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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)
brasca:
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--- Quote from: Castlerook on 09 Jun 2019, 19:55 ---Hang on, now hang on. It's not entirely May's fault and we should give her the benefit of the doubt. I mean I'm entirely sure May can pull another clusterfuck out of this situation.
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Excpet this is the second time this has happened. May lashed out at Winslow for getting a new chassis and Hannelore set her straight. You'd think by now she'd wait until she got the whole story, but this is May and she still has poor impulse control.
I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Rokko would run into May and she'd get jealous over her new chasis and percevied good luck while being completely insensitive to Rokko's dymorphia.
Hannelore isn't around to call her on it. Hopefully, it'll be Bubbles because I'm not sure May could handle a tet-a-tet with Spookybot.
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Of course she's insensitive, she doesn't bloody know!
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No she doesn't, but automatically May assumes Rokko is there to make her feel bad about her own chassis because she hasn't learned a damn thing since she lashed out at Winslow.
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Jun 2019, 22:36 ---She’s not being a jerk, either. She’s in a bad place. Just like Momo was in a bad place. She thinks she has lost one of her very few friends. She doesn’t know about the dysmorphia.
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Yeah, she is, and it has nothing to do with Roko's dismorphia. Roko is not responsible for May's current state. Roko didn't do or say anything to provoke May's hostile reaction. If you lash out at people simply because they happen to be more fortunate than you, you are being a jerk.
There's a fundamental difference between being compassionate to someone's bad state and excusing their bad behavior.
BenRG:
Wow! May is taking this hard, isn't she? The cracks about Roko's new borderline-true synthetic human chassis are to be expected. May has been very bitter about the low level of fidelity of her parole chassis from the start and it is in-character for her to frame everything in terms of personal slights as if the entire world were out to get her (or at least demean her). That said, her clear distress about not being allowed to have nice things does touch me. She clearly feels she's been put in the position of having to choose between Momo and Sven, something that I think would horrify Momo if she knew about it.
Meanwhile, I wonder if Roko is aware of how attractive she is to humans? She's probably not in the right place to appreciate it but, as is always the case, this is going to be happening anyway.
'Beep-Boop', huh? I wonder what XBox Live achievement she unlocked?
--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 09 Jun 2019, 20:45 ---I wonder if Roko borrowed that shirt from Melon. It looks more like something she'd wear.
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My view is that all of Melon's clothes were purchased by Roko, so her casual aesthetic looks similar or even identical. This was necessary because, whilst Melon observes that most humanoid creatures wear clothes, she doesn't really understand why. She would probably walk around without them if Roko had not insisted that it was somehow a social necessity.
Mordhaus:
I wish to be reborn as bread after seeing Roko's new look.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Jun 2019, 22:36 ---She’s not being a jerk, either. She’s in a bad place. Just like Momo was in a bad place. She thinks she has lost one of her very few friends. She doesn’t know about the dysmorphia.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s easy for us to judge from our comfortable, omniscient perspective. I would have thought that this audience would appreciate that, honesty.
I would really like to come here and find compassion instead of judgement one day. I would not share details of my life to some of you in a million years.
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Yeah, my thoughts on this are pretty similar (except the "would not share details of my life" part. Oversharing things is part of my brand, for good and - mostly - for ill). I do think May *is* being a bit of a jerk, but I am not inclined to blame her that much for it. I actually think she, all things considered, has treated others way worse.
May is reacting in a very unpleasant way and she should, possibly, know better, but from the knowledge she has, that's it. She's in a very bad place mentally and she's being a jerk because of that. She doesn't know about Roko's troubles, and it makes sense that "another AI can afford to frickin' get a whole new body" almost feels like a personal slight. May's body, something which she has had serious problems with, is barely a step above "functional". It's prone to losing random body parts. When one is deprived of something nearly essential, a person getting that thing with apparently no trouble can be a real blow. Even if it's not that other person's fault at all.
If, and only if, May keeps going in the direction she's headed, I'll be willing to absolutely blame her. So far, as far as I'm concerned, she's being a run-of-the-mill jerk and that's all. She's not a telepath.
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