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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: jwhouk on 22 Dec 2019, 08:03
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New week, new poll!
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I vote for Yay because, in 2019, Jeph turned a walking, talking deus ex machina into something resembling a real character with understandable motivations and a solid set of limits (even if they're only self-imposed).
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Other, Brun.
She's one of the characters in media that I've been able to relate to most AND she's a human instead of an alien or a robot.
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Other, Brun.
She's one of the characters in media that I've been able to relate to most AND she's a human instead of an alien or a robot.
^ Seconded. I haven't really warmed to most of the AI characters much but I always enjoy Brun's appearances and similarly find her relatable (as a fellow somewhat-literal-minded night owl with bushy eyebrows and a fondness for croissants).
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Comic up.
You should apologize anyway. It was the mayor's shoe store.
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One wonders if the girls all left together, or if it was online shopping....
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One wonders if the girls all left together, or if it was online shopping....
Hmmm.....since they were very patient with her and considering the hour, I'm guessing it was either online or at some 24hour store with shoes.
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Well, Tai, it's all a matter of personal scale of embarrassing, isn't it? You're so adapted to being intoxicated that you only get ashamed when you do something pretty major. For Millifeulle, having to be persuaded not to buy one hundred pairs of designer shoes with her life savings is deep into 'biting your fist' territory!
It's that way for Dora too and now I desperately want to know about the shoes she bought when drunk!
Something tells me that drunk!Millie is very raucous, shrill and demanding to the point where she may have developed a reputation at a certain retailer. I'm starting to wonder if Jeph is planning to make this another 'drying out a friend' story.
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I love her face in panel 2 (4161)
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Strip 4160 has been rewritten
Jeph decided that having Millifeulle's memories passoword locked was incompatible with the 'Bubbles' Lost Memories' plot arc so has rewritten the strip to simply make Milli even more embarrassed with her behaviour the previous night!
https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/1209066765197688833
He probably needs to tweak Strip 4161 too, IMO. We'll see.
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He's tweaked 4161.
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And in doing so, he's made Millie several orders of magnitude more cute and desperately needing a hug!
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...and I'm not seeing the new page yet :(
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Flush your browser cache and hard-reload the page.
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Thanks.
Just had to open my amnesiac browser... good to go!
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I see the tweak, but not the improvement.
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The old panel 2 was better, IMO
But panel three!
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SCENE: The office of the Honorable David Narkewicz, Mayor of Northampton
The mayor looks out his office window and sees thousands of pairs of shoes scattered the length of Main Street.
The mayor mutters under his breath, “Again? This friggin’ town,” and picks up his phone to call Public Works for a cleanup crew.
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del ./drunk/*
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Waits patiently for someone to demand an archive of the original.
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Aaand I was not disappointed.
I am now tempted to make a wallpaper of all the Millie faces.
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Apparently Tai and Mieville get along pretty well. (I seem to recall the cat being a bit of a stoner, too.)
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Comic up, with a Thing Explainer (https://xkcd.com/1133/)shoutout!
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MIEVILLE!!!! :-o
Nothing can't be improved with the addition of a cat. Nothing. I haven't seen that cat in so long I was beginning to wonder if it had died or something (Or more likely Jeph had forgotten about him).
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Well, that's the final proof that Dora and Tai were meant to be together: Mieville has adopted Tai as His human! I note that he still retains a healthy degree of fear about the various weird personalities that enter His humans' lives though. I'm pretty sure that Millifeuille is harmless but a wise cat is never too careful!
Yeah, I think I see what this strip is trying to say: There is a liberation about being intoxicated - You can escape reality for a while and I think that being free of her social anxiety is something that Milli pretty desperately wants sometimes. No matter how much she regrets it afterwards. There is a chance that this is going to turn into Dora and Tai finding out why Milli keeps doing this to herself and at least trying to help.
Tai should talk to Hanners if she wants to see space. She has that technology at her disposal.
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The strongest evidence that your relationship is going to work out is when your cat adores your gf. This is Queer Girl Romance 101
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Comic up, with a Thing Explainer (https://xkcd.com/1133/)shoutout!
I shared that picture with a friend who does chemical compositions for new fuels for NASA and they were in a gigglefit for hours.
So I was happy that she was one of the 10,000 (https://xkcd.com/1053/) that I got to inform that XKCD was, indeed, still running and updating regularly.
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I don't know where to put this, so I'll just throw it into the WCDT: we're one step closer to QC's Roombas: https://newatlas.com/robotics/flying-robot-vacuum-cleaner-peter-sripol/
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MIEVILLE!!!! :-o
Nothing can't be improved with the addition of a cat. Nothing. I haven't seen that cat in so long I was beginning to wonder if it had died or something (Or more likely Jeph had forgotten about him).
