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WCDT strips 3756-3760 (4th June to 8th June 2018)

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fayelovesbubbles:
Er. Faye called Bubbles’ voice “pretty,” which makes me think she doesn’t sound “robotic.”

Her voice must be very special, given she has a different font, and Faye and Marten imitated her voice.

HughYeman:

--- Quote from: specter177 on 08 Jun 2018, 16:08 ---I'd guess the moving mouth thing is more to keep them away from being too creepy looking. Human looking robots today even have moving mouths, despite using speakers, even if they're not quite as refined. Air over vocal chords seems like WAY more complexity than needed, especially since robots still sound, well, robotic-ish, based on how Jeph draws the text bubbles.

--- End quote ---

That's a good point. I had the same thought about the appearance of the speech balloons, and promptly forgot about it until you mentioned it.

HughYeman:
Laughing my ass off. Here's why.

I was thinking about specter177 said about the speech balloons, and what fayelovesbubles said about her voice, and I was going to say that, because of the former, I imagine Bubbles as sounding noticeably—but probably not egregiously—synthesized. I was going to say maybe like GLaDOS, but warmer. Then I thought of Marten's early reactions to her, and I modified that to "like GLaDOS but warmer, and *much* more terrifying." And then it hit me. She could sound like anything. She could sound like ED-209.

You guys. Bubbles could sound like ED-209.

"You're so warm."
"YOU ARE TOO."
...
"WE STILL OUGHT TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION."
"Yeah."
"PERHAPS... LATER, THOUGH."
"Yeah."

I've been giggling over this off and on for hours, and will continue to do so.

SilentSooYun:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 08 Jun 2018, 03:41 ---“Why did you even pick the name Melon if you didn’t know what they were?”

“I just thought it was a cool word! How was I supposed to know they were a real thing? I mean, humans have words for all kinds of things that don’t really exist, like ‘rabbit’ and ‘tortellini’ and ‘misdemeanor’!”

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Maybe it was a misspelling of "mellon", as in "Pedo mellon a mino"
So her name means Friend :)

specter177:

--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 08 Jun 2018, 17:00 ---Er. Faye called Bubbles’ voice “pretty,” which makes me think she doesn’t sound “robotic.”

Her voice must be very special, given she has a different font, and Faye and Marten imitated her voice.

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I should have said synthesized, not robotic. That's not exclusive with sounding "pretty," but I assume it sounds distinctly not exactly human.

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