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WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« on: 18 Apr 2020, 22:07 »

Jeph hasn't officially paired them off yet and the flirting is currently in a Schrodinger-esque wave state.
So en lieu of vague posting, here's something I learned recently.


EDIT: herp derp. Forgot to include these.

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Chrysopoeia is my favorite of the four, but Rubedo just has this presence to its creep factor that I really dig.

BTW, here's Lena Raine's YT channel. The new Nether songs haven't been posted to it yet, otherwise I would have just used the ones from her channel.

EDIT 2: It seems a rather sizable chunk of the soundtrack was added by Gareth Coker with his compositions for the various mythology mash-up packs.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #1 on: 19 Apr 2020, 00:19 »

As Millie finds human/Robot pairings cool, she might be up for it.

Brun, on the other hand, may not have even picked up on it yet.

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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #2 on: 19 Apr 2020, 18:59 »

Comic's up.

I can't tell if it's INTENTIONAL subtext or my yuri goggles are too good.

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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #3 on: 19 Apr 2020, 23:21 »

Oof. That's rough, Brun.

To answer Millie's questions in the last panel, no and yes.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #4 on: 20 Apr 2020, 00:00 »

Well, I think that there's your problem right there, Brun. You really need to have had a platonic friendship with someone before you start dating. Make sure that you have something to talk about rather than just hope that you and a random stranger 'click' (remembering that Renee goes into blind dates with a very different objective in mind).

Meanwhile, if the synthetics mostly get their idea of romance from popular culture, lots and lots of things suddenly become a lot easier to understand!
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #5 on: 20 Apr 2020, 01:30 »

To be fair, it seems like most humans irl get their ideas of romance from popular culture as well.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #6 on: 20 Apr 2020, 02:26 »

To be fair, it seems like most humans irl get their ideas of romance from popular culture as well.
The problems come when they fail to recognise the difference between a jester’s cautionary tale and a bard’s example to be lauded.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #7 on: 20 Apr 2020, 03:49 »

To be fair, it seems like most humans irl get their ideas of romance from popular culture as well.
The problems come when they fail to recognise the difference between a jester’s cautionary tale and a bard’s example to be lauded.
i.e. Romeo and Juliet vs Morticia and Gomez.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #8 on: 20 Apr 2020, 04:09 »

I would argue that even the one's that are meant to be lauded are not ones that should actually be emulated.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #9 on: 20 Apr 2020, 05:35 »

IME, the best dates are those where you don't know you're on a date.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #10 on: 20 Apr 2020, 08:45 »

If Brun wants to go on a date with someone she has something to talk about with, she should date someone who works on atomic clocks. Or maybe a related field, like optics...
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #11 on: 20 Apr 2020, 09:55 »

Millie, you're talking to a background process. Core Brün is still processing the fact that this boy found her interesting.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #12 on: 20 Apr 2020, 18:41 »

New strip up.

Awww. Cute moment.

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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #13 on: 20 Apr 2020, 21:23 »

And Jeph continues taunting the shippers.  :-D
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« Reply #14 on: 20 Apr 2020, 23:13 »

Over on his Twitter feed, Jeph said that he's been making 'self-indulgent' comics for over a year. I just thought that I'd put that out there before adding that I know what Jeph is trying to do in today's strip because it makes narrative sense based on his very obvious objective for this arc (show that Millie 'gets' Brun on a level no-one else does). However, it doesn't actually do the job and, instead, comes across as random and weird.

So, moving on...

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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #15 on: 21 Apr 2020, 03:43 »

On some strange level, the fact that Jeph has come out and said that he has been making self-indulgent comics means that I am fine with it in a way that I wouldn't have been if he'd not said anything.

The idea that Brun and Millie can each communicate in a way that the other gets does come across for me. Although I admit that my initial reaction was just, as suggested by others, that he is teasing (or indulging) shippers.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #16 on: 21 Apr 2020, 07:20 »

IME, the best dates are those where you don't know you're on a date.
Would that include the James Caan character in "Misery"?
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« Reply #17 on: 21 Apr 2020, 07:50 »

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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #18 on: 21 Apr 2020, 09:32 »

Weird falling asleep thought; D&D party part 2:

Renee: bard, College of Satire
Brun: artificer, either Gadgetsmith or Potionsmith
Elliot: fighter, Brute or Knight (code of honor and such)
Clinton: wizard, School of invention OR Gadgetsmith artificer
Millifeuille: wizard, School of Illusion OR Infusionsmith artificer
Jones: NPC Infusionsmith artificer that Millie works with

Still working out ideas for Mayb Roko, Beeps, and the rest of that grouping.
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« Reply #19 on: 21 Apr 2020, 09:44 »

IME, the best dates are those where you don't know you're on a date.
Would that include the James Caan character in "Misery"?

