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Was curious, so I went to sniff my dog's ear. It just smells like dog, and faintly of dog shampoo. Am I missing something?

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So, the first time we checked in with Hannelore, when Marigold called her that one time, was just before this breakthrough, because she was planning on screaming when she shoveled the poop that day.

There's a part of me frustrated with a "you can transcend your disease if you just try hard enough" narrative, but honestly, OCD is a lot about bad feedback cycles. Breaking a cycle doesn't cure you, but it can help with that particular case.

Edited by FuzzyBoots on Jul 17th 2019 at 6:23:23 AM

Yeah and Hannalore's OCD was never too germ focused, she had lot more issues with obsessive counting and control over her environment. So while this is a breakthrough, and progress, it's hardly a Epiphany Therapy cure.

Edited by LMage on Jul 17th 2019 at 12:07:31 PM

Obsessive counting was way less significant than aversion to physical touch.

And her aversion to physical touch stemmed from germ issues, I think. I remember when Momo hugged her, she started to freak out before Momo pointed out that she's a robot and she calmed down.

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Hanners is caught up on all the Relationship Upgrades, but that doesn't mean she hasn't been missing out.

Hm, is that the first time when Hannelore used the F-word?

Wait they're all still in their 20s?

Man, the empty blackboard makes me a bit sad.

Grant Dora her comforting delusions a little longer.

According to Jeph, most of the cast is, while Dora is probably in her early thirties.

Robots and nature don't mix.

"There are scorpions in my brain!"

Edited by M84 on Jul 18th 2019 at 10:33:12 PM

I'd forgotten how weird large-scale Winslow looks.

D: oh no, Winslow!

Poor Winslow. I wonder how many times he almost cut and ran before stopping himself for Hannelore's sake.

Why would Winslow care about snake bites, he has no blood?

Even if he's a robot, being bitten and having venom seeping into his circuitry can't be good for him.

It's a testament to how good his chassis is that he's still functioning after all that.

On a side note, I just realized how fitting it is that I'm talking about how robots and nature are a bad combination while I'm using Megatron as my profile pic.

Edited by M84 on Jul 18th 2019 at 11:23:58 PM

Would they even break his skin?

Depends on what the chassis' design prioritizes. And snakes do have pretty strong bite-force.

Edited by M84 on Jul 18th 2019 at 11:58:53 PM

He does have a pretty good chassis. May would've been straight up scrap if she got kicked by a yak like he says he did. So I'm leaning to him being mostly psychosomatic on the bites.

Hanners should take Bubbles with her next time. Those poor snakes...

May pretty much falls apart if you so much as think about sneezing in her direction. I'd imagine a yak kicking her would straight up disintegrate that pile of junk she calls a chassis.

I'm imagining like a huge dust cloud that says "CLUD", and May's disembodied body parts flying towards the camera as her head yells "Son of a bitch!!!"

Winslow has clearly been programmed with, or developed, a degree of human-style fastidiousness. Sure, none of what happened (aside from the yak) was likely to cause him serious or lasting damage, any more than a bit of dirt on the skin would usually injure a human, bu that doesn't mean he has to like it. It's aesthetically unpleasant and means that his self-preservation routines are permanent being triggered at a low level, which can't be any nicer for him than it is a human.

Edited by Spindriver on Jul 19th 2019 at 10:59:15 AM