Topic: WCDT Strips 3241 - 3245 (13-17 June 2016) (Read 64289 times)

Kugai · « **on:** 12 Jun 2016, 10:29 »

The Poll is a lie

BenRG · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 10:48 »

Of course, Jeph is God, at least to the characters of Questionable Content!

Am I the only one who would like to see Padma return at Renee's request to check up on Brun? Marten may have some mixed feelings but something tells me that Padma would prefer to girl-bond with Claire and teach her how to party (as well as pass on a few kick-boxing tips).

Coming fully out-of-universe and putting my serious hat on, the tragic and horrifying events in Orlando last night may affect the tone of Jeph's creative output somewhat over the next couple of weeks; we'll see.

comicalArchitect · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 18:09 »

Quote from: BenRG on 12 Jun 2016, 10:48

Of course, Jeph is God, at least to the characters of Questionable Content!

Am I the only one who would like to see Padma return at Renee's request to check up on Brun? Marten may have some mixed feelings but something tells me that Padma would prefer to girl-bond with Claire and teach her how to party (as well as pass on a few kick-boxing tips).

"Hey, I just came in from the literal other side of the country to check on a friend who already has two other friends looking out for her."

Undrneath · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 20:17 »

I had to double take because today's art is so similar to Friday's.

jheartney · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 21:15 »

Bubbles' remark brings to mind Number Six protecting Gaius Baltar with her body during the initial Cylon attack. If I had to hide behind one or the other of them, I'd pick Bubbles.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 21:50 »

Bubbles is fantastic, and I agree woth the guy with the Gaius avatar* that Bubbles is much better defense than Tricia Helfer

*Sorry, JHeartney, that's honestly how I know you. If it makes you feel better, I didn't actually need to look at your avatar before typing this

neurocase · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 22:28 »

Blushing Bubbles is Best Bubbles

BenRG · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 23:28 »

So, it seems that it is Bubbles's fate to be the character who is always making easily-misinterpreted comments (and thus ship-teasing us). Fortunately, years of living with Marten seems to have granted Faye the ability to parse these without too much difficulty! Not only is she not offended, I think that she finds it cute!

Maybe it's just me but I'm wondering if the concern about misunderstanding is, in fact, purely on Bubble's part. After an indeterminate time of total social and emotional isolation, she's clearly having trouble choosing her words!

mad hands murphy · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 23:38 »

If QC ever goes Full Anime i'm not accepting anything less than bubbles opening up and Faye climbing inside her and they combine their power and fight as a team.

oeoek · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 23:50 »

Jeph's bottom comment made me grin; now THAT's a bug-out bag!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #10 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 03:17 »

What word starts with defilade?

pwhodges · « **Reply #11 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 03:26 »

None, of course (well, defilades, I guess) - the dash should have been an ellipsis (...).

BenRG · « **Reply #12 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 03:37 »

"Defilide" is a military tactical term defined as having an obstacle protecting you from detection and enemy fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfilade_and_defilade#Defilade). Basically, Bubbles is offering herself as a massive, mobile shield for Faye to hide behind in the event of a Zombie AI uprising.

Now... am I the only one who wants to see Bubbles do a Halo-style one-woman army action scene to save the day in some future arc?

brasca · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 03:58 »

Quote from: mad hands murphy on 12 Jun 2016, 23:38

If QC ever goes Full Anime i'm not accepting anything less than bubbles opening up and Faye climbing inside her and they combine their power and fight as a team.

It would have to be an apocalyptic situation since Bubbles would have to endure years of Faye's double entendre and innuendo about being inside her.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #14 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 04:30 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Jun 2016, 03:26

None, of course (well, defilades, I guess) - the dash should have been an ellipsis (...).

Yeah, the dash made it seem like she was interrupted mid-word, so it didn't occur to me that defilade was the word itself. Thanks.

blt · « **Reply #15 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 05:46 »

Bubbles continuing to solidify herself as my all-time favourite QC character.

St.Clair · « **Reply #16 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 05:49 »

Semper fidelis, in the truest sense.

