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How did you and Pintsize end up as companions, anyway? You seem so... different.

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AnthroPC Companion Connectons: Your friend in Robotics"

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Wow, these are all really expensive.

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Let's see if you qualify for our "discount program." (Obtuse metaphor use!)

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THERE WAS NO SEX INVOLVED.

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Well it's my headcanon and you should respect that.

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Fill out this short questionnaire.

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You can figure out what kind of person I am just from this?

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We also monitor your body's autonomic responses... It's over 99% accurate.

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How do you monitor my aaaAAAAAAGH

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Gordon the ArachnoPC! "Don't be nervous! There are no wrong answers!"

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Okay Mr. Reed, your evaluation is in! (pause) THAT one?! Gordon, are you SURE about this?

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The biometrics look good to me! (please get off my head)

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I should probably go over our return procedure. And criminal liability agreement. And insurance policies.

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My head please get off it

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...Then they brought out Pintsize. I took him home, and the rest is history.

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But... but that is all wrong! You were frightened of Gordon! That would have completely thrown off your biometrics!

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You mean... You should not have been assigned Pintsize as your companion.

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Well, it worked out all right in the end, so YOU MEAN I COULDA BEEN WITH A HOT CHICK THIS WHOLE TIME?!

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...So it turns out I shouldn't have ended up with Pintsize after all.

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I'm happy with him. Even if he IS an ass sometimes.

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He does make me look like a better roommate by comparison.

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Pintsize snaps into a SlimJim!

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Still, I wonder what kinda robot you were supposed to end up with. I guess we'll never know.

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THE ROBOT WHALE! (CetaPC?)

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Total Members Voted: 61

[pwhodges]

By the way, http://www.questionablecontent.net/twitter.php seems to be lacking @EmilyAzuma and @cosetteisclumsy;

Click on the all-characters list, and you'll see that Cosette and Emily are both included.

[Akima]

I giggled at Pintsize, which probably means I am a terrible person.

[idontunderstand]

This is just my opinion and I would like to point out that I do not wish to offend anyone but... Daaaaaang!

[pendrake]

For comic #2333...

1. Well after yet more heavy RL workloads, I missed the latter-half of Emily's lake-house party.  Quite a few revelations and funnies there.  Rather sad that I missed being able to post about Final Fantasy's Kefka (I am a long-time Final Fantasy follower).

2. Panel #4... Pintsize's expression is both adorable and wickedly funny.

3. Wonder if this strip will actually lead into how Marten & Pintsize contracted together?  Rather than being a single-strip gag.

4. It also would be interesting to see how Hannelore contracted with Winslow too.

5. I totally would have seen if I qualified for the "discount program" with my "obtuse metaphor" with the "articulately seamed" sexy-cute robot-lady with glasses, given the oppurtunity .

6. Warning - While you were typing Final Fantasy #14 blew up due to being a crappy product. You may wish to review your post.

[Soulsynger]

For comic #2333...
[ ... ]
5. I totally would have seen if I qualified for the "discount program" with my "obtuse metaphor" with the "articulately seamed" sexy-cute robot-lady with glasses, given the oppurtunity .
[ ... ]

Whew! Glad to know I'm not the only one who went, like "Meh, why not?".
... as Rayne Summers of LICD-fame said it "I'd f*ck anything once."

Hehe... I just realized Anthro PC Companion Connection abreviates to APCCC (or Aeh Pee Triple-See). All players can control coincidences.

[jwhouk]

And here I am, so freakin' inured to Pintsize, that I'm more worried about this being a RetCon instead of a backstory.

[Border Reiver]

I think I saw that particular movie.  The ending is particularly unsatisfying, the character development is quite under developed and the camera work leaves you wanting.

[techkid]

Anyone else have mixed feelings about Pintsize getting some character development? Stagnation is bad, but if there's nothing to replace the weirdness created by the old Pintsize, the strip will be lamentably more vanilla.

