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Faye is/has...

having an identity crisis.
dealing with cognitive dissonance.
never had romantic feelings for a woman before now (that she has acknowledged).
never had sexual attraction to a woman before now (that she's acknowledged).
not dealt with the emotional fallout of her last two relationships.
just really really good friends with Bubbles.
dangerously close to developing a ríastrad or "warp spasm".
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #200 on: 10 May 2018, 21:53 »

I love todays comic.
Don't worry, Bubbles. Everything will be fine, Dore will take things from here.  :laugh:



Doras face looks pretty much like Martens since she lost her lips too. Ecept for the hair of cause. I noticed a similar thing between Hanners and lipless Faye.
I dunno, they're looking cuter this way but I kinda prefered them with lips.

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« Reply #201 on: 10 May 2018, 22:14 »

Doras face looks pretty much like Martens since she lost her lips too. Ecept for the hair of cause. I noticed a similar thing between Hanners and lipless Faye.
I dunno, they're looking cuter this way but I kinda prefered them with lips.

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They've always looked very much alike.


I think I prefer them this way.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #202 on: 10 May 2018, 22:24 »

tactical friendship

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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #203 on: 10 May 2018, 22:42 »

Doras face looks pretty much like Martens since she lost her lips too. Ecept for the hair of cause. I noticed a similar thing between Hanners and lipless Faye.
I dunno, they're looking cuter this way but I kinda prefered them with lips.

TM
They've always looked very much alike.


I think I prefer them this way.


Jeez. Memory lane. They were together for AGES.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #204 on: 10 May 2018, 22:54 »

Now I'm stuck wondering what Code 1 and Code 2 are.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #205 on: 10 May 2018, 23:21 »

Poor Bubbles; I think she's figured out what's wrong with Faye. What I suspect that she needs to have explained to her is that it isn't necessarily a bad thing! FWIW, I'm still not sure if Tai is the right person to help out but, if she and Dora have already discussed it, maybe Dora has gotten her over the urge to just yell: "Go for it!!!" Like I said though, poor Bubbles! She's really upset about this and I'm expecting a lot of insecurity to come pouring out next week!

FWIW, I'm hoping for something like this next week: For every strip to be two columns of four panels, showing Faye's increasingly panic-stricken imaginings about where Bubbles is and why she's gone whilst, on the other side, we see Dora and Tai explaining to Bubbles why Faye suddenly broke off and what it means for her feelings.

Finally, we have Faye remembering that, when stressed, Bubbles always goes to Coffee of Doom for a tea and Bubbles realising that he has to get back to the shop because, frankly, where else would Faye go after getting over her initial fear? They run smack-dab into each other in the middle of the street and there follows a babbled apology from Bubbles tangled up with a babbled apology from Faye that ends with a mutual declaration of attraction. The last panel is a full-width of them kissing.

Now I'm stuck wondering what Code 1 and Code 2 are.
  • Code 1 - A health inspector or IRS auditor who is actually interested in doing their jobs is in the shop;
  • Code 2 - Raven has come for a visit and has met up with Emily; they've hit if off and are now discussing a 'joint project';
  • Code 3 - Bubbles and/or Faye have had a UST-induced miscommunication and need help;
  • Code 4 - Sven, whilst drunk, proposed to some random bimbo whose reply was 'Yes, please!'
  • Code 5 - Random wildlife in the HVAC system... again.
And I'm not sure if Bubbles is blushing from the unexpected physical contact or from thinkin bout Faye.

I think that it's embarrassment for both that she, the huge soldier 'bot, needs to be handled with such compassion and also that Dora seems to have guessed her feelings for Faye.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #206 on: 10 May 2018, 23:33 »

Now I'm stuck wondering what Code 1 and Code 2 are.

Code 2 is the same as Code 3, but if Faye was the one to show up first instead of Bubbles.

Code 1 is from the old days and was the response protocol for Faye actually murdering a patron in the shop. Everyone assumed it was inevitable.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #207 on: 10 May 2018, 23:36 »

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3670

Quote from: Bubbles
If your love life requires close air support, something has gone very wrong.

Or maybe something has actually gone very right for a change because you both have a wonderful network of loving and supportive friends who will make time to help you work through your feelings and make healthy choices. That's also apparently a possibility .

Sweet Merciless Sithrak, I must be reading too much Dumbing of Age if supportive friends and healthy decisions are worthy of note.

The last panel is a full-width of them kissing reenacting the spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp with a burrito.

