Self Diagnostic
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To be fair, I am that person like Faye who JUST KEEPS DOING THESE THINGS, and I am ALSO that person like Bubbles who gets *tired* of the things, so I totally sympathize with both sides of this, but I have to side with Bubs.
Bubbles would have been 100% in the right but she allowed her sarcasm subroutine to run. That cuts her back to 95% in the right. Now, Bubbs has clearly been programmed to manage junior people. She's going to recognize that how she pointed out the problem to Faye was very likely to achieved sub-optimal result. Bubbles' professionalism will kick in (soon we should hope). Military or civilian, I'd want to work for someone like Bubbles.
Bubbles, sweetie, Faye is going to make mistakes. It's how people do. This mistake is inconvenient, sure, but this seems like an overreaction. No one is 100% perfect all the time, not even AIs.
Honest question, Did it say that bubbles was specifically designed to be a soldier? I know it was a government program and it's been established that both Bubble's current chassis and Pintsize's previous chassis were designed and developed in parallel. I don't know if it was established that her being as well as her current chassis were designed solely for the purpose of being a soldier. I would think the military would put in place only enough intelligence as absolutely necessary, and not use an artificial intelligence that could... Say ... Decide to ignore orders, or any number of things they would probably not want in their super soldier.
I know Bubbles has discussed the fact that she chose to enlist, so I'm curious. Was she bootstrapped into this chassis and given the option to serve or return to her creche, or perhaps given the choice prior to being embodied in her current chassis?
@Absentia Bobcat dancing the tango? You haven't tried to give a cat a pill lately, have you? ;)
The passive aggression displayed by both in this interaction is a very real toxin.
Working together isn't a relationship killer. Refusal or inability to communicate openly and honestly with each other in the face of conflicts is the real murderer. Working together tends to bring about more conflict situations than not, as well as the occasional power imbalance spice
using .tude as a file extension is very much a 'Tude.
Oooh, ok. It's going to be interesting to see how this gets resolved.
either they stop working together, they stop sleeping together, or both.
I'm honestly surprised it's taken Bubbles this long to voice a concern like this. She's very precise and... let's face it, military. Faye absolutely isn't. This argument has been long in coming!
Very much this. Faye also seems to forget she is working on a person, instead very much acting like she is working on a thing. You don't want your surgeon to just half ass something or just do an ok job, and she should have that same respect for her clients.
what a great context in which to discuss human imprecision and fallibility. Something tells me Bubbles is building up to something that needs to be hashed out here.
...and then they fucked.
Yelling Bird, you are a candle in the encroaching darkness
There's still an awful lot of dead-serious-when-it-comes-to-the-job NCO in Bubbles. She was made to be a soldier and slacking gets soldiers killed. Faye, you need to just say, "Yes, M'am," and mend your ways.
yeah, this is Faye we're talking about. you're more likely to get a bobcat to dance the tango.
I lean towards Bubbles on this one on doing it correctly. There’s a chance Melon might actually like it or not care since she seems mega relaxed about her chassis. (She was just saying being a jellyfish would be nice, so there’s even a chance Faye read the situation that Melon of all patients just won’t care if a few facial myomers are off spec.) But sloppiness isn’t a good habit in general. And it’s still the kind of thing to ask Melon when she’s not in standby.
I need a TakeJobSeriously.tude config file from time to time. Where does one obtain one?
Uh oh!
Faye, that's a person, not an appliance or an art installation.
A lot of the time it feels like Faye views this more like an auto shop than a doctor's office, even though it's functionally the latter. That said, there are unfortunately too many doctors out there that are just as blasé.
While Bubbles is being a little short, this isn't a disagreement over building a non-sentient computer. This is another being's life and body here - it *is* the most important thing at the moment. Faye's either inexperience or negligence could have a real impact on Mellon's body and/or quality of life. However short she is being, Bubbles is in the right here.
That doesn't give her a free pass to be as rude as she likes, though. Doing something important doesn't mean everything less important - like "not burning your relationship to the ground" - can be dropped altogether.
Venting is okay. Making up should follow.
I mean, this is literally inevitable, even in the best relationships. They’ll work it out.
uh oh.
No.
This is why relationship partners should never be business partners.
Dora had heard this advice from one of her business partners but didn’t want to rain on the parade by mentioning it to Faye and Bubbles.
Faye, stop. Now. De-escalate. Drop the attitude
Bubbles picked this fight, wtf
ESH. Recognize the developing Situation and defuse it before it gets any worse.
Uh-oh
faybles.moveto(fables.location.HappyPlace)
And this is why couples working at a job together should be avoided at all costs.
The beginning of the end. Thanks for that seed you planted with the advice question so long ago…
Yeah I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop on that, while hoping maybe it wouldn’t :/
Uh oh.. I just hope they deal with it like adults, and it strengthens their relationship.
Solving problems together can be a bonding experience, if all parties consent to allowing it. And working through interpersonal conflict does count as problem-solving in that context, so yeah... adulting is an option. 👍
Yeaaaaah! I was waiting for this! I know it’s not cool but it was bound to happen.
I was right to be worried about Bubbles' expression in the last panel of the last comic! My anxiety is right!
Nooooooo that's how it gets you
Mistakes are mistakes and we all make them, but was it just an error, or a sign of something else? Bubbles has a lot more experience than Faye, and probably better eyesight. I have ADHD, and I lose focus sometimes even when I care about my job and I'm doing my best. Financial trouble can distract people who don't have anything else normally getting in their way. What could it be? Is it anything at all?
Oh, Faye, Bubbles, don't fight! It's just a mistake; you can fix it!
Melon wakes up to see Bubbles standing in the middle of the smoking ruin that used to be Union Robotics and, incidentally, Faye.
Whoa, now, everybody be cool.
oof
ERROR: FABLES MISCONFIGURATION DETECTED. RUN APOLOGY.EXE /HUGS /KISSES TO FIX.
Oh dear, when they became lovers, they asked Dora for advice, and she remembered her father's telling her something like: "And don't ever get romantically involved with a business partner, it never ends well." But Dora kept that memory to herself. [This is edited, I since found the actual strip, 3794, and got the exact quote.]
I’ve been waiting for that particular hammer to drop the whole time :(
Oh, and sometimes couples fight. It's normal to get on each others' nerves now and then.
Yeah, but Bub's nerves are SUPERCONDUCTING!
Welp... we knew this would happen eventually... 😭😭😭
You're showing your ass, Faye.
hot
😂😂😂
Fight!
Yikes.
This isn't looking good. A discussion about comparative care for humans and AIs is in the offing.
Faye, no.... :(
There's the problem, the file name ends with .sass, not .tude.
And it's written in YAML embedded in JSON embedded in TOML.
No Faye, don't do this :(
Bubbles needs to ALSO not do this. Meat people make mistakes, even when taking a task seriously