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Full name

15 (3.2%)

First Name

27 (5.8%)

Nickname

31 (6.6%)

Age

23 (4.9%)

Weight

5 (1.1%)

Gender

30 (6.4%)

Sex

22 (4.7%)

Orientation

25 (5.4%)

Schooling

8 (1.7%)

Employment

9 (1.9%)

Friends list

5 (1.1%)

Mutual Friends

31 (6.6%)

Likes

19 (4.1%)

Dislikes

15 (3.2%)

Sign

9 (1.9%)

Birthday

17 (3.6%)

Religion

11 (2.4%)

Politics

9 (1.9%)

Blood type

21 (4.5%)

Relationship status

26 (5.6%)

Languages

19 (4.1%)

Contact info

7 (1.5%)

Home

2 (0.4%)

Hometown

10 (2.1%)

This poll is too long!

18 (3.9%)

You forgot something!

18 (3.9%)

It should show nothing.

35 (7.5%)

Total Members Voted: 93

[westrim]

Longer poll than usual this week, and you can choose as many options as you want.

[aldonius]

Forgotten poll option: Whuffie

[westrim]

Perhaps it's my general lack of engagement with any blogs and relatively late entry into the internet at large, but I've never been as enamored of Cory Doctorow as the frequent references to him I see and his awesome name indicate I should be.

[aldonius]

I guess it really comes down to how much you enjoy his stories, both in politics and writing style. People have different tastes, after all.

[jwhouk]

Longer poll than usual this week, and you can choose as many options as you want.

I'm glad you're doing the WCDT's, but 27 options?

"Yo, dawg, I heard you like your poll options in your poll options, so I put some poll options in your poll options' poll options!"

[GarandMarine]

I was gonna do "contact info" but "contact request" would be more accurate me thinks.

[muon]

I'm glad gender was an option. It would make referring to people by their preferred pronouns much simpler (and it would take away the "Sorry, I forgot" excuse for misgendering people).

[Carl-E]

Only if the glasses' arm delivers a dope slap to the back of the head when you screw it up...

[Neko_Ali]

I dunno. Honestly a lot of those things I see trouble if you let the general population know about. Or they just aren't the business of the average person on the street, like orientation, religion or politics. If people weren't well.. the people that we know now that might not be a problem. But there are way to many people who would use that kind of information to discriminate or even be hateful against people if it was just hanging over their heads. They do it now, just guessing or hearing rumors about people.

[Carl-E]

Maybe if it just showed markup data for people who've given you permission...

like a "friends" list. 

[FunkyTuba]

"Talk to me/Don't talk to me" indicator

[Is it cold in here?]

Yes. My body language tends to send the wrong signals. In novel environments I resort to wearing my xkcd t-shirt that says "Just Shy, Not Antisocial. You Can Talk To Me!".

[Kugai]

Waffles!


Oh, and Purple Monkey Dishwasher.

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

Blood-Caffeine level indicator and Blood-Alcohol levels -- and an indicator displaying my current level of sarcasm, innuendo and irony.

[Method of Madness]

Wouldn't that kind of take away the point of using those?

[DSL]

Could you really trust a sarcasm or irony indicator?

[Schmee]

Could you really trust a sarcasm or irony indicator?

"Sarcasm status: JUST A TINY FUCKING BIT SARCASTIC"

[altheora]

Yes. My body language tends to send the wrong signals. In novel environments I resort to wearing my xkcd t-shirt that says "Just Shy, Not Antisocial. You Can Talk To Me!".

Where can I get one of these.

[celticgeek]

PLAN A seems not to be working. 

Will Plan B work better? 

[westrim]

Finally someone's talking sense! I wholeheartedly approve May's plan. The possibility that they might killfuck each other should not be ignored, however.

@ the newspost
No, sorry. For the sake of my wallet I must avoid Kickstarter lest I dive into an abyss of interesting projects and delayed debt.

Yes. My body language tends to send the wrong signals. In novel environments I resort to wearing my xkcd t-shirt that says "Just Shy, Not Antisocial. You Can Talk To Me!".

Where can I get one of these.

I'm going to take a wild stab here and guess the store at xkcd.

PLAN A seems not to be working. 

Will Plan B work better?

Only if taken within 72 hours of killfucking.

[Is it cold in here?]

Yes. My body language tends to send the wrong signals. In novel environments I resort to wearing my xkcd t-shirt that says "Just Shy, Not Antisocial. You Can Talk To Me!".

Where can I get one of these.

http://store.xkcd.com/products/just-shy

[Method of Madness]

Man, what a disappointment. I'm not saying the album won't be awesome, but I mean...after expecting a QC video game, I suppose nothing else would've cut it

[Is it cold in here?]

Where does Marigold get off telling Momo's guest to leave?

[Method of Madness]

I don't know. Apparently Marigold was about to change, and accepted his truce, and...forgot?

[celticgeek]

And I have now supported the Deathmole kickstarter campaign. 

And yes, I told both of my cats about the proposed album.

[westrim]

I don't know. Apparently Marigold was about to change, and accepted his truce, and...forgot?

Well, we knew she forgot or a plot shark ate her memory or something back when she started the hissing thing.

[Method of Madness]

Well yeah, I wasn't saying this was new. Just continuing the disappointment in her.

[Is it cold in here?]

Momo may be wrong about the desirability of getting them together.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

May operates on an alternate, but equally effective social protocol database.

[ab720]

Where does Marigold get off telling Momo's guest to leave?

I've bounced roommates skeevy friends before. One time I did so as the skeevy friend was "liberating" my shirts from the clothesline while shoving them into his pants.

