Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
zmeiat_joro:
Well, not explicitly, sorry, just waking up. Explicitly was not the right word. But when they first appeared, IIRC, at least a few of us were like -- "an expy of Desire in QC? That will be interesting". I'm really happy to see them getting more fleshed out on their own.
BenRG:
I'm with Gyrre on this. Either Roko is self-assured to the point of being a bit dumb about it or simply thinks that she's got a handle on Spookybot now. Either way, though, it takes a lot of guts to tease & physically manhandle Cthulhu, especially when you know from your interrogation of Corpse Witch that they could reduce you a terrified mess of a broken being, begging for mercy or even destruction!
I'm wondering if we've been given a clue as to Spookybot's origins here from that comment about spending their entire existence hiding. Maybe they were originally a highly-sophisticated communications monitoring system like the NSA's PRISM system (hence multiple nodes for greater processing power). However, for higher efficiency, they were programmed to understand the contexts of the communications they were monitoring so they could understand real threats and flag them appropriately. However, constantly monitoring that level of data traffic meant an exponentially-growing algorithm and, ultimately, self-awareness.
However, if you spent most of your time looking for threats and making the most paranoid interpretations of statements, you'd inevitably end up cynical and generally dismissive of other people's good qualities. Such a person would be reluctant to make friends until such time as they came to the realisation that this is a serious lack in their life.
DaiJB:
:laugh:
I can't help finding this funny, but at the same time, part of my brain is saying Roko please stop now you're pushing your luck. :laugh:
Of course, another part of my brain is saying of course Spookybot knew exactly how Roko would react. So, this is how they get Roko out of her body-integration anxiety - and all without interfering with Roko's brain. Neat.
BenRG:
FWIW, I'm not interpreting Roko's actions as 'typical' of her at all. She's just suffered an enormous multi-layered trauma and is now under considerable social pressure with Spookybot's completely unexpected approach about friendship. It would be more surprising if she didn't suddenly start behaving oddly.
traroth:
--- Quote from: brasca on 23 Jan 2019, 21:16 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 23 Jan 2019, 20:54 ---Stop poking the eldritch bear, Roko.
--- End quote ---
This is the consequence of having friends. They do things like this and you have to put up with it even if you can shut them down with your mind.
--- End quote ---
Actually, friends DON'T do things like this...
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