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WCDT strips 4111 to 4115 (7th to 11th December 2020)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: MrSmith on 09 Dec 2020, 02:19 ---
--- Quote ---As of Strip 3161, Sam is 14 years old, just so you know. Still rather young but old enough that the first crush may come crashing through the window at any second!
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Sure shes 14 but she acts like a 12 year old but be that as it may I'd still rather not see this author attempt that type of story line, it's one thing to get it wrong with adults (today's strip for example) but its quite another when it involves a young teenager
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This is one of the few things I'll agree with AO3's detractors ("antis") on. While I understand teenagers need a safe outlet to express/explore their sexuality with, the fact of the matter is that we're dealing with the internet. Trying to prove who's who and how old they are is quite difficult. Which makes protecting minors from predators and sussing out who's a pedo and who's actually a teenager difficult. The whole thing is quite messy. And Lord knows any legislation put forward as a means of sorting things out will just get misused as a way to enact cyberpunk dystopian levels of draconian measures that don't actually address the issue.
Farideh:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 09 Dec 2020, 23:34 ---For the moment, I'm reading this as an admiration for the mechanics, rather than anything romantic, as well, really.
The ship may be on the stocks, but it might be a little early to launch, still. Besides, what kind of relationship could ensue if I like how you are mechanically put together, and want to literally take you apart and put you back together again is about the level of the most amazing experience for one of the partners? If I were were Millefeuille, that might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
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For humans, a lot of our attraction is also based on 'I like how you were put together', so that shouldn't be a big issue ;)
The 'taking apart and putting back together' bit though... That tends to be horror movie material.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 09 Dec 2020, 03:22 ---.[big snip] The proper response would be to listen to the person's concerns, understand them, figure out the different ways to change, and then implement the best change, to most improve the service.
In our world, that rarely happens---first they'd dismiss the person's concerns, or bullshit their way out of it; then, if the person persists, insisting the concern be heard, they actively play stupid, intentionally misinterpreting what the person is describing, even going so far as pretending the person said something else entirely. In a rare case, that it gets past this stage---now they know the concern. Sometimes, they still do nothing. More often, they try to put some temporary fix, that's not a solution, and the problem reoccurs. If they do try to solve the problem, often, their solution is nowhere near the best---sometimes, worse than what was before. The only time they'd implement anything near the optimal solution, was when I spelled it out for them.
[little snip]
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Case in point, COPPA. It's unconstitutional at best.
SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA all failed to let the U.S. government try to put the internet under it's boot heel, so they pulled a Mrs Lovejoy and started shrieking 'won't somebody think of the children'. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if that stupid Momo (or whatever she's called) hoax from last year that an alarmingly large amount of people fell for was set up solely to get the American people behind COPPA.
EDIT: When lodging a complaint, be very specific about what's wrong and needs to be changed. Otherwise you'll get the aforementioned run-around along with the 'fix' that's worse.
BenRG:
Okay, on one level, this is disturbing: Brun is more into what's inside Millie's skin that what's outside.
On the other level...? This strikes me that something Jeph has wanted to do on a world-building level for a while. Just like he showed us just what was under the derma on May's head when she had the skin tone of her replacement face changed way back when. However, if that is really the whole point of this strip, I'd have preferred it if he'd done it as a bonus full-page panel ("What is inside Millefeulle's skin") or something rather than waste a day of this arc. Bottom line: Today's whole strip could have been done as a single full-width panel leaving another 2/3 of the page for actual narrative.
厚目眠子:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 09 Dec 2020, 18:29 ---I think this is the most emotion we've ever seen Brun show.
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The most expressive. The most emotion was page 3235 row 3 frame 2.
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 09 Dec 2020, 23:34 ---[want to literally take you apart and put you back together again] might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
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I'd love being taken apart and put back together.
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