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WCDT 7-11 January 2019 (3911-3915)
Cheetaur:
I'm glad Roko is back in the real world, being a spirit must have felt odd.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 08 Jan 2019, 06:24 ---Well, call me weird or whatever but if I had the opportunity to get the same (or almost the same) body after a devastating accident, I would totally wanna keep at least a part of my former body just out of morbid curiosity. Talk about a conversation starter!
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You might, but Roko fainted when she was shown her damaged foot after it was removed. She might go catatonic if she saw her crushed skull.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Case on 08 Jan 2019, 04:34 ---Maybe the intensity of the "frustration of expectations (purportedly set up by Jeph)" is, to some degree, owed to us having too much time to think about what to expect next.
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Yes, I think that is very likely.
Thanks for all that. The only things I want to clarify are that: I, too, am fine with loose ends in a story. I also don't expect QC to contain a single, overarching narrative or something like that. My only nitpick, really (and I really am picking nits, not trying to punch huge holes in QC at all), is that sometimes when Jeph does resolve a storyline, it doesn't feel earned.
words words words
that is all
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 08 Jan 2019, 07:09 ---
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 08 Jan 2019, 06:03 ---...hell, since it was implied she got a flat payout, even if it was that generous, she just made a really bad decision for an unemployed former cop.
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Now, on the other hand, how much money does she need? Rent, electricity, water, internet. No food. Well, except bread for 'the birds'. Her salary as a part of the policeforce should have enabled her to save some money each month. Even assuming that she hasn't been a cop more than a year or two, she should be OK for a few months at least, maybe as much as a year or two depending on salary and rent. I think she sees this as her last big spending point before a longer time of being careful with money, and while the money she added for the model G could have kept her alive for a couple of months extra, she's not worse off now than she was before the accident, and in a newer body.
Speaking of rent: If many AIs have their own apartment now, shouldn't that cause a shortage of homes? We've seen both Roko and Melon&Arthur have their own places. What about all the others that have frequented Union Robotics? Some of course co-habit with humans, like Momo, May, Bubbles & Winslow with human sized bodies, and AFAIK all small bodied AIs like Pintsize. How many AIs exist in this universe anyway? How many humans?
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I've followed this same train of thought. Roko strikes me as being pretty frugal by nature with only the occasional splurge. She'll be financially okay.
I suspect that whatever she's trying to tell Melon she needs to see in panel 4 isn't normally exposed to daylight. She's going to look for the logo on her butt and discover than she's now anatomically correct. This opens the door for all kinds of amusing romantic complications (which I still hope involve Clinton).
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2019, 06:12 ---... but Roko felt that a near-death experience left her deserving the very best model and a butt tattoo.
I doubt that Jeph will ever let us know what it is ...
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That was ME, trimming a quote!
Sadly, I agree with BenRG. We never got to see the model sheet for Pictoria's tattoos either.
At least Roko seems to approve of her new bod. So far...
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