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WCDT strips 4276 to 4280 (1st to 5th June 2020)
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 04 Jun 2020, 01:47 ---
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 03 Jun 2020, 23:56 ---Sometimes it's best that the dead stay dead and memories stay forgottenmemories...
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Fixed that for you; it's not necessary to forget, just to accept.
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Fixed it for the better. Moving on doesn't mean forgetting the past, it just means accepting the present and hoping to change the future.
Dangit, those two are causing us to have philosophical feelings. I really wanted to not remember "what if" and now think a lot of "should have beens" are best left never being changed...
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 04 Jun 2020, 00:02 ---I posted this before but the thing is that Faye has never really had a chance to properly mourn her father. She had a total mental breakdown after seeing him killing himself and was hospitalised after a suicide attempt not to long afterwards. She then lapsed into alcoholism and had been 'self-medicating' ever since. She's never been in the position where she was able to process everything that happened to her.
Now she's been dry for a while and is in a situation where she feels relatively safe (with Bubbles and with her social connection firm thanks to her friendships), I think that it is all going to start pouring out of her in various ways and in various times. Mostly unexpectedly, like today.
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I disagree regarding her not getting the chance to properly mourn. She did, and she moved on in her own way years later. However, it's the accepting that things might have been different and maybe it's best that they not have changed that she's just now accepting. To me, those are completely different things and are not mutually exclusive. She missed him and wanted things to change as a lot of people want, but she realizes it's best to accept that she can't change the past and has a good present with her friends and Bubbles.
Is it cold in here?:
The scene at the graveside looked like closure, but her problems persisted and got dangerously worse afterward.
BenRG:
"I'm not a monster?" It says a lot about how much of Faye's problems persist that there's a part of her that really needs that reassurance.
There's something about that last panel that worries me. Something about this whole micro-arc has got me concerned that this is going to be a turning point for Faye. It could be positive or this is the moment where the new character conflict begins and I really think that it may start in the very next strip with this kiss interrupted. Optimistically, a Tesla-X appears in a flash of light and screeches to a halt, knocking over some dumpsters. Raven jumps out and yells "Faye! You've got to come back with me!"
"Raven? It's good to see you but come back where?"
"Where do you think? Back to the future!"
"Woah, Raven, I'm not going anywhere! You may have missed it but my girlfriend and I are having a moment here and..."
"Well, bring her too! It concerns her as well!"
"Wait a moment, Raven! What happens to us in the future? I mean... Do we both turn out bums, assholes or something?"
"No, no, no Faye! You and Bubbles turn out fine! It's your kids Faye! Something hast got to be done about those kids of yours!"
--- Quote from: Coleman on 04 Jun 2020, 21:17 ---While it is an awesome scene I couldn't help but think that Forever may not mean the same thing to each of them. I don't recall but has it ever been discussed how long AI live? Have AI been around long enough to have to deal with differences between human and AI lifespans or are AI still new enough that this hasn't come up yet?
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Which reminds me of my still-unwritten fan-story where Bubbles designs a housing for Faye's brain that will last a lot longer than this current one. Faye has to confront the question of whether Bubbles is worth giving up her humanity, with Roko mentioning that the chassis proposed is so high fidelity that Faye would literally only be giving up calcium-carbon-hydrogen construction in favour of titanium/silicon.
Is it cold in here?:
>those kids of yours
WE ARE WORKING ON THAT TECHNOLOGY
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