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WCDT Strips 3086-3090 (9th to 13th November 2015)
Tichy:
Today's might be the first comic that passes the AI-Bechdel test (two AIs, named, talking about something other than a human) - if you don't count the one mention of "humans". Just a random thought, what with Jeph drawing analogies between AI rights in the comic and other social issues in our world. (The weird thing with Pintsize two weeks ago notwithstanding.)
--- Quote from: Kiloku on 11 Nov 2015, 04:34 ---I just noticed how similar their faces are, with the exception of the eyes. I think we can assume both chassis (how the hell do you pluralize that?) are made by the same manufacturer!
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Mmh, Idoru being a government contractor? Is there a monopoly on human-form chassis (how actually *do* you pluralize that?) in the QC world?
Somebody:
--- Quote from: Tichy on 11 Nov 2015, 05:30 ---Today's might be the first comic that passes the AI-Bechdel test (two AIs, named, talking about something other than a human) - if you don't count the one mention of "humans". Just a random thought, what with Jeph drawing analogies between AI rights in the comic and other social issues in our world. (The weird thing with Pintsize two weeks ago notwithstanding.)
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http://www.questionablecontent.net/855 & http://www.questionablecontent.net/1555 leap to mind.
DSL:
--- Quote from: CM_albion on 11 Nov 2015, 02:24 ---Oh no. no no no.
Momo, do not turn this into a morality themed story arc where you storm in there and try and change things, or start shouting at faye for enabling it. no
i am not in the mood for a drama llama arc right now Jacques. don't do it, do not even think about doing it, do not even think about not doing it!
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It could just as easily be a setup for commentary on those who must immediately rush in and Make Things Right, whether those being Righted want to be or not.
Roxtar:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 10 Nov 2015, 20:01 ---Poor Momo. Such a sheltered life, even with who her owner is
Or that may be because of who her owner is.
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I was under the impression in the QCverse that the ai-human companion arrangement was voluntary with respect to both parties.
Momo is "owned" by Momo.
Is it cold in here?:
Completely correct. It apparently wasn't always that way.
I think Momo is doing respectability politics. It's a powerful, useful, though frequently unsuccessful tactic for minority rights to provide an in-your-face disproof of all the harmful stereotypes. If so, she's not being fueled by moral indignation but by fear for her civil rights work.
Contrast her reaction to May with her reaction to Bubbles. She was ostentatiously contemptuous of May, a criminal, but only shocked by Bubbles with no personal condemnation involved. She didn't phrase her contempt for May in terms of law and order. It was more "That's not what we are like" or "May is not a true Scotsman".
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