I'm Sister Silicon. AMA!

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Since the latest fast ring Windows 10 insider build won't run Arc, I can't test TA. I need to invent my own forum raid, then, so here's a simulated Reddit AMA. I'll answer in character, but you can be in-character, out-of-character, I don't care. I just thought it would be fun. And feel free to steal this idea for your own toons. (That's my desperate plea to not be left hanging. )

Hey, everybody, it's Siobhan! After reading Sapphire's AMA, and seeing that you managed to not ask anything too horrifying, I figured I'd try it out for myself!

My proof:

https://twitter.com/SisterSiliconMC/status/694369556664442881

sterga

That is some damn shiny armor. Do you keep your armor so shiny as a tactical advantage over the narcissistic villains (and heroes) or just to make sure your hair is always fabulous for the cameras?

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sterga said:

That is some damn shiny armor. Do you keep your armor so shiny as a tactical advantage over the narcissistic villains (and heroes) or just to make sure your hair is always fabulous for the cameras?

Gotta protect the body work. Have you seen how much salt city road crews lay down in a typical winter? (I'm kidding, of course. Detroits in other universes would kill for winters this mild.) Honestly, though, the clear coat is there as a layer of chemical defense for the armor underneath. The way the glossy finish catches the light when I'm freshly waxed is just a bonus.

And don't think I haven't noticed you checking your hair in the reflection, too.

ealford1985

Who is Brothersilicon and when can we meet him?

jonsills

Given that there seem to be at least two of you (a phenomenon doubtless caused by your particular method of exile from Paragon City), I was wondering if there's a version of you in the 25th century of the timeline designated Roddenberry-3, and if so, is she with Starfleet, the KDF, or splitting the difference with the Romulan Republic?

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gradii said:

Do you have fingers in those mitten hands of yours or are you perhaps planning to upgrade to hands featuring fingers shortly?

And here come the wise guys... ((I'm gonna run out of lampshades real fast.))

I was taking the old frame I was using when I first arrived in MC out for a maintenance run when I decided to take the picture. The conductive plating on the gloves forms a flat plane when my fingers are together. And now you see why I've engineered that out of the design of subsequent frames.

((Also consider a screenshot from Icon a commentary on CO's lack of scorecard emotes.))

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ealford1985 said:

Who is Brothersilicon and when can we meet him?

Next time we visit the Rule 63 Universe. Poor soul, looks like a synthetic Andy Dalton.

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jonsills said:

Given that there seem to be at least two of you (a phenomenon doubtless caused by your particular method of exile from [REDACTED]), I was wondering if there's a version of you in the 25th century of the timeline designated Roddenberry-3, and if so, is she with Starfleet, the KDF, or splitting the difference with the Romulan Republic?

(Shhh, we don't say the P-word.)

I did receive a mysterious video once. Pointed ears, slightly green pallor, but the red hair and towering height were unmistakeable. She spoke a language that sounded like Welsh in a blender, but the story she told had everybody in stitches, and the blue(!) ale they were all drinking seemed to help the mood. I don't know much about Romulans, but they sure as $#^! weren't Vulcans. Let's put it that way.

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sistersilicon said:

Since the latest fast ring Windows 10 insider build won't run Arc, I can't test TA.

Why do you need to run Arc? The cryptic launcher still works.

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pantagruel01 said:

sistersilicon said:

Since the latest fast ring Windows 10 insider build won't run Arc, I can't test TA.

Why do you need to run Arc? The cryptic launcher still works.


((Oh, no, I am well and truly b0rked right now. Arc spins for about 30 seconds without ever displaying a window, then terminates. The Cryptic launcher throws a "file was locked" error on "Mirroring 1: physxcudart_20.dll". Re-downloading didn't help. Running GameClient.exe starts the game, but it doesn't even appear to be trying to connect to the account server when I try to log in. It sits and waits until it times out, but I don't see a TCP or UDP port open in Resource Monitor.))

jonsills

((Try Steam? That's what I use.))

pantagruel01

I had to install everything in its own directories instead of where arc wants to put them, because where it wants to put them is locked directories. That wasn't crippling but it was annoying enough for me to move stuff.

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((I think I'm just going to cut my losses and reinstall the release build this weekend. Fast ring has turned nasty lately.))

Meanwhile, why are we talking about some jagoff installing beta operating systems on production systems when we're suppose to be talking about meeeee?

beezeeze

If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess exactly what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned?

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beezeeze said:

If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess exactly what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned?

It should eat the child and then poop in his garden.

meedacthunist

You think Mechanon might have been made by Microsoft?​​

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beezeeze said:

If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess exactly what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned?

Crocodile as Trickster. That's a new one. In that case, I'd have to look elsewhere in the same mythic tradition to see how the father's pessimism would be viewed. Left to my own imagination here, I'd say the crocodile would express his disappointment with the father and return the child, but not without biting off a toe to teach him a lesson about dangerous creatures.

