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WCDT Strips 3541 to 3545 (7th August to 11th August 2017)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: JimC on 08 Aug 2017, 04:16 ---I suspect Hanners is already regretting giving Winslow a body that can hug...
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That's true. Hannelore intellectually knows that Winslow's new body is factory-fresh and largely germ-free. However, that doesn't stop her from instinctively flinching at the contact. I'm kind of worried that she might be developing a broader phobia against interpersonal contact altogether; that could really screw up her life.
hedgie:
Good point. She did end up freaking out at Momo hugging her until said AI pointed out that she was a robot. I'm nowhere near as "bad" as Hanners when it comes to physical contact, but I still do have problems if it occurs without me knowing ahead of time, and having time to psych myself up for it.
ChipNoir:
If anything, I think Hanners is getting better with each passing 'season', time being funky in this comic. She may never be entirely comfortable with it, but she seems to endure it on occasion, and may someday enjoy it. Hanners last freak out seems to shed a little more light on how her phobias work: She seems to be afraid of things that 'could' go wrong. And it makes sense. She grew up on a space station with a total lack of exposure to social trial-and-error, as well as living in an environment where catastrophes could and probably did happen with high stakes. While I'm not anywhere near as bad as Hanners, I have huge anxieties about conflict and not being able to handle things when variables are out of my control. My phobias are especially centered around travel and driving. To this day I'm still struggling to learn how to drive. But the more I've done it, the more I realize that I can work with chaos, and handle conflict. I still get panicky, and I'm not exactly good when things go wrong. But I try. And Hanners is really trying too, and she's succeeding.
The more time she's spent experience things out of her comfort zone, the better she's gotten, and more she's come to understand that bad things may happen, but they often don't, and when they do, she can endure and move past them. She may never be completely comfortable, but she's learning to cope, and as someone who deals with his own phobias and anxiety, that's the life goal for me.
TakDagon:
I've always been curious about this and I know that money isn't really a quantified thing in the QC universe (aside from the fact that everyone works to pay bills), but how much would a full humanoid anthroPC body actually cost? I'm guessing that the AnthroPC's aren't cheap to begin with but a full humaniod body has got to be a bit on the 'spensive side.
BenRG:
Marigold could (barely) afford Momo's pretty high-end new chassis. Even assuming a generous credit agreement and payment-by-instalment, I can't see it being over four figures. Probably in the $5k range, similar to maximum-specification computers.
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