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2012-09-24, 08:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
As I said, similar to a broken bone. Yeah, it sucks, yeah it hurts a whole freaking lot, but people don't go generally: "OH MY GOODNESS, THAT'S AWFUL, POOR HIM!" when told someone broke a bone sometime in the past. It's not that people wouldn't care about getting hurt or others getting hurt, it's just that it's a far less severe wound than it is in RL.
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2012-09-24, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Well, usually it's pretty traumatic to lose a hand via the kind of fireworks mishap that would be necessary to destroy a hand and good chunk of forearm. Especially given that he'd have to be even thicker than I thought to have done so at any point past the age of 12, and generally those sorts of fireworks mishaps are associated with young children getting hold of things they shouldn't rather than adults or teenagers being thick as bricks.
And losing your hand as a kid due to fireworks seems like a traumatic experience even with limb replacement available.
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2012-09-25, 02:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
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2012-09-25, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Hmm, Emily reminds me of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh right now.
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2012-09-25, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-25, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Honestly, the existence of cybernetic limbs seems like it would lead to Full Metal Alchemist. Where in that world they have whats called automail. About the same as cybernetics. And people actually choose to have parts removed so they can instal robotic limbs instead. Its often treated like getting a tattoo or piercing. If I could get a body part surgically removed and replaced, I might actually think about it.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-09-25, 10:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-25, 10:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-09-26, 01:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
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2012-09-26, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
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2012-09-26, 11:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Wait wut? I don't recall any of the people who had automail in the series choosing to get an Automail...
More on topic, is Emily starting to grate on anyone else's nerves? When she was introduced it was kind of funny; but the "I want to be a toaster" bit from today's comic firmly planted her in the annoying category for me.
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2012-09-26, 11:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Meh. Hannelore has become too well-adjusted and mainstream, the comic has a deficit of weird+zany to fill, and Clinton is too obnoxious to handle it by himself.
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2012-09-26, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Hanelore I found pretty neat as the neurosis were funny and had some interesting implications; but Emiliy seems weird just for the sake of being weird. The things such as choosing being a Librarian cause you like how books smells I can understand; but wanting to be a toaster? No... I don't find it funny on any level.
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2012-09-26, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-26, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-09-26, 03:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-26, 03:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
You guys are all underestimating how much fun toasters have.
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2012-09-26, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-26, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-26, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-26, 05:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-27, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Nope, that town was full of people who willingly removed limbs to get tricked out and turbo charged limbs for themselves. It was like a combination hot rod show and contest to see who could give themselves the most extreme makeover. One of the substories was about a near legendary automail mechanic about to go out of business specifically because he refused to take part in that kind of crap, to him automail is serious business meant to help the unfortunate, not status symbols to be shown off and upgraded like your new sports car. And his adopted daughter or whatever, was determined to prove his work was the best despite it not being fancy.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-09-28, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Emily...
I keep on wanting to like her quirkiness, and her being different, but honestly I get really close to liking he,r and then she does something bloody stupid and I hate her again. Like, the offensive questions about AI's. And that's happened repeatedly with her.
Gabby is kind of bland right now, but I totally love Claire. She makes me happy. ^.^Spoiler: This signature is a historical relic from a long-ago time of regular forum activity.Aww man! Even all the witty self referencing sigs are gone now!
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2012-09-28, 06:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-28, 09:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Momo's explanation raises interesting considerations about Station, apparently one of the biggest AIs around...
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2012-09-29, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
I find it interesting that the author is now taking the time to explore sf ideas in what is essentially a web comic about a group of wacky characters.
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2012-09-30, 04:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-30, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
I agree. Though not the central premise, exploring the differences between this universe and ours is fascinating, though such human-like full sized anthro-pc chassis do somewhat conflict with the robot boyfriend arc.
'He' was much more robotic, despite being supposedly state of the art.Last edited by Ravens_cry; 2012-09-30 at 08:52 AM.
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2012-09-30, 09:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Above all I love the optimism.
So many times we've been confronted by the whole 'AIs are automatically hostile'. It's really nice to see the growth of AIs as a positive thing- not even a 'they take over but for the best' but as a meeting of minds where both parties act humanely and with honour.
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2012-09-30, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 5: Suffers Occasional Outbreaks of Butt's Disease
Yeah, that is special. If we ever create mind-like AI, I hope we treat it with the same dignity and mutual respect seen here.
There is much opportunity for abuse. It would be easy, or at least as easy as creating an AI at all, to create a slave race that was happy to be slaves, whose only will is to serve us.
Freefall has a similar optimism, though not all in-universe recognize it.