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And now act three...

Tropical Storm Martenclaire meets Northern Hurricane Faye for disastrous results
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The Svenectomy begins
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Tai razzes Marten and Claire till they're both as red as Claire's hair
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Steve Eating Cereal: The Legend Continues
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Clinton finally finds out that big sister has a boyfriend
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5 straight days of yelling bird cloaca jokes
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Author Topic: WCDT: 2816-2820 (20-24 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 111015 times)

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Wait, how did Hanners find out about Faye/Angus? she was not at CoD and it just happened? Or about Claire for that matter? did I miss something here?
Marten told her.

"It's never meningitis."

So it must be lupis!
Can't trust those sneaky wolves.  :clairedoge:
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Marten filled Hanners in on the day's events off-panel.
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It's not meningitis
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Wait, how did Hanners find out about Faye/Angus? she was not at CoD and it just happened? Or about Claire for that matter? did I miss something here?
(I assume) Marten just finished explaining what happened that day
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Wait, how did Hanners find out about Faye/Angus? she was not at CoD and it just happened? Or about Claire for that matter? did I miss something here?

Marten just told her?
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Wait, how did Hanners find out about Faye/Angus? she was not at CoD and it just happened? Or about Claire for that matter? did I miss something here?

Obviously,  Hanners reads QC like the rest of us.
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Wait, how did Hanners find out about Faye/Angus? she was not at CoD and it just happened? Or about Claire for that matter? did I miss something here?

Obviously,  Hanners reads QC like the rest of us.

That has been proven already.

And on topic, it'd be BAD if you could get meningitis just from emotional whiplash, even more so with Hanners' circle.
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Wait, how did Hanners find out about Faye/Angus? she was not at CoD and it just happened? Or about Claire for that matter? did I miss something here?

She hacked the simulation to give Marten the infinite guitars cheat, accidentally activated infinite puns cheat instead.
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I just had a thought:

Sentient AI are building other sentient AI.

The significance of this is likely lost on Jeph, and will be overlooked forevermore because it was a filler dick joke.
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She hacked the simulation to give Marten the infinite guitars cheat, accidentally activated infinite puns cheat instead.

That one has been active for a while lol

And I suppose it makes sense he told her, the only reason he didn't tell Faye was because he realized her distress, otherwise I guess yeah, he would be ecstatic to share the news. First relationship in a while that he has no reason to hold off on telling his friends about (Dora was delicate due to timing and Faye, Padma cause of another guy liking her as well, etc) so its not like we have seen him be the type to kiss and tell so to speak, so the thought didn't occur to me that he would share this info without directly being asked/prompted
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I just had a thought:

Sentient AI are building other sentient AI.

The significance of this is likely lost on Jeph, and will be overlooked forevermore because it was a filler dick joke.

In the QCverse, singularity hit long ago. One of the definitions of singularity was, if I recall correctly, the point in time when the man can build an AI capable of building another AI. So it makes sense.
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The significance of AIs building other AIs is likely not lost on Jeph. This is a guy who modeled the Elicott-Chathams on the Tessier-Ashpools of Neuromancer (and it shows with Hanners's mother!) It's just not the major focus of this strip... giving it that prominence would change things greatly.
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She hacked the simulation to give Marten the infinite guitars cheat, accidentally activated infinite puns cheat instead.

That one has been active for a while lol

And I suppose it makes sense he told her, the only reason he didn't tell Faye was because he realized her distress, otherwise I guess yeah, he would be ecstatic to share the news. First relationship in a while that he has no reason to hold off on telling his friends about (Dora was delicate due to timing and Faye, Padma cause of another guy liking her as well, etc) so its not like we have seen him be the type to kiss and tell so to speak, so the thought didn't occur to me that he would share this info without directly being asked/prompted

We don't know that he didn't tell Faye right after he mentioned pancakes. If that part of the conversation didn't have a punchline there's no reason it had to be shown.

Faye: Pancakes?
Marten: With Claire.
Faye: Were there smoochies?
Marten: Y-Yes...
Faye: Well *sigh* At least one of us had a good morning, I have to get back to work Marty, see you later I guess.
Marten: Yeah *hug* hope you feel better about things, bye.

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Do not ever let Hannelore on WebMD. Because WebMD does not have enough bandwith  to handle all of Hannelore's queries.
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We don't know that he didn't tell Faye right after he mentioned pancakes. If that part of the conversation didn't have a punchline there's no reason it had to be shown.


Oh I know that probably happened, specially since she was partially the "mastermind" of the previous night, I meant that I simply did not think of that possibility because thus far Marten has not been the kind to just share the news of a beginning of a relationship before, but mostly due to circumstances. So its not necessarily out of character, just he hadn't had the opportunity before to be that way.

