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WCDT strips 4016-4020 (3rd to 7th June 2019)
TheEvilDog:
What if I wore it on my head as I ate it?
Case:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 04 Jun 2019, 16:42 ---What if I wore it on my head as I ate it?
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Wearing your hat and eating it?
Your first name isn't Boris by any chance?
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Somebody on 04 Jun 2019, 06:35 ---Let's just remember - for a long time #1658 was the most-linked strip in these threads. And May has just taken that away... (It doesn't matter whether Momo could ever have made the move.Just that the possibility is gone...)
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1658 was the Rickroll of QC strips...
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 04 Jun 2019, 12:34 ---I'm pretty sure that the neck and shoulder seams were retconned in shortly thereafter.
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Not exactly retconned. I've been going clicking through and the first mention of AnthroPCs apparently doing human type tasks is a couple strips before Marty and Hanners discover the Secret Bakery. (I think that's when the Northampton Fairy first appears, too.) I'm up to #1920 and no eyes on of a really humanoid robot.
(I always thought of "android" as meaning human-like, but Star Wars changed all that. C3PO is humanoid while R2D2 is only by a huge stretch of the imagination, yet he's now forever considered a 'droid too. Pintsize is only slightly more human-like than R2D2 with a clear head and four bilaterally symmetrical limbs.)
I'm gonna go do other stuff. If anyone else feels like looking up the first QC appearance of a human-size humanoid android, have at it.
Tova:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 03 Jun 2019, 23:28 ---QC is sci-fi to me. Yes, it's true it's not JUST sci-fi, but it does explore situations that couldn't be explored quite the same way without the sci-fi elements. Those are often minor or played for laughs, but there's plenty of them. I don't think that's just for flavour, either. Roko's feelings about her new body are an example. Human-AI relationships are an example. Heck, the fact that AI use "QWERTY" as a swear word is an example. There are a *lot* of things that are very peculiar to the comic's setting, in my view.
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You made a well-considered and strong argument, and I can't argue. You changed my view.
I'm also now more aligned with IICIH?'s view that the lack of stronger differentiation between AIs and humans is a missed opportunity. In fact, I'm also wondering why we don't see more non-humanoid AIs interacting with the cast. Winslow represented, perhaps, a move in the wrong direction, viewed from that point of view.
I wish we could see a story arc based on Momo's fight for AI rights as well.
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