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WCDT Strips 3456-3460 (10th to 14th April 2017)

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Tova:
Or something, yeah.

For example, panel one could have been Faye saying, "Dora has offered to co-sign the lease for us. This would mean that credit will no longer be an issue. What do you think?"

Sullivan:
Most of what I came here to say has already been said. 

I agree that Faye should have picked up the hint the first time.

But, Faye has always been fairly self-centered and she's never been in a true partnership-of-equals situation (that we've seen), certainly not in business. It's not easy. It's a lot more difficult than being either boss or employee, since there will be a lot of little things that really don't need the partners to agree, and you have to figure out what the little things are vs the big things. Faye has had no practice at it.

And now for something nobody has mentioned yet: And neither has Bubbles. Bubbles may well want that, but she's had no practice at it either. In fact, she hasn't had that much experience interacting with organic folk at all, outside of the military (which is hardly helpful if you're not going into another strict hierarchy) and the CoD gang. She likely sees Dora as "boss" and, fair or not, she remembers CorpseWitch and wonders if Dora is really any better.

I think Faye was right to tell the landlord a co-signer was available, in case someone else was interested in the space - but before accepting Dora's offer, she should have presented it to Bubbles as an opportunity not yet finalized, and asked "what do you think?"

After all, this represents a major financial commitment. Consider that Bubbles doesn't know Dora all that well. How does she know Dora won't suddenly decide to take over? Does Bubbles even know what legal rights a co-signer has? What exactly will Bubbles be on the hook for here? Again, as others have said, she's fresh out of a situation with a very bad boss and she has zero experience in the one she's getting into.

In short, people and AIs do screw up. It's a fixable problem as long as they can talk about it. I think Bubbles' "gotta take a walk" is unhelpful (maybe necessary, given that the alternative might be punching walls, but not as helpful as staying and not punching walls and talking), but understandable; in her mind her previous objection to Faye is probably still very fresh and she may feel very hurt that Faye seems to be ignoring it.

blt:

--- Quote from: Milayna on 09 Apr 2017, 21:07 ---Yeah, I'm going to have to come down on Faye's side on this one. This co-signing with Dora, is this something that Bubbles would disapprove of? Then she can voice her disapproval right there and bring it to a halt. Is it something she would approve of? Then whence the problem? In otherwords, she had the opportunity, right there on the couch, as an equal, to approve or disapprove. She did not take it.

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Agreed somewhat, but they way Faye phrases it doesn't ask for assent/dissent, she just states it as a given that this is the course of action they're taking.

The way things are phrased are extremely important to Bubbles, not just the two examples in this strip, but since her introduction; Faye being noncommittal about her coat means she looks silly, people talking about her height meanso they are intimidated, etc.  It's part of her character, not just "an AI thing" to be overly concerned with phrasing, for whatever reason we may or may not see.

BenRG:
Basically, I think that we can say that Bubbles is somewhat neurotic. She's nervous about how people will react to her; she's nervous about the possibility that Faye is ignoring her; she's nervous about whether she can care for a potted plant. She's someone who needs a lot of reassurance and communication to help her handle her fears.

Tova:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2017, 04:29 ---Basically, I think that we can say that Bubbles is somewhat neurotic.

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I'm not sure I'd go quite that far.

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