I find this little bit of Pintsize (squeezed somewhere between the porn, the "video drivers" and the low-to-mid-scale property damage) to be an interesting insight into his world. If you think about it, this little bit of sanity is needed so that we can better appreciate the porn, the "video drivers" and the low-to-mid-scale property damage.

On the comic: Pintsize. That face. My face hurts from laughing too much!

[jwhouk]

I get the feeling that the truth is that Pintsize was the unwanted AI. You, know, kinda like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree, or Herbie the Love Bug.

[Welu]

I like how Marten's hair is floopy in the flashback. I might be imagining it but I think he's slightly skinnier too.

Also another person laughing hard over the Pintsize face in the last panel.

[Soulsynger]

I like how Marten's hair is floopy in the flashback. I might be imagining it but I think he's slightly skinnier too.
[ ... ]

Well... it's a flashback. So I'd say he's just younger.
And now that I've said that I hear your a-typical porn music when my eyes reach the fourth panel. (Weird enough with a sort of "digitalizing" distortion element in it ... )

Btw... what's the word for this kind of filth? We have homoerotic, heteroerotic... cyberrotic?

[pwhodges]

I like how Marten's hair is floopy in the flashback.

Even so, it's more like his present style than what he was sporting in the early comics before Faye cut it for him.

[StevenC]

OH GOD WHY WOULD SHE HAVE ARTICULATION SEAMS ON HER BOOBS

Easy, she exchanges her usual boobs for a bigger version every time she has a male customer. That way, he's more likely to spend more! It's science!

[Black Sword]

If AnthroPCs come with that function, then I'm fairly sure the world of Jeph has a hugely declining birth rate.

/end obligatory poke fun at Japan joke

[Sylentknight]

I just saved myself from spilled hot coffee by setting down my cup one second before seeing the forth panel. 

Now I wonder if we'll enter into a rambling, speculative conversation about intimate relations between humans and anthro's.

[lepetitfromage]

I enjoy this little peek into the world of Pintsize. And that face! OMG.

[Somebody]

I like how Marten's hair is floopy in the flashback.

Even so, it's more like his present style than what he was sporting in the early comics before Faye cut it for him.

1) This is two years *before* those strips.
2) Compare hair:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1601

[pwhodges]

I guess.  I was thinking of this style which appeared in this comic and lasted until this one.

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

I believe it was not this one, though there has been mention of laser tits.

In relation to Raven.   Something about a horrible cybernetic abomination with laser tits.

TO THE ARCHIVE!!1

[DSL]

This day's comic is not tracking for me. I get there's a flashback, that pre-story Marten is visiting the cyber version of match dot con, that the cousin of Metropolis Maria seems to be getting all naughty-librarian on Marten, but why is present-day Marten looking with murder, and Momo 2.0 looking with shock and ugh, at Pintsize?

Was it something he said?
Is it, as has been intimated, that Naughty-Librarian-Bot is Pintsize in an earlier chassis?

The 3-4 gutter is fraught with meaning,  mystery and frustration for me. I can but wait for Tuesday, or beyond.

[bhtooefr]

My understanding is that the "flashback" is Pintsize's telling of the story.

Which isn't what actually happened, based on Marten's reaction.

[DSL]

My understanding is that the "flashback" is Pintsize's telling of the story.

Which isn't what actually happened, based on Marten's reaction.

I like that interpretation, but the main thing keeping me away from it is Pintsize's "squee"-ing face in P4. (That face was even funnier in the blueline sketch, BTW; I caught a bit of the LiveStream).

[Cornan]

Oh, God. That Pintsize face is exactly what I needed to start my day off. 

[Soulsynger]

This day's comic is not tracking for me. I get there's a flashback, that pre-story Marten is visiting the cyber version of match dot con, that the cousin of Metropolis Maria seems to be getting all naughty-librarian on Marten, but why is present-day Marten looking with murder, and Momo 2.0 looking with shock and ugh, at Pintsize?

