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WCDT Jan 24th to Jan 28th, 2022 (pages 4706 to 4710)
Potato Farmer:
It does seem in character for Marigold to be so utterly boneheaded about something that her friends have to resort to trickery to get her to acknowledge she's not being reasonable.
Inconsequential:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 25 Jan 2022, 06:57 ---And now, Jeph must introduce a chameleonic robot.
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Already done; Roko can change her skin and hair color at will. She discovered this by reading her user manual (on paper LOL) and tried it out briefly by turning herself green. And then Yay remarked that her old body could do this as well.
Also, when May was placed into her new body, the hair and skin color were already blue by default, but the shades changed to match her old body just before she opened her eyes. Perhaps May can change color if she wants, perhaps not, but it seems likely that her particular blues are part of her identity so she's keeping them. She once remarked "I like being a blue robot chick."
The bodies of other AIs may be able to do this as well, but color seems to become part of their identity. For example, Pintsize kept his color scheme when he changed bodies.
In any case, it's kinda strange to see May in actual respectable clothing. But she is taking her job very damn seriously, that's for sure.
_Islanio:
Which raises the question: why would they need sprays of they can change colors? I picture it would be a technology similar to electronic ink (like in Kindle screens) that's not only energy efficient, but also non light emitting. It doesn't make a lot of sense to be only one colour for the whole body, as it would potentially have color variations in different spots. In short, they could, maybe, display whatever picture they wanted in their skin.
But, then, I'm just overthinking I guess.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: _Islanio on 26 Jan 2022, 07:31 ---Which raises the question: why would they need sprays of they can change colors?
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Iris told Faye the reason - Something about the sprays being wash-off and teaching a lesson in impermanence for a species who are functionally immortal.
snufflebottoms:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 26 Jan 2022, 03:24 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 26 Jan 2022, 02:35 ---I know it's played up for comedy a bit, and Marigold can be extremely stubborn, but I can't help but wonder why she's so invested in this. She's acting like a literal petulant child. Her insisting she's not lactose intolerant and/or that cow milk is superior makes some measure of sense, her being this angry about the little experiment and trick... just why. Why is she this emotionally invested in what kind of milk she drinks.
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Because being lied to about what you are consuming is messed up regardless of how 'harmless' the thing you are consuming is. Again, this barely qualifies as that, but being referred to as a petulant child is pretty common for neurodiverse folks
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I can be this level of stubborn about things. A big part of what motivates me to be this way is an aversion to allowing a certain type of dynamic to be set-up in my relationships particularly with people like May who would being willing to lie or trick me to prove their point. You don't want people like that to get comfortable insisting on their recommendations for your lifestyle, even good recommendations.
If Marigold agreed that dairy makes her stomach upset, que the lectures for every piece of pizza or ice cream she ever tries to enjoy in their presence from here on out and condescending remarks every time her stomach hurts because "oh you must have secretly cheated on this restricted diet we made you be on for your health."
There is a reason that relationships with doctors, bosses and parents are different than friendships with peers.
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