But that's just my fantasy
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #208 on: 11 May 2018, 00:21 »

Doras face looks pretty much like Martens since she lost her lips too. Ecept for the hair of cause. I noticed a similar thing between Hanners and lipless Faye.
I dunno, they're looking cuter this way but I kinda prefered them with lips.

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They've always looked very much alike.


I think I prefer them this way.


Jeez. Memory lane. They were together for AGES.
Over 1200 strips. Or one third of the comic...
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #209 on: 11 May 2018, 01:45 »

Yeah, she's calling Tai. Thank goodness. Dora and Tai will make Bubbles feel so much better.

And I'm not sure if Bubbles is blushing from the unexpected physical contact or from thinkin bout Faye.

I think Bubbles is blushing because she has just understood that everybody was seeing for a while what was happening between her and Faye.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #210 on: 11 May 2018, 02:10 »

Enjoying that most of the rest of the cast have been shipping Faye and Bubbles.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #211 on: 11 May 2018, 02:15 »

@gopher,

I'm visualising a strip in the future where Faye and Bubbles walk into Coffee of Doom, Faye tucked under Bubbles's arm. They are smiling happily and they announce: "We're a couple!"

There is a long, embarrassed pause as the baristas and customers look awkwardly at each other before Penny finally speaks up: "Faye, we already knew that!"

One of the customers add: "So, what you're saying is that you weren't a couple before?" There are other comments to the effect that, based on their behaviour, everyone had been calling them 'the tough-looking brunette and her robot Valkyrie girlfriend' for ages now. Faye and Bubbles are left stuttering, unsure if they should be embarrassed or outraged.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #212 on: 11 May 2018, 02:17 »

Now I'm stuck wondering what Code 1 and Code 2 are.
Code 1 is “Faye is drinking again.”

Code 2 is “Marten and Claire broke up.”

All of their tac codes require significant mobilization of resources to manage.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #213 on: 11 May 2018, 02:45 »

Next strip: Some feverish phoning and texting to all of Faye's known haunts:

("Check all the bars! Check with all her friends! Check whether she's been in the park punching trees again!")

 - followed by general relief that she chose to contact Marten first:

("You okay Marten? She didn't punch you too much?...you're not calling from hospital, are you?!")
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #214 on: 11 May 2018, 04:29 »

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Finally, we have Faye remembering that, when stressed, Bubbles always goes to Coffee of Doom for a tea and Bubbles realising that he has to get back to the shop because, frankly, where else would Faye go after getting over her initial fear? They run smack-dab into each other in the middle of the street and there follows a babbled apology from Bubbles tangled up with a babbled apology from Faye that ends with a mutual declaration of attraction. The last panel is a full-width of them kissing.

And Friday's comic is a single panel of Arthur blooming a single flower. (How cool would that be?)

(http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3435)
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #215 on: 11 May 2018, 05:19 »

That's not Dora!!

(Dora... You've CHANGED, man!)

Whatcha reckon? Lack of habitual drawing or deliberate change of 'model'?

(Code 3? My money's on Tai...)
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #216 on: 11 May 2018, 05:57 »

That's not Dora!!

(Dora... You've CHANGED, man!)

Whatcha reckon? Lack of habitual drawing or deliberate change of 'model'?

Reading the collected volumes nos. 4 and 5 is illuminating. In his commentary, Jeph says that he simply couldn't get Dora right and not looking like 'Marten with breasts'. I've got the impression that only recently is Jeph getting better at getting Dora looking as he wants her to look.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #217 on: 11 May 2018, 06:12 »

Yes, Tai can be a jokester, but I think she knows when to be serious, and now is definitely a time to be serious. She's not ALWAYS a smartass.

Plus, Dora and Tai are perfect, they both understand where Bubbles is coming from, if you know what I mean. They both crushed on Faye at one time or another!

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FWIW, I'm hoping for something like this next week: For every strip to be two columns of four panels, showing Faye's increasingly panic-stricken imaginings about where Bubbles is and why she's gone whilst, on the other side, we see Dora and Tai explaining to Bubbles why Faye suddenly broke off and what it means for her feelings.

Finally, we have Faye remembering that, when stressed, Bubbles always goes to Coffee of Doom for a tea and Bubbles realising that he has to get back to the shop because, frankly, where else would Faye go after getting over her initial fear? They run smack-dab into each other in the middle of the street and there follows a babbled apology from Bubbles tangled up with a babbled apology from Faye that ends with a mutual declaration of attraction. The last panel is a full-width of them kissing.