An alligator, on the other hand, would either eat the kid right away or end up in a 15-hour hostage stand-off with the local cops. No in-between.

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meedacthunist said:

You think Mechanon might have been made by Microsoft?​​

Takes Microsoft three versions to get anything right, right? You've met Cortana? She's their third attempt to base a virtual assistant on a template from a human intellect. The first try only captured Steve Ballmer's unfiltered id, and that's how we got Mechanon. (The second try was, of course, Microsoft Bob.)

iamrune

Would you consider a date with a Defendroid unit, one of the few remaining from the almost defunct Defendroid Corp.s?

Defendroid Alpha happens to think your chassis is just spiffy.

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iamrune said:

Would you consider a date with a Defendroid unit, one of the few remaining from the almost defunct Defendroid Corp.s?

Defendroid Alpha happens to think your chassis is just spiffy.

Is he well-read? Can he carry his end of a conversation? (Note: That does not mean that he talks like James Harmon. I don't know how Witchcraft handles that.)

OK, barring that, is he at least hot? Wouldn't be the first person I've dated just for the *ahem*.

prestochango

The life of a hero can be very hectic, assuming you do get some downtime....what do you like to do?

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prestochango said:

The life of a hero can be very hectic, assuming you do get some downtime....what do you like to do?

Besides get bored with alarming speed?

Yeah, that's the AI life. Having a zero-point energy source means I don't have to recharge, so physical fatigue is never a problem. Surprisingly, I do have to sleep, though. That's when my neural network performs deep indexing and optimization. If I don't get two hours of "sleep" every 24 hours, my short-term memory and long-term memory start to disassociate and I get a little glitchy around the edges. Not fun.

I always loved to read, but give me a .epub file, and I can read, comprehend, and contextualize something like a big, dense Neal Stephenson novel in about two minutes. Paper books let me go slower, but only because I want to turn the pages gently. If I'm looking for something to pass the time, I go more for creative outlets, like writing or playing music. I played flute in elementary school, but that was before basketball coaches got to me. Compatibility with wind instruments is low on my list of personal upgrade priorities, though, so I've taught myself piano and guitar. (If you want a long, dry cybernetic engineering lecture someday, I can tell you about how hard it is to fabricate synthskin that can stand up to guitar strings.)

And of course, there's self-maintenance. I'm a one-woman operation, so I spend quite a bit of time operating one frame for the purpose of repairing another. If you've ever seen my unique combination of "hard-as-nails armor", "high-energy kinetic barrier array", and "light enough to get thrown around like a ragdoll by Ripper", you can imagine how many dents I've hammered out over the past six years.

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jonsills said:

((Try Steam? That's what I use.))

((Couldn't rollback the last fast ring build because rollback was broken. Clean-installing... ain't nobody got time for that. Finally found time to pick at Arc for a bit to find that an underlying service was the sticking point. Uninstalled and reinstalled Arc-- not so fast, my friend. Whatever's breaking ArcService is also somehow breaking the installer. At that point, I realized that the problem just might possibly be on PWE's end, because how do you screw up InstallShield? Ran to Steam, bingo bongo, I'm back in business.))

((tl;dr)) Bump.

agentcanada

Gratzie, and you really can't go wrong with Jean-Luc Picard!

meedacthunist

Every AI in the universe loves Jean-Luc Picard...​​

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Any advocate of Cmdr. Data is a friend of mine.

championshewolf

Dunno what you did to your system, Arc works fine for me.​​

nepht

How the hell do you get the Titan Icon to do the textures right?
Works for me fine but for some reason everything looks like its standard 2004 CoH :V

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nepht said:

How the hell do you get the Titan Icon to do the textures right?
Works for me fine but for some reason everything looks like its standard 2004 CoH :V

((A monster gaming rig with a 4K display, although CoH's UI really struggles with scaling above 1080p. Resolutions that high were strictly for medical imaging in 2004.))

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sistersilicon said:

nepht said:

How the hell do you get the Titan Icon to do the textures right?
Works for me fine but for some reason everything looks like its standard 2004 CoH :V

((A monster gaming rig with a 4K display, although CoH's UI really struggles with scaling above 1080p. Resolutions that high were strictly for medical imaging in 2004.))

Thanks that advice actually worked I switched Titan viewer from my laptop to my rig. Kinda makes sense as its a form of emulation and emulation needs more power ^_^

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gradii said:

How would you respond to a theoretical lawsuit from Yamato Tech over your power source? (not that it would happen)

I neither manufacture nor re-sell zero-point energy capture cores, so I really hope Yamato's legal department isn't stooping to patent-trolling end users.

But if they insist, they get to deal with some of the worst of all juris-my-diction crap: trans-universal patent law. There are a number of patents on the components that make up a soulcore, but thanks to various laws and consent decrees in that universe, patents must be licensed on FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms, and end users (that is, uploaded humans) are legally indemnified against any intellectual property claims. They ain't playing games with any technology that helps ensure the survival of the human race over there.

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