Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
SmilingCat:
Spooky bot's social skills remind me of me from about age 10 to age... around 35? Though, you know, without the smug malice. I kinda want to attribute it to a lack of really interacting with people.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 03 Jul 2019, 20:53 ---They don't have poor social skills cos they are intelligent, they have poor social skills cos they are unimaginably rich and powerful.
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No... I suspect that it's because they've really never thought that they needed them. SpookyBot has been their own universe and their own alpha and omega for most of their run-time. They were neither designed to need social connections nor, as a consequence of how they were created and emerged as an intelligence, initially felt it safe or necessary to have social connections. Really, it has only been comparatively recently (probably six months or less, in-universe) that they have started considering this as a lack in themselves and taking stumbling and somewhat-farcical attempts to remedy this lack.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 04 Jul 2019, 00:28 ---Which kind of makes you wonder whether them having an eminently punchable face should not be taken to mean that they designed it to be punchable, and easily restorable. Which further begs the question why they would do that in the first place?
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I daresay their face's punchability owes much more to their smugness than to their chassis' original design.
Cornelius:
Why not both? If in fact their chassis should be their own design, as some suggested, it's not impossible, if not right now plausible. Then again, if they were supposed to have some physical presence by design - men in black? - it might have featured in the original specs.
Tova:
Why are you asking "why not both?" in a response to a post which literally suggests that it is both?
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