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WCDT strips 3746 to 3750 (21st to 25th May 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
I too am curious about how AIs will react. Faye's friends are going to know how utterly wonderful this is for her and Bubbles's non-Faye friends are almost non-existent. Hannelore had a "Eww" reaction to her robot boyfriend but knows the world well enough to understand that what squicks her can be wonderful for another.
The AIs react like humans to most things and it's reasonable to expect some AIs outside their circle of friends to react like humans have all too often reacted to interracial marriages.
Undrneath:
Faybles would IRL have the double whammy of AI (assuming they exist in real life) and human, as well as being a same gender couple. In the comic universe everyone seems almost completely accepting of LGBTQ hopefully they are just as accepting of intersentient being relationships.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 21 May 2018, 05:58 ---I too am curious about how AIs will react. Faye's friends are going to know how utterly wonderful this is for her and Bubbles's non-Faye friends are almost non-existent. Hannelore had a "Eww" reaction to her robot boyfriend but knows the world well enough to understand that what squicks her can be wonderful for another.
The AIs react like humans to most things and it's reasonable to expect some AIs outside their circle of friends to react like humans have all too often reacted to interracial marriages.
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I'm not sure if it's entirely fair to use the reactions (Hanners' and others') to the robot BF that Hanners' dad sent her as a frame of reference. It is obvious that technology has come a very, very long way since that uncanny valley skeleton that Winslow briefly tried out, and based on everything we have seen since then it seems that the current humanoid AIs are quite close to humans at least appearance/behavior wise. That said, that's exactly why I do agree with your last statement, since therefore the AIs might be just as prone to human flaws such as bigotry/racism/etc.
SeaWoodStage:
*waves* I'm not technically new, as I've been reading since late 2003 (when a wise friend posted a link to QC with the note "I think I just found my new favourite webcomic!"), and I joined the forum about the time Faye was hospitalised. I haven't really posted since then, and I don't even lurk that often, but the comic has taken such an interesting turn recently that I decided to, um, de-de-lurk for a bit?
I don't have much interesting to contribute at the moment, as others have made far more insightful and articulate comments on the current in-comic events than I could. I suppose I just felt the need to pop in and say: "Wow." What's interesting to me is that I was never a Faye/Bubbles shipper. While their relationship was developing, I actually stuck to the hope that they would NOT form a romantic partnership, because I preferred the idea of a rich, meaningful, mutually supportive, platonic friendship.
The last few strips have changed my mind though. Not, I hasten to add, because I find recent events particularly hot or sexy (such things usually leave me pretty cold), but because it's such a great representation of the (true) notion that we don't usually choose who we fall in love with. To me, lust is a consequence of love, rather than the other way around. However attractive I find someone, I have never felt genuine physical passion until I was already in an established relationship with that person, and had come to recognise them as someone truly special, mentally and emotionally.
So to me, it was suddenly logical, because I realised that Faye and Bubbles have spent a long time building up a real and wonderful connection. Of course, there was no rule that it had to culminate in romance, but it makes a lot of sense to me now that it has. Looking forward to seeing where this next step leads them. (Hoping it's to happy places, because they've both put in real effort to change themselves and their lives positively, and that doesn't come easy.)
Mad Cat:
--- Quote from: Inconsequential on 20 May 2018, 19:29 ---I was sort of wondering how he was going to top the boot on the door and the sound-canceling headphones (Faye/Angus).
Pintsize.
Shuts.
Up.
Never saw THAT coming!
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A good author always knows how to throw his readers a curve ball.
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