A Reserved Personality
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Moray is chill af. What is the deal?
Moray has demonstrated all the chill of a hummingbird on cocaine
Moray-21 seems excited. Is anyone else getting that vibe?
Claire has gotten preternaturally calm.
Moray has a reversed personality.
W O O B
If you gloop and you woob and you gush like a noob That's a Moray
Oy
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” -- Molly Weasley
Moray gets better and better! I still think Cubetown would be a nightmare place to work, but any excuse to see more Moray shenanigans works for me.
There are a lot of things which are fun in fiction and would be terrible in real life, Cubetown is absolutely in that category.
*Woob*
*Woob*
I just might have a new favorite character.
“Welcome to Cubetown! It has been [ -002 ] days since a fatal accident.”
More like -e days. If you know, you know.
I also wanna know if she has one of those armored processor cores in there somewhere, or if her whole body is an info storage lattice that is distributed enough that partial damage could be reconstructed without major loss.
Probably distributed with constant remote backup - if anything terminal happened to the goo body she would download into the next vat. Oh no THAT's why she's Moray-21, she's counting instances and is very accident-prone. That's also why Cubetown has the Do Not Explode sign. Oh NO.
Panel 3 is helping me picture her head rotating 360, since she’s not constrained by a skeleton. And maybe instead of turning around, her body just kind of morphs in a new direction?
She turned her head inside the exterior layer of goo. Her "hair" buns are now on the front and back instead of the sides of her head.
With a heart made of Flubber / Or industrial rubber, / That's our Moray...
Was Moray mostly an excuse to draw a nude AI?
Like Jeph would need an excuse for that :) we've already seen quite a lot of several other chassis types :)
One of these days I'll get sick of these derpy manic pixie robots, but today's not that day. [insert Moray pun]
"Guess I picked the wrong day to quit manic pixie robots!" [hugs a Moray]
WAIT I UNDERSTAND NOW Moray <b>HAD</b> to be made of slime because her enthusiasm would result in too many injuries if she had any kinda ridgid structure 🤯
So Moray is padded for everyone's safety? In my mind the director is already basically willy Wonka summoning Claire to take over (lead a department) at Cubetown (toy factory). However that'd make Moray... Who Arthur Slugworth... ?
i love her so much
Claire's babysitting duty starts now
She doesn't have eyelids. Her whole eyeball squishes flat, probably? I chose to believe her teeth are squishy as well. For reasons. Ahem.
If Moray is translucent, why can't we still see her eyeballs when she closes her eyes?
Cause drawing her translucent would be really hard. He'd basically have to not draw her in any scene until after the inking / coloring stage. Better to reserve that for gags and the occasional pinup or what have you.
Woob
can AI's be on the spectrum too I'm detecting ADHD vibes from Moray, or am I just catching up because I was hyperfocused somewhere else.
Are there any AI characters we have thus far seen who do not have any on spectrum traits? That said, the humans in QC tend to have a certain amount of them as well. To be clear, I'm not trying to say that they're all "on spectrum", except in the same sense that everyone is technically somewhere between (inclusive) zero autism traits and every autism trait. But it does feel to me like the AIs are generally between the half way point and the all the way point, and the humans aren't that far behind. (Disclaimer: I'm not a mental health professional. I'm also aware that there's a bunch of spectrum features that can be difficult to depict in a web comic.)
I wonder if what we're seeing as an excitable, er, lets call it "childlike" personality is actually something deeper. Like, what if Moray is post-singularity (likely, but it's still early post-singularity in QC) and having trouble dumbing down her communication skills to human standard? She seems excitable and always go go go because she's thinking several hundred times faster than a human and it's hard to slow herself down.
Relatable.
I’m reminded of Dr. Richard Daystrom’s comments when challenged with a question about what became of M3 and M4, the precursors to the precocious M5. “They were not completely successful.” And the line from the great Deano Martino Italiano classic: “What bites off your thumb like a big juicy plum? That’s a Moray!”
KIRK: I'm curious, Doctor. Why is it called M-5 and not M-1? DAYSTROM: Well, you see, the multitronic units one through four were not entirely successful. This one is. M-5 is ready to take control of the ship. (via http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/53.htm)
Oh hey, panel 4: She can deform / shapechange. At least a little. So she's not as solid as a human/traditional AI.
I wonder if she's a non-newtonian fluid, like Oobleck. On the surface I think that's what makes the most sense.
I never expected to relate so much with Moray of all the characters, but she just keeps getting better. More Moray! Mor²ay!
Want to hug please
I think she may need a little bit of underclocking and undervolting.
Or perhaps she’s just amped up.
She reserved a personality, but maybe it is backordered?
She called herself Moray-21, so obviously there could be at least 20 others.
I wasn't sure she was excited until the bottom text confirmed it
I mean, this gives a whole new feeling to squish.
As full-on as a hug in a Ghibli movie.
Moray tried to greet Claire, but crashed.
I love her and aspire to be as squishy as her
Welcome to WoobTown!
Only way first panel would have been better is Moray was taller and she shoved her boobs into Clair's face...(I think both would have enjoyed it :3)
Millefeuille already got her ass rebuilt because she wanted more wobble. If she meets Moray she's going to want a full-body upgrade. And then Brun will never need a pillow, or a mattress, ever again. Ah, happy thoughts :)
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“All right, everyone: bring it in—Gloop Hug!”
Winner winner chicken dinner.
*squish*
Here I thought my teen was secretly Elliot. But it turns out they’re secretly Elliot and Moray’s weird genetic experiment offspring.
When the gloop hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's a Moray...
Thanks for the ear squirm.
I'm assuming there's only spaces between the words to make it easier to read.
Fun fact - the gaps between syllables are usually the same length regardless of word boundaries - it's our brains filling in non-existent pauses because we know the grammar of the language. That's why learning to hear another language is difficult at first, you have to re-learn how to parse the audio stream into separate words. But separately to that, yes, Moray is basically on fast-forward here :)
As we meet more AI's I'm interested that your concept of an emergent AI phenomena could emerge... with no malice. Don't believe it myself, as these AI's don't seem to be in any way confronting their partial-at-least immortality. But maybe that wouldn't matter to a being who wasn't mortal? But they are at least integrated into a society of mortals. And they are a relatively recent addition to the society... At least I care about the consistency of the lore :p.
I would say AIs degenerate over time and eventually fail, even if their chassis is brand new. Probably at a rate similar to the life span of a human. A knife can only be sharpened so many times, ya know?
Okay, we're ALL thinking it... Where does she keep her wallet?
*gloop* [repeatedly]
Panel#2. Great Claireface there.
She just got her first goop-girl hug and she's processing some FEELINGS.
Wait… there are 20 other Morays? Oh NO.
At least.
This is just a typical day, excited is a whole ‘nother level!
Moray is the most relatable character you have written so far 🤣 I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL SQUISHY FRIEND THEY'LL GET USED TO IT
Anyone else now want a slime girl hug?
She's SO CUDDLY.
If a cafinated golden retriever could talk...
You mean they CAN'T???!!!
Gloop
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She's so excited... she just can't hide it.... she's about to lose control and I think like it.
I love Moray
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*woob*
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even money on whether Moray understands sarcasm or not.
No bet.