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WCDT strips 4286-4290 (15th to 19th June 2020)
Is it cold in here?:
Definitely disturbing.
Did Eminence Grise specify what pronouns to use? I was about to say the choice should be "they" but now I can't remember any evidence of that.
Tova:
They use "we", which would indicate that "they" would be appropriate.
We already knew about Yay's eavesdropping from a couple of previous comics, which I will now see if I can locate.
Edit: It is explicitly shown in #3418
Second edit: And as it happens, Jeph uses "they" in the comic's footnote thingy.
shanejayell:
I do wonder how much Yay's spying is intentional, and how much is kinda automatic.
(Larry Niven once pointed out Superman probably accidentally both sees and hears stuff they shouldn't, but doesn't intend to. It's not HIS fault people shamelessly wear clothes with no lead in them.)
alc40:
The previous eavesdropping had seemed to be primarily electronic, at least as far as picking up on conversations between Station and his colleagues. In #3418 I guess I thought at the time that Bubbles sent an electronic "thank you" (maybe not to any particular recipient) on the assumption that Spookybot would pick it up. They might be constantly monitoring essentially all electronic communication in the world.
In the latest comic, though, Yay seems to overhear Faye's spoken words, and I'm curious just what the mechanism is for that. Roko lives in a different building from Faye/Marten/Bubbles so it seems unlikely that Yay could have microphones in their body sensitive enough to distinguish indoor conversations in a separate building. Did they bug Faye's apartment previously in order to monitor the aftermath of Bubbles losing her memories? Or did they hack Faye's phone and activate the microphone to listen in? Technically they could probably have hacked into Bubbles to listen but that seems unlikely given their scruples against going into others' minds.
Tova:
As far as I know, it's simply handwaved as the actions of an ultrapowerful entity with abilities and limitations that we mortals cannot hope to comprehend. Or something.
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