I like Clinton. There's something about his earnestness, failure to learn American norms for personal space by his age, and belated recognition of his faux pas that's endearing. He just needs to start growing out of it, or his subsequent appearances will get stale. But then it'll be weird that characters keep being wildly off until Marten's group normalizes them.
You have come far young Padma-wan
Wait, what?
Huh? Who?
When? Where?
Why? How?
And there you go.
Yup
that shit don't make no sense
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
Screw your combo breaker, QUOOOOTE TUNNNNELLLL.
I wished there would be some kind of link between personal messages and the message they would refer to because honestly, I totally fail to manage that connection.
What does Jeph's tattoo say in 2066 ?
Good question, we'll have to wait another 55 years to find out !
To what are you referring? Also, dammit, I was gonna make that pun.
And Momo went bankai on Clinton.
Eh, it was barely a shikai, what with the socks still on and the close range.
Robots aren't people.
Setting aside our own world's drastic technical limitations in terms of AI, even in the QC world, if AnthroPCs were considered "people", then there would be quite a few instances where legal action would have been warranted- the very concept of the buying and selling of an AnthroPC, for starters, as we see in this comic where Momo thinks her "owner" wants to get rid of her and bursts into tears. I don't even have to mention the instance after instance of Pintsize being ripped apart, pummeled or dismembered, for some offense or another, with no repercussions to the owner at all.
Are these people or are these pets?
*sighs* We went over this when Momo got her new chassis, stop bringing it up. So far as we know from the comic, you get an AI through a mutual contract. Either party can break it (which is why Momo was worried, she didn't want to lose her companion). The only purchasing we've seen is of chassis- once for Pintsize, once for Momo. Pintsize clearly has some Mr. Potato qualities to his chassis, and knowing him he probably gets off on being disassembled.
It's unsettling that there are people who can't envision a setting between fellow human and pet. Sentience isn't exactly binary (in before AI jokes, I mean there's more than 2 options).
Well, that probably was what most of his graduate studies were about. Doing a lot of research on human-APC interactions means he sees a lot of APC's.
He's studying armored personnel carriers?
Uh, all of those things were once considered normal, and those societies considered themselves civilised.
And so were leeches, holes in the head and the belief that a tall man in a carriage pulled the sun across the sky every day. Fuck relative morality, we're not living in 1576 anymore. I'm not going to dismiss thousands of years of societal progress just because some asshole living in a hut somewhere still thinks it's fine and dandy to sell off his daughter to an old fat guy.
Actually, we're using leaches again. They're very effective. And don't bring religions into this, religions can have weird stuff and still be viable. I believe there's one that's rather popular right now that entails eating the body and drinking the blood of their god. And wasn't the carriage itself the sun?
Your society can do stupid, stupid things and still be civilized, by both present and later standards. Matching morality is not required unless you're an imperialist looking for justifications. Romans had an empire built on slave labor, America fails to guarantee basic health care to all (which some already think is immoral and I'm pretty sure will be universally considered so in a 100 years or so.)
Fuck relative morality, we're not living in 1576 anymore. I'm not going to dismiss thousands of years of societal progress just because some asshole living in a hut somewhere still thinks it's fine and dandy to sell off his daughter to an old fat guy.
Oh wow, is that a platinum deluxe straw man? It's so lifelike!
Stop groping him!
Why is everyone accusing Clinton of being creepy when Hannelore did something quite similar in http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2028? Back then it was seen as cute. Or asking it another way, do you think Hanners was being almost as creepy back then as Clinton is now?
I can see Clinton and Marigold hitting it off.
Hannelore already knew Momo, so the comparison is not effective.
Oh yay, another massive post full of quote responses, I thought I had kicked the habit.
Why do so many people care about the "while you were posting" message? Reposting it was never interesting (save for during particularly high activity times with 20 posts or something), and now it's just annoying. Somehow, during the the 5-30 minutes you were typing,
someone else said something! Shocker! We get it. Stop it. /petpeeve
Warning - while you were reading 33 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post. Well, that's what I get for going to bed partway through typing I guess.
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