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Well, i guess they DO have data mining algorithms in the future. And they even work … more or less. I guess they would indeed be arrested if those would work properly. Oh right, there’s a hacker, my bad.
Aaand a female hacker, no less. Well they had to exist … somewhere. Ah sorry, right, multi-gender present society projected onto mono-gender future society. Sometimes I forget it’s that simple
But i digress. I do like her style. Perhaps a little too … expressive … when you professionally break the law, though. Then again, in a possibly all-digital future, hi tech and all that, perhaps being a very very good hacker makes one immune to the law. I wonder if she can hack into brains… toats brain for instance, that might actually work.
Oh my god, it’s the super punk rocker clone of Loser!
That’s.. actually really kinda cool, truth be told.
And man, this current arc is just surprising me more and more. It seemed like such a natural thing to see Quetz in the doorway there, and yet she has a really good point about being watched almost all the time, although in such indirect methods. Using Lance as a method of communication came right out of the blue, and yet it was not unprecedented, considering how the Captain herself hacked Lance to deliver a message when triggered by a keyword.
Frigging hell though, I do wish e would lighten up a bit… her shots at Whiskey are getting tiresome and I wonder if it’s because Quetz kept herself in limbo and thus knows of no other way to deal with others than to ridicule them.
Psst, Quetz… remember how well that worked for you when you were squad leader?
The trouble I think is Quetz has isolated herself so much, she’s really got no other way to react to others. Admittedly she has some good points there, but really Quetz, you can get too cynical.
And, while I can see why people would not like Quetz’s continued attitude, I personally feel like that’s just her. Calculating, somewhat sociopathic, highly sophisticated in everything she does (that doesn’t involve having to care). I guess that’s why i like her so much. Not that she would ever return the sentiment to anyone. Except Kid perhaps.
But as long as she stops playing future wow, she can go on a killing spree in the OSI headquarters, for all I care
And I’d kinda love to see that…
Taking internet porn to a whole new twisted level…
“Tune in, live and in full 3D. Watch through the eyes of any sex bot out there, in UltraHD 4D, Live 24/7. Full virtual reality featuring internal and external (rendered) views, remote body readings (such as body heat, moisture, hormone and nerve stimulation levels), statistics, charts. Record to your own storage, or feed live into any (supported) video portal.
Warning: May cause epileptic seizures. Contact your doctor if in doubt.”
Hrm, taking a look at present day phenomenons, I think the really creepy part is that that might actually become popular. “Follow me on botVID”, and a live counter on the bot to indicate how many people are watching…
Ok. ok, shutting up.
I think part of the reason Quetz is cold and abusive is because it forms a very convenient shield and keeps people from getting too close. Girl’s got some pretty serious Mommy issues, and way too much pressure for someone her age, even for the world she lives in. Keeping aloof and shallow may be the only way, currently, she can remain relatively sane. If she allows herself to get too close, she may start thinking about the wrong kind of things…
Yeah, her mom is definitely the root of the problem, for all we know. Maybe Quetz tries to imitate her or, for better or worse, please her twisted opinions – as strange as that may sound. Family members have that kind of effect on each other. Messed up parents => messed up children, but some manage to break out of the cycle. Maybe Quetz can, too. All those bottled up emotions, surrounded, constrained, and violated by the hard and uncaring reality, that her mother constructed around her. Can’t stop wondering if Kid wouldn’t be crucial to her salvation, seeing as she seems to be just the right kind of opposite. Would that go as ‘the wrong kind of things’? I wonder
Quetz just might be the most brilliant creation this comic has brought about….
Gah, Mistabi…
Apart from the fact that I really hate that character, being somewhat familiar with Japan and the Japanese language, it also bugs me to no end that there is a ‘tsa’ in that name. They don’t have that syllable in non-Katakana-Japanese…
(Katakana being the characters that Japanese use to imitate the sound of foreign words … as good as they can, which isn’t very good)
The closest thing to that would be Mitsusabi or Mitosabi. There is no single t in Japanese, the only single consonant they have is m/n. I suspect you mean Mittsabi, which, however, leaves the tsa. Friend of mine suggest Mizabi to be the closest working name. But that’s pronounced somewhat differently.
heh, ok. no worries.
gave this a bit of thought, since it did bother me every single time that character’s name popped up. well, once she had disclosed that she was actually japanese, that is. and speaking something resembling japanese in that movie, no less. otherwise it would probably have never occurred to me, or i could have argued, that a family living outside japan for generations, with no contact to its cultural root, would have less trouble changing details. especially if their actual name-kanjis were forgotten anyway.
one could also argue that they introduced that character in the meantime, but, knowing japanese, they will either stick to the way it is now forever, or one day completely abandon their conventions. they are in the habit of doing that kind of thing. abandoning their troublesome name-kanjis is feasible, although unlikely.
either way, at such a point one might argue, that without name-kanjis, alternate syllables would emerge, but that’s more of a low-percentage scenario.
i am uncertain at this point which would be worse: changing the name or not changing it. most japanese people are not likely to ever read this comic (their culture is kinda isolated), and few enough people actually know japanese (although the numbers have been exploding here in germany of late). to those, that do know the language, it’s a dead giveaway, that the person that came up with it tried to reference something he/she did not know well enough, or at all.
in either case, i guess there are enough people that have gotten used to the name as it is, which states a considerable counterweight. i personally would probably change it, but i can understand if someone did not want to. but some, however unrealistic, explanation should probably be put somewhere, just to give idiots like me something to shut up
Heh, ok.
