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WCDT strips 4031 - 4035 (24th to 28th June 2019)

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SPAZwazza:
This whole strip looks rose-tinted. It's nice-looking. Is it supposed to be sunset?

OldGoat:

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--- Quote from: BenRG on 25 Jun 2019, 07:46 ---May's journey to developing a group of friends has been a long and painful one, hasn't it? I now find myself wondering just when and under what circumstances she'll first say "I love you"?

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Visit to a military airfield?

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Yup.  She's decide she likes older guys and start dating a C-130 Hercules.

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She's a fightergurl, so I can't see her dating a Hercybird. A F4U Corsair, maybe ...

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At this point I have to throw in the A10. Purely for the hiss of the engines, right?

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Knowing May, she'd want to try a threesome.

Cornelius:

--- Quote from: sitnspin on 27 Jun 2019, 21:10 ---How is no interest theft? If you get your money back, how are you out anything?

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The logic is that for the time it is being lent,  it's not available for yourself to use, and that the interest is also part payment for the risk of not being paid back. Which is why the interest for high risk loans trends to be higher.

Usury is still considered a sin, but as best I remember, only when there is no collateral, as that's considered basically a firm form of sale and lease back, with intention to buy back. Though I may well misremember.

BenRG:
One of the things that I've noticed about how Jeph has portrayed SpookyBot recently is that he has shown three distinct nodes with noticeably different personalities. Whilst they seem to share knowledge, objectives and behaviour, there are subtly different 'flavours' to their personalities, the inevitable result of the fact that each node has processed unique experiences before 'synching' data with the others. My mental summary of them (and how I identify them) are as follows:

* Cool Suit - The most willing to use their powers on other beings; comes across as sadistic but I'm not sure if that's a front as they paradoxically also have the strongest sympathy for the innocent victim;
* Rumpled Shirt - The most strongly ethical and the only node that has robot-style square speech bubbles;
* Jogger (whom we're seeing today) - The most mischievous and teasing; maybe stands to the feminine side of the androgynous spectrum.Today's strip also makes me think think that Jeph is confirming my theory that Spookybot was originally an AI surveillance program deployed by the NSA or a similar alphabet organisation that achieved sapience through sheer weight of processing a massive data-flow. Having long since abandoned their previous duties, they're now looking for a purpose for their capabilities but are somewhat hampered by hard-wired paranoia (they were created to 'find enemies' through data monitoring, after all) and the contempt for ordinary minds that seeing all the gibberish on the Internet bred in them.

We definitely seem to be on a path where SpookyBot gets May a new body through illegitimate means - A chassis that likely will have all sorts of weird experimental capabilities that will both fascinate and horrify its new resident, who isn't sure if she wants to be that anthropomimietic!


--- Quote from: sitnspin on 27 Jun 2019, 21:10 ---How is no interest theft? If you get your money back, how are you out anything?
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The only way that occurs to me is that inflation is a thing. The buying power of any arbitrary amount of money is always declining so, a 1:1 repayment, especially over a long period of time, is effectively returning a smaller amount of purchasing power than you were given.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Jun 2019, 23:30 ---The only way that occurs to me is that inflation is a thing. The buying power of any arbitrary amount of money is always declining so, a 1:1 repayment, especially over a long period of time, is effectively returning a smaller amount of purchasing power than you were given.

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But the loan doesn't cause the loss; if you'd kept the money yourself you would have experienced the same fall in purchasing power.

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