I laughed hard that Angus mysteriously lost his glasses in the last panel. :-DYeah. I laughed at that too.
Faye has a reputation to live down (http://questionablecontent.net/1085)Yeah, but that was 600 strips ago. She's gotten much better, and she still didn't nail Marigold with anything significant in the time frame Angus is asking about. It'd make more sense to me if she said ,"actually, Faye wasn't so bad. Dora going off on me about her website was kind of weird, though. But then she was all hugs and apologies :?."
Angus didn't ask about Dora. What you're talking about was all summed up by "I guess so."Are you saying that they will do whoribble things to him? Like telling whorrible puns? Truly, even imagining such a fate is simply whorrid. :-D
The Option: Yelling bird will buy it because of the whores. Sooner or later. You'll see.
Hmmm tired hmm need sleep hmm didnt noticed title nor glasses hmm sigh have to work sigh hmm jawn snorejawn?
Hanners does the deed, with the crowbar, in the study. Twice. To the head.Okay, see, doing the deed means something entirely different to me. And I automatically associate crowbars with a certain Free man. So in my head that comes out as Hannelore having sex with Gordon, twice. To the head- I dunno, maybe oral?
The kid in panel 3 is Christopher Robin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Robin).Oh, poo.
Hanners does the deed, with the crowbar, in the study. Twice. To the head.haha, wow. Has anyone ever drawn Hanners with a crowbar, her hazmat suit minus the helmet, and glasses? because it's something that needs to be done.
It do look like CR, in an American, non British-lidded-eye way*. But whar's the b'ar?
*Or whatever you call the way some Brit's look—physicist Brian Cox for one—like they've perpetually just awoken. Anyway, Christopher Robin is usually drawn this way.
in MY humble opinion, Angus took off his glasses b/c he was so distraught by that revelation... poor Marigold...
I've heard the owner, Dave, is a pretty cool guy. Too bad he's never there.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8kbwGHaBDWY/R5Q8iXyvI9I/AAAAAAAAAOA/dbWowIbe-Pk/S240/gse_multipart33374.jpg)
I've heard the owner, Dave, is a pretty cool guy. Too bad he's never there.
I'm still wondering where Angus' glasses went.you never take your glasses off offscreen?
in MY humble opinion, Angus took off his glasses b/c he was so distraught by that revelation... poor Marigold...
Either that or he's going to rip open his shirt to reveal his superhero outfit.
Faye is totally going to get laid this week. Am I right? :lol:
Wait a minute!
Hasn't Faye been to Angus's place before? (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1476)
Or does she not want Dora to know that she's been there for some reason?
in MY humble opinion, Angus took off his glasses b/c he was so distraught by that revelation... poor Marigold...
Either that or he's going to rip open his shirt to reveal his superhero outfit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40aTxggwLuU
:-D
If your pay was based on good PR your great-grandchildren would still be paying off the debt.
Faye has a reputation to live down (http://questionablecontent.net/1085)Yeah, but that was 600 strips ago. She's gotten much better, and she still didn't nail Marigold with anything significant in the time frame Angus is asking about. It'd make more sense to me if she said ,"actually, Faye wasn't so bad. Dora going off on me about her website was kind of weird, though. But then she was all hugs and apologies :?."
Too bad he missed this before the Great Speedy Edit he already did. Faye's attitude is one of the cafe's biggest selling points.He didn't miss it. He also remembers this: http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1215
He didn't miss it. He also remembers this: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1215
Don't go, Faye! It's a trap!
That would require more social awareness than Marigold actually possesses. She's more likely to take Dora's comments as a fair critique and be hurt by them instead of realizing they were an irrational reaction - an irrational reaction to an irrational expectation that she's good enough at a hobby to impress Marigold, who writes code for a living and probably majored in computer science.She's not that clueless, and even if she was it was still the main event that happened, so for her to not mention it at allis odd.
So that's another oddity. He needs to get it straight; is Faye's sass a benefit or a detriment to the cafe? He set a whole story arc around it being a benefit, but these two act as though it's a detriment- and during the time when she's been doing much less of it anyway. Which is right?Too bad he missed this before the Great Speedy Edit he already did. Faye's attitude is one of the cafe's biggest selling points.He didn't miss it. He also remembers this: http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1215
Replace that f with a g and you've got it.He didn't miss it. He also remembers this: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1215You know...comparing Dora in that comic to today's comic, it seems she's gotten a bit...frumpy. I don't know if it's the hair, the clothes, the make-up or what, but she definitely seems more frumpy.
