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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: BenRG on 19 Jul 2015, 09:14
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So, I don't think that anyone can seriously doubt that we're going to stick with Faye's attempts to find a semi-illegal job; he's spent too much time on Bubbles for him to drop the thread right now. I just think that Jeph is going to take this in a weird direction. Maybe Faye won't get the job but Bubbles knows plenty of guys who can use someone who does decorative metalwork.
I've got to say that I'd love it if Bubbles attends Momo's AI support group. Maybe the two are even friends! Although it would be funny if, like Faye and Hanners, Bubbles has a weird pseudonym.
Of course, there is always the possibility that Jeph will pull something out of left field. After all, we have a large ensemble of characters to choose from, any one of which may have a misadventure waiting for thiem!
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I like the option where Bubbles is Momo's sis. "Mama always loved you more, she gave you the lethal electric charge"
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Facinating
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No idea where this is going either. It'd be implausible for Faye to jump in as an expert metal boffin, but having her start as an apprentice seems too mundane for QC. Maybe she comes in as an intern and decides after seeing a few bouts that this is not a place for her. Maybe there's a headless battlebot trunk that Pintsize could plug into as a kind of MasterBlaster hybrid. Or it turns out the cute yellow dude from Momo's meeting is actually the impresario of the whole battlebot show.
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No idea where this is going either. It'd be implausible for Faye to jump in as an expert metal boffin, but having her start as an apprentice seems too mundane for QC. Maybe she comes in as an intern and decides after seeing a few bouts that this is not a place for her. Maybe there's a headless battlebot trunk that Pintsize could plug into as a kind of MasterBlaster hybrid. Or it turns out the cute yellow dude from Momo's meeting is actually the impresario of the whole battlebot show.
I expect she'll start lowly, but ascend ranks quickly when she adapts to the climate. I'm in favor of yellow dude appearing
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What's up with people and quarries? Why does everyone know a quarry?
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I'm not sure what Faye keeps in that long black box, but I'd guess sex toy.
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That's Marten's room, so it's clearly Pintsize's sex toy.
And why is Marten so concerned about making sure that Faye and Pintsize are okay when his REAL concern should be deciding which surface he and Claire can bang on first now that they've got the entire apartment to themselves?
Oh, right, it's because he's a good friend.
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Now I want to know what strip is being referenced, but I'm too lazy to go through the archive myself.
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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1476
First one I've found. Pretty sure there's an earlier one.
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That's Marten's room, so it's clearly Pintsize's sex toy.
And why is Marten so concerned about making sure that Faye and Pintsize are okay when his REAL concern should be deciding which surface he and Claire can bang on first now that they've got the entire apartment to themselves?
Oh, right, it's because he's a good friend.
Why would they look for Faye in Marten's room?
Do not undress until you know where Pintsize is! Ever!
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Hmmm, who's up for a week of ancient callbacks? C'mon Vespavenger!
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Throwback guarateed to turn the QC forum on its ear: Hannelore goes back to the smokes.
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Today's strip contains a lot of 'we'd be happier not knowing' information:
Firstly, there's the fact that Marten has no problem imagining Faye snapping and murdering Pintsize. Worse, given his calm and resigned reaction, it's a 'bound to happen eventually' scenario. Secondly, Marten actually has thought about how she would do it! I'm not sure that I'd like to live with that sort of drama hanging over me!
Poor Claire! Did Marten ever mention to you that this is a weird household?
Regarding rooms, Marten knocked on Faye's door, then entered his own room looking for Pintsize. The case is, of course, his oh-so-expensive 8-string.
P.S.:
Claire automatically hugging Marten's arm = Squee.
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Ahh, the Convenient Quarry Plot Device
And no doubt, that's where they hold the giant robot matches
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Ahh, the Convenient Quarry Plot Device
And no doubt, that's where they hold the giant robot matches
BUBBLES: "Halt! What's the password?"
CLAIRE: "'Zordon sent me'."
BUBBLES: "Pass, friend!"
MARTEN: "How did you know...?"
CLAIRE: "Clinton is my brother!"
MARTEN: "Ooohhh...!"
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The robots are in the main story, so we have to use humans for our random cutaway instead.
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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1476
First one I've found. Pretty sure there's an earlier one.
Nope, that's the one Jeph was likely referencing.
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Firstly, there's the fact that Marten has no problem imagining Faye snapping and murdering Pintsize. Worse, given his calm and resigned reaction, it's a 'bound to happen eventually' scenario. Secondly, Marten actually has thought about how she would do it! I'm not sure that I'd like to live with that sort of drama hanging over me!
If AIs have full civil rights, then deliberately destroying one would count as murder. Saying that, I imagine that would be quite hard. Perhaps they can restore from a remote backup even if their current chassis is obliterated. That would account for Marten's calmness at the prospect.
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Now that Faye has left Coffee of Doom, will we even get new strips with CoD ? I think theres a good chance Dora and her shop will slowly fade out of QC now.
If AIs have full civil rights, then deliberately destroying one would count as murder. Saying that, I imagine that would be quite hard. Perhaps they can restore from a remote backup even if their current chassis is obliterated. That would account for Marten's calmness at the prospect.
Destroying an AI means deleting it from a harddrive, not destroying a chassis.
And QC has joked about murder since early on. Murder of real people, not only AIs. This is just another example.
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Now that Faye has left Coffee of Doom, will we even get new strips with CoD ? I think theres a good chance Dora and her shop will slowly fade out of QC now.
Exactly. After buying a CoD t shirt, I'm coming to the conclusion it's now out of date.
My take is that QC started as a comic primarily about Marten and secondarily about his social circle. It seemed to then morph into a comic primarily about Coffee of Doom, its staff and customers. Without a single appearance since Faye picked up her stuff there, it's switched back to its origin quite jarringly.
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Without a single appearance since Faye picked up her stuff there, it's switched back to its origin quite jarringly.
We were there as recently as strips 2998 - 3000 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2998).
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P.S.:
Claire automatically hugging Marten's arm = Squee.
Y'know when I saw that in the strip I thought that, if I could, I'd put money down on someone mentioning it in WCDT :D
Yes it is cute =^.^=
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This is pretty much everything Faye was after. utilizing her best skills to obtain a goal.
What I had NOT considered was, what Marten would do about it. At the end of the day, Pintsize is his responsibility.
Look out for the strip where Marten is piloting Pintsize to a barely-earned victory. Predicting it now.
