#switch!kc

[anxious-lee-ler]

A Killcode and His Sons

KC sighed as he watched the Computer twins work. One was working on dimensional travel, and Zero was working a body for KC for his return to the real world. The taller animatronic watched as the two stressed. Zero had been shocked again, and One was talking with Moon.

Oh Moon… KC worried… Moon was the reason he was in the system… and the reason Moon had lost his memories…

Wait. Zero got hurt again? KC sat up as he looked over at the smaller bot. This is when his dad instincts kicked in. His new sons needed to cheer up. After Moon left to go talk to Sun, KC scooped up a now startled and confused One, then did the same to Zero.

"What are you doing, Killcode?" One asked curiously, unsure of the tall one's motives.

"I… want to cheer up… my children…" KC admitted.

"But we are not built from your kill code, KC…" Zero added, not to be mean, he was more confused.

"I… understand that…" KC sighed.

"What do you plan to do to cheer us up?" One decided to change the subject, knowing it was touchy for KC.

"Well…" KC suddenly smirked "I have an idea in mind…~"

"What's with that tease-?" Zero started to ask before he was cut off with a "YEEP?!"

One caught on quick as to what KC's motives were and started to try and wiggle out of his claw with a nervous smile.

"Oh?~ Are my sons… ticklish?~"

"N-now Kill Code-! We can talk about this-!" One stuttered.

"Can we? You've been so stressed that I… wanted to help."

"By t-tickling us? Eep!" Zero squeaked again as KC's pinky claw lightly scratched at the upper part of his shell.

"Do you not wish to be? I see Moon do this with Sun."

"...No, it's fine. You wish to help us, and we honestly need this." One nodded.

"I'm fine with it, we trust you after all." Zero added.

"Thank you…" KC smiled "Now… Where were we?~"

The two didn't respond as KC hovered a claw over each of their tummies. "Who shall go first?~" the kill code animatronic knew he would go for both at once, but hey there's no shame in playing with your lees.~ He did this with the Bloodmoon twins a lot.

"Let's see… There's a cute tummy here, and one here as well~"

Zero blushed harder than he would admit. He was always the more ticklish out of the two. One simply coughed and turned his pink face. But that attitude didn't last long as two claws started to tickle both of their tummies.

"EEK! Hehehehahaha! Nahahahahaheheheee!" Zero squealed.

"Shihihihihihit! Gyahahahaha!" One tried to fight his laughter.

"No need to fight, little ones…" KC smiled softly "Your laughter is cute~"

"Ihehehehe refuhuhuhuhuse to believe THAHAHAHA?!" One shrieked as a claw started going after the spot between where his middle met the lower half, or namely what humans call 'hips.'

"Hehehehe whahahahat was thahahat brother?" Zero teased through laughter of his own.

KC chuckled at the two, and targeted Zero's ribs again, causing him to squeal and laugh in a pitch equal to One's. "My sons…" KC smiled to himself, purring.

But with the purring, came the vibrations through his hands, making the two bots squeal once more from the unexpected up in ticklishness.

"WHAHAHA?!" One called out in confusion.

Zero only laughed, not knowing what to really say. The tickles were starting to be a bit much, however. The two weren't used to being tickled for this long and they were starting to glitch out.

KC took notice of this and immediately stopped. "Are you two okay…?"

"F-f-fihihihine-" Zero giggled, voice glitching.

"Nehehehever been better-" One responded, trying to catch himself.

"But… you are glitching…? This… isn't good." KC said with concern.

The two caught themselves, thankfully. One piped up "It is f-f-fine Killcode."

"I-It is not your fa-ult." Zero reassured.

KC sighed and pulled the two close to hug them, not saying a word. Zero and One nodded at each other and started to tickle along KC's metal neck, making the taller one burst into surprise laughter.

"WHAHAHA-! Youhuhuhuhu buggerherherherherhers!" KC laughed, and wiggled around.

"Heh… I guess even father's can be ticklish~" Zero teased.

"I have to agree." One chuckled.

Soon the two stopped and hugged KC. Maybe having KC as a dad wasn't so bad… even if they weren't actually his code.

[kcnomeds]

Wanted to redraw these cuties. I need more practice with King Rauru.

[stillbreathing-aer]

okay well aaron IS significantly less creepy than the rest of the guys, with zane as an exception

[rivilu]

disjointed fandom posting sorry but it just hit me that pwotr is like. the only rpg where a companion never once left my team

[coachbeards]

the jane hat is terrible and the worst thing they did to beard

[sapphicblight]

everyone pray for me pls while i try to churn out no less than 5 fics for october alone (yotp & kinktober)

[always-stay-in-arms-reach]

happy 6th birthday ARMS :’) 

ARMS 2 on the horizon, I feel it, trust 

[queen-scribbles]

I caved and gave Vica a combat loadout for Infiltration tonight. 😅 It takes twice as long to run SoV as Kinetic Combat, and I was really trying to be quick. I needed the mad DPS bc holy HECK what a difference.

