Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3486 to 3490 (22 to 26 May 2017)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Storel on 22 May 2017, 00:20 ---What I want to know is what idiot designed her chassis to have a detachable butt in the first place! What purpose could that possibly serve?
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Everyone has a detachable butt. It's just a question of how much mess you are willing to make...
--- Quote from: Killspree on 22 May 2017, 00:57 ---I imagine a generic/universal style chassis could change out butts and chest sections for body customization along with shorter or longer arms and legs and perhaps a adjustable spine for lengthening the torso could be quite plausible.
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But this seems more sensible. Robot bodies are presumably manufactured in discrete modules much as cars are, and components might fall off through wear and tear. We know that May's arm fell off, because her body is so clapped out.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Killspree on 22 May 2017, 00:57 ---I imagine a generic/universal style chassis could change out butts and chest sections for body customization along with shorter or longer arms and legs and perhaps a adjustable spine for lengthening the torso could be quite plausible.
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I think that there are two distinct forms of chassis: Modular ones like those used by May and Jeremy and integrated ones like Bubbles and Momo, otherwise known as 'the expensive ones'. You can't just swap out parts of integrated units (because they use pseudo-myomers as significant part of their actuation and, if you look at pictures of the human musculature, you'll notice that myomer layers don't come in easily separable sections).
In fact, I wonder if you could consider 'expensive' chassis types like Momo and Bubbles as being pseudo-organic with the number of bio-mimetic technologies in use. It wouldn't surprise me if they could eat to source chemicals to carry out low-level self-repair (self healing derma, for example).
retrosteve:
I hope Melon's melodramatic friend now replaces the door (and 14 others).
:mrgreen:
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 21 May 2017, 21:08 ---Okay, so the question is what were Punchbot-lookalike and Melon doing to cause that injury? :psyduck:
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My guess he was spinning her around so fast it flew off due to centrifugal forces.
Zebediah:
Continuing the countdown:
#10: "Would you like to hear about our lord and savior, Dr. John Ellicott-Chatham?"
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