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WCDT strips 3746 to 3750 (21st to 25th May 2018)
Bad Superman:
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--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 22 May 2018, 23:23 ---Today's comic seems almost bittersweet, as in:
"Yeah, sooner or later we have to come to the serious part... but not yet..!"
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I read it as carried-away sexual feelings. It's a hazardous state to be in. I'm glad those two are getting to experience it.
"Yeah, sooner or later, but there's something I really want to do together first, and we're already naked"
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant. :-D
Inconsequential:
--- Quote from: Case on 23 May 2018, 01:57 ---Fweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh ....
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Ya know, I also wondered why Bubbles hasn't been venting coolant lately.
We've seen Roko and Bubbles vent (can't recall any other AI venting offhand... maybe Momo when she ran into Sven?) and I think they might only vent when they're conflicted, or are at least temporarily unable to choose the next words or actions - they literally have processors or banks of processors running in opposite directions or looping back and forth or something, so there's some local overheating while the processors work frantically to sort it out. Or something like that. Maybe it would be better described as embarrassment (but then again having no idea of your next action is part of being embarrassed.)
Obviously, Bubbles' emotions are at a very high pitch lately, but they're running the same direction. She's certainly not conflicted or unable to choose what to do next, so no venting. (Roko vented pretty hard when Renee called her out on her bread fetish; she embarrassed and at a loss as to what to do. Ultimately, she bought a bunch of bread and ran away.)
That's my pet theory about venting, anyway; it's triggered by a specific circumstance or condition, not just strong emotion. We'll see whether it holds up.
Just one of those nerdy little details that's fun to ponder, and makes the AI characters a little more real.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 May 2018, 09:45 ---Will Bubbles ask about it? She might think of a scar on a civilian as something she didn't expect.
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Why not? Humans are soft and squishy and we get scars all the time. It's certainly not limited to people who have had military service. In fact, it would probably be more surprising to find someone without at least some minor scar at Faye's age and chosen profession of metalworking.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 23 May 2018, 12:01 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 May 2018, 09:45 ---Will Bubbles ask about it? She might think of a scar on a civilian as something she didn't expect.
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Why not? Humans are soft and squishy and we get scars all the time. It's certainly not limited to people who have had military service. In fact, it would probably be more surprising to find someone without at least some minor scar at Faye's age and chosen profession of metalworking.
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I would be surprised if Bubbles doesn't know at least the basics about Faye's tragic past.
sniktchtherat:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 23 May 2018, 10:55 ---
--- Quote from: sniktchtherat on 23 May 2018, 03:21 ---
A couple of points on relative AI mass: Momo is light enough that an average person can lift her. She's also short and slender, same as Winslow - I know a person who is less than 5 feet tall, and they have trouble keeping themselves above 90 pounds. Bubbles is well north of 6 feet, possibly approaching 7, and BUILT. Andre Roussimoff only hit 7'4", and he exceeded 500 lbs easily. Also, http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3150 - Bubbles has serious mass, and not all of that is the armor. Either that, or Emily is as diffuse physically as she is mentally and thus gets blown along the streets like an untethered kite.
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Yes she had a lot of mass there however she was also wearing her armor which probably more than doubled her weight.
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Square-cube law. Bubbles has a LOT more volume than her armor; in fact her armor's profile isn't much more bulky than standard-issue police Kevlar, albeit in a full suit style. Even made of a very dense material and backed by ceramic or steel plates, it's a big stretch to it equalling her own mass - as a comparison, EOD suits don't even crack 100 lbs.
I'll also drop in that I'm a broad-shouldered, 6'2" person of dubious but not abysmal physical fitness, and I'm still tapdancing with 300 personally. If someone of Emily's height and build took a flying hammer to my chest, there's no way in HELL I'd remain standing, much less not even sway from the impact, purely because of the laws of physics. Bubbles is stronger, taller, broader-shouldered, and designed to be durable in combat. That comes at a cost in weight. She's AT LEAST 400, probably closer to 500.
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