[got7doubleb]

stupid fuckers be fighting about who should top/bot in fictional ships!

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

[spirit-shroud]

fyrakk is a very cool boss and all but i absolutely hate the amount of healer mechanics going on here

[debinhas-bicycle]

PINOE SHOT PORTLAND GOAL

[heart-of-decay]

FUCK.

[commodorez]

I still believe the craziest form of computer program storage format from the 1980s is the cassette tape. Logical I get it but to store entire programs on little tape (that I only remember using to play music) is just crazy to me. Idk

Agreed, cassette tape for data storage was really clever. The concept had its heyday was the 1970s in a wide variety of encoding schemes for different computer platforms. It did persist into the 80s, mostly in Europe, while the US switched to floppy disks as soon as they were available for systems. The majority of my Ohio Scientific software is on cassette.

Talking with UK vs. US Commodore 64 users in particular will highlight the disparity in which storage mediums that were commonplace. I've got a few pieces of software on tape for mainly the VIC-20, but I rarely bother to use it, because it's slow and annoying. To be fair, Commodore's implementation of data storage on tape is pretty rock solid relative to the competition. It's considered more reliable than other company's but Chuck Peddle's implementation of the cassette routines are considered quite enigmatic to this day. He didn't document it super well, so CBM kept reusing his old code from the PET all the way through the end of the C128's development 7 years later because they didn't want to break any backward compatibility.

The big thing that really made alot of homebrewers and kit computer owners cozy up to the idea was the introduction of the Kansas City Standard from 1976. The idea of getting away from delicate and slow paper tape, and moving towards an inexpensive, portable, and more durable storage medium was quite enticing. Floppy disk drives and interfaces were expensive at the time, so something more accessible like off the shelf audio tapes made sense.

I've linked two places you can read about it from Byte Magazine's February 1976 issue below (check the attribution links).

You might recognize a familiar name present...

There are a few ways to encode binary data on tape designed to handle analog audio, but the KCS approach is to have 1's be 8 cycles of 2400Hz tone, and 0's be 4 cycles of 1200Hz tone. I say cycles, because while 300 baud is the initial specification, there is also a 1200 baud specification available, so the duration of marks vs spaces (another way of saying 1's and 0's), is variable based on that baud rate. Many S-100 computers implemented it, as do a few contemporary proprietary designs.

The big 3 microcomputers of 1977 that revolutionized the industry (Apple II, Commodore PET 2001, and Tandy TRS-80 Model I) each have their own cassette interface implementation. It kept costs down, and it was easy to implement, all things considered. The Apple II and TRS-80 use off-the-shelf cassette deck connections like many other machines, whereas the original variant of the PET had an integrated cassette. Commodore later used external cassette decks with a proprietary connector, whereas many other companies abandoned tape before too long. Hell, even the original IBM PC has a cassette port, not that anybody bothered to use that. Each one used a different encoding format to store their data, rather than KCS.

Here's a sample of what an OSI-formatted tape sounds like.

And here's a Commodore formatted tape, specifically one with VIC-20 programs on it.

I won't subject you to the whole program, or we'd be here all day. The initial single tone that starts the segment is called the "leader", I've truncated it for the sake of your ears, as well as recorded them kinda quietly. I don't have any other tape formats on hand to demonstrate, but I think you get the idea.

You can do alot better than storing programs on tape, but you can also do alot worse -- it beats having to type in a program every time from scratch.

[simpingforcys]

Candy cigarettes are a thing. Maybe he switched to those as KC. It would be fitting enough for Sugar Rush that he would have an excuse, since it’s just candy, but it would also feel familiar.

My question is who thought this (the candy) was a good idea aldjakdjs I can only imagine KC wanted to get some of these from the Sugar Rush town's local store or whatever, and they just give him these. These. No tobacco for you, we just have candy<3 I can only imagine his disappointment, but that's the price to pay for a secret life. ✨

[basilbots]

Very quick Dark Sun concept, going in a different direction than I see most people do dcfvgfb Ignoring his red eyes, unnatural for a Sun and making it easier to read him, he looks like a depressed Sun and that's the point. His colors are dull, but not from damage like scratched/chipped point. He's switched out of the dca outfit to something more comfortable and always has on a shirt unlike most other dca models (might put him in smthn with long sleeves but nothing fancy). Sirius also has paws that hide deadly claws, an addition the KC/Moon part nagged at him to add but he'll never acknowledge that.

[kcggggg]

Hi KC, this is the only place I can think of to contact you. On the FOA website's archive, comic number 61 (No Smoking) is switched around with number 62 (New Reader). Thought you would wanna know. Thanks for the years of awesome webcomics!

thank you! I might fix it soon or might fix it later! in any case, here's a cel from inspector gadget I wish I had bought when I saw it on etsy.