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WCDT strips 3746 to 3750 (21st to 25th May 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
Sometimes it's possible to be non-technical and clear.
Momo walks underwater. If she was an organic we would say she was heavy for her size.
Bubbles is much larger than Momo. If she were organic we would (presumably) say she was heavy for her size. So, she's heavy compared to what you'd expect of an organic the same large size, and you'd expect such an organic to be pretty heavy.
300 pounds would not surprise me, and somewhere around that range you can't automatically assume furniture can deal with you.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: brasca on 22 May 2018, 22:35 ---I've had Ultracar and Malaya on my mind since Bubbles and Faye just got intimate and the questions surrounding that. As I recall Ultracar really didn't care for Malaya to do anything to her chassis, but didn't mind using her servos to pleasure her and it was a sexual relationship that worked for them. Perhaps it's the same with Bubbles. She doesn't need Faye to do anything we'd recognize as sexual conduct to her chassis except enjoy what pleasure Bubbles provides.
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While an android would not experience things the same way humans do, the more humanoid models like Bubbles have very acute sensors that can detect even the gentlest touch, such as running one’s fingers along their arm, and the AI mind would be able to interpret that as a pleasurable sensation.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 May 2018, 23:06 ---Sometimes it's possible to be non-technical and clear.
Momo walks underwater. If she was an organic we would say she was heavy for her size.
Bubbles is much larger than Momo. If she were organic we would (presumably) say she was heavy for her size. So, she's heavy compared to what you'd expect of an organic the same large size, and you'd expect such an organic to be pretty heavy.
300 pounds would not surprise me, and somewhere around that range you can't automatically assume furniture can deal with you.
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To be fair to Momo, I could do nothing in the water except walk on the bottom (and I could do that quite well) until I was 17 years old, when I finally learned to keep myself afloat and swim. So in her case, it could very well be that she simply does not know how to swim. Her weight and density may be completely irrelevant.
Someone a week or two ago speculated that Bubbles was 400 pounds, and questioned the structural integrity of their bed. My wimpy little twin bed is rated for 500 pounds. Faye’s bed is bigger than mine. So I looked up full (double) sized and queen sized beds to see. The first couple beds I found in either size — just simple wood-framed beds — were rated for 800 pounds. So I have no doubts about Faye’s bed being able to handle the two of them on it (because I doubt Bubbles weighs more than 300 pounds). Besides, we’ve seen the two of them lying together on the bed a long time ago.
Edit: I just realized that my diatribe on the strength of Faye’s bed sort of ignores the first line of your post — the line about being non-technical. ::)
Bad Superman:
Today's comic seems almost bittersweet, as in:
"Yeah, sooner or later we have to come to the serious part... but not yet..!"
BenRG:
I've got the feeling that basically Faye and Bubbles agreed that the serious, self-aware talk about relationships, boundaries and at what point do we determine if this is just lust or something deeper has to happen. However, they're going to focus on all the new fun activities that they've discovered first.
FWIW, there are plenty of RL examples of couples who are able to operate small businesses together and without problems. However, there will always be the potential for any professional disagreement to become personal. "You don't seem to doubt my workmanship in bed!" or something similarly stupid that you could really expect Faye to come out with if she was angry and/or upset. However, curiously, being in a relationship actually increases the likelihood that they'd end up resolving the matter sensibly because they'd have that much longer to discuss it sensibly and far more to lose if they can't.
With regards to AI intolerance, I suspect that a lot will depend on what Pintsize says at the poker game. Remember: AIs seem to have their own IM network so anything he says that's a sufficiently juicy bit of gossip will radiate outwards into the general AI community at a significant portion of the speed of light with the accuracy of said gossip dropping by 50% with every new iteration.
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