Welcome, new person!
I've been missing Mieville too.
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Apparently Tai is secretly the Space Core from Portal 2.
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Miéville was seen as recently as 4159. (I went 'Yay!' at the time.)
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Hmm. Dora says "my floor". That suggests to me either that Tai has not actually moved in with Dora, or that Dora hasn't completely adjusted to sharing living space.
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Hmm. Dora says "my floor". That suggests to me either that Tai has not actually moved in with Dora, or that Dora hasn't completely adjusted to sharing living space.
In the previous strip, Tai says. "our living room", so I'm thinking the latter.
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New Comic Up!
Awww! Poor Crushbot! They really are just amazingly clumsy, aren't they? I can empathise; I've lost count of the number of cabinet doors I've punched because I've misjudged the distance to the handle!
Now, has Crushy gone out to the West Coast to follow their dreams? I'm asking because their cookery teacher looks a lot like Marten's ex, Padma and we know she went to LA to look after her aging grandmother.
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IIRC, Padma is married to some tech guy out in LA.
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I have a feeling we are going to see Crushbot trying out all kinds of jobs...
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Like Marten, Crushbot is wondering what to do with the rest of his life.
Seems to be a recurring theme in QC.
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I am now trying to think of dishes that are assembled in layers and then squashed flat.
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Cheer up, Crushbot. This stuff is tricky.
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This is how Tickle-N-Grin Technologies confirmed that their flagship product did not respond well to wireless charging whilst in 'active' mode and whist lying on a commercial hotplate set to full heat. Why they needed a lab test to confirm this, no-one is sure but Beepatrice suspects that 'for the lulz' was in the authorisation email somewhere.
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Well at least someone will go out with a bang.
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I dunno. I guess we’re supposed to assume something’s going on that we can’t see, but to me it just looks like the dildo caught fire and exploded because it was left on too long. And that’s expected?
Personally, if that’s how things work in-universe, I’d stick to non-powered sex toys. Unless the unpowered versions also have catastrophic failure modes.
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Must be those leftover hoverboard batteries.
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Maybe it's a Samsung Dildo 7
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I think Beeps secretly (possibly even to her) works for the equivalent of Q-Branch for whatever agency Steve got picked up by, and she’s actually testing concealable weapons…
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I used to date someone who liked toys that . uh. words. Were Violent. those are good words. None of them caught fire, though.
Seriously, some of her favorites would leave her with serious bruises that lasted for several days. There was one that was a rebuild of a hardware-store reciprocating saw. It made me cringe whenever I saw it.
She could have made good money doing on stage what she did in her own room by herself. But that's probably true of a lot of people with much more ordinary toys.
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VRRR...FOOMPH...BOOM... Performs as expected???
I really can't imagine any fetish, kink or inclination where that is the desired result :P
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VRRR...FOOMPH...BOOM... Performs as expected???
I really can't imagine any fetish, kink or inclination where that is the desired result :P
Always keep 'safe search' on no matter what you're looking up.
EDIT: it's something I learned the hard way.
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My brother is an electrical engineer with the best job, doing safety testing of products. He's told some fun stories of products that failed spectacularly, like a vacuum cleaner that bursts into flame if you jam the motor. (Standard safety regulations state that appliances are required to shut down if they get jammed, so stuff like that doesn't happen)
Bursting into flame would be a failed test... although as far as I know, he's never tested dildos before. :P
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This is so cute and heartwarming. I can really see Bubbles and Faye being like this - Being unintentionally self-parodaic when they're flirting and still being intensely embarrassed by admitting their physical attraction for each other like a pair of teenagers.
What's the bet that this is the result of Bubbles searching for glamour shots on-line because she wants to impress Faye? Not knowing, of course, that she doesn't need to go that extra mile!
My brother is an electrical engineer with the best job, doing safety testing of products. He's told some fun stories of products that failed spectacularly, like a vacuum cleaner that bursts into flame if you jam the motor. (Standard safety regulations state that appliances are required to shut down if they get jammed, so stuff like that doesn't happen)
Bursting into flame would be a failed test... although as far as I know, he's never tested dildos before. :P
The point is that it failed in the expected way. That's a passed test. I think that it's been established that Beepatrice's employer do 'test to destruction' - Basically, how far can you push these things before they fail and in spectacular ways?
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The strongest evidence that your relationship is going to work out is when your cat adores your gf. This is Queer Girl Romance 101
Or any romantic relationship really.....cat hates my love interest? Okay, forget about her/him/them then..
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My dog hates EVERYONE at first, so she's not a very useful judge of character.
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Your dog is a chihuahua, isn't it?
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... Maybe.
