Malware - Part 2
Added 2024-04-23 19:49:22 +0000 UTC
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not even that, this programming code sems made by the higher ups. we have to remember that not even the engineers knew where to find it, they wanted the robots to act out, they wanted to teh engineers to not find the issue, and when plenty of people complains, uh oh, looks like we have to make a new robot to appease our shareholders and CEO this was planed by the veeeeeeeerry top
SSPen
2024-10-22 04:16:23 +0000 UTCThere's a really dark story like this involving Jack Nance (the start of "Eraserhead") and his wife Kelly Van Dyke
Liam Butler
2024-05-19 14:04:53 +0000 UTCplanned obsolescence... but triggerd too soon on her.
Bonfire Jv
2024-05-10 04:54:05 +0000 UTCMaybe one off the workers want destroy the bots
Jefferson Gabler
2024-05-07 13:37:52 +0000 UTCOn the bright side she belongs to a family consisting of a big shot lawyer and a marketing executive and her disappearance has greatly affected the family.... Marketing, as in how to make something seem appealing? Lawyers, as in potential legislation and how to properly navigate the law? Hmmm smells like robo civil rights might be right around the corner. And you bet that all the bots will not stand by peacefully after hearing about this new robo cancer the companies are pushing. As John f Kennedy once said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
JoeMcGoe
2024-05-03 05:10:52 +0000 UTCWorse yet. When you really think about it, the company basically gave her and her nandoird friends the equivlent of robot cancer just to make a buck. Scarier thought... given that Emmie is a gen 1 nandroid. The word legacy in "legacy EOL protocal" for gen 1 bot would imply ALL the Stirling bots have this. Not just the nandroid line (Well mabey not military bots. You typically dont want to piss off the folks who make the laws). Also, Puts a new spin on that moment in the strling tv spot part 2 when I that bot on display malfunctioned in front of Mr Stirling and he stared intensely at it then mentioned something about failure leads to success. That must be when the idea came to him. (That's right I think Stirling is a Thomas Edison. Stole credit from brighter minds .. who was that lab coat guy with Stirling in all those old photos?)
JoeMcGoe
2024-05-03 05:03:24 +0000 UTCNah this is intentional by the business. Notice the problem code is in a directory called life cycle and in a folder within that directory called EOL. EOL means end of life. This is "we are no longer providing updates for window 8" situation. The why? Money. They want inconivince gen 1 owners so they can sell you gen 2.
JoeMcGoe
2024-05-03 04:58:53 +0000 UTCThe scary thing is it's only malware to the user and the bots perspective. For Stirling, she's functioning exactly as intended, which would be why the engineers never found anything when running routine diagnostics on her. Most likely if the did decide to run a code trace and make a dev ticket about it, they would find this was feature a requested by the business and there is nothing they could do short of a model upgrade.
JoeMcGoe
2024-05-03 04:51:54 +0000 UTCInsert "we got to have money" meme here
JoeMcGoe
2024-05-03 04:45:00 +0000 UTCIt’s called programmed obsolescence. It’s like planned obsolescence, except it’s designed in The hardware of the product.
Achinth Murali
2024-04-27 14:59:15 +0000 UTCDisgruntled employee; sneaky, petty rivalling companies; or downright electro or mechanophobes. Who could it be and why? This are the questions Dominic seems to have thrown at us. So intense
Ali Asif
2024-04-27 08:17:56 +0000 UTCRemember that tiny disclaimer in the commercial WAY BACK in the first episode that the *nandroids DONT operate indefinitely*? Apparently the nandroids CAN operate just fine for seemingly longer than they’re advertised, but the company wants their customers to keep buying. They purposely made the update for the nandroids that are built too dang well to “break down” and to make way for their replacement model ready for purchase. And so they’ll send an “update” to that model in 5-6 years again for the newer model and the cycle goes on. 🤔
Dr. Rodin
2024-04-27 02:34:32 +0000 UTCFunnily enough, Apple was caught doing exactly that self-sabotage thing with updates to old iPhones to push people into buying new ones. Also, eff yeah Python!! Makes me wonder what kind of OS the nandroids run. Maybe a bespoke proprietary OS? Or maybe it's Linux? Are nandroids actually humanoid Android devices? The thick plottens! In fact, now that I think about it, Darcy's computer gives me the vibes of a late 80's to early 90's Macintosh with an Apple Portrait Display (like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/os76q9/the_macintosh_portrait_display_one_of_my_favorite/). I don't know if that's intentional but I love the idea anyway!
Wally Hackenslacker
2024-04-24 14:13:08 +0000 UTCWho saves Emmy? Darcy or the lightning?
Wy
2024-04-24 08:26:38 +0000 UTCI‘m shaking like CRAZY. 😭
rjaegr
2024-04-24 05:39:44 +0000 UTCOh man... this is getting really intense now! If "Upper-Upper Management" is anything to go by, I smell a case of not only planned obsolescence, but self-sabotage as well! I now worry for Molly, Amy, Franny, Polly and the rest of the nandroids is this somehow effects them, too. Looks like Sterling has a lot to answer for. But still, this is intense!
Anthony LoGatto
2024-04-24 05:22:42 +0000 UTCit wasn’t darcy’s fault, emmy’s code was intentionally programmed to glitch at random. most think its due to planned obsolescence but i guess we’ll find out
celine
2024-04-24 01:53:24 +0000 UTCSounds like planned obsolescence to me.
Emmett Kelly
2024-04-24 01:24:25 +0000 UTCIt was at this moment Darcy knew, she fxxxed up 😅
Miy Eterp
2024-04-24 00:43:00 +0000 UTCI felt physically uneasy for a moment when I read Emmy'd be deleted in 30 seconds. It got me so worried! Now I've been looking at previous episodes for about an hour thinking just what could be happening. I have a theory right now but not to spam I'll just say I feel there's something going on when reading back to back 'Results', 'We Have a Problem (2)', 'Upper-Upper Management' (specially this one) and 'Hacking'. Anyway, I'm pleasantly surprised as several times before by this wonderful story!
