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Dale's Glasses
Oilman:
I did think at first that holo-May was like Arnold Rimmer, generally visible, then realised she wasn't. Station seems to manifest in this manner.
It might have been clearer if holo-May had been depicted as a sort of floating entity, like the Devils and angels which sometimes appear on people's shoulders, but I suppose that would have been ambiguous and she needed to look like an AnthroPC
Neko_Ali:
Dale's glasses clearly have some visual and audio sensors. Which isn't surprising.. Google Glass has them, and that's like the first generation of the Glasses, really. With enough of a look around, May could effectively have a 3d map of the environment to move around in, and was probably instructed to respond more or less convincingly. Or just did so on her own. Of more interesting is the fact that Momo knew that Dale had a hitchhiker, and knew who she was. Or at least knew she was in Robot Jail on work release. Which means she was able to tell from the wifi signals most likely what was going on. She may or may not have been able to see and hear May. Though after Dale and Marigold had their talk, Momo was wearing Dale's glasses, so maybe she needed the to talk with May. It's clear nobody else could hear her.
Omega Entity:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2508
Momo doesn't get standoffish and state that she is -fully- aware of May's presence until after May cracks the anime comment. I see her refusing to address May directly more as a sign of it being beneath her to speak to a lowly criminal, rather than her being unable to see and hear her. you'll note that she looks up to look at Dale, but is glaring quite directly as May when she speaks - all the more illustrating her disdain.
May also talks directly to Momo in the following comic, so she has no such compunction when talking to Momo, despite Momo's obvious slights against her.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2510
May and Momo directly converse with each other here.
As for her trying on the glasses, I imagine it was more out of curiosity rather than necessity.
Oilman:
I don't know about Momo considering holo-May "beneath her", holo-May is plain rude and downright, gratuitously offensive. Momo is fully ENTITLED to take offence, and given that holo-May is undoubtedly recognisable as a convicted robo-criminal on some sort of ticket-of-leave, Momo is quite right in describing her as a criminal.
Holo-May is clearly consciously interacting with the observed environment, she passes her arm THROUGH Dale for the sake of effect.
That said, her comments about Dale, May and social ineptitude, and Momo's lack of understanding and consequent useless course of action, are pretty much right.
Omega Entity:
I disagree about Momo's outlook on May. It's all in the wording, and how Momo treats her that indicates that May is 'beneath' her. Telling Dale to tell May something, while using those words to describe her, while May is right there is a pretty solid social cue that Momo doesn't want to degrade herself or even deign to acknowledge the "degenerate, criminal hitchhiker" that she sees May as being. She also refers to her as a 'creature' in the following page, with an inferred tone of considering her little more than an animal, and not a sentient being.
If that's not an indication of someone thinking someone else is beneath them, I don't know what is.
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