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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
Milayna:
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--- Quote from: Shjade on 15 Aug 2017, 17:09 ---How the child chooses to flaunt their much easier life IS their "fault," however.
I don't begrudge rich kids for being born into wealth. Having one show up at my job just to remind me of how much wealthier they are compared to me, however? That sounds like an excellent opportunity for said rich kid to receive some valuable life experience in how to fuck right off.
The problem here is, indeed, in Winslow's approach, especially the where and when of its occurrence.
tl;dr - Winslow has no tact and May isn't the type to pretend he does.
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Out of curiosity, does this entitle me to yell at people who say hi to me because they have the audacity to walk around without the assistance of a cane?
I think it'd be very therapeutic for me if I could re-frame my disability as everybody else's problem. Those assholes with their properly functioning hearts and their two kidneys...
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Well, if you had a cane made of worm-eaten, crudely shaped balsawood that kept breaking + severe osteoporosis and leprosy, a job that everybody thinks is for bottomfeeders that barely paid enough for a new cane every few days so you wouldn't fall and shatter into a million pieces, and had to do illegal stuff to pay to get your leper face sewn back on (and would get you tied to a rack, literally, if The Man ever caught you at it), you had to walk past Fantabulous Freddie's Fantasy Bod Mods Emporium (and its customers) every day and the nice kid you've seen a few times decided to come swinging in saying "hey look! I decided to be tall like you and all my friends so Mom bought me GRIFFON LEGS!" I probably wouldn't blame you for being snippish either.
Nor would I blame you for being snippish in your real-life circumstances, if people come complaining directly to you about how sore they are after their marathon or how embarrassing it was to piss themselves when they got shitfaced drunk and forgot to go to the bathroom.
@ snufflebottoms: So, Winslow isn't obligated to care about other peoples' feelings, but other people (or is it just May) are obligated to defer his feelings? May's pain doesn't matter when she's the victim of Winslow's insensitivity, but Winslow's pain matters when he's the victim of hers? Nah, gonna reject that. I can tell May doesn't matter to you so arguing as if she does is futile, so I'm just going to say that I reject your philosophy.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Milayna on 15 Aug 2017, 22:44 ---(detailed description of social interaction.)
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And just when would Winslow have had the opportunity to learn the techniques that we meatbags spend a whole childhood attempting to learn (and still often failing)? Do you picture a plug-in "social graces" module that comes with every upgrade from a non-humanoid to a humanoid body (pre-programmed with knowledge of your friends and acquaintances, at that)? And in learning terms, is it better for Winslow to have been told how to behave (in circumstances which might, after all, have played out differently) or to learn from experience, as we do - which is what's happening right now, with guidance from Bubbles?
Gyrre:
D'awwwww. ^-^
I wonder how the echo chamber hordes on tumblr would react to this?
cesariojpn:
This story arc is turning real ugly. I mean, the use of the word "privileged" pretty much has muddied the waters to the point where Jeph's planned idea for the arc is turning toxic. There are so many things wrong with the arc I have to wonder if this can be salvaged to be coherent.
Jeph brings back a character not seen since 2015, interacts with two characters (May and Bubbles) that we have not seen interacting with Winslow (off-strip meetings not counting), and May acting like your typical bitch only in a way that seems to be ridiculously out-of-character. I really hate to see how the rest of the strips is gonna turn out.
BenRG:
@cesariojpn,
I really can't see how you could possibly see May's reaction two strips back as out-of-character. She's shown before that she's bitter about being where she is and she's demonstrated frustration about her chassis and the difficulty she's having with maintaining it. She's also shown that she is able to lash out at people, even friends, when she's upset or she's feeling the weight of her circumstances too acutely.
With regard to Winslow, Jeph has been going through a phase recently of switching primary characters (Marten, Claire, Hannelore and Dora) into supporting roles and bring secondary or even background characters (Renee and Elliott) forwards and giving them their own distinct primary arcs. So using Winslow as part of his current evident intent to use QC to explore how AIs as well as their distinct needs and culture would really work in a near-contemporary North America is entirely explicable.
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