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WCDT Strips 3066 to 3070 (12th - 16th October 2015)
J:
--- Quote from: theMarc on 14 Oct 2015, 23:35 ---"My sex life? Yes, yes, I've got top men working on it as we speak."
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well it's either that, or you handle everything yourself.
--- 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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well we could just chalk that up to artistic license, but where's the fun in that? i'm gonna say that her military-issued ac adapter uses some kind of super-conducting material in place of boring old copper wires.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 Oct 2015, 23:26 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Oct 2015, 19:30 ---Wow! Bubbles needs more robust exercise gear! Kevlar? Chain mail? Solid rubber? Steel?
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I think that's missing the point. She wanted to kill something and killing a punching bag doesn't carry unfortunate legal penalties.
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i doubt akima was being fully serious there.
but there is an interesting question to look at here; bubbles is using physical activity to burn off excess aggression, which is important because earlier a momentary loss of her temper resulted in several hundred dollars in property damage, and could have easily injured a (mostly) innocent human.
so then, why is a psychologically unstable a.i. allowed to walk around in a weaponized milspec combat chassis?
Method of Madness:
Because it's her body.
J:
and if she had been the control system for a tank or an aircraft carrier she could just take it with her when she retired?
actually, pintsize has a military issue chasis as well, but his was forcibly disarmed by government agents. and he is at least slightly less likely to kill someone than bubbles is.
J:
more to the point, what happens next time bubbles loses her cool? will she knock a lamp post over, into the middle of a busy street? or perhaps punt a newspaper machine through somebody's windshield? or maybe she stays with the wall-punching and just takes out a load-bearing pillar, collapsing part of a ceiling onto some people.
it seems to me that her preference for solitude may be based at least partially on this; that she knows something like that might happen, & doesn't fully trust herself to behave responsibly to keep it from happening.
Neko_Ali:
I think people are overstating her danger by quite a bit. She did not hit Faye. She did not miss by accident. She was sending a clear warning to someone who doesn't take verbal or non verbal clues or requests to leave her alone. Bubbles is well aware of that fact because that is exactly why she got herself into the situation at the party in the first place. Faye kept pushing and pushing until she found the right button to mash. So the only thing Bubbles had left as she saw it was a direct physical threat. Then she went home and tried to work out her frustration on some heavy bags. It didn't work, but at no time during any of this did she lose control, or was actually a danger, aside from freak accidents with flying masonry. Given the fact she can put her fist through all that leather and sand, it's quite likely that she pulled her punch on the wall, using only enough to demonstrate her strength.
Also keep in mind that Pintsize didn't have a military grade chassis taken from him. He had an active military weapon. When you are discharged, you keep your kit, but you don't get to walk off with the rifle you carried, or the tank you drove. Momo has stated before that legally speaking, the chassis an AI inhabits is their own. I'm sure there are limits to that, you wouldn't let the AI in charge of a nuclear submarine keep it when they decide to change jobs. Those things run in the millions of dollars. Who knows how much Bubbles' chassis cost. It's entirely likely that she bought it out with her accumulated pay when she left the service or was discharged.
As far as people just letting her walk around, she did say that 'better minds have than you have tried' to 'fix' her. The implication is that she has seen a robo psychiatrist sometime in the past at least. While I imagine Bubbles was less than open and cooperative dealing with them, they didn't judge her to be a danger to herself or others at least.
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