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WCDT: 2156-60 (2-6 April 2012) Questionable Content Discussion
jmucchiello:
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--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 04 Apr 2012, 10:53 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 04 Apr 2012, 09:20 ---Jeez, he is acting the clingy parent, isn't he?
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If he is, that brings Hannelore's total of clingy parental figures to a whopping one.
This makes me think; Station explicitly said he loves her like a daughter; he might consider himself a rightful parent, especially given her mothers coldness and her fathers inadvertent neglect. Since he was apparently the only one who could get through to Hanners, Station might feel like he's entitled to her company, or at least has the right to ask her to return. I wouldn't be surprised if he actually felt a little resentment towards her real parents for failing her.
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Which is really slightly upsetting when you think about it, in terms of HannerDad's unintentional neglect. I get the feeling that he really is a loving, caring father...he just never had time. I honestly expected him to be a lot colder, especially after the strip before they went to space where she called to say hi, he was busy, then called back, thinking she was pregnant.
I was honestly slightly surprised at how warm and personable he seemed when we met him in the strip. Which makes me wonder how he would feel if you were right, and Station did resent him for ignoring Hannelore?
Here comes another reference to HAL with HannerDad having to swim through a thin to nonexistent atmosphere in the Station so that he can unplug all of Station's systems, listening to "Daisy, daisy..." because Station wouldn't let him back in the door.
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With a crew of over 100 people, I'm sure shore leave alone would require at least monthly habitable transportation. And you are forgetting, there is a HUGE space station in orbit with artificial gravity and it is so spacious, guestrooms with just 2 beds exist. There's not overcrowding. Hanners hasn't been there in 10 years and her spacious room is INTACT. Ground to Space lift costs can't be even close to what they are in our world. I'm thinking TWO orders of magnitude cheaper if not THREE. Stop thinking about it in terms of what it costs in real life to get cargo into space. Those costs just do not apply.
specter177:
--- Quote from: squab on 04 Apr 2012, 14:18 ---
--- Quote from: Eohelm on 04 Apr 2012, 00:59 ---
--- Quote from: squab on 04 Apr 2012, 00:50 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 04 Apr 2012, 00:36 ---Regardless of what Jeph said, I'm pretty sure Station's openly disobeyed the Lieutenant, thus violating the Second Law.
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Would Pintsize be, well, Pintsize if those laws were actually in effect? He must have broken rule 2 on several occasions.
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I feel Pintsize is the epitomy of all that can go wrong with the Zeroth Law.
Hi, everyone. Just made a profile. It was my reward for reading every strip in the past few days. The missus introduced me to the series.
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Isn't he the epitomy of everything that goes wrong because of the LACK of the Zeroth law?
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He's not exactly harming humanity, and the zeroth law inevitably leads to humanity being slaves to the robots.
jwhouk:
1. I don't think Boyfriend-bot is still in Hanner's closet. She was last seen packing it up to send back to dad (before pinching it in the "butt"). I doubt severely that Hanners would store it, since she KNOWS what would happen if Pintsize got a hold of it.
2. Given that AI's have "changed careers" before in the QC universe - Leda, for example (back in #1997), said she was the AI on a submarine - Station could somehow "resign" as the AI for SS-ECT and go dirtside into a new AnthroPC body. I don't think Hannerdad would have a huge problem with getting another AI up there to replace him. It'd be a bit difficult, but it would work.
3. The concept of an AI "bonding" with a human could be something that was built-in when the first AI was developed. It's possible that Station "bonded" with Hannelore, even as he tried to "figure her out". In doing so, he developed those feelings of "parent, sister, therapist" - IOW, he essentially started to "love" her.
4. Clinton insinuated that Doc EC was partially responsible for the creation of the first AI; do you think perhaps his motivation may have been to try to find some way to get through to his daughter? (And why do I think there's a trope for that somewhere?... oh wait, that's right: Caprica.)
DrBear:
--- Quote ---With a crew of over 100 people, I'm sure shore leave alone would require at least monthly habitable transportation. And you are forgetting, there is a HUGE space station in orbit with artificial gravity and it is so spacious, guestrooms with just 2 beds exist. There's not overcrowding. Hanners hasn't been there in 10 years and her spacious room is INTACT. Ground to Space lift costs can't be even close to what they are in our world. I'm thinking TWO orders of magnitude cheaper if not THREE. Stop thinking about it in terms of what it costs in real life to get cargo into space. Those costs just do not apply.
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TOMORROW: The mechanics of how coyotes use mail order to kill roadrunners.
Eohelm:
--- Quote from: jmucchiello on 04 Apr 2012, 15:58 ---
--- Quote from: Eohelm on 04 Apr 2012, 12:18 ---
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 04 Apr 2012, 10:53 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 04 Apr 2012, 09:20 ---Jeez, he is acting the clingy parent, isn't he?
--- End quote ---
If he is, that brings Hannelore's total of clingy parental figures to a whopping one.
This makes me think; Station explicitly said he loves her like a daughter; he might consider himself a rightful parent, especially given her mothers coldness and her fathers inadvertent neglect. Since he was apparently the only one who could get through to Hanners, Station might feel like he's entitled to her company, or at least has the right to ask her to return. I wouldn't be surprised if he actually felt a little resentment towards her real parents for failing her.
--- End quote ---
Which is really slightly upsetting when you think about it, in terms of HannerDad's unintentional neglect. I get the feeling that he really is a loving, caring father...he just never had time. I honestly expected him to be a lot colder, especially after the strip before they went to space where she called to say hi, he was busy, then called back, thinking she was pregnant.
I was honestly slightly surprised at how warm and personable he seemed when we met him in the strip. Which makes me wonder how he would feel if you were right, and Station did resent him for ignoring Hannelore?
Here comes another reference to HAL with HannerDad having to swim through a thin to nonexistent atmosphere in the Station so that he can unplug all of Station's systems, listening to "Daisy, daisy..." because Station wouldn't let him back in the door.
--- End quote ---
With a crew of over 100 people, I'm sure shore leave alone would require at least monthly habitable transportation. And you are forgetting, there is a HUGE space station in orbit with artificial gravity and it is so spacious, guestrooms with just 2 beds exist. There's not overcrowding. Hanners hasn't been there in 10 years and her spacious room is INTACT. Ground to Space lift costs can't be even close to what they are in our world. I'm thinking TWO orders of magnitude cheaper if not THREE. Stop thinking about it in terms of what it costs in real life to get cargo into space. Those costs just do not apply.
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I think you quoted the wrong section. We were discussing parental neglect and what Station may or may not have thought of it. You're looking for a couple of other different people. Read it all beforehand, I suppose?
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