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WCDT: 2201-2205 (4-8 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
jwhouk:
The Unscientific Poll We Haven't Done In A While - Your Favorite Character?
Marten 5 (8.9%)
Faye 11 (19.6%)
Dora 1 (1.8%)
Hannelore 19 (33.9%)
Pintsize 2 (3.6%)
Marigold 3 (5.4%)
Steve 0 (0%)
Sven 0 (0%)
Raven 3 (5.4%)
Angus 1 (1.8%)
Tai 1 (1.8%)
Penelope 0 (0%)
Momo 6 (10.7%)
Winslow 1 (1.8%)
Other (Specify) 3 (5.4%)
Total Members Voted: 56
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 04 Jun 2012, 22:27 ---I'm sick of Momo's "Little Mermaid" comics.
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I have no idea what that means.
Barmymoo:
Yeah I couldn't work that one out either. Momo is nothing like the little mermaid, either the Disney version or the traditional folk tale.
ETA: just checked and discovered it isn't a folk tale, but Hans Anderson actually made it up. Either way, no pink-headed robot girls.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122, was asked what it was like to have lived through so much change. I don't remember her exact words, even in translation, but what she said was to the effect of "Meh. People are the same.".
When the cybernetic implants hit the QC world, they'll probably only affect cognition.
Genetic engineering will probably be aimed at superficial ends, such as making someone good at Scrabble.
techkid:
--- Quote from: DSL on 04 Jun 2012, 16:47 ---
--- Quote from: Throg on 04 Jun 2012, 08:32 ---I for one would love to read what Jeph has written as the 'canon' to the QCverse. I didn't even notice the church, but I found that last use of the word "we" for the AnthroPC's as a bit chilling -- like there's a universal hivemind of AI consciousness, and anything from a nuclear submarine to a toaster to an Idoru, can login and compare notes.
@DSL: I hope Jeph DOESN'T. That's a short fuse to a big stick of dynamite. Why poke the sleeping dragon?
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If it's any consolation, Pintsize has probably been banned from the important forums.
@Throg: I doubt he'll poke the dragon just for the sake of poking the dragon; that hasn't been his style so far. But he has done things he said he wouldn't do, at least indirectly; he commented early on after a fairly tame scene that he probably wouldn't get more risqué than that. And then, later on, he turned it up a notch -- but in service of the story, or at least a joke. But the place on society of AIs in the QCverse is obviously much on his mind and he's certainly thinking about ways to explore this.
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I don't know Jeph as a person, but I think I can sort of see his views. I don't think he'd "poke the dragon" just for the sake of doing it. It may have been something on his mind back when Westboro Church was reigniting its homophobic tirade (and particularly when they came out into the public eye), and just needed the time, place and/or circumstances to be right.
I don't know. All I can guess is Jeph probably wouldn't make a cheap jibe at anyone without cause.
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