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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5302

Then why did she run.
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ShadowCell · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 5249 Location: California

she ran off once Slick lost his means of controlling her, which means she was only with him because he had the means to control her, which is like super incredibly creepy.

Rothide · Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 500

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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5302

Miss Magenta · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 1444 Location: Ohio

I don't know. Robots DO exist in reality so that's why she didn't turn into a hunk of metal. Because robots do exist, even if they're not nearly advanced as she is - just yet, anyways. And she was a robot girl designed to be exactly like a regular girl in almost every way.

I don't think that she really had any kind of sentience or consciousness at the beginning of the strip when he first bought her. Just a computer preforming tasks it was programmed to do. But entering the reality zone gave her the sentience and consciousness that any real girl would have, or I guess any robot designed to be like a real girl would have, and it gave her a freedom she never had before. She ran because isn't that what anyone would do with a new-found freedom - with a new-found sentience and consciousness to go with that freedom. I don't think she's necessarily running for any specific reason, just running because she can. But what I think doesn't inherently mean that it's what's really happening.

Regardless of what is or isn't happening - I think it's both really creepy, but also really sad. I find it sad, because I can understand how he feels. It's sad because he felt the need to do something like that. Buy what is basically a robot slave that looks like a real girl, and use her to pretend that he's in a relationship with someone who cares. And it's creepy for those very same reasons. Which makes it sadder, to me. But then again I'm an emotional sack of shit, so whatever.

Inkmonkey · Joined: 08 Dec 2011 Posts: 62

I have added something more to my previous post.

Also: If the robot girl had a conscience before entering the Reality Zone the Sisterhood wouldn't have allowed Slick to keep her, they would have liberated her somehow.

Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5302

Nothing else has -gained- sentience by entering the reality zone, though, so I don't see why she'd be the exception.
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Succubus1982 · Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 919 Location: England

*collapses fully satisfied and lights up a cigarette*

Btw about the whole Reality Zone thing. Here's an angle nobody seems to have thought of. What if it's not just one reality in there. What if it's multiple different realities on random-shuffle. Sometimes you get the same one as in the tree, sometimes you get something like the waterfall that made the spybot explode. Perhaps in some realities devil girls are okay and in others they're not, in some Robots explode, in others they gain sentience. Reality is a matter of perspective anyway. We say things are real because we PERCEIVE them to be real. But we're not the only ones perceiving. I mean just look at the Matrix and the whole 'there is no spoon' thing. That was a classic example of how you perceive something affecting it.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 3036

That good, huh?
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Inkmonkey · Joined: 08 Dec 2011 Posts: 62

tricksterson · Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 167

Miss M: I totally see Slick doing tha first pic after this strip but with Curly, not Xanthe
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Rothide · Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 500