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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
A Duck:
I just realized that Faye has been exclusively wearing that black hoodie for a *long* time now. I like it, but maybe Jeph is also using it to hint at her financial issues?
TheEvilDog:
With regards to Faye taking the money from Melon, I'd call that a consultation fee.
I know several people who would call it an idiot's fee.
Melon has been set up to be...eccentric, that's the polite term... This was someone who blew their own ass off, has a job where she screams as insects are poured upon her and as we've just seen here, she pretty much thought that a dildo was a dick off a chassis. That points to someone who has more money than sense, Bug-Screamer sounds like a pretty niche job and niche jobs tend to pay fairly well. The thing is as well, I imagine that Melon did realise she had wasted some of Faye's time and was perhaps overpaying to save face and to apologise, all while keeping up the idea of getting a hutch for her new pet.
ANeM:
I think the friction with Bubs today is due to her being frustrated with the Melon thing, possibly for a couple of reasons. The most obvious is that Bubbles has been a (somewhat) naive AI that got taken advantage by someone else. It's not as horrible as what happened to her, but it's still kind of in that same realm. It's a young AI who doesn't know any better being exploited for personal gain. Whether or not Melon was doing it to save face doesn't really matter, it's the optics.
Beyond that there is the fact Faye is once again making business decisions without consulting with Bubbles. Union Robotics is supposed to be their attempt at going legit, and "tricking" someone into paying $100 just to be told that vibrators need batteries doesn't mesh well with that concept. Yes, Melon offered it, but that doesn't really make it okay. It's definitely not going to help the business if Melon mentions it to someone who knows better. It is short term gain for what could be long term problems. You don't want to get a reputation for exploiting people. If Melon did it to save face, they'll probably fine. You don't knowingly do something like that just to tell people later.. but Faye and Bubs don't really have any way of knowing that. It's an unnecessary risk.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: ANeM on 17 Jan 2018, 19:50 ---I think the friction with Bubs today is due to her being frustrated with the Melon thing, possibly for a couple of reasons. The most obvious is that Bubbles has been a (somewhat) naive AI that got taken advantage by someone else. It's not as horrible as what happened to her, but it's still kind of in that same realm. It's a young AI who doesn't know any better being exploited for personal gain. Whether or not Melon was doing it to save face doesn't really matter, it's the optics.
Beyond that there is the fact Faye is once again making business decisions without consulting with Bubbles. Union Robotics is supposed to be their attempt at going legit, and "tricking" someone into paying $100 just to be told that vibrators need batteries doesn't mesh well with that concept. Yes, Melon offered it, but that doesn't really make it okay. It's definitely not going to help the business if Melon mentions it to someone who knows better. It is short term gain for what could be long term problems. You don't want to get a reputation for exploiting people. If Melon did it to save face, they'll probably fine. You don't knowingly do something like that just to tell people later.. but Faye and Bubs don't really have any way of knowing that. It's an unnecessary risk.
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I think it might be less to do with Faye taking money from Melon and more that Evie might have pressed a couple of buttons during their conversation and Bubbles has chosen to remove herself from that situation.
A Duck:
I don't think Bubbles was exactly paying attention to the whole Melon business, I also think it's because of the Evie thing.
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