Jeph said he was working ahead on a story he really wanted to do.
Now this just may be a intermission, but I'm hoping for 2 weeks of Hannelore just sitting at her computer blushing.
Jeph said he was working ahead on a story he really wanted to do.
Gee, thanks, MOM, I'm trying to keep this establishment respectable.You forgot to make the votes only visible after voting :roll:
:P ;)
She already had cowboy porn but is only just getting into cowboys?I suspect one of those "cowboys" should be "firefighters".
She already had cowboy porn but is only just getting into cowboys?I suspect one of those "cowboys" should be "firefighters".
She already had cowboy porn but is only just getting into cowboys?
But then, Hanners does have an extreme dislike of even the idea of boners (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1885).Of the idea of someone having a boner on her couch, specifically.
She already had cowboy porn but is only just getting into cowboys?Remember, Marigold gave Hanners her collection of sexy man-pictures (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2664). I guess some cowboy pictures were part of the collection, and Hanners seems to have found them stimulating. Make a Google pictures search for "sexy cowboys", and you will get an idea of what she likes.
Regardless of whether these fireman photos are porn or not, Hanners has probably seen a hose or two.:facepalm: Terrible pun, but funny. If you look at the Glossary of firefighting equipment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_firefighting_equipment), you will no doubt find several items with some sexual relevance. Just use your dirty fantasy.
*tapdances*
She already had cowboy porn but is only just getting into cowboys?I suspect one of those "cowboys" should be "firefighters".
I was thinking the same thing... first "cowboys" should be "firefighters." Makes more sense that way.
This discussion is pretty entertaining, but be careful it doesn't edge over the line - a newcomer who arrived in this thread might not realise where the line is. The line is: no shipping. No talking about Hanners having sex.OK, sorry. For my defense, I might add:
I'm not sufficiently familiar with American culture to know this, so I'll ask: When Americans are talking about "cowboys", are they referring to men who actually work with cattle, or does it normally include members of a particular subculture?
This discussion is pretty entertaining, but be careful it doesn't edge over the line - a newcomer who arrived in this thread might not realise where the line is. The line is: no shipping. No talking about Hanners having sex.
Definitely a difference, the specifics of which could be debated for fifty pages..... but we really can't debate what category applies to Hanners's sexy fireman/cowboy pics because I'm pretty sure we don't know any specifics about them.
Edit: Just occurred to me, if Hanners meets a cowboy in person (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1226), she's going to be royally uncomfortable because cowboys are really, really dirty (not as in pervy--as in sweat and dust and manure).
Hmmm, maybe she's intrigued with them because they're so dirty? Opposites attract, or the allure of the frightening, or the challenge of taking a cowboy and making him squeaky-clean.....
What a novel way to use sentient computers - search for the kind of porn they know you like from the internet!Not unless it's explicitly canon, and even then I heavily doubt the merits of such a discussion.This discussion is pretty entertaining, but be careful it doesn't edge over the line - a newcomer who arrived in this thread might not realise where the line is. The line is: no shipping. No talking about Hanners having sex.
What about Hanners masturbating? Because I think we're building some case evidence here.
What a novel way to use sentient computers - search for the kind of porn they know you like from the internet!This discussion is pretty entertaining, but be careful it doesn't edge over the line - a newcomer who arrived in this thread might not realise where the line is. The line is: no shipping. No talking about Hanners having sex.
What about Hanners masturbating? Because I think we're building some case evidence here.
In case you didn't see yet, he changed the first one to firefighters.She already had cowboy porn but is only just getting into cowboys?I suspect one of those "cowboys" should be "firefighters".
I was thinking the same thing... first "cowboys" should be "firefighters." Makes more sense that way.
Historically, cowboys work for ranchers (who own the ranch). Or they work for whichever entity owns the cattle. Not having seen whatever Jeph has decided is on Hanners's storage media, I can't say for sure Hanners is into (pictures of) historic beef wranglers (or the dime-novel image thereof peddled to tenderfeet Back East) or today's fetish fuel.
Guys. Stop. Talking. About. Hanners. Masturbating. Or I will lock this thread!
Finally she cares about her impact on Marten's life? It's about time!!
Finally she cares about her impact on Marten's life? It's about time!!
I think Jeph tried to depict it sum], she always did. She just took her own sweet time recognizing him as a not-kid anymore (and, TBH, Marten took his own sweet time presenting himself as such. Moms just can't help responding to that.)
That's more like the Marten we know and are exasperated with.
