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WCDT Strips 3521 to 3525 (10th to 14th July 2017)
Tub:
--- Quote from: flondrix on 12 Jul 2017, 16:19 ---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.
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Yeah. As far as we can see, it's a cable, and it goes into an outlet. A regular power cable (like on your extension cord or your desk lamp) is the obvious interpretation.
We don't know her age, but Bubbles' chassis was probably designed before usb chargers became ubiquitous; especially in war zones.
The human body will on average require 100W of energy. Bubbles may require more (she's larger and heavier), or she may require less (advanced technology, lack of expensive organs like a digestive tract). She certainly has a higher peak power output when doing physical feats, but for the average output on a day in the shop, 100W seems like a reasonable ballpark.
Overnight charging with a 1000W power supply would be fine, and any residential socket can easily provide more than that.
--- Quote from: flondrix on 12 Jul 2017, 21:41 ---Does Jeph blog about the comic anywhere? I was wondering if he has said anything about why he switched to Hegre style for the last two panels of the previous comic.
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He's used that style before, usually in situations where he's trying to give the characters a cute look in a cute situation.
He blogs on http://jephjacques.com/ and he has a twitter account at https://twitter.com/jephjacques , if you feel like stalking. But he doesn't talk as much about the comic as he used to.
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Jul 2017, 20:39 ---Even I am starting to wonder whether Bubbles might be in denial at this point.
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Denial about what exactly? She seems to be very aware of her affection.
Some posters seems to have a desire to put their relationship into strict categories, where the difference between the friendship-category and the relationship-category is sex. It's not that simple..
It's undoubtedly true that faye and bubbles are the most important persons in each other's lives right now. It also appears as if neither is interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with someone else at this point, because they're both getting what they really need right there, right now.
Neither of them is well versed in standard human courtship rituals, so they'll need to do their own thing, and figure out what they want and where to go from here. Looking back at their relationship so far, how they've grown together, they keep doing so with small steps, not giant leaps. Which really isn't surprising, because giant leaps tend to scare Faye away..
Whether physical intimacy is one of the next steps remains to be seen, but even then there are small steps to that, before they figure out how to equip faye with the required usb ports.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Jul 2017, 23:48 ---Something tells me that the most disturbing take-away from this conversation, at least for Bubbles, is just how difficult it is to persuade a relative stranger that she and Faye aren't in some way intimate! Basically, what Clinton has said is an equivalent of: "You mean she isn't your girlfriend? Wow! Who knew? I mean, from your behaviour... Nah, forget it!"
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He just saw Bubbles walk out of Faye's bedroom in the morning, a bedroom with only one bed. Keep in mind that middle-class white Americans from places where the real estate market is not insane find it odd that any grownup would share an apartment if they weren't banging--that's why so many fundamentalists thought Ernie and Bert had to be gay. Now, Clinton lives in a Massachusetts college town where real estate is insane and apartmentmates are common, but even in Massachusetts non-banging apartmentmates tend to have their own bedrooms or at the very least their own beds. Faye and Bubble's living situation is not normal for people of their cultural background who are not banging, so banging seems to be the more likely explanation.
Put another way, if I saw Wonder Woman walk out of Black Widow's bedroom in the morning, I would leap to the same conclusions that Clinton did and you would have a very hard time convincing me otherwise.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Jul 2017, 23:48 ---Jeph's footer is interesting too. I get why Faye would be angry with Clinton but why with Bubbles too? It's the first time he's officially stated that Faye's feelings are a bit ambiguous on the matter to the point where she might be upset by Bubbles loudly insisting that they're 'just friends'.
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Well, Bubbles stepped in it with "Must I illustrate a diagram for you?" Faye might be upset that Bubbles hadn't shut Clinton down more forcefully and immediately. Plus, the wrath of someone like Faye tends to be more like a flashlight than a laser pointer.
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--- Quote from: flondrix on 12 Jul 2017, 21:41 ---Does Jeph blog about the comic anywhere? I was wondering if he has said anything about why he switched to Hegre style for the last two panels of the previous comic.
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A few months back on Twitter, Jeph said that he was going to use more 'cartoony' styles to reflect astonishment and other exaggerated reactions.
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Thank You!
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jul 2017, 23:59 ---Given his fascination with AIs Clinton may be more accepting than average. On the other hand he didn't treat Momo as a person at first.
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That's not acceptance, that's fetishizing.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Jul 2017, 00:45 ---The other interesting thing there is that inter-species lovers are commonplace enough that it was the first conclusion someone would jump to.
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We have yet to see such a couple, and according to Momo it is uncommon.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 13 Jul 2017, 02:28 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jul 2017, 23:59 ---Not completely OK, because then he would never have said "No judgement from me!".
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It's interesting you say this; I interpret that simply as being conscious that other people might have a problem with it, and Bubbles defensiveness is misinterpreting him as coming from that place.
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I'm with "Is it cold in here?" on this. The statement "No judgement from me!" is someone making a point of how tolerant they are, implying that they think the person to whom they are speaking is doing something that must be "tolerated." At least, that is how such a statement is used in sitcom-ish media, which this comic sort of is.
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