Right now the character isn’t part of the plot anyway. Thankfully. Somehow (and not because of the name) I wish it’d stay that way. I really did like her at first. Maybe a bit of a crybaby, not really the bravest or most competent in space (well, she was an extreme case in those three things), but heck, she fit right in, was loyal, and for a really long part an integral part of the group’s self-development. All that kinda changed with that Toat thing. Maybe somewhere before, even, I’m not sure. At any rate, it didn’t really surprise me at that point. In the end, I think what bugged me the most, was that she didn’t get her act together, became someone new and unfamiliar, and consistently moved against everyone else. That she went out in a fighter after all, didn’t really make up for it. That wasn’t like her either.
It’s just the way I feel, I don’t like that character anymore.
I bet when she gets re-introduced. She is gonna pull some kind of Motoko Kusanagi on us… Or some kind of espionage hardened “Starship Trooper” secret police.
November 13th, 2010 at 8:50 am
Well there’s a turnup for the books.
Cold water anyone?
November 13th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Hey, Barbie is back!
November 14th, 2010 at 7:51 am
Well, i guess they DO have data mining algorithms in the future. And they even work … more or less. I guess they would indeed be arrested if those would work properly. Oh right, there’s a hacker, my bad.
Aaand a female hacker, no less. Well they had to exist … somewhere. Ah sorry, right, multi-gender present society projected onto mono-gender future society. Sometimes I forget it’s that simple
But i digress. I do like her style. Perhaps a little too … expressive … when you professionally break the law, though. Then again, in a possibly all-digital future, hi tech and all that, perhaps being a very very good hacker makes one immune to the law. I wonder if she can hack into brains… toats brain for instance, that might actually work.
November 14th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Oh my god, it’s the super punk rocker clone of Loser!
That’s.. actually really kinda cool, truth be told.
And man, this current arc is just surprising me more and more. It seemed like such a natural thing to see Quetz in the doorway there, and yet she has a really good point about being watched almost all the time, although in such indirect methods. Using Lance as a method of communication came right out of the blue, and yet it was not unprecedented, considering how the Captain herself hacked Lance to deliver a message when triggered by a keyword.
Frigging hell though, I do wish e would lighten up a bit… her shots at Whiskey are getting tiresome and I wonder if it’s because Quetz kept herself in limbo and thus knows of no other way to deal with others than to ridicule them.
Psst, Quetz… remember how well that worked for you when you were squad leader?
November 14th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Hmm, those are pretty good points, too. Though I’m starting to suspect the author(s) don’t read comments…
November 15th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
The trouble I think is Quetz has isolated herself so much, she’s really got no other way to react to others. Admittedly she has some good points there, but really Quetz, you can get too cynical.
November 15th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Course I read the comments…it’s my favorite part of doing the comic.
November 15th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Woah! cool.
Is there a chance of making the hacker a permanent character? Open questions aside, I kinda like her
November 15th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
And, while I can see why people would not like Quetz’s continued attitude, I personally feel like that’s just her. Calculating, somewhat sociopathic, highly sophisticated in everything she does (that doesn’t involve having to care). I guess that’s why i like her so much. Not that she would ever return the sentiment to anyone. Except Kid perhaps.
But as long as she stops playing future wow, she can go on a killing spree in the OSI headquarters, for all I care
And I’d kinda love to see that…
November 15th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
And it only now occurred to me … since when does Lance have a wireless uplink…??? Creeeeepy
November 15th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Poor Lance, he’s turning into an oversized cellphone lately.
November 16th, 2010 at 1:03 am
Taking internet porn to a whole new twisted level…
“Tune in, live and in full 3D. Watch through the eyes of any sex bot out there, in UltraHD 4D, Live 24/7. Full virtual reality featuring internal and external (rendered) views, remote body readings (such as body heat, moisture, hormone and nerve stimulation levels), statistics, charts. Record to your own storage, or feed live into any (supported) video portal.
Warning: May cause epileptic seizures. Contact your doctor if in doubt.”
Creepy, ain’t it
November 16th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Hrm, taking a look at present day phenomenons, I think the really creepy part is that that might actually become popular. “Follow me on botVID”, and a live counter on the bot to indicate how many people are watching…
Ok. ok, shutting up.
November 16th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Opens up a world of possibilities for Paris Hilton. Who needs a guy when you can just f*** the camera?
