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Marten & Faye's Apartment

10 (12.7%)

Coffee of Doom

30 (38%)

The Park

1 (1.3%)

The Library

6 (7.6%)

Sven's house

0 (0%)

The Space Station

18 (22.8%)

The Fighting Arena

1 (1.3%)

Other

3 (3.8%)

The Quarry

1 (1.3%)

Emily's Holiday House

2 (2.5%)

The Horrible Revelation (the pub that Will works at)

5 (6.3%)

The Park where Emily got bitten by a snake (such pretty scenery)

2 (2.5%)

Total Members Voted: 61

[BenRG]

A nice, easy one; which is your favourite of all the significantly-used locations in Questionable Content?

To me, I think that it has to be Coffee of Doom, which was in many ways the social centre of the strips for the vast majority of its run (from around strip 600 up until around strip 3000). There was lots of significant action there (and it still has a role to play up until today).

As for this week, I have a feeling that we're going to keep following Brun and Renee for a while but it is possible that Jeph may decide to take us in a new direction for a while.

[Oenone]

I wonder if Brun and Bubbles served together?

[Tova]

I voted CoD, but was expecting the space station to win this poll. Wow.

[chaospersonified]

Space Station was awesome, that was the arc that got me reading QC on a daily basis, but we've just had so many more awesome comics at CoD. Just by value of being the more common setting, it's the most memorable.

[Storel]

I almost voted for Marten and Faye's apartment, so I'm surprised that hasn't gotten any votes yet.

[Kugai]

COMIC!!

But if Faye and Bubbles run into them on the way, all bets are off.

Along with their heads.

[chaospersonified]

Faye and Bubbles are going to Coffee of Doom, which is the only solid link Renee would have to locating Clinton. I'm kind of expecting a meeting. If not immediately, in the near future. We spent a full week with Brun and Renee, I'd be surprised if they proceeded to not meet up with the larger cast, and if they did, Coffee of Doom is where it would happen.

[brasca]

COMIC!!

But if Faye and Bubbles run into them on the way, all bets are off.

Along with their heads.

Let Faye handle them.  With Bubbles it would be over too quickly.

[MrNumbers]

Bubbles has chosen... wisely.

PTSD: Because the right thing to do and the hardest thing to do are a venn diagram composing of a single circle, at times.

[Akima]

Faye reveals once again that she's thought altogether too much about the tidy disposal of bodies.

[Morituri]

Hogs will eat anything. 

Just sayin'.

[Is it cold in here?]

Is it just me, or did Jeph get the equivalent of whole paragraphs worth of exposition out of a single picture of a robot's facial expression in the first panel?

[Tova]

On a side note, I always find the expression "You wanna come with?" to be strangely amusing yet just slightly appealing. Is that unique to the USA? That's the only place I recall coming across it.

[anahata]

The Germans say it in a similar way, I think: "Kommst du mit?"

[BenRG]

Faye, please don't give the nice combat AI with self-esteem issues ideas, please?

Seriously, though, panels 2 and 3 really do tell their own story, don't they? All of Breference for him. fears, insecurities and her instinct to hide were displayed with impressive narrative economy. Then were reminded in the next panel that confronting them is an expression of courage equal to any she needed to show in battle. Yet she has that courage and, for her new friends, she's willing to show it as well as face her legion of ghosts.

Faye and Bubbles are going to Coffee of Doom, which is the only solid link Renee would have to locating Clinton. I'm kind of expecting a meeting. If not immediately, in the near future. We spent a full week with Brun and Renee, I'd be surprised if they proceeded to not meet up with the larger cast, and if they did, Coffee of Doom is where it would happen.

Yeah, there is the possibility of a few weeks at CoD as two or more plot-lines interact.

What other plot-lines? Well, as an example, Claire might come in to apologize to Emily for putting her on the spot with Clinton. Brun may then ask Emily for a character reference. This may draw in Claire and Renee. I wonder if Clinton will arrive in time to help Marten pull a foaming-at-the-mouth Claire off of Renee after a discussion about his character gets a bit... er... emphatic?

