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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
Carl-E:
Gladstone's post made me wonder. How much has the strip really changed? Faye had some memories she didn't want to face, and that altered her personality to a great extent until she was able to tell her friends and with their support face them, visiting home to yell at her father's grave. Her coping mechanism - drinking to forget - had serious effects on her life.
Bubbles, on the other hand, enlisted aid to lock the memories she can't face away. And now, after confessing to someone who cares, has the opportunity to face them with the help of - well, an acquaintance who beat on her armor with a rubber mallet. But her coping mechanism of having her brain partitioned by someone who then held it over her has also had serious effects on her life.
I know, it's a stretch, but the point is that these are problems of a psycho-emotional nature, and it's the support of your network of friends that makes it possible to deal with them.
I do think Ms. Grey is a plot device being introduced to bring the issue to fruition without having to go another thousand strips just to get there. I'm wondering if it's going to be a throwaway background story, like DoKYA was with Steve.
I hope not, though.
mneme:
Eh. So much shark jumping. If you don't like the comic, stop reading. If anything, I rather like that the comic that's always about nothing has started to eventually have epicycles where actual plot happens. It's like one of the easiest on-ramp SF stories ever.
I'm guessing that the actual price on the "no strings attached" "we'll provide all the equipment, we just want you to hack into your friend's head and break her encryption" is that they get to watch. Emily's a powerful polymath who can break the usual rules -- so it's not unlikely that if they record her breaking unbreakable-grade encryption, they'll be able to turn that into a program that breaks that grade of encryption.
But it's hard to tell how serious to take the Laundry-esque math=magic=insanity bits of plot that have shown up.
Kugai:
Stll don't entirely trust Agent Creepy with either Bubbles or Emily, but she has an interesting sense of humor
And stand by for a Matrixy journey into the world and mind of Bubbles
Morituri:
Agent Creepy, as we're calling him/her/it, derives far too much enjoyment out of playing with people's distrust.
Oddly enough, this is a thing that some people in the computer security field do on purpose, to impress upon clients the importance of caution. And, if they're honest about it, because it's fun. So I've seen it before.
I'm imagining some serious mood whiplash when this gets done. Something like Emily taking off the headset awkwardly, saying "Miss Bubbles? I, uh, got your memory back. I'm so sorry..." and then giving Bubbles a hug while breaking up in tears as Agent Creepy walks out very pleased with itself.
On the other hand, does Emily get to keep that interface device? And if so what will she do with it later?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Truec on 11 Jan 2017, 20:05 ---If you're complaining that Jeph made a pop culture reference that some readers might understand, then I'm kinda curious what comic you've been reading, because it certainly wasn't this one.
--- End quote ---
Emily herself is a Japanese pop-culture reference, after all - but knowing that's not necessary to understanding her.
"Do let us know if you start to go insane" - best line for a long time.
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