I don't think I quite understand Jeph's comment for today's comic.QuoteThat's more like the Marten we know and are exasperated with.
Marten, remember when you took a risk and followed Vicky? Didn't work out, but yet it did work out really.
So yes, maybe Jeph is right. Maybe Marten is exasperating as a character, because we keep reading about how he's a total loser who sucks at life and doesn't understand how to tackle the real world, but nothing ever changes.
Perhaps I just need to relax and let the story tell itself.
Major life lessons don't get learned all at once.
A very, very, VERY hot moderator, sweltering in the jungle.
It just occurred to me - now we have TWO members of the Reed Clan in residence.
Let the games commence!!
So yes, maybe Jeph is right. Maybe Marten is exasperating as a character, because we keep reading about how he's a total loser who sucks at life and doesn't understand how to tackle the real world, but nothing ever changes.
Just like a real person! Amazing!
Major life lessons don't get learned all at once.
Dale seems to have some aptitude for managing relationships.
This relationship is going to be good for both of them and address both their needs, so why do I keep thinking of it in terms of how good it is for Marigold?
As a corollary to that, Dale has always seemed confident in the strips we've seen of him, whereas we've seen Marigold at her most vulnerable. I've no doubt the relationship will be good for them both, but we've seen concretely how it might be good for Marigold.Well, Dale admitted being a virgin (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2567) before meeting Marigold, so I guess Dale had a lot of insecurity issues regarding women. The way he interacted with Marigold earlier, indicated he had no clue on how to treat women in general. He made all the wrong moves. Despite this, he seems to be a nice person.
Meganerds like Marigold and Dale need a lot of external help, guidance, and threats if they ever are to hook up. They should be forever grateful to Momo and May.
I'm still waiting for Marigold and Dale to sit together admiring a sunset or something, and in the distance you see a fighter jet yelling "fucken FINALLY"You win the thread.
1) Some people are insecure about themselves and thus not too good with meeting new people and getting into relationships. This has however nothing to do with being a nerd or not.I'd say from my own experience that there is some correlation, and maybe causation too, in the sense that if you don't find yourself comfortable with other people, you bury yourself in other interests.
2) There is also no need to desperately push other people to finally hook up with someone - your worth as an adult is not based on whether you've hooked up with anyone or not.I agree about pushing people: when I was a nerdy insecure teenager I strenuously resisted anything that looked like an external attempt to pair me up with someone, but I still wanted that to happen (as long as I felt I was in control of it) and while "worth as an adult" is putting it a bit strongly "desire to be seen as normal" would certainly have made sense to me.
Possibly years, but it could easily be happening at the exact same time.
Ah but do you have semi-crippling social anxieties that randomly pop into your head and remind you that you're doing/not doing something you're "supposed" to be not doing/doing in a relationship?Possibly years, but it could easily be happening at the exact same time.
But it is a bizarre turn of phrase to be using ('we never do x, we only do y') if this is like, only a couple of days later.
If I'd only been bangin' someone for like a week I wouldn't be saying 'We always stay in, why don't we ever go out?'
Ah but do you have semi-crippling social anxieties that randomly pop into your head and remind you that you're doing/not doing something you're "supposed" to be not doing/doing in a relationship?Possibly years, but it could easily be happening at the exact same time.
But it is a bizarre turn of phrase to be using ('we never do x, we only do y') if this is like, only a couple of days later.
If I'd only been bangin' someone for like a week I wouldn't be saying 'We always stay in, why don't we ever go out?'
Seriously, Marigold's working her startle reflex something fierce there; I usually only get that when I remember I forgot to pick up something I wanted from the shop when I was there, usually about an hour after I already got home.
I had no intention of being condescending. As you say, "meganerd" is a quote from Faye; therefore it should be an accepted term for these two, without any negative associations. I can relate to them and feel sympathy for them, as I have experienced similar problems in my youth.Meganerds like Marigold and Dale need a lot of external help, guidance, and threats if they ever are to hook up. They should be forever grateful to Momo and May.
I assume this is meant jokingly, but do you have any idea how condescending this sentence sounds?
There is no need to patronise anyone like that. I know the term "meganerd" is a quote from Faye; doesn't make it any better, though. I hate when people look down on others like that.
Yeah, but there could've been a time gap between their getting together and the Marmom plot.Possibly years, but it could easily be happening at the exact same time.
But it is a bizarre turn of phrase to be using ('we never do x, we only do y') if this is like, only a couple of days later.
If I'd only been bangin' someone for like a week I wouldn't be saying 'We always stay in, why don't we ever go out?'
