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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Orbert on 05 Apr 2011, 13:07 ---As much as Hannelore is around, when's the last time any reference has been made to the fact that she's an alien?
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Because she's not an alien. While she may or may not have spent time on her dad's space station (she likes to pull people's legs about that), she has human parents, and was born and (mostly) raised on earth.
--- Quote ---Or Steve's secret life as an agent?
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Plausible deniability. The gummint will never admit to it.
--- Quote ---JimBob who is actually a millionaire author of pulp fiction?
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He writes romance novels. You can make a halfway decent living at it (a friend's mother put him through college, but she was a fairly big name), but any proceeds Jimbo gets probably wind up in a bottle...
--- Quote ---Pizza Girl?
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I'll give you that one.
Skewbrow:
Yeah. I associated "quantum leap" with a "discontinuity" or the opposite of a gradual change. Even before that show. As in tunnelling or all the other somewhat counterintuitive things explained by quantum mechanics.
I had mixed feelings about the show. Given that I watched it religiously I guess I mostly liked it. Would have liked it to have more sci-fi as opposed to these human interest episodes, but it worked, somehow.
O8h7w:
Well, it is said in the comic that the AnthroPCs are sentient, so we'll need to take that for a fact. But then comes the question of what exactly that means, as "sentient" haven't really been defined.
An interesting matter is that both Momo-tan and Winslow seems to have developed as characters, they are not quite the same as when they were introduced. They are somehow influenced by their experiences, their "personalities" are dynamic, not static.
The same is hard to say about Pintsize, but I think that is mainly because he's such a complex character.
Ps. Wow! Discussion of fictional artificial sentient beings! This is really the best thread ever!
mike837go:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 05 Apr 2011, 14:12 ---Or Steve's secret life as an agent?
Plausible deniability. The gummint will never admit to it.
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Sorry, to contradict ya , buddy, but Steve's exploits were proven when the villaness showed up and bid Steve a perminant good-by in front of Marten. Gimme a few minutes to find the strip.
Edit @ 14:43EDT Steve's exploits #1350. Now where did what's-her-name show up?
BRB
Tortura!
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Edit at 15:19EDT Strip #1406! Proof of Steve's secret agent exploits!
Now for On Thread: It would seem that there is some kind of registration for Anthros. Not everyone can own one, etc. They are definitely sentient machings. I can recall a strip where Pintsize laments (self reflection/examination) that his pranks have "Jumped the shark" If that ain't self-awareness?
Now to throw some real fun into the thread: What about the self-replicating Roombas? Coming home to visit too!
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: mike837go on 07 Apr 2011, 11:23 ---
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 05 Apr 2011, 14:12 ---Or Steve's secret life as an agent?
Plausible deniability. The gummint will never admit to it.
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Sorry, to contradict ya , buddy, but Steve's exploits were proven when the villaness showed up and bid Steve a perminant good-by in front of Marten. Gimme a few minutes to find the strip.
Edit @ 14:43EDT Steve's exploits #1350.
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Oh, but you haven't. I've linked the strip you referred. Panel 3 confirms my statement. :psyduck:
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