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WCDT Strips 3196-3200 (11th to 15th April 2016)
Wildroses:
I cannot wait to see how Corpse Witch is going to react when they both walk out of there calmly and start fixing Punchbot. She wants Bubbles to stay damaged and isolated so she can keep using her.
Jeph's newspost in comic 1996 has some interesting background on the retail AI companions which I thought I'd bring up.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1996
If you can't be bothered clicking, all the ones sent to 'retail' have decided they want a human companion rather than going into a specialised profession, and neither AIs nor humans are completely sure why so many new AIs pick human companions.
anahata:
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 12 Apr 2016, 05:01 ---I cannot wait to see how Corpse Witch is going to react when they both walk out of there calmly and start fixing Punchbot. She wants Bubbles to stay damaged and isolated so she can keep using her.
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How true.
Another "Hmmm..." moment, at least.
katsmeat:
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 12 Apr 2016, 05:01 ---I cannot wait to see how Corpse Witch is going to react when they both walk out of there calmly and start fixing Punchbot. She wants Bubbles to stay damaged and isolated so she can keep using her.
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Given what Bubbles did to Punchbot in about two seconds. I bet CW's long-term plan is to get Bubbles to agree to fight. And she thinks keeping Bubbles damaged and isolated* is the way to achieve that.
* Note that the more Bubbles is isolated, the more she's dependent on CW.
Redball:
--- Quote from: osaka on 12 Apr 2016, 03:00 ---To be honest, companion AIs are, bluntly speaking, bought friends. Obviously there are a myriad of little things that make this much more complex than that, but it all boils down to the companion AIs acting as the friend you need (but not the one you deserve, as shown by Pintsize). And probably being friends as well, because I doubt either of them would put up with shit and I think the contract could be nullified. I do recall Momo saying that it eventually becomes a formality more than anything as friendship grows.
So yeah, if Faye is acting as a supportive friend and it looks like something companion AIs do it's because that's what they're originally made to do. But that's just coincidence, Faye is just acting as a friend and companion AIs are just acting as friends.
At least that's how I've always thought it worked.
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If Bubbles is truly depressed, and not "acting" depressed, doesn't that suggest that AIs can truly be friends, and not merely "act" the role?
Zebediah:
I think "acting as friend" in this case is meant to be read as "performing an action" rather than "acting a role".
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