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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
Storel:
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--- Quote from: Kugai on 13 Jan 2017, 12:50 ---Either Agent Creepy is that cynical or she's using cynicism to cover for 'The Feels'.
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It's possible, though by no means certain, that Agent Creepy Hive Mind know Bubbles will be perfectly fine, and are thus completely unmoved by all the (unnecessary from their perspective) emotion on display.
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Seems like it would be hard to know that without already knowing what's in Bubbles's head, which Agent We can't know since they haven't yet looked in there (and professed revulsion at the notion of doing so themselves). Unless they are really damned certain that their inductive interface's tools (plus Emily's talents?) are capable of preventing any damage from anything so primitive that Corpse Witch would have access to it. I wouldn't be surprised if Jeph ends up shaking Agent We's confidence a tad by having CW's boobytraps turn out to be unexpectedly tricky.
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 13 Jan 2017, 09:48 ---It is possible to be very close friends with someone without there being romance involved.
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One of my personal peeves, for a while now, is the tendency of fandom - all fandom, in general - to devalue and dismiss close, intimate but platonic friendship in favor of romantic and/or sexual love.
Neko_Ali:
It's not even just in fandom either. Plenty of people treat others in real life like that. If you have two people who are close and aren't related then they must be either sleeping together or attracted to each other. Nobody is allowed to be just friends unless you maintain a society-approved level of detachment.
Perfectly Reasonable:
I blame Hollywood. Quick and lazy way to show two are close.
People have made so many different names for GreyCreep! Who may not even have a name.
Morituri's idea of Emily's Bizarre Adventure is delightful. While others try to think outside the box, Emily thinks outside the Solar System.
And dang! Weekend cliffhanger!
Celly:
I am calling them Legion and my theory is that they are Grey Goo.
Not an individual, they are a hivemind of billions of nanobots, thinking and working together. They've taken (in the immediate present) the form of a humanoid for the purpose of interaction on a macro level.
Their shape and their speech (indicated by the round bubble) very closely approximates that of a living organism, because they aren't a bucket of servos and muscle fibers, but billions of tiny nanobots, so they can be a far more perfect approximation.
They can disable people by touch because the nanobots quickly invade the target's body to shut down whatever particular neurons are necessary to knock someone out (in this case, without killing them, though they absolutely could kill if they wanted to).
They've been in hiding because people would freak out and probably blow an EMP, since they are literally (in this form at least) a walking end-of-the-world scenario - but they aren't motivated to wipe out the world, by whatever lucky happenstance. Station knew how to contact them, however, and sent them to help. Perhaps Orbital Railgun Justice is what is keeping Legion in line, that much I wouldn't know. But it's pretty clear to me that Legion is a case of Grey Goo, which would absolutely be a reasonable thing to exist in a post-singularity world.
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