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WCDT strips 4341 to 4345 (31st August to 4th September 2020)

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questionablydiscontent:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 30 Aug 2020, 19:18 ---Turns out the human body has 7 'through-holes'
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ
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https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ?t=1089
Oh hey, it's a menorah! :o

brasca:
If Seeker-15 is a reference to Megatron’s F-15 minions I choose that option since May might still be dreaming of a flight capable chassis.  However, given her latest criteria I think she’s going to pick the Adrian Barbeau-bot.

BenRG:
For everyone's information, 'Seeker' is a Transformers G1 reference; it's the generic name for the Decepticons' troops who transform into combat aircraft.

It's a subtle bit of characterisation but the way May is talking makes me think that she's still not sure this is really happening. So, she is wasting as little time as possible on extraneous verbage and focussing on getting what she wants done before either she wakes up or the world suddenly decides that they didn't mean it after all!


--- Quote from: Stoon on 30 Aug 2020, 18:29 ---Is it just me, or do those strippers look familiar?
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The guy is pretty obviously just a redress of Elliott; the lady doesn't ring any bells for me.


--- Quote from: badbum61 on 30 Aug 2020, 20:58 ---Sounds like that meeting between May 3.0 and Sven-Is-Not-A-Mooch is gonna happen sooner rather than later...
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I can't help but wonder to what degree Sven teaching her the delights of intimacy has changed her priorities about that a body can do. I also wonder to what degree she's buying for herself and to what degree she's buying for him. I'd say probably a 70/30 split in her favour.

de_la_Nae:
Regarding the strippers' familiarity: wow Wil and Cosette really got into their own physicality while they were off-screen, huh? :x

de_la_Nae:
regarding AI body modular construction: I think it's not unreasonable to conclude, based on what we've seen, that the vast majority of AI bodies aren't really post-market modular. i mean, they *can* be modded, and it may not even be that hard, relatively, for a lot of them. If you have the parts with the proprietary connectors or ID chips to greenflag interface with the rest of the body. or have the know-how to fabricate them.

like, manufacturing realities will probably mean that a variety of limbs can be connected to a chassis, for example. among other things, that lets you more easily market a stable of variants. You may even offer a 'build a body' service where a more well-to-do buyer can mix-and-match variant options a la dress-up browser games, then put them together and ship out after the check clears.
(also maybe there's a relatively flimsy connection-tab or weld or something added as part of the finishing that voids a warranty if it's broken, but *has* to be broken to swap out the limb, to discourage non-first party repair/maintenance)

on top of all that, we've seen scant evidence that most body models are capable of basic self-service/hot-swapping. which to be fair, most AIs it's come up with (which to also be fair isn't many) seem to share human squeamishness regarding uh... their inner workings, we'll say. Which, fair. but also would probably imply there's not a lot of pressure on manufacturer's to offer the capability on that front, either.

personally i suspect they're on the level of laptops, at least where laptops were a decade ago when i last paid attention: moddable, with some work and perhaps some risk, but not accessibly modular at all to the common user.

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