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WCDT strips 4286-4290 (15th to 19th June 2020)
Farideh:
Here's hoping that Jeph someday expands on Yay's eavesdropping capabilities. Speculation is all nice and good, but I want to know if my theory is canon or not ;-)
Tova:
Given that we've seen Yay walk into a room and put people to sleep and paralyse Faye's legs, yet has some kind of limitations handwaved as "beyond our comprehension," it's impossible to rule anything out.
We've already seen Station disturbed by the possibility of some entity eavesdropping on his communications, so we at least know that this is not normal to him. And he presumably is quite knowledgeable.
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: dreed on 18 Jun 2020, 18:32 ---So yay is actively spying on random people in privacy of their home.
That is disturbing.
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--- Quote from: shanejayell on 18 Jun 2020, 19:38 ---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.)
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i have assumed that Yay would at least be taking advantage of the US' surveillance system / panopticon. that would give them access to all electronic communication and any conversation within mic range of any smart device, at minimum. the range of their implied abilities suggests they could be capable of monitoring all that data constantly. that said, it might also suggest that they don't even need to tap into our surveillance networks, that they are already tapped in on a more fundamental level. either way, it's probably both automatic and intentional.
finding out how they do it would be fun though!
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Pretty.much the number one reason why I'll never buy a digital assistant. It sucks that some disabled folks are stuck dealing with one for quality-of-life improvements.
zmeiat_joro:
Yay may be the avatar of Desire which is in itslelf a temporary avatar of Lain.
EDIT: wait the other way around. EDIT2: no, fuck it, it doesn't work conceptually.
pwhodges:
How about Yay is Lain, in the end.
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