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WCDT Strips 3181 to 3185 (21 to 25 March 2016)
Neko_Ali:
Claire is one of the few people that actually understand that Pintsize is not a rampaging a-hole. I mean she says as much. He's crude, he's rude, he enjoys shocking people... But he's also a companion AI. And really, he does help people. He does so while being crude, rude and nasty towards people. In a lot of ways he's like a old jester. He deliberately makes himself the butt of jokes to act as a goad and provide catharsis to those around him. He sets himself up to be a joke, even be abused... but he also amuses people and sometimes makes them think. He was there when Marten needed a friend. He's been there when Faye tried drinking herself to death. He set himself up the target for Bubbles' anger at the party, knowing full well it would go badly for him.. but it was something she needed before she was stressed to far and tried to disassemble someone else at the party. Someone's who's limbs aren't held together by magnets.
Sure, he enjoys shocking people. Collecting porn, grossing people out and engaging in minor acts of mayhem and teasing others are his hobbies. But he doesn't try to hurt people. He doesn't use his information against others in a mean or nasty way. In the end, he just wants to help.. in a round about way. Also, he's small and sneaky. Claire's around the apartment a lot. The chances are very high he already has figured out or knows that Claire is trans well before this.
Is it cold in here?:
Particularly since he's been known to ogle a roommate in the shower.
I wouldn't tell a secret to someone Chaotic.
It's a mercy that he didn't make crude suggestions like he did to Faye. He's decent to Claire, but there's infinite scope for disaster if he's getting his ideas about trans people from his porn database.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Mar 2016, 08:59 ---It's a mercy that he didn't make crude suggestions like he did to Faye. He's decent to Claire, but there's infinite scope for disaster if he's getting his ideas about trans people from his porn database.
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FWIW, I really think that Pintsize is able to differentiate between fantasy and reality. He'll only make reference to tropes like that if he considers it likely to be entertaining.
swapna:
I think it feels forced, having Claire talk "almost" into the camera. It's about as subtle as Dora's long-winded explanation of poly/monogamous relationships - at a person who has actual experience in that as opposed to Doras own string of monogamous relationships. And it is annoying, because this is important! Especially topics like that suffer if I feel lectured by a Web comic. I'm not saying they don't belong, au contraire, but teaching me sneakily through struggles/conflicts/example is much more effective and could lead to actual interest as opposed to annoyed eye rolling.
Zebediah:
For what it's worth, Friday's comic has gone viral among my friends in North Carolina. They feel it's saying something that needs to be said.
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