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I think CoD will return, along with Dora and the gang once the current story arc is completed.
i'm hoping that this will finally lead to Dora and Faye sitting down and having the necessary conversation.
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My train of thought at seeing today's title.
Huh. Corpse witch. Meant to be intimidating, I guess. Odd though. Corpsewitch. If it were in England, it might be pronounced 'Corpse Itch.' Ugh. That's even more intimidating.
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It seems that the interview went well. :-D
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Faye is now profoundly discombobulated that she knows Bubbles' name.
I like how CW is digging for a deeper answer. Fixing isn't just repairing.
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Funny how Bubbles is the big tough-looking one and CORPSE WITCH is the skinny petite one.
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The gods of Chaos would be pleased. Everything is improved with more spikes.
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Funny how Bubbles is the big tough-looking one and CORPSE WITCH is the skinny petite one.
Makes total sense, since Bubbles doesn't need an intimidating name - her large frame and strong plating are intimidating enough.
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Everything is better with spikes. AND DONGS!
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Just not spiky dongs.
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I wonder if she knows May
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I really hope Faye gets the job. I need to be able to say "Called it!". We're so, so close.
Please Jeph. Please make this happen.
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Corpse Witch is right. There's more than fixing damage. One must fix the problem that allowed the damage to happen in the first place. That's the true solution.
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So, spikes it is then.
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Or a Tesla Coil. That'd be neat.
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Anyone else get the feeling that this arc is nothing more than an opportunity for Jeph to draw fun robots?
Poor "ow" guy. :-(
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Anyone else get the feeling that this arc is nothing more than an opportunity for Jeph to draw fun robots?
Whatever it is to Jeph, it's our chance to see Jeph-designed robots, so I don't care. I like it muchly.
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Or a Tesla Coil. That'd be neat.
So you're saying this story arc should include arcs?
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Huh... so far, Faye is the only human we've seen... Pintsize mentioned "skater kids," but in this world...
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It's interesting that the battleAIs need to hire someone like Faye. Granted she has metalsmithing experience, but apparently they can't simply upload (or download, whichever) any skillset they need, the way the "unplugged" could do in The Matrix.
Or, maybe they just would rather not do the pounding and welding and spike-adding stuff themselves.
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They already have jobs. Deathbot jobs.
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It's interesting that the battleAIs need to hire someone like Faye. Granted she has metalsmithing experience, but apparently they can't simply upload (or download, whichever) any skillset they need, the way the "unplugged" could do in The Matrix.
Or, maybe they just would rather not do the pounding and welding and spike-adding stuff themselves.
There's more to it than just technique. It takes intuition and an artist's eye for the deeper need, not just the surface repair. They want vision, which comes out of insight, which you can't just upload.
Faye's stumbled into a social milieu where the humans are the interlopers, and have to prove their worth. The mirror image of AI civil rights in a human society is human rights in an AI society.
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Emotionally fulfilling, well paid, legal. These are the three things you can get out of a job.
You can only ever pick two.
Faye might have picked.
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Corpse Witch is right. There's more than fixing damage. One must fix the problem that allowed the damage to happen in the first place. That's the true solution.
Well, since the thing that allowed the damage to happen was probably 'being in an underground robot combat arena' solving that problem is kind of counter productive. The next best thing of course is encouraging your enemies not to attack you. So, spikes.
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Why can't you upload insight?
Station, May, Momo, and even Pintsize have all demonstrated insight, on several occasions. Pintsize has a penchant for creative mayhem.
There's no particular reason to assume QC AI are sub-human in any dimension. It's instructive, however, to not that they've demonstrated no instances of superhuman cognitive function.
That is to say, it's more likely that the reason they don't upload skills is because it doesn't save any time. Since time is not saved, it is economically viable to simply hire someone who does have that skill.
One [TECH] reason (not the reason, but just to demonstrate plausibility) would be that an AI neural net can't simply bolt on a different neural net and take off. Each network is self-organized and has a unique map of itself and its chassis. While it is relatively easy to remap the chassis map to something that is essentially the same shape (Momo's new body) becoming a fighter plane, or a dog, or a skilled welder, requires translating existing maps to the different hardware, and that requires training the neural net on how this works. That is, practice. In such a scheme, Momo would have had to practice being several times her previous size, and be comparatively clumsy, if not noticeably so.
Momo can't just upload "Micheal.Jacksons.Dance.Skill.xml" and dance like the king of pop because she's not in the king of pop's body. She'd have to take the schema, translate it to her frame, and then practice until her neural mapping matched that move set.
It is (entirely) possible that all of the robots at the robot thunderdome just want to focus on bettering their maps of the skills they have, and none wants to weld. Remember, this is dark economy stuff. Welders, AI or not, who will do that work may be in short supply. I understand welding is a good gig, if you have the skills and permits. Faye might be the only person with the skills who doesn't have the documentation, and isn't put off by the shady nature. While I can totally see May enjoying it (or at least not objecting on principle), I can also see Momo disapproving, rather sternly. Indeed, this may elevate the "day-in-life" Momo week from filler to set up.
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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1476
First one I've found. Pretty sure there's an earlier one.
Nope, that's the one Jeph was likely referencing.
Especially since the title of 3006 is "Stone River" -- that's a pretty direct reference.
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Interesting that the robot manager seems to have a very primitive-looking chassis. It's possible that this is a very old organisation, maybe older than AI civil rights. Given that it appears to be by AIs and for AIs, one can't help but speculate about how it originally came to be.
The casualty seems to have the same torso as Bubbles. Did CW get a job lot of old military assault chassis that she loans out to competitors? Or, maybe there is a 'World of Warcraft' element to this: As you win bouts, your earn credits that enable you to buy armored components. Fighting 'bots thus progressively replace their chassis, bit by bit, with tricked out military hardware. Bubbles just hasn't earned enough to buy a combat head yet.
It might even be a distinct AI subculture: 'Warbot Chic' or something similar!
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I'm wondering who the target audience is.
Publicising this might set back the cause of AI rights quite a bit - various propaganda groups would have a field day. Especially with the spikes.
Before "Mad Max", there was... "The Cars That Ate Paris"
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DYDM878RL.jpg)
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I've been looking at Corpse Witch's face and I agree with some guys on the Subreddit that it looks a little odd. I think the problem is that Jeph drew it as looking like a rigid metal or plastic plate but the features are too mobile. I wonder if she has a flexible and stretchy latex sheath over a more skeletal endoskeleton, the movements of which controls the appearance of her features, much like contemporary RL animatronics.
