Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3681 to 3685 (19-23 February 2018)
Oenone:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 21 Feb 2018, 09:30 ---On the other hand, Emily does tend have some ... interesting effects on technology from time to time. Perhaps it's just safer to turn the glasses off.
--- End quote ---
Plus, he’s working behind the counter of a place with burning hot things that sometimes explode. I’d probably want to pay close attention to my surroundings then too.
Also tbh I kinda assumed when he has his anime glasses and is looking at Marigold, he’s recording her so he can like, save all the memories of his first love...
Of course now that sounds less cute and more creepy :(
Oenone:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 21 Feb 2018, 09:18 ---May has been something-related-to-advising on this relationship even before it started. It is possible she feels like she owes Dale something and is trying to pay it back.
How does she know what advice to give? She might have a social protocol database too. She may have spent her time in Robot Jail "reading" and gotten started on books about human relationships.
Those books exist because some things can be taught. Active listening, random acts of kindness, the five to one ratio -- all teachable skills. We teach kids what to do in a fire. Being in a relationship is more likely.
For heaven's sake, I would have been incomparably better off if someone had explained during my dating years that the overwhelming majority of rejections had nothing to do with me and did not constitute a pattern.
Hmm. I'm about to trigger a split into RELATE, aren't I?
--- End quote ---
Is there a Relate thread on best self help books?
ckridge:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 21 Feb 2018, 09:38 ---Is there a Relate thread on best self help books?
--- End quote ---
I think novels are probably the best relationship self-help books. Some show how to do it all wrong (Dangerous Liasons, The Captive), some show how to do it right (Gilead), and some show that it gets really hard even when you do it right (Cheri). Most important, they show how looking closely at particular human characters is interesting, and looking closely at particular human characters is probably the single most useful social skill.
This comic is a kind of self-help book, too. It keeps your mind working on what to do in tricky social situations.
Problem is, as I know to my sorrow, if you are kind of a dick but have good social skills, you are kind of a dick. Fixing that takes some other kind of self-help.
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 20 Feb 2018, 17:43 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Feb 2018, 23:20 ---Who'd like to see May become a 'plane, maybe something like a Quinjet from the MCU, and still try to keep up with her friends?
--- End quote ---
Make sure she at least has a GIR-walk mode so she isn't stuck in a hangar or on a tarmac when she isn't flying.
--- End quote ---
How about a micro-quad copter?
Her rap sheet would preclude doing deliveries for amazon but then again they have a penchant for delivering things to people who have never ordered anything from them.
I do not.... I Repeat most strongly .... do not recommend a drone swarm.
JRDelirio:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 21 Feb 2018, 07:24 ---
May is actually much older than she looks, and has acquired knowledge of humans just by being around a long time. This is unlikely, but I like the image of someone very old inside that little doll body.
--- End quote ---
Well, visual clues about age would not necessarily be a reliable indicator of maturity for an AI, especially one embodied in a "welfare" cheap refurb chassis issued off-the-rack, so to speak, when she was released from robotjail.
Also even among us humans, there is the phenomenon of different "intelligences" and even different levels within each class. May suffers from shortfalls in the impulse control area but she may be perfectly well aware of interpersonal relationship standards.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version