Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 3896-3900 (17-21 December 2018)
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Case on 21 Dec 2018, 15:08 ---
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 21 Dec 2018, 09:15 ---[Stan] Oh my god, they killed Roko!
[Kyle] You bastards!
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTjPhvQ-M8
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I don't get it.
Drunken Old Man:
Quote: everyone saying Roku isn't dead
I dunno, guys... certainly she COULD survive that...even probably.
But that last panel of her (unsquished)...bathed in light from the entry way...looking back one last time...
Just please let's don't have a "It's a Wonderful Life" episode with Spookybot as Roku's Clarence. I will be physically ill.
Stibbons:
***kin' OW!
This could be serious, Corpsewitch said that the arena robots were hardened against damage, but a domestic model like Roko? I doubt that even as a police robot she had much by way of armor plating (she'd presumably have had to hand it back when she quit otherwise).
Ah well, looks like Faye and Bubbles have got their steady cash income, assuming insurance will pay out and Union Robotics get the job. Is robot insurance more like car insurance I wonder...
I second that Spookybot will probably be involved somewhere along the line.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Drunken Old Man on 22 Dec 2018, 10:14 ---Quote: everyone saying Roku isn't dead
I dunno, guys... certainly she COULD survive that...even probably.
But that last panel of her (unsquished)...bathed in light from the entry way...looking back one last time...
Just please let's don't have a "It's a Wonderful Life" episode with Spookybot as Roku's Clarence. I will be physically ill.
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Given the general tone of Questionable Content, that turn in the story is a little too dark. I mean, AI are literally indestructible, their cores are designed and tested to be able to withstand being run over by a tank. Plus, critical existence failure due to being crushed by another AI who slipped on a crate of bananas is just too overly comical a way to kill off a character.
Tova:
I don't mean to push the idea that Roko is in fact doomed.
But I think a couple of people now have stated as fact that AI cores can withstand being run over by a tank. And as far as I know, that comes from comic 3008.
But is this true of ALL AIs? Or just the ones that were participating in the fights?
I don't want to overread 3008, but to me, "triple-reinforced drives" suggests to me that this is an exception to the norm (i.e. reinforced to three times the strength of a standard AI drive).
I'll just add that the expressions on the face of Bubbles and Faye suggest strongly to me that Roko's is in fact in danger.
So I'm not so quite so blithely sure of her safety as some.
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