androids to guard his ..ahem 'person'. lols
This message was last edited by the player at 15:33, Sat 02 Apr 2022.

You are certainly not a cow. SKATEBOARDS!

In reply to JUSTICAR (msg # 942):

Go for it. Goliat can help and get some exp.

Speaking of EXP.. I'm only 386 away from 4th and that has NONE of the actions calculated from ANY of the events of the Sebastian Isle Operation... that is only post count!
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 12:45, Sat 02 Apr 2022.

In reply to JUSTICAR (msg # 942):

Considering my favorite portrayal of Nick Fury included David Hasselhoff in what is considered one of the ten all-time worst Marvel movies, that makes more sense than you might think.
Oh, and I don't care. I still like Hasselhoff's Nick Fury, pity the poor scenery.

Tee-Hee... I agree with this in that Hasselhoff looked the closest to the Nick Fury of the pre-Marvel Studios Samel Jackson version of Nick.

Now I'm falling down the rabbit hole of stating out a LMD Angel-Bot in Palladium stats! 'snort' Thankfully Hikari will never have the funds to pursue such a creation. 'Snicker'

Really?!?! That's so Damned unfair.. I've rolled 1 hit point for the last two damned levels! GAH! That is frustrating!!!

Ah, rolling for HP. On the plus side, not a thing I'll have to do. On the down side, not a thing I get to do. What I've got on my frame is all I've got, barring an abandonment of sentimental attachment to the human form... which I honestly don't see Herald doing.

He'd likely admit it is a quirk in his programming, but not one he wants to correct.

But yeah - what I got is what I got until money and gear come my way, and a lot of both. Levels only give me Skills, and even then at a stingy rate. I'll need Programs or money for college or "college" to keep up.

Step one: boost physical coordination, and learn if this group needs a battering ram or a skirmisher. Must act as quickly or as close to quickly as thought can occur. Completed once I catch up to everyone else at LV4, if fortunate should have started branching out into bio-sciences and communications.

Step two: ???

Step three: Profit.

Hikari is not stingy with his money so upgrading you should be not an issue... though Hikari does have some Rather-Expensive projects in the pipe... a Robotic Spaceplane is in the works, he will be more then willing to add software or hardware upgrades to your specifications ~ for both Winter and Patriot.  He'll even allow Bellissima to scan his thoughts so you know he's not planning any hidden agendas.  He has none to be honest ...other then proving his mother she's Wrong!

Ah, yes. Hikari's mother. We'll get to that, I think.

In reply to SSOGM (msg # 951):

... ... oh shit.