Missing that little obvious answer is on me due to that :)
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I just had a thought:

Sentient AI are building other sentient AI.

The significance of this is likely lost on Jeph, and will be overlooked forevermore because it was a filler dick joke.

Are you sure about that?
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We clearly aren't in high detail conversation mode, right now. Martin telling Hanners is the second "major conversation skip that we know of, since the break up. We'll find out if Martin skipped telling Faye what happened, but at this point I'm betting Jeph jest left off showing us what happened because it didn't move the plot or provide a gag.

This makes me wonder...What's going to happen tomorrow? I mean, the last 2 days were basically filler. He didn't have to show this, and the meningitis joke wasn't a must tell, bound to go down as one QC's greatest gags. So, either this whole week is filler, or there's a one strip cliffhanger on deck.

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I just had a thought:

Sentient AI are building other sentient AI.

The significance of this is likely lost on Jeph, and will be overlooked forevermore because it was a filler dick joke.

We know the dildo can sing, but we don't know it's self-aware.  I choose to presume it's of roughly animal-level intelligence, for no particular reason. 
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Hannelore probably has WebMD memorized already. Or she at least knows how many pages are in it.

I just had a thought:
Sentient AI are building other sentient AI.
The significance of this is likely lost on Jeph, and will be overlooked forevermore because it was a filler dick joke.

My take was a little different. The "prototype" referred to was the chassis... not the AI inside and they're yelling at whatever other AI is in there to bring the chassis back. (may? momo? PT410x?)

This leaves an obvious hole though... Pintsize would probably be first in line to be in such a chassis if he could possibly inhabit it.
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This makes me wonder...What's going to happen tomorrow? I mean, the last 2 days were basically filler. He didn't have to show this, and the meningitis joke wasn't a must tell, bound to go down as one QC's greatest gags. So, either this whole week is filler, or there's a one strip cliffhanger on deck.

PLOT TWIST: It really is meningitis, Hannelore dies, Angus and Faye reconnect at the funeral, pitchfork mob descends on Jeph's home, comic ends.
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This makes me wonder...What's going to happen tomorrow? I mean, the last 2 days were basically filler. He didn't have to show this, and the meningitis joke wasn't a must tell, bound to go down as one QC's greatest gags. So, either this whole week is filler, or there's a one strip cliffhanger on deck.

PLOT TWIST: It really is meningitis, Hannelore dies, Angus and Faye reconnect at the funeral, pitchfork mob descends on Jeph's home, comic ends.

That would be boring.

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Hannelore doesn't want to infect her friends. And there's only one way to make sure that never happens. To kill them.
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I just had a thought:

Sentient AI are building other sentient AI.

The significance of this is likely lost on Jeph, and will be overlooked forevermore because it was a filler dick joke.

We know the dildo can sing, but we don't know it's self-aware.  I choose to presume it's of roughly animal-level intelligence, for no particular reason.

Yeah, but even that raises serious ethical issues. If it's human-level sentience, you'd need consent; form ceases to follow function at that point. And you can't get meaningful consent from an animal-level sentience.
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The trick is to find an AI to inhabit the dildo who really likes its job, like the toaster AI does.
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The trick is to find an AI to inhabit the dildo who really likes its job, like the toaster AI does.

Back to Pintsize then...
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The trick is to find an AI to inhabit the dildo who really likes its job, like the toaster AI does.

Back to Pintsize then...

But he likes boobies and in that chassis... Oh MY. No no no no  no no no no no.
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Hannelore doesn't want to infect her friends. And there's only one way to make sure that never happens. To kill them.

Not enough potential for complication. I'm betting we find out that Claire is the Kwisatz Haderach.

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Valkygrrl, I edited my post to include this link to Pintsize stating his preference, though I have to admit that he would probably not mind one bit which kind of bits he ended up with, as long as he could approximate some role in the porn he downloads. (if that's his motivation for having them in the first place)
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The trick is to find an AI to inhabit the dildo who really likes its job, like the toaster AI does.

Given how some people are into sexual fetishes.....wait, do AI's even have a concept of sexual fetishes?
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As far as the latest strip is concerned, it's simply good conservation of detail. We don't need to see the part where Marten recaps everything that we already know happened because we saw it all from our cosy spot behind the fourth wall. We therefore cut to the next relevant event in the story: Hanners' reaction, and the beginning of the rest of the conversation.
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The trick is to find an AI to inhabit the dildo who really likes its job, like the toaster AI does.

Given how some people are into sexual fetishes.....wait, do AI's even have a concept of sexual fetishes?

Have you not been paying attention to Pintsize all this time?

