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WCDT Strips 3241 - 3245 (13-17 June 2016)
BenRG:
FWIW, I think that the thing with Bubbles is that she's so unused to friendship that she has a difficult time controlling or even entirely understanding her reaction to Faye's easy intimacy.
Basically, I think that she's going through the emotional maturation that most humans go through in childhood. I don't know if this reflects her age or if it's a symptom of her trauma; that she literally lost her emotional grounding (which has been strongly implied in other scenes) and is having to learn it all over again.
I do like her dry sense of humour, though. It's a indication of how close she's become to Faye that she can identify when she isn't serious and respond accordingly.
Also, I'd name any super-soldier staffed buffet for Dale Brown rather than Tom Clancy; that's more his kind of thing!
JimC:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 13 Jun 2016, 20:04 ---Faye just skips over Winslow and CORPSE WITCH. These are the times when you learn who your real friends are.
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--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 13 Jun 2016, 20:05 ---Not to mention May.
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Perhaps a dozen panels in which Faye expounds the characteristics of every single AI that has appeared in the web comic wouldn't advance the plot too much. And it would still end up with Bubbles being the rational choice for Faye to talk to.
BenRG:
FWIW, I don't think that Faye has a relationship with Winslow (beyond knowing him as Hanners's AnthroPC Companion) or May (beyond that she is Momo's irritatingly crude friend). Because of this, they're hardly the sort of people Faye would feel she has the social connection with to ask such deep and philosophical questions!
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Jun 2016, 02:45 ---FWIW, I don't think that Faye has a relationship with Winslow (beyond knowing him as Hanners's AnthroPC Companion) or May (beyond that she is Momo's irritatingly crude friend). Because of this, they're hardly the sort of people Faye would feel she has the social connection with to ask such deep and philosophical questions!
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That and they are a bit redundant for this conversation. Winslow isn't as idealistic as Momo, but I imagine his opinion wouldn't be too different and May's opinion wouldn't be all that different from Pintsize's Moreover, she's asking Bubbles as a means to get closer which is why she's not rattling off a list of every AI she knows and why they wouldn't provide a suitable opinion.
blt:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Jun 2016, 23:25 ---FWIW, I think that the thing with Bubbles is that she's so unused to friendship that she has a difficult time controlling or even entirely understanding her reaction to Faye's easy intimacy.
Basically, I think that she's going through the emotional maturation that most humans go through in childhood. I don't know if this reflects her age or if it's a symptom of her trauma; that she literally lost her emotional grounding (which has been strongly implied in other scenes) and is having to learn it all over again.
I do like her dry sense of humour, though. It's a indication of how close she's become to Faye that she can identify when she isn't serious and respond accordingly.
Also, I'd name any super-soldier staffed buffet for Dale Brown rather than Tom Clancy; that's more his kind of thing!
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This brings up an interesting point about AI development. For humans, we have pretty set out development periods for our brains, and from what I've seen, evidence suggests if you "miss" some of them due to lack of socialisation or whatever, you've missed them for good (see: feral children). Do AI work the same way? Obviously we've seen they can grow and change (otherwise they wouldn't really be intelligent (but that's a subject that was debated a lot last week), and Bubbles wouldn't have had the capacity for trauma), but would an AI need emotional development, or do they come into being more fully formed than we do? Basically are there baby AI?
It probably wouldn't make for good comic reading but I sort of hope this is where Faye and Bubbles go next.
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