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Calibration (BAHHSCQ/Sanctioned)

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Bar the whole "nice to see this up and running" with an update...

My mind is Studio Gilgamesh wise, QAylor here's embodying the "concept" of Rei Ayanami full well. With the purists crying she doesn't have blue/cyan hair. But the glasses, and moe like eerieiness make up for it.

Eerieness, in the sense of "innocent pragmatacism" that ends up inspiring a trope of cute, stoic female gunners in no time. If she were a surprise character. And worse of all, if popular enough for the "Black hole harem protag/player base" to take an interest on her?
 
Alivaril said:
...Huh. Apparently, I may not have said this anywhere: QA actually fixed Taylor's eyes before even leaving Earth-Bet. QA was highly uncomfortable having vulnerable glass so close to important and fragile sensory organs.
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So what you are saying is that if QA ever understands the concept of 'weaponized moe' then Taylor will suddenly be wearing fake glasses? :V
 
I'm really looking forward to Taylor getting in a sim, I've no idea what level of performance to expect from her initially.
 
Master Basher said:
Bar the whole "nice to see this up and running" with an update...

My mind is Studio Gilgamesh wise, QAylor here's embodying the "concept" of Rei Ayanami full well. With the purists crying she doesn't have blue/cyan hair. But the glasses, and moe like eerieiness make up for it.

Eerieness, in the sense of "innocent pragmatacism" that ends up inspiring a trope of cute, stoic female gunners in no time. If she were a surprise character. And worse of all, if popular enough for the "Black hole harem protag/player base" to take an interest on her?
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In this universe, the Urobutcher got so angry that people like Rei rather than finding her creepy, he wrote in QA and then made the Crafting Club to parody fan reactions.
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RavensDagger said:
An update!

Awww, yis!

But it's been so long I'm going to have to re-read.
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But?
Pretty sure thats a happy upside!
 
An especially big "thank you" for the update, it really made my day.

Something I have noticed in a previous update:
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"Common misconception, but no." "Hold on, how did she get the infantry armor and tentacles if–" "Forgot the if, what was the input to get prehensile tentacles to begin with?" "Impeller whips? Might help explain her narrow field of expertise." "We don't need an explanation for that, the Blender folder was comprehensive e–"
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Shouldn't this be "forget"?
 
Alivaril said:
"Taylor? The idea of a viable combat unicorn is amusing, true, but I don't think it's worth pursuing to that extent. Really, drones in general can't match up to a Valkyrie in her element. They're good for reconnaissance, area control, and killing low-level Antagonists, but they're little better than skeet against stronger foes.
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QA: fully intends to fight near-exclusively with swarms of eerily Antagonist-like drones
 
Nice to see this has updated. I recall something involving a bunker which Taylor has been doing stuff with, I'm wondering how that'll eventually lead to.
 
Funny Idea:
QAylor doesn't just go to bed... she completely shuts down all biological processes and tells Symbie to reanimate her corpse in the morning after 8 hours.

I know it wouldn't actually make sense but it would truly be the sleep of the dead and Big Sister would have another fit when Tamara and Monica report they didn't feel a pulse until morning.
 
Despite the update being mostly talking I feel like there was plot progress. A character introduced. Progress made on relationship with Anna and prep for the class tomorrow.
 
hypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehype

My craving for BAHHSCQ has been momentarily sated. My need for more QA-centric stories is sadly not as appeased. Guess I'll have to reread everything again. :V
 
Alivaril said:
"Like blaming everyone for not inventing some kind of superweapon that can kill all Antagonists in one go," Monica eventually concluded.

Queen Administrator's mouth curved into a frown. She knew it wasn't the same situation, but insufficient access to her archives made it difficult to contradict the two humans. In the absence of a proper argument, she elected not to engage at all and silently stomped over to her new bed.
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QA, "fault" is part of humans' social training algorithm. Humans have two kinds of skills: skills that are taught explicitly and metaskills like obedience and loyalty that are trained by social feedback. "Fault" is a term used for social-feedback-trained skills as a negative feedback signal. The precise allocation of fault is important because humans internalize the social training signal, and a wrongly internalized training signal can lead to destructive learning patterns (cf "guilt"). "It's not your fault" is a way of saying "while you may have exhibited a defect, it is not a defect in a metaskill that is corrected by social feedback." Since you have only recently been exposed to a social-behavior training signal, you are not expected to have acquired the relevant skills yet; as such, over-internalizing your model of the training signal at this point would lead to mistraining. (Many human cultural artifacts center around amusing failures of this mechanism.)
 
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Alivaril said:
"The first annual meeting of the Dating and Matchmaking club is hereby called to order!"

"I'm pretty sure that's not what 'annual' means."

"Calling anything involving us 'orderly' is a bit of a stretch…"

"Especially when I haven't even unpacked yet. Do we have to do this, like, tonight?"

"Hush. Now, our sisters-in-arms in Big Sister have—"

"Eww. Do we need to involve an intelligence agency again? That takes, like, more than half the fun out of it. Where's the joy in taking candid photos when they already have cameras everywhere?"

"Look, we can either quibble about my sources or I can tell you about the hopeless maiden among the freshies, Pure-chan."
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So... its war between the matchmaking club and the crafting club?

Also im so happy to see this finally update after so long. Its definitely one of my favourite fics.
 
Poor universe... They can't pull Dreamer out of the dream by force anymore than they can make QA understand emotions as something more than what is immediately viewable.
 
We have no idea who any of these characters are, but we don't care. We're enjoying the misunderstandings created by QA way too much!
 
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