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WCDT Strips 3031-3035 (24th to 28th August 2015
Sorflakne:
I want today's comic as a full-sized wall poster.
Neko_Ali:
I kind of have to wonder how serious May is about the whole 'I want to be a jet' part is. I mean, if it was a life long ambition, could she not have applied or whatever process AIs have to be transferred to a new chassis and position. Like the nuclear sub turned sales girl? Given May kept saying she was in robot jail because of poor control issues, I have a suspicion she was okay if bored with her job as a financial AI. Till she came across some videos of flight and said "OMG, that's what I want to do!". And she went quickly from there to embezzling money to buy a drone for a chassis, without much thought of the logistics or consequences. Or maybe she did apply to be an AI pilot and was turned down. She certainly seems to hate the normal day to day requirements and steps necessary to get where she wants. She well may have decided to shortcut the processed because "Ugh! It takes to long to apply and get approved. I want to fly now!"
BenRG:
@Neko_Ali,
This is only a guess but I wonder if there is such a thing as indentured service for AIs. They have to work out an agreed contract with a sponsor so that the costs of their creation are paid off. Only then can they start saving up to get their own chassis.
It's not so bad; Ellicott-Chatham Robotics is typically very good at administering the General Overall Aptitude Test to find out where they'll be happy and fulfilled until this necessary step is complete. However, there is always one who falls through the cracks, for whom the GOAT said 'actuary' when her soul was 'pilot'. AIs are still new enough that the processes for identifying and remedying such mistakes doesn't exist yet. Most AIs grin and bear it. Some, like May, are sufficiently determined that they choose to take illegal measures to pay off their debts and achieve their dreams.
CaptainFish:
I would love for it to be expanded upon in comic. Whenever I think about it, it just seems sad.
Welu:
--- Quote from: Earin on 28 Aug 2015, 01:52 ---
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 27 Aug 2015, 21:02 ---And I wonder how Jeremy spends his spare time. Bowling, perhaps? Coaching Little League pitching? I am sure he has a more active social life than Bubbles. Things that weigh two tons and are bolted to the floor probably have more active social lives than Bubbles.
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He's currently up to volume 6 of his Iron Man fancomic, in which Tony is captured by villain after villain, leaving the robotic arm from the lab in the film no choice but to mount itself on a mobile repulsor platform and fight crime.
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