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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
halstripey:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 02 Jul 2019, 21:48 ---Welcome, new people!
I'll pose this as a poll suggestion: Spookybot wants friends. Who in the QC-verse would befriend them? ( and why? )
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I forgot her name, but Marten’s stepsister would try but then get thwarted by her father when he finds out.
andrybak:
--- Quote from: andrybak on 27 Jun 2019, 19:40 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 27 Jun 2019, 18:40 ---Jeph forgot about the camera's colour temperature setting today. :evil:
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I thought my monitor was acting up. Maybe comic is late in the evening, and we see a nice beautiful Northampton sunset?
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First two panels in #4038 seemingly confirm this, but the deep red color is probably glow of Roko's anger. Same window in previous comic reflects a blue sky.
BenRG:
I've been puzzling over this strip since the first time I saw it on Patreon. At first I got annoyed because I thought that it was basically a broad-brush criticism of 'rich people'. However, with time, I've concluded that this is too simplistic an interpretation and I no longer think that this is the core point of this strip.
To me, the core issue here is power disparity and Roko's sudden realisation that there is one here. She's spent a whole day getting to the point where the authorities are at least deigning to be willing to consider the evidence she has presented that May is getting a raw deal and that's it. No solutions and no guarantee that her claims are being accepted; they're willing to maybe think about it. Then SpookyBot comes along, makes a few charities rich and apparently saves a children's hospital as a practical joke. It brings home to her just how small and ineffectual her actions have been in comparison and just how little ability she has to make a difference to people's lives in comparison.
Now, in honesty, shouting at SpookyBot is a little unfair because I really don't think that their social and ethical awareness is developed enough to really understand why what they did hurt her. That realisation will take a lot of time and experience on their part. However, I think it is still understandable that she feels upset.
Vern LaVey:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 02 Jul 2019, 22:51 ---The problem isn't Roko's reaction.
The problem lies with Spooky's actions, or rather, lack thereof.
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Spooky's action is not the problem, Roko's reaction is.
Roko would have every right to tell Spooky off if she thought that the donation was to "buy" her friendship, but that's not her issue.
Roko isn't mad because Spooky donated the money... Roko is mad because Spooky could donate the money.
Roko isn't really mad at Spooky at all. She's mad because she feels powerless next to Spooky, which is not Spooky's fault. At the moment Roko is (quite literally) out of her mind due to envious anger and feelings of inadequacy, and is taking it out on someone who did a good (although not altruistic) deed.
It's easy to understand that Roko is under strain, and why, but let's just say that I'm glad she's no longer a cop. That and if I was Spooky I would question whether or not it would be a good thing to start a friendship with Roko right now at all.
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: brasca on 02 Jul 2019, 22:20 ---
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 02 Jul 2019, 19:21 ---Wait... so would Roko have preferred that Spookybot hadn't handed over two billion dollars to charity just because then she wouldn't feel so powerless?
Because that's a pretty messed up sense of priorities, Roko.
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Especially when you consider how Beepatrice feels. Roko may not have actually helped May get a new chassis, but Beepatrice feels like a failure because she couldn't even get that far in the process. Is that Roko's fault? No. Now Roko feels inferior because Spookybot litterally snapped their figners and charities are experiencing a windfall. Is that Spookybot's fault? If it is then Roko should be ashamed of herself for inadvertently being better at Beepatrice's job. :roll:
Roko really shouldn't feel that bad because after all she put the idea in Spookybot's head.... so there's that.
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I think this is the point I think a lot of people are missing. Also people creating reasons that Roko are mad that are not in evidence. She is literally saying why she is mad. It isn't because Spooky did it to buy her friendship. It isn't because Spooky did it as a joke. She straight up says its becuase Spooky CAN do it and she can't. (rereading the comic, I can see some of the other parts, but she is really focusing in on the ability, not the reason).
And the truth is, on a different scale, she did the same thing to Beepatrice without even realizing it. Should she feel bad about that?
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