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WCDT 17-21 May 2021 (4526-4530)

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awkwardness:

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--- Quote from: Shjade on 18 May 2021, 15:30 ---Humans can do that, but it's as often unconscious as conscious. I suspect that's not the case with AI, or at least less commonly.

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You can suspect it, but there's no evidence of it. In fact there's evidence of the contrary. Look at Basilisk and her Boston accent.

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That evidence proves it, not disproves it. Her normal patterns aren't a Boston accent, they're a basic accent that's indistinguishable- but when she's upset enough, her control erodes and the Boston accent in her comes out. Just as I suspect that May's accent is her own doing, with how little self-control she has shown her neutral accent patterns aren't there often if ever.

Farideh:
Dora's smirk in panel 2 is priceless :D

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: sitnspin on 18 May 2021, 11:43 ---
--- Quote from: Shjade on 18 May 2021, 10:03 ---Also worth noting AI characters consciously tailor their speech patterns, so it's something of a style choice for characters like May. Not that it's insincere, but it's intentional self-expression.

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Humans do this, too, it is not an AI thing.

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Yep.

I used to do phone surveys and had to be conscious of avoiding that during a survey. Though, it was how I got completed surveys when we were calling client's customers in NYC.
 [Side bar: It was way easier to call people in NYC than calling anywhere in California. Most Californians either screeched about the National Do Not Call list -- which has exceptions that we fell under -- or they "didn't speak English", or they actually didn't speak English. With New Yorks we just had to be quick and to the point w/o any faffing around.]

jesslc:
After bringing up this question last week, my curiosity wouldn't let it go, so I did some re-reading specifically looking for info about Dale & Marigold's current living situation. Figured I'll share it with y'all in case anyone else enjoys this kind of detailed background info, like I do.

Dale/Marigold/Momo/May are mostly seen together in Marigold's apartment. And quite a lot of the situations they are seen in there would give the idea that they are all living there together. However, Dale & Marigold definitely still have separate apartments at these two recent-ish points:
1) https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3682 - The arc where Marigold got jealous over Dale working with Emily

2) https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4012 - When May gets back after her first hookup with Sven + the comic immediately after it

The last time Dale's apartment made an appearance on screen is shortly after that second one (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4034 ).

So my conclusion is that if Dale and Mairgold have moved in together off screen, it could have only happened recently. But it's also possible that Dale still has his apartment and is just hardly using it anymore. If this is the case perhaps it could become an office/workspace... Marigold did just hire a business manager after all.

At the moment I think that it's more likely that Dale & Marigold haven't officially moved in together. While it's not clear exactly how much time has passed since comic 4012 (or 4034), I'd estimate it to be no more than a couple of months. (May & Sven hooked up while Dora & Tai's engagement celebration was still going and that was also the same day that Claire sat her exams. In the comic since then, Claire has received her exam results and started applying for jobs. So far we've seen her receive her first rejection letter but there hasn't been anything about job interviews. That could be happening off screen but I feel like Jeph would show something of Claire's job interviews - especially as the possibility of Claire finding work far away has already been raised as a potential plotline/conflict. Note: this estimate is also using my vague memory of "I think it might have been about 2-3 weeks to get results back when I was at uni" - which was both a long time ago and also not in the US.)

Shremedy:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 17 May 2021, 20:15 ---There's rings with tiny abaci (abacuses?) on them.

This one's from etsy.


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AbacusTube has gotten SOOOOOOO commercialized.  I guess that's what happens to the dominant, established platform.  ClickClack is where all the cool kids are at now!

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