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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)

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Gyrre:

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--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 18 Jan 2018, 07:45 ---Her confused reaction to Melon offering $100 could be because she feels that's a lot, but she's gonna take it because a) small business and b) she did work for a customer.

That's supposition on my part, I accept, but it does seem to fit with what we're shown

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Quite apart from the fact that Faye's reaction (I would not remotely call it "confusion") came from the fact that she KNEW being offered $100 for turning off a battery powered... 'massage device'... was utterly insane...  (By the sounds of things she didn't even give her new batteries. ("It NEEDS new batteries", not,  "It only needed new batteries")

$100 for a 30 second 'fix'? Nah, Faye was *wrong* to take it.

And the important part is not that the $100 was offered. It's that it was offered with the words "Is that a good amount to offer you?"
Faye, instead of saying "Whoa! Dude! That's like WAY too much!", saw the cash and answered in a literal sense that it "was" a "good amount" to give to her, because $100 is a good amount of money. That was what her reaction was.

But she knew she was exploiting Melon... that is undeniable.
And that's what is jarring when we look at Faye's character.

As has been mentioned above, if that little nugget got out, the business would collapse screaming.
And it really seems out-of-character for Faye to rip someone off like that... that's all.

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As someone who went through a fair deal of counseling for a phobia on the following matter, GERMS!
That thing was in one or more of someone else's three main orifices.

traroth:
You wouldn't use someone else's toothbrush, after all...

traroth:

--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 19 Jan 2018, 00:57 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 19 Jan 2018, 00:47 ---
Please tell me all this drama is not you hating on your old TA from way back when because she had the gall of doing her job?

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Nope. Evie is annoying, and thoughtless, and reminds me of smarter than thou women I encountered in college. Some of them were my teachers, yes, but disliking Evie has nothing to do with them. I only made the association after some discussion here, like "ohhhh...those are the annoying as shit people she reminds me of."

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I don't understand why people dislike Evie. In the #3656 comic, she hurted unwillingly Bubbles' feelings, but that happens. If you speak with people, you will sometimes hurt their fillings, most of the time without even knowing it. And as for Bubbles saying it feels unpleasant to have her living experience treated as a sociological case study, that's what we all are, for sociologues (and for a whole bunch of researchers), it's in no way specific to robot AIs. She has reasons to be hurt and to be really sensitive, but Evie has no way to know that. Evie seems to be passionnate for her domain of study, and that's actually great, in my opinion.

Dal Gurak:

--- Quote from: brasca on 18 Jan 2018, 11:19 ---The impression I get from a lot of people on this board is the only way to avoid ever hurting someone’s feelings is to avoid interaction altogether. :roll:

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That's pretty much why I very rarely talk to people, and never unless spoken to first.  If someone at work gets a haircut, and my thought when I see it is 'oh wow, that looks great', I'd never think of saying it out loud, lest I be reprimanded for harrassment or something.  There's something most people can do that's called 'reading a room', I think?  Where they seem to know what will be okay to say and what won't, not based on the thing being said but the people it's being said to?  That's pretty much magic from my perspective - can't do it at all.  I try to be respectful and kind to everybody when I do have to talk, but that'll only get you so far.  So yeah, like you said, only way to avoid hurting someone, making someone angry, getting into hot water, or otherwise causing a big mess ... is to just keep your mouth shut.  Especially for us charisma-impaired folks.

Is it cold in here?:
What if Bubbles discovers she's been compared to a nuclear weapon and a dog on the same day?

Faye meant it in a way consistent with respect but who's going to bet Bubbles would take it that way?

BTW:
"Robosexuality" is a term that's been used in the comic.

Bubbles herself says she doesn't know what her feelings toward Faye are. Love is a very real possibility, but so is a crush or an unusually tender friendship.

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