Magniras · « **Reply #17 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 07:01 »

Bubbles is being Dere.

Rincewind · « **Reply #18 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 08:53 »

Quote from: oeoek on 12 Jun 2016, 23:50

Jeph's bottom comment made me grin; now THAT's a bug-out bag!

Heck, with some armor modifications by Faye, Bubbles could BE a mobile howitzer!

MrNumbers · « **Reply #19 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 11:49 »

I don't want to want to ship this.

osaka · « **Reply #20 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 12:28 »

I just want to know if this is how Mei is formed.

MooskiNet · « **Reply #21 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 12:46 »

Okay, the last time any being blushed this much, she had red hair and ended up with the protagonist.

Just saying.

Kugai · « **Reply #22 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 14:41 »

SHIELD WALL!!

Zebediah · « **Reply #23 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 19:24 »

Comic!

What's under Denver International Airport? Dirt and rocks, mostly.

cesium133 · « **Reply #24 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 19:27 »

The Indian Ocean

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 19:39 »

Quote from: Zebediah on 13 Jun 2016, 19:24

Comic!

What's under Denver International Airport? Dirt and rocks, mostly.

I would've said Denver.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #26 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 19:43 »

Cesium and Stephen are both correct.

Btw, I've been in that airport! Never underneath it, though.

hedgie · « **Reply #27 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 19:44 »

It's the reptoids, obviously. Denver isn't built on itself || loam, and THEY live underground until they master their shapeshifting abilities and can pass for human.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #28 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 20:04 »

Faye just skips over Winslow and CORPSE WITCH. These are the times when you learn who your real friends are.

Stoutfellow · « **Reply #29 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 20:05 »

Not to mention May.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #30 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 20:11 »

Winslow is in the same area as Punchbot. Outside of his limited sphere of interests, he just doesn't have a lot going on. And Corpse Witch is the boss. One who has threatened Faye for being nice. You can kind of see why she wouldn't go to her. Of course, Faye is also skipping over all the other robots who work and/or live at the arena. She probably just doesn't have a strong working relationship with them. They come in, she knocks out the dents, welds on some spikes and off they go with nary a deep conversation on the nature of reality and robot butts.

hack · « **Reply #31 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 21:01 »

RE: The Denver International Airport.

...

I FUKKIN KNEW IT!

MrNumbers · « **Reply #32 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 21:06 »

Quote from: MrNumbers on 13 Jun 2016, 11:49

I don't want to want to ship this.

Past me look at today's third panel.

Future me what are you doing put the fanfiction down before someone gets hurt.

EDIT FROM FUTURE SELF: [Ha ha ha you couldn't stop me you tried so hard but you were weak]

brasca · « **Reply #33 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 21:47 »

Really Bubbles! Do you know Alice or Sedna?

celticgeek · « **Reply #34 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 22:33 »

Beneath the Denver Airport is a special machine. If it detects one single snowflake, it shuts the airport down.

BenRG · « **Reply #35 on:** 13 Jun 2016, 23:25 »

FWIW, I think that the thing with Bubbles is that she's so unused to friendship that she has a difficult time controlling or even entirely understanding her reaction to Faye's easy intimacy.

Basically, I think that she's going through the emotional maturation that most humans go through in childhood. I don't know if this reflects her age or if it's a symptom of her trauma; that she literally lost her emotional grounding (which has been strongly implied in other scenes) and is having to learn it all over again.

I do like her dry sense of humour, though. It's a indication of how close she's become to Faye that she can identify when she isn't serious and respond accordingly.

Also, I'd name any super-soldier staffed buffet for Dale Brown rather than Tom Clancy; that's more his kind of thing!

JimC · « **Reply #36 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 02:36 »

Quote from: mustang6172 on 13 Jun 2016, 20:04

Faye just skips over Winslow and CORPSE WITCH. These are the times when you learn who your real friends are.

Quote from: Stoutfellow on 13 Jun 2016, 20:05

Not to mention May.

Perhaps a dozen panels in which Faye expounds the characteristics of every single AI that has appeared in the web comic wouldn't advance the plot too much. And it would still end up with Bubbles being the rational choice for Faye to talk to.

