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WCDT: 2593-2597 (09-13 December 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
It's both misconduct in itself, and it's bad for Marigold. Just when she's dealing with awkwardness and an unfamiliar situation, she goes and picks a fight with her best friend.
What happens when Hannelore asks why Momo is showing up at her door? We've seen how Hannelore can get when two of her friends are fighting. In fact, that was the trigger for her first incident of Hulking out.
snubnose:
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Whats going on here ? :?
Marigold is of low social skills. Are there really still people around who really havent noticed that yet ? :?
She'll get better.
anahata:
Some of you are being very hard on Marigold.
She may be a grown woman, but she's clearly very inexperienced and frightened. I know that feeling well, and I knew it for far too many years. Yes, she's being pathetic and childish, but whatever she says to Momo, really she knows she's got to ask Dale out herself.
My hopeful expectation is that after much agonizing (which should provide some more entertainment for us) she'll screw up her courage and do the deed, and it will be a liberation for her. Dale is a good guy and obviously likes her: he won't let her down.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
UNPOPULAR OPINION HOUR~
Let me establish that yes, that was absolutely a fucked-up thing for Marigold to do, in terms of that you don't give a friend a gift and then hold it over their head later when you want something from them
BUT comparing to slavery: um what no, and even saying that she's trying to make Momo indebted for her current existence is...just not true? Because QC's AIs, as far as I understand it, are full infomorphs. They don't need their chassis to exist; at any time they can reupload to their network of personalities and select a new mode of interaction with the physical world at will. Honestly, Momo could have just retrieved her old chassis, reuploaded into it, and snapped "There. I don't owe you shit" if she really wanted to make a point. Hell, if and when she well and truly has had it with Marigold, she's fully within rights to break contract, take her expensive chassis that Marigold may still be obligated to make payments on if it happens, and start anew doing whatever. She could even feasibly sell the chassis, which Marigold would STILL have to make payments on, out of an income that I don't know where the fuck it comes from already, Social Security??? and apply for a job as a library AI in Boston, if the library work has given her a taste for it, or upload herself into a Keurig hyperbrewer and make gourmet coffee all day, and upload a free orientation routine that makes making coffee feel better than sex. And she still gets paid for it, of course, because Robot Civil Rights.
I...this drama feels manufactured and silly to me, I guess. It's outta nowhere and it relies on buying into a narrative of "alas poor robot" that I just cannot get, not when we've established that QC's AI population is freer than most humans.
Squiddlywinx:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 11 Dec 2013, 23:41 ---...
Whats going on here ? :?
Marigold is of low social skills. Are there really still people around who really havent noticed that yet ? :?
She'll get better.
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There are a couple steps between not knowing how to deal with social situations and being a villain in a Frank Capra flick and Marigold just went beyond being uncertain and shy straight to malevolently self-centered.
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