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OH BOY ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT A DRAMATIC PLOT ARC
sitnspin:
Gary is still a spider and seems to like it. That toaster also seemed pretty happy.
hedgie:
Hopefully, it's not this toaster:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
Tova:
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 17 Aug 2022, 19:56 ---
--- 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.
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Hmmm, I have my doubts about that. But tell me, would it be harder to tell the human stories with AIs?
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 17 Aug 2022, 20:33 ---Gary is still a spider and seems to like it. That toaster also seemed pretty happy.
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True, but we don't know if they ever tried a humanoid chassis. Pintsize was also fairly happy (as far as we know) in his former form, and it was only after trying the humanoid chassis more or less as a joke that he discovered how much he liked it. Or am I misremebering? (very possible!)
I have to say that I would also be interested in an arc about one of the AIs not liking the humanoid chassis/form at all, e.g. finding it limiting or otherwise having issues with it. With so far any who tries those chassis wanting to keep it, it makes it feel a little too much as if the human form is the superior/optimal form that all would naturally strive for. Us humans already have issues with feeling superior to any other being, after all
dutchrvl:
--- 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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I largely agree. Which to some extent makes the fact that we're looking at AIs instead of flesh characters not always relevant. I guess I am missing the distinct character of the comic with the AIs being real characters but very different from the flesh ones. With most (all, at this point?) AIs looking like humans and having storylines that could've been for humans, to me the comic has become less special. Still enjoyable enough for me to keep reading, obviously, but less special nonetheless.
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