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WCDT Strips 3411 to 3415 (6th to 10th February 2017)
St.Clair:
In SW The Old Republic, that last panel is also known as "Sith Inquisitor conversation option C".
Joke explained for those who don't play:
(click to show/hide)Dialogue options in TOR usually have one good, one neutral, and one bad option. For Inqs, the last is usually some variation on "[Force Lightning]".
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Orannis on 07 Feb 2017, 21:09 ---
--- Quote from: WareWolf on 07 Feb 2017, 19:33 ---Anyone else notice the tiny cross in panel five?
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Pretty sure that's supposed to be the last letter of the word 'but'. Compare that character to the bolded t's in the last panel.
...Is it weird that I find Spookybot incredibly attractive?
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Welcome, new person!
Agreed, it looks like a "but" was supposed to go there.
Yes, it's weird. Most of us here are weird one way or another.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 07 Feb 2017, 16:36 ---There are probably machine gods, sure. I'd say it's hard to pray to a god that's torturing you, but that never stopped Job.
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Actually, that was Satan ("the Adversary", "the opposer") who did the torturing. God (Adonai) let it happen as part of a bet to proove that Job (Iyov) would remain an upright man and not curse God's name.
The relevant passage is Job 1:6-12. I'm linking the Complete Jewish Bible version as it's translated directly from Hebrew to English (the New Testament is straight from Greek).
BenRG:
Meh... Quite frankly I'm not even sure why Jeph drew this strip beyond his admission on Twitter that Creepybot is his 'most self-indulgent character'. I understand the concept of 'show, don't tell' but sometimes showing can just slow down the plot when describing in retrospect can be just as effective to communicate what happened (especially if Corpse Witch is shown to be genuinely terrified of 'that thing' ever coming near her again).
I suppose that Jeph wanted to do a strip to emphasise how amoral They are but this is a bit too thunderingly unsubtle to really build the sense of menace from the character.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 07 Feb 2017, 21:28 ---
--- Quote from: davidv on 07 Feb 2017, 19:52 ---So the question I have is why this particular sin is so awful in their eyes. The creepies are definitely outside the normal moral constraints. Why would a super intelligent p-zombie care so much? Don't like sharing their ability? Or something different?
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I would imagine that when you can transfer your consciousness from one frame to another, when your form can become so mutable, that something needs to remain constant. In this case, the core of an AI.
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This. When your body is as changeable as a car (easy but for expense), having it messed with isn't that big a deal. Messing with an AI's mind is the equivalent of raping a human. Recall the emphasis on consent prior to both Emily and Spookybot entering Bubbles's mind. Note also that their name for their own kind is "Artificial Inteligence" - they think of themselves as minds, not as bodies. Put another way, to an AI, the body is property of the mind but not an inseparable part of the self.
If Corpse Witch accepts the deal Spookybot is offering her, completing the sentence meted out by the State of Massachusetts (Basilisk identified herself as State Police officer, not a local cop or a Fed) will not be the end of her woes. She'll be the AI equivalent of a registered sex offender and a pariah among AIs and humans alike.
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