From other forums, I gather that the author generally seems to be writing from experience on this topic, having given up alcohol, tried marijuana and had a bad trip, but finally convinced to try it again, and it now being something he does socially. So, at the very least, he doesn’t find it a problem.
I wouldn’t call it a “weed party”. As far as I can tell, only Tai and Claire are actually smoking. But yeah, I don’t think “addictive substances” is Faye’s trigger, it’s booze specifically.
This happened to me with Oglaf. I forget about it for weeks. On the plus side, I get to read 5 or 6 strips in a row.
QC, however, is part of my morning ritual.
Happened to me with Scenes from a Multiverse (which appears to be stuck in the Zones of Adorable, so I haven’t been missing a lot.)
With Oglaf, this always happens at the start of the year, because they’re the only one I follow that take a Christmas holiday. Otherwise, my morning always consists of QC and the 3 S’es - Schlock, SDMB and Something Positive. Although SP has gone into intermittency.
I don’t forget Oglaf because I use the RSS feed to remind me via email. I originally thought it was an irregular comic like OotS, and I always do that with them. When I realized it releases every Sunday, I enjoyed it enough not to be a problem.
I did forget my dailies (including MWF or TTS) for a bit while sick until I got a computer set up in my room with my webcomic bookmarks. All it takes is for me to wonder about one of them to then jump through them all. Except, for some reason, xkcd which I seem to miss for as much as a week before checking in.
QC is on top of Reddit for me, so the only way I miss that one is if I don’t log into Reddit–something I only ever don’t do on mobile, because all the mobile versions suck.
Good lord, Hanners is a bazillionaire, why couldn’t she just contribute enough to buy May a body? They do know each other. Yes, her Dad should have done it, but now we’re here.
There is some value for someone like Hanners to contribute, but not pay the whole thing off. It allows the community to rally together, contribute, and be a part of something.
And what is her current situation, anyway? Does she have full access to her trust (I assume she has a trust), or is she living completely independently at the moment? If it’s the latter, she’s just a normal poor barista.
She got Winslow a new body without concern, and nothing has been said since to indicate a change in her circumstances.
After the whole thing with Tilly and confronting and yelling at her mother, Hanners took a trip to pet yaks, visited an ocean floor science facility, and visited dear dad’s space station.
So yeah, a new body for May would be less than pocket change.
Hannelore said she could afford it, so if you insist on consistency, you could probably fanwank that even though she’s a billionaire space heiress, she’s on some regular but limited income scheme from her parents. Since she lives pretty damn simply, she had saved enough for a body for Winslow, but used up most of her savings doing so.
And given May’s reaction, it might be bit hypocritical for her to accept a new body paid for solely by Hannelore.
Continuing fanwanking - for the yak zoo and the undersea lab, she may have used her connections to get an internship, since she seems to be doing cleaning chores at both places. And Station will send down a ship to pick her up anytime she asks, she doesn’t have to buy a ticket.
Yeah, I don’t get the impression that Hanners has to pay to visit home or her family’s projects. The yak thing seemed like a very low-budget working bio-vacation. Not a lot of billionaires are super eager to shovel yak crap. I could be very wrong, but my sense of Hannelore is that she’s determined to live on her own dime as much as she can.
That’s my impression. She could potentially tap into the fortune at will but she wants to be her own person and all that jazz.
That’s all a whole lot of wanking. I thought muldoonthief had the best objection, that May would feel conflicted with getting privilege from one person. However, and just to wank back, I’m going to spitball the price of a new body for May at maybe $10k, enough to give Marigold a serious nosebleed. If we’re asking the community to come up with that, it’s hopeless. It’ll look like one of those GoFundMe’s that end up like this:
- Donate for May’s New Body!
- 0$ |===---------------------------- | $10k GOAL
At some point soon, May’s going to be a brain in a shoe box. And Hanners could have made a difference and didn’t.
Hannelore barely knows May, right? How much have we seen them interacting?
That’s a fair point.
Their major interaction, after May went off at Winslow, was not exactly friendly
It wasn’t all that unfriendly either. She gave May some good advice and was otherwise understanding of the situation.
I don’t find that likely. You’re making a lot of assumptions, I think. We know Hanners gave a check, but we don’t know for how much. We don’t know how much money is coming from friends vs. online, or how much people are sharing things. But the one thing we do know, due to the setup, is that May will get a new chassis. So I can’t see how your scenario would ever play out.
And while I guess it is fanwanking, I think what they are describing is just the common understanding of Hanners. She got some things given to her, and she has some saved up money from her jobs “counting things” which were clearly high level jobs, but there’s no reason to think she has access to her parents’ money. Most rich kids don’t.
I tend to think she likely gave a rather substantial contribution, commensurate with her current wealth. But Jeph is going to make sure that everyone we know will donate at least some money.
I think it’s kind of funny that back in February I questioned what was going on with this storyling, and over the five months since it’s kind of flailed it’s way supporting my initial position. May is going to accept a friend buying her a body instead of hoping to change a major bureaucratic organization in a week, and the idea of pushing for ‘human-like embodiment for felons’ became a flop in favor of the more sensible ‘human-like embodiment is an AI right’.
Not really sure what, if any, point this was trying to make, and I think it was a bad choice of plot line, as it shines the spotlight on areas where the strip is weak. Anything involving money has to explain why the billionaire and godlike entity hanging around your ‘regular Joe’ characters don’t just fix it with pocket change. And the whole nature of AIs in the world and how they work isn’t really well-thought out or consistent.