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WCDT Strips 3591-3595 (16th to 20th October 2017)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 21 Oct 2017, 01:44 ---Whoever manufactured May's body cheaped out on the sensors; she was wholly unaware she had an arm fall off one time. Which likely also means her chassis either doesn’t have proprioception, or just doesn’t pass the data to her. Which seems ridiculous on the face of it….
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Yup, or the circuitry just plain failed.
May's chassis is the AI equivalent of the cheap suit of clothes prisoners used to be issued upon release from the penitentiary. It'll look okay just long enough to get the wearer through one job interview. Hell, for all we know it was built in the pen, next door to the license plate shop.
dsvella:
--- Quote from: Somebody on 20 Oct 2017, 16:18 ---You have to wonder about whether Punchbot's chassis is really viable to fix - it might be technically repairable, but one suspects that a car with such damage would be an insurance write-off. Beyond the cost of repair (parts & labour) itself, there's also how long it will take to make good.
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Now there's an interesting question, do AI's have an equivalent of health insurance? I am imagining something like car insurance but with more things covered.
In any case, the loss of an arm coupled with the side of your body torn off it something pretty major. I wonder how PB will take the news?
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Oct 2017, 01:50 ---Or possibly, because the arm has been chronically damaged, the sensors had been going off for some time and she'd simply learned to ignore them. ...
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Hell, the number of stories that I have heard with people "manning up" through the pain when they should've gotten something checked out is scary (myself included). I'm even friends with a guy who has suffered long-term pain issues and it's kinda warped his perception of it since its kinda normal to him.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: dsvella on 21 Oct 2017, 10:21 ---In any case, the loss of an arm coupled with the side of your body torn off it something pretty major. I wonder how PB will take the news?
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I'm pretty sure that I know this one.
Punchbot: Again!?
JohnTheWysard:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 20 Oct 2017, 07:29 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 20 Oct 2017, 06:42 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 19 Oct 2017, 21:55 ---Punchbot has taken Sam under his wing. Sort of.
What the Hell could he have tangled with?
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A moose, weren't you reading? Moose can be quite dangerous after all. A moose once bit my sister.
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Did she become a weremoose?
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She's female, so it would have been a weredoe.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: JohnTheWysard on 21 Oct 2017, 16:38 ---
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 20 Oct 2017, 07:29 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 20 Oct 2017, 06:42 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 19 Oct 2017, 21:55 ---Punchbot has taken Sam under his wing. Sort of.
What the Hell could he have tangled with?
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A moose, weren't you reading? Moose can be quite dangerous after all. A moose once bit my sister.
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Did she become a weremoose?
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She's female, so it would have been a weredoe.
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If you want to be pedantic, get it right, she would be a werecow. (Male moose are called bulls, female cows and the young are called calves)
But considering the topic, you use the species to denote the creatures name, not the gender. Especially considering that the more commonly known creature, the werewolf, comes from the Old English "werwulf", where "wer" meant "Man" and obviously I don't need to explain what "wulf" means. Otherwise, you'd have wereshe-wolves and that's actually a bit of a mouthful to say.
So yeah, after thoroughly ruining your joke, you end up with a brief language lesson. I'm sure the class appreciates the attempt.
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