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WCDT - October 3rd to October 7th, 2022 (strips #4886 to #4890)

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Wheel.of.Fish:

--- Quote from: larn on 02 Oct 2022, 22:48 ---So he's another Yay-class AI who is much better at passing as a bumbling human.

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So I registered just to pitch this.

Knowing full well it's extremely unlikely and implausible, particularly as the joke was already made in the bottom text of the comic, but Marten being a really deep-cover super-powerful AI would explain a few things:
- How he was issued a personal companion that was a classified high-grade military chassis
- Why he initially drew the attention of Hannelore
- How he manages to find jobs, as Clare pointed out - the university must have been full of people who wanted or needed that full time library job, but things just fell into place so Marten got it, which kept him in a useful sinecure.
- How events seem to fall into place in unlikely assemblages around him; maybe his presence is why Yay ended up in town. Sure, she had that story about being offended by Corpse Witch's crude work, but why would her interest have been in this innocuous weird town at all?
- Drawing in protective and useful elements around him, like the Aurelius family, Bubbles and even Faye. Through doing no more than being a chill slacker guy he's gathered quite an array of useful associates.

I dunno, if the big reveal was Marten was a high-end extraterrestrial AI all along, I'd buy it. It'd honestly be more satisfying because I slack just as hard as that guy and yet here I am without any giant protective robot roommates or a series of romantic interests who all still stay closely engaged in my social circle.

SmilingCat:
Marten is secretly an alien of a precognitive race that was implanted in his human mother's womb. They had precognitive flashes of the kind of crap that goes on in this town, so they sent him so they would have an observer to determine that their precognition was not, in fact, defective.

Now they just use him as a transmission antenna. Marten's LifeTM is the second highest rated program on ZRSWB (Zeta Reticuli System Wide Broadcasting).

The first highest are reruns of the human program "Ancient Aliens". Because the Zetans find it hilarious.

Gyrre:
Okay, but imagine Claire playing Molly Grue in 15 to 20 years in-comic time for a stage adaptation of TLU.

zioninavision:

--- Quote from: zioninavision on 29 Sep 2022, 08:51 ---i'm very intrigued about what Yay might inform them about Cubetown!!

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:) :) :D :P   i was hoping it could be something like this but i wasn't sure!!   the reality that Yay is very aware of it, and finds Cubetown to be this instantaneously, viscerally humorous is very wonderful to see and feel!! 

shanejayell:
Yay: "I leave Cubtown there for the amusement value."
Everyone: "NOT REASSURING, YAY."

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