It's interesting that the battleAIs need to hire someone like Faye. Granted she has metalsmithing experience, but apparently they can't simply upload (or download, whichever) any skillset they need, the way the "unplugged" could do in The Matrix.
Or, maybe they just would rather not do the pounding and welding and spike-adding stuff themselves.
Or they enjoy the irony of the made (themselves) having makers (humans) as their servants (if well paid and extremely valued servants). I wonder if Faye will enjoy being ordered around by uppity fighting bots who want the 'Squishy' to grab them a can of 40-weight, set up the charger rack before she has a bathroom break or clean up that hydraulic fluid spill. Faye as a victim of racism in the workplace?
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I suppose "squishy" is more polite than "meatbag".
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"The Cars That Ate Paris"
Taxis?
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Or a Tesla Coil. That'd be neat.
So you're saying this story arc should include arcs?
You will fit in quite nicely here.
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Today's comic made me wonder how AIs get their names. Do they pick them themselves? As they don't really have a helpless baby intellectual stage the way humans do it seems plausible.
Basically I'm wondering if Bubbles and Corpse Witch were named before or after becoming a robot death fighter and a robot death fighter manager. Bubbles seems the sort of name you'd pick when you are young and silly with your life before you and don't realise it will include being a fighter in an underground robot fighting ring, while Corpse Witch is utterly perfect for the manager of an underground robot fighting ring.
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'Bubbles' seems like the sort of name a silly person would choose for a pet, which makes me wonder what her first chassis was like. Quite possibly Bubbles was a companion-AnthroPC and had a Chibi-bot chassis like Momo's original.
I'm thinking that 'Corpse Witch' is what the other robots call her. Her real name and designation is... none of your business. I wouldn't be surprised if she powers down her IFF transponder and send all her WiFi signals through several proxies to make it harder to ascertain her real identity. Her nom de crime is probably a reference (partly admiring and partly horrified) to her ability to make a profit from violence and pain. I could see CW being a bit of a marginal figure amongst the fighting AIs and their associates, feared, admired and maybe even hated to a certain degree, for her business acumen and her iron grip on her 'business'.
In other words, the same sort of personality that a human who managed an illegal cage-fighting ring would need.
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I love the "ow" in that frame.
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I think the real question would be would she make them permanent or not. Removable would be better to keep things hidden, but would make them weaker in a fight. There's also the question of where would the spikes be and how much damage would they be expected to make.
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One [TECH] reason (not the reason, but just to demonstrate plausibility) would be that an AI neural net can't simply bolt on a different neural net and take off. Each network is self-organized and has a unique map of itself and its chassis. While it is relatively easy to remap the chassis map to something that is essentially the same shape (Momo's new body) becoming a fighter plane, or a dog, or a skilled welder, requires translating existing maps to the different hardware, and that requires training the neural net on how this works. That is, practice. In such a scheme, Momo would have had to practice being several times her previous size, and be comparatively clumsy, if not noticeably so.
Is it possible that there's even several levels of neural net, and May's is actually developed as a fighter jet neural net, with adaptations so she can function in a humanoid chassis, but it's not her "native" chassis (she has to run her fighter jet-native neural net in an emulator that she's constructed around herself, possibly)?
(There's precedence for this in humans, re: body maps not matching up with the body that some people are installed in - body integrity identity disorder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder) comes to mind, among other disorders...)
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If I am remembering correctly, May didn't have a name when she first appeared in Dale's life. She had him pick one for her, and decided to keep it. But we know that May had been in existence for a while. Long enough to have access to large amounts of money and decide to steal it to become a jet plane. And we know from a previous conversation with Momo that AIs, at least Anthro ones, don't 'think faster' than humans do. So May had to have been around for a while, long enough that you would think she had a name.
One theory could be that AIs take names to better interact with humans. So those who don't regularly interact may not use names in a traditional human sense. They might just have some identification code. Possibly an explanation why Momo immediately knew May was a prisoner in AI jail? She saw the ID code and recognized the appended part that marked May as a prisoner. All that said, AIs may take names to fit in with their partners, or by their own wishes.
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My headcanon is that May had a name before she went to robojail... and then decided to leave it behind, because it was too associated with the mistakes of her prior life and she wanted a new beginning.
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I like how this arc is giving Jeph the chance to stretch his character design muscles. The colour scheme of Corpse Witch makes me happy.
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I'm thinking that 'Corpse Witch' is what the other robots call her. Her real name and designation is... none of your business. I wouldn't be surprised if she powers down her IFF transponder and send all her WiFi signals through several proxies to make it harder to ascertain her real identity.
(http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2014/3/10/Good_Luck_I_m_Behind_7_Proxies.jpg)
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Makes total sense, since Bubbles doesn't need an intimidating name - her large frame and strong plating are intimidating enough.
"Do people tease you about your name often ?"
"No. Only once."
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Life ain't easy for a
boy named Sue killbot named Bubbles.
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I'm wondering who the target audience is.
Publicising this might set back the cause of AI rights quite a bit - various propaganda groups would have a field day. Especially with the spikes.
Before "Mad Max", there was... "The Cars That Ate Paris"
That was great! It was on Channel 4 in the old days i.e. the first 6 months when it was different from every other channel. God I feel old.
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I think that this is one of those 'Illegal' sports that the Govt turns a blind eye to unless it becomes too much of a nuisance or irritation to the general public and more law abiding AI's
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Hmm, Faye concerned by the well-being of the bots was not something I expected.
For some reason, I read CW's lines at the end as if she was some calm mob capo or something like that.
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Don't know about Faye's first goal, but her second goal could be accomplished with some help from May... :evil:
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I doubt May would really want to be a helicopter. They're pretty different to Fighter Jets. Maybe a VTOL?
Also, I just noticed that dedbot is called Higgs. I wonder if in the QCVerse he'll help find the Higgs Boson. Would be nice.
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Of course, the real money isn't made by the bots who do the actual fighting. It's made by gambling on the fights. That's probably the illegal part of the whole deal.
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I envision fan artists hard at work as we speak, for new material arises: Faye with three tits and a helicopter. It will be glorious.
