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"Put 'er there, friend" is "starting" things?

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

You've never seen the "squeeze you hand really hard as a sign of dominance" trope before? Hell, I experience it all the time.

EDIT: Look at Clinton's expression when Brun calls Elliot back over and tell me he wasn't going for a dominance display.

edited 27th Jun '17 9:58:32 PM by SalFishFin

I think the issue is Elliott has a little unresolved tension at the moment, and unfortunately he's also a giant man for whom a little tension can equal HULK CRUSH PUNY METAL HANDS. He probably also overestimated the strength and durability of the robot hand, or underestimated his own. Or both.

Source: Observing my giant formerly teenage brother, who once shoved a full bookcase out of teenage frustration and watched it go flying across the room, fall to the ground, and break.

edited 27th Jun '17 10:02:03 PM by oppyu

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I actually do trust his word that he went for a regular firm handshake rather than either purposeful or subconscious overdoing of such. Clinton's hand is just weak plastic. And also doesn't have tactile feedback against pressure applied to it like a flesh and bones hand would, so that also throws off.

Faye belts Corpsewitch and her hand is fine, then Elliott crushes Clinton's hand with relative ease, is all the metal in the Q Cverse shit quality?

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Are we sure it's metal in the first place?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Probably plastic actually. Or maybe just a thin sheet, perhaps aluminum. Remember how Pintsize gets dented all the time.

Agreeing that it's either plastic or really thin metal...it would need to weigh as much as a regular human hand to avoid joint shearing issues and other associated problems of weight imbalance, and I imagine that a hand only weighs around a coupla pounds at most.

He wasn't going for a dominance display. It's happened to me too, mainly by insecure older dudes. Here Clinton is in full alcohol-and-Brun induced aggressive friendliness display. That's "hell yeah, shows of affection, also I'm shitfaced!", not dick measuring contests. Whether E Lliot took it as one is another matter.

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"Economics rules. Most robots are cheap plastic and aluminum."

I got the impression that this was more of a "I don't know my own strength" moment combined with overestimating the resilience of Clinton's hand.

Despite the weight requirements, you would expect a robot-hand to be more "ruggedized". It seems way too flimsy. A bit of distortion is fine, but it completely crunching like that seems like poor design.

While this discussion is very interesting and all, I still want to know weather or not that thing has pains receptors, because if so holy fuck.

"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"

I don't really see why. As I understand it, pain receptors, touch receptors, and temperature receptors are distinct neural inputs, and you'd expect an adult to know how to not damage their hardware, which is the only function pain serves.

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I mean, Clinton went "oh jeez oh jeez" instead of "ARRRRRRRRGH OH GOD THE UNSPEAKABLE PAIN" so I'm assuming there aren't pain receptors, or it's a thing there it's programmed not to transmit horrible levels of pain.

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Speaking of which, Clinton makes Elliott cry and further explanation about how this happened.

Clinton was all grrrr I can squeeze harder, then Elliott was all grrr I can squeeze harder, then Clinton was all crack snap break, then Elliott was all "OH SHIT I'M SO SORRY". Also Clinton does not seem to be in debilitating pain.

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For best user friendliness, it would have some pain receptors to indicate damage happening, but with a ceiling so as not to be overwhelming.

And Clinton proves himself an alright dude. He had every right to be all "YOUR BOUNCER DESTROYED MY PERSONAL PROPERTY, I WANT HIM FIRED AND TERMINATED AND STUFF" and instead he's all "....oh, um, I broke my hand, I'm cool, I can haz another beer?"

And now I hope they decide to share Brun. POLY RELATIONSHIP FTW!!!!!

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The fact that Clinton is actually a really good guy who just hasn't noticed it yet himself has been clear for a while. He consistently does the right thing (modulo a bit of sexual frustration, and a little confusion over his mother having a sex life), but his manner and body language keep giving people the idea that he's a nerdy creep.

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And that is just down to people finding their limits and recognising them. We aren't all able to be tolerant from scratch without some adjustments - our environment ingrains a LOT of stuff on us.

I think the Oh jeez thing is him looking at the hand and wondering how he's going to replace it.

"Once a week?", Clinton asked incredulously. "Only once a week?", Brun asked incredulously.

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Here's what we've seen of Elliot's job in recent-ish strips. It seems rough.

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You know, I really love Elliot as a character. Gentle giants aren't exactly unique but I don't think I've seen one in a bouncer role before.

I'm amused by this extremely casual but heroic version of But for Me, It Was Tuesday.

I get the impression that this isn't a rough bar so much as it's a very popular one - so the odds of someone acting like an idiot by the end of the evening are high, because of the population size. The proprietor doesn't want it to actually be a rough bar, and has the sense and luck to employ Eliot to keep it the right side of the line.

One just hopes that Eliot is paid what he's worth.

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wheee

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