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- Leeds
They are a perfect disaster power couple.
Or would be, if they weren't such disasters. Victims of their own success.
Calibration (BAHHSCQ/Sanctioned)
- Thread starter Alivaril
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- Crossover
Or would be, if they weren't such disasters. Victims of their own success.
Roth963
If I become inactive with this massage, I died
I don't know the answer to the question, but I do know that Queen is much more advanced than all of them (including Anna) and is capable of upgrading anything they have, she is only limited to her current understanding of their tech base, which she underestimate, because she doesn't want to uplift the natives.
She made her Valkyrie core as a Friend for example, and making Valkyrie cores is impossible with their current understanding of physics (as in they know that it should be possible, but don't know how), and she could make a Friend with a lot of processing power and than turn into it.
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serra2
Himouto! Sylvanas-chan
QAylor making drone Valkyrie Cores to act as directed weapon platforms to get around her lack of usable hardpoints on her own frame would be an interesting idea. All the questions it would raise would be hilarious.
C4d
Has approximate knowledge of many things.
- Location
- Germany
She makes herself a cat Friend and gives it a valyrie core and everyone is confused because the cat as power armor and a back mounted particle accelerator.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Caaaaaalled it!
Pedantic science nit: Milliseconds is an odd choice of unit. Anna often consciously interacts with phenomena occurring on microsecond timescales. The major limit on her ability to distinguish antagonists is almost certainly accumulated evidence, that is, her ability to infer likely underlying states of her enemies (identifications) given the observations she's getting from their effects on the world around them. Higher-quality software, particularly better algorithms or engineering sensor fusion, would manifest as an ability to build better - more accurate - beliefs about her enemies given the same observations. This would only manifest as a constant time-to-ID if the amount of evidence she needs to observe also takes a constant amount of time to gather, which would be super weird. A more realistic statement might've been something like "improve performance on her extended Antagonist combat type identification data-set by 5%".
That's a hilarious butterfly - QA has Anna thinking about everything in terms of rom-com, which is going to color her interpretations of everything following this, including her first impressions of the entire rest of the cast.
Skip the Dating Advice and Matchmaking club - how are the teachers going to react to all of this?
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(As Of Chapter 3 End) QA Limitations (Has TL;DR)
Alivaril
On a magically-deficient journey of self-discovery
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- A single human dimension
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- She/Her
With you and in agreement up to here.
This is where I got lost, unfortunately. You're probably correct since this is basically your job, but the suggested replacement is hard enough to understand that it'd probably harm the ability of readers to know what QA did. Added a "mean" to the time as a placeholder based on the terms used during the Anna food-slosh incident.
That's not actually entirely accurate. QA is simultaneously in an odd position of being highly advanced in some areas and far behind in others; she made her choice of what to grant Host and can't further increase those capabilities.
- QA can request and gather data to improve her Friends, which Anna and Decimator (now known to humans as Type Zero Macross) have each helped with.
- She can understand/apply more of the underlying rules in the context of making at least partially biological Friends, and this is even easier when Host is lucid enough to help. Notably, "more of" =/= "all"; it only provides partial archive access to consistent sections.
- She can occasionally access part of her archives in response to outside stimuli in an annoying imitation of human memory recall, but this generally provides incomplete and fleeting data.
- She already kinda understands much of what people will try to teach her; she just needs to have it reinforced in Host's memory for more reliable access. As a result, she "learns" universal rules faster than most humans.
- She can understand advanced mathematical operations and draw on some of her usual processing suites to complete them in a timely manner. This is limited by her ability to avoid overloading Host's brain. Symbie is actively improving said brain, so QA's limit will gradually increase over time.
- She can utilize shard-derived communication and concealment techniques to be excellent at the defensive portion of electronic warfare.
- Host can sometimes access portions of QA's archives and provide further assistance, but that's always a short-lived, temporary, and unreliable affair.
- Host's body is gradually undergoing miscellaneous other improvements, most of them related to her brain, nerves, and general health.
Notably, the improvements of Symbie aren't automatic and continuous like standard Valkyrie Cores appear to be; the Decimator-provided designs were flawed and Symbie's ability to Innovate is apparently inferior to a standard Valkyrie Core. Improvement will halt and continue as QA gathers useful data from collaboration with other entities, acquires necessary non-biomass materials from nearby (she has enough stored biomass to last her a long time), when Symbie manages to upgrade something without QA-granted designs, and when Host is lucid enough to improve one or more projects.
TL;DR: QA already ceased to sandbag a few weeks ago. She just didn't yet realize Host and Symbie's hardware/capabilities weren't approximately equal to local humans and that QA needed to be making more of an active attempt at improving them.
