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What'll the big 4400 twist/reveal be?

Brun and Pintsize go on a date and things go much further than either anticipated.
Brun and Millifeuille go on a date and things go much further than either anticipated.
Roko, Clinton, and Elliot hang out for a night and none of them are quite certain why they're all naked and in the same bed the next morning.
Hanners goes on a date with Gordon and they both have a wonderful time.
Winslow and Beeps have been friends for awhile now.
Sven 'pops the question' to May.
Dale 'pops the question' to Marigold.
Bubbles or Faye 'pops the question'.
Turns out that Steve, Cossette, and Melon are breakfast buddies and have been for some time.
the whole ensemble cast eat cereal at Dora and Thai's wedding reception.
other
Clinton drink more water

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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #100 on: 19 Nov 2020, 10:20 »

would be odd having one of the richest heiresses in the world, working behind a coffee shop, asking you to donate to charity, to buy a new robot body, that her father is pretty much the patent holder/manufacturer of.
It's her money. Just because she has more than others, shouldn't mean she should have to pay more for things, or give it any to anyone. It also could be that persons don't notice that she has much money, because her lifestyle blends in with those that don't. (Do you have a source about Ellicott having there a monopoly or sufficiently large market share on robot bodies?)
There is something really wrong with the vocabulary database of Momo's conversation algorithm.
Yeah, she should get it checked out. One might be concerned about her synonymizer, if it couldn't find ``friend.''
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #101 on: 19 Nov 2020, 11:49 »

Is this really May?
She's actually being ... considerate.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #102 on: 19 Nov 2020, 11:59 »

While you can't take the trash out of the goblin, you can kindness it into submission.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #103 on: 19 Nov 2020, 12:15 »

Is this really May?
She's actually being ... considerate.


Is the new chassis mellowing her out a bit?
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #104 on: 19 Nov 2020, 12:26 »

Holy crap, did May actually act like a responsible adult? What next, is Marten going to develop some ambition? Did I accidently stumble into an alternate reality? But they don't have goatees, I am so confused.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #105 on: 19 Nov 2020, 12:53 »

My current money is on May doing five minutes of soul searching and realizing if feeling weird is preventing her from banging Sven in the new body, then it's not worth feeling weird about it.

That's not even, like, a shipping goggles prediction. I've just never seen a Gordion knot that May didn't want to hack with a machete.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #106 on: 19 Nov 2020, 13:20 »

I wasn't sure about this outcome initially, but I'm liking it more and more. May has obviously shown large amounts of character development, but no one has yet pointed out Sven. Despite me thinking that bringing up the money was initially tactless, he's shown considerable development in ending things amicably and drama free with a previous hookup.  He's clearly been working on developing himself in his own time, but I think overall that May and Sven have been positive influences on each other.

These sorts of character development and personal progress are what keep me coming back to this comic
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #107 on: 19 Nov 2020, 16:28 »

Welp, that's Svey dead for now, I think. It will be a while before they feel comfortable enough around each other to get over this awkwardness, especially as Sven doesn't really trust his own thinking and behaviour and May really doesn't know how to do serious relationships.

Panel 5 tells the story. They really, really want to be together and are both afraid to be right now. You can see the sadness and longing in their expressions.

They'll probably run into each-other again at some point and suddenly find themselves hanging out all the time without realising it. That's how I see things progressing, anyway.

Fair enough. It seems to me that Sven has actually grown enough to recognize that he couldn't really keep a secret of that magnitude ("I had a major part in enabling you to have this new body") away from May - not without it influencing his attitude towards her. That sneaking, subconscious "you owe me" could always taint any interaction between them...
But I see that fifth panel regret too - maybe Svey will be re-floated some time in the future?   
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #108 on: 19 Nov 2020, 16:55 »

... but it will lack the thrill of boldly going where no man was meant to go.

EMT: (O.O) "I'm sorry, it's where?"
Sven: (-_-;)  "...Please ask how it happened."
May to Fay: "Can you get it out of their so they can reattach it already? You've been laughing for 5 minutes already."
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #109 on: 19 Nov 2020, 18:29 »

Comic’s up. Those were different times.

Also Jeph hadn’t figured out who Hannelore was at first.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #110 on: 19 Nov 2020, 18:42 »

Yay Sven, for listening to his conscience :)
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #111 on: 19 Nov 2020, 19:15 »

This has been a whole week where I'm gone "Aww, poor... (insert character name here)"

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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #112 on: 19 Nov 2020, 20:47 »

I actually forgot about that.