Was it something he said?
Is it, as has been intimated, that Naughty-Librarian-Bot is Pintsize in an earlier chassis?

The 3-4 gutter is fraught with meaning,  mystery and frustration for me. I can but wait for Tuesday, or beyond.

In panel 4 Pintsize takes over Marten's narration of what transpired in the office of APCCC and puts his usual spin on it. I don't know the word for that but it's happening a lot in recent television series... °O

[Arancaytar]

I didn't get this. Is it a flashback he's remembering, or is Pintsize making up a story?

[Thrudd]

I didn't get this. Is it a flashback he's remembering, or is Pintsize making up a story?

YES.

*snerk* I shall now pontificate on how I interpret it after a couple ...... okay, a dozen scan troughs before coming to the forums.

As was pointed out in earlier posts, it started as a flashback. Then pintsize interjected with his version of what happened next.
You know that, more than likely, you could and would do the same thing when someone is telling a story that you are both intimately familiar with, and know just exactly when to step in with a few choice words to mess with everyone.

[wow that is one runon stream of semiconsciousness. Should insert punctuation or rewrite it though. nah.]

[percivaltercy]

I didn't get this. Is it a flashback he's remembering, or is Pintsize making up a story?

I'm a bit torn between two options:
1) Panels 2,3 and 4 Pintsize is telling a story, panel 4 is obviously typical Pintsize
2) Panels 2 and 3 Marten is telling about how he came to the office, and then Pintsize interrupts and keeps on telling the story, as told in panel 4, totally making Marten mad, and Momo scandalized.
Either way, the beginning of the story is somewhat believable, and panel 4 is just a joke by Pintsize.

I saw earlier in the thread that someone told about "shirt discontinuity"
I would not be surprised that Jeph's initial intention would have been to use the discontinuity as a clue that the infringin panel was a spin off the initial thread, indicating that panels 2 and 3 were Marten's and panel 4 Pintsize's. But I haven't seen such discontinuity, since it is also claimed in the thread that such discontinuity has been "fixed".

[Sidhekin]

Just like how Claire helped Clinton tell how he lost his hand ...

[Carl-E]

Excellent example!  And the reactions are almost identical, too! 

[Pilchard123]

I'm pretty sure there was a comic where someone gets hit in the face with a flying rocket boob. Whether it was this one, I can't remember.

Found it, it begins here:
http://www.atomiclaundromat.com/2010/03/01/hiring-practices/

[Emperor Norton]

If Panel 4 doesn't make it into the QC Captions, I'll be disappointed.

[cesariojpn]

1) Panels 2,3 and 4 Pintsize is telling a story, panel 4 is obviously typical Pintsize

No, if Pintsize was telling it, then we'd start at panel 3 (would be then panel 2), go to panel 4 (now panel 3), and the 4th panel would've been something......that can't be described as it would violate the unwritten rule of shipping on these forums. Or he'd just skip to the punchline and start at panel 4.

[K1dmor]

I'm starting to wonder how Marigold afforded Momo in the first place. Her original chasis still looked like a step up from Pintsize and Winslow, and Marigold doesn't exactly look like she's swimming in money. Was this ever explained or should I just assume her parents bought it for her like my friends parents always buy them stuff, like a friggen apartment...

Mari said she'd get a loan for a particular model for Momo. She can pay for the new chassis for some "sacrifices."

Momo promises to pay it back. She attempts to find work. Manages to find a job. Gets paid. And fails repaying it back.

 Does being Webmaster of her father's shoe "company" count as a job? That would explain how she earned money (for Momo's Chassis, department, pockys....).
 
 

... it started as a flashback. Then pintsize interjected with his version of what happened next.
You know that, more than likely, you could and would do the same thing when someone is telling a story that you are both intimately familiar with, and know just exactly when to step in with a few choice words to mess with everyone.

Just like how Claire helped Clinton tell how he lost his hand ...

