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I thought we had a thread for Questionable Content before, but I can't seem to find it.

Anyway, I just needed to say that today's comic bummed me out, as it did its creator. I hope Faye doesn't go through with it. There's a pretty good chance she'll have a change of heart, I think. Sven definitely needs some comeuppance - karma still needs to bite him for that time he kicked Marten out the bathroom to deal with his date. What a jackdouche.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Nov 5th 2025 at 3:25:39 PM

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4826: Apr 3rd 2012 at 6:44:20 AM

Calling her from a party into a secluded room with just you and a whole bottle of wine for her to drink? Yep.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4827: Apr 3rd 2012 at 6:45:33 AM

Err if he was a flesh and blood human then yes it might have been creepy. But no.

CEOIII C-E-O-3, H-N-I-C from Franklin, PA Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
C-E-O-3, H-N-I-C
#4828: Apr 3rd 2012 at 6:49:41 AM

He misses his goddamn friend. Even if he were human, this isn't creepy, this is touching. "Stay. I miss you." It's damn near heartbreaking.

Quit looking for creepers where they aren't. And there ain't one here.

I'm Charlie Owens, good night and good luck. PSNID: CEOIII 1117
ch00beh ??? from Who Knows Where Since: Jul, 2010
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#4829: Apr 3rd 2012 at 10:15:59 AM

as the resident overzealous creeper hunter of this thread, I have to say that I have done this and therefore do not find it creepy.

friend-dates are funzies

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AliceMacher (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4830: Apr 3rd 2012 at 11:04:46 AM

It's not as though Station, who doesn't have an actual physical body apart from...the entire space station, could expect anything other than friendship with her.

OhnoaBear I'm back, baby. from Exiting, pursued by a... Since: Jan, 2011
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#4831: Apr 3rd 2012 at 11:48:05 AM

[up] I think the largest issue is that we can't really know what Station expects. Until we are shown up front and unambiguously just what Station wants, I can't make a call whether this is upsetting or sweet. Because there are ways this could be either.

edited 3rd Apr '12 11:48:30 AM by OhnoaBear

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HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#4833: Apr 3rd 2012 at 7:00:07 PM

Guh, another Nice Guy witch hunt.

See, I'm calling this creepy because Station and Hanners are neither really at dateable places. Station is an AI, and is still working out how humans work on a psychological level, and Hanners has only recently been able to interact her peers, and when station knew her, her problems were much much worse.

Okay, maybe it's not creepy so much as exceptionally ill-advised.

And I still think a romantic relationship with an AI in charge of critical systems is an absolutely terrible idea even if both partners really want it.

Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#4834: Apr 3rd 2012 at 7:58:59 PM

Friend-date isn't really the vibe I'm getting here. It doesn't help that I don't really like Station thus far. He seems a bit self-important and self-absorbed with his antics up until now, and it feels like he just expects people to indulge him.

Or maybe it's just that he's a smug holographic projection generated by a machine consciousness that appears to be trying to pick up an emotionally fragile human girl.

HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#4835: Apr 4th 2012 at 12:13:16 AM

Creepyness mitigated.

To one extent.

I dunno, I still don't trust AI's, especially in a world that has geth platforms

edited 4th Apr '12 12:13:26 AM by HungryJoe

Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
nomuru2d Gamer-turning-maker from Port Saint Lucie, FL Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Longing for Dulcinea
Gamer-turning-maker
#4836: Apr 4th 2012 at 12:19:55 AM

... Okay then.

I... I really don't know how Station could even consider that she'd actually stay since he knows that she now has friends and a relatively good life on Earth. Given the choice in this kind of situation, would you want to leave that?

Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4837: Apr 4th 2012 at 12:20:30 AM

Wait where the hell is Momo during all of this?

nomuru2d Gamer-turning-maker from Port Saint Lucie, FL Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Longing for Dulcinea
Gamer-turning-maker
#4838: Apr 4th 2012 at 12:24:20 AM

Looking after the apartment while Marigold is gone. Where else would she be?

Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4839: Apr 4th 2012 at 12:26:44 AM

It would have been nice if she came along. I like Momo.

HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#4840: Apr 4th 2012 at 12:27:19 AM

We're gonna end up just like the Quarians I tells ya.

Next thing you know he'll be asking if he has a soul.

Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
CEOIII C-E-O-3, H-N-I-C from Franklin, PA Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
C-E-O-3, H-N-I-C
#4841: Apr 4th 2012 at 1:34:30 AM

As I said. He misses his damn friend.

(I like how, as I type this, the line under the TV Tropes logo says, "Oh, good, CEOIII is about to settle this thing.")

I hope they work something out. I don't want to lose Hanners as a character, but at the same time........he misses his friend.

I'm Charlie Owens, good night and good luck. PSNID: CEOIII 1117
Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4842: Apr 4th 2012 at 1:37:31 AM

Or he could get a copy of himself into a robot body and live down on Earth too, regularly synchronising with orbit.

HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#4843: Apr 4th 2012 at 2:06:39 AM

That might not be mechanically feasible.

Wouldn't surprise me if it were illegal for an AI to have more than one active instance running at a time. Would essentially be cloning of the mind.

Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4844: Apr 4th 2012 at 2:09:51 AM

I think it won't be that unique. I mean, it's probable that all Momo's default chassises come with same base AI, it only then develops regarding it's owner.

HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#4846: Apr 4th 2012 at 3:47:10 AM

@ CEO: Yes, we get it, he has an apparently innocent motivation. That doesn't necessarily make his method or execution less creepy.

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4847: Apr 4th 2012 at 3:48:31 AM

If the previous 1.5 strips did not happen, it would have been completely uncreepy. Going out and confessing that is ok. Arranging "date" for that is not.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4848: Apr 4th 2012 at 3:49:47 AM

There's nothing creepy about the date.

HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#4849: Apr 4th 2012 at 4:54:00 AM

It came off as a bit creepy.

Hanners seemed to act like it was.

But I mean, jegus, we're all a little creepy.

Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
BadWolf21 Since: May, 2010
#4850: Apr 4th 2012 at 6:54:17 AM

[up] At what point does she act like it's creepy? She seems unsure of herself once, and only once, throughout the entire thing.


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