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WCDT Strips 3536 to 3540 (31st July to 4th August 2017)
St.Clair:
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--- Quote from: pwhodges on 03 Aug 2017, 11:06 ---We have no in-comic reason to be shipping the robots at present. Winslow wants another body, end of. Not everything is about sex or its precursor relationships.
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I should clarify that this was a reinforcement of IICIH's preceding comment as a general principle. It was not intended to be a criticism of OldGoat's immediately preceding post, which is fine. I apologise for not making that clearer. Of course not all relationships lead to sex, nor should we too easily assume that.
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(emphasis added)
I would love to see fandom assume that a hell of a lot less, but it seems inevitable.
(The assumption that banging is inevitable, I mean. :( )
As a result, I actually find it rather tiresome.
(Also a bit depressing, that so many people's main or sole interest in a given work seems to be "so when are they gonna ****?")
JimC:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 04 Aug 2017, 03:06 ---(Also a bit depressing, that so many people's main or sole interest in a given work seems to be "so when are they gonna ****?")
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Even more depressing if you are the author I suspect.
--- Quote from: Dorothy L. Sayers ---As I grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less,
Who goes to bed with whom.
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Cornelius:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 Aug 2017, 02:09 ---However, honestly, I can't see Momo and Winslow wanting to leave their humans unless there was some extreme social pressure to do so. Given this and given that I'm not sure Pintsize and May are sufficiently organised to be able to have their own household, it's more likely that Jeph will find some other solution (possibly a move to a bigger house for Marten & Co.).
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As for that, if I remember correctly, Hanners once mentioned that it was her dream for all of them to be living together in one manor, with her as the elusive shut-in in the east wing. Which, considering her family and the disposable income that goes with it, is not as impractical as it seems.
Now, whether all characters involved would be interested in giving up their own space and freedom, that is a different question.
Interesting factoid of the day, concerning the suggestion of a Mr. Proper chassis for Winslow: the inventor of Mr. Proper later joined a monastery, and became the abbot.
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: HiFranc on 04 Aug 2017, 01:17 ---What went into choosing which model got the solar charger? Why not all?
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Honestly, I suspect solar power generation would be insufficient for an anthroPC's needs. Thus a solar charger would be more of an expensive gimmick than something that would be standard on all models.
Also, it fits the gag.
Ztyx:
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--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 02 Aug 2017, 08:32 ---I don't know of anywhere where the timeline has been established, and I suspect it runs more on Comic Book Time.
Also, Bubbles wasn't born as a combat unit. She was a volunteer that wanted to serve, suggesting that she had a life before that, and presumably a different chassis.
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The timeline was last updated in November of 2015.
You make a good point, that Bubbles could have had formative experiences before receiving a humanoid body. But it also sounds like she has had that body for quite some time, in-strip. And it is a very convincing human-looking body aside from the coloration and being a muscular giant, both of which were intentional and I assume not the only type being made. Yeah, continuity kind of suffers there.
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On the other hand, since she was part of a military test project to see how AnthroPC would do in the military, it's not very unlikely that they also kept modding or changing out her chassis during the entire time, both as technology evolved and as things came up through testing.
"Bigger body is more imposing, can carry more, and is still no more suspectible to being hit since an arm wound doesn't take out the entire soldier as on a human" - new chassis that is as big as transport vehicles can handle.
"Integral armor gets more expensive or time-consuming to fix, and can be occasionally too bulky" - rebuild, more motile torso and external armor plates
"Some fellow troopers have mentioned trust issues or cooperation problems because harder to read AnthroPC" - new cutting edge head with more emotive ability.
Etc. The point being that just because she probably did at least one year in service, she doesn't have to have started out looking like she did when mustering out.
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