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WCDT strips 3671 to 3675 (5th to 9th February 2018)
TheBiscuit:
--- Quote from: yaksaregreat on 07 Feb 2018, 05:35 ---On the latest strip, 3673, Bubbles is freaking out about Faye's butt, but I can see her underwear peeking out???
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Various kinds of panties exist which show off large amounts of butt. Thong style, for example. Bubbles may still be seeing enough to drive her a little crazy, even if it isn't quite the 'full moon'.
All that said, I would have expected Bubbles to enjoy the view and remain silent.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 07 Feb 2018, 07:08 ---All that said, I would have expected Bubbles to enjoy the view and remain silent.
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That's not Bubbles, though, is it? She's a full-on lawful-good paladin-type personality. If Faye appeared before her naked, her most likely reaction would be to grab a towel, cover her up and usher her into her bedroom so she could get dressed whilst Bubbles guarded the door!
ckridge:
I don't think it possible to over-analyze how AIs can desire humans. (Or anything else, for that matter. There is no over-thinking, only sometimes under-acting.) What we are really doing when we do that is trying to imagine what Bubbles is feeling.
First off, we have to keep in mind that AIs who consort with humans are a self-selected group who like to talk and make friends. We know, from a throwaway joke, that some tried to consort with dolphins, and that this did not work as well. There are likely a great many AIs for whom humans are a peripheral concern. Bubbles, by contrast, is naturally inclined toward friendship.
Second, Bubbles is bereaved, bereft of her memory of bereavement, and trying to make friends again anyway. She is risking much more than any of the other AIs, and so is bringing a much more intense mixture of fear, desire, and determination to the table.
Third, Bubbles has grown up immersed in our culture, in which sex and romance are continually upheld as heaven on earth, because they just about are, and because they can be used to sell you just about anything.
Fourth, Bubbles in particular must have some way of gearing up suddenly from everyday life into combat mode. It would be absurdly wasteful to have her continually able to knock down walls and overturn armored vehicles, and would lead to accidents every time she got distracted. She must have some set of systems that do the same work that adrenaline and the related stress hormones do in humans, and arouse her body to its full capacities.
Much has been made of how close human fear-and-flight arousal is to human sexual arousal, particularly in the shy and inexperienced. The mouth goes dry, the hands get shaky, the skin flushes or grows pale, the heart stumbles and pounds, one feels hot, and so on. We have seen something like this happen when Bubbles vents coolant.
So, I suspect that what is happening here is that Bubbles is being slain by Faye's beauty, just as one of us might be slain by beauty, because we all learned how to do that from the same books and movies. At the same time, I think, her body is furiously preparing itself for some emergency, with utterly no notion of what the emergency might be. We can't know just what that feels like, because we don't have bodies anything like hers, but it is likely profoundly moving and neither entirely pleasant nor entirely unpleasant.
Aenno:
--- Quote from: Marco on 07 Feb 2018, 05:13 ---Try to explain this to May or Pintsize.
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None of them had an arc based on being sexualy aroused by a human and trying to deal with it. Also Pintsize or May are exactly that kind of persons who would emulate sexual arousing (or, even more likely, just declaring they have sexual arousing) to pester people around.
--- Quote from: ckridge on 07 Feb 2018, 07:21 ---So, I suspect that what is happening here is that Bubbles is being slain by Faye's beauty, just as one of us might be slain by beauty, because we all learned how to do that from the same books and movies. At the same time, I think, her body is furiously preparing itself for some emergency, with utterly no notion of what the emergency might be. We can't know just what that feels like, because we don't have bodies anything like hers, but it is likely profoundly moving and neither entirely pleasant nor entirely unpleasant.
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So you're saying about scenario like this: Bubbles feels attraction from, let's say, platonic reasons, as AI persons are modeled after humans culturally; her body detecting such attraction as a generic stress and activating generic mobilisation protocols.
That's entirely plausible when we're speaking about animal, who have body reactions created evolutionary, and before concious minds. But why on Earth Bubbles' chassis would do (and even allowed to do) this kind of things autonomously without Bubbles control?
Neko_Ali:
Because antropc bodies have specifically been designed to simulate human reactions. Or at least passing similarities. The in universe reasoning probably has something to do with allowing them to closely interact with humans in a way that humans are used to, to better foster human-android relations. The real reason is because Jeph wants them to react in ways similar to humans to better telegraph their emotions to us. Someone like Pintsize or Jeremy, either his old assembly arm or current more humanoid form lack these sorts of reactions so it's harder at a glance for use to identify their emotional state, meaning it has to be spelled out.
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