Well, Dale admitted being a virgin (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2567) before meeting Marigold, so I guess Dale had a lot of insecurity issues regarding women.
As you say, "meganerd" is a quote from Faye; therefore it should be an accepted term for these two, without any negative associations. I can relate to them and feel sympathy for them, as I have experienced similar problems in my youth.I disagree. Faye is occasionally a very disagreeable and judgemental person (such as in the "Dorkosaurus and Meganerd" scene) and one shouldn't follow her example.
I'm still waiting for Marigold and Dale to sit together admiring a sunset or something, and in the distance you see a fighter jet yelling "fucken FINALLY"You win the thread.
And as a self-confessed meganerd myself - it's just reality. Though I prefer "Awesome Geek Girl". Same thing. We tend to scare most guys off. The ones that are equally Geeky though - Oh Yeah!
Am I the only one who sees a little unhappy expression on Marigold's face in the last panel? Like she really would like to try these things that normal people do but doesn't want to bring it directly up as she suspect/knows that Dale would be more "stay home and rest" kind of person.
Dark clouds already.
(The Geek Code (http://www.geekcode.com/) has been around since 1993, and includes geeks of all flavors.)Wow, it's been ages since I've seen that. It hasn't aged well (Hopefully there's nobody left who still uses Netscape...)
Wow, it's been ages since I've seen that. It hasn't aged well (Hopefully there's nobody left who still uses Netscape...)Ooooo. There is a fair amount of redundancy now but the specificity makes me happy. I just put ! for everything I knew about, didn't have a strong opinion on or use. Not as accurate as I would like but overall still interesting.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1.2[a]
GSS/J$ d(-) s--:++ a+ C+(++) UB ?P L- E---- W++(+++) N !o !K w[7(+)][8--]
o- @M [iM+] V- PS(+/-) PE>- Y— @PGP t+[trb---] @5— X—- R+(-/*) tv+
b+>++ DI++ D-(--) G e++>+++ h--- r+++ y+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
I'm still waiting for Marigold and Dale to sit together admiring a sunset or something, and in the distance you see a fighter jet yelling "fucken FINALLY"
So, what will happen when May first meets Pintsize? Pornageddon?
Not this May :mrgreen:Well, I was totally wrong, as usual. But I am happy, I have been waiting for May to return. :-D
Has Dale stopped using his Augmented Reality glasses (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2487) completely? If that is the case, May may never return :cry:
Dale's welcome was shitty (he was probably thinking of the sex that had to be postponed). But he will be happy with May as his robot companion. Marigold, however, has not really met May yet. She may not be happy with May's attitude. Also, there is bound to be conflicts between May and Momo.
They are going to need a bigger apartment :mrgreen:
He may have been thinking less of the sex and more of how much of a loose cannon May was the last time she was around. Remember, he and Momo were the only ones who could see her the last time; this time, whatever shenanigans she's up to will be apparent to everybody. Marigold may relent a bit given that May helped get them together, but I'd think there'll be friction between May and Momo.
Then again, knowing Jeph, the answer will be "D: None of the above." :-\
MWR threesome!!!I know you were joking, but just as a reminder, the "no shipping" rule still applies.
Considering the orangeness of her clothes*, I'm guessing that's her jail uniform (i.e. she just got out and Dale's place is the first place she went).
P.S. - [7] = Windows 7; [8] = Windows 8; [iM] = iOS; [trb] = Trek reboot. For "N" I would substitute "FF" (since Firefox is the spiritual heir to Netscape/Mozilla).Oo, update FTW. The juxtaposition of law and social science seems kind of awesome/potentially uncomfortable. I probably could have put $ with MD actually. *wanders off to finish decoding Geek Codes.*
I do not enjoy May.
Considering the orangeness of her clothes*, I'm guessing that's her jail uniform (i.e. she just got out and Dale's place is the first place she went).
The purpose of jail uniforms is it to make fugitives easy to spot. Poeple do not wear them when released. And in robot jail they have no bodies and no need for uniforms.
I do not enjoy May.I felt the same for most of her time - completely over the top obnoxious. But near the end when she got to meet everybody I kind of warmed to her, and I quite like her as a new character.
I do not enjoy May.You may enjoy May now.
Yay May's back!And if she is lucky, this time she won't be like a Barbie doll down there!
and Celt she's got a body now.
I do not enjoy May.
Personally I'm offended.
And why not the jeans she'd wanted?
