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WCDT Strips 3566 to 3570 (11th to 15th September 2017)
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: Storel on 13 Sep 2017, 17:07 ---Can't Roko just look away or close her eyes while her foot is being detached? That's what I do any time I'm having blood drawn or receiving a vaccination shot: I feel disturbed when I see needles penetrating my skin, so I just look away. No unconsciousness or hallucinations required.
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Usually I have to look, because most of the time I don't feel the needles go in.
Narrow Century:
The whole "insurance" thing raises an interesting question about the setting. Is chassis insurance provided by your job, like health insurance, or do AI's need to cover it themselves, like car insurance? On the one hand, for many working AI's, their chassis is much more important to their ability to function than a car is to a human, but on the other hand, a chassis malfunctioning isn't likely to be an existential threat in the same way that a health crisis is.
So, two questions for the crowd.
1. How SHOULD this work, if you were in a position to dictate it?
2. How DOES it work in the setting, by your estimation/cynicism?
BenRG:
Okay, so now we have it confirmed: Roko's problem with mechanics is actually some manner of anxiety issue bordering on being a kind of robo-hypochondria. Like Hannelore, she always imagines the worst and literally has a panic attack at the thought of medical treatment. It's a time when you need calm, professional treatment, which is where Bubbles comes in.
Yeah, if Roko is a fan of animé, it's unlikely that she'd assume that the big, heavily-built one would also be smart. It isn't a slur on Bubbles, it's just cultural programming of a less literal kind!
Now I'm going to spend the rest of the day hearing: "It is true. I do not sparkle." in my mental voice for Bubbles, which is kind of like Bea Arthur (Fun fact: Bea was a Marine in WW2!)!
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 13 Sep 2017, 03:35 ---
--- Quote from: Freelance_Physicist on 12 Sep 2017, 22:00 ---This latest comic leads me to believe that Basilisk is an uploaded human consciousness, not an AI. She has been hiding this because she doesn't want to be known as Robocop. She never liked that movie.
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You know what, that is an excellent little theory!
Have a gold star!
http://www.envirocarems.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Gold-Star.jpg
(Christ! That's huge! Modified to a link!!)
Modified AGAIN cos I just had another thought which adds to the theory...
Roko... (Rock-oh)
BUT it could also be read as: RoKo (Row, Co.) (Row. Co. = Robo Cop) !!!!
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Or maybe RoKo = 'Rotating Agent Koko'.
EDIT: whoops, that's pretty big. Resized it.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Sep 2017, 23:25 ---Now I'm going to spend the rest of the day hearing: "It is true. I do not sparkle." in my mental voice for Bubbles, which is kind of like Bea Arthur (Fun fact: Bea was a Marine in WW2!)!
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Really I imagine her voice is similar to R Dorthy Waynewright's voice actor, Lia Sargent or Gwendoline Christie.
While I do believe Bubbles is the brains of this outfit I think her military experience makes her highly adept with bureaucracy and red tape so handling the paperwork is easy for her.
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