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WCDT Strips 3476 to 3480 (8-12 May 2017)

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learn2run:
Bubbles looks taller to me without her armor. She makes Marten look like tiny.
Do we know how tall she actually is? She's gotta be at least 6'5" (195cm).
I'm just trying to picture how intimidating she'd be if I met her walking down the street...

BenRG:
I'm pretty sure that Bubbles is north of 2 metres, given that she has to duck to go through some doors. That said, I do think that Jeph sometimes exaggerates the height difference for comedic effect!

TinPenguin:

--- Quote from: jheartney on 09 May 2017, 23:51 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 09 May 2017, 23:17 ---Meanwhile, I really want to know what Bubbles is doing for shoes. I think that Jeph has been very careful to hide that from us and I can't help but wonder if that's significant somehow.

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Bubbles is like a hobbit: big hairy bare feet, now that the armor's off. Well, maybe not hairy.

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I'm just imagining feet like an AT-AT.

Method of Madness:
In fairness to Marten, he doesn't have any reason to see Bubbles taking off her armor as anything more than changing her clothes. So it's different enough to notice something is new, but maybe not different enough for him to remember what.

BenRG:
With reference to today's strip, someone on the Subreddit asked why Bubbles hasn't changed her chassis for one that is less intimidating.

I've been thinking about that and I've been thinking about Claire's conversation with Pintsize on the subject of 'body swapping'. I'm thinking that it is less common than we think and that, really, only AIs with a particular personality type are really able to do this. Look at some examples:

* Winslow was deeply relieved to get out of the 'robo-boyfriend' chassis and back into his pseudo-iPad;
* Momo selected a new chassis that closely resembled her old one in key features like presented gender and hair colour;
* May, who previously seems to have been one of the more exotic fixed 'disembodied' AIs, dislikes her humanoid chassis and would prefer to be an aircraft;
* Corpse Witch, when threatening Bubbles, implied that a change of chassis was a punishment.From this, I'm thinking that chassis type and appearance is strongly associated with the AI's self-image and self-identity. Changing their chassis for a more than mildly different-looking one is a cause of considerable psychological stress. So, in many ways, yes, irrespective of any other characteristics, Bubbles doesn't want to change her chassis for very solid reasons of peace of mind.

This could explain the long-held question of why a combat chassis should be so high human-fidelity: The designers were required to consider the AI's post-demobilisation needs. This was necessary to minimise the readjustment stress of post-military life. Probably some plug-and-play military-only hardware (scrambled comms and maybe built-in light weapons) has been removed but nothing that radically changes the 'feel' of living in that particular body.

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