Talk:Freefall (webcomic)

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[edit] networked robots?

The article says that "memories of most of the robots on "Jean" are networked together", but in my reading of the stories that isn't true; Qwerty and Dvorak had to "spread the word through the community" in order to tell robots to be nice to Florence. I'm not sure how the "Doggy!" greeting originated; I suspect that Helix's simplistic enthuiasm was assumed to be correct, rather than questioned ...

  • You're right about "spreading the word..." I remember that too. As for "Doggy!" the few times she's met human children, they've greeted her that way too. Perhaps this is supposed to infer that robots, despite the apparent autonomy they display, are still somewhat child-like. Or, it could just be that it's funny. :-) Fred8615 13:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Ah, found a Freefall search engine that seems to be transcript-triggered - http://michrev.com/qbff/ . "Doggy!" was Helix' first word when seeing Florence for the first time (http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00008.htm); Sawtooth and Qwerty (but not Dvorak) did the same thing. When Tangent went to visit the ship for the first time, it "contacted robots that have spoken to her and obtained the proper greeting ritual"; "Doggy!". Florence believes that it's just a natural response; most robots from Jean will show the same behaviour, but the occasional non-Jean robot that is encountered doesn't.
    • Here's the comic where Qwerty proposes to "pass the word through our community" asking everyone to help Florence: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00402.htm -- this means that CommNet communication is explicit, not implicit, so I've removed the main page reference to Jean robots sharing memories. --YojimboSan 08:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
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