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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
Timemaster:
Well, this goes pretty much the way I was imagining. So Agent Peroxide really represents some mysterious and powerful entity, that suddenly took interest in Bubbles dilemma. But now here´s the bonus question: according to the fact that there is no free lunch, why do they really want to help her? And far more important, what is the price she´ll have to pay for it?
I suppose to have to live with her memories is rather a side effect than the price...
Anyway, this whole developement seem to be a classic deus ex machina and I must admit that I´m not a big fan of that. When there´s drama, it should be somehow resolved by the protagonists. The drama can turn out to be a comedy or a tragedy, but either way it´s their own story. Now this kinda becomes the story of someone else.
TM
BenRG:
Well, the question that Bubbles should have asked (indeed the only question that matters) is: "What is the price?" When something like this turns up, you need to wonder just what the nature of this 'favour' will be.
Now, it's quite possible that Alucard's boss/controller is acting purely out of altruism because it hates someone playing with sentient minds and that Alucard is just a particularly unpleasant personality that shouldn't affect our perception of her employer. However, that's something that would be too good to be true. When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I certainly wouldn't trust someone who let Alucard walk around uncontrolled play around with the inside of my head.
A Deus ex Machina, certainly... but possibly a Dark God.
P.S.: No matter how bad these guys might be for Bubbles, I think that we can already see that they'll be much worse for Corpse Witch.
--- Quote from: Rincewind on 09 Jan 2017, 21:27 ---Bubbles is VERY not-amused. I don't think I (or any other mortal entity) would want to be on the receiving end of that glare.
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The fact that Alucard doesn't care gives us a disturbing insight into just how powerful her sponsor is.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 09 Jan 2017, 08:43 ---This is a strange appearence indeed. Agent Peroxide shows up like being beamed in from the USS Enterprise. Notice that he/she stands behind Faye in the third panel. How did he/she (or maybe it?) get there without her taking notice?
I´m still wondering about the "waking up screaming" part. So it represents something which is like a nightmare or some kind of bogeyman to AI´s. I don´t think this is a kind of mobster or a federal agent of some sort. This is someone who represents something far more important or threatening to an AI than a vicious criminal like Corpse Witch or a petty officer like Rocco Basilisk. We don´t know enough about how Jeph ist imagining the whole AI stuff to jump to any conclusions. But I´m imagining some kind of Authority (notice the capital letter) which has power over AI´s and of which they have reason to respect it and even be afraid of.
Maybe Station telling his collegues has brought this affair to the notice of someone who is far more powerful and doesn´t like it at all. Maybe The Authority (I like this already) objects to bubbles memories beeing partitioned away. Or she knows something which must not get into the wrong hands. CW´s for example. Bubs will have to make a decision right now! And Agent Peroxide seems very sure that she will...
But all of this is speculation. I suppose tomorrow we´ll all know a lot more.
Can´t wait:
TM
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I think they're unscrupulously interested in the immediate effects of partitioned traumatic memories having said partion removed. I'd wager that 'Peroxide boogie' here will wish for Bubbles to remain 'under observation' for some period of time once the partition is removed.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: killien on 09 Jan 2017, 20:19 ---I really hope that Bubbles doesn't make a deal with Mr/Ms Morden
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Welcome, new person!
Following up on BenRG's thoughts, put together Agent Creepatron's indifference to Bubbles's glare and zir willingness to casually paralyze a friend of Bubbles in front of her. I wouldn't do that even if I had a fresh backup in the cloud and a spare chassis.
Agent Creep-a-tron is signaling a serious lack of ethics. If Bubbles decides amnesia is better than a deal with someone like AC then I will support her decision.
BenRG:
I'm just back from the Subreddit where one of the posters made a point that was very wise and very worrying.
Do you remember all those 'hypothetical' talks Bubbles and Faye had about intelligences without consciousness and the bad things that the Singularity could bring both to humans and synthetics alike? I'm thinking that Alucard's ultimate boss (no matter the nature of that control) may be one of those nightmare intelligences that is different enough from human in thought and motivation to act in a way and towards goals that bode no good for anyone in order to achieve an end state that it has chosen for purely and coldly logical reasons that it regards as 'optimum' in its own analysis of reality.
In other words, Bubbles is talking (at one remove) to an intelligence that is pretty much the QC version of Skynet, Colossus or, worse yet, AM.
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