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WCDT: 2006-2010 (5-9 Sep 2011)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Akima on 09 Sep 2011, 19:22 ---
--- Quote ---Sure, Momo may be knowledgeable about Pokemon, but could she tell you, off the cuff, who played Runningback for the 1986 L.A. Raiders?
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Marcus Allen was starting RB. Took me seconds in Google and I am a mere human. What does off-the-cuff mean to a networked AI? Off her internal mass-storage device?
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I didn't need to. I guessed, and then looked it up. Of course, I generally remember things like that because I'm an (American) football fan.
EDIT: Samantha being at TSB wouldn't be unusual, especially since her dad owns the place.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Akima on 09 Sep 2011, 19:22 ---
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 09 Sep 2011, 11:06 ---Answers my initial question on seeing her in the comic of "what's a 13yo doing by herself in a coffee shop?"
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Eh? Why wouldn't a 13-year-old be in a coffee-shop by herself? It's not place where minors are barred. At 13 my mother used to send me out shopping for groceries by myself, and I rode to and from school on my bicycle through city streets (compared to Shanghai, Sydney's traffic is a cake-walk). On the other hand, Jim does seem more the infantalising protective type.
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Modern Westernized parents, and US parents in particular, have a tendency to be terrified something bad will happen to their child if that child is out of their sight or not safe at home, so they tend to get overprotective. Sending a child to the grocery store? Sure, if the store is only a couple of city blocks away or less, and the child had better have demonstrated to the parents' satisfaction that they know how to cross the street. But bike riding through traffic? Even relatively sedate US/Australian traffic? That would give most parents these days a heart attack just thinking about it. Yeah, parents tend to be overprotective these days, mainly because they perceive the world these days as more dangerous than when they grew up OR they had similarly overprotective parents themselves.
Then they wonder why they end up with kids who hardly do anything but stay in their rooms and play videogames or on the computer-at 17-18...
Mad Cat:
She's not just a networked AI. She's an embodied AI, who (thankfully) wears clothes, so technicly, she does have cuffs.
And the only reason I know the answer to the sports question is because I formulated a rough template for the question and then went and Wikipedia's some sample answers to sample questions and picked a combo that can easily be answered from straight Wikipedia info.
FunkyTuba:
Akima: of course they're not barred, it's just not typical in my experience. I doubt Jim would want her to be drinking coffee
but on the other hand, it is the secret bakery ... mmmm. baked goods.
maybe I need a cupcake
maybe I need more sleep
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: SirDudley on 09 Sep 2011, 11:57 ---Pokemon #721. That is so going to be in the next Pokemon game it's not even funny. And it will be unabashedly based off of Yelling Bird. And it will be a Legendary with an absurdly low catch rate.
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I still want a R/S/E remake first.
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