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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #100 on: 09 Mar 2016, 14:24 »

"Flensing" is one of those really cool sounding words that you really don't want to hear in reference to your face meats.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #101 on: 09 Mar 2016, 14:56 »

Anyone getting a Nicholson Joker vibe from this?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #102 on: 09 Mar 2016, 16:12 »

If Jeph doesn't go that way then someone should do it as fan art.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #103 on: 09 Mar 2016, 17:00 »

She's already kinda got a Two Face thing going on right now.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #104 on: 09 Mar 2016, 18:11 »

Anyone getting a Nicholson Joker vibe from this?

Sometimes I wonder who's blocking me.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #105 on: 09 Mar 2016, 18:49 »

"Flensing" is one of those really cool sounding words that you really don't want to hear in reference to your face meats.

See, Flensing is a word that tells you that something terrible is about to happen.
I find debridement to be a somewhat more terrifying word, because its telling you something terrible has already happened.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #106 on: 09 Mar 2016, 19:01 »

Ah, here it was.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2760
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #107 on: 09 Mar 2016, 19:09 »

Faye is enjoying this way too much.

May, welcome to the Uncanny Valley.
Or as some like to call it, the Twilight Zone...
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« Reply #108 on: 09 Mar 2016, 19:38 »

In spite of all the prediction of doom and insanity, the patient seems fine.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #109 on: 09 Mar 2016, 19:39 »

The makeover begins. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #110 on: 09 Mar 2016, 19:44 »

If you're wondering what May looks like topless, today's comic will tell you. (Hint: She wasn't kidding about looking like a barbie doll.)

It appears she'll have a beige face going forward. A bit closer to human than the blue, but still not like Momo's pseudo flesh tone. It does appear that Bubbles really knows her stuff, and May won't be rocking any Frankenstein-type scars etc. on her face. I'm assuming when Bubbles says "This will all have to be replaced," she means the joint and not the whole arm. Otherwise May would have a non-blue appendage to go with her face. Staying with the blue hair is an interesting choice.

On the subject of sewing, I remember when I got some stitches on my finger. The guy who sewed them was amazingly skilled. It was like a magical process.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #111 on: 09 Mar 2016, 19:49 »

Can Bubbles knit? It might be soothing for her and give her a way to make friends.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #112 on: 09 Mar 2016, 19:50 »

Ok but, despite always knowing they're all robots, this page is still kinda disturbing as all hell.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #113 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:03 »

Faye isn't a robot... or is she?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #114 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:07 »

We _think_ she was joking.

She leaks red fluid when she's cut and was accepted as human at the hospital. On the other hand, she was able to throw an adult man across a bar.
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« Reply #115 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:10 »

On the subject of sewing, I remember when I got some stitches on my finger. The guy who sewed them was amazingly skilled. It was like a magical process.

Yeah it looks like magic, my cousin is doing the last year of his surgical rotation and he basically spent a months rent buying pig's trotters to practice his suture technique. They get tested on how well they can do a suture one handed, in case of an emergency situation.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #116 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:35 »

Can some people not sew?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #117 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:45 »

We _think_ she was joking.

She leaks red fluid when she's cut and was accepted as human at the hospital. On the other hand, she was able to throw an adult man across a bar.

So was Jessica Jones. Faye has super strength, just not invulnerablity.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #118 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:46 »

Can some people not sew?

This is rather like asking, "Can some people not cook," or "Can some people not sing?" Not everyone is skilled at it, and when someone says they can (or cannot) do one of those things, they really mean that they have (or have not) attained some reasonable degree of skill.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #119 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:48 »

Some ppl have physical impediments that mean they literally can not sew.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #120 on: 09 Mar 2016, 20:54 »

Our girl Bubbles has some mad skills there.

And I think I like the way this somewhat new look for May is going
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #121 on: 09 Mar 2016, 21:31 »

The asshole who did my stitches when I cut my thumb open sucked.

Then my mom convinced me that no, we don't have to go to the hospital, she can take them out herself, it's no big deal.  (In all fairness, my mom is a licensed MD, so it's not like some random teacher or lawyer or whatever doing minor surgery on me.)

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Bubbles knitting would be a good way to continue her friendship with Hanners.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #122 on: 09 Mar 2016, 22:02 »

If you're wondering what the new May will look like, she should be something like this:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #123 on: 09 Mar 2016, 22:19 »

May's traumatized?
Yes, definitely. My reading, given her reference to having a physical body "now", is that robot jail is just a big room full of 19" racks full of disembodied AI cores (let's be honest, that's what our prison authorities would do if they could). Not a nice place for one who dreamed of being a fighter-jet.