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...I wasn't expecting Corpse Witch to have an ethical objection to her business. It's not a very strong one, but still, it's like hearing "in a perfect world, there'd be no boxing" from Mickey.
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Lots of people have "in a perfect world" ethical views of their business. They don't necessarily object to their business on that ground. They just acknowledge that their business would not exist if not for the vice.
For ex, I'm sure you could get Lockheed Martin execs to say that there'd be no need for their weapon systems in a perfect world. I bet very few lose any sleep over the people those weapons kill.
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WHYYYYYY would anyone want 3 tits? In this society, you'd be labelled a freak for it.
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So, if her pay is under the table, would it still be beneficial for Faye to claim it on her income tax? The government might get suspicious if she has a long period of no work, no EI claims, and so forth. Maybe she could start her own "company" and claim it as "freelance metalwork for a private individual" or something.
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ahahahahaha
as if the government gives a **** about the long-term unemployed.
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I doubt May would really want to be a helicopter. They're pretty different to Fighter Jets. Maybe a VTOL?
Also, I just noticed that dedbot is called Higgs. I wonder if in the QCVerse he'll help find the Higgs Boson. Would be nice.
Or maybe Boson is his tag team partner :-P
So, if her pay is under the table, would it still be beneficial for Faye to claim it on her income tax? The government might get suspicious if she has a long period of no work, no EI claims, and so forth. Maybe she could start her own "company" and claim it as "freelance metalwork for a private individual" or something.
Unless they pay her by check and leave a papertrail of some sort, then she'd be perfectly fine. Cash isn't traceable, and as St.Clair pointed out, the gov probably only cares if you're blatantly working the system.
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I doubt May would really want to be a helicopter. They're pretty different to Fighter Jets. Maybe a VTOL?
Also, I just noticed that dedbot is called Higgs. I wonder if in the QCVerse he'll help find the Higgs Boson. Would be nice.
Or maybe Boson is his tag team partner :-P
But who would Higgs-Boson fight?
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I doubt May would really want to be a helicopter. They're pretty different to Fighter Jets. Maybe a VTOL?
Also, I just noticed that dedbot is called Higgs. I wonder if in the QCVerse he'll help find the Higgs Boson. Would be nice.
Or maybe Boson is his tag team partner :-P
So, if her pay is under the table, would it still be beneficial for Faye to claim it on her income tax? The government might get suspicious if she has a long period of no work, no EI claims, and so forth. Maybe she could start her own "company" and claim it as "freelance metalwork for a private individual" or something.
Unless they pay her by check and leave a papertrail of some sort, then she'd be perfectly fine. Cash isn't traceable, and as St.Clair pointed out, the gov probably only cares if you're blatantly working the system.
I suppose if you aren't costing them anything. And it would make tax filing easier if there is just a bunch of zeroes.
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So, if her pay is under the table, would it still be beneficial for Faye to claim it on her income tax? The government might get suspicious if she has a long period of no work, no EI claims, and so forth. Maybe she could start her own "company" and claim it as "freelance metalwork for a private individual" or something.
As Scarface learned the hard way, don't fuck with the IRS, especially not where your primary income's concerned. Just put it under "other income" and hope to stay under their radar. As a matter of policy, they don't start digging unless they think they're not getting all of it, and even then they can't turn over what they find unless you're already being investigated.
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So, if her pay is under the table, would it still be beneficial for Faye to claim it on her income tax? The government might get suspicious if she has a long period of no work, no EI claims, and so forth. Maybe she could start her own "company" and claim it as "freelance metalwork for a private individual" or something.
The private individual better file a 1099 if the amount of compensation is over 1K. Both contractor and the one that hires her can get in major IRS trouble otherwise.
Maybe Faye can buy a car wash to launder the profits.
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Unless they pay her by check and leave a papertrail of some sort, then she'd be perfectly fine. Cash isn't traceable, and as St.Clair pointed out, the gov probably only cares if you're blatantly working the system.
Lots of ways you can get in very bad trouble for large cash transactions. If you attempt to deposit large quantities of cash in a bank, they have to report it to the IRS, who will want to know where you got it. If you try to split your cash into smaller amounts to keep them from asking, this is called "structuring," and people go to jail for it. For real.
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Why does Faye's perfect world include a third tit? Is this tit in an unexpected place?
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Well, it's certainly not wherever the extra dongs go...
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I was unaware Faye wanted to be the chick from Total Recall.
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So, if her pay is under the table, would it still be beneficial for Faye to claim it on her income tax? The government might get suspicious if she has a long period of no work, no EI claims, and so forth. Maybe she could start her own "company" and claim it as "freelance metalwork for a private individual" or something.
The private individual better file a 1099 if the amount of compensation is over 1K. Both contractor and the one that hires her can get in major IRS trouble otherwise.
Maybe Faye can buy a car wash to launder the profits.
Huh. I just assumed it was much like selling stuff - Amazon doesn't even give me tax documents for, I think it's anything under $20k total earnings per year either/or 200 transactions in a year.
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Why does Faye's perfect world include a third tit? Is this tit in an unexpected place?
I can think of a reason but it seems out of character for Faye, and for the comic. And having been reprimanded for a perfectly harmless joke about Marigold, I'm not going to put it here.
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Harmlessness is in the eye of the beholder. Or, in this case, the guy who pays for the site. As I once said with regard to another commenter on the subject, "Jeph can pee in his own sink, if he wants. He can draw dongs on the walls of his house, if he so chooses. You can't." You're a guest and the guest rules are "no peeing in the sinks or drawing dongs on the walls."
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It's kind of depressing seeing AIs ape the worst of human behavior, including self-deceit. Corpse Witch is likely telling the truth about their being no overt coercion. However, she also admits that her fighters may not be able to get work elsewhere; so there is a subtle coercion there -'Fight or be destitute'. Exploitation of the desperate is an old, old tactic for the unethical business-being. It is the basis for sweatshops and exploitation worldwide.
Yeah, I don't like CW in the slightest.
It's too early to wonder where this may go in the long run. However, if Bubbles is an ex-companion AnthroPC, I can see her and Faye ending up as room-mates, although the path to that point would be complex.
ahahahahaha
as if the government gives a **** about the long-term unemployed.
They care if you suddenly stop paying tax; that's practically the only thing that they care about. If Faye is officially unemployed and yet isn't receiving state support, some bureaucrat may get suspicious enough to investigate!
Why does Faye's perfect world include a third tit? Is this tit in an unexpected place?
