Most of Hackerman's dialogue was either only slightly adapted or directly lifted from his spin-off short, so I don't think there's room for his characterization to have gone too far wrong. (turns to face other camera) Ladies.
If he was that good at hacking he would have installed some better drivers and a shell so that he AI could be uploaded to the shard.Or at least installed a better method of communication that could be used without literally spiking her brain.
Basically, what Czly says is exactly my "complaint". I've only seen one video with Hackerman, but over half his part in the chapter feels like it was lifted directly from that video -- not "adapted from", copied outright. That feels fake. Other reference characters (at least, who I recognize) have had different actions from their source material, but in a way that feels natural, that feels like something they might actually do.
I assumed it was an original random collection of syllables. Searching for it only brings up this thread and the FFn mirror, at any rate.
Well yes, that's obvious. I thought you noted some actual reference or a pun or something.
It wasn't to me, but I thought he was pointing out a reference.
Erm, wouldn't QA actually return before she left, in this case? Taylor has already been "off-plane" so to speak for several days at this point; if SL is going to return her to the same moment she left she'd need to go back in time.
Which is even more of a problem because QA would never make that choice, least of all right now. Remember that, as of this moment, QA is:
The Teraport, and for that matter Doctor/Major/Commander Andersyn, are from Schlock Mercenary, a long-running comic that Jonakhensu obviously does not own. It works exactly as described here, although the amount of material lost per teraport is supposed to be absolutely miniscule compared to the mass/volume of the object being transported.
Seems like the component QA sacrificed was indeed absolutely miniscule compared to the mass/volume of the rest of the shard, so it fits.
Probably still the case, if you consider that QA is continent-sized.
It's supposed to be more along the lines of: "It can happen to a person multiple times at a stretch and they wouldn't notice". QA's command code module cannot possibly be so fragile that losing the equivalent of part of one of your liver cells can kill it; if it were then the same genetic algorithms that they use to make their granted superpowers work better would build them some redundancy and fault tolerance. No, from a security and biology standpoint it makes much more sense that this is something Hackerman did, possibly in a "plausible deniability" sense, to give Taylor more freedom from the Entities.
