What’s happening?
on February 23, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: 133+ H4XX0RZ
Location: DP451's dorm room, Professor Doc's lab
Hey, look, it’s Alex. From Roomies!. He’s got a goatee now, mostly because everyone thought he was a girl. When you have a style that denotes gender mostly (okay, entirely) by gifting characters with longer hair, this is not a surprising mistake. But he’s got a goatee now. So.
Yup.
I remember some disappointed emails from dudes whose crushes were apparently retroactively invalidated. Whatcha gonna do.
EDIT: As of later in 2015, I learn maybe this choice of mine may have been a terrible idea.
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Someone should really update that handbook.
I always figured the SEMMF Central Computer was, like, an unpatched Win98 box, with its primary security being that bit in the handbook that says it’s impenetrable.
… So not impenetrable at all?
Preeeetty much! Professor Doc appears to be primarily a biologist and Dina a physicist– nobody there is an IT specialist.
Not yet, but there will be soon.
Danny?
Nono, see, they updated to the latest version of windows for the New Millenium, so it’s much more reliable than that.
And I don’t mean NT/2000.
Alex could have been a bearded woman, tho!
…okay, to be fair, I’ve done that but in reverse (identified with Shin Kazama who I thought was a woman, found out he’s a dude, but hey it’s not like they were ever shown below the neck)
SO WHAT THOUGH SHEESH
I’m sure it didn’t help that Alex can also be a girl’s name.
They thought he was a girl?
Yeah, I’m confused too. Isn’t it pretty clear in Roomies! that he’s a guy? Just from a quick look through his tag, it’s been confirmed on multiple occasions… he once refers to himself as a “playboy,” and his roommate was actually established to be David Willis himself, so…
“What’s happening?” asks Dina, staring at a computer screen that says
INTRUDER
INTRUDER
INTRUDER
Well I mean, that is a pretty odd screen for an intruder to show, isn’t it?
I think it’s a reference to the old arcade video game “Berzerk” — the one where you tried to escape a maze filled with seek-and-destroy robots while a metallic voice kept chanting things like “Intruder Alert” and “Destroy the Intruder”.
Reminds me of 90s television computers, which were similarly unrealistic and humorously generic/exaggerated/oversimplified.
Then again, if it LITERALLY did say “INTRUDER INTRUDER INTRUDER” in big letters on the entire screen and that’s it, Dina has real reasons to be confused. Has Professor Doc made a weird use of the Marquee screensaver? Is he playing a video game? Does he have bad taste in wallpaper?
Obviously someone set her up the bomb.
We’ll if the SEMME hand book says that it must be true ( This same hand book:http://www.itswalky.com/comic/so-now-youre-a-secret-agent/) now If you Excuse me I need to go hack into Google+
New headcannon: Joyce’s password is “pony” and Walky’s password is “12345.”
Don’t be ridiculous.
Walky’s password is “poop”
It’s OBVIOUSLY “Nachitos”
Which is why we now have password restrictions — passwords must be 8 or more characters; must include both capital letters and numbers; no repeated letters or digits; must include special characters (like $, &, #, %); and no sequential letters or numbers.
And you have to change them every few months, which pretty much guarantees that you have to write it down to remember it, which negates the security of having a password in the first place.
Written-down passwords, even when on post-it notes attached to the screen, still protect systems that allow remote login from remote intruders without access to said post-it note.
I’d like to shove the “or more” part of that in the face of whoever made one of the financial websites I use–there’s a 8-character MAXIMUM >=O
So is Alex upset he’s where he shouldn’t be: don’t think so, he’s a hacker.
Guess that means he can hear Proff. Doc.’s threats.
Sometimes you don’t know where _exactly_ you’re hacking into, you just know the ip address and that they have good security. Then you realize that the network and machines have “FBI” (or, in this case, “SEMME”) in their names, freak out, disconnect as quickly as you can, cower in a corner and hope they never noticed you.
Okay are we just going to overlook the fact Alex apparently has Psychic powers? I mean he’s thinking Uh-Oh like he knows he’s about to be captured.
Maybe he’s tapped into SEMME’s security surveillance system and can hear it from there.
Any sufficiently advanced hack is indistinguishable from psychic powers. ‘The Matrix’ taught us so.
Yeah, I thought Alex was a girl for a while.
Also, how the hell is he hacking SEMME? Him?
Shall we play a game?
But. Doesn’t a goatee technically mean that his (facial) hair has grown longer?
I would argue that the evidence of his feminine origins mounts… but. I believe in accepting gender identities as they’re presented, so.
(…I mean As the person chooses to present them at any given time. I mean You can’t just decide someone’s wrong, it’s very personal.
You can discover everyone was wrong as a writer, though. That happens all the dang time.)
“EDIT: As of later in 2015, I learn maybe this choice of mine may have been a terrible idea.”
That’s delightfully cryptic.
I know! I need details.
Several years late here, but Willis learned that the real person Alex was based on had come out as a trans woman when the two of them got back in touch. That’s why trying to make the character look more obviously male was a mistake in hindsight.
They had crushes on Alex?
Um…
Good Christ above! Dina’s using contractions in this continuity? That’s obviously an alien imposter, it must be, I can’t suffer a betrayal this painful