Yeah, I think that you'll find that Faye was using humorous exaggeration for emphasis.
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I can't help but think that Corpse Witch kind of evaded a question: does anyone get hurt (i.e. suffer pain)?
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Hmm.
I dont get what the point of a third boob would be. :?
And Faye cant really complain about the boobs god/nature/the flying spaghetti monster/the force/whatever else you wanna believe in has given her.
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The point of a third boob is that there's three of them now. More boobs = yay yay happy fun times.
Duh.
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May isn't involved in this operation already?
Secondly, Faye wants to be Eccentrica Gallumbits?
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May isn't involved in this operation already?
Well, she really shouldn't be involved in anything illegal right now...
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CW's explanation paints a pretty bleak picture: obsolete fighter/security/military robots don't have the money to change chassis into something more useful, like a companion, and no legal way of making that money.
Perhaps there are charities meant to help them with that? Perhaps Clinton could get involved. Would be a good way for character development for him.
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Most screwball storyline we've had in a while. I can dig it.
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CW's explanation paints a pretty bleak picture: obsolete fighter/security/military robots don't have the money to change chassis into something more useful, like a companion, and no legal way of making that money.
She tries to soft-soap it as a lifestyle choice but I'm not sure that I buy that.
Perhaps there are charities meant to help them with that? Perhaps Clinton could get involved. Would be a good way for character development for him.
Unlikely. Although the QC-verse seems to be fairly enlightened in terms of civil rights, remember how long it's been and still similar laws regarding race and gender in the real world are not really reflected in society as a whole. I'm pretty sure that there is a significant subsection of the population that still regard AIs as vacuum cleaners with ideas above their station. Any charity to help them would be facing an enormous uphill struggle just not to be a target of reactionary politicians and grass-roots hate campaigns.
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Hmm.
I dont get what the point of a third boob would be. :?
The nipple.
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As much as I like this arc, today's strip felt like Jeph doesn't respect his readership's maturity. He uses Faye's question to remove objections that some readers may have, just so that there is less controversy around what Faye is doing - boring! Some of you have the same concerns, because you're second-guessing the answer, but Faye doesn't seem to be doing that. (Maybe tomorrow.) That's my point: Faye's moral concerns about were established before, so it isn't that she *asked* which I find unrealistic, but rather the direct and open answer the manager gave her. I would not expect underground robot fighting to be this "clean", and the manager of a fighting ring to give an answer that isn't even slightly evasive.
(Also, hi everyone!)
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I would not expect underground robot fighting to be this "clean", and the manager of a fighting ring to give an answer that isn't even slightly evasive.
How do you know Corpse Witch was telling the truth?
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In a perfect world, nobody would be interested in fighting for sport.
I take issue with that. This is fighting for sport in which there is no chance of actual lasting damage (possibly except for financial if your expansive chassis gets trashed). In fact, isn't this exactly what violent video games and real-world Robot Wars actually are in effect? If it was possible to upload a human to a hard drive or (more likely) control a non-AI chassis remotely with some kind of VR rig, people would be queuing up to do it. There's bound to be some AIs who would be similarity into it.
Saying that, she called it fighting for sport, a misnomer I think. For the AIs doing it it's actually fighting as a job and that's a big difference. Fighting as a job when you would rather not, but have few or no other options must be all kinds of a shitty situation to be in.
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Let us propose a perfect world is one in which no one has the remotest interest in harming anyone.
Let use further propose that such a world enables the population to indulge in arbitrary activity without hurting anyone. Would that activity be fighting?
I would like to fly a fighter jet. I would like to engage in air to air combat. I don't actually want to kill anyone, or destroy any of those wonderful machines. Video games allow me access to that experience, but they aren't really ACM. They are games.
It's a particularly semantic question of whether Corpse Witch means that in a perfect world, everyone would be a perfect pacifist, or whether everyone would only engage in activities that, while similar to fighting, on the surface, were not fighting.
I think of Olympic fencing. While one could get hurt doing it, it's well protected and it is particularly structured to avoid injury. Compare that to actual fencing, which is designed to kill. I really wouldn't call the sport a "fight." It's a contest.
Could we design a form of boxing with all of the drama but none of the brain damage? Maybe. In a perfect world, people would choose that over actually boxing. At least, in Corpse Witch's opinion.
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Hmm.
I dont get what the point of a third boob would be. :?
Came here to post this. Can't figure out any real advantage to a third boob, for the owner. Can't even figure out any advantage for those she interacts with since both gentlemen and ladies both only have two hands.
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As much as I like this arc, today's strip felt like Jeph doesn't respect his readership's maturity. He uses Faye's question to remove objections that some readers may have, just so that there is less controversy around what Faye is doing - boring! Some of you have the same concerns, because you're second-guessing the answer, but Faye doesn't seem to be doing that. (Maybe tomorrow.) That's my point: Faye's moral concerns about were established before, so it isn't that she *asked* which I find unrealistic, but rather the direct and open answer the manager gave her. I would not expect underground robot fighting to be this "clean", and the manager of a fighting ring to give an answer that isn't even slightly evasive.
(Also, hi everyone!)
I'm not everyone, but I'll tell her you said, "hi."
I suspect Jeph is also shutting down the conflict issue because it's not part of the story he wants to tell, as well, but I also believe it is too early to be leveling charges.
Let use, for a moment, suppose he's not. You've agreed Faye would ask.
Consider that, while Pintsize rarely lies, he has (he kept Marten in the dark about root parties being a thing, a lie of omission, at least). Why, went seeing an opportunity to utilize Faye's skills, would Corpse Witch spoil it with the truth?
QC is largely not a deep darkness story, so I suspect it is simply more in keeping with the style to dispense with the deep darkness in order to focus on the fart jokes. But simply because a character makes a statement, it does not follow that the character is being truthful.
I really hope that's not just my POV, or I'm going to have to rethink every story I've ever written.
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I'm generally in agreement with ReindeerFlotilla on this matter. Jeph, typically (at least in QC) doesn't do 'dark'. The 'fights' are going to be like something out of a children's comic book with robots whose heads pop off on springs if you hit the button hit in the chest or something similar. As I've proposed before, I'm sure that many of the fighters will be professionals who are proud of their art and somewhat annoyed at the thought of snivelling do-gooders who are trying to ban it.
