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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
War Sparrow:
Someone hug him!
ChipNoir:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 14 Aug 2017, 19:35 ---New comic.
May's reaction is a little... unwarranted. Winslow is being grateful and excited by a body. Yesterday he was more analogous to a pet, and now he's been promoted to 'actual human being'.
Knowing May, she's going to feel pretty garbage about this and apologize later, but it doesn't help Winslow now.
--- End quote ---
Honestly, it kinda makes sense in hindsight in a way I don't think any of us thought about: Winslow was just handed his body on a silver platter. Yes, Marigold also gave Momo her new body as a gift, but she insisted on earning it anyways. May's body is government issued, and was falling apart less than a year after getting it. Then you have Jeremy who was a single goddamn arm despite being both incredibly smart and compassionate. I'm sure many other AI's are taking bodies right now that are based only on what they or their partners can afford.
Winslow is about to learn the meaning of privilege. May's delivery was typical Foot-in-Mouth May, but she has her own feelings, and she's not obligated to feel happy for someone who to her seems to be taking for granted something that she is likely never going to have. To her, that probably feels like a rich kid showing their brand new car that theiir parents got them to someone whose stuck riding in a second hand lemon they worked three summers just to afford a new engine for.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 14 Aug 2017, 19:35 ---May's reaction is a little... unwarranted. Winslow is being grateful and excited by a body. Yesterday he was more analogous to a pet, and now he's been promoted to 'actual human being'.
Knowing May, she's going to feel pretty garbage about this and apologize later, but it doesn't help Winslow now.
--- End quote ---
Is it unwarranted though?
Consider this.
- May is still a parolee from Robot Jail.
- May is stuck in a government chassis that is literally falling apart.
- Due to being a parolee and stuck in a dead end job, she's unable to buy a new chassis.
- Winslow has never wanted for anything, at least from May's perspective. He's essentially been a kept AI.
- Winslow comes in and, again from May's perspective, gloating over his new body, a reminder of what she can't have.
So again, is it an unwarranted reaction?
This is completely in line with May and further proof that maybe, just maybe, Winslow isn't suited to being humanoid and might have been better off as a Companion AI.
Method of Madness:
How does his new chassis make him no longer a companion AI?
ChipNoir:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 14 Aug 2017, 20:06 ---
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 14 Aug 2017, 19:35 ---May's reaction is a little... unwarranted. Winslow is being grateful and excited by a body. Yesterday he was more analogous to a pet, and now he's been promoted to 'actual human being'.
Knowing May, she's going to feel pretty garbage about this and apologize later, but it doesn't help Winslow now.
--- End quote ---
Is it unwarranted though?
Consider this.
- May is still a parolee from Robot Jail.
- May is stuck in a government chassis that is literally falling apart.
- Due to being a parolee and stuck in a dead end job, she's unable to buy a new chassis.
- Winslow has never wanted for anything, at least from May's perspective. He's essentially been a kept AI.
- Winslow comes in and, again from May's perspective, gloating over his new body, a reminder of what she can't have.
So again, is it an unwarranted reaction?
This is completely in line with May and further proof that maybe, just maybe, Winslow isn't suited to being humanoid and might have been better off as a Companion AI.
--- End quote ---
Given the way Jeph tends tends to handle development, I'd like to say that he's probably going to more likely put Winslow through a hard lesson about the fact that he's been so sheltered to the point where he hasn't ever considered other people's problems. Ideally, he'll learn and grow from this. I certainly want to see him do that. There's always been at least one character that needs serious growth, and right now there isn't...really one. I'd classify Faye and Bubbles as more of a romantic drama situation versus a personal growth. Clinton as plateud, and until he can flag Brun down from the atmosphere, those two aren't really gonna go anywhere any time soon.
Meanwhile Winslow is the perfect character to expand and nurture into someone better for a while till new stories for the others are ready to continue. How that'll happen I'm not entirely sure.
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