Flensing... There's a word I haven't come across since I read Moby Dick. Faye is having a whale of a time.

Either the claustrophobia was caused by Robot Jail, in which case it's evidence of trauma, or she was claustrophobic before she went in, in which case it would certainly have traumatized her.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #124 on: 09 Mar 2016, 22:20 »

I have a feeling that they will decide that having just a khaki head will look odd and go for a full body makeover.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #125 on: 09 Mar 2016, 23:18 »

May is having a favor done for her, and is reacting in the way May typically does - she throws insults left right and sideways because she's never been very good at gratitude.

Agree with one minor amendment: May has never been good at expressing gratitude. She has shown gratitude before, and her entire behaviour suggests she's not half the jerk she is projecting to the world, she just has enormous problems opening up and expressing positive sentiments to people. Combine that with a sarcastic sense of humour and low impulse control, and the jerk façade is inevitable.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #126 on: 09 Mar 2016, 23:46 »

Bubbles is clearly a 'droid of many talents. I don't know why she's so embarrassed about knowing how to sew! It strikes me as something that they'd teach you in Basic to ensure that you can maintain your kit in the field.

Meanwhile, I have a feeling that May is going to end up a bit of a patchwork quilt of repairs and replacement parts! It's a good thing that her warranty has already expired or this would invalidate it to sure!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #127 on: 10 Mar 2016, 00:03 »

May is having a favor done for her, and is reacting in the way May typically does - she throws insults left right and sideways because she's never been very good at gratitude.

Agree with one minor amendment: May has never been good at expressing gratitude. She has shown gratitude before, and her entire behaviour suggests she's not half the jerk she is projecting to the world, she just has enormous problems opening up and expressing positive sentiments to people. Combine that with a sarcastic sense of humour and low impulse control, and the jerk façade is inevitable.

Goodness, that sounds like a description of someone else in the strip.

Perhaps The Pugnacious Peach will end up as a big sister to May, singing lullabies like "May, May, my mei mei" or helping May through the recovery process with the benefit of her own experience.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #128 on: 10 Mar 2016, 00:09 »

Can some people not sew?
It was only relatively recently that I discovered that not everyone was taught how in primary school, so maybe?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #129 on: 10 Mar 2016, 01:25 »

At first glance I thought those were nails not needles and Bubbles was going to straight up hammer May's hair back on.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #130 on: 10 Mar 2016, 01:47 »

FWIW, I'm still hoping that May begs a set of shoulder-gloves in the same tone as her new face dermal. I don't know about anyone else but I'd feel self-conscious having a very obviously different skin tone between my face and hands. That said, it depends a lot on how May feels about her chassis. She may not care enough about it to want to put too much trouble into making it appear aesthetically balanced. Additionally, it's beginning to look like the face is the only part with dermal so she might not have a problem as she's always had bare exo-shell on the rest of her body.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #131 on: 10 Mar 2016, 02:12 »

If it were that big of a problem she probably can just find a can of paint and paint her face blue.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #132 on: 10 Mar 2016, 02:30 »



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« Reply #133 on: 10 Mar 2016, 04:59 »

Can some people not sew?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #134 on: 10 Mar 2016, 05:01 »

I though sewing was a common enough skill amongst military personnel - whatwith the requirement of keeping dress uniforms etc. in perfect condition - not to elicit surprise anymore?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #135 on: 10 Mar 2016, 05:06 »

It probably wouldn't surprise anyone who was in the military or their families. But people outside the military environment, such as Faye, might be a bit surprised.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #136 on: 10 Mar 2016, 05:42 »

Totally random, but I love that when May and Faye speak in unison, their text containment is half bubble, half box.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #137 on: 10 Mar 2016, 06:15 »

FWIW, I'm still hoping that May begs a set of shoulder-gloves in the same tone as her new face dermal. I don't know about anyone else but I'd feel self-conscious having a very obviously different skin tone between my face and hands. That said, it depends a lot on how May feels about her chassis. She may not care enough about it to want to put too much trouble into making it appear aesthetically balanced. Additionally, it's beginning to look like the face is the only part with dermal so she might not have a problem as she's always had bare exo-shell on the rest of her body.

Her neck, shoulders and chest remain blue, so adding gloves won't be enough to complete the effect, unless she's wearing a coat and a scarf.

May will look like one of those cars with a replacement door in a different color.

