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WCDT Strips 3526 to 3530 (17th to 21st July 2017)
BenRG:
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--- Quote from: brasca on 19 Jul 2017, 23:14 ---I hope Bubbles doesn't sniff those candles too deeply or she'll have visions of a Cliff Claven centaur trotting through a quarry.
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Who even makes candles with scents like that? Is there really enough demand for candles that smell like abandoned quarries and lovelorn mail carriers to warrant manufacturing them?
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As I said above, different scents invoke different responses (some hallucinatory) in AIs with aroma sensors. If that is widely known, then weird scented candles could easily be the AI equivalent of 'legal highs'.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: Storel on 19 Jul 2017, 23:56 ---Who even makes candles with scents like that? Is there really enough demand for candles that smell like abandoned quarries and lovelorn mail carriers to warrant manufacturing them?
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The world's largest candle shop is in in South Deerfield, just a few miles up the road from Northampton. Scented candles galore.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Truec on 19 Jul 2017, 21:24 ---
--- Quote from: flondrix on 18 Jul 2017, 14:43 ---BTW, I can understand "May" using a client-assigned name when working off her sentence as an AI "feature" (though making her wear a sexy french maid outfit as part of a jail sentence sounds really unethical), but doesn't she have a name of her own? Or maybe her past was really so notorious that she decided she would be better off living under an assumed name.
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http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2495
Apparently when she was just being kept on a server (in robot jail, but presumably also in whatever role she played where she was able to embezzle millions of dollars) she didn't have a name. Presumably names are a thing AIs take on for interacting with humans.
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Also, she ended up liking the name Dale gave her. Probably at least in part because of the kindness Dale showed her, and particularly his ability to see her goodness past her brash exterior.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2515
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Storel on 19 Jul 2017, 23:56 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 19 Jul 2017, 23:14 ---I hope Bubbles doesn't sniff those candles too deeply or she'll have visions of a Cliff Claven centaur trotting through a quarry.
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Who even makes candles with scents like that? Is there really enough demand for candles that smell like abandoned quarries and lovelorn mail carriers to warrant manufacturing them?
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Quite possibly small batch hand made candles. I know people who make their own candles to sell through sites like Etsy and thought about doing it myself these days. It stands to reason that people would come up with different scents than the typical vanilla or pine forest you can get in any store. While the scents May picked are.. unusual, I wouldn't put it past someone to make things like that as a gimmick sale.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Storel on 19 Jul 2017, 23:56 ---Who even makes candles with scents like that? Is there really enough demand for candles that smell like abandoned quarries and lovelorn mail carriers to warrant manufacturing them?
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These scented candles are being mentioned in a comic strip that contains counterfactual elements such as AIs with the rights of citizens, autonomous prosthetic hands, Roombas that can reproduce, orbital pizza delivery, and baristas being eaten by allosauruses. It would be reasonable to posit that the candle scents listed are two more counterfactual elements.
tl;dr version: IT'S A *&^%$#@! COMIC STRIP!
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