Furthermore, Jeph very rarely writes long-duration arcs, preferring episodic 'peeks' into relationships so you can see how they are developing; the reader is encouraged to fill in the blanks. This in itself may make it an interesting little new arc. If Faye does unintentionally become the focus around which Ultimate Robot Fighting League comes out of the shadows, or at least for some of the more desperate robots to escape exploitation by finding better jobs, I wouldn't expect it to be a single continuous arc. We'd just get little 10-20 strip episodes that is little more than Faye talking to someone for advice and conversations between Momo and Bubbles about civil rights or something.
FWIW, I still like the idea of Bubbles ending up as Faye's room-mate. Maybe Faye helps Bubbles to win the championship and Bubbles buys out her contract with her prize purse. She then 'goes legit' (a long-held dream of hers) by getting a job in security or even personal protection. Between them, she and Faye are able to afford their own apartment. Naturally, an ex-AnthroPC Companion turned into a killing machine turns out to be just the sort of friend Faye needs to keep her on the wagon.
That would be many hundred strips in the future, of course.
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Can't even figure out any advantage for those she interacts with since both gentlemen and ladies both only have two hands.
Depends how many people she is "interacting" with...
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WHYYYYYY would anyone want 3 tits? In this society, you'd be labelled a freak for it.
On the back for ballroom dancing?
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Came here to post this. Can't figure out any real advantage to a third boob, for the owner. Can't even figure out any advantage for those she interacts with since both gentlemen and ladies both only have two hands.
The typical human has two hands and one mouth.
And that's as far as I'm going with that line of discussion.
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Hmm.
I dont get what the point of a third boob would be. :?
Came here to post this. Can't figure out any real advantage to a third boob, for the owner. Can't even figure out any advantage for those she interacts with since both gentlemen and ladies both only have two hands.
Faye is going to have triplets and hasn't told anyone yet. :roll:
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The point of a third boob is that there's three of them now. More boobs = yay yay happy fun times.
Duh.
IMHO, in a perfect world, women have as many boobs as men have hands.
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I have 12 hands.
Their original owners are still looking for me.
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I have 12 hands.
Their original owners are still looking for me.
How disarming.
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It's a particularly semantic question of whether Corpse Witch means that in a perfect world, everyone would be a perfect pacifist, or whether everyone would only engage in activities that, while similar to fighting, on the surface, were not fighting.
I have a different question. If everything she said was true, then how isn't this such an activity, and why is it illegal?
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I like Higgs.
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I have 12 hands.
Their original owners are still looking for me.
How disarming.
What an 'armless joke.
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I have a different question. If everything she said was true, then how isn't this such an activity, and why is it illegal?
Somebody mentioned the possibility of betting. I can't think of any other reason, given what we know about it so far.
Or it could be that holding fights for the benefits of a large bunch of spectators would involve licensing the venue, getting event insurance and paying tax on the income. Details that Corpse Witch doesn't bother with.
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If this storyline doesn't end with Marten somehow getting kicked in the junk by Vespabot, I will be highly disappointed.
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I have a different question. If everything she said was true, then how isn't this such an activity, and why is it illegal?
Could be a quirk of how the laws were constructed - for instance, the laws were likely written to protect humans, and AI civil rights appears to be quite recent. So, it could simply be that the laws didn't consider an AI that could fight without injury.
For an instance of that happening in the real world, look at the issues surrounding gay divorce, and how it's utterly broken in some jurisdictions - even when they are fully behind gay marriage.
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I have a suspicion this is the robot equivalent of bumfights: professional boxing isn't illegal, but under-the-table on-the-sly boxing is.
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I have a suspicion this is the robot equivalent of bumfights: professional boxing isn't illegal, but under-the-table on-the-sly boxing is.
Yeah. Sometimes illegal means "criminal." Other times illegal means "it's okay when we can tax it."
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It's a particularly semantic question of whether Corpse Witch means that in a perfect world, everyone would be a perfect pacifist, or whether everyone would only engage in activities that, while similar to fighting, on the surface, were not fighting.
I have a different question. If everything she said was true, then how isn't this such an activity, and why is it illegal?
I have the same issue with this storyline. It is amusing enough, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny all that well based on what we know so far. I've been trying to think of some logical way that it could be both so inoffensive and illegal, but I can't think of an answer that convinces me. Of course, the writer will have his way and I'll be happy to see what he comes up with.
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So, it could simply be that the laws didn't consider an AI that could fight without injury.
Right, but in that case why does the law define the chassis as being the AI (so this is like fighting) rather than being property of the AI (so this is like a monster truck rally)? It's not at all obvious why this should be the case (and if it is it raises questions about Momo's legal status).
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Laws are made by politicians. Politicians often aren't the most knowledgeable people about the subjects they legislate, and at times make laws based upon prejudice rather than reasoned thought. Thus we often wind up with laws that are contradictory or downright nonsensical.
Also, in the QCverse AI civil rights are a new thing, and the law is probably not changing rapidly enough to keep up with reality.
Still, as I said before, the thing that's most likely to be illegal is the financial aspect of the whole thing. Never mind the gambling - the IRS frowns on people being paid under the table. Like, really seriously frowns. With their frowniest frowns.
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I wonder if the AI civil rights laws were hurriedly drafted in the aftermath of the AIs passing every known independent sapience test and were drafted without reference to the AIs themselves or even to the scientists and engineers who created them. Congress wanted legal protections in place immediately to stem destructive outbursts from xenophobic groups and, generally, they've worked well. However, issues with the definition of what classes an 'AI' in legal terms means that some laws fail to recognise just how difficult it is to kill them and the mind/body separation inherent in their nature.
Like all legislation, amending them to properly reflect reality is now bogged down in innumerable committees with poisonous whispers from pressure groups and lobbyists further muddying the waters.
It might be interesting if other parts of this necessarily hurried legislation may also be empowering criminal activity and criminalising otherwise-harmless activity.
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That's a good point about the laws likely being in flux. The world works that way.
Another possibility is that it's one of those laws passed for no better reason than that the activity squicks people.
One of the richest people in the QC world is Station. He could run a charity for destitute AIs out of his own, uh, pocket even if nobody else was willing to help.
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Laws are made by politicians. Politicians often aren't the most knowledgeable people about the subjects they legislate, and at times make laws based upon prejudice rather than reasoned thought. Thus we often wind up with laws that are contradictory or downright nonsensical.
