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Just what is Pintsize's deal?

He's just a pervert but with more metal than most
He's a sort of troll who likes freaking out people by pretending to be transgressive
He's a weird kind of abstract archetype that Jeph created of the whole concept of an AI having any sexuality at all
He is actually one of the world's greatest behavioural psychologists trying to help Marten and Faye with a carefully-planned series of fake actions
He has impulse control problems, does stupid things on a whim and doesn't think about possible consequences
At first it was just curiosity and a one-off practical joke but it's become a bit of a habit he's never bothered to shake
He actually thinks that this is tremendeously funny and doesn't get everyone's reaction
Other reason (in-universe)
Other reason (real world)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #200 on: 05 May 2017, 15:02 »

We've been thinking of Bubbles as an adult. How old is she, really?

The blushes could be childlike.

The strips with May looking for a job make mention of some sort of AI Maturity Index and it being equivalent to human age with respect to applying for jobs.  I imagine the QC universe army isn't in the business of employing AI child soldiers.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #201 on: 05 May 2017, 15:03 »

Why does an AI need to stretch...?

In this case to recalibrate their chassis' motion and position sensors for the not-recently-used no-armour setup.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #202 on: 05 May 2017, 16:00 »

Jealous Faye    :D

Love Bubbles blushing at Fayes comment.

Of course, you realise  what this means now ........

SHOPPING TRIP!!!


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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #203 on: 05 May 2017, 17:28 »

Someone new to romantic relationships should start with someone easier than Faye.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #204 on: 05 May 2017, 18:36 »

Jealous Faye    :D

Love Bubbles blushing at Fayes comment.

Of course, you realise  what this means now ........

SHOPPING TRIP!!!


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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #205 on: 05 May 2017, 20:10 »

That... I think is actually probably a thing. Or it should be. A lot of AIs do seem to want to fit into human society, and do so to varying success. A show or program to help them out and explain some of the points of culture and fashion would probably help.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #206 on: 05 May 2017, 21:08 »

"I understand and appreciate your intent" sounds more like "I know you meant no offense" than like flirting.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #207 on: 05 May 2017, 22:54 »

I hope we get a montage of Bubbles trying to find clothes that can contain her awesomeness.
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« Reply #208 on: 05 May 2017, 23:01 »

SHOPPING TRIP!!!
...is better than shipping trope!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #209 on: 05 May 2017, 23:50 »

Someone new to romantic relationships should start with someone easier than Faye.

Unfortunately, we don't get to make choices like that.

"I understand and appreciate your intent" sounds more like "I know you meant no offense" than like flirting.

It sounds to me what it is: Bubbles being pleased that Faye doesn't think she looks hideous (which, somehow, I suspect a part of her feared would happen). Bubbles, or so I've noticed, does tend to use very cumbersome phrasing. What it doesn't address is why Faye should have worried at Bubbles reaction to something that should have been completely natural and unremarkable for her to say. It might be me but there's a subtext to that.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #210 on: 06 May 2017, 00:52 »

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What it doesn't address is why Faye should have worried at Bubbles reaction to something that should have been completely natural and unremarkable for her to say

Bubbles has been known to be prickly. It may not even have been worry, though, but instead just a courteous inquiry about an unfamiliar situation.

I might be unsure what was appropriate to say if a seven-foot combat robot with PTSD stripped in front of me.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #211 on: 06 May 2017, 07:58 »

I might be unsure what was appropriate to say if a seven-foot combat robot with PTSD stripped in front of me.

Thank you?  :claireface:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #212 on: 06 May 2017, 08:52 »

Bubbles has been known to be prickly. It may not even have been worry, though, but instead just a courteous inquiry about an unfamiliar situation.

What's wrong with being prickly? 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #213 on: 06 May 2017, 09:14 »

I didn't say it was wrong, just that it was an adequate explanation of why Faye asked whether the compliment was OK.
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« Reply #214 on: 06 May 2017, 09:29 »

I might be unsure what was appropriate to say if a seven-foot combat robot with PTSD stripped in front of me.
Thank you?  :claireface:

Damned right.  PTSD in a soldier, however unfortunate, means they've made a hell of an effort and gone through a lot of hardship to protect you. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #215 on: 06 May 2017, 15:02 »

I hope we get a montage of Bubbles trying to find clothes that can contain her awesomeness.

She'll probably have about as much "fun" as I do finding clothes that fit. I'm 5'5" with broad shoulders and a barrel chest to boot. Medium for length but XL for width. Shoe shopping is the worse having a men's 9.5 with a 6E width.

But it's a comic, so she'll probably have better luck than I do.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #216 on: 06 May 2017, 15:16 »

She has the option of getting a smaller chassis.

She also has some friends who make clothes.

She presumably had a source for clothing in the days before she enlisted.
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« Reply #217 on: 06 May 2017, 17:23 »

She may not have been in this chassis before enlisting.
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« Reply #218 on: 06 May 2017, 23:55 »

Personally, I  think that Bubbles' first post-armour clothes will be one of Faye's baggy night tee-shirts (repurposed into a tank-top by happy necessity) and a sarong that's a repurposed bed sheet. After that it will be time to go to Big and Beefy People, the specialist XXXL clothier that dresses Elliott.

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« Reply #219 on: 07 May 2017, 07:39 »

Faye should lend Bubbles the 'Tsundere' t-shirt.

