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Thread: Questionable Content XX: XXX?
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2024-05-13, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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“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.”
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2024-05-13, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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* my emphasis
http://dmreference.com/SRD/
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/
Things that don't kill me make me strong
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2024-05-13, 02:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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“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.”
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2024-05-13, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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God forbid a cast of adults make choices about their own lives with something that is relatively low impact in moderation.
i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me
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2024-05-13, 09:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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lol are we actually debating marijuana? Coming back here is like stepping back into the 2000s in more ways than one.
I don't mind the pacing at all, I just wanna watch quirky girls with Problems help each other with those Problems and also Marten is there.The above post made a lot more sense in my head.
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2024-05-13, 09:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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I dont think people are especially calling out the responsible adult.
I think some people are concerned about the behavior of some of these people whose life recently been in a tailspin.
Personally i think its a crapshoot wether its good for them or not. But some here can think its genuinely unhealthy. You can believe that even if you acknowledge the other person's right to make choices for themselves.
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2024-05-13, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's a boring standard four-panel layout but at least he's playing with the camera angle.
Not going to say QC is never hypocritical, but disapproving of severe alcoholism but being down for some recreational weed use at a party do not actually strike me as contradictory stances.
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2024-05-14, 04:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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“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.”
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2024-05-14, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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So what I'm hearing is that some of the content is questionable?
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2024-05-14, 01:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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* my emphasis
http://dmreference.com/SRD/
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/
Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2024-05-15, 04:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Thank you for asking the questions for us Clintion, even if this is going to be portrayed as rude and insensitive later, it gave us some worldbuilding and character definition and is pretty realistic as far as some questions ordinary folks would ask.
I do appreciate how the answers are answered. Like if an alien asked a layman about human biology I think you'd get answers that sound pretty similar.
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2024-05-15, 06:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Broadly agreed. This strip is basically a series of lampshades that acknowledge the ridiculous monkey wrench Moray's existence throws into a huge range of technology-related questions regarding the QC setting while also making it clear that answers will not be forthcoming. Now, I personally don't think it's worth having to do that just so 'doofus goo-girl' can be a character in the comic, but you do you Jeph, you do you.
Would have been nice to get this a little closer to Moray's initial introduction though.
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2024-05-15, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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I look at moray as basically a wifi bluetooth earbud of the director. There to move around and interact with the world in general and google translate back to it what she experiences. Its always connected to the main body and possibly controlled remotely by the multi tasking alien ai. I mention google translate for a reason as its not entirely accurate either way but is still better than randomly guessing when you cant understand something. So moray says strange stuff to us because its being translated through jellyfish language and thought processes, and its coming back translated from english to jellyfish which causes more confusion because its not quite properly done either way. Like a constant game of conversation telephone.
"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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2024-05-15, 03:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2024-05-15, 06:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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I was thinking of this concept where a supreme intelligent spawns extracts of itself to live, experience and learn, and then re-absorb it to benefit the whole intelligence.
Something like the Castoff of the Faceless God in Tides of Numeria. Or the Hist/Argonians of Elder scrolls.
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2024-05-16, 03:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-16, 05:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Why are we alternating between conversations I'm interested in and literally nothing?
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2024-05-16, 06:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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* my emphasis
http://dmreference.com/SRD/
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/
Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2024-05-16, 06:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-16, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-16, 04:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-16, 09:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Awe and Wonder. Would have been another good, but misleading, thread title.
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2024-05-16, 11:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Kil'n People by David Brin is a good recent examination of a similar idea as applied to everyday people.
It also reminds me somewhat of the Frants in Eon and Eternity by Greg Bear. There it's more a specieswide thing; whenever two Frants meet they absorb each other's experiences, so eventually all Frants know whatever any of them knows.
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2024-05-17, 04:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Claire be nice to your brother. He's not doing anything wrong.
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2024-05-17, 08:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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There's a minor gripe here that Clinton is so obsessed with Cubetown that he knows who Liz Applebloom is - a low-level Researcher who hasn't published anything since her dissertation in a non-AI related field over 2 years ago, and has been actively shunning other sentient company to live in a basement - but he didn't look up who the HR Director was, a feat that can be instantly googled. It kind of makes Clinton look either like a weirdo, or a dumbass, or possibly both.
But you know what? It's fine. Clinton, the AI geek, is geeking out over an AI. That's good. It's almost like he has some characterisation again.
A few hard-core snarks on Reddit have complained about Moray not knowing how her own body works, but I think that's being unfair. I don't know how my body works either, I just push food into one end and presumably it makes its own arrangements.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2024-05-17, 08:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XX: XXX?
“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.”
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2024-05-17, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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I mean sure, but does she need to make a call right now or anything?
Besides that I don't think we've ever been given a good reason why Claire is embarrassed by her brother. Is it that he's passionate? Is it because he's a nerd?
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2024-05-17, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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“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.”
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2024-05-19, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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He very recently made a social situation awkward by unknowingly, indirectly bringing up a sensitive topic. When informed of his faux pas he decided to remedy it by knowingly, directly bringing up the sensitive topic. When Claire suggested that might not be the best idea he took it as a personal attack.
It turned out okay but I'm 100% on her side there.
Edit: Also the questions he's asking are... definitely rude. The kind of questions parents teach children not to ask so directly of someone they just met. Obviously Moray doesn't mind but that's just Clinton getting lucky that she's more chill with his prying than Hannelore was.
On the other hand, Claire was perfectly fine with group drunk-calling her new boss('s avatar) so she's kind of just reaping what she sowed.Last edited by TigerHunter; 2024-05-19 at 11:10 AM.
The above post made a lot more sense in my head.
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2024-05-24, 06:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Okay we've got a few good pages of character stuff. I'm engaged. I hope this streak keeps up and we don't abruptly break to claire or ayo being high.