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WCDT Strips 3411 to 3415 (6th to 10th February 2017)

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Killspree:

--- Quote from: Indicible on 08 Feb 2017, 03:05 ---For some reason, Spookybot has the same voice as Farscape's Scorpius in my mind. And it is awesome.

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I read Spookybot's voice as 'HIM' from Powerpuff Girls from time to time.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Storel on 08 Feb 2017, 21:22 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 08 Feb 2017, 21:15 ---I suppose having four bodies would enable one (if that's the right word?) to get a lot done in a day.  And these four may be just a representative sample....

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What makes you think they weren't all the same body?

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The same character could probably answer both questions; the hero Harem from Grrl Power.

Orannis:

--- Quote from: Texanhick20 on 08 Feb 2017, 22:47 ---remember, this is a post singularity society.. nobody understands how the AI's work.. If you dig deeper, you're probably going to find larger, more powerful, much older AI's... It's turtles all the way down mate..

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Turtles, you say?
http://i.imgur.com/ubdIeOX.gif

BenRG:
Y'know what I got from this strip? Jeph was telling us: "Deus ex Machina? Ha! You haven't even seen Deus ex Machina yet!" Seriously, Spookybot seems to be on a 'let's see if we can't solve all the problems Corpse Witch caused, directly or indirectly, in one evening!' mission.

Just a few things to add:

I've been looking again at Panel 1. Spookybot isn't fixing their tie, they're rubbing their knuckles. I've got a feeling that they joined the 'punch Corpse Witch' club just because, as much as psychic torture is invigorating, actually physically expressing their disgust at Corpse Witch's life choices was so much more cathartic.

Panels 2 and 3 also make me frown. I've got the feeling that they are in Roko's apartment and Emily's family home, having apparently appeared out of thin air. Does that confirm that they can teleport? Or is their chassis really a nanobot homunculus that slide under doors and the like? Why do I say Emily's home? She's using a SNES controller, which implies strongly that she's at her parents' house by the lake in the woods.

Finally... Just where do they get their intel on people? I'm thinking that they are hooked up to the grid in a big way and are continually processing everyone's social media and work-related activity to find out people's likes, needs, interests and the like. That level of connection and the processing power that knowing this implies is staggering and more than a little frightening. It really does put Spookybot in the demi-divine bracket at least on the information level!

Geographus:

--- Quote from: jheartney on 08 Feb 2017, 23:01 ---Maybe I'm literal-minded, but a few questions occurred to me on a second look at today's comic:

1. Jeremy is now proprietor of the skating rink. Which apparently nobody skates at, because it was really a robot fighting ring. How will it stay open now?

2. Why is Basilisk knitting? Do robots get cold, and need sweaters and hats and scarves? (This raises the larger question of why the humaniform AIs wear clothes; they have no genitalia to cover, so why bother? CW was an interesting case of a non-humaniform AI who favored skirts. And of course there are plenty of unclothed robots.)

3. Creepybot tells Emily that Bubbles' mindspace could be instructive in future. How would that work? Is Emily going back in there? Because all she saw the last time was a minimalistic virtual space with stacked doors and an empty room behind a lock; how does that constitute  "research material?"

4. Punchbot turns out to be an accountant. This suggests he didn't need to fight for money; accountants make a decent salary. Which robots were the "underprivileged" ones May was talking about? And why does an AI need glasses?

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1) There doesn't need to be any activity, the house itself has value and with him being the proprietor he could make money with whatever business might be moving in.

2) Maybe it's just a hobby. For what I understand AI-minds work similar to human minds in QC. And many AIs might wear clothes simply because they like it or to blend in more with the crowd. Or some consider themselfs "Naked" without them.

3) Remember that nobody really understands on how exactly an AI-mind work, so this simplification might give Emily some insight and material to theorize about such things ... "Food for Though" if you want.

4) Remember that he just loves to punch things!

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