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WCDT 3926-3930 (28 Jan - 1 Feb 2019)
Mr Intrepid:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Jan 2019, 02:13 ---See my post immediately above yours (both "All Might" in the title and "Plus Ultra" in the text are references to MHA).
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It also shows up in Brad Bird's movie "Tommowland
Timemaster:
Yayy, Tilly. :laugh:
It´s good to see them again and to see they´re allright. I liked them a lot and never understood the aversions many of the forumites here felt against them.
Tilly and Station are a wonderful couple. I hope he has something in store (literally), which allows them some physical contact as well.
TM
BenRG:
Given that Jeph always liked Tilly it was inevitable that we'd see them again after a while.
However, I admit that this particular wrinkle was completely out of left field. That said, we know that Station is anthroposexual (my term for AIs who are attracted to humans) and, in a lot of ways, Tilly's personality is very similar to Hannelore's with high levels of anxiety and hyperactivity and an overwhelming drive to help (although manifest in very different ways). They are not dissimilar physical body types either. So, maybe it was inevitable that he would be attracted to them.
Here's a thought that occurred to me after I saw this strip on Patreon and noted the number of people wondering about the physical end of this relationship: Maybe, for them, it is entirely fulfilling enough to be with a mind that shares their goals and values them intensely on a personal level? Could they even be asexual? Of course, it's equally possible that they have had the brain implant that Hannelore didn't want and Tilly and Station are having hot, sweaty virtual sex every night; it's unlikely that Jeph will ever tell us unless there is some kind of joke there.
FWIW, though, I can see lots of sweet stuff happening. Things like Tilly lying in their bed and Station starts playing romantic music over the compartment's intercom, playing with the life support settings to add her favourite scent to the air and other things that are the unembodied AI's equivalent of hugging them all night.
Finally, about Station's panel 4 punchline: It's odd but, sometimes, characters in this strip become audience surrogates and I suddenly realise that Dr Ellicott-Chatham is this forum right now! :laugh:
EDIT
Removed a sentence that isn't correct and that I'm worried will otherwise derail the discussion of my points about how the Stilly ship probably works.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 30 Jan 2019, 23:29 ---They are not dissimilar physical body types either. So, maybe it was inevitable that he would be attracted to them.
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Eh? Hanners is tall and willowy. Tilly, while not as buxom as Marigold, is still pretty much a classic short-stack. Look no further than panel #1 of the current strip.
BenRG:
Something I forgot to mention in my previous post: I am starting to become seriously certain that my suggestion for the current theme of QC is right: "The Lives and Loves of the Synthetic." We've got Bubbles and Faye, Roko's friendships, professional identity crisis and dysphoria-like issues with her new chassis and now we have a non-embodied god-tier AI in a relationship with a human (and, seemingly, neither of them needing a physical aspect to this).
This is why I think it's inevitable that Roko is going to end up in a relationship with Clinton or Elliott - Because this just seems to be the way Jeph is taking the strip right now. "They're people too, just a lot more plastic and metal."
--- Quote from: cucumber error on 31 Jan 2019, 00:15 ---This strip is cute, I wasn't a fan of Tilly's introduction arc but it's nice to see them happy now that the "refuses to hear a No" bit is a thing of the past.
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Actually, from what Station says in panel 2 today, being unable to hear the word 'no' is one of the things he finds attractive about Tilly. Takes all sorts to make a fictional world, it seems!
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