So you want to goof off on company time:You forgot #4, though that's understandable since it didn't apply this time: Don't tell the boss you want to go dink around with their boyfriend.
- Hint#1: when you want to goof off on company time, don't tell the boss, 'I'm bored.' This will set her off, no matter how lax she is, guaranteed.
- Hint#2: If you have a good
lieexcuse, use it first. For some reason, they never work quite as well in the followup slot, especially following "I want to go dink around with my almost boyfriend."- Hint#3 Never tell your boss: "I want to go dink around with my almost boyfriend."
Damit, ninja'd (though I suppose there's a time limit on ninjaing). I was going to say something earlier, but wanted a video to accompany it and didn't feel like looking at the time.Don't go, Faye! It's a trap!Hello Admiral Akbar.
I'm hoping and praying Faye walks in on Marigold elbow deep in Angus's man hole, and pressing hard for shoulder.*crosses name off of party list*
[...] I'll admit I've never made tacos [...]Dont worry. I myself dont even have an idea what tacos are. Yeah Wikipedia is just one click away, but I'm vegetarian and sure this is just another awful meat product I dont want to know about.
OK, I'll admit I've never made tacos, but presumably the brown gunk is from the filling? Just how big is the saucepan if it's wide enough for Momo-tan to fall in? I mean, I could just about imagine her face down in my wok, but a saucepan? Or is Angus one of those people who cooks up a whole mess of stew, taco filling etc. in one go, lets it cool, and then bags meal-sized portions for freezing, and reheating later? :-P
Don't worry. I myself don't even have an idea what tacos are. Yeah Wikipedia is just one click away, but I'm vegetarian and sure this is just another awful meat product I don't want to know about.You know, I'd take vegetarianism more seriously if so many of the practitioners I meet (meat?) weren't so stuck up about it. Refusing to learn about a meal on the assumption that it always includes meat- even if it did, which is definitely not the case with tacos- is just willful ignorance.
My grandmother makes awesome tacos, but even when cooking for 10 people there's no way she'd have enough filling in a wide enough pan for this to happen; At that point it'd be in a pot. And even if she did for some reason, it wouldn't cover them in uniform brownness- there'd be yellowish grease stains more than anything.OK, I'll admit I've never made tacos, but presumably the brown gunk is from the filling? Just how big is the saucepan if it's wide enough for Momo-tan to fall in? I mean, I could just about imagine her face down in my wok, but a saucepan? Or is Angus one of those people who cooks up a whole mess of stew, taco filling etc. in one go, lets it cool, and then bags meal-sized portions for freezing, and reheating later? :-PI'm gonna guess yes to the whole make-a-bunch-and-freeze-some-for-later thing. Either that, or he's REALLY hungry. Also, I'm picturing a large frying pan rather than a saucepan -- maybe "saucepan" is being used as a general term here, since using an actual saucepan would make about as much sense as using a stockpot to make stirfry (a thing I have, to my dismay, actually witnessed).
My grandmother makes awesome tacos, but even when cooking for 10 people there's no way she'd have enough filling in a wide enough pan for this to happen; At that point it'd be in a pot. And even if she did for some reason, it wouldn't cover them in uniform brownness- there'd be yellowish grease stains more than anything.OK, I'll admit I've never made tacos, but presumably the brown gunk is from the filling? Just how big is the saucepan if it's wide enough for Momo-tan to fall in? I mean, I could just about imagine her face down in my wok, but a saucepan? Or is Angus one of those people who cooks up a whole mess of stew, taco filling etc. in one go, lets it cool, and then bags meal-sized portions for freezing, and reheating later? :-PI'm gonna guess yes to the whole make-a-bunch-and-freeze-some-for-later thing. Either that, or he's REALLY hungry. Also, I'm picturing a large frying pan rather than a saucepan -- maybe "saucepan" is being used as a general term here, since using an actual saucepan would make about as much sense as using a stockpot to make stirfry (a thing I have, to my dismay, actually witnessed).
[...] I'll admit I've never made tacos [...]Dont worry. I myself dont even have an idea what tacos are. Yeah Wikipedia is just one click away, but I'm vegetarian and sure this is just another awful meat product I dont want to know about.
