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WCDT Strips 3661-3665 (22nd to 26th January 2018)

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Is it cold in here?:
Of course this is Faye who has a long record of not really understanding her own feelings.

BenRG:
I'm beginning to see Evie's role in this strip. She's the author substitute mouthpiece to deliver exposition, specifically about how some elements of AI works in Jeph's universe. There are two obvious things that jump out to me:

* "... can choose..." - That suggests that some synthetics have rigged themselves to experience certain responses without conscious choice or have developed that ability ("It's psychosomatic", as Roko put it);
* "... the vast majority..." - So, yeah, there are some AIs that choose permanent pleasure and nirvana of sorts. I wonder if they're considered medical cases or defectives for recycling?At least in Pintsize's case, whilst I can imagine the little pervert getting up to all sorts of things, being permanently high isn't one of them. He needs his wits about him if he is to give his best shot at weirding everyone else out and that sort of rules out over-use of such 'recreational DLLs'. May has been shown abusing similar software bugs/features but, again, she doesn't over-use from what I can see.

BTW, Evie's line in panel 4 suggests to me that she knows of Pintsize. Of course, she studies AI psychology, so it's unlikely that she wouldn't know of him. He's probably listed under "Abnormal AI Psychology - Case Study Zero"! :laugh:

However, at least for me, the biggest take-away from this strip is this: For a synthetic, sex is mostly in the mind. They don't necessarily need the specialist software but it's probably more common for them to do so.


[Edit - Fixed two glaring typos]

Bad Superman:
I hope this restaurant scene, with all its exposition, is laying the foundation for some movement in the Faye/Bubbles relationship, whatever that may be. Fayes cluelessness is understandable and realistic for the character, but in the overall story it starts to feel unnecessarily stretched out.

traroth:

--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 22 Jan 2018, 23:40 ---I hope this restaurant scene, with all its exposition, is laying the foundation for some movement in the Faye/Bubbles relationship, whatever that may be. Fayes cluelessness is understandable and realistic for the character, but in the overall story it starts to feel unnecessarily stretched out.

--- End quote ---

I couldn't agree more. Is JJ deliberately playing with our nerves?

Cornelius:
That's the main problem with exposition, in this medium. Either you have a wall of text, or you need to work it into the story, which messes with your pace. Or, the third option, set up an arc specifically to deliver your message, but that doesn't quite help when you need the context for a certain situation.


--- Quote from: Castlerook on 22 Jan 2018, 19:25 ---I do think that there is a certain kind of love from Faye for Bubbles, I just don't think its romantic.
...
There's certainly love between Bubbles and Faye, but I'm also certain that Faye's love is a different kind to the one Bubbles might feel and certainly different to the one Amanda and Evie have convinced themselves of.

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You might have a point there. This is one point where I like the scholastic differentiation: having the separate terms makes the discussion so much clearer.


Either way, I'm not boarding that ship until it's off the stocks. The launch might still have some unpleasant surprises.

Edited for proofreading.

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