EACA
2024-04-24 00:42:19 +0000 UTCLook like the malware was real also they had 30 seconds so they a change it didn’t get wiped
Mayel Ruiz
2024-04-24 00:34:28 +0000 UTCI knew this was going to happen. I knew the poor girl was going to have her memory wiped. ; n ;
Honeybee Sorceress
2024-04-24 00:01:24 +0000 UTCwhait a minute and if someone inside factory create those erros to sell more robots?
Jefferson Gabler
2024-04-23 23:53:49 +0000 UTCNoooooo! I can’t handle an amnesia plot line! It will hurt my soul! 😭
StarBurst⭐️❤️
2024-04-23 23:46:29 +0000 UTCTheory time! Reading the randomized options, it seems like Emmy was hit with a motor corruption localized to her arm. The randomization might be part of an attempt to obfuscate any deliberation in the glitch, to make it seem like a freak thing every time it happens. Probably only a handful of robots got a glitch too, as to not harm the overall brand. Keeping incidents unrelated seems like the best way to roll this out. Even the other robots have blamed Emmy for the malfunction. Makes me wonder though, if Emmy stayed with the engineers who were trying to figure out her glitch, would they have uncovered this the same way Darcy did? Or would Sterling have special protocols in place to misdirect their own engineers? Was the plan to say ‘whoops! What a fluke!’ and then sell the family an upgraded Emmy with old Emmy’s memories loaded in? (I’ve been super paranoid of that ever since rereading the early episodes…) Super scared/excited to see where this leads! (But first please let Emmy’s memories be alive)
Glissando365
2024-04-23 23:30:44 +0000 UTCAh, the suspense! I had wondered if the thunderstorm was going to play a part in all this.
wwwJam
2024-04-23 22:22:25 +0000 UTCYou're a cruel man, Dominic, leaving us on a cliffhanger like this... All our butts will be numb from constantly sitting on the edge of our seats by the time the next part comes!
Greg H
2024-04-23 22:02:24 +0000 UTCOh my...This is going from Bad to worse!
Henry
2024-04-23 22:00:13 +0000 UTCOh sh*t😧
Seth
2024-04-23 21:47:19 +0000 UTCI have a bad feeling about this
Igor
2024-04-23 21:37:11 +0000 UTCNO WAY :0
Igor
2024-04-23 21:35:52 +0000 UTCMid- act 2 maybe? Act 1 was 104 comics long, and we're on #146.
Randomguy8566732
2024-04-23 21:31:43 +0000 UTCWelp this'll be interesting~! I can't wait to see if Emmy acts like she just activated and have to relearn everything~
SerenadingSiren23
2024-04-23 21:01:43 +0000 UTCBeen wondering just how far along we are in the story. You said that Chapter 104 was the end of “Part 1”, so what would this chapter be in comparison?
Luke Drotos
2024-04-23 21:01:11 +0000 UTCThe idea of these robots basically running on something like python is kind of funny to me. Though I wouldn’t encourage anyone to overthink it lol. I needed something even a kid could look at it and get the gist of.
Dominic Cellini
2024-04-23 20:57:08 +0000 UTCThings they don't have in this alternate timeline: Flatscreen TVs. Things they do have: Python. This is a good timeline
Alan-Michael White
2024-04-23 20:54:20 +0000 UTCPlease tell me she prevented Emmy's memory from being erased.
Wy
2024-04-23 20:48:15 +0000 UTCSterling Robotics, you are grass.
Wy
2024-04-23 20:47:20 +0000 UTCDamn plot twist on top of plot twist
Rustin Farsi
2024-04-23 20:41:09 +0000 UTCJesus!, planned obsolescence was expected, but not a memory wiping, I hope Darcy had enought time to do a backup
Rodrigo Luna
2024-04-23 20:26:59 +0000 UTCThat's not good.
Frenzy
2024-04-23 20:21:36 +0000 UTCI’m on the edge of my seat! I love seeing narrative elements/plot development that works both on the literal, allegorical, and general thematic levels. Amazing!
Matt Heninger
2024-04-23 20:10:20 +0000 UTCI was always worried it was planned obsolescence. RIP EMMY 😥
CAMIrish1
2024-04-23 20:09:11 +0000 UTCOH NO!!
Rowan
2024-04-23 20:09:07 +0000 UTCOH NO EMMY. A memory wipe is so cruel
Kingpen
2024-04-23 20:06:04 +0000 UTCThings are heating up fast, damn. I'm on the edge of my seat, mister Cellini, and am really looking forward to where you bring this story!
Gstef
2024-04-23 20:05:47 +0000 UTCThis reeks of planned obsolescence. And of course it would have a sort of "automatic deletion" protocol in case of someone finding out this little secret. I just hope Darcy and/or the lightning was in time.😰
Qrow92
2024-04-23 20:03:18 +0000 UTCThis kind of reminds me of that movie "Robots"!
hl
2024-04-23 20:00:21 +0000 UTCThis has to be the most intense story moment in a very long time
Luke Drotos
2024-04-23 19:56:03 +0000 UTCWhat a twist!
Head Wounds
2024-04-23 19:55:53 +0000 UTCWell, that’s certainly not good. :(
StrummFan217
2024-04-23 19:52:38 +0000 UTCUh-oh!
Steve the Writer
2024-04-23 19:52:10 +0000 UTCOH SHIT PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
Glissando365
2024-04-23 19:51:31 +0000 UTC
