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WCDT Strips 3016 to 3020 (3rd to 7th August 2015)
chaospersonified:
Yeah, Bubbles has a bigger vocabulary than I do, it seems.
BenRG:
Yeah, it's more-or-less as I thought. Bubbles is anti-violence in some way. I think that she and Faye are about to have a very illuminating conversation that is going to help Faye come to understand AIs and the difference between 'chassis type' and 'chosen profession'.
Bubbles was made to be a soldier; a killer. It's beginning to look like she prefers being a healer.
--- Quote from: cucumber error on 05 Aug 2015, 21:41 ---Is there some connection between robots/ anthropcs and Cronenberg? The only other time I remember someone saying 'Cronenbergian' in QC it was Pintsize with his thumb-limbs.
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A guess: Cronenberg wrote, directed and produced eXistenZ, a film about how constant use of virtual reality technology and immersive video-gaming would lead to people becoming disconnected with reality and uncertain of the division between the game world and objective reality. I've got a feeling that this would have a lot of extra meaning to AIs, whose hardware and data files would define their reality and, more importantly, how humans perceive their reality to be.
The lesson? Don't judge by what your senses initially tell you. Investigate and determine reality before reacting.
Omega Entity:
Man, it's been forever since I've heard any reference to that movie, even though I think of it every time I misspell 'existence'. It was pretty neat.
anahata:
I'd never heard of Cronenberg, but the summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cronenberg seems to fit.
Also, Bubbles is rapidly becoming a favourite character.
And I applaud Jeph for mentally researching the background behind sentient AI fighters.
--- Quote from: Jeph ---working out the behind the scenes mechanics of your universe even if you never display them
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...but even if he doesn't show the details, the fragments he does show us will consequently have a depth and consistency that will make it all look more real.
ReindeerFlotilla:
It's perfectly possible to have mechanic underlying a fictional universe that just make it absurd.
And for most humans, this makes your fictional universe suck. Then there's Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. To paraphrase Cyberpunk 2020, they have world building skill at 11, but you never will.
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