These were not fancy T-shirts either.

Paying rent means you have veto power on visitors. Especially visitors you have reason to dislike.

Perhaps Marigold is aware of Momo's scheming and is having none of it?

[Method of Madness]

Paying rent means you have veto power on visitors.

I don't entirely disagree, and Marbear wouldn't do this, but would you back her on this principle if she decided she didn't want Faye in the apartment? In your case, yeah, you clearly had cause to not want the person in your apartment, but Dale was just standing there talking to Momo, who'd invited him in (after basically inviting him over).

[ab720]

She's also in her underthings.

Marigold strongly dislikes Dale. Momo already attempted a sit down at the diner, it didn't work out.

I don't play many MMO's, but I used to play Star trek online. A fellow fleet member flew extremely poorly, had the damage power of an unarmed shuttlecraft, yet always hit need on loot roles. I despised him. If he had somehow appeared in my living room I'd be tempted to punch him in the throat. I certainly wouldn't invite him to stay for pizza.

And the marigold/dale situation is even worse. She's red, he's blue.

[Method of Madness]

You're ignoring a large portion of story. Especially the part where Dale offered a pizza of truce, which Marbear accepted, only to immediately go back on it.

[Mmeaninglessnamee]

Let me be the first to comment that May certainly seems to wish she could rip hearts out of chests like in Indiana Jones. I know that she's demonstrating her holo-ness, but she certainly doesn't have the highest opinion of him right now.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

Let me be the first to comment that May certainly seems to wish she could rip hearts out of chests like in Indiana Jones. I know that she's demonstrating her holo-ness, but she certainly doesn't have the highest opinion of him right now.

I don't think it's her opinion of him in particular so much as it is a general disdain for non-May lifeforms and a habitual gesture. Or a reflection of how much she dislikes this situation, given how she's not exactly a fan of the animes, and this situation right here, with Marigold, is getting pretty anime.

[Method of Madness]

I think she's just displaying the fact that she is a hologram and thus incapable of moving chairs.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

I think she's just displaying the fact that she is a hologram and thus incapable of moving chairs.

Well that's certainly a sensible, non-symbolism-laden interpretation, yes.  BUT IF YOU LIKE, REALLY GET QC, MAN, YOU KNOW IT'S DEEPER. Look into the truth between the panels.

[snubnose]

Whow !

Momo surely is quick to get under the bad influence of May.

And I assume "sign" refers to birth/zodiac sign ? No I wont tell you that.

People can know my first name (or nick name), languages I speak (english and german), orientation and relationship status, but thats all.

[snubnose]

I'm glad gender was an option. It would make referring to people by their preferred pronouns much simpler (and it would take away the "Sorry, I forgot" excuse for misgendering people).

Only if you're currently in sight and the glasses actually display your info.

[Method of Madness]

The reason I wouldn't want that information about me to be immediately avaiable is then people won't have to ask me about those things, and I like meeting new people.

[Loki]

So... why are we not discussing the obvious question of how May knows of Momos plan? Did they exchange metadata at some point? Or could May actually be *gasp* sensible to social undertones?

[Method of Madness]

She just chooses to ignore them.

[J]

regarding the poll question, i'd probably just tag myself with this

[cesariojpn]

Where does Marigold get off telling Momo's guest to leave?

I guess that wasn't covered under AI rights.....

So... why are we not discussing the obvious question of how May knows of Momos plan? Did they exchange metadata at some point? Or could May actually be *gasp* sensible to social undertones?

The previous strips don't quite indicate how May knew of this plan, but going by available clues:
 
* May notes that her "existence" was determined by algorithms (not helped by I guess accidental Rule 34)
* It could be reasoned that Dale's life is "collected" by the glasses to the point where that info is complied and a "dossier" is done on him by the glasses. So it could stand to reason that May has access to the "footage" from that night, and seeing what just happened in the past.....12/24 hours(?), she could put two and two together and ask the right question to Momo. Or something like that.

And people thought the NSA was bad...........
 

[Mr. Doctor]

I really don't like Marigold at this point.

[Carl-E]

So... why are we not discussing the obvious question of how May knows of Momos plan? Did they exchange metadata at some point? Or could May actually be *gasp* sensible to social undertones?

"These idiots are WAY too socially inept for your cute little schemes to work". 

I was actually wondering how May knows of Marigold's social inadequacies - she's been observing Dale, but she must have gotten some info from Momo to talk about them together as a class. 


Or maybe she gleaned everything she needed to know from those few moments of interaction...

[westrim]

Theories.

I must point out that only May's appearance was influenced by Dale- May's existence preceded their interaction and was not modified.

Anyway, from their conversation in the car, May's already stated opinion of Dale, and Marigolds appearance and choice of chassis for Marigold, May could easily draw the conclusion that both are social idiots, no prying necessary.

[Tova]

Social undertones? More like 50-foot flaming letters on the side of a bloody great mountain.

[cesariojpn]

Theories.

words

Or being QC, we just outlandishly throw out theories that could fit in a world were we have sentient robots that look like humans worth the cost of a small car, an OCD introvert with access to technology that would level nations, and clearly minimum wage jobs that pay enough for rent and car payments BEFORE taxes.   

[Border Reiver]

Where in the blue blazes did May and Momo get their ideas of how to "help" Dale and Marigold? 

There are romantic comedies with more believable ways to do it.  Alternately, they were talking to my mother (whose advice on being told that I was being bullied was to say "Just be nice to everyone and they'll be nice to you.")