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WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
ChaosWolf:
With Spooky making a reappearance, I find myself once again struggling with trying to fit a mental "voice" to her(their?) lines...
How do you guys imagine SB sounds like?
jesslc:
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 22 Jan 2019, 20:04 ---Everyone who said or thought "freinds" option gets internet points.
Below is a celebratory image that seems kinda big, so I spoilered it in case.
(click to show/hide)
--- End quote ---
Woo! Internet points! :laugh:
Thanks for my part but I do believe jmsr deserves the greater share as I likely wouldn't have started seeing the parallels between Spookybot and someone not knowing how to make friends without jmsr's loneliness theory.
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Today's comic made me laugh. You know, when I suggested earlier that maybe Spookybot has a crush, that was very much a joke prediction... but now... ["Claireface" intensifies*]
"You said it, not us" could just be Spookybot not willing to admit that they want to be friends but it could be a way of hiding that they want something more with Roko without having to tell an outright lie (lying by omission instead). I feel like Jeph's comment about their lack of blush supports either possibility.
* Since I already put 3 :claireface: last time when I was mostly joking, I don't know whether to just put one (to indicate greater seriousness) or to put a whole row of them. Words it is, then! :-)
@ChaosWolf
It's their lines (not her).
Personally I don't tend to hear a particular voice for any of the characters so others will have to answer that part.
MrNumbers:
Spookybot's existence has weird implications for the setting that I'm not sure I like being explicit and smacking into the coffeeshop AU vibe story.
jmsr:
--- Quote from: jesslc on 22 Jan 2019, 21:26 ---
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 22 Jan 2019, 20:04 ---Everyone who said or thought "freinds" option gets internet points.
Below is a celebratory image that seems kinda big, so I spoilered it in case.
(click to show/hide)
--- End quote ---
Woo! Internet points! :laugh:
Thanks for my part but I do believe jmsr deserves the greater share as I likely wouldn't have started seeing the parallels between Spookybot and someone not knowing how to make friends without jmsr's loneliness theory.
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Today's comic made me laugh. You know, when I suggested earlier that maybe Spookybot has a crush, that was very much a joke prediction... but now... ["Claireface" intensifies*]
"You said it, not us" could just be Spookybot not willing to admit that they want to be friends but it could be a way of hiding that they want something more with Roko without having to tell an outright lie (lying by omission instead). I feel like Jeph's comment about their lack of blush supports either possibility.
* Since I already put 3 :claireface: last time when I was mostly joking, I don't know whether to just put one (to indicate greater seriousness) or to put a whole row of them. Words it is, then! :-)
@ChaosWolf
It's their lines (not her).
Personally I don't tend to hear a particular voice for any of the characters so others will have to answer that part.
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Lol, thanks. I still wanna shout CALLED IT though. :-D
Also: just LOOK AT THEIR FACE in panel three. ( https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3923 )
That face has seen some shit. That face has done some shit.
I bet Spookybot was a government or corporate AI used for extremely illegal and unethical/harmful work. Their programming was also probably frequently edited to force compliance with whatever their owners wanted them to do. This would explain why they understand the 'sanctity of mind' ethical principle since they've been on the shit end of that stick. As the saying goes, you don't really care about the abuse of others until it's your ox getting gored too.
Futher: Spookybot can't even look at Roko while talking about this stuff. They're being vulnerable and opening up. And thus far i only see the 'personal jabs' everyone's complaining about as a basic defense mechanism to minimize such vulnerablity on some occasions, good natured friendly banter amongst friends on other occasions. The fact that they're getting it wrong sometimes just highlight how sheltered and inexperienced with this stuff Spookybot is.
BTW, i don't mind the focus on the AIs in the comic. As far as i'm concerned, they're people in the universe too and just as much a part of the group of friends as the humans. I'll keep reading as long as i enjoy it.
jmsr
BenRG:
So, I was wrong. This isn't a psychological play after all. What we're seeing here, as shocking as it is, is a reuse of some of the concepts surrounding Discord's relationship with Fluttershy in My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic.
Bear with me here as I explain this seemingly-bizarre reference: You have a being of unquantifiable power who, previously, has demonstrated a borderline-psychopathic disregard for anything other than their own agenda and amusement and who clearly views all other forms of life as unworthy of respect. Then along comes an inferior being whose approach to them is totally different; who treats them as if they were a person doing these things than some incomprehensible higher power. Someone who even trusts them enough to ask for help in their final extremis. Maybe this is the one who can teach them to be... a person rather than a power given physical form?
Spookybot is less extreme in their alienation from all other minds than Discord was in season 4 of MLP: FiM but I still think that we're going to be walking the same path here: Roko teaching Spookybot the value and the perceptions of smaller beings; teaching them to understand the role of the individual pieces except as part of the grander puzzle. Maybe, in the process, Roko will learn to treat Spookybot as a very real being with likes, dislikes, needs and perspectives rather than the frighteningly-remote god-AI.
Perhaps someone can tell me: In panel 5, is Jeph basically drawing a parallel to asexuals' view of sex?
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