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WCDT Strips 3526 to 3530 (17th to 21st July 2017)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 19 Jul 2017, 10:31 ---Keep in mind that Faye's break up and hospitalization is not recent. There were some serious time lapses shown and Faye worked at the skate park for months it seems. So we are talking at least half a year, possibly more since the break up. I'm not saying Faye needs to hop back in the relationship saddle. Given my history that would be a real laugh. But it's not like it is a raw subject like it would have been right after the break up, and Faye has done a lot of self work and growing in the mean time.
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True, but it would still be the first experience since then. It might not be as raw as it was when Faye drank herself into a hospital bed, but it would still be the reminder or even the prospect of dredging up those old wounds. That alone would make Faye wary.
Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jul 2017, 06:41 ---
--- Quote from: flondrix on 18 Jul 2017, 23:37 ---I can't fault Faye for overlooking the possibility that a robot may have a non-platonic interest in her. It is uncommon.
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Pintsize has spent years getting her used to the idea.
And may have poisoned the ground for Bubbles in the process.
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Then and again, Pintsize may be the world's first trangressexual (other than GirlswithSlingshot's "Tyler"), which Faye is well aware of, so maybe she's not ruined for all of AI-kind forever.
(click to show/hide)Linking that cast-list, I discovered that Danielle Corsetto has a new webcomic!
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Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: flondrix on 19 Jul 2017, 09:31 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jul 2017, 06:48 ---On another subject, I mourn the missed opportunity that came with writing the synthetics to have identical emotional makeups and problems to the squishies.
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Actually, Bubbles described some of the other possibilites to Faye. It was not comforting.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jul 2017, 06:48 ---John Campbell challenged sf writers "Give me something that thinks as well as a man, but not like a man!". It would have been fascinating to read about entities that feel as deeply as humans but in a clearly different way.
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Interesting, because I have also heard the accusation that Campbell insisted that humans had to always be the smartest beings in the universe in any story he bought.
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Van Vogt's story Asylum was published in Astounding and feature a couple of races of alien described as having the equivalent of a 400 IQ, and one vastly superior to them. Astounding also ran the Lensman series in which the Rigelians and the Palainians had definite areas of superiority to humans, and all were eclipsed by the Arisians.
Ooh, topic drift. If there's more to discuss I'll move this discussion to ENJOY.
Storel:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 19 Jul 2017, 07:01 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jul 2017, 06:48 ---On the other hand, that would make it an sf comic rather than a relationships comic.
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Do the two have to be mutually exclusive?
Science fiction has always been about exploring human nature, who we are as a species and the values we hold dear. In looking at the seemingly unknown, we learn far more about ourselves.
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They do not have to be mutually exclusive. See the classic short story "Helen O'Loy" by Lester Del Rey for an example of an SF story that is definitely about relationships.
Also, see the current storyline in the SF webcomic Freefall.
Tub:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 19 Jul 2017, 07:10 ---I sorta hope Jeph goes slow with this. Bubbles is still recovering from her (near) slavery with Corpse Witch after all.
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Correct me if I missed something, but IIRC bubbles' life went like this:
* constructed and trained as a soldier.
* sent to war with her squad, lost her squad.
* met corpse witch in search for someone to seal her memories, ended up in a bad situation.
* met faye.
She's not just recovering from the corpse witch episode. She's still incredibly young, and she has never even experienced friendship before. There were no parents or childhood friends. Sure, the squad mates cared about each other, and she'd deeply miss them if only she could remember, but camaraderie is born out of necessity. As far as we know, Faye is the first person in her life who had the choice between caring or not caring, and she cared.
Of course that makes her feel.. something, and she needs to figure out what that is. Is it friendship, is it love, is it lust, is it food poisoning a software glitch? I'm sure she'll find out eventually...
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