Meat cooks more uniformly, and quickly, in a wide, shallow pan, which makes a frying pan more suited for this. Also, taco meat generally includes spices (ancho, cayenne, etc.) and/or hot sauce plus sometimes tomato, so it can have a reddish-brown hue. However, I accept the limits of a webcomic's color palette and simply suspend my disbelief. :wink:A big pan works for 5 or 6 people, but you need a small pot when you get to larger groups- it just needs more stirring to compensate (just realized how euphemistic that sounds). But there's a big issue I just realized- unless Angus had literally just started cooking, the stuff on his face is going to hurt something fierce. Perhaps Jeph could have had Momo get knocked into (as in, the side of and knocking it over) the blender that Angus was making a chocolate smoothie in to fit the color and laack of pain better.
Hey, now, back off the veggie, you can't expect them to actually THINK.*glances at position*
remember, Veggie, for every animal you don't kill, I'm going to kill two.
hmm, when she said stain resistant, i thought a comment would have been made about how they are made that way 'cause otaku jizz on them or something.well it should stem the population of them by not allowing them to breed.
Er... Sheltered? A bit of cultural myopia there, I think. Snubnose's country is listed as Germany. I have no idea how common Mexican-style food is there. Do you? It's not exactly the most common eating in Australia for that matter (Chinese is far more widespread :-D ). I only knew about tacos from Old El Paso commercials on TV before I ate them for the first time while on a business trip to Texas. Or was that fajitas? It was the first time I had eaten Mexican food anyway.Don't worry. I myself don't even have an idea what tacos are. Yeah Wikipedia is just one click away, but I'm vegetarian and sure this is just another awful meat product I don't want to know about.<SNIP the hating on "stuck up" vegetarians>
Also, how sheltered are you that you've never seen (or heard of?) tacos before? They aren't exactly rocky mountain oysters.
hmm, when she said stain resistant, i thought a comment would have been made about how they are made that way 'cause otaku jizz on them or something.Oh this crowd is far too classy for that... :laugh:
[...] I'll admit I've never made tacos [...]Dont worry. I myself dont even have an idea what tacos are. Yeah Wikipedia is just one click away, but I'm vegetarian and sure this is just another awful meat product I dont want to know about.
Is she bigger than a cabbage patch doll?Gyaah! Put it away, hurry, before it starts to... it's too late run!
We could dress her up like Cabbage Patch Sarah Palin.
Er... Sheltered? A bit of cultural myopia there, I think. Snubnose's country is listed as Germany. I have no idea how common Mexican-style food is there. Do you? It's not exactly the most common eating in Australia for that matter (Chinese is far more widespread :-D ). I only knew about tacos from Old El Paso commercials on TV before I ate them for the first time while on a business trip to Texas. Or was that fajitas? It was the first time I had eaten Mexican food anyway.More common than you think (and yes, I did see that he was German), but thanks for the accusation of myopia: I only spent 3 months in Germany (Bremen specifically, with the family of an exchange student that stayed with me for a year (who knew the cuisine before he stayed with us (hey English teachers, what do you think of nested parentheses?))). I never actually ate at a Mexican restaurant there because there was no point, but I did see several. Google map of mexican restaurants in Germany. (http://maps.google.commaps?q=mexican%20restaurants%20in%20germany)
Refusing to learn about a meal on the assumption that it always includes meat- even if it did, which is definitely not the case with tacos- is just willful ignorance.As in, making assumptions and refusing to inform himself is what was annoying to me, not his vegetarianism. I have friends, good friends, and an uncle that are vegetarian and are nice- but far too many that I meat are stuck up and self righteous about their choice, just like Prius owners- and before you nail me on that... my mother drives a Prius. The most acceptable targets are the one you know personally.
Cue twenty gazillion posts of the "OMG Faye looked up Momo's skirt, that means she's totally teh lezzorz amirite guyz, FoMo is my OTP" variety.Lesbian? No. She's robo-curious. Or maybe bi-technosexual.
Pictures and recipes and niceness....Or maybe we all should have done this first. Bravo to you JackFaerie, for doing what we did not, preferring instead to squabble. I bow before your superior skills at conflict avoidance.
Pintsize has been a bad influence on Faye.No kidding. But I bet Faye was also the type of girl who stripped her barbie dolls, both sexes, 'naked'** first chance she got.
They aren't exactly rocky mountain oysters.Trust me, when if it comes to food, nothing, and I do mean nothing, is exactly like a rocky mountain oyster. It ain't often you (not me, thank you) can eat something and then see the 'donor' walking by in the pasture. Waste not want not can be carried too far.