[pwhodges]

Faye reveals once again that she's thought altogether too much about the tidy disposal of bodies.

More than Jeph himself perhaps - his suggestion of putting the head and body in different ponds would surely increase, if not quite double, the chance of the act being discovered!

[BenRG]

However, it also prevents them from just putting their head back on and walking away; it's the sort of contingency an AI would think of, after all!

[oeoek]

Don't litter the Froglord pond with dead bodies!

[Gyrre]

The Germans say it in a similar way, I think: "Kommst du mit?"

That might be where we get it from. America was settled quite heavily by Germans, but elected to forget in the late 30s and early 40s.

[Welu]

On a side note, I always find the expression "You wanna come with?" to be strangely amusing yet just slightly appealing. Is that unique to the USA? That's the only place I recall coming across it.

I hear and say it here in Northern Ireland. Never caught my attention as odd.

More than Jeph himself perhaps - his suggestion of putting the head and body in different ponds would surely increase, if not quite double, the chance of the act being discovered!

I don't think it's to avoid being discovered as much as intentionally provoking the, "What is the motivation?" analysis.

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I really like Bubbles' stance in the third panel. I'm feeling very proud of her.

[gopher]

Hogs will eat anything. 

Just sayin'.

Except teeth. Remove them with pliers first.

[KOK]

On a side note, I always find the expression "You wanna come with?" to be strangely amusing yet just slightly appealing. Is that unique to the USA? That's the only place I recall coming across it.

It is funny that while the Danish word "med" means the exact same thing as the English word "with", just about none of the idioms using it translate word by word. E.g. "vil du med?" "want you with?" or in better English "do you want with?". Similar "shall I take something with for you?" or "do you want something with?", "I'm just with",  "with home" or "take with" ( = to go).

I just realised that I do not know how to say "I'm just with" in English. That is, I am not here to buy something, I am accompanying one who is.

Anyway "You wanna come with?" is mostly used in areas with Scandinavian influence. Or German, I guess.

[KOK]

I don't think that Bubbles appreciates that kind of humor. Though she does recognize it for it is.

[miados]

Faye reveals once again that she's thought altogether too much about the tidy disposal of bodies.

ive done a lot of research on and off about the rate or decomposition and the tell tale signs of it plus if things are likely to kill someone or not. I mean its for stories, but i could only imagine if someone looked at my search history. my most recent one was how much of a giant icicle would melt due to body heat if it impales someone when it falls

[JimC]

Here is southern england "you wanna come?" or "Coming with me?" would be most likely, never heard  "come with" bare, "want to come with me?" would be more formal. "I'm just with him" would be pretty universal I think.

Don't think I've ever heard the pronoun dropped and preposition retained like that. In south east english I don't think its at all common for the pronoun to be dropped without the preposition going too.

[pwhodges]

Here is southern England "you wanna come?" or "Coming with me?" would be most likely,

I'd say: "You coming?" or "Wanna come?" depending on the listener.

[improvnerd]

I just realised that I do not know how to say "I'm just with" in English. That is, I am not here to buy something, I am accompanying one who is.

I'd say "I'm with him/her." No "just" required.

[freeman]

The third panel could be shooped so easily into something naughty.

[Method of Madness]

I guess Faye prefers ponds to quarries now?

The third panel could be shooped so easily into something naughty.

[freeman]

I guess Faye prefers ponds to quarries now?

The third panel could be shooped so easily into something naughty.

Ah, wrong thread /__\. Shouldn't keep more than one open at a time. This was about Alice Grove.

[Method of Madness]

Well considering the third panel here is just Bubbles looking sad, I'd hope it was the wrong thread

[Storel]

I guess Faye prefers ponds to quarries now?