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Hehehe
I'm not sayin' all chihuahuas, but yeah, them little yappers are good for that.
I've got two. I wasn't given a choice in the matter, they just happened; hah!
On a somewhat comic-related note, am I the only one who hears Crushbot in a Dwayne Johnson (as The Rock) voice?
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I am married to my wife in part because her dog (who had a reputation for hating men) took an instant liking to me. My wife had concluded that the dog was a better judge of character than she was because the dog had tried really, really hard to warn her about her previous boyfriend. So when the dog said “We’re keeping this one” she decided to listen.
The dog’s been gone for a dozen years now and I still miss her terribly.
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My brother is an electrical engineer with the best job, doing safety testing of products. He's told some fun stories of products that failed spectacularly, like a vacuum cleaner that bursts into flame if you jam the motor. (Standard safety regulations state that appliances are required to shut down if they get jammed, so stuff like that doesn't happen)
Bursting into flame would be a failed test... although as far as I know, he's never tested dildos before. :P
I don't think he'd be able to if he's an electrical engineer- unless it's a plug-in or rechargable model. Then again, what would he be doing with it anyway? Simply turning it on and testing it x amount of hours until the motor blew to see if it fizzled, melted, seized, or exploded? It seems like it'd fall under a similar QA tester, like the materials tester(for the plastic/latex outside) or the chemical tester(to see if there's any harmful chemicals leeching out)
Of course, you could always get a laugh and bring it up and see what he'd think about someone testing them!
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Like Marten, Crushbot is wondering what to do with the rest of his life.
Seems to be a recurring theme in QC.
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I am now trying to think of dishes that are assembled in layers and then squashed flat.
puff pastry, bread(kneading)...quite a few pastries are made by folding and pressing so he might be close to finding his knack but has to go through the other kinds of pastries to get to the finer ones even if he'd be perfect for those manual labor ones
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Awww! Poor Crushbot! They really are just amazingly clumsy, aren't they? I can empathise; I've lost count of the number of cabinet doors I've punched because I've misjudged the distance to the handle!
Now, has Crushy gone out to the West Coast to follow their dreams? I'm asking because their cookery teacher looks a lot like Marten's ex, Padma and we know she went to LA to look after her aging grandmother.
Doesn't look like the instructor has breasts like her and Padma was more of a barista than a baker(Secret Bakery's version of Dora). I'm thinking that maybe it's simply a one-off character who happens to resemble Padma in skin tone but that's about it...
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her dog (who had a reputation for hating men) took an instant liking to me.
I'm convinced that a former gf's cat loved me at first, but slowly started hating me for "stealing her woman." Some of her (the cat's) behaviours pointed right to jealousy.
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Like Marten, Crushbot is wondering what to do with the rest of his life.
Seems to be a recurring theme in QC.
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I am now trying to think of dishes that are assembled in layers and then squashed flat.
puff pastry, bread(kneading)...quite a few pastries are made by folding and pressing so he might be close to finding his knack but has to go through the other kinds of pastries to get to the finer ones even if he'd be perfect for those manual labor ones
He could make proper pretzels!
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I was organizing my personal archive of QC files and noticed a folder of character pictures. After flipping through to see what they were, it occurred to me that, even without Bubs, they could have a pretty hot roller derby team. Hanners and Claire probably should just root from the sides, but Brun, Faye, and Marigold as blockers, Dora as Pivot, and Tai as a jammer...
Then if you wanted an AI team, have Bubs/Millie/Swordsmary as blockers, with Momo as Pivot and Roko as the jammer. I'd leave May on the sidelines - too aggressive (always in the penalty box) and, at least at this point (4160), delicate considering the punishment usually inflicted. I'd expect an AI league would not across over against a human league as the AIs seem to be denser - weigh more than similar sized humans - except maybe professionally. The possibility of grisly human injuries seems pretty high if a mixed league was allowed.
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The 'poses' comic made me lol a bit.
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her dog (who had a reputation for hating men) took an instant liking to me.
I'm convinced that a former gf's cat loved me at first, but slowly started hating me for "stealing her woman." Some of her (the cat's) behaviours pointed right to jealousy.
I think I have the opposite problem of my gf possibly slowly starting to hate me for stealing her cat away (she's convinced her favorite cat now loves me more than her) :-D
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I am married to my wife in part because her dog (who had a reputation for hating men) took an instant liking to me. My wife had concluded that the dog was a better judge of character than she was because the dog had tried really, really hard to warn her about her previous boyfriend. So when the dog said “We’re keeping this one” she decided to listen.
The dog’s been gone for a dozen years now and I still miss her terribly.
I'm sorry for your loss. And I mean that. They truly leave a hole in your heart and, perhaps because they are with us every day, their loss can be much harder than of almost any other family member.