This is all I could ask for!
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #218 on: 11 May 2018, 06:17 »

Yeah, she's calling Tai. Thank goodness. Dora and Tai will make Bubbles feel so much better.

And I'm not sure if Bubbles is blushing from the unexpected physical contact or from thinkin bout Faye.

I think Bubbles is blushing because she has just understood that everybody was seeing for a while what was happening between her and Faye.

Right. Haha, I was being a bit facetious.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #219 on: 11 May 2018, 06:58 »

I am very happy this did NOT go to a angsty place. *lol*

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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #220 on: 11 May 2018, 07:28 »

Can we all just agree that Jeph is a kickass storyteller? Yes, I think we can.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #221 on: 11 May 2018, 08:35 »


“Babe” really is more of a current partner term.
To be fair, there are regions of the USA where 'babe' is used as a term of endearment amongst close friends. Not sure if MA is one of them, though.
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« Reply #222 on: 11 May 2018, 09:32 »

I use "babe" pretty freely as a term of endearment. It's basically like "dude" but with a little more affection.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #223 on: 11 May 2018, 09:42 »

I am very happy this did NOT go to a angsty place. *lol*

Not yet anyway. Not even the Patreon subscribers know whether Faye is going to do something counterprodctive.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #224 on: 11 May 2018, 10:09 »

heh could you imagine Mulholland's  something positive crew popping by   in a guest strip ? I could see the pervy one liners  and robot apocalypse jokes from here
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #225 on: 11 May 2018, 11:41 »

I spent a good part of my time on this page trying to figure out who that girl with the black hair was, because it sure didn't look like Dora.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #226 on: 11 May 2018, 11:49 »

heh could you imagine Mulholland's  something positive crew popping by   in a guest strip ? I could see the pervy one liners  and robot apocalypse jokes from here

Funny you should say that, it was... remarkably restrained.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=511
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« Reply #227 on: 11 May 2018, 12:02 »

I spent a good part of my time on this page trying to figure out who that girl with the black hair was, because it sure didn't look like Dora.
I've been saying this for months. Her character design has changed so dramatically, I only recognize her by context now.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #228 on: 11 May 2018, 12:18 »

Well Dora knew it was coming long ago
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3449
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #229 on: 11 May 2018, 15:48 »

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3670

Quote from: Bubbles
If your love life requires close air support, something has gone very wrong.

Or maybe something has actually gone very right for a change because you both have a wonderful network of loving and supportive friends who will make time to help you work through your feelings and make healthy choices. That's also apparently a possibility .

Sweet Merciless Sithrak, I must be reading too much Dumbing of Age if supportive friends and healthy decisions are worthy of note.


Not everybody has friends as relationship-savvy as Bubbles and Faye do, or as close. Nor as healthy. It is not to be taken for granted in real life.

That may be the biggest asset for their relationship's success. They can get a shoulder to cry on or a reality sandwich whenever they need it.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #230 on: 11 May 2018, 15:52 »

Well Dora knew it was coming long ago
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3449
Claire had her beat, though. I wonder if that's the first example, or if anyone else called it earlier?
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #231 on: 11 May 2018, 16:34 »

Well Dora knew it was coming long ago
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3449
Claire had her beat, though. I wonder if that's the first example, or if anyone else called it earlier?

Only other ones I can think of that would even be close are May asking for photos "when Faye and Bubbles bone down", and Pintsize's suggestion for Faye to hook up with a robot. The latter occuring when Faye was still with Angus, so that one definitely doesn't count
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« Reply #232 on: 11 May 2018, 18:06 »

Welcome, new person who watches the strip closely!

At first I was tempted to dismiss May but there's a chance she was being perceptive and not just reflexively crass.
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« Reply #233 on: 11 May 2018, 18:06 »

Yeah, May called it.

Come on...like Faye would ask Dora about having a crush on Bubbles with Bubbles STANDING RIGHT THERE...Dora was the worst in that instance. Pretty sure Bubbles heard her!
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #234 on: 11 May 2018, 18:37 »

tactical friendship

Welp, thanks for creating my next Battlemech's name.

Seems like more of a name of a mercenary company, maybe something organized from one of the various multi-state alliances to pop up during battletech's history.
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« Reply #235 on: 11 May 2018, 19:21 »

Welcome, new person who watches the strip closely!

