This bitch. This one right here with the cross-tied ribcage? Gonna drown her in cat pee.
I hate hospitals. I hate going into them. I hate being in them. I hate them like they're made of smallpox and arachnids and wasps and chipmunks. I've gone into one virtually every godforsaken day of the past week to try to reassure and comfort my friend, a/k/a this bitch.
Bitch emails me saying "Can you pick up some stuff I left at the hospital?" So I do, because hey, don't wanna lose any important personal stuff, right?
I get there, they hand me a bag, and I discover that I've been sent back into the fishhook-fanged embrace of Hell incarnate as steel and concrete and glass to pick up
- three toothbrushes
- a tube of toothpaste
- an oval file
- poligrip strips
- a plastic denture box
Bitch I'd have bought you new fucking toothbrushes. I'd have taken up a collection, started a GoFundMe, inundated you with toothbrushes for the rest of forever like Saint Apollonia crapping out a miracle.
We are staying tuned (you EVIL creatrix), if for nothing else to say our goodbyes to sweet CeCi. At least she will die as HERSELF, instead of the mockery that CentComm tried to overwrite her with.
A moment of silence for the Savior of Civilization Ceci. A memorial damn well better be built to honor her sacrifice to save the world.
EDIT: Thought just occurred to me Dolly will find out what happened to Ceci, have a feeling she will extract, probably with Callie's help, revenge for the death of her "Daughter".
are you saying that a highly intellegent military A.I would not want a full report on the mission? well goes along with my theory that centtcom somehow dumbed herself down or otherwise made herself less competent in order to save lives when she was controlled by human military
If everything had gone according to plan--and Cent-Comm is not accustomed to having her plans fail--she'd have been able to get a full report on the mission simply by talking to Centroma.
Not necessarily, Ceci may be capable of rewriting things if her core watchdog has been replaced to any degree by her surface personality. She may have to comply with certain requirements, but she can alter how she complies.
@Mark_L_A Don't think she wanted to, she sent her on a one way mission of self destruction, Ceci knew and accepted it. She felt she had to atone for what Centcomm did in sending the hidden spike.
"Self-destruct" could just represent a quiet meltdown to slag, rather than a high-value detonation. Kali's, after all, left people 15 feet away more or less unaffected.
But I agree with you that it is unlikely her chassis has gone the pyrotechnic route just yet.
Forensic examination of bombing scenes suggest that explosive destruction methods aren't always the most efficient--they can leave important bits scattered around, un-destroyed and able to be picked up and analyzed later.
A bit of conjecture here. Assuming she was actually running her self inside the node, out of memory just means everything stops, or errors out, loads, and the empty space gets filled by the spike.
It is possible, assuming power is maintained, to salvage get personality code from that bank once it is isolated. Sounds like a rose level of expertise though. Also the data spike would fail at some point as well since it also ran out of memory and drive space during its overwrite.
The difference, as I see it, between DC comics and Marvel comics was that good people sometimes die in Marvel comics. (DC caught up recently...) It made for better drama by raising the stakes and getting the reader invested in the story, but it is often very sad. DC was always so happy-go-lucky as to need insulin with every issue. Having acknowledged this...
Please save Ceci! Enough people have died and/or suffered already.
Ceci was supposed to already be deleted. But remember she had three processors in her head? I'm supposing they were Ceci, Watchdog, and Black Angel, respectively.
Ceci was a standard android brain; nothing particularly sensitive about that once the personality information's been deleted, and no need to target it with a self-destruct.
Watchdog and Black Angel, and particularly the Centcomm 'spike', on the other hand, were advanced black-ops stuff, violate more standards than a serial flasher in a velcro fursuit, and directly implicate the guilty parties on whose behalf a self-destruct order would be carried out.
So I'm guessing that 'self-destruct' in this case means Watchdog and Black Angel destroyed in no uncertain terms - but that standard android brain? With its software personality and memories already deleted? Doesn't seem all that important to get rid of.
It still might get trashed as 'collateral damage,' but destroying Ceci isn't on their 'todo' list because the automatics think it's already done.
Small clarification: Watchdog effectively IS the Black Angel programming.
