Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 03-07 May 2021 (4516-4520)
cesium133:
QC history is a little ambiguous. Someone a while ago tried to calculate the time line. I seem to recall the “present day” in QC corresponding to something like 2006 or so.
Shjade:
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Probably Tai? I'm gonna say Tai.
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Someone with no friends, only exes and f---buddies, who gets stoned off her gourd at work on a regular basis? That sounds Northampton, not normal.
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At work in the college library, which is a pretty low-stakes gig that she takes about as seriously as needed and no more than that, with a relationship network that's lacking in intimacy but broad on genial connections? I dunno, sounds pretty normal to me, at least when compared to a guy who lives with an AI in a tiny military-grade chassis obsessed with porn, a fairly young woman who owns and runs her own successful coffee shop whose brother is wealthy off of love songs and jingles he writes and sells, a recovering alcoholic who found love and self-improvement through working for an illegal robot fighting ring...
QC has a lot of highly unrealistic content in it, and Tai doesn't have as much of that in her composition. Her quirks are, by comparison, pretty normal. *shrugs* Anyway, just my opinion, and "normal" is pretty hard to pin down to begin with.
flondrix:
Tai does sound like someone you might encounter in Northampton in Massachusetts in our timeline--but that's still not normal.
When I said there are no normal people in Northampton, I wasn't just referring to Jeph's fictional version of it.
Farideh:
I don't think Hannelore's wealth was ever explicitly mentioned, but she doesn't think twice about:
- buying Winslow a new chassis
- jumping on a plane to confront her mother
- traveling around the world for several months to work through her issues
So... Most likely she isn't scraping to get by.
flondrix:
Serendipity; I just happened to re-read this comic which touches on her acknowledging her "privilege", but this is before she had the final falling out with her mother:
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