Yeah, I hate when I get that feeling.
It means the drugs are wearing off.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
Absolutely no relation to NLK
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Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Oh shit. Robot is turning into Nyarlathotep.
Whoa.
I feel the art style captured the feeling of staring into the unknown. You don't know if you should be awed or terrified.
Hi
Reminded me of Tetsuo in Akira.
Never Trust
KILL IT WITH LASERS!!
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!!!
AH! AH! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!
Trump delenda est
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Yeah. Although it's just sensory perception, not literally bursting into super cancer.
The difference between knowing and grokking something: Robot now groks "tactile sensation" — fully processing it may take a little longer. 
After taste is distinctly ocular.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
Which is weird, because I don't think the limb actually has eyes. Maybe they're abstractions of some of the other senses that come with it.
I'm thinking Robot is tapping into the ether. The monstrosity we're seeing doesn't necessarily have the same properties as the physical object.
Ah. It's a two-page spread.
I've never seen a webcomic do those one page at a time before.
Nothing like feeling the Ether with your new fancy hand.
Think of the mooks!
@23139 I've seen several do it (Girl Genius comes to mind), but they usually do a thumbnail that links to the spread in full after the second page is up.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
The full thing.
◊ Note that there's a gap in the middle.
Ah, yes. All to often does this sort of thing neglect to account for the fact that a book has a spine.
etheric viewing is a helluva drug
That is not etheric viewing. That is Robot trying to describe the new sensations. It seems so weird because Robot, of course, never had such senses in his arm before. That is a completely alien experience to him.
Are we sure it's not Etheric in nature? Robot was never connected to the Ether until now and the image is pretty Lovecraftian.
We don't know that robots don't see the ether. They very well might, actually, given how they treat Kat as an angel and what she looks like there.
That said, I think this might be more of a kind of abstraction. This utter bizarreness is how it feels to Robot and he's trying to think of a way to put it into words.
The robots treating Kat that way is probably why she looks like that but I don't think they can actually see her. I can't think of a time a robot ever mentioned being able to see into the Ether. In addition technology being separate from magic is such a common trope that I have a feeling it applies in this universe too.
I'm not so sure, given the very clear connotation that the robots ARE magic, to some degree. They're only as artificial and sciency as they are now because their best and brightest weren't able to comprehend the True Form of Diego's attack Science, and had to dumb it down a bit.
Kat has a huge amount of etheric to her... even if she tries her damnedest to use empirical methodology when dealing with it. The robots are the same: they run on etheric energy and principles, regardless of their "circuitry".
In short: new sensations, old weirdness.
edited 2nd Dec '15 6:35:44 PM by Euodiachloris
oh.
oh.
rebooting.