IME.  The closest I've come to that experience was a time where I opened the door to my building to go to work and a grocery cashier whom I'd been flirting with was right outside waiting for me.  (Our workplaces were literally across the street from each other.)

Turns out she lived in the next building over, but it disturbed me quite a bit at the time.
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« Reply #20 on: 21 Apr 2020, 18:56 »

Now what does Millie need to ask Faye? *lol*

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« Reply #21 on: 21 Apr 2020, 19:08 »

Now what does Millie need to ask Faye? *lol*
"How do I know if a girl likes me, likes me?"
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« Reply #22 on: 21 Apr 2020, 19:17 »

Well then. It seems I owe the shippers an apology.
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« Reply #23 on: 21 Apr 2020, 20:17 »

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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #24 on: 21 Apr 2020, 21:45 »

Now what does Millie need to ask Faye? *lol*
"How do I know if a girl likes me, likes me?"

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« Reply #25 on: 21 Apr 2020, 21:45 »

Jeph knows what his audience wants.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #26 on: 21 Apr 2020, 22:12 »

Ooohh, I see so many chances of misunderstanding here!

I strongly suspect that Brun's response here is the sheer joy and relief of simply being in the presence of someone who understands, someone she can trust to not assume that Brun is "just being weird".
But I suspect that Millie (with her hobby of AI/human VR romance sims) has assumed romantic interest by Brun.
Now Faye (still in the bliss-time of her own AI-human romance) is being brought in to the mix...

Where's that popcorn?!  :-D


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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #27 on: 21 Apr 2020, 22:13 »

awwwwww shit THE SS BRUNMILLE HAS SET SAIL
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« Reply #28 on: 21 Apr 2020, 23:13 »

What will make this interesting is that I doubt that Brun will really reciprocate in an obvious way. So, Millie, if she is going to do this, is going to have to be able to read a lot of subtext! However, I'm still hoping that this remains totally platonic because Brun really needs a friend who is fully able to see where she's coming from.

Oh, and Jeph? We need to hear the whole dog joke!

Now what does Millie need to ask Faye? *lol*

"Teach me your ways, oh master!" Or words to that effect.
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« Reply #29 on: 21 Apr 2020, 23:15 »

What kind of dog generates the most energy?
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #30 on: 21 Apr 2020, 23:18 »

Sounds like it could be a good Patreon feature: all the jokes you didn't know you didn't want to hear.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #31 on: 22 Apr 2020, 02:55 »

They're HOLDING HANDS.

squeeeee!

That is all.
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« Reply #32 on: 22 Apr 2020, 07:41 »

They're HOLDING HANDS.

squeeeee!

That is all.

I came here to say precisely this.  Commence squeeing!  :D
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« Reply #33 on: 22 Apr 2020, 09:09 »

Millie, you're talking to a background process. Core Brün is still processing the fact that this boy dog found her interesting.
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« Reply #34 on: 22 Apr 2020, 09:11 »

They're HOLDING HANDS.
But women in our society are allowed to do that without any implication of romantic interest, unlike men or other pairings.

Mind you, I'm up for a good squeee, but I'm not seeing it yet.
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« Reply #35 on: 22 Apr 2020, 10:28 »

Millie, you're talking to a background process. Core Brün is still processing the fact that this boy dog found her interesting.
There; fixed.   :angel:

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« Reply #36 on: 22 Apr 2020, 11:45 »

Welcome, new person!

I mean I have lurked for a long time. It is just that I didn't have a joke to tell before this, and I am naught but those.

But in all seriousness, I do not think that there is need for the SS Brunmille. There is people who do not enjoy being in a relationship, just saying.
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« Reply #37 on: 22 Apr 2020, 12:52 »

They're HOLDING HANDS.
But women in our society are allowed to do that without any implication of romantic interest, unlike men or other pairings.

