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WCDT strips 3961-3965 (18-22 March 2019)
de_la_Nae:
Actually that bugs me a bit when people argue it "doesn't make sense" for AI people to be a certain way or experience a certain quirk of existence, cuz like... how do you *think* 'sense' works?
traroth:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Mar 2019, 06:31 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 19 Mar 2019, 03:34 ---I have a feeling if you shook Melon you’d hear a bunch of silly sound effects.
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Dunno, but you'd probably hear a fair bit of rattling.
I mean, someting's loose...
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Now my colleagues are asking themselves why I'm chuckling all by myself... :-D
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: traroth on 19 Mar 2019, 07:47 ---
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Mar 2019, 06:31 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 19 Mar 2019, 03:34 ---I have a feeling if you shook Melon you’d hear a bunch of silly sound effects.
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Dunno, but you'd probably hear a fair bit of rattling.
I mean, someting's loose...
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Now my colleagues are asking themselves why I'm chuckling all by myself... :-D
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"Giving someone a story to tell is easy. All it takes is a smile."
I did the link right this time. Going to sleep now. Any second.
ChaosWolf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Mar 2019, 04:13 ---
--- Quote from: ChaosWolf on 17 Mar 2019, 19:39 ---I'm still boggled by Roko's strange... obsessions... with gluten-bearing foodstuffs. How the heck would such a thing as a "bread fetish" even come about? Many human fetishes, such as for shoes, develop from misassociations between sexual excitement and nonsexual content that occur during childhood... but robots don't have childhoods.
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The mechanism has been established in a Patreon-only strip.
The exact details aside, all that really matters is that certain sensory stimulation creates a effect in Roko's neural processes analogous to sexual stimulation in humans. TBH, the 'why' doesn't matter and likely will never be addressed. Much of what QC-verse AIs do seems to be a mystery even to them (let alone to their creators) so there may not be an easily-diagnosable cause at all. I suspect that even Roko doesn't know 'why', any more than she really knows why she has a 'tickle' response in her feet.
--- Quote from: ChaosWolf on 17 Mar 2019, 19:39 ---I'm rather surprised nobody in the cast has thought to ask about it yet, not even someone as tactlessly-impulsive as Melon.
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Oddly enough, it was Melon who asked in the Patreon-only strip. Even she doesn't entirely get it, even after Roko explains! :lol:
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Which strip was it? I didn't even know he had exclusives on his Patreon, I thought he just had early previews of upcoming strips.
TheEvilDog:
Occasionally Jeph will produce Patreon-unique comics, some of them have been used on days when either Jeph has used his buffer and/or unable to produce a comic.
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