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WCDT strips 4306-4310 (13-17 July 2020)

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jwhouk:

--- Quote from: dreed on 14 Jul 2020, 18:35 ---Do we know how much a whole body costs?

I thought min 20k for basic model. Based on how much the robo hand cost to repair.

Sven definetely could afford it to pay it full up front but I think may would hate that.

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Back about 2300 strips or so, Marigold nearly passed out when she was told the price of Momo's chassis - and it was on the high end of prices.

I believe at the time we posited it was the equivalent of maybe a new car (US$15-19,000), perhaps?

Potato Farmer:

--- Quote from: shanejayell on 14 Jul 2020, 18:50 ---Ouch.

One wonders if putting ex-cons in shitty bodies is also a strategy to keep them from getting ahead? The constant nickle and dime repairs eat away at her savings and functionally make it impossible to improve her life.

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I believe there was already a comic where Roko addressed that such crappy chassises made a cycle of poverty inevitable and that it was impossible for the people in charge not to be aware of this, which is treated as additional punishment for convicts who have already served their time.

More nefariously I wonder if the people in charge of all this also do this to make it harder for anyone to start trouble. A former convict who's preoccupied with their deteriorating body doesn't have much opportunity to pick a fight with the system.

Tova:

--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 14 Jul 2020, 18:54 ---If it's really going to be a full 20k for a new body, May might actually be better off sticking with her old body (in terms of cost and not counting whatever she earns from the proposed donation drive). Because she's friends with Faye and Bubbles, her repairs are usually under 100 dollars each time, meaning it would take over 200 of those repairs to make the costs equal.

On the other hand, it would be massively inconvenient if your leg fell off every day, so I can see why she'd opt to spring for the more expensive option.

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It's already been stated in today's comic that it's a safety issue, which is a bit more urgent than "massively inconvenient."

Farideh:
I wonder if there's a market for 2nd hand chassis? From the comics, we know that Pintsize, Momo, and Winslow have gotten new bodies. What happened to their old ones?

(Side note: I'm imagining May in Momo's old chassis. It's both hilarious and frightening).

ihaveavoice:
Again, I say: Poor May.  :cry:

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