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WCDT Strips 3521 to 3525 (10th to 14th July 2017)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: comicalArchitect on 12 Jul 2017, 11:17 ---Predictions for tomorrow's strip? My guess is that Faye goes to Marten (or possibly someone else) and has a conversation about if Bubbles has feelings for her and if she reciprocates those feelings.
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...some of us already know what happens tomorrow. ;)
(innocently points to the Patreon button)
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 12 Jul 2017, 15:04 ---
--- Quote from: emeraldphantom on 12 Jul 2017, 14:24 ---
I don't totally understand why everyone keeps talking about this possibly being a gay thing....... Bubs is an AI......... there is no real gender. If bubbles got a different body SHE could suddenly be a HE.
Literally Bubbles is nothing more than a consciousness in a replaceable robot body.
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Jeph has long established that AI's have definite gender identities. And I would assume that a female AI in a male chassis would have the same body dysphoria as a trans person.
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http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=347
According to Pintsize (an unreliable narrator if ever there was one), the gender of an Anthro PC is a software configurable option with three possible settings including "undefined." An AI has the options of finding a chassis that matches its self-identified gender, changing its self-identified gender to match a chassis, or saying to hell with the whole thing. Unlike a human, an AI could temporarily change gender and/or physical sex for kinky funtimes and then switch back. (C'mon, you think Pintsize wouldn't at least consider doing this?) It is canon that AIs have libidos, and will vehemently oppose any attempt to remove them.
Whether sexual orientation in AIs is an option that can be changed has never been addressed. Momo self-identifies as female and appears to be "straight" in the sense that she finds Hannelore's fireman porn tittilating and is easily flustered by the presence of Sven; she is embarrassed by this, but has no interest in undoing it. May clearly has a dirty mind, but so far as I can tell her actual preferences in partners have not been made known. Pintsize plays the part of an unabashed anything-that-moves sort of guy, yet was freaked out to find that the PC he had engaged in remote sex with had his gender set to "male". He later claimed it was the misunderstanding that had him upset, but I wonder if that was rationalization. (Pintsize is amply capable of all the same vices and failings of humans.) Jeremy and Seven are a "conventional" heterosexual couple who frequently burn out USB cables. Bubbles blushes at the idea of burning out USB cables in a manner that (to me) would appear to indicate that she is not immune to the appeal of doing so.
fayelovesbubbles:
Well. They both blushed.
I think the feelings are mutual.
USS Martenclaire:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 12 Jul 2017, 16:12 ---Well. They both blushed.
I think the feelings are mutual.
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Honestly, who has a username centred around character shipping....
flondrix:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 12 Jul 2017, 11:40 ---
--- Quote from: blt on 12 Jul 2017, 10:23 ---Bubbles' battery efficiency must be crazy if she can charge off what looks like a standard phone charger and still move a whole robot around at all. Let alone for a full day.
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Like it was just said, Bubbles is a military spec body, meaning that she would probably have to be able to charge anywhere she could, meaning she probably has a number of different chargers built into her chassis for use with any outlet.
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Looking at the scenes where Bubbles is plugged in in Faye's bedroom, I think that the cord is not a phone charger, but more akin to the removable cords on hotpots and electric kettles. I'll bet it supplies her with 120VAC at several amps, which powers an internal charger circuit as EvilDog describes. Still slow charging for a machine that can do the things she can do, but at least it would allow her to draw a kilowatt instead of a few watts.
Placing the charging port in her neck when she stands over 6 feet tall and most outlets are near the floor sounds like a stupid design decision, but I have heard of worse ones.
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