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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 26 Sep 2018, 05:09 ---Those hoping for an Australian accent, do be aware that it has been specifically stated as a Boston accent. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3695
As an Australian myself, I'd like it too, but it's sadly not the case. Would be cool to have the traditional "Aussie Backpacka" pass through at some point, organic or otherwise.
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Boston v Aussie = Meh. Both places were populated by scads of Irish immigrants, some willing, some not so much (Botany Bay, for example), and they're very much linguistically related.
Also, pardon me, but what the heck is a "backapacka?" Google is of no help at all.
remyfull:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 26 Sep 2018, 17:40 ---Also, pardon me, but what the heck is a "backapacka?" Google is of no help at all.
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I'd wager a backpacka is a backpacker. As in the individual travels or hikes while carrying their belongings in a backpack.
Morituri:
I'm finding Roko's decision to leave the police force the most interesting thing in this whole discussion.
Because she's got what I think is a pretty fundamental conflict to navigate here. The police are necessary. Their job is scary and when they're out there on the street they're under semi-constant threat. When people are scared and threatened they're on the defensive and prone to overreaction. And when that's the police, the overreactions are almost necessarily injustices.
There's nothing that makes that okay. Trying to find a way to build trust between a police force and the population it interacts with, once that trust is damaged, is like trying to find a way to un-poison a well. People have learned there's no clean water in there, so there's no reason not to shit in it, so the water never becomes clean. And on the other side of the metaphor, the tension creates the threat, the threat gives rise to the injustices, the injustices reinforce the tension, and it seems like there's never any way off the wheel.
I spent most of my post highschool youth being the one who was immediately considered or assumed to be "dangerous" in any situation that even remotely threatened violence, disorder, or unrest. It was almost automatic - if the police got called, I got cuffed (or anyway got a pair of those plastic ziptie things). Other people didn't get cuffed until after the police figured out what was going on and arrested them, if ever. I didn't get released until the police figured out what was going on and that I *wasn't* the one they needed to arrest.
I got over resenting it a long time ago. But I have never lost sight of the fact that it's still wrong. And it sucks. And a lot of people get a hell of a lot worse than I did out of it (Black Lives Matter, damnit).
But I'm just damn baffled about what is the right thing to do about it.
Roko may be saying "I just don't want to be a part of it, I quit." And that may make her life better. But it doesn't make the situation better. I understand what Roko is upset about, and why she feels a need to do, and be, something else.
But. What else? And do you make the situation the rest of us have to deal with in any way better by walking away from it?
And is that what CreepyBot is on about here, now that it has appeared to taunt her?
Perfectly Reasonable:
It's ... Spookybot? I am tempted to commit fanfic.
"A compacted cube of scrap metal appeared mysteriously at the intersection of 4th and Federal today.
The traffic hazard was promptly removed. Anyone with information is asked to contact the police."
Otherwise I am happy to see more about the QC AI community. I applaud Roko's decision to make a better life for herself and wish her success.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Drunken Old Man on 26 Sep 2018, 14:14 ---OK, been holding this in since the very first "Spookybot" run since I figured it was gonna be a one-and-done. But now it's back so....
Jeph, drop this annoying obnoxious literal deus ex machina POS character in the "do not reuse EVER" file immediately. It's very existence diminishes ever other character in the series.
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ZoeB came up with an interesting line of argument, the details of which I forget, that some force like Eminence Grise is a logical necessity to keep QC society running the way it does. There's room for disagreement of course.
Global Moderator Comment As a general request, I'll ask everyone to phrase criticism of Jeph's writing in terms other than telling him what to do.
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