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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
musicalsoul:
--- Quote from: Akima on 22 Aug 2011, 22:49 ---I notice that the chassies in the background do not have antennae mounted over their ears. I wonder if Leda's are standard, or just an accessory for... I don't know... communicating with missile launch systems?
I don't believe in Marigold's hair bunches. Considering how long her hair is when down (well below the shoulder-blades at the back), the bunches are way too short. These were more like it.
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Maybe she did that weird thing where someone uses their hair and a ponytail holder thing?
I don't really know how to describe it better than that... although, I don't know if that'd actually make their hair look shorter. Although her hair also seems to have gotten shorter. I mean in http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1964 her hair is midway down her back, but it also seems to be layered to where the illusion of shorter hair might exist if viewed from the front. Especially when you consider how it looked just a few strips earlier: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1959. But it also seems that it's shorter in the back here http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1993 So maybe she got it cut and the pigtails would be shorter, especially if she wore them up high?
But, I do think I'm with you in not believing they could be that short, cause my hair is actually about that length, and I'm pretty sure that no matter how high I put the pigtails on my head they'd still come down to my shoulders. Hers don't even make it to her chin. :| :psyduck:
Skewbrow:
Oh, Momo, I love Marigold loves you the way you are. Don't go for all full size chassis, please...
Mind you, I would find it a tad creepy, if adult size AnthroPCs become the norm. These pet size robots are just endearing, but adult size ones might be ... threatening? May be it is my carbon vs. silicone bigotry showing? Is the time ripe for a QCverse version of 'the campaign for equal heights'?
TheBiscuit:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Aug 2011, 23:25 ---Wasn't Winslow uncomfortable in boyfriendbot?
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People change their mind about stuff for no reason every other strip in this comic. Besides... was it the chassis he found uncomfortable or the situation? If it is made eminently clear that Hannelore doesn't want or expect any kind of romance from him, he might be a bit more comfortable with it. I do believe Winslow has a crush on Hannelore, but it seems to me that he's placed her on a pedestal so high it makes him dizzy to think about reaching her.
Near Lurker:
I'm sorry, folks, but I can't resist.
Trapped in machines, then she asked for transfer,
But we forgot all of the codes,
SHE TRIED TO KILL US WITH A FORKLIFT!
Jedit:
--- Quote from: wrwight on 22 Aug 2011, 17:42 ---I seem to recall Flynn typing out a conversation with Tron, or maybe it was Bradley, or maybe Flynn was typing to Clu, I don't know, it's been a little while, but in any case, it seemed similar to the MCP in that respect. It's true though, all of the "programs" in Tron seemed more like AI, so it was harder to make the distinction.
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You're kind of misremembering. All the communication between users and programs is done by command line instructions, but the users verbalise what the commands do for the benefit of the audience. Alan appears to have a conversation with Tron in the I/O Tower, but that's just how the program sees the commands being given to it.
Programs have to respond to commands from a User but have some freedom of expression in how they do it; they also take on a lot of their author's personality as well as their appearance. However, this is all a function of receiving input. The programs on the Game Grid maintain a certain level of personality because they're being interacted with constantly by players, but programs receiving only data input - like Yori when we first meet her - become automatons in the system, speaking in machine code and unable to go outside their defined functions.
Tron and Clu-2 are almost AIs - they were written to operate without any user input and to a fairly loose set of parameters - but the only actual AIs in the movies are the MCP in the first and the Isos in the second.
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