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WCDT strips 4016-4020 (3rd to 7th June 2019)
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 04 Jun 2019, 08:15 ---I... can't help but notice that the joke in the strip linked, in the context of more serious issues related to AI being explored recently, has become considerably less funny.
I mean, the fact that a sapient creature has a large problem with being owned is played for laughs. It made sense when AnthroPCs were treated by the story as something between faithful pets and house appliances. Now that the comic treats them as independent beings, and there have been comics noting that AI companions generally enjoy and want to be companions... an AI that does *not* enjoy that, or at least feels the need to protest, is somewhat disturbing.
Or is it just me?
EDIT: that wasn't the case, obviously, when the comic was first published. It's only unsettling to me retroactively - the comic world's "rules" have evolved, there have been retoolings and retcons and some things got quietly ignored. Which is normal for a long-evolving story. But still.
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YES!!!
I mean, we could, should we wish, go down the route of "But we're ALL computers! Our's is just organic in nature!"
And, as has been correctly noted by many above, (or below) the term AnthroPC has been used liberally (in it's on-political sense) thorughout the strips histoery, indeed, even calling the AI/Metal People/InsertCurrentIndicatorHere 'computers' has also happened often, and fairly recently...
I'm actually down with Castlerook's stance that the PC in AnthroPC should more be viewed as Personal Companion, nowadays.
In fact, I had to go and look up "AnthroPC" before I made my first post on this matter to see if it WAS defined as "Companion"... which, unfortunately, it's not...
In context of the characters in the strip - maybe it should!
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 04 Jun 2019, 08:35 ---it would have to be a Nacho Hat!
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I do like nachos...
Raptorofwar:
I'm confused as to how May is that unfamiliar with Sven. I mean, she knows Momo has a crush on him, and May has met him before, where she told him to admire his own balls if I'm not mistaken.
Y:
--- Quote from: Raptorofwar on 04 Jun 2019, 09:04 ---I'm confused as to how May is that unfamiliar with Sven. I mean, she knows Momo has a crush on him, and May has met him before, where she told him to admire his own balls if I'm not mistaken.
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Could it be that May simply forgot that it was the same person(he's wearing his hair long now), or forgot about the entire event? For us it's 4 years ago, but I'm not sure how much time has passed since then.
TheEvilDog:
Or it could be May's misanthropic tendencies coming to the fore again.
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