Seriously, though, I imagine AI not having the same hang ups we do about it. Instead I see them as being pretty much okay with whatever feels good sans judgment.
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Have you not been paying attention to Pintsize all this time?

Is his actions what we humans would consider interest in sexual fetishism, or just programming to respond to sexual fetishism?
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There is no difference. Human fetishes ARE programming. All human behaviors and thought patterns are programming. The same is true of all organisms.
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There is no difference. Human fetishes ARE programming. All human behaviors and thought patterns are programming. The same is true of all organisms.

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There is no difference. Human fetishes ARE programming. All human behaviors and thought patterns are programming. The same is true of all organisms.

Now we're getting philosophic about the human condition?

This dildo goes deep.


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There is no difference. Human fetishes ARE programming. All human behaviors and thought patterns are programming. The same is true of all organisms.

:image post:

I am going to resist the temptation.

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The only difference between biological organisms and so-called artificial machines is the materials and method of their construction.

Exactly.  That's what always bothered me about Emily's questions about AI thought processes.  Sure, thinking on a human level may be just a subroutine for them, but isn't it the same for us?  How much of our processing power is devoted to just keeping our biological systems functioning--and maintaining our sentience--without our even noticing it?  All of those chemical reactions occurring throughout our bodies every second of every day are obviously a response to something, but if we had to consciously maintain all of that instead of trusting our brains and bodies to do it for us, we'd never get anything done.  AIs are clearly just better at multitasking. 
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Viral - you feel rotten, like flu. Then it gets worse next day. You feel so rotten you just sit in a corner, and then you better be around friends because you go into semiconsciousness wiithout warning, which becomes a coma.

So I'm told. My memory's unreliable of the period, due to the brain damage. My friends carried me to the hospital on campus, a few hundred metres.

One of the many experiences that made my time at university so eventful. Viral meningo-encephalitis is not fun.
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The only difference between biological organisms and so-called artificial machines is the materials and method of their construction.

You still have not adequately cited your comments in a manner that would back up your arguments.
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I just had a thought:

Sentient AI are building other sentient AI.

The significance of this is likely lost on Jeph, and will be overlooked forevermore because it was a filler dick joke.

I don't think the dildo is sentient. There is lots of room in the spectrum for a fully automated machine that isn't sentient, just cleverly programmed.
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Hannelore doesn't want to infect her friends. And there's only one way to make sure that never happens. To kill them.

Not enough potential for complication. I'm betting we find out that Claire is the Kwisatz Haderach.

Oh Dune jokes will we ever tire of thee (All signs point to no)
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The only difference between biological organisms and so-called artificial machines is the materials and method of their construction.

You still have not adequately cited your comments in a manner that would back up your arguments.

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Poor Hanners! Only she could turn mixed feelings into an attack of hyperchondria! I'm glad that she's read in though; I think that Marten will need her support, especially for Faye. If her work with Marigold proves anything, it is that Hanners is excellent at breaking through barriers of low self-esteem.

Wait, how did Hanners find out about Faye/Angus? she was not at CoD and it just happened? Or about Claire for that matter? did I miss something here?

Marten has probably just been telling Hanners about his day. My guess is that she came to the door to see what was the source of the high-pitched singing and pitter-patter of tiny feet!
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Marten has probably just been telling Hanners about his day. My guess is that she came to the door to see what was the source of the high-pitched singing and pitter-patter of tiny feet!

I think they are at Hannelore's place. The wall angle/door in view is wrong for Marten's kitchen and the walls aren't blue.

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Marten has probably just been telling Hanners about his day. My guess is that she came to the door to see what was the source of the high-pitched singing and pitter-patter of tiny feet!

I think they are at Hannelore's place. The wall angle/door in view is wrong for Marten's kitchen and the walls aren't blue.

Well, in that case, Marten probably decided to protect his sense of reality by taking refuge in Hannelore's apartment until Pintsize completes The Great Dildo Hunt.
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Well, in that case, Marten probably decided to protect his sense of reality by taking refuge in Hannelore's apartment until Pintsize completes The Great Dildo Hunt.

I have a mental image of Pintsize with a Dildo-esque spear hunting down a running singing dildo around the Amherst Library
Thanks for that

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This makes me wonder...What's going to happen tomorrow? I mean, the last 2 days were basically filler. He didn't have to show this, and the meningitis joke wasn't a must tell, bound to go down as one QC's greatest gags. So, either this whole week is filler, or there's a one strip cliffhanger on deck.

I'm wondering if we haven't been misinterpreting this whole arc. Faye, Pintsize and Hannelore were all to remind Marten that he is still the keeper of a pack of cute but neurotic girls and a borderline-runaway AI. He's got other things than his new girlfriend that requires juggling in his life!
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