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WCDT 3361-3365 - 28 November - 2 December 2016
Is it cold in here?:
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--- Quote from: iwdy on 01 Dec 2016, 23:41 ---This strip made me notice that nobody punched Faye in the face throughout this webcomic. Huh.
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I believe you're right! Oh, wait, Padma broke her glasses.
Welcome, new person.
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Ah, I forgot about that. That was a literal punch in the face. But Padma was, you know, being playful. As playful as someone who swinged a fist at someone's face, that is(Stay with me on that.). I was talking about, like, punching someone out of anger. I think managing to avoid that, in Faye's case, is an impressive feat.
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You're making a valid distinction and it's remarkable she never got in a bar fight.
Her ability to throw Angus across a room was comic exaggeration in a comic strip, but it does fuel our favorite game, overanalysis. Put that together with the unknown extent of her injuries from the car crash and there's already been speculation on the wiki that Faye's repairs included robotic parts. The EMTs, remember, were not sure how she survived at all. The upgrades could have been limited to places of only secondary concern to one of her lovers.
What are the legalities of punching a synthetic? Isn't it more like vandalizing someone's car than like punching a squishy, who feels pain and needs weeks or months for repairs if they're even possible?
Neko_Ali:
I don't think Faye needs to worry about the police giving her a hard time of assaulting Corpse Witch. I think she should be more worried about what connections someone running such a well known criminal enterprise might do if she's feeling vindictive. In the real world, punching out someone with mob connections could have serious and fatal consequences. At the very least it would make getting fired for being drunk on the job and winding up in the hospital to be tame. She could be looking for a new home and room mate after that sort of thing. Fires happen you know, and she's notorious for having trouble with toasters. At the very least CW could get her connections in the police force to make Faye's life a living legal hell, even if the assault is never mentioned, and would certainly never be investigated.
Fortunately, the comic isn't set in the real world, and the consequences of these sorts of actions are not nearly as bad. Probably more along the lines of "You're fired!" "No, I quit!" and "If she goes, I go" from Bubbles. Possibly going after to catch up with Officer Roko and explain just what's been going on there, and what Bubbles suspects CW is doing to keep fighters there.
TheEvilDog:
That's it, isn't it? Right now Corpse Witch is between a rock and a hard case.
If she does anything to retaliate against Faye, she's going to have to deal with Bubbles as well. Unless she goes for the manipulative route, or if she has something on Bubbles, CW is stuck. She can't do anything without dealing with a combat class AI and I seriously doubt she's going to have the fighters go up against Faye or Bubbles. Punching someone is one thing, but having to do something worse than that and well, lets just say, I hope the Three Laws form a solid cornerstone of an AI's core. Otherwise this comic is going to get very, very dark.
Alternatively, on Monday we find out that Faye has hurt her hand and revealing some unexpected changes. Turns out after the crash all those years ago, Faye was sent to Tahiti to recover. And yes, that's an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reference.
JimC:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 02 Dec 2016, 09:28 --- I hope the Three Laws form a solid cornerstone of an AI's core.
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The second law would turn AIs into the involuntary slave of any passing human. Its utterly incompatible with human rights for AIs...
jheartney:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 02 Dec 2016, 09:28 ---Alternatively, on Monday we find out that Faye has hurt her hand and revealing some unexpected changes. Turns out after the crash all those years ago, Faye was sent to Tahiti to recover.
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It's a magical place.
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