Also, Ceci's body is a Black Angel chassis, literally stuffed to the tits with hardware of varying levels of classification, none of which Cent-Comm would want falling into the wrong hands.
That is another reason to not use explosive self destruct enough collateral damage to level a few city blocks. Better to lock the brain in an unbreakable logic loop.
Congrats and glad you're home. Major surgery like that is always stressful/painful, but it's much better that they caught it in time to repair.
Everything I've heard is that heart conditions present in very different fashion in men vs women, and everyone remembers how they present in men, and that's led to significantly more heart conditions not being caught in time for women. I'm happy to hear that things were noticed and repaired and now you and your doctors will know to watch for additional issues.
I'm sure the denture box must of had great personal attachment. I mean my father only owned one for his entire life and considering the way it was safely stored in his bathroom drawer it must have meant something to him. Then again, in the current state of this world I'm sure the hospital doesn't want to be accused of trying to swipe anything.
(Please do not take this in anything other than than the spirit it is offered.)
I'm pretty sure hospital regulations are "send 'em out with all the crap they brought in with 'em (surgical removals excepted) so they don't claim we stole anything".
My contribution to inappropriate beurocracy in action. I had arrived at the hospital and just been told of my grandmother's passing. I'd entered the room and had just seen her body foe about 30 seconds when a nurse came in and said I had a phone call. Thinking it might be my parents or sister I quickly took it, only to find myself talking to the county corener who wanted to know where the body was to be sent. I told him I wasn't sure at the moment but I knew where he could go and hung up. I don't regret it and never heard anything from them about it, though the hospital did ask awhile later if we had a prefered funeral home. (Which we did.)
Hmmm, Kyle still did not notice Rose's change in appearance...
PS: welcome home, Terri... =D
EDIT: Thought just occurred to me Dolly will find out what happened to Ceci, have a feeling she will extract, probably with Callie's help, revenge for the death of her "Daughter".
Please save Ceci!
As for CeCi, I hope TR was/is able to do something about her "Self destruct"
Also, she was inches from Kyle, if he is still talking, Ceci's body did NOT just detonate.
But I agree with you that it is unlikely her chassis has gone the pyrotechnic route just yet.
A bit of conjecture here. Assuming she was actually running her self inside the node, out of memory just means everything stops, or errors out, loads, and the empty space gets filled by the spike.
It is possible, assuming power is maintained, to salvage get personality code from that bank once it is isolated. Sounds like a rose level of expertise though. Also the data spike would fail at some point as well since it also ran out of memory and drive space during its overwrite.
Apologies if I am rambling.
However, I believe that there's a 90%+ chance that she's dead.
when she brought Ceci back...
Please save Ceci! Enough people have died and/or suffered already.
Ceci was supposed to already be deleted. But remember she had three processors in her head? I'm supposing they were Ceci, Watchdog, and Black Angel, respectively.
Ceci was a standard android brain; nothing particularly sensitive about that once the personality information's been deleted, and no need to target it with a self-destruct.
Watchdog and Black Angel, and particularly the Centcomm 'spike', on the other hand, were advanced black-ops stuff, violate more standards than a serial flasher in a velcro fursuit, and directly implicate the guilty parties on whose behalf a self-destruct order would be carried out.
So I'm guessing that 'self-destruct' in this case means Watchdog and Black Angel destroyed in no uncertain terms - but that standard android brain? With its software personality and memories already deleted? Doesn't seem all that important to get rid of.
It still might get trashed as 'collateral damage,' but destroying Ceci isn't on their 'todo' list because the automatics think it's already done.
Also, Ceci's body is a Black Angel chassis, literally stuffed to the tits with hardware of varying levels of classification, none of which Cent-Comm would want falling into the wrong hands.
Everything I've heard is that heart conditions present in very different fashion in men vs women, and everyone remembers how they present in men, and that's led to significantly more heart conditions not being caught in time for women. I'm happy to hear that things were noticed and repaired and now you and your doctors will know to watch for additional issues.
(Please do not take this in anything other than than the spirit it is offered.)
That said, OMG anyway