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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
fayelovesbubbles:
Bubbles is so sweet to Winslow.<3<3<3
I love Bubbles.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: ChipNoir on 15 Aug 2017, 16:58 ---
--- Quote from: themacnut on 15 Aug 2017, 16:51 ---The problem isn't Winslow's approach, it's May's foul attitude. It's like being mad at a child of wealthy parents because that child gets breaks in life that you may not due to having less wealthy parents. It's not the child's "fault" that their life may be easier simply due to their parentage.
It is a natural response of course; the privileged are generally envied, even hated by those who aren't. But that response does not help the non-privileged person better their circumstances. All it does is make them look like the fox who couldn't get those sweet grapes.
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Again. I'm really not sure it's a wealth thing so much as a liberty thing. "Decided" is a bolded word here. I think May's really issue is the flippancy with which he's talking about something that should be treated with a lot more reverence.
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Highlighted what I think to be the crux of the matter.
How big a deal is it for an AI to have a chassis? Is it empowering, to be able to freely move about and really interact with the world? To not be limited to such a small frame but to have some kind of experience of what it is to be human?
Or is it something akin to changing our clothes for us? At home, I wear a pair of tracksuit pants; if I go out I wear jeans; if I have to go to work or an important event, I wear a suit - a nice experience but it ends when I get home and I pull on the tracksuit pants. But that's us humans.
But consider what its like for an AI. You're formed and have no form to begin with. You might be lucky enough to be allowed to become a companion, like Pintsize, Winslow or Momo, or to find some other purpose that requires a chassis or shell, like Bubbles. But at the end of the day, its not a right, its a privilege. Its a privilege to be able to port yourself into a chassis that isn't falling apart, that feels like another prison sentence when you've already completed your time.
Winslow isn't in the wrong here, he's just excited to be showing off his new body, but to May its (unintentional) flaunting of something she has been denied even though she has served her time and completed her punishment. It might be anger on May's part and it might be displaced towards Winslow, but at the same time, she has a right to feel angry because it just feels like punishment after punishment after punishment.
blt:
Bubbles remains my fave.
The whole discussion pretty on the nose given current events. Not sure how far ahead Jeph's strip buffer goes but it seems to have lined up.
Is it cold in here?:
Come to think of it, how _did_ May get parole?
Every time I imagine a parole board hearing I see it going badly for her when she begins mouthing off to them.
Maybe participating in the VR work release program made a good impression, but if the parole board took a look at the tapes of her interactions with Dale ...
snufflebottoms:
May was out of line and there is no excuse for it. Full stop. She was a raging bitch and Winslow wasn't even the tiniest bit rude. Now he's going to do something nice for her (or it appears that he is) because she basically verbally assaulted him. And it's going to turn into a lesson about him "checking his privilege."
I'd like to invoke the "if someone gets excited about something and you make them feel bad for being excited, you are the worst kind of person." No amount of money that his companion has or gifts him gives May the green card to treat him like shit. It kind of reminded me of when everyone tolerated Faye's physical violence because she was "physical violence girl." May is basically "talks to you like you're shit girl." It's not cute and I'm going to be very pissed off if this arc doesn't end with everyone in story acknowledging that May was 100% at fault and Winslow 0%.
May's not a friend and he should find better people (and by people I mean people and robots) to spend his time with. I'm so over her antics.
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