At first I was tempted to dismiss May but there's a chance she was being perceptive and not just reflexively crass.
I'm inclined to think there was indeed some perception involved. After all, May's relationship advice for Dale - crass though it is - has proven to be very effective.
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« Reply #236 on: 11 May 2018, 19:59 »

Seems like more of a name of a mercenary company, maybe something organized from one of the various multi-state alliances to pop up during battletech's history.

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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #237 on: 11 May 2018, 21:01 »

Faye and Bubbles should adopt an emotional support dog together.

So now they go back to a shared bedroom without having had time to figure out what they're feeling and what to do about it. Awkward. Funny.

One level of prejudice is "Some of my best friends are ____ but would you want your sister to marry one?". We don't know how enlightened Faye is about robots. One of her best friends is one. Will she be able to handle the idea of marrying one?

Yes, marrying. Bubbles is a walking talking LTR. Long term as in she is going to outlive Faye. Can she commit to the level of grief she will endure sixty years from now? (Anyone have a link to that touching fanart of Momo kneeling at Marigold's grave?).

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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #238 on: 11 May 2018, 21:12 »

Seems like more of a name of a mercenary company, maybe something organized from one of the various multi-state alliances to pop up during battletech's history.

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« Reply #239 on: 11 May 2018, 21:23 »

Seems like more of a name of a mercenary company, maybe something organized from one of the various multi-state alliances to pop up during battletech's history.

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« Reply #240 on: 11 May 2018, 21:34 »

Seems like more of a name of a mercenary company, maybe something organized from one of the various multi-state alliances to pop up during battletech's history.

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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #241 on: 11 May 2018, 21:56 »

Bubbles is a walking talking LTR. Long term as in she is going to outlive Faye. Can she commit to the level of grief she will endure sixty years from now?

Alternatively, Bubbles could take the Bicentennial Man route and mod in some mortality.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #242 on: 11 May 2018, 22:18 »

Bubbles is a walking talking LTR. Long term as in she is going to outlive Faye. Can she commit to the level of grief she will endure sixty years from now?

Alternatively, Bubbles could take the Bicentennial Man route and mod in some mortality.
It's possible that mortality is already built in. I am reminded of an anime that features a retired battle android who whiles away as a civilian her last remaining days before she shuts down.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #243 on: 12 May 2018, 00:00 »

FWIW, I've always liked the form of AI mortality in the Halo universe: As the AI algorithm learns, it becomes progressively larger and more complicated until it becomes too bulky to process and begins to break down (a process not dissimilar to senility in humans). It doesn't feel like imposed 'retirement' or anything else forced; it's a part of their fundamental nature - true mortality rather than electronic euthanasia.

On unrelated note, from my recent reading of the bound volumes and the subsequent strips I can't help but notice that Jeph's art style from about strip 1500 to about strip 3000 was my favourite. I think it's become too cartoony for my tastes now.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #244 on: 12 May 2018, 05:39 »

FWIW, I've always liked the form of AI mortality in the Halo universe: As the AI algorithm learns, it becomes progressively larger and more complicated until it becomes too bulky to process and begins to break down (a process not dissimilar to senility in humans). It doesn't feel like imposed 'retirement' or anything else forced; it's a part of their fundamental nature - true mortality rather than electronic euthanasia.


But you do realise that in that example, rampancy is incredibly dangerous, due to the affected AI developing delusions of god-like grandeur.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #245 on: 12 May 2018, 06:40 »

Bubbles is a walking talking LTR. Long term as in she is going to outlive Faye. Can she commit to the level of grief she will endure sixty years from now?

Alternatively, Bubbles could take the Bicentennial Man route and mod in some mortality.
It's possible that mortality is already built in. I am reminded of an anime that features a retired battle android who whiles away as a civilian her last remaining days before she shuts down.

There's a very early strip, too early to be canon about robots, where Pintsize asks how long he's going to live. Marten had never considered the question but figured that the software part of Pintsize could keep going forever.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #246 on: 12 May 2018, 08:36 »

FWIW, I've always liked the form of AI mortality in the Halo universe: As the AI algorithm learns, it becomes progressively larger and more complicated until it becomes too bulky to process and begins to break down (a process not dissimilar to senility in humans). It doesn't feel like imposed 'retirement' or anything else forced; it's a part of their fundamental nature - true mortality rather than electronic euthanasia.


But you do realise that in that example, rampancy is incredibly dangerous, due to the affected AI developing delusions of god-like grandeur.