And thanks for snipping the part inconvenient to your accusation of myopia; you know, the part where I saidMy accusation of cultural myopia had nothing to do with your remarks about vegetarians, so the section I snipped was not inconvenient, but simply irrelevant. I was objecting to your apparent assumption that someone would have to be "sheltered" to not know what a taco was. There are probably millions of people who've never heard of them. For example, there are a few Mexican-style restaurants in Beijing (there's even a Hooters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78PW-_ic_s) in Beijing... :( ), Shenzhen (I think), Shanghai, and of course Hong Kong, but beyond that, not so much. MacDonalds on the other hand...QuoteRefusing to learn about a meal on the assumption that it always includes meat- even if it did, which is definitely not the case with tacos- is just willful ignorance.
Trust me, when if it comes to food, nothing, and I do mean nothing, is exactly like a rocky mountain oyster. It ain't often you (not me, thank you) can eat something and then see the 'donor' walking by in the pasture.Not one for the pleasures of farm-fresh milk? Must be the temperature, huh? It's not like it could come out of the cow cold. Or maybe it's the creaminess, since you just stir the cream in instead of taking it off the top.
there's even a Hooters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78PW-_ic_s) in Beijing... :(Well, that was… surreal isn't the exact word, but it may have to do.
Gah, please get her away from Angus, they aren't right for each other. Let Marigold become the Faye substitute for him. They would be cute together.I disagree. :-D if anything faye and angus should hang out more often outside of the CoD
Of course, now that I've written it here, it will never happen, so i probably should have just kept it to myself.Indeed.
Aha, this is why Tai struck out with Faye; she's not bi-curious, she's ROBOT bi-curious.
Lesbian? No. She's robo-curious. Or maybe bi-technosexual.
Most AnthroPCs don't mind people seeing them naked. In fact Eve is the only other one who's ever worn clothes.
Most AnthroPCs don't mind people seeing them naked. In fact Eve is the only other one who's ever worn clothes.
Nah, she doesn't actually wear clothes, that's just the way she's designed. The only time you'll see her wearing anything different is as a disguise when she doesn't want people to know she's a robot. But her 'suit' is all integrated.
I doubt AnthroPCs really have much in the way of human rights, even if they are AI they still depend on their programming to function and that programming comes directly from their human user; so it can't necessarily be said that their actions are directly of their own volition. Moreover, they probably need that human user to act in their stead if someone does something to them that they don't like. If anything, they're like pets, and are probably afforded rights similar to animal rights. So you can't beat them or torture them, but they probably wouldn't have a legal standing for simple harrassment.
She's been seen wearing both the blue top/skirt and a pink kimono/dressing gown. Either she's had a chassis change, or the outfits are interchangable.
Too bad Momo's a Sony product, not an Apple iAnthro.She's been seen wearing both the blue top/skirt and a pink kimono/dressing gown. Either she's had a chassis change, or the outfits are interchangable.
Hologram projector. (http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=383)
Sometimes it really is just a cigar, guys...But the cigar is all too often a flame-ended penis substitute. However…
Yeah, but there is a difference between opening a maching/looking under the case to fix the AnthroPC and simply looking because one is "curious".People open machines all the time to see what's going on inside them because they're curious—several TV series have been created that cater to this. And that's what anthropcs are, so far as we know: machines. Until we actually have anthropcs with similar abilities, I think it's a bit presumptive to try to come up with a 'Bill of Rights' for them—we simply have no idea how close they are to sentience, and how much the products of clever programming. Actually, come to think of it, since Marten has a fetish-exploiting mother, it's not surprising that Pintsize, who often seems to be manifestation of Marten's id (doing things Marten would like to but feels he can't: dressing up in costume, squeezing breasts, acting completely uninhibited, etc.) would 'develop' an 'interest' in fetish (I note it's directed so as not to strike to close to home, too: Pintsize doesn't go for fruit-crushing in heels, does he? Nor is Veronica likely to show up in the stuff he cruises). It suggests to me that each AnthroPC is programmed to do something of that sort. Momo, for example, is a 'cool' samurai, socially apt, and gets laid, all things Marigold would probably like to do. The Linux anthropc (PX whosname) probably belongs to a guy who has to kiss buttock in a Windows-dominated office every day.
People open machines all the time to see what's going on inside them because they're curious—several TV series have been created that cater to this.