I suppose it's like Adultery and fornication being still illegal in South Carolina - http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t16c015.php
Given how easy it was for Faye to find the place, the police could easily do so if they wanted to. Either they don't care or we'll be seeing Faye getting caught up in a bust, and Marten will be bailing her out of jail.
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Saying that, she called it fighting for sport, a misnomer I think. For the AIs doing it it's actually fighting as a job and that's a big difference. Fighting as a job when you would rather not, but have few or no other options must be all kinds of a shitty situation to be in.
There are professional sports, so I don't see the difference. Sport, job, whatever... fighting when you'd rather not sounds shitty.
GIven that it's illegal, there must presumably be some unsavory aspect to it... whether we get to see it remains to be seen.
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I was unaware Faye wanted to be the chick from Total Recall.
I was thinking more along the lines of Eccentrica Galumbits
And I wonder if those Harddrives are MilSpec
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You mean overpriced and painted blue?
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Don't know about his drive, but Higgs's bosom isn't in that great a shape.
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I wonder if it was a collision with Large Hadron
:-D
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Not to be confused with Large Hardon, who competes in the other tournament.
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And I wonder if those Harddrives are MilSpec
I doubt that the AIs still use spinning metal platters. A head crash would be a nasty sudden death for an AI.
Mil-spec or Space radiation hardened SSD's (or even the next gen past them) would seem far more likely and more robust given the tech differences between the QC branch of the multi-verse and this one.
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Just what Faye needs after Sven and Angus - another boob hanging around her.
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In the meantime, comic. Clearly Pintsize is more capable for mayhem than Bubbles, even if Bubbles is armored and 8ft tall.
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Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies...
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No, they're just gonna pork.
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Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies...
We had enough of military issue Pintsize back in the day. We as in the QCVerse and surroundings.
Oh god it'd be so wrong please don't Jeff. pls.
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Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies...
No, they're just gonna pork.
No, they're going to trade bodies and THEN pork. :evil:
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Dang, just realized I hadn't posted yet this week.
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It just dawned on me that Faye wore a t-shirt and jeans to a job interview.
I should focus more on how she'll explain under the table income to the IRS.
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If this storyline doesn't end with Marten somehow getting kicked in the junk by Vespabot, I will be highly disappointed.
Hmm. So what has Vespabot been up to lately? Owner in jail, no visible means of support...
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Nah, she's not in jail, she's working in a research lab (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=750).
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Still, as I said before, the thing that's most likely to be illegal is the financial aspect of the whole thing. Never mind the gambling - the IRS frowns on people being paid under the table. Like, really seriously frowns. With their frowniest frowns.
See, I interpreted cause and effect the other way around: she's being paid under the table because it's illegal.
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Because it's financially shady.
We don't comply with the tax code, which is illegal, so we pay under the table, which is also illegal.
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I should focus more on how she'll explain under the table income to the IRS.
Nice thing about the Fifth amendment, as long as she files the income, she doesn't have to explain how she got it. IRS don't care were the money comes from, only that they get the money.
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Because it's financially shady.
We don't comply with the tax code, which is illegal, so we pay under the table, which is also illegal.
Enter the Car Wash (http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Money_laundering).
In the real world, Faye could get away with under the table payments for a while, but eventually the IRS would get her. Jeph may or may not want to acknowledge this in his fictional world.
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I should focus more on how she'll explain under the table income to the IRS.
Nice thing about the Fifth amendment, as long as she files the income, she doesn't have to explain how she got it. IRS don't care were the money comes from, only that they get the money.
Hint: don't try this at home, kiddies. The IRS will take your tax payment and then turn your name in to the relevant authorities. In Faye's case, it would be trivial to follow her to her place of work and bust the whole operation.
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So, Pintsize is pouring out his existential angst to the nice lady killbot? This is either a pick-up line or he's genuine. Either way, he may have a date!
I'm wondering what size-based misjudgments Bubbles faces. Maybe she really does like feminine pursuits but finds that people expect her to be some kind of super-physical bruiser due to her size? Maybe she'd enjoy helping Faye out with more aesthetic stuff!
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Hint: don't try this at home, kiddies. The IRS will take your tax payment and then turn your name in to the relevant authorities. In Faye's case, it would be trivial to follow her to her place of work and bust the whole operation.
They can't, mostly. Once she's been charged, they can use her tax returns against her, but the IRS can't report her. Timothy Leary, dearie. (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4639.pdf) (I'm pretty confident on this... no further comment.)
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Because it's financially shady.
We don't comply with the tax code, which is illegal, so we pay under the table, which is also illegal.
But why don't they comply with the tax code? You're not actually addressing my argument.
If their core activity isn't in some way illegal, there's no reason for them to be underground (which limits revenue, erasing any gain from avoiding taxes).
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Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies...
PLEASE do not let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do not LET them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do not let THEM get the idea of trading bodies, Please do not let them GET the idea of trading bodies, Please do not let them get the idea of trading BODIES.
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This is not actually that hard. You set up a shell corporation in Nevada or New Jersey, which costs $200 in either place, and then your shell corporation opens a bank account and that's where your money goes. You never touch it. You want a 70-inch plasma TV? That's actually the property of the "Radium Coyote 70-inch Plasma TV Holding Company." You're just USING it.
Al Capone's biggest failing, aside from contracting syphilis, was not hiring a decent accountant.
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QC..making me interested in the fictional expression of another country's tax code. World building!
I think Bubbles might be my new favourite character. I hope she and Pintsize become friends.
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The more I see of Bubbles, the more I like her.
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Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do NOT let them get the idea of trading bodies...
PLEASE do not let them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do not LET them get the idea of trading bodies, Please do not let THEM get the idea of trading bodies, Please do not let them GET the idea of trading bodies, Please do not let them get the idea of trading BODIES.
I came here to post that they would switch bodies, and a thousand years of darkness and Pintsize's reign of terror would descend upon the Earth.
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Because it's financially shady.
We don't comply with the tax code, which is illegal, so we pay under the table, which is also illegal.
But why don't they comply with the tax code? You're not actually addressing my argument.
If their core activity isn't in some way illegal, there's no reason for them to be underground (which limits revenue, erasing any gain from avoiding taxes).
Cake is legal. Selling cake, under certain amounts of cake sold, is legal. Over those amounts, selling cake is taxable (technically, it always taxable, but you can get away with not reporting it, and no one is going to bust you for selling the odd cake).
