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WCDT Strips 3176 to 3180 (14 - 18 March 2016)
LolliTensor:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 15 Mar 2016, 18:11 ---You forget Vespavenger.
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Ah of course -- as much as I'd racked my brains before writing that post I'd forgotten Vespavenger!
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 15 Mar 2016, 18:19 ---Welcome, new person!
Hannermom might count as an antagonist.
The Pugnacious Peach spent all the beginning of the strip and most of the time since being frenemies with everyone in her life.
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Thanks very much! :)
I thought about Hannermom, and while she's certainly on the evil side, I'd argue that CW is beginning to be written as an actual enemy to Faye / Bubbles as opposed to a morally dubious character. We seemed to leave Hannermom on a good note after the "MOTHER I NEED TO PEE" comic :) Which reminds me in any case, we haven't heard from Hannermom in a while!
Neko_Ali:
Vespavenger, the monks and that deathbot that came after Pintsize the one time (Forget his name....) were really more one-off jokes and enemies than an actual, long term antagonist. Right now, I don't think Corpse Witch has advanced to that stage yet. But she could. As Bubbles so succinctly puts it.. hmmm.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 15 Mar 2016, 18:00 ---I think you're too quick to judge CORPSEWITCH. Underground businesses need to stay underground. If she gets more shipments from her part suppliers, that's more people she has to pay to look the other way. This would put a limit on how far her business can grow.
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No, I think we're just the right speed to judge CW.
Let's look at a couple of facts:
- Runs an illegal fight club for AI. In a human world, unregulated fighting is highly illegal (boxing matches have to be heavily monitored by doctors). While an AI chassis might be able to withstand more punishment than a human body, by the same token they are presumable more fragile than humans in other ways.
- Streams said illegal fights through an illegal torrent based system. Presumably a sizeable fee is needed for each stream.
No, CW's reaction to Faye was someone annoyed that a tiny chunk of her profit margin was bitten into.
No one would judge CW if she was running an underground clinic for disadvantaged AI, what she's doing is solely for profit, despite the highly illegal nature of her enterprise. That alone is why we are judging her, she's making money from the misfortune and damage done to other AI. She's feeding off misery.
poofdepoof:
Hello. This isn't my first post, but I'm definitely quite a lurker.
Anyway, I would like to agree with those who have said:
1) Corpse Witch is not actually wrong in the line that she's drawing here, or her actual response to it (withdrawing the cost of the materials that Faye co-opted for personal use)
2) Corpse Witch probably doesn't need to be so nasty about it, though. :/
3) When person A is hurt by the language that person B uses, and it does not hurt person B to avoid that language as it hurts person A for person B to use it... then person B ought to perform the courtesy of not using that language. Even if person B doesn't personally empathize with person A's situation, it is better to get into the practice of practicing compassion and sympathy. There are other puns out there. I liked someone's "It's time for a ... Corpse Switch" :P
Omega Entity:
Wasn't CW the one who justified the fight club as a way for AI who otherwise would have difficulty making a living the legal way, a way to do so via her organization? I think that this last strip pretty much revealed her true colors, as far as any altruism she truly possesses - or doesn't, in this case.
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