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I really love all the Sanctioned spinoffs, and having re-read Valkyrie Core a while ago I am super into this spinoff in particular. But... I'm still finding it a tad annoying having to watch QA and Taylor lose all of their delicious character development and need to re-learn and re-apply it. And of course, each crossover world has its own lessons to teach that do not necessarily overlap with previous lessons.
Like, QA being QA at people is amusing, which I suppose is the whole premise for Sanctioned and all its spinoffs, but I'd still like to see the Valkyrie Core timeline happen post-Hestia, for example. After QA is slightly more personable and not completely alien, and after Taylor has woken up more and actually done some healing.
Like, QA being QA at people is amusing, which I suppose is the whole premise for Sanctioned and all its spinoffs, but I'd still like to see the Valkyrie Core timeline happen post-Hestia, for example. After QA is slightly more personable and not completely alien, and after Taylor has woken up more and actually done some healing.
Wrong thread. You want this one.
Puffy
HA↗HA↘HA↗HA↘HA↗HA↘HA↗HA↘HA↗HA!
Yeah, it took me a bit to understand what he was saying, but I think I got it. Essentially, the statement of: "decrease the amount of time necessary to identify most Antagonist combat types by X [UNIT OF TIME]" Is weird because it would imply that the time it takes her to identify an Antagonist Combat Type is a constant (in the same way that the Speed of Light is a constant), which it shouldn't be.
Could you confirm if I understood that right, @Vebyast ?
In the end though, the change does seem better.
Thank you! I didn't even know it existed haha!
Alivaril
On a magically-deficient journey of self-discovery
- Location
- A single human dimension
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- She/Her
That was actually part of the point of the multi-week timeskip. This is almost as alien as present INW QA would be; the primary current difference is more disdain toward humans since she isn't thinking of them as something that should have their worth proven, but Anna is rapidly working on that. INW QA would still be this rude to a non-host, non-adventurer human. Taylor mostly just lacks a way/incentive to express herself without ready access to something fun like the Falna; she has easy access to Symbie and Symbie's railgun, but until more stuff is put in storage, the rest is pretty boring to her.
Taylor did help out with Symbie's creation, but that was offscreen.
EDIT: In other words, don't worry. Taylor will be featured more later, among other things.
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C4d
Has approximate knowledge of many things.
- Location
- Germany
I was wondering what Taylor was doing all this time an why we hand't heard anything from her. But it makes sense that she has very few points of contact with the outside world without something like the falna and gods hanging around. Also what you are saying sounds like she can directly interact with the stuff that gets connected to Symbie so now im wondering if she can do stuff to stored things in her imaginary space and have it carry over to the real world after they get expressed from storage.
- Location
- Somewhere.
...I have to say, this doesn't actually feel like Anna Sanchez. Especially the bit where, uh, QA squeeing about perfection wasn't actually met with Anna declaring that she is in fact not perfect. Like, she hasn't even had the moment of character development where she realizes people can and possibly should in fact look up to her yet!
...it actually feels like you're trying to put in a lot of the - incidental set pieces (the active scan at high band uh...reference? just felt forced...) without necessarily understanding why they happened? Admittedly, I don't know why they happened all the time either, but...mm.
Also, where did QAlkyrie pop into existence? Because, like...huh? How did she end up on the same plane as Anna and Yukari?
Anyway, comment from the INW thread that I must correct:
...it actually feels like you're trying to put in a lot of the - incidental set pieces (the active scan at high band uh...reference? just felt forced...) without necessarily understanding why they happened? Admittedly, I don't know why they happened all the time either, but...mm.
Also, where did QAlkyrie pop into existence? Because, like...huh? How did she end up on the same plane as Anna and Yukari?
Anyway, comment from the INW thread that I must correct:
No, he's Coke Zero.
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KhazintheDark
May or may not be insane...
- Location
- Not where you are. Probably.
Yes, all of the yes.
Alivaril
On a magically-deficient journey of self-discovery
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The cooking club visit and aftermath of the canonical visit to the Dating Advice and Matchmaking club were used as references for Anna's reaction. Canon doesn't really state how Anna would deal with such an overload without prior experience and when she couldn't just flip the off switch for her consciousness; she hasn't been introduced to her room yet and doesn't think of it as a safe place and/or somewhere she can retreat to. The perceived repeat of the active scanning was part of that: she didn't really have a safe place, so she defaulted to one that was abandoned, did her best to make sure nobody snuck up on her, and paid particular attention to Taylor to try to see if there was something wrong with her and/or to prevent Symbie from letting Taylor ambush her. There are some behaviors that'll just continue until someone tells you not to do them.