Cigarettes are legal. Under no circumstance that I am aware of is it legal to sell cigarettes without collecting the requisite taxes.
We do not know what legal status robot fights actually have. But it is possible to conjecture that there are tax rules, possibly related to gambling, that make it legal only when it occurs under oversight such that taxes and fees can be collected.
This is exactly analogous to underground sport fighting. It could a perfectly legal form of sport, so long as it occurs in designated areas, under designated oversight with designated taxes and fees.
Underground sports, for a number of reasons, doesn't want to pay those fees.
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[We do not know what legal status robot fights actually have. But it is possible to conjecture that there are tax rules, possibly related to gambling, that make it legal only when it occurs under oversight such that taxes and fees can be collected.
That's true. However the fact that it's happening in an unmarked venue suggests that robot fights themselves are illegal, in the same way that cockfighting is illegal.
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[We do not know what legal status robot fights actually have. But it is possible to conjecture that there are tax rules, possibly related to gambling, that make it legal only when it occurs under oversight such that taxes and fees can be collected.
That's true. However the fact that it's happening in an unmarked venue suggests that robot fights themselves are illegal, in the same way that cockfighting is illegal.
Not really. An illegal operation that operates out of marked venue invites scrutiny. Doesn't really matter why it's illegal. Something that it tacitly approved of by the authorities typically keeps that approval by keeping a low profile.
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Plus a few people have mentioned it as illegal.
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Now we know what Bubbles does as a side job
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I must be missing something.
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Actually a pintsize-bubbles romance would definitely be an interesting change. As has been previously noted, Pintsize, while appearing to be a self-interested jerk, has actually IMPROVED the lives of everyone around him. I think his ultimate goal may be to save everyone he knows.
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However the fact that it's happening in an unmarked venue suggests that robot fights themselves are illegal, in the same way that cockfighting is illegal.
Cockfighting is perfectly legal in several jurisdictions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight#Legal_status).
On the face of it, it is a bit puzzling why robot-fights would be illegal in the first place. Participation is voluntary, the brains of the participants are protected, and body damage could be addressed through repair or replacement of parts. Possibly laws relating to mutually-agreed fighting have not caught up with the existence of self-aware, sentient robots, and assume that the participants are more fragile, or possibly it is not the fights that are regarded as undesirable so much as the gambling that is probably part of the scene. Cockfighting was banned for a time in Cuba because of hostility to gambling and private enterprise, but later restored on a state-run basis.
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*Ahem* Faye gets a support group! Pintsize gets a support group! You get a support group! Everyone gets a support group!
...now THAT'S out of my system....
I imagine it's illegal because it's not going through the proper channels and safety precautions. For example, there are legal fighting rings for humans beings. We still have illegal ones were people can stand to make more money, particularly if they have issues finding work elsewhere.
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Modern Bare Knuckle Boxing
Professional Bouts are now held, created and managed by the World Bareknuckle Boxing Association which itself is not recognized as a sports organization anywhere outside of the United States. It is also a fact that any tournaments are illegal and/or unregulated in most countries today. However in the British Isles where the sports are still very popular there are efforts for the sport to be brought out of the underground and into the mainstream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-knuckle_boxing
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Pintsize on to the regular schedule of shenanigans.
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When Marten learns that Pintsize was telling the truth about helping Faye get a job, he's going to wonder if Pintsize might have been telling the truth about the other things too. :evil:
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When Marten learns that Pintsize was telling the truth about helping Faye get a job, he's going to wonder if Pintsize might have been telling the truth about the other things too. :evil:
Jeph says he was.
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Jeph could've been joking, though.
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That grin in the last panel...Pintsize was totally aiming for that reaction so he can later say in a wounded fashion: "But I told you the truth? Why didn't you believe me? *snicker*. Pranks are a major part of what makes Pintsize tick, it's just a little hard to see because the majority of them are...well, lets just say inappropriate.
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Y'know, I'm kinda disappointed that we, being ugly bags of mostly water, are trying so hard to fit this into our own experience. My cherished hope is that Jeph will use a unique AI perspective to turn those expectations inside out.
And you didn't see that coming, did you, Mr. Jones?
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Google is my friend.
It turns out that 'hot-room yoga' is a Real Thing. Makes you sweat a lot. Why robots would want to do that, I don't know...
And ketamine can be safely used as an anesthetic on birds. Why Pintsize would want to roofie ducks... I don't wanna go there.
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D'awww at snuggleclaire popping her head in panel 1.
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You know, the more hints I see of Pintsize having hidden depths (like taking his companion role seriously and being able to manipulate Marten like in this strip) the more creeped out I become
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It's ALL true.
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So, now we know why Pintsize is always saying such outrageous things: for whatever reason, he doesn't want Marten to believe what he really does! You're left wondering just what adventures Pintsize has been on about which he's carefully salted the Earth to ensure that Marten won't believe it!
Meanwhile, we do know what Marten and Claire do on shared days off: Snuggle like the cute lovers that they are!
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I'm proud of myself. As I woke this morning, I thought that we were going to have this arc wrapped up today.
Now, I wonder if Faye will tell Marten about her new job or will she Pinkie Swear with Corpse Witch to keep the secret?
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Jeph could've been joking, though.
What? No taking a possibly offhand remark at full face value and picking it apart by molecule by molecule, looking for ways to project our own lives into it, to take offense to it? Am I in the right forum?
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Only if it's in the comic itself.
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Am I in the right forum?
How did you gain entry to the 5th dimension? It is supposed to only be accessible to the mxyzptlk.
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Am I in the right forum?
How did you gain entry to the 5th dimension? It is supposed to only be accessible to the mxyzptlk.
Who is Kebert Xela?
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That's Mr. Mxyzptlk to you, pal.
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Joe Btfsplk let me in.
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snuggleclaire
I approve of this term :D
You know, the more hints I see of Pintsize having hidden depths
They're full of porn.
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Pintsize has been nothing but helpful... in fact you could reasonably say he has saved people's lives, and say it with a straight face. Just... he's done it in the most awkward way you COULD. I think that may be the personal goal he has set for himself.
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Pintsize is the boner fairy. He'll help you even more that you could possibly imagine, but approach it in a way only he is comfortable.
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How did you gain entry to the 5th dimension?
The stars have to be in the right alignment. Like CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN.
Or just buy an album.
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Naaah, it's just a jump to the left