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WCDT: 2333-2337 (3-7 December 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
DSL:
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--- Quote from: Soulsynger on 04 Dec 2012, 11:06 ---Oh, dear god, DSL. That avatar is HIGH-LARUOUS! :psyduck:
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Head cannon.
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It's the artillery.
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Welu on 04 Dec 2012, 12:21 ---
--- Quote from: Somebody on 04 Dec 2012, 11:04 ---Thought which has been bugging me for the past couple of days, and I just realised specifically why - BoyfriendBot was a prototype humanform AnthroPC in the early 1000s, where Marten & Faye were surprised at the idea of humanoid APCs. And yet, despite having an (apparently) metal case, the APC3 "sales lady" seems very advanced in that light.
PS: Whatever happened to Pintsize's friends?
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I was wondering the same thing about the sales lady but couldn't think of how to explain my thought and you handily remembered BoyfriendBot. Based on Momo's chasis and the sales-people there, maybe they're just advancing very quickly or at least are still not too common in public.
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"BoyfriendBot" appears also in 1997. So add that to the wild mass guessing.
Carl-E:
But that's a commercial bot for sale. Maybe boyfriend bot was his prototype?
Adjamemnon:
What I find totally adorable (and makes me want it in real life more) is that the SpiderPC believes that Marten's nervousness is about the questionnaire.
I know that I'm just explaining the joke, but it's what adds to an already ludicrous amount of adorableness here. It's almost a critical mass of Awwwwwww. If it was holding a kitten, it'd be weapon's grade and we'd all be doomed.
Somebody:
--- Quote from: DSL on 04 Dec 2012, 12:39 ---Does seem to be a discontinuity, dunnnit? I choose for the moment to resolve it by assuming Faye and Marten meant fully ... functional ... humaniform AnPCs.
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If you mean in the Lt. Cmdr. Data sense, BoyfriendBot's "functionality" was "a feature to be implemented at a later date" per #1011.
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 04 Dec 2012, 12:56 ---SalesLadyBot is yes, bigger, than Pintsize but it looks like she has a fixed mouth, certainly less fixed than Pintsize's.
Marten's reaction to BoyfriendBot was more muted than Faye's... a careful reading of his lines from that arc doesn't necessarily exclude his having interacted with something like SalesLadyBot. I think BoyfriendBot's innovations over SalesLadyBot's are in the skin and articulability(?) of the mouth (shown when Winslow inhabits him).
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Surely a humanoid robot that has at least human-level balance, walking speed and arm/hand articulation is more of a challenge than a moving mouth as Pintsize has. I mean, BFB doesn't even have a properly human-like face, so that's well into the realms of present-day animatronics.
i.e., BFB is basically SLB's body (in male form) + Pintsize's face. And yet is a bleeding-edge prototype two+ years later.
--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 04 Dec 2012, 14:39 ---"BoyfriendBot" appears also in 1997. So add that to the wild mass guessing.
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Well, if he was JEC's "latest prototype" in #1010, being on-sale some time later - especially given the advances to Momo II-level - that works well enough since QCtime has accelerated a lot since the early days, where the first 1000 strips took something like two months.
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