First, I didn't know that and don't see it at all in these parts.

Second, some Middle Eastern cultures do do platonic hand-holding.  I don't know if Lebanese is one of those cultures or not.
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« Reply #38 on: 22 Apr 2020, 13:38 »

Welcome, new person!

I mean I have lurked for a long time. It is just that I didn't have a joke to tell before this, and I am naught but those.

But in all seriousness, I do not think that there is need for the SS Brunmille. There is people who do not enjoy being in a relationship, just saying.

A well taken point. We don't have any information that Brun is wanting a relationship. I'll be delighted if she winds up with a justafriend who really gets her.
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« Reply #39 on: 22 Apr 2020, 13:49 »

What kind of dog generates the most energy?

Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog but I very much doubt that's what Millifeuille was talking about. According to https://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/13/311127237/turnspit-dogs-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-vernepator-cur, some suspect it was a kind of Welsh corgy, though.
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« Reply #40 on: 22 Apr 2020, 14:00 »

They're HOLDING HANDS.
But women in our society are allowed to do that without any implication of romantic interest, unlike men or other pairings.

First, I didn't know that and don't see it at all in these parts.

Second, some Middle Eastern cultures do do platonic hand-holding.  I don't know if Lebanese is one of those cultures or not.
It's a regional thing in the U.S.
I vaguely remember hearing that there were places it wasn't accepted so much, but I can't think of a place offhand that outright frowns on it. It's fine in Kansas, so it must be in one of the absurdly conservative states.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #42 on: 22 Apr 2020, 18:57 »

To be fair, I'm no better than Millefeuille at identifying dates.

Thing that bothers me: robots in this comic seem either very naive (Millefeuille, Beeps, Winslow, and possibly Momo) or very worldly (Roko, May, Bubbles, Pintsize in his own weird way).  Is there even one that falls close to the middle of the scale?  Or is this dichotomy necessary to maintain comedy?
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« Reply #43 on: 22 Apr 2020, 19:16 »

Aww.

"It depends" probably.

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« Reply #44 on: 22 Apr 2020, 19:32 »

Remember when Mille was drunkenly talking about "connecting" with Clinton? Back then, I observed it would probably be yet another one-strip thing, like Roko imagining his Human Abs, dropped pretty much immediately and never mentioned again. Because that's how things roll with Clinton.

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« Reply #45 on: 22 Apr 2020, 19:43 »

hi jeph
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« Reply #46 on: 22 Apr 2020, 19:52 »

I claim "Close enough".
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #47 on: 22 Apr 2020, 19:57 »

To be fair, I'm no better than Millefeuille at identifying dates.

Thing that bothers me: robots in this comic seem either very naive (Millefeuille, Beeps, Winslow, and possibly Momo) or very worldly (Roko, May, Bubbles, Pintsize in his own weird way).  Is there even one that falls close to the middle of the scale?  Or is this dichotomy necessary to maintain comedy?
Has Jeph ever elaborated on how AIs are made? Since in an hypothesis some of them might be decades old are some might have been around for just a few years for all I know.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #48 on: 22 Apr 2020, 20:32 »

To be fair, I'm no better than Millefeuille at identifying dates.

Thing that bothers me: robots in this comic seem either very naive (Millefeuille, Beeps, Winslow, and possibly Momo) or very worldly (Roko, May, Bubbles, Pintsize in his own weird way).  Is there even one that falls close to the middle of the scale?  Or is this dichotomy necessary to maintain comedy?
Has Jeph ever elaborated on how AIs are made? Since in an hypothesis some of them might be decades old are some might have been around for just a few years for all I know.
Somewhat.
We know they're effectively created in batches in some sort of creche, and they stay in the creche's OS until such time as they opt to become embodied.

Searching "creche" in the forum's search function ought to get you back to the comic it's established in as well as giving you some more discussion info on how the AIs form.
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Re: WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
« Reply #49 on: 22 Apr 2020, 20:50 »

"Because dates are messy and complicated. And we just ... had a pleasant time together."

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Y'know, if Millie takes Brün out of the Elliot-Brün-Clinton triangle, things would be much simpler. And we Can't Have That.
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