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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)

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oeoek:
Winslow reminds me of a person on the first day of a long awaited vacation.
Ahhh, peace and quiet at last! ... Uhm. Peace... Quiet... yes. uhm... Now what?

Apart from getting up under his own steam after falling over, I would say he has not really given much thought to being a full bodied boy yet... And the change seems to be bigger for him than was for example Momo, who already had the ability to shoot eels from a never disclosed aperture, and who was already able to fight and bring in a full grown squirrel.

I am probably reading too much into it, but Momo's light hesitation (W-well, I have got to get back to work) suggest mixed feelings at this point. Remember Winslow's despair when he came across her former empty shell? It spoke some of more than just casual concern. Is momo aware of that?

As for May, although not really appropriate, I can understand her speaking from frustration of her own present vessel. Still, I would expect someone looking that bored at work would welcome any any chance for more fun more heartily.

brasca:
I might be more sympathetic with May if she wasn't responsible for her current state.  Perhaps she could've gained a function chassis at some point, but she chose to embezzle enough money to buy a flight capable model which got her sent to AI jail.  Yes Winslow has a benefactor, but she also benefited from Dale's patience and generosity. 

ChipNoir:

--- Quote from: QuestionableIntentions on 14 Aug 2017, 22:34 ---What the hell, May?

Did she just call his new body a toy? If this were gender reversed there would already be a shit storm in the forum.

Wait till Claire hears about what you said, May.

--- End quote ---

She's not calling it a toy, she's saying that she thinks Winslow is treating his new body like a toy. We've seen two Androids now that have made it clear that being a full sized human is a total paradigm changer. But May doesn't have the benefit of having seen Winslow's initial reaction to his new body.

I think Claire would agree, but would at least have the patience to explain this to Winslow. For her, this would be like a CIS person saying "Hey, I decided to get a gender change! Aren't my new boobs hot?" after Claire has spent years struggling to get to the point where she is, with therapy, hormone replacement, all the social backlash that's likely gotten her, and ultimately the expense and trauma that transitionary surgery is going to cause her.

It's...easier for an AI in short term thinking: Buy a body, upgrade. But that's 'now'. We don't know how old May is. She could easily be much older (By AI standards) and have predated the kind of luxury that even Momo had, getting an AI chassis with some hardwork. That might have been an interesting motivation behind such an extreme crime, rather than just "I did it for the lulz.".

Even if its not the case, this is an important part of AI political history, and Winslow's blase excitement can be read as just blithely ignoring her, and everyone else's struggle to get to this point. And Y'know, that is a responsibility everyone has to take. He's naive, but Momo still went out of her way to learn about their history. Winslow has no excuse not to have tried to learn that if he hasn't.

shanejayell:
Well, I think May was being dickish, but I can see where she's coming from.  8-)

TheEvilDog:

--- Quote from: brasca on 15 Aug 2017, 06:35 ---I might be more sympathetic with May if she wasn't responsible for her current state.  Perhaps she could've gained a function chassis at some point, but she chose to embezzle enough money to buy a flight capable model which got her sent to AI jail.  Yes Winslow has a benefactor, but she also benefited from Dale's patience and generosity.

--- End quote ---

So even though May has paid her debt to society in Robot Jail, she still has to suffer?
Winslow walking in and showing off his new chassis would feel like that, showing off. Gloating. A reminder of everything that May has lost.
Remember, May isn't living with Dale because they got partnered up through a service. Its because she's still a parolee and needs a secure and steady address to live as part of her parole. And her body is still falling apart and she probably still has to keep that as part of her parole. So the fact that May still has to jump through hoops for anything but an AI like Winslow can just ask to get a new chassis and gets to show it off, would be a huge blow to her self esteem.

Is she right to shout at Winslow like that? Maybe not.
Is she right to feel angry that her life has turned to crap because of her own mistakes? Yeah.

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