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WCDT Strips 3311 - 3315 (Sept 19th - 24th)
brasca:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 22 Sep 2016, 20:43 ---Note the parallel with both Faye and Bubbles being threatened, Faye by Detective Lilac and Bubbles by Corpse Witch. Both are credible threats, and both are scummy in their own ways. CW and the Detective aren't interested in serving justice, just in using their positions to pressure those with less power that can help them.
They deserve each other.
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Agreed. Their philosophies may differ, but it's the same tactic. I do think Corpse Witch erred by passive aggressively belittling Bubble's hobbies. She should've told her that potentially everyone involved could go down including her friend, Faye, and while an AI has an infinite amount of time to rebuild their life a conviction rap and years lost in prison for a human is not so easy. Moreover, Faye has a drinking problem and struggles to control and such a calamitous turn of events might compel her to start drinking again.
Bubbles is certainly not pleased since she knows she's probably going to have to kill the investigator and she already has enough blood on her servos.
SubaruStephen:
That wrench :cry:
Not to get too class-less or anything, but that's another thing May would have a problem with if she got in a Human/AI relationship, her chassis's pressure sensors aren't likely to be top of the line...
swapna:
I'm actually not sure what CWs goal here is. Does she want Bubbles to stay inside (so she won't be seen by the police)? Her help? Her killing/disabling Officer Lilac? Or is it just an (actual) reminder that Bubbles will be in deep shit if anyone talks to the police?
As for killing Lilac, that opens up different questions. I'm going to assume completely deleting AI is a crime similar to murder; none of the AI fear it happening to them out of retaliation, and to punish them they're put on harddrives in 'robo-jail' instead of turned off or deleted or patched.
So, if you'd destroy an AI's chassis that has a backup, is that still murder? attempted murder? How about deleting memories?
Be that as it may, I don't think CW wants Bubbles to kill Lilac; at the moment, they're just doing illegal gambling, murder would actually make them a priority.
Tova:
CWs goal appears straightforward, at least on the surface. Lilac is a problem. CW wants the problem solved. When Bubbles expressed in indifference, CW decided to remind her, in a bullying fashion, which side of her bread is buttered.
Given that Bubbles probably holds knowledge that would do CW in, it's in CW's interest that Bubbles feel entrenched (as Faye put it).
We still don't really know Lilac's true motivations, and I think that holds the key to the whole shebang.
BenRG:
Ouch. I do wonder if Corpse Witch is entirely sure of the whirlwind she's messing with here. I'm not sure she appreciates just how much association with Faye is changing Bubbles's perspective on the world and how disenchanted Bubbles is becoming with her.
I'm pretty sure what Corpse Witch is intending here: She wants Bubbles to take out the detective and, if she can't do it in a way that is impossible to trace back to her (say, a long-range rifle shot with an unregistered weapon), to take the fall for it too. However, I'm fairly sure that, since the 'Hmmm...' moment, Bubbles has been thinking quite clearly about how she could safely cut ties with Corpse Witch; depending on just where her thought processes go as she considers this situation, it may not be the policewoman who is in danger.
--- Quote from: jheartney on 22 Sep 2016, 21:39 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Sep 2016, 20:51 ---Bubbles acted just like she perceived it as pressure to do something.
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Reacting to police pressure with violence would be incredibly stupid. Right now the police are skulking and issuing veiled threats. Take out an officer and they'd go to war.
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Ah, but consider the facts: If a decommissioned combat unit, well known to be psychologically defective in the AI community, suddenly goes berserk and destroys a police unit, whose fault is that? The police, mostly, for putting unsafe levels of pressure on her? Bubbles herself for not seeking more aggressive and effective forms of self-restraint? Certainly not Corpse Witch who has no formal association with her!
Make no mistake, Bubbles is entirely expendable in Corpse Witch's plans. I'm sure that she has a dozen strategies in place to ensure that she has full deniability for anything she does. Yes, she'd probably lose the skate park, depending on where the investigation goes but I also bet she has a 'cold restart' strategy for rebooting her business elsewhere should the skate park and its denizens become more an inconvenience than an asset.
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