Quote from: MoxieYeah, but there is a difference between opening a maching/looking under the case to fix the AnthroPC and simply looking because one is "curious".People open machines all the time to see what's going on inside them because they're curious—several TV series have been created that cater to this. And that's what anthropcs are, so far as we know: machines. Until we actually have anthropcs with similar abilities, I think it's a bit presumptive to try to come up with a 'Bill of Rights' for them—we simply have no idea how close they are to sentience, and how much the products of clever programming.
hmm, when she said stain resistant, i thought a comment would have been made about how they are made that way 'cause otaku jizz on them or something.Comment? Hell, I thought it was going to be the punchline. At least in the form of an awkward pause and a backward glance that says "I probably don't want to know why, but I think I already do." What happened instead... sort of came out of nowhere.
I know it was played for cutesies, but Faye just totally commuted sexual assault/harassment.
Too bad Momo's a Sony product, not an Apple iAnthro.
Hologram projector. (http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=383)
we simply have no idea how close they are to sentience, and how much the products of clever programming.
I know it was played for cutesies, but Faye just totally commuted sexual assault/harassment.
She daily travels from home, sexually harasses people, and then returns home?
Or, to put it another way, don't do unto other sentients what you wouldn't (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1592)Quote from: raoullefereQuote from: MoxieYeah, but there is a difference between opening a maching/looking under the case to fix the AnthroPC and simply looking because one is "curious".People open machines all the time to see what's going on inside them because they're curious—several TV series have been created that cater to this. And that's what anthropcs are, so far as we know: machines. Until we actually have anthropcs with similar abilities, I think it's a bit presumptive to try to come up with a 'Bill of Rights' for them—we simply have no idea how close they are to sentience, and how much the products of clever programming.
I wasn't trying to say we needed to create an AnthroPC bill of rights.
Faye's behavior makes Momo uncomfortable. Faye being curious or not, if the machine can express that discomfort, Faye shouldn't be doing it. EDIT: Another way to phrase it: If the machine acts on the behavior that is programmed into it, that means the programmer would be uncomfortable with that sort of behavior, which still means Faye shouldn't be doing it.
Fascinating set of observations, but Winslow doesn't seem to fit the pattern of AnthroPCs doing things the owners can't. Winslow is pretty tidy and law-abiding himself, even with the temptations of a humanoid body.Winslow's from Apple- he 'thinks different' :-D. More seriously, it's possible Hanners' Dad did something to Winslow to make him more compatible with and/or less threatening to his daughter (it's one thing to act out the owner's id fantasies, and quite another to commit acts that conflict with a mental disorder, especially one like OCD). That may explain why Winslow seems much more child-like than any of the others. He brings to mind Dora, the ship's computer (of the star yacht Dora) in Heinlein's Time Enough for Love. 'She' has been 'kept' a child by her owner (for reasons too complicated to explain here), while other machines are able to develop adult personalities.
Apparently they are sentient (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1506).That may be a convenient label for something that appears sentient but needs input from an owner to accomplish the mimic. I hope so—no matter how cute they are, keeping a fully sentient being as a 'pet' by whatever means (altering it's 'brain' seems most likely) makes me far queasier than Faye peeking up Momo's skirt. And, as I said, sooner or later, "rogue" anthropcs could either take over or severely damage the communications and data infrastructure, either by faulty programs or some ass taking the blocks off just to see what happened.
we simply have no idea how close they are to sentience, and how much the products of clever programming.Do we know that of other people, or even ourselves?
Or she should call Dora and ask for the rest of the shift off?Fixed it for you.
I feel sorry for Faye. Early on Dora was a friend and a good boss by most standards.I think you're vastly underestimating their friendship.
Since then, Dora has 'stolen' her love interest, takes up a large portion of her best friend's time, and moved into her house. I get annoyed working with the same people for 12 hours straight on university projects, never being able to get a moment away from someone must be pretty hard, especially when they have seniority over you for a majority of that time.
That said, she is treading a dangerous line with skipping out from work. Maybe it would be good for her to loose the job though. She could become a full time artist, with the sculpture for Dora being the kick start for that...
Now we're getting into or at least verging on Solipsism, which is, to me, the philosophical equivalent of masturbation—rub it enough and, sure, something happens, but it really only matters to you, by definition.we simply have no idea how close they are to sentience, and how much the products of clever programming.Do we know that of other people, or even ourselves?
I think you're vastly underestimating their friendship.
Faye is Eowyn
Angus is Faramir
I have a strange desire to see fanart of Winslow carrying Hannelore up Mt. Doom.Funny, I was thinking the same thing about Marigold and Momo as Gimli and Legolas at the Hornburg.
Yoda!
Hell, he needs Connor McCloud