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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #247 on: 12 May 2018, 08:37 »

FWIW, I've always liked the form of AI mortality in the Halo universe: As the AI algorithm learns, it becomes progressively larger and more complicated until it becomes too bulky to process and begins to break down (a process not dissimilar to senility in humans). It doesn't feel like imposed 'retirement' or anything else forced; it's a part of their fundamental nature - true mortality rather than electronic euthanasia.

But you do realise that in that example, rampancy is incredibly dangerous, due to the affected AI developing delusions of god-like grandeur.

Yes, I'm aware of that aspect of it but it is handled relatively easily by continual performance monitoring by even relatively-untrained persons.

The only reason Cortana became so dangerous in Halo 4 was because she had been running, unmonitored and entirely alone, for several years. So her condition had reached a serious level where she was a danger to others and had been exacerbated by having been in a situation that would likely drive an otherwise-healthy human into psychosis.

However, the point I'm making is that I like it on a narrative level. Almost any other form of AI mortality requires some manner of conscious action, either during the creation of the AI or when it is assessed to have reached the end of its useful lifespan. The old age of Halo AIs has the feel of a natural mortality rather than something imposed.
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #248 on: 12 May 2018, 13:59 »

I wonder about this. One of the ingredients of compatibility for human/human relationships is having similar backgrounds. Shared experiences and being from the same socio-economic class help no end. Love conquers all only occasionally.

It is easiest for people who have been in the service to relate to other veterans.

Bubbles as far as we know never had a childhood. There's one enormous difference in backgrounds right there.

Faye is not a veteran.

I hope they are one of the Love Conquers All situations.
Pretty much the only background factor they share is that they have both experienced terrible loss, and did not handle it in the best way.


That is not the best thing for two people to have in common. It makes it much harder for them to fully rely on anyone, and that can put strain on any relationship, but especially on a romantic one.


They have both made stellar progress in trusting each other, but they are presently staring down a HUGE step in their friendship.

Can we say that Bubbles also handled her trauma with addiction?

There's big money running media that gives organics regular fixes of outrage. We seem to be able to get addicted to anger. Would it be the same for synthetics?
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Re: WCDT strips 3736-3740 (May 6th-10th 2018)
« Reply #249 on: 12 May 2018, 18:36 »

Pretty much the only background factor they share is that they have both experienced terrible loss, and did not handle it in the best way.

That is not the best thing for two people to have in common. It makes it much harder for them to fully rely on anyone, and that can put strain on any relationship, but especially on a romantic one.

They have both made stellar progress in trusting each other, but they are presently staring down a HUGE step in their friendship.

Can we say that Bubbles also handled her trauma with addiction?

There's big money running media that gives organics regular fixes of outrage. We seem to be able to get addicted to anger. Would it be the same for synthetics?
I guess I never saw Bubbles as the angry type. True, she had occasional outbursts, but they were not all that frequent. I think if she had been the angry type, she would have been in the fights at the skate park - getting a rush, as it were, from beating the crap out of people. For the most part, she had a good handle on her anger - mostly taking it out on punching bags. We only saw her get really mad a couple of times.

No, she handled her trauma with seclusion - sequestering herself from virtually every kind of social interaction, when social interaction is exactly what she needed. Yes, I know, Corpse Witch had a hand in that as well. But Bubbles said she didn't go out in public because she didn't want to make humans uncomfortable by her presence, but I surmise that it was actually because she did not want to allow herself to get emotionally attached to anyone, for fear of losing them the way she lost her squad. It's not a rational way of thinking, just the same as it was irrational for Faye to avoid emotional attachment for fear that someone else would leave her the way her father did. But rational or not, when you handle pain with avoidance, it tends to not get any better. As Marten said, "what you're doing right now isn't healing, it's stasis."

Both Faye and Bubbles have taken huge steps toward healing. For Faye, it was finally opening up to Marten about her father. Once she did that, it became easier to open up to everyone else as well. Then getting into therapy, and taking the next step and actually allowing herself to have a relationship. Yes, she took a huge step backward when she drank herself into oblivion after Angus left, but she has been getting better nonetheless.

For Bubbles, it was the decision to face the memories of her squad once again (unaware that those memories were gone). That was a big step, and a hard one. But it made it easier for her to open up to Faye about what had happened. And then taking off her armor was the next big step. Her armor was her security blanket. Choosing to take it off was choosing to make herself vulnerable.
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