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WCDT strips 4206 to 4210 (24th - 28th February 2020)
BenRG:
I'm pretty sure that Beepatrice's monologue in panel 5 is word-for-word the salesman's patter on the pen. She might have even used his voice tone, inflections and other characteristics.
The problem here isn't that she's gullible or incompetent (although she is the latter - Remember that printing out the forms seems to have been an outgrowth of learning to install a printer rather than a necessity). The problem is that she's too nice. She doesn't like disappointing or disagreeing with anyone. She just doesn't like generating any sort of conflict, no matter how much she should and how much it's a harmless sort of conflict that leads to balanced interactions.
I also think that she maybe over-thinks things when it comes to choices. That is actually a bit more worrying because I could see her fatally delaying simply because she's overwhelmed by multiple options and possibly feeling that choosing any particular one would be slighting those involved with the other choices!
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 23 Feb 2020, 18:38 ---More to the point, how does their chronically underfunded agency have money on hand for Beepatrice to go out and buy an expensive pen? Surely they don't have it just lying around in petty cash.
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"Does not understand that petty cash is finite" is a completely valid characteristic. I encounter it enough at work!
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Killspree on 23 Feb 2020, 20:44 ---It makes writing easy breezy!
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So Jeph is still referencing the same anime as he did with that recent picture of the three AIs.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Feb 2020, 02:01 ---
--- Quote from: Killspree on 23 Feb 2020, 20:44 ---It makes writing easy breezy!
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So Jeph is still referencing the same anime as he did with that recent picture of the three AIs.
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I thought that was quite a clever little call-back! :)
Would be interesting to see how he incorporates Roko's pose though...
(Holding out something horrific/dead/slimy away from herself?)
:)
Perfectly Reasonable:
I wanted the bag to say 'the PEN Store'. That would make Beeps sound less ditzy in 4201.
Now I want to make a wallpaper of Beeps selling pens. She should do commercials!
Pogopotamus:
Not sure about where this current storyline is going, but it's odd that bakery boss who doesn't seem to have the vaguest comprehension of appropriate personal or sexual harrassment boundaries when it comes to her employee Elliot, is full of lectures directed at him about his past associations.
On a separate note, Brun was kind of interesting once as a newly introduced quirky unknown quantity, but as we have gotten to know her.... she's honestly really not all that interesting as a character. She's just a convenient bag of Aspie behavioral tics that others play off of. I get that she has her challenges but if her response to Elliot's semi-infatuated, hovering behavior is utterly disinterested obliviousness where is that supposed to go as a story dynamic?
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