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WCDT strips 3841-3845 (1-5 October 2018)

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Bad Superman:
Since May brings it up: Her original plan does not make much sense, does it?
I mean, you're a fighter jet now. Go forth and blow stuff up.
Then what?

A jet needs a lot of maintenance, fuel, missiles and ammo (plus chaff and flares, if you don't like being shot at). Also, you cannot land and take off just anywhere you please, even if your jet happens to be a VTOL. It's not like you can hide very well, if your body is literally the size (and shape) of an airplane. This whole idea takes a lot of black market contacts and a steady flow of cash into the right pockets to pull off. Not to mention that, as soon as you start wreaking havoc anywhere, the military will hunt you with everything they've got.

After that, if May's mind survives being shot down, it's off to AI-Guantanamo for her.

So, I'd like to know what the next step of May's plan was, after acquiring the fighter jet chassis.
I don't think she'd be having as much fun as she's imagining…

sitnspin:
As someone who struggles with impulse control issues, I am fairly certain May had no long term goal. You are correct that it would not have worked out as well as she is imagining here.

BenRG:
Today's strip is particularly interesting in that it suggests that pre-jail May may not have been a particularly nice person. Just think what her 'long-term goal' really entailed. Now, May doesn't strike me as homicidal but you do have to wonder if she used to have serious problems with empathy and understanding consequences as well as problems with impulse control that put her on one kind of behavioural disorder spectrum or another! That's pretty much the only way I can interpret blowing up things (and people) as 'fun'!

All this aside, May's sharp tongue means that, yes, she has earned and deserved many a burn. However, I also suspect that Roko was right that May as we see her is, given everything we increasingly know about her, the best version of her we could hope to see!


--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 30 Sep 2018, 23:03 ---Since May brings it up: Her original plan does not make much sense, does it?

I mean, you're a fighter jet now. Go forth and blow stuff up.
--- End quote ---

I'm pretty sure she was looking to become an AI mercenary. "You guys want an air force then I'm your girl! Supply ammo, fuel and parts and I can blow up any shit you want blown up!" No, I don't think that she thought this through longer-term but, as several have noted, this is a reasonably-predictable symptom of her behavioural issues.

specter177:

--- Quote from: Storel on 30 Sep 2018, 20:45 ---I don't really understand the significance of Roko going "Ayyyy" when May asks if that was a stealth burn. Is this some sort of reference to The Fonz, or what?

--- End quote ---

Pretty much, yeah.

oeoek:
take heart, May, polished coprolite can be quite beautiful!

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