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« Reply #220 on: 07 May 2017, 10:00 »

I didn't say it was wrong, just that it was an adequate explanation of why Faye asked whether the compliment was OK.

And you totally ignored the hedgehog joke.
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« Reply #221 on: 07 May 2017, 22:37 »

I admit that one flew over my head.  :roll:
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« Reply #222 on: 08 May 2017, 17:24 »

Maybe you were just hedging your bets.
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« Reply #223 on: 08 May 2017, 20:48 »

Awww!  And bonus - hugs with no skull-bruising "Donk!" this time, just a pleasant "Smoosh."
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« Reply #224 on: 08 May 2017, 21:48 »

I got the point.
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« Reply #225 on: 09 May 2017, 02:16 »

Awww!  And bonus - hugs with no skull-bruising "Donk!" this time, just a pleasant "Smoosh."

And also, no awkward blush.
And not a hint of anything sexual...


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« Reply #226 on: 09 May 2017, 02:19 »

FWIW, Faye isn't a blusher. She rarely if ever blushed during her relationship with Angus, even when they were both stark naked and discussing their respective experiences of sex.
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« Reply #227 on: 09 May 2017, 02:47 »

Awww!  And bonus - hugs with no skull-bruising "Donk!" this time, just a pleasant "Smoosh."

The main significance to me was that for the first time (as I recall) it was Bubbles hugging Faye instead of the other way round.
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« Reply #228 on: 09 May 2017, 03:03 »

FWIW, Faye isn't a blusher. She rarely if ever blushed during her relationship with Angus, even when they were both stark naked and discussing their respective experiences of sex.

Yeah, I was thinking more from Bubbles' POV... :)
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« Reply #229 on: 09 May 2017, 03:55 »

Cute, but that is not a cardigan.
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« Reply #230 on: 09 May 2017, 03:56 »

This is last week's thread, by the way.
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« Reply #231 on: 09 May 2017, 04:14 »

This is last week's thread, by the way.

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« Reply #232 on: 09 May 2017, 17:33 »

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« Reply #233 on: 10 May 2017, 16:40 »

What?  No, March was two months ago.  Try to keep up, okay?
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« Reply #234 on: 10 May 2017, 16:48 »

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« Reply #235 on: 10 May 2017, 19:53 »

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« Reply #236 on: 13 May 2017, 11:16 »

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Just what is Pintsize's deal?

1. He's a sort of troll who likes freaking out people by pretending to be transgressive - 14 (21.9%)
2. He is actually one of the world's greatest behavioural psychologists trying to help Marten and Faye with a carefully-planned series of fake actions - 13 (20.3%)
3. He has impulse control problems, does stupid things on a whim and doesn't think about possible consequences - 11 (17.2%)
4. He actually thinks that this is tremendously funny and doesn't get everyone's reaction - 9 (14.1%)
5. He's just a pervert but with more metal than most - 6 (9.4%)
6. At first it was just curiosity and a one-off practical joke but it's become a bit of a habit he's never bothered to shake - 5 (7.8%)
=7. He's a weird kind of abstract archetype that Jeph created of the whole concept of an AI having any sexuality at all - 3 (4.7%)
=7. Other reason (real world) - 3 (4.7%)
x. Other reason (in-universe) - 0 (0%)

A surprisingly close result this time! It seems odd that one of the oldest characters in the strip should generate such divided opinions as to his motives. I genuinely would have expected more people to have selected one of the "He's just an asshole" options or for the views of the character to be more settled!
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« Reply #237 on: 13 May 2017, 22:17 »

The motivations of Pintsuze have been debated for some time afaik so I'm as little surprised at your surprise.

We've only ever really known him on a superficial level, so while he's outwardly the simple prankster, there have been a small number of hints that there's more going on, so of course there will be diverse opinions.
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« Reply #238 on: 14 May 2017, 08:40 »

Thinking of Pintsize, does anyone remember when "the day" from Zach Weiner's guest comics is? I vaguely seem to remember it being in 2017, but I'm not sure.
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« Reply #239 on: 14 May 2017, 09:49 »

Thinking of Pintsize, does anyone remember when "the day" from Zach Weiner's guest comics is? I vaguely seem to remember it being in 2017, but I'm not sure.

July 22, 2017.
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« Reply #240 on: 14 May 2017, 10:09 »

Okay, so it's coming up pretty soon. I think the AIs will be good overlords.
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« Reply #241 on: 14 May 2017, 12:57 »

I mean, they'd probably do better than we do.
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« Reply #242 on: 14 May 2017, 22:08 »

I really really hope Jeph writes at least a nod towards that guest comic when that day arrives.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3471 to 3475 (1st to 5th May 2017)
« Reply #243 on: 06 Apr 2018, 13:40 »

Ok Bubbles is cute as all hell, but I have to admit I'm now a bit concerned about where the relationship is going.  I have a bad feeling Bubbles is on the way to getting hurt.

The price of never getting hurt is exorbitant.

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Friendship causes pain
Its laughter and its loving I disdain

This time around Bubbles will have kick-ass friends to back her up when she does get hurt. Put Marten's steadiness and Faye's loyalty and Hannelore's insight together ...

I wish I could give extra likes just for the Simon & Garfunkel quotation. "I Am a Rock" was absolutely the perfect song to illustrate your point.

For some reason it took me this long to remember the lines of the song that really resonate with Bubbles. Imagine her living by herself at the fight club, clinging to her metalloceramic outer skin. Then remember

I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room
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I touch no one and no one touches me
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