Regarding perfection: Anna is, in fact, going to try to argue with QAylor the next time they meet, but she was a bit busy retreating from confusing problems she needed additional processing time for. You'll notice that she did disagree pretty vehemently in her monologue. That particular compliment would've been shrugged off had QA not followed it with (paraphrased) "I enjoy looking at you," something that couples say.
Regarding perfection: Anna is, in fact, going to try to argue with QAylor the next time they meet, but she was a bit busy retreating from confusing problems she needed additional processing time for. You'll notice that she did disagree pretty vehemently in her monologue. That particular compliment would've been shrugged off had QA not followed it with (paraphrased) "I enjoy looking at you," something that couples say.
We'll probably have a few more stations of canon in the next post; Yukari's surprised reaction to Coke Zero, for example, is another thing that's pretty much inevitable. Still, the feedback is appreciated. It's good to know how people perceive things since not perceiving them as intended generally means a failure to communicate and/or authorial mistakes. In this case, probably the former: upon review of the text, the scans weren't actually expressly mentioned. Oops? Will edit to add a line or two. (Edited it in at the start of that scene)
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Uh-oh. That won't mesh well with QA's attitude to non-hosts.
TheSilenceIsVast
Of the Sun
- Location
- United States
The cooking club visit and aftermath of the canonical visit to the Dating Advice and Matchmaking club were used as references for Anna's reaction. Canon doesn't really state how Anna would deal with such an overload without prior experience and when she couldn't just flip the off switch for her consciousness; she hasn't been introduced to her room yet and doesn't think of it as a safe place and/or somewhere she can retreat to. The perceived repeat of the active scanning was part of that: she didn't really have a safe place, so she defaulted to one that was abandoned, did her best to make sure nobody snuck up on her, and paid particular attention to Taylor to try to see if there was something wrong with her and/or to prevent Symbie from letting Taylor ambush her. There are some behaviors that'll just continue until someone tells you not to do them.
Regarding perfection: Anna is, in fact, going to try to argue with QAylor the next time they meet, but she was a bit busy retreating from confusing problems she needed additional processing time for. You'll notice that she did disagree pretty vehemently in her monologue. That particular compliment would've been shrugged off had QA not followed it with (paraphrased) "I enjoy looking at you," something that couples say.
We'll probably have a few more stations of canon in the next post; Yukari's surprised reaction to Coke Zero, for example, is another thing that's pretty much inevitable. Still, the feedback is appreciated. It's good to know how people perceive things since not perceiving them as intended generally means a failure to communicate and/or authorial mistakes. In this case, probably the former: upon review of the text, the scans weren't actually expressly mentioned. Oops? Will edit to add a line or two. (Edited it in at the start of that scene)
I'm curious as to why you're trying to avoid author alerts? Generally when the author says something, I want to read it because it's further insight into the story. I would imagine a fairly significant portion agree with me, but I suppose it might depend on whether they have email notifications on?
Creative Sink
A Drain on Society
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- Germany
Sooooo, how much does Taylor being involved sink the Plot Armour and up the Grit rating of the story? Because tragic background, broken-bird-turned-organic-supercomputer-hybrid and body horror probably alters the over all feel of things.
Very interesting, has my watch.
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Some people in INWTMFITD were making their annoyance at non-essential author alerts known. Personally, I'm in your camp, but Ali wants to be accommodating to them.
Very interesting, has my watch.
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Some people in INWTMFITD were making their annoyance at non-essential author alerts known. Personally, I'm in your camp, but Ali wants to be accommodating to them.
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- Somewhere.
I think the edits worked. Feels very much more Anna now.
...oh boy it would be, if Taylor counts as another tragic backstory... minus three but adjust for the scale not being supposed to support six people...yeah, still a significant negative...
Skewfiend
The Corruptor of All Things
- Location
- The Darkness Behind Your Eyes
"Naze" is definitely "why", but I can't see anything that would be shortened to "Yu", "Ri", or "Yuri" in the other worlds in the title. If the protagonist of this thing is female, then that would make sense though, as "Yuri" in the sense of "lily" has come to mean "the girls' love genre".
Thus "Nazeyuri" might mean "Why-Girl's Love", which would approximate the title.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
That is in fact the circumstance, thanks for the confirmation! Also, welcome aboard, the shenanigans are going to be profound!
Kai Merah
Hound Hearted Hedonist
- Location
- Somewhere in the corners of my imagination
Well, that is almost exactly the same background as Anna Sanchez, so I don't think there's much of a rating change. They really are remarkably similar. Though admittedly, Anna mostly became a broken bird after the upgrade to supercomputer rather than before.