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WCDT Strips 3066 to 3070 (12th - 16th October 2015)
Is it cold in here?:
If she lives at the shop they may have 480V available. That cord doesn't look bigger than 16 gauge.
Storel:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Oct 2015, 02:14 ---I have to agree with the the guy on the Subreddit who said that, out of sight of us, Claire stepped on Martin's foot when, in panel 3, he said: "But you're always welcome!", making him hurriedly add: "I mean, not for the smooching part!"
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I'm quite tickled by the idea that there are readers who saw that last panel and thought to themselves, "Marten is being quite awkward - there must be some explanation."
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Marten being awkward? How unusual! :roll:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Oct 2015, 19:20 ---If she lives at the shop they may have 480V available. That cord doesn't look bigger than 16 gauge.
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I don't know enough about electrical stuff to get the connection between those two statements. Would 480V require a bigger cord? Or are you saying that a small cord could transfer more power if the voltage were higher?
Is it cold in here?:
The latter. Power is voltage times current, so less current is needed at higher voltages to get the same amount of power. Other things being equal (there are a lot of other things to keep equal) a smaller cord can carry less current safely.
Morituri:
Welp.
Somebody's darned unhappy. And as for whether she's in the business of beating up that athletic equipment or herself? Embrace the power of AND, my friends.
This isn't even anything to do with "introverted" or "extroverted", for whatever that's worth. At this point the character could be either one, and hasn't had occasion yet to be clearly visible as one or the other or neither. Seriously; that's not the important issue here.
There's lots of things she might need. But a lot of them are probably things she's not ready to accept. For example she probably needs someone to be around her for a while and really listen. But she won't feel like she has the duty to tell them anything important, nor will she feel that they have the right to hear anything important.
So.... I dunno how a real psychiatrist would handle it, but for me this would be a "be present but be quiet" and "interact but interact about something else" kind of moment. Like, I'd like to know more about robotics and how robotic bodies go together and work; I'd ask for help from her with that. And if she has anything to say about the events of the previous night, start off by apologizing for pressuring her to something she didn't want to do and see where she takes it from there.
In a similar situation, I learned a whole lot about guns and gunsmithing from someone who really needed listening to about something else.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 16 Oct 2015, 17:49 ---I think she's recharging. She is and older model of military AnthroPC and it may also a faculty of her being an early Military Combat AI/AnthroPC. You know, a limiting factor built into her by the military as a form of controlling her and her kind just in case.
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No, it's just that all that power - power enough to disintegrate a punching-bag - has to come from somewhere. Pintsize's power requirements are like that of an electric bike. Momo's, like an electric scooter or segway. Bubbles - like an M2 Bradley. Power storage is a problem. I don't know how many kw/hrs she burnt up in her "exercise", but it would be a lot. She's drained - not just emotionally.
She needs help. She deserves help. That might be like trying to help a wounded tiger though, without a tranquiliser gun. Tricky. Non-trivial.
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