November 19th, 2010 at 8:54 am
I think part of the reason Quetz is cold and abusive is because it forms a very convenient shield and keeps people from getting too close. Girl’s got some pretty serious Mommy issues, and way too much pressure for someone her age, even for the world she lives in. Keeping aloof and shallow may be the only way, currently, she can remain relatively sane. If she allows herself to get too close, she may start thinking about the wrong kind of things…
November 19th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Yeah, her mom is definitely the root of the problem, for all we know. Maybe Quetz tries to imitate her or, for better or worse, please her twisted opinions – as strange as that may sound. Family members have that kind of effect on each other. Messed up parents => messed up children, but some manage to break out of the cycle. Maybe Quetz can, too. All those bottled up emotions, surrounded, constrained, and violated by the hard and uncaring reality, that her mother constructed around her. Can’t stop wondering if Kid wouldn’t be crucial to her salvation, seeing as she seems to be just the right kind of opposite. Would that go as ‘the wrong kind of things’? I wonder
Quetz just might be the most brilliant creation this comic has brought about….
November 20th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Is it me, or does that hacker look like the hacker from Mitsabi’s dream ?
November 21st, 2010 at 1:26 pm
I agree quetz may need to break out of her mother,s shadow and kid may be the one to do it.
November 21st, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Gah, Mistabi…
Apart from the fact that I really hate that character, being somewhat familiar with Japan and the Japanese language, it also bugs me to no end that there is a ‘tsa’ in that name. They don’t have that syllable in non-Katakana-Japanese…
(Katakana being the characters that Japanese use to imitate the sound of foreign words … as good as they can, which isn’t very good)
November 22nd, 2010 at 11:19 am
It could be pronounced Mit-sabi
November 23rd, 2010 at 4:17 am
The closest thing to that would be Mitsusabi or Mitosabi. There is no single t in Japanese, the only single consonant they have is m/n. I suspect you mean Mittsabi, which, however, leaves the tsa. Friend of mine suggest Mizabi to be the closest working name. But that’s pronounced somewhat differently.
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:59 am
Yeah, I was reaching for the double “T”.
Just trying to play devil’s advocate, really…
November 24th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
heh, ok. no worries.
gave this a bit of thought, since it did bother me every single time that character’s name popped up. well, once she had disclosed that she was actually japanese, that is. and speaking something resembling japanese in that movie, no less. otherwise it would probably have never occurred to me, or i could have argued, that a family living outside japan for generations, with no contact to its cultural root, would have less trouble changing details. especially if their actual name-kanjis were forgotten anyway.
one could also argue that they introduced that character in the meantime, but, knowing japanese, they will either stick to the way it is now forever, or one day completely abandon their conventions. they are in the habit of doing that kind of thing. abandoning their troublesome name-kanjis is feasible, although unlikely.
either way, at such a point one might argue, that without name-kanjis, alternate syllables would emerge, but that’s more of a low-percentage scenario.
i am uncertain at this point which would be worse: changing the name or not changing it. most japanese people are not likely to ever read this comic (their culture is kinda isolated), and few enough people actually know japanese (although the numbers have been exploding here in germany of late). to those, that do know the language, it’s a dead giveaway, that the person that came up with it tried to reference something he/she did not know well enough, or at all.
in either case, i guess there are enough people that have gotten used to the name as it is, which states a considerable counterweight. i personally would probably change it, but i can understand if someone did not want to. but some, however unrealistic, explanation should probably be put somewhere, just to give idiots like me something to shut up
November 25th, 2010 at 1:07 am
Maybe somewhere in the family line there was a Chinese father or mother. And it got adopted into the family along the line somewhere?
But yeah, of all the cultures of the world, I think Japan is the most concerned with traditions and the reluctance of abandoning therof.
I don’t think it should be changed, if her Mr. Haynes says it’s Kiseko. I have one thing to say, “The Power of the Plot Compels you”
November 25th, 2010 at 1:21 am
I mean, Mitsabi
November 26th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Heh, ok.
Right now the character isn’t part of the plot anyway. Thankfully. Somehow (and not because of the name) I wish it’d stay that way. I really did like her at first. Maybe a bit of a crybaby, not really the bravest or most competent in space (well, she was an extreme case in those three things), but heck, she fit right in, was loyal, and for a really long part an integral part of the group’s self-development. All that kinda changed with that Toat thing. Maybe somewhere before, even, I’m not sure. At any rate, it didn’t really surprise me at that point. In the end, I think what bugged me the most, was that she didn’t get her act together, became someone new and unfamiliar, and consistently moved against everyone else. That she went out in a fighter after all, didn’t really make up for it. That wasn’t like her either.
It’s just the way I feel, I don’t like that character anymore.
November 26th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I bet when she gets re-introduced. She is gonna pull some kind of Motoko Kusanagi on us… Or some kind of espionage hardened “Starship Trooper” secret police.
March 29th, 2011 at 6:03 am
Enigmatic.
You make a good troll. go surf /b/ if you don’t believe in female hackers.