I could see this as eventually becoming a droid fashion statement - multiple-tone body parts put on deliberately.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #138 on: 10 Mar 2016, 06:44 »

I don't know if May could deal with being a trend setter to that extent.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #139 on: 10 Mar 2016, 08:31 »

I don't think a patch-work May would care at all about her crazy quilt appearance, since it's not a fighter jet chassis. It's like those lunatic homo sapiens who lose body parts, have them replaced with synthetic replacements and given the option of a skin-tone covering just go, "Meh." Saw a picture on imgur of a guy who'd forgotten to charge his forearm's batteries before leaving for a trip, so he was sitting in an airport lounge where people were recharging their phones and tablets with a cable running from an outlet to his carbon fiber forearm with anatomicly correct robot hand at the end of it. If he'd been at all self conscious, I'm sure there is a synthetic skin the thing could have been wearing.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #140 on: 10 Mar 2016, 08:51 »

Did they remove May's eyes as part of the dermal installation procedure, d'ythink?

Also, unless it's some sort of heat-shrink-wrap, you'd think some skills along the lines of sewing would be required during installation.

Additionally, it's beginning to look like the face is the only part with dermal so she might not have a problem as she's always had bare exo-shell on the rest of her body.
If the rest of her's bare, she could just get a paintjob. A spraycan or two of primer, and the same of topcoat wouldn't cost that much, if she can lay off the fighter-jet T-shirts and fart apps.

I can't imagine trying to spray the dermal blue would end that well. It wouldn't wear so well with constant facial expression, surely.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #141 on: 10 Mar 2016, 09:16 »

Bubbles is turning out to be quite the talented little sew-n-sew  :claireface:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #142 on: 10 Mar 2016, 10:00 »

If I had a cyborg hand, I wouldn't want natural looking, I'd want obvious chrome. If I have to have a prosthetic, I want it to be as badass as possible.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #143 on: 10 Mar 2016, 10:36 »

If I were going to guess, I'd guess that the dermal is a silicon rubber sheet with a bunch of tiny piezoelectric sensors stirred into  it, and the fixative gel is the same rubber or slightly more flexible, plus a mild solvent that has it temporarily gooey; not at a high enough concentration to dissolve the dermal, but sufficient to fuse it to the softer rubber that the gel sets into as the solvent evaporates, and to make the dermal itself more flexible/shrinkable for a while until exposure to air evaporates the solvent.  During that time it would be soft enough to shrink or expand somewhat to fit, and you could splice patches of it together although that would likely leave a visible seam.  The result would be a thin "skin" of slightly harder/tougher rubber fused to "tissue" that's softer and more flexible.

So the procedure would be a matter of putting a pre-formed head covering over the fixative gel, probably bringing a seam together at the back of the head to make it reasonably snug, and working the air bubbles out from under it to make sure all of it is in contact with the gel.  At which point the silicone rubber contracting over the gel would do the final shaping to a perfect fit.  Most of the tools would be the same sort of thing you use applying fiberglass coverings. 

The sensor net would be piezoelectric crystals - the same microscopic bits that used to get attached to phonograph needles to detect vibrations.  That could provide a fairly good sense of touch - but depending on how the sensor signals are detected, probably one that would degrade over time as tiny little conducting fibers in the dermal wear out depriving the embedded microelectronics of their antennas.  So May probably now has a drastically better sense of touch over her face than she got with her out-of-warranty ReformChassis. 

Of course this is all me being a maker weenie and second-guessing the artist.  It's plausible, but doesn't necessarily match canon. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #144 on: 10 Mar 2016, 10:52 »

If I were May and getting my facial tissue replaced though, I'd probably have opted to have lips.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #145 on: 10 Mar 2016, 12:52 »

Can some people not sew?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3171-3175 (07 March - 11 March 2016)
« Reply #146 on: 10 Mar 2016, 13:01 »

Bubbles is clearly a 'droid of many talents. I don't know why she's so embarrassed about knowing how to sew! It strikes me as something that they'd teach you in Basic to ensure that you can maintain your kit in the field.

I'm pretty sure her MOS (or whatever they call it in the QCverse military) was some form of medic.

Which makes me wonder: with whom is/was QCverse America at war?
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« Reply #147 on: 10 Mar 2016, 13:04 »

They have always been at war with Eurasia.
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« Reply #148 on: 10 Mar 2016, 13:07 »

They have always been at war with Eurasia.

Are you sure it wasn't Eastasia?
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« Reply #149 on: 10 Mar 2016, 13:08 »

What are you talking about? They have always been at war with Eastasia.
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