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WCDT: 2006-2010 (5-9 Sep 2011)
Coffee_Kaioken:
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--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 06 Sep 2011, 22:11 ---Wait, didn't Tai hire Maten because he knew what some obscure algorithm was slapped onto the application?
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Close. He noticed the application was in iambic pentameter, said as much, and was hired on the spot as a result.
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To clarify, here's the comic in question, after fifteen minutes worth of searching and possible emoticon melting.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=691
Marten comes in, looks a bit forlorn. Our intro to Tai develops over the next several pages. He is hired on the spot due to his recognizing that the application was written in iambic pentameter.
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I must ask, what are the three hidden jokes in that particular strip?
Is it cold in here?:
What does it mean that Momo couldn't get a job when she went through town looking?
It could be the economy: Marten complained about the job market in an early strip.
Is there discrimination against robots?
Of course it may be as simple as Momo's lack of job experience.
Without the library job, could she have pursued self-employment? Use her social protocol database to be a tutor to people who want to learn social skills?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Coffee_Kaioken on 07 Sep 2011, 08:23 ---I must ask, what are the three hidden jokes in that particular strip?
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Not so much individual jokes as possibly nerdy references:
* mention of iambic pentameters
* Tai's reply is an iambic pentameter (yes, I've only just noticed!)
* reference to library filing system invented by Dewey
Unless I've missed the point as well :~)
Is it cold in here?:
What happens if you copy an AnthroPC personality from one chassis to another without deleting the old copy?
Imagine two copies of Pintsize running around. If you dare.
gangler:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 07 Sep 2011, 09:11 ---
--- Quote from: Coffee_Kaioken on 07 Sep 2011, 08:23 ---I must ask, what are the three hidden jokes in that particular strip?
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Not so much individual jokes as possibly nerdy references:
* mention of iambic pentameters
* Tai's reply is an iambic pentameter (yes, I've only just noticed!)
* reference to library filing system invented by Dewey
Unless I've missed the point as well :~)
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Marten's question also almost manages to be a Haiku. I keep looking trying to figure out if it's supposed to be the third joke or not. I'm not good at the whole poetry thing so I'm not sure whether it actually is a haiku and I just don't know what rule allows that syllable to be in the second line instead of the third or what's going on.
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