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WCDT: Strips 3336-3340 (24-28 October 2016)
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Oct 2016, 16:47 ---I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea of someone being offended by the fact that someone else is trying not to be offensive. No offense meant.
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Berkeley Breathed beat you to it.
http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1982/11/14
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 27 Oct 2016, 15:10 ---The thing is, there has been speculation on Human/AI relationships in the Forum on and off for years. I don't remember offhand, but I think that this is something Jeph himself has weighed in on on a couple of occasions (can't remember whether he was for, against or indifferent about it - others with better memories than I can probably give you a better answer on that.)
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I've gotten asked this on more than one occasion. I won't go into exactly why right now but it has to do with my work. I'm COMPLETELY sure it would work for a lot of people. I'm COMPLETELY sure that when there are AI in chassis capable of it, sexual services (or slavery) is probably one of the first major markets (heck, there aren't yet, even, but already some folks get emotionally attached to sex dolls and toys and etc).
Speaking for myself though? I just don't know.
If I had met the woman of my dreams but she were wearing a mechanical body? I can imagine being really, really close friends regardless. I can even imagine being comfortable and deriving great joy from having sex with each other. But the level of emotional bonding that humans in that circumstance usually get? It's hard to imagine myself getting there with someone in a mechanical body. For me a lot of that emotion/attraction link is olfactory, and I have trouble imagining convincing synthetics for it. It's subtle and complicated and just really, really hard for anything except human skin and breath to create. So I can imagine a "best friends and sex partners" relationship but it's much harder to imagine the kind of scary, total, out-of-my-power love that I feel for my wife.
Then again, sometimes we surprise ourselves, or judge our capabilities inaccurately. After spending a year or so with someone in a mechanical body conditioning might let the olfactory bits get less important to that part of my brain.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 27 Oct 2016, 21:55 ---So it just occurred to me, but are the QC characters all just really short? Looking at Bubbles in relation to the door behind her when she has Marten touch her abs, she has to be around or a tad over seven feet tall (going by the average doorframe height of ~7'). Marten's more or less standing straight up in panel 3, but he only comes up to her chest. Rough estimation, but if Bubbles is 7', that means Marten's only about 5'1"-5'4", with Faye being about similar height.
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My mental canon has Bubbles height at 220 cm - or about seven feet eight inches. Sometimes she seems to loom larger, sometimes lesser. But in open shots where there aren't a bunch of things to distract the artist or make scale difficult to judge, it seems fairly consistent.
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: JimC on 31 Oct 2016, 04:56 ---The ironic thing about energy efficient light bulbs is that, if you are in a building with thermostat controlled heating, then as soon as the heating is on all the energy saved from incandescent bulbs goes straight on the heating bill, since that energy doesn't go into thin air, but is simply dissipated as heat. So energy savings are rather less than the headline values would have you believe. On the other hand, if you have airconditioning, the incandescent light heat goes straight onto the cooling bill, so in that case the savings are probably greater than headline cost.
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This is all true, but incomplete. In most locales, heating with other fuels (whether it's natural gas, heating oil, whatever) is much cheaper than heating with electricity. And lights are usually up near the ceiling, which is not where you usually want your heat. So you're better off with the energy-efficient lights even though you're "losing" about 80% of the previously wasted heat. You can buy that heat much more cheaply from the gas or oil supplier.
(Comparison: In my city, natural gas costs about 1.3 cents per kWh. (They actually bill it in "therms" but the conversion is trivial.) Electric energy costs about 10 c/kWh at the cheapest tier.)
Storel:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 01 Nov 2016, 17:36 ---
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 27 Oct 2016, 21:55 ---So it just occurred to me, but are the QC characters all just really short? Looking at Bubbles in relation to the door behind her when she has Marten touch her abs, she has to be around or a tad over seven feet tall (going by the average doorframe height of ~7'). Marten's more or less standing straight up in panel 3, but he only comes up to her chest. Rough estimation, but if Bubbles is 7', that means Marten's only about 5'1"-5'4", with Faye being about similar height.
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My mental canon has Bubbles height at 220 cm - or about seven feet eight inches. Sometimes she seems to loom larger, sometimes lesser. But in open shots where there aren't a bunch of things to distract the artist or make scale difficult to judge, it seems fairly consistent.
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I just remembered that one of Jeph's filler comics a while back was a "spec sheet" for Bubbles's chassis. Did that happen to specify her height? I can't recall.
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