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WCDT: 2425-2429 (15-19 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Sassafras:
I don't know if it's possible Jeph was going for this, but just speaking from experience, my own family has pretty much accepted me as a woman, but get squeamish/freaked out/pissed off at the mention of me dating. Like it's less real if I'm not getting laid or something. I wonder if that has anything to do with Clinton getting so angry and Claire being so uncharacteristically meek about it.

K1dmor:
  I don't think so. I take it as Clinton feels...responsible for Claire? He doesn't wanna see something bad happens to her, so he's always in "Alert Mode", just in case. It's not about the dating thing, but the possibilty of someone that know her condition and treat her in the wrong way for it.

Mordhaus:
My hand is stuck in Murder mode.

"Whoa, thats a good song title" - Nathan Explosion

Storel:
I agree that Claire seems confused and embarrassed about what happened, not sad or upset. I think the embarrassment is probably because she's not into Marten, and so she hopes he doesn't know about it because otherwise he might think she is.


--- Quote from: ThinksTooMuch on 15 Apr 2013, 03:38 ---I would like to believe that somewhere in the application process for cybernetic enhancements, is a check-box for whether the individual has a sister or daughter.  And that murder-mode is standard if they check yes.

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Wouldn't that be pretty dangerous for the sister or daughter? I'm pretty sure that when I was a kid, there were many more times when I felt like murdering my sister than protecting her...  :-P


--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 15 Apr 2013, 06:06 ---We're talking about robots in the QC universe. Are you actually surprised? :P

Edit: I should probably clarify before I get accused of speciesism... a lot (most?) of the robots portrayed in QC have been at the very least dangerously mischievous - Pintsize has been portrayed as normal for an AnthroPC.
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Waitwait WHAT??  :-o Pintsize has never been considered "normal." Remember when Marten told the story of how he met Pintsize originally? As soon as the test indicated which AnthroPC was supposedly the most compatible, the salesclerk blanched and said something like "THAT one? Are you SURE??" and then started nerviously talking to Marten about insurance coverage and how her company was not responsible for property damage. If that's how she reacts to a supposedly "normal" AnthroPC, I'll eat my shorts. Momo and Winslow are much more typical AnthroPCs.

pwhodges:
Remember that early in QC Pintsize's parties were depicted, and all the anthroPCs present were models like him.  It was a while before Jeph started widening the concept.

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