 Exactly.
 

 ------

 About PintSize's job with Marten as a friend/companion:
 

 Seeya 

[cesariojpn]

I'm starting to wonder how Marigold afforded Momo in the first place. Her original chasis still looked like a step up from Pintsize and Winslow, and Marigold doesn't exactly look like she's swimming in money. Was this ever explained or should I just assume her parents bought it for her like my friends parents always buy them stuff, like a friggen apartment...

Mari said she'd get a loan for a particular model for Momo. She can pay for the new chassis for some "sacrifices."

Momo promises to pay it back. She attempts to find work. Manages to find a job. Gets paid. And fails repaying it back.

 Does being Webmaster of her father's shoe "company" count as a job? That would explain how she earned money (for Momo's Chassis, department, pockys....).
 
 

How much does a webmaster make?

[FunkyTuba]

Really enjoying the Pintsize/Momo dynamic now that he's shown himself to be (or at least is representing himself as) "senior" to Momo (or at least more experienced) in the "being a friend to people" business

[K1dmor]

How much does a webmaster make?

 Well... If she is in charge of: Design, updates, code, and everything else.... enough to pay half of the department's rent, and sustain her otaku supplies.

 Also, i'm sure her father gives her a little extra  .

[StevenC]

Aww man. I go archive searching for exactly that comic and then not one but two people talk about it.
Here is it anyway. You're fucking welcome.

[jwhouk]

If you're the daughter of the owner of the company, you make as much as daddy wants to give you.

[FunkyTuba]

If you're the more technically savvy daughter of the luddite owner you get paid whatever you can autotransfer out of the company's bank account. 

[riccostar]

very very good point...

[Mothykins]

Just wanna pop in and place a bet that this will end with Pintsize being thrown out. He goes on an off-screen adventure on par with Wil's and faces serious character development.

(If I'm right, this will be epic. If I'm wrong, it gives you guys something to ponder for a moment. Win-win for me.)

[cesariojpn]

Ask any question, get stupid answers........

[Is it cold in here?]

Marigirl is not rich enough to take the price of a Platinum Deluxe chassis in stride. She can afford a car, but doesn't have a house, but that might simply be from never getting around to house shopping.

[Mr_Rose]

Running one website is not necessarily a super well paying job. Freelancing as a web admin to a bunch of small companies could be more lucrative though and is the sort of job that can be doe without a physical presence at the place of 'work' as long as someone else is doing the hardware side.

[ysth]

Just wanna pop in and place a bet that this will end with Pintsize being thrown out. He goes on an off-screen adventure on par with Wil's and faces serious character development.

As the Makeout Hobo's sidekick?

Marigirl is not rich enough to take the price of a Platinum Deluxe chassis in stride. She can afford a car, but doesn't have a house, but that might simply be from never getting around to house shopping.

Is Jeph's commentary at the "bottom" not canonical?

[Method of Madness]

I'd say no.

[cesariojpn]

Marigirl is not rich enough to take the price of a Platinum Deluxe chassis in stride. She can afford a car, but doesn't have a house, but that might simply be from never getting around to house shopping.

Now that I looked back, is she driving a used limousine? That is one car with weird A, B, C & D pillars!!

But then again, Mari is single, so she has abit more spendable income to use.

[riccostar]

Marigirl is not rich enough to take the price of a Platinum Deluxe chassis in stride. She can afford a car, but doesn't have a house, but that might simply be from never getting around to house shopping.

Now that I looked back, is she driving a used limousine? That is one car with weird A, B, C & D pillars!!

But then again, Mari is single, so she has abit more spendable income to use.

Woah lookee there, my only other guess would be a white truck with one of those hard windowed bed covers over it?

[DSL]

I would have said, station wagon.

[riccostar]

Comic!  I'm sad to say that I would have fled the scene as soon as I saw one of those friendly little legs.  I can't do spiders...

But who makes spider chassis body scanners anyways?