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OH BOY ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT A DRAMATIC PLOT ARC

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Elder Sign:

--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 16 Aug 2022, 10:14 ---This seems the most likely, since QC's focus for quite a while has been almost exclusively on the AIs. ALthough come to think of it, it has been a long time since I've seen Momo make an appearance.

But some of the flesh characters, like Tai, Sven, or Marten have barely been mentioned for a long time, as well as Brun, Emily, and a lot of others that have virtually disappeared.
Might as well have some move out of town.

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Yeah, Jeph seems to have firmly decided "bored now" with basically the entire human part of the cast.  Which is unfortunate, because they originally made the strip relateable with the whole slice-of-life bit that seems almost quaint now.  The overriding focus on all things AI all the time is, I feel, making QC harder to relate to because it's only increasingly diverged from the real current world.

Don't get me wrong, sci-fi is all well and good, but I get this feeling of "this isn't what drew me here anymore and I don't really care about whatever cutesy-new-AI-of-the-week".


--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 16 Aug 2022, 02:34 ---[blah blah] true dream option

whiskey Chernobyl please JJ [blah blah]

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Oh, right, you're that guy furiously cheering for Faye to self-destruct into an alcoholic meltdown because ... reasons I guess.

Tova:
I think it's been clear for some time that Jeph wants his comic to be comfort food, not real world.

dutchrvl:

--- Quote from: Tova on 16 Aug 2022, 23:51 ---I think it's been clear for some time that Jeph wants his comic to be comfort food, not real world.

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Maybe. To me the mostly mundane slice of life issues the flesh characters were dealing with, was what made it comfort food. The addition of AIs and their specific input and ai- specific issues added to that.

But hey, it’s his comic, he should do what he wants with it. It does feel like the changes in the world in the past 5-6 years have heavily influenced his comics direction

Tova:
In story terms, the differences between AI and human characters are non-existent (a point that's come up as a complaint before), so I wonder how it would be different actually.

Scarlet Manuka:

--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Aug 2022, 14:18 ---In story terms, the differences between AI and human characters are non-existent (a point that's come up as a complaint before), so I wonder how it would be different actually.

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That may be a bit strong; we've seen body swaps work out in different ways for Winslow, Momo, Pintsize, May (technically twice, since she was not embodied when we first encountered her), and Roko. Yes, you can draw a correspondence to various human conditions, but it would be harder to tell those stories with human characters.

I'd like to see an AI that doesn't like the human form and/or embodiment in general. So far all the AIs have preferred the direction of getting closer to human embodiment.

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