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WCDT strips 3956-3960 (11th to 15th March 2019)

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TheEvilDog:
Comic's up. And having once had an enthusiastic roommate like Brun, well, there's a reason why I prefer to live on my own.

DaiJB:
Four choices?
Four bats.
Brun would have a bat-aviary.
To keep all of the people out of her nice, dark, cozy room...

Also:
"AI recharging cubicles"?
So, it's possible that we may get some of the AI cast as neighbours?

cybersmurf:

--- Quote from: DaiJB on 10 Mar 2019, 22:53 ---[snip]
"AI recharging cubicles"?
So, it's possible that we may get some of the AI cast as neighbours?

--- End quote ---

IIRC all the AIs we know up to now live with humans, except for Roko and Melon/Arthur, but they have flats of their own. Maybe we will meet the physical embodiment of Lemon there. And/or some of her sisters.

OldGoat:
Makes sense.  We've speculated here before about how an AI's physiological and safety/security needs wouldn't take much space to meet. 

Roko, by virtue of her employment,  needed to live as much like a meatie as possible,  thus the apartment,  and she seems to have developed a preference for hard copy page turning reading over direct literature download.  This no doubt triggered an untreatable case of bibliophilia - she keeps books she's read human-style like trophies.  And she probably has a sizeable stash of yarn.  She and Claire will meet when the latter is put in charge of expanding the Smif Library Victorian porn collection.

Melon and Arthur?  He needs a kitchen and no one will employ him to poach AAA cells in lithium sauce.  Melon just figures sooner or later she'll need space to keep all the zany.

BenRG:
For what it's worth, I think we've all been there. Not necessarily with a house but with a purchasing decision that just felt right somehow. Sometimes that works out and sometimes it doesn't. 'Go Fever' is a thing - overlooking bad aspects because you want to make progress. Also, sometimes the shiny wears off after you think about it!

All that aside, I'm pretty sure that Jeph wouldn't have gone to so much trouble about showing us this apartment if he didn't intend for Brun and Renee to move in eventually. With that in mind, I suspect that the charging cubicles is narratively for joke-of-day weird encounters with random Synthetics. When I read about the nice retired couple, I found myself wondering if this is the in-town residence of the naturist couple whose holiday cabin is near the Azuma family home.

BRUN: "Why don't you wear any clothes?"

LADY: "We don't want to."

BRUN: "Good reason."

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