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WCDT strips 4371-4375 (Oct 12th to Oct 16th 2020)
Baz_Yat:
Re: The last panel on today's (Tuesday) comic: You and me both, Yay, you and me both.
And my feelings on Hercules, and indeed all cats, can also be summed up by Yay: (in a joyous tone) "Hercules!"
St.Clair:
I suspect many of the humans reading this are just nodding along, "yep."
N.N. Marf:
Value exchange explicitude: good. (Tacit surveillance: not good. (How easy is angrily yelling ``Yaaaaaaaay?'') Explicit surveillance: better, but not good.)
--- Quote from: Farideh on 12 Oct 2020, 19:46 ---Extra points if you can get your anxiety in the emotional spittoon from across the room.
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Points to: spitter, aiming; spittoon, catching.
DaiJB:
If Yay is (are?) attempting to establish a rapport, they aren't doing a very good job.
Just asking, like Elliot said, should be enough - rather than trying to turn everything into a transaction.
Is there a certain emotional immaturity in Yay? Something that reduces other people to commodities or consumables in order to "get things" that Yay wants? Or is simply asking (and therefore putting themselves in someone else's debt) something Yay is too proud to do?
BenRG:
It doesn't surprise me that Hercules and Yay like each other as they are both cats. Think about Yay's personality - Smugly narcissistic and superior right up to the point they want something, then suddenly they become cute and affectionate. Oh, with the sadistic undertones too!
That aside, we see Elliot's mother for the first time in panel 2. Foreshadowing a future appearance?
Yay, that isn't just a human consciousness dilemma. I'm sure that you'll find a lot of your synthetic brethren probably think the same way about their own kind!
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 12 Oct 2020, 22:33 ---Is there a certain emotional immaturity in Yay? Something that reduces other people to commodities or consumables in order to "get things" that Yay wants? Or is simply asking (and therefore putting themselves in someone else's debt) something Yay is too proud to do?
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I've posted this before, but I think it's a clue to Yay's origins as a pre-sentient communications monitoring algorithm for some unknown intelligence agency. Because they were programmed to search for 'enemy' key-words and phrases, they naturally were bathed in the worst of human behaviour as their consciousness developed. This has led to a highly-misanthropic view of our species and our motives.
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