Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3711 to 3715 (2nd-6th April 2018)
Case:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2018, 23:24 ---This is such a quintessentially romcom moment: The protagonist's crush goes off with the other crush, both safely and serenely ignorant of his feelings.
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Those'd be the many romcoms with bi and potentially poly protagonists, I wager?
Yeah, they do that, do they not? Bloody tearjerks ...
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No, smarty-pants, it follows the general conceptual and thematic concepts of romccoms.
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Mmmmmh 'conceptual concepts' ?
Oh Ben ... all this time, and you still know all the right words, mon chér...
Zebediah:
If this was a romantic comedy, then Brun would kiss Clinton good-night when they got to her door.
If this was a psychological thriller, then Roko would go out for a walk, see Clinton innocently walking Brun home, and then something in her brain would snap and she would start stalking them both.
But this is Questionable Content, so neither of these things will happen. Instead something incredibly awkward will happen and Clinton will walk away very confused.
BlueFatima:
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--- Quote from: brasca on 02 Apr 2018, 21:58 ---I feel bad for Elliot, but I still think we're seeing all the materials we need to ship him and Roko so there's hope.
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Seriously? You're shipping Elliot & Roko — two people we have never even seen speak to each other?
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Oh, I totally see it. These two arcs are playing together back and forth, we know Roko has a thing for buff men (they are always buff in her fantasies at least), Elliot body builds, and the last we saw of Roko she was telling Melon she has a bread fetish. I think the pairing would be a good way to explore human-AI relationships versus using central characters—as much as we've been teased by Faybles (and that it could be a cute pairing). Roko has decent communication skills and she is assertive but afraid of being vulnerable. Elliot can look intimidating, but his personality is actually very laid back and sweet, and it he seems like he enjoys listening to other people talk.
I still would love to see Clinton-Elliot-Brun trio, but they seem to be such newbies at relationships that being poly may be kind of unrealistic, and Clinton seems to be either unaware of his biness or is straight as an arrow (though beautifully open-minded). It's felt like since we met him and Brun they were destined for something special together—be it super friendship or a relationship or something else. The fact he said to Elliot he didn't want to betray Brun's trust shows a gigantic amount of character growth from the oblivious stalkery guy we first met creeping out Hanners.
Timemaster:
Some people tend to show their real feelings when they are banged enough. If Clinton is unsure about his feelings for Brun, maybe the next episodes will bring clarity for him (and us).
TM
OldGoat:
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--- Quote from: Milayna on 02 Apr 2018, 21:24 ---Hey, I can't recall, is there anythining canonical in how AI's get their names? It occurrs to me that without a family history something like "O'Malley" would not likely be inherited, so where did it come from?
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I'm pretty sure I remember Bubbles saying that Bubbles was a nickname her squad gave her, and she kept it to honor them. Other than that, I don't think we know. It's possible O'Malley took the name in tribute to a mentor or friend, or maybe he wanted to be a cop and decided that O'Malley sounded like a good Cop Name.
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We've speculated on this before WRT Trooper Roko Basilisk. Off the top of my head, she and Bartholomew Punchbot CPA are the only AIs we've met who unquestionably use surnames. Since AIs presumably know each other by their MAC addresses, chassis serial numbers, and OS build numbers, given names are only necessary to interact with us meat persons. They take surnames when necessary to interact with courts and government agencies.
For Roko to be known professionally only as "Roko" would also reduce her to the level of police canine units ("patrol dog Fluffy"), and she needs to be recognized by the humans she deals with as a sentient entity with the full authority of the State of Massachusetts behind her, not just another barking, flea chewing, uniform hairing, lunch room raiding sandwich thief police dog. Until she went to work for MSP, she was probably just "Roko."
Since they are sentient entities with free agency, there are potentially as many sources of AI surnames as there are AIs wanting to take them. As for Trooper (presuming he, too, works for the State Police) O'Malley, we'll have to wait for his backstory to be revealed to find out where and how he came by his name. (I get the feeling it may be Francis Xavier O'Malley, just 'cause it'd be so damn Boston.)
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