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Reply Subj: Re: Inevitable response. Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 10:06:21 pm EDT (Viewed 702 times) | |||||||
Quote: Well really, all I'm talking about here is taking a little more of the machine out of Yuki. When she accelerates her reactions and movements *that* far, she's basically letting the computer take control of some of it because it's capable of processing faster than her brain. Without it, she's losing only a crutch - and since she's much more creative than most give her credit for, she can overcome that shortfall easily.I think her reactions may be different without neccessarily being slower. Yuki has a very eccentric style that is probably reflected in her combat choices. Not having her moves filtered and edited by a microchip might be interesting. Quote: But let me qualify that a bit with an example: A human being is only *physically* incapable of running 80 mph due to structural shortfalls in the human body. A human *is* capable, however, of going many multiples of that speed and keeping control of a vehicle going that speed. Now that Yuki is structurally capable of running 80 mph on the ground, she can keep control of it fairly easily (though it's probably not smart, due to the implications of slamming a titanium and steel body into a solid object, or the ground, at 80 mph). By the way, I'm not saying that's Yuki's limit, it's an example.Quote: What she might lose for now in that case, however, is timing. A computer is capable of hitting a precise moving target at 80 mph, taking into account exact stopping distance, preparation time, etc. Yuki *might* be able to hit a specific moving target going that fast, but chances are she'll miss because of some tiny miscalculation that humans tend to make. She may make that up with practice, though.Fair enough. I'm all for heroes having to work to be the best. Quote: Or a more clear example would be how Anna can race toward soldiers who are firing at her, dodge all the bullets, and then disarm them before they can get a fix on her. That takes a kind of precision the human brain usually isn't capable of, seeing a bullet and moving just in time, etc.Quote: And I say "usually" because the Psychic Samurai *can* do it, with no physical augmentation whatsoever. She does it using predictive movements - watching what the shooter does, or listening to sounds, to determine where the bullet will go. She doesn't have to see it, she knows it's there. But at the same time, even she can't run toward a bullet and dodge out of its way precisely.Quote: So when I say Yuki loses computer assist it's most likely only temporary. She can learn to do all of that stuff - and who's to say she hasn't already, and has gradually been making the technolpolitan computer obsolete? After all, it always seems to be the one thing besides the battery that fails.I recall an issue of Miller Daredevil where DD loses his radar sense. Stick teaches him that the radioactivity that enchanced his senses originally wore off years ago. Since then he's been doing it himself. Quote: Quote: Let's not forget that most of the self-willed robots populating the Parodyverse aren't high-perfomance combat models either. Quote: Here's where things get a little weird.All of that is noted. it would be very good to get all of that stuff in a single story that offers an overview of Anna. Current events, including Yuki's upgrade/downgrade and the claims made about Anna on Apocalyspe would seem to be a good provocation. Quote: Quote: I think too that a human pilot will always fly better under some circumstances than a computer program.Quote: That's because computer programs have rules that can't be broken. A human will always know when it's safe to break those rules (and nobody breaks more of them than Yuki).It's part of her charm. | |||||||
