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WCDT strips 4291-4295 (22-26 June 2020)
Tova:
The last panel is almost lampshading the fundamental weirdness of the character.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Jun 2020, 20:50 ---The last panel is almost lampshading the fundamental weirdness of the character.
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Whether it does or doesn't, this strip is definitely going in the favorites folder.
BenRG:
I think that Monday's strip does a good job in reminding us of how different Yay's universe is compared to that of the huge majority of the characters with whom we're familiar. Because their perception of the universe is so much vaster, their ideas of what life is about and even possibly more nuanced aspects of 'right' and 'wrong' are probably different too.
That said, yes, Roko is right about one thing: Having a demi-divine sensorium does not exclude you from being ethical. The question is, given Yay's justifiable fears about how others will view them, exactly were does 'unethical' and 'prudent' meet?
DSL:
The last panel is the AI version of the observation that most of us carry in our pockets or purses a device that has more computing power than the one that landed on the moon, that gives access to pretty much the sum total of shared human knowledge, that captures images and sounds and preserves them for us, and allows us to communicate with each other across the breadth of the planet ...
... and we use it to look at pictures of cats and get into stupid arguments with strangers.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: DSL on 22 Jun 2020, 05:40 ---... and we use it to look at pictures of cats
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Seems worthwhile to me.
Also, Mantis Shrimp. Those things are so out there in a variety of ways. They see colors no other animal does, they come in those rainbow colors, and their claws have organic ratchet springs. The claws strike fast and hard, and the shrimp has to wind them back up after using them.
They truly are real life Claw Shrimp.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/06/19/claw-shrimp
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