BenRG · « **Reply #37 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 02:45 »

FWIW, I don't think that Faye has a relationship with Winslow (beyond knowing him as Hanners's AnthroPC Companion) or May (beyond that she is Momo's irritatingly crude friend). Because of this, they're hardly the sort of people Faye would feel she has the social connection with to ask such deep and philosophical questions!

brasca · « **Reply #38 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 03:47 »

Quote from: BenRG on 14 Jun 2016, 02:45

FWIW, I don't think that Faye has a relationship with Winslow (beyond knowing him as Hanners's AnthroPC Companion) or May (beyond that she is Momo's irritatingly crude friend). Because of this, they're hardly the sort of people Faye would feel she has the social connection with to ask such deep and philosophical questions!

That and they are a bit redundant for this conversation. Winslow isn't as idealistic as Momo, but I imagine his opinion wouldn't be too different and May's opinion wouldn't be all that different from Pintsize's Moreover, she's asking Bubbles as a means to get closer which is why she's not rattling off a list of every AI she knows and why they wouldn't provide a suitable opinion.

blt · « **Reply #39 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 03:50 »

Quote from: BenRG on 13 Jun 2016, 23:25

FWIW, I think that the thing with Bubbles is that she's so unused to friendship that she has a difficult time controlling or even entirely understanding her reaction to Faye's easy intimacy.

Basically, I think that she's going through the emotional maturation that most humans go through in childhood. I don't know if this reflects her age or if it's a symptom of her trauma; that she literally lost her emotional grounding (which has been strongly implied in other scenes) and is having to learn it all over again.

I do like her dry sense of humour, though. It's a indication of how close she's become to Faye that she can identify when she isn't serious and respond accordingly.

Also, I'd name any super-soldier staffed buffet for Dale Brown rather than Tom Clancy; that's more his kind of thing!

This brings up an interesting point about AI development. For humans, we have pretty set out development periods for our brains, and from what I've seen, evidence suggests if you "miss" some of them due to lack of socialisation or whatever, you've missed them for good (see: feral children). Do AI work the same way? Obviously we've seen they can grow and change (otherwise they wouldn't really be intelligent (but that's a subject that was debated a lot last week), and Bubbles wouldn't have had the capacity for trauma), but would an AI need emotional development, or do they come into being more fully formed than we do? Basically are there baby AI?

It probably wouldn't make for good comic reading but I sort of hope this is where Faye and Bubbles go next.

pwhodges · « **Reply #40 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 04:21 »

The thing with organic brains is that the pathways are created during growth, following outline (genetic) designs, but formed in detail according to the input at the time of growth of each part of the brain. If AIs don't replicate that physical (biological) process and its limitations, then there's a good chance that they can patch up faulty or incomplete programming later.

mad hands murphy · « **Reply #41 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 08:40 »

Bubbles is the strong, masculine presence Dora has longed for in her life

Method of Madness · « **Reply #42 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 09:07 »

...what?

St.Clair · « **Reply #43 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 09:44 »

Okay, first, I think you've gotten Dora and Faye mixed up.

Second ... I got nothin'.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #44 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 12:08 »

There's every reason to think Faye accepts Bubbles as a woman.

A woman, though, can be a father figure.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #45 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 13:06 »

Again...what?

Tova · « **Reply #46 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 14:47 »

*clears throat*

There's every reason to think Faye accepts Bubbles as a woman.

A woman, though, can be a father figure.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #47 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 16:04 »

ZoeB has mentioned here that she takes her son to father-son events. That's an example of a woman being a father figure. Yes, it stretched my brain too.

Bubbles is not "masculine", though. Protecting others forcibly is not gender-specific!

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #48 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 17:02 »

I think people are getting "strong" mixed up with "masculine".

Kugai · « **Reply #49 on:** 14 Jun 2016, 17:21 »

I hear there's a que for their Friday Night All You Can Eat Buffalo Wings Special

I think that Faye has come to exactly the right AnthroPC AI to get the information she wants.

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