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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
Neberu:
Did I miss the frame where the Avatar of Nightmare disabled Faye? Bubble mentions it in the 2nd to last frame but I couldn't find a reference to it in the art of the previous comic.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: nfearnley on 12 Jan 2017, 00:28 ---Others refer to them with the pronouns: they
"They seem nice"
"If they wished to do me harm, they would have done so already."
--- End quote ---
Welcome, new person!
Hmm. You've accumulated evidence to weaken the idea that AC is using gender-neutral pronouns because they're non-binary. Everyone else refers to AC the same way. Either the rest of the cast are very polite and picked up on AC's pronouns by reflex, or else everyone knows that AC is or represents a computational cluster.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Neberu on 12 Jan 2017, 08:55 ---Did I miss the frame where the Avatar of Nightmare disabled Faye? Bubble mentions it in the 2nd to last frame but I couldn't find a reference to it in the art of the previous comic.
--- End quote ---
Welcome, new person!
It's the "I can't feel my legs"/"It will wear off soon" exchange.
Timemaster:
I suppose Jeph introduced Agent Peroxide and the whole "almost omnipotent AI"-stuff to get Emily into Bubbles brain as soon as possible. Maybe he got tired of all this drama and hoplesness. After a few days thinking about it, I´m fine with this.
And I love Agent Peroxide. Come to think of it, maybe he uses the "we" because he´s not an independet AI of his own, but rather a drone, a representation of one or more of those friggin´powerful AI´s themselves. :-D
So I suppose (or rather hope) we´ll get a loog inside Bubbles brain. Can´t wait for this to happen. What will it look like? Something in manga-style is a good guess I think.
Or maybe Its something like Gunnerkrigg Court: New Data:
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1599
Or a real classic: Doonesbury: The Return to Reagans Brain (1987):
http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/03/23
Huuh, I can´t wait. 8-)
TM
thedevilissix:
--- Quote from: nfearnley on 12 Jan 2017, 00:28 ---To clarify, the new character seems to use the pronouns: we/our/ourselves/us
"We're what wakes them up screaming."
"We picked up on your little ...were were going to go "Gives us the shivers..."
"...we'll have Ms. Azuma do it."
"If they wished to do me harm, they would have done so already."
--- End quote ---
Unless it's as in "The 'Royal' We", meaning "I", in a fairly self-important way....like Queen Victoria used in England in her C19th reign, e.g. "We are not amused".
I think it's also a common tactic used by crooks and people out to do you harm (burglars, rapists etc.) to put their victim at ease by fostering a feeling of a 'team effort', before they do their worst.
I once read this example used as a warning for women to safeguard themselves against a potential rapist who 'offered' to help them carry in their food shopping, which included cat food. The phrase used to lure someone into a false sense of security was "We've got a very hungry cat up there".
In short: I'm still not trusting Sketchy Skeezy McBotRenegade. Ugh. :-(
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