Hey Everyone!
So now we get to see a peak into Dizzee’s logic. It may not be perfect, but something about it felt very real to me as I was writing it. It’s a kind of fear I think we’re all familiar with.
Thanks for reading,
– Luther out
PS: Our next page should be ready 2 weeks from now. Matt is working on some redesigns that should show up soon in the comic and I think you’ll all REALLY dig them (don’t worry, there’s a solid in-universe explanation going on here).
Just digging yourself in deeper in the hopes of getting out. All too human sadly, I think you hit the nail head-on. At least Dizzy is being honest about it.
Now what is Sumner Security up to? Headhunting for replacement LIMB jocks? They use crappy mechs, so they probably have severe turnover.
Love the little details in the smartphone UI, and eagerly anticipating what redesigns you are up to. New mechs? Art shift on characters? What is coming?
This is kind of like student loan logic. You could just go to trade school and be a welder or an electrician and make very good money without massive loans. OR you could take out huge loans and get a degree that has potential to make you more, but not for many more years than some of the trades.
Huh, didn’t realize he was still set on getting out of there. I figured his thinking was more along the lines of “I’m stuck here for life anyways, might as well milk it for all it’s worth.”
He very much wants to live through this whole thing. For all his faults that is one of his merits. It will be interesting to see if he can crawl his way through the mud or if he will burn out along the way.
“…I owe my soul to the company store.”
on the other hand:
“If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” – J. Paul Getty
Wonder when the leadership will realize this.
Losing Dizzee is becoming an ever greater element of risk for them. How Sumpter plays into that will be interesting to see.
A sixpack of beer that Sumpter himself doesn’t even knows about it, it’s just the usual headhunting done by some HR drone, who only saw Dizzies score, but don’t know anything about his debts.
Nevertheless, the result could be a shitstorm of epic proportions if the two companies would try to deal with it with their usual way(trade war bitches!).
Not necessarily risk. Dizzee might have overspent his usefulness. They know he cannot even pay back his debts, the deeds are done. Now they just cut their losses and try to take maximum amount of benefit from their possession to recoup some losses and sign off rest in red to their balances.
That might mean using Dizzee to operate all kinds of extreme risk/suicide tasks operations with hopefully high payback but with equally high risks. If his boosts enable him to survive little longer in hopeless situation, permitting others to complete the operation then Dizzee might be net positive on company accounts, but very dead for himself.