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2018-01-26, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
Evie is not only good at off the cuff psychoanalysis, she's pretty good at controlling Amanda on the fly, too.
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2018-01-26, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
Er, no? They met at the coffee shop presumably in the morning, they're now having dinner. The majority of the working day happened off-panel, and in it Evie and Amanda presumably saw much the same things that the audience and Faye's other friends have been seeing for a while. The signs may also have been very familiar due to the similarity to the start of their own relationship
"'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2018-01-26, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
The best Amanda had gotten from Faye in the way of describing Bubbles is 'soldier robot', which is why Amanda is surprised to discover that her 'tank with legs' image is wrong. Over
coffeefood, Amanda and Evie have to ask Faye to "tell us about Bubbles," and can only 'bet' that Bubbles comes out of her shell around Faye. While obviously not dispositive, this suggests Faye has not given Amanda much detail about either Bubbles or her relationship with Bubbles. Which fits with the general portrayal of communication between Amanda and Faye being spotty at best.
Obviously no one wants "everything spelled out for you before you accept it," which is not what Max wrote, and I'm rather surprised to see you engaged in such dubious interpretation. But you are suggesting something that is noticeably contrary to what is shown as a way to justify another jarring (for some) element of what is shown, which does not at all fit the idea of not showing things (like eating) whose absence won't disrupt the narrative flow.Last edited by Lethologica; 2018-01-26 at 07:15 PM.
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2018-01-26, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-26, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
I think the typical solution in cases of ambiguity is to say "you all" for a group (or "y'all" or "all y'all" in certain dialects), "you, personally/specifically/in particular" for the individual being spoken to, and "anyone" or "someone" (or "anybody" or "somebody") rather than "one" to avoid the archaic sound.
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2018-01-26, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
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2018-01-26, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-26, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
My completely awesome avatar (I call her Quill) has been generously crafted by the esteemed Honest Tiefling!
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Gosh, 2D8HP, you are so very correct (and also good-looking) and your humility is stunning.
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2018-01-26, 09:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
I am from and continue to live deep in Y'all territory, but I'm awfully fond of 'youse guys'.
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2018-01-26, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
On the subject of language, would bringing back "thee" and "thou" also work to fill in the lexicon gap? I always associate tose words to French "Tu" (you singular, informal) and "vous" (you plural, formal singular).
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2018-01-26, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
The Worldbuilding Forum -- where realities are born.
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2018-01-26, 11:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-27, 12:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
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2018-01-27, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
I think those are two different kinds of 'ye'.
Interestingly, it looks like you are correct: at some point, 'ye' and 'you' were the plural forms of 'thee' and 'thou', before 'you' superseded all of them. The roots are...different? I think? I'm not reading clearly right now. Someone who actually knows middle and early modern English could talk about this properly.
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2018-01-27, 04:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
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2018-01-27, 05:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
My completely awesome avatar (I call her Quill) has been generously crafted by the esteemed Honest Tiefling!
GENERATION 21: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig and add 1 to the generation. social experiment.
DEGENERATION 87: Copy this into your sig and subtract 1 from the degeneration when you first see it. This is an antisocial experiment.
Gosh, 2D8HP, you are so very correct (and also good-looking) and your humility is stunning.
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2018-01-27, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
You've never seen The Goonies...?
Jesus Christ, but I'm friggin' old....Last edited by Wraith; 2018-01-27 at 06:23 PM.
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RPG Characters What I Done Played As (Explained Badly)
17 Things I Learned About 40k By Playing Dark Heresy
Tales of a Role-Play Gamer - Horrible Optimisation
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2018-01-27, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
"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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2018-01-27, 09:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
Guys. I am looking for the comic where Marten and Dora start talkong to each other in miaws, and then realize how cheesy they have becomed. I tried looking for it with no avail.
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2018-01-27, 09:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
I hope not, as a whole, but I think he's writing this arc to troll the Faye/Bubbles shippers. I'm pretty sure that Faye isn't attracted to Bubbles that way (I'm not sure how Bubbles feels about it), but Amanda and Evie are doing the same thing as a lot of readers and thinking that Faye and Bubbles should hook up.
Last edited by dps; 2018-01-27 at 10:00 PM.
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2018-01-27, 10:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
Mar mar .
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2018-01-28, 05:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
Do you know the thing some shippers sometimes do where their interpretation of scenes is slightly warped by bias and every innocent thing is confirmation of their stance and inconvenient stuff is ignored? (In short heavy bias.) People against a ship have been known to engage in that behavior too. And I believe you are doing it here.
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2018-01-28, 06:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
It's more about the catch-phrase than the scene in particular. Perhaps I have just spent far far too much time on the internet lately. *shrugs*
I have to ask, how do you DO that? Do you have individual bookmarks for specific plotlines? Did you just binge-read 1700 comics until you found the one you needed? Have you memorized every page of every webcomic that you've ever read?
I thought that my Google-Fu was strong... Teach us, O wise master!
Also, while doing just that: Foreshadowing?Last edited by Wraith; 2018-01-28 at 06:27 AM.
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RPG Characters What I Done Played As (Explained Badly)
17 Things I Learned About 40k By Playing Dark Heresy
Tales of a Role-Play Gamer - Horrible Optimisation
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2018-01-28, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
Googling "questionable content mar mar" or "questionable content nonsense talk" both have it as first result for me of course the second is a word from the strip but if you know the scene that is a word combo you might actually use. Another link for mar mar is the tv tropes page which has a link to the strip.
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2018-01-28, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
I have reread the comic a decent number of times, so I hit the random button til I thought it was somewhat close to that comic, then clicked forward for a bit to check. Here's where I ended up with the last random for reference.
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2018-01-28, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
Thans a lot for the link!
And yes. Scary rememberance power. I google searched "miaw", i forgot it was "mar"
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2018-01-28, 10:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
About Pintsize and being a companion AI: apparently, that's something you sign up for. http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2332
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2018-01-28, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-28, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
why shouldn‘t there be annoying characters in a comic?
I‘ve got an annoying co-worker, unfortunately I’m an adult and can’t punch him in the face for being an idiot. One or two panels of an annoying character every now and then are easy to bear.* my emphasis
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2018-01-28, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”