It's a seasonal thing. Apparently it's almost wintertime where they are. If you throw a body in a pond just before it snows, the pond will freeze over and nobody will find the body until the spring thaw a few months later.

I think Faye is just open to all sorts of ways to ditch bodies. She wasn't particularly impressed by the "overhyped" rock quarry, so it makes sense that she's been exploring alternatives.

[heyjames4]

I really like the art today. Bubbles faces and postures tell the whole story. It's almost better without dialogue.

[Zebediah]

Comic!

Yes, Hannelore is very powerful indeed.

[Nepiophage]

 And cuter than ever. Hair floofiness factor = 10¹⁰⁰.

[dreed]

Judging from how bubbles reacts to Hanners I don't think she is aware who Hanners is.  I do wonder if there is going to be any drama when Bubbles finds out

[Is it cold in here?]

There's no really good reason to think this, but what if every AI using Ellicott-Chatham technology has a motivational imperative to be good to Hannelore?

[Penquin47]

It's the floof.  No one can be mad when confronted with the FLOOF.

Claire could also harness this power, except that she nearly always has her hair tied back.

ETA: Also, Hanners gets to call her Miss Bubbles too!

[Morituri]

Bubbles has just discovered the difference between someone who makes a big show of something in order to be mean-spirited or patronizing, and someone who does something nice for a friend. 

Hannelore uses FRIENDSHIP on BUBBLES.  It is Super Effective!

[Near Lurker]

Now that Hannelore is growing her hair out again, I wonder if she'll end up styling it like she did in her first few appearances?

[Tova]

What is this "MACCHIATO: NO" nonsense? 

[chaospersonified]

What is this "MACCHIATO: NO" nonsense? 

I'd assume it's an inferior form of caffeination?

I wouldn't know, I drink my coffee dark, strong, and slightly sweet. Had a cappucino once, had to throw it out galfway therough because I couldn't stand that amount of cream.

[MrNumbers]

There's a very simple explanation.

Hannelore has a black belt in anxiety judo. Much like conventional judo allows you to use your opponent's weight against them, Hannelore can convert a gesture that would cause someone to feel singled out and different and, with just a twist of her smile, turn it into a gesture that makes them feel special and wanted.

It's a less conventional training than most monks receive, but ultimately similar. Instead of a mountain hermitage she got isolation on a space station (also the name of my new Punk Folk band) and instead of years of intense meditation she got years of intense medication.

[Tova]

What is this "MACCHIATO: NO" nonsense? 

I'd assume it's an inferior form of caffeination?

I wouldn't know, I drink my coffee dark, strong, and slightly sweet. Had a cappucino once, had to throw it out galfway therough because I couldn't stand that amount of cream.

It's an espresso with a smear of (foamed) milk on top. It's (IMO) the best way to add slight sweetness to an espresso without adding sugar.

[chaospersonified]

Still prefer it black. Couple drops of milk, maybe. Cream gives too much outside flavor.

[Tova]

Cream in coffee is rare in Australia AFAIK. Macchiato demands milk, not cream.

And when I say smear, I really do mean the smallest amount. I've come across places that add too much milk to a macchiato, turning it into a piccolo latte. I don't mind that, as long as that's what I actually wanted.

[BenRG]

That's the thing about Hannelore: She's so earnest and sweet that you could never take anything she does as presumptuous or insulting. She's just too nice for that to be plausible!

As for poor Bubbles? Well, I'm sure that she's feeling a bit disoriented right now. I doubt that she's been anyone's favourite anything since she was in the army! The thought of people making special allowances and special provisions out of warm good will is probably going to be quite difficult to handle. If synthetics could break down and cry, I could see her doing so in a few minutes as Hannelore waits on her hand-and-foot.

[Tova]

Hannelore is good people*.

* Still on the topic of strangely endearing linguistic oddities.

[BenRG]

I also really want to know what good advice costs if plain old advice (quality unstated) is $10!

[Tova]

If you need to ask...