Thanks for the advice, yeah that’s largely my thinking, in not trying to put together a top of the line powerhouse, I’m gonna go with dropping a 3060 in it for now and play what I can play.

I believe in the original novel this comic is based on he had to charter a helicopter, then swing from that. But they cut all that out for brevity.

Given current economic realities I’m now thinking of getting an RTX 3060 now and keeping the rest as is, then in a couple years if we defeat SkyNet maybe I can upgrade both.

Good point, they are probably the one who gets ridden the most of these options.

Plus he’s being stepped on, that pairs nicely.

I’m one step ahead of you: being mean to me gives me an erection.

I can’t masturbate to this until I know which one is the cuck.

It’s on a sign people, it MUST be true.

I remember getting yelled at for disabling call waiting before getting onto AOL…

I can’t believe you trust that just because it was in some book. Big Library has its hooks into you.

That makes the comic even worse IMO. Now the comparison is different illnesses result in different treatments? That’s like a diabetic getting angry at the song “Spoonful of Sugar”.

I have people I care about who are at home in their bed a lot because of medical issues, no one is bringing them flowers. I get what the comic is trying to do, truly. But analogies of things that are different are not good analogies.

Most of the time, sure, but doesn’t that just make this an even worse analogy?

One is in the hospital, one is not. That is a key difference in the comparison attempting to be made.

I forgot to answer the first part. That’s the plot of the entire episode “Measure of a Man”, and they even bring up the analogy of allowing the Enterprise computer to resign from Starfleet. Data is self-aware.

2 points to that, 1 it wasn’t a question of “space” to house a positronic brain, no one else could create one. 2, while it could be transported one could not be replicated. Canonically some Star Trek tech was considered too advanced to be replicated. Why there was a difference between “can be transported” and “can be replicated” is a plot hole that has existed as long as Star Trek has so I don’t think we need to address it here, heh.

Well now we have LLMs, not AI. And the Enterprise computer, advanced though it was, was also not considered a true AI. At the time of the Enterprise D I believe the only true AIs were Data, Lore, and for a brief time Lal.

Yeah but how would it wear them on the BACK legs?

That feels like cheating.

Plot twist, group was from Kansas.