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WCDT strips 3741 to 3745 (May 14th - 18th 2018)
fayelovesbubbles:
Closing your eyes, smiling and blushing like that usually means you have feelings for the person you're imagining. Faye wasn't able to accept it yet. After her sister visited and said things, she had another moment, then said "it can't be." At that time she realized she had feelings.
Tova:
--- Quote from: snufflebottoms on 20 May 2018, 07:35 ---
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 20 May 2018, 06:21 ---http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3589
This is when people should have realized that Faye didn't just like Bubbles in a friend way.
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"But friendship is sacred and romance is lower form of love!" :roll:
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I'd just like to say that all of these sarcastic asides casting shade on those who were happy with Bubbles and Faye enjoying a close friendship are getting a touch tiresome. I personally am genuinely pleased for Bubbles and Faye as well as those who got the outcome they wished for, but is this continued gloating really necessary?
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 20 May 2018, 20:20 ---Closing your eyes, smiling and blushing like that usually means you have feelings for the person you're imagining. Faye wasn't able to accept it yet. After her sister visited and said things, she had another moment, then said "it can't be." At that time she realized she had feelings.
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Again, I had read that differently. I thought that Faye suddenly realized what Amanda had been trying to say back at the diner. But her "it can't be" was because she still didn't see it that way. I honestly don't think Faye consciously knew there was anything there until the backrub moment, when she suddenly looked back with 20/20 hindsight, and realized that all those subtle little hints had been pointing to something real all along, and not just her imagination running amok.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Masterof7s on 19 May 2018, 03:32 ---I normally don't post on the forums. But I felt compelled to register at this Bubbles/Faye turn of events because we talking about a robot/human pairing. Jeph is normally pretty smart about this sort of thing so I hope he's worked out the science behind this arc or I'm going to be really disappointed.
When you eliminate all the romanticized nonsense behind human coupling, the bottom line is that humans are driven to pair up because of hormonal and chemical influence. It is literally a biological physical need for oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and other mood stabilizing chemicals that produces the pain and longing we feel when we are lacking physical affection. Faye I can understand because she hasn't gotten laid in months and really isn't all that affectionate with her circle of friends. She is touch starved and her body is responding to any physical stimulus.
Bubbles on the other hand is a machine. A sentient and sapient machine with an artificial, humanlike consciousness to be certain, but a machine nonetheless. She has no biological needs, because she is not a biological being. What logic processes are being satisfied by this interaction and why do those processes exist in the first place? This is not a matter of "just feeling it" because feelings are tied directly to the physical body through the chemicals that are produced during moments of intense emotion, and you can't have emotion without internal biological organs. So outside of a bunch of algorithms designed to mimic or present a simulacrum of human emotion, even with a humanlike consciousness, a machine can not feel the same way a human does. So what is Bubbles getting out of her relationship with Faye turning physical?
The narrative needs to address the science in some way because right now it feels like lazy fan-fiction.
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Sorry, I came to this a little late, but I felt it necessary to address. I have one thing to say;
1658.
Yes, the single most linked comic in the forum (which is why I didn't bother, the mere number is enough).
And at the bottom is Jeph's entire explanation of what Bubbles gets out of it, and I quote:
"No one is quite sure who decided it would be useful for artificial intelligences to possess libidos, but it is generally agreed that it would be more trouble than it is worth to remove it. Besides, the horny little buggers would revolt."
Jeph has been able to write fantastically believable AI by doing just this - it's a wave of the hand, a non-explanation treated as fact. And it works. We don't know how these "horny little buggers" came about or how they work, but like the two facebook bots that were developing their own language, we don't need to understand it to know that it happened. It's fact.
Now, it's true that libido could be a liability for a combat bot, s it can be for a soldier. That's part of military training, though. I doubt it's actually non-existant, but in Bubbles' case I'm sure - along with many other emotions - it's been pushed way, way down.
It's good to see her able to feel again. Perhaps for the first time.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 20 May 2018, 21:54 ---Now, it's true that libido could be a liability for a combat bot, s it can be for a soldier. That's part of military training, though. I doubt it's actually non-existant, but in Bubbles' case I'm sure - along with many other emotions - it's been pushed way, way down.
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Having spent what was at the time 1/5th of my life in the military, I feel qualified to say that trying to push down a GI's libido is a fool's errand (not that there aren't fools willing to make the attempt).
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