It does explain some of her early-installment-weirdness.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #113 on: 19 Nov 2020, 21:01 »

NOW I WANT A CIGARETTE!
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #114 on: 19 Nov 2020, 21:25 »

I'm just going to out to the garage and have a ...um... well, you know.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #115 on: 19 Nov 2020, 21:36 »

I actually forgot about that.

It does explain some of her early-installment-weirdness.

It’s been speculated, but this makes it official.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #116 on: 19 Nov 2020, 23:22 »

NOW I WANT A CIGARETTE!


STAY STRONG, YOU CAN DO THIS
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #117 on: 19 Nov 2020, 23:27 »

My prediction for next time Sven & May meet¨:
Panel 1(top left): (both, and a bit awkward) Hi...
Panel 2(top right): they looking at each other somewhat uncertain
Panel 3(middle row): Smooching vigorously.
Panel 4(bottom row): morning after, in bed, and Sven with a clown nose.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #118 on: 19 Nov 2020, 23:32 »

My feeling when I first read this strip is a reminder that this is Sven with his remaining best friend in the cast. Hannelore and he went on a 'play date', if you remember and Hannelore became his confident by more recent strips. She was the one who helped him get his head together after his ill-timed confession to Faye. She was also the one who persuaded him to reconcile with Dora. So, in a lot of ways, this is like Dora or Tai going to Marten for relationship advice.

This makes me wonder if the new character arc for Sven is going to be addressing how much he's changed as a person and whether he really wants to be this new person at all. Using the comparison with Hannelore (who, I think, was originally written to be Marten's post-Faye romantic interest and would have been more like Dora turned out before Jeph suddenly realised he had a much better used for her) and how Dora has grown, I think Jeph is giving us a clue of what he already thinks the right conclusion would be.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #119 on: 20 Nov 2020, 03:37 »

I smoked for 25 years. Been off em now about 8. Even now, I get the cravings. Hell, I have literally DREAMED of smoking, to the point of waking up thinking I'm holding a cigarette.  And I'll probably have the cravings till I die.

Addiction is a hell of a thing.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #120 on: 20 Nov 2020, 05:30 »

Is this really May?
She's actually being ... considerate.

Is the new chassis mellowing her out a bit?

I wouldn't say the new chassis is mellowing her out, but the lack of the old one is making her less irascible.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #121 on: 20 Nov 2020, 05:50 »

Is this really May?
She's actually being ... considerate.

Is the new chassis mellowing her out a bit?

I wouldn't say the new chassis is mellowing her out, but the lack of the old one is making her less irascible.

I've posted before that I think that, in her previous chassis, May was in the synthetic equivalent of constant pain. So, yes, I'd expect her mood to have improved considerably.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #122 on: 20 Nov 2020, 07:03 »

NOW I WANT A CIGARETTE!


STAY STRONG, YOU CAN DO THIS
I've been fighting the cravings for years now, I'll be fine. Every time I think I want to smoke, all it takes is smelling it to remind me that I don't actually miss it.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #123 on: 20 Nov 2020, 07:14 »

I'm just going to out to the garage and have a ...um... well, you know.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #125 on: 20 Nov 2020, 09:10 »

Dang, now I wanna blow off my low sodium diet and scarf a bag of Doritos.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #126 on: 21 Nov 2020, 13:52 »

Dang, now I wanna blow off my low sodium diet and scarf a bag of Doritos.

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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #127 on: 21 Nov 2020, 14:37 »

I've been fighting the cravings for years now, I'll be fine. Every time I think I want to smoke, all it takes is smelling it to remind me that I don't actually miss it.
As a current smoker, it has the opposite effect on me.  Even though I hate the smell of the second-hand stuff, I still want to light up there and then.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #128 on: 22 Nov 2020, 06:31 »

Oh when I was still an active smoker it definitely had that effect. But I also didn't mind the smell back then. After not having it be constant and ubiquitous for this long, it just reeks.
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Re: WCDT 4396-4400 (Nov 16th to Nov 20th, 2020)
« Reply #129 on: 22 Nov 2020, 08:11 »

Dang, now I wanna blow off my low sodium diet and scarf a bag of Doritos.
I do most of my cooking and barely add salt beyond what's already in the cheese and tomatoes, so I dodn't feel so guilty snarfing chips (crisps).
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