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WCDT: 2281-85 (24-28 September 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
PthariensFlame:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 27 Sep 2012, 23:11 ---
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 27 Sep 2012, 22:38 ---1996.
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I take that as an implication from how old Hannelore is?
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Didn't Jeph outright say in a fairly recent below-comic comment that "They've had AI since 1996"? I distinctly remember that, but my archive-fu is terribly weak. :-\
no one special:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 27 Sep 2012, 01:20 ---
--- Quote from: no one special on 27 Sep 2012, 01:06 ---So AnthroPC's serve a completely different emotional purpose than regular computers.
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This is not entirely clear-cut. Marten uses his computer to back up Pintsize; but when he is starting his music blog (Yelling about Music), he dictates into Pintsize, not the computer.
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It's pretty damned clear-cut. No one said that AnthroPC's never performed any computer-like tasks for their humans AT ALL - but no one treats their laptop as an equal in this world. That's the point.
--- Quote from: judemorrigan on 27 Sep 2012, 06:10 ---For what it's worth, at the time of her chassis upgrade, Momo was 2.7 years old. (See strips 1995 and 2009)
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Welcome, judemorrigan! That's some excellent archive-fu, especially for your first post! I applaud you.
--- Quote from: DSL on 27 Sep 2012, 15:31 ---Something that illustrates the difference: Jeph creates the "tweets" for the QC characters Twitter accounts, but says himself the tweets aren't *necessarily* canon.
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But the tweets are little minutiae and stuff like that, they aren't necessarily going to be canon. This is a major societal shift we're talking about - Jeph's word is indeed as good as gold in this case, since he's the one who DEFINES this freakin' world.
DSL:
--- Quote from: no one special on 28 Sep 2012, 04:43 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 27 Sep 2012, 15:31 ---Something that illustrates the difference: Jeph creates the "tweets" for the QC characters Twitter accounts, but says himself the tweets aren't *necessarily* canon.
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But the tweets are little minutiae and stuff like that, they aren't necessarily going to be canon. This is a major societal shift we're talking about - Jeph's word is indeed as good as gold in this case, since he's the one who DEFINES this freakin' world.
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Yes, and to the extent that Jeph has put it in the strip, it's canon. Unless Jeph supersedes it with something else in the strip. Anything else is as plastic as Jeph wants it to be.
"Minutiae" vs. "major societal shift" doesn't define canon; "In the strip" vs. "Not in the strip" does, no matter the magnitude.
WAYF:
Judging from Emily's Twitter account and the recent comics, Emily is the philosophical, almost Luna-Lovegood type member of the cast.
(Sorry if calling her a Luna Lovegood type sounds like I'm calling it derivative, but the alternative is linking to TV Tropes...)
I actually quite like that.
Her superpower is philosophizing about the universe in a non-pretentious way, and she is powered by banana smoothies.
pwhodges:
And so now Jeph is worrying about whether his present AI musings are consistent with his earlier ones!
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