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Just who or what is Emily? (Give Your Top 3 Picks!)

A daughter-replica synthetic (like in the film 'AI: Artificial Intelligence')
- 4 (5.1%)
A very biological woman whose brain is so unique that it interprets smells like an AI
- 40 (50.6%)
A true cyborg (electro-mechanically augmented human)
- 2 (2.5%)
A human with an electronically-augmented brain so she interprets sensory data like an AI
- 10 (12.7%)
A bio-droid (AI box in a vat-grown biological chassis like SpookyBot's)
- 2 (2.5%)
SpookyBot's daughter (stranger things have happened)
- 5 (6.3%)
A bio-mimic synthetic (900-series Terminator)
- 2 (2.5%)
A camouflaged synthetic (800-series Terminator)
- 1 (1.3%)
Some exotic biological life-form (alien, clone, Replicant)
- 8 (10.1%)
Other (please specify in a comment)
- 5 (6.3%)

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Author Topic: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)  (Read 19613 times)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #100 on: 29 Sep 2017, 08:19 »
Yeah, PT410x is not a group hug kind of guy.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #101 on: 29 Sep 2017, 18:19 »
Some people are quite demonstrative, have a good emotional self-understanding, and feel comfortable in allowing others access to their  inner selves.

Then there's May.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #102 on: 29 Sep 2017, 22:09 »
Quote from: shanejayell on 29 Sep 2017, 07:14
Awww. Wonder if Dale realizes he's been neglecting May, a bit?

Tho it's quite possible he thinks he's 'giving her space' and doesn't realize he may have gone too far.

Dale is not May's keeper.  He gave her an up vote so she could get paroled, gave her a place to stay, and has a higher tolerance for her than most.  Even May doesn't begrudge him having to work and getting laid.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #103 on: 30 Sep 2017, 08:20 »
He's not her keeper, but he is her friend. Not saying he owes her anything, but I think he'd be upset if he realised how lonely she is. It's easy to neglect friendships without realizing it.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #104 on: 30 Sep 2017, 10:32 »
Quote from: sitnspin on 30 Sep 2017, 08:20
He's not her keeper, but he is her friend. Not saying he owes her anything, but I think he'd be upset if he realised how lonely she is. It's easy to neglect friendships without realizing it.
And May is the sort, human or bot, to actively hide their emotions behind a stone veneer.  Part of her self-definition is being hard as nails and letting on to anyone that she's actually quite fragile terrifies the Hell out of her.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #105 on: 30 Sep 2017, 13:33 »
Quote from: shanejayell on 29 Sep 2017, 07:14
Awww. Wonder if Dale realizes he's been neglecting May, a bit?
May is basically Dale's uninvited lodger isn't she? And Dale never asked for her, either as Virtual commpanion or when she got out of robot jail. So neglect is a bit strong isn't it?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #106 on: 30 Sep 2017, 13:55 »
He invited her to stay when she got released.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #107 on: 30 Sep 2017, 14:41 »
Winslow's definitely handling May just right.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #108 on: 30 Sep 2017, 15:09 »
I love Winslow's expression in the final panel. Who knew he could be so sarcastic?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #109 on: 30 Sep 2017, 15:29 »
Going back a couple of strips, did we ever reach consensus on who the "she" that broke up with possibly-Punchbot was?
Like was she human or AI?
For extra intrigue, was she Number 07, last seen hooking up with Jeremy the former assembly-arm?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #110 on: 30 Sep 2017, 16:22 »
Quote from: JimC on 30 Sep 2017, 13:33
Quote from: shanejayell on 29 Sep 2017, 07:14
Awww. Wonder if Dale realizes he's been neglecting May, a bit?
May is basically Dale's uninvited lodger isn't she? And Dale never asked for her, either as Virtual commpanion or when she got out of robot jail. So neglect is a bit strong isn't it?
But Dale is so damned decent a human being that he's at risk of being canonized as a saint.  He doesn't do the right thing because he's supposed to or expects some reward, it just doesn't occur to him to do anything else, at least in real life (his in-game persona may be quite different).  He's apt to fault himself for neglecting her even if he's under no obligation.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #111 on: 01 Oct 2017, 04:09 »
Quote from: sitnspin on 30 Sep 2017, 13:55
He invited her to stay when she got released.
Invited?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #112 on: 01 Oct 2017, 06:52 »
 :lol:

That's probably what May tells folks.

"He invited me!"

"What? NO!"

"Ha. He's just tsundere..."
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #113 on: 01 Oct 2017, 14:50 »
May does have some admirable points. For example, she refuses to violate another's privacy as seen in http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2761 .

She doesn't like people ruder than she is: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2762

Maybe once she realizes that she doesn't need to be defensive all the time - maybe something else she picked up in RoboJail - she'll... well, still be a jerk, but a somewhat less directly offensive jerk.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3576 to 3580 (25th to 29th September 2017)
« Reply #114 on: 01 Oct 2017, 16:45 »
Quote from: Mr_Rose on 30 Sep 2017, 15:29
Going back a couple of strips, did we ever reach consensus on who the "she" that broke up with possibly-Punchbot was?
Like was she human or AI?
For extra intrigue, was she Number 07, last seen hooking up with Jeremy the former assembly-arm?

That has yet to be resolved.
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