Even that one's a bit outdated.Maybe a bit. I enjoyed the "Do you own more than one computer with at least a megabyte of RAM?" question.
It at least used to be standard procedure for the prison to give a released inmate a suit of clothes and a token amount of money for a fresh start. For an AI the equivalent of a suit would be a body. It probably was never an expensive suit of clothes, though, and May's chassis looks way more expensive than Pintsize's.
Even that one's a bit outdated.Maybe a bit. I enjoyed the "Do you own more than one computer with at least a megabyte of RAM?" question.
(A *mega*byte of RAM? Woah!)
My question is, WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?????
anthropomorphic personification :P
But she'll behave like she's met everyone when most people did not even know Dale had an AI riding along on his glasses. She'll engage in wonderfully awkward conversations with the cast. It could be great. Bet she know Marten's Mom's past occupation as well. :)She'll become a dominatrix and take over Veronica's clients!
And that makes it better how...? ;)
Eh, I recognized her from the cussing. Her new look doesn't really look like her previous look to me anyway.My question is, WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?????
Possibly so Jeph could drop this on us (the monster!) on a Friday and have us recognise her straight away. If she was (e.g.) green, we might have just gone 'Huh, some robot that Dale knows', and needed another strip to explain it.
What's the term for a human-form AnthroPC? Is there one?
And we must not forget the Nerd Test. (http://www.armory.com/tests/nerd500.html)
My question is, WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?????
Possibly so Jeph could drop this on us (the monster!) on a Friday and have us recognise her straight away. If she was (e.g.) green, we might have just gone 'Huh, some robot that Dale knows', and needed another strip to explain it.
What's the term for a human-form AnthroPC? Is there one?
So, what will happen when May first meets Pintsize? Pornageddon?Pintsize will creep May out. His creep-fu is stronger than her jerk-fu.
My question is, WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?????
She's not a personal hologram in a set of Glasses anymore. When she embodied, why would she embody into a chassis with the skin color her prison form had?
WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?Why not? Also I didn't realize people actually used the word "cyan", what's wrong with "blue"?
Now you are. (HE WOULD DIE IF HE WAS GREEN)
Different colours entirely.WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?Why not? Also I didn't realize people actually used the word "cyan", what's wrong with "blue"?
(http://media.tumblr.com/4f9ab19ed38145e719370dfa9c38e78d/tumblr_inline_mw9yqpMCTP1rciqtz.jpg)
I didn't realize people actually used the word "cyan", what's wrong with "blue"?
Sometimes the boundaries are different; for instance, traditionally in Welsh, even though there are separate words for blue and green, the colour of grass comes on the blue side of the divide.
I didn't realize people actually used the word "cyan", what's wrong with "blue"?
It's a different colour?
Actually, I guess you'd be right at home in Japan, where they have a single word for the whole range of colours that we call blue and green; also Vietnamese and a couple of other languages. Sometimes the boundaries are different; for instance, traditionally in Welsh, even though there are separate words for blue and green, the colour of grass comes on the blue side of the divide.
Milton obviously works in RGB.
Milton, in Paradise Lost, mentions the rainbow with colors three.
The sky is blue and so's that tree.Milton, in Paradise Lost, mentions the rainbow with colors three.Milton obviously works in RGB.
I honestly don't see how someone could look at May and argue that her hair and her "skin" are not both shades of blue.
I'm looking at cyan...and it looks like a shade of blue. Am I missing something?Different colours entirely.WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?Why not? Also I didn't realize people actually used the word "cyan", what's wrong with "blue"?
http://web.forret.com/tools/color.asp
note that the cyan has a bit of green in it, compared to blue.
I'm looking at cyan...and it looks like a shade of blue. Am I missing something?Different colours entirely.WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?Why not? Also I didn't realize people actually used the word "cyan", what's wrong with "blue"?
http://web.forret.com/tools/color.asp
note that the cyan has a bit of green in it, compared to blue.
I honestly don't see how someone could look at May and argue that her hair and her "skin" are not both shades of blue.
Because different languages work different ways. Just like how English speakers get confused as shit over objects having gender in languages like French, and vice versa.
The sky is blue and so's that tree.
And old Norse speaks of Africans as "blámenn", that is "blue men". Their concept of blue covered dark shades and even pitch black. And no, Africans are not pitch black. Language shapes our ideas ...The sky is blue and so's that tree.
Old Arabic poetry describes the sky as green, because the word for blue came more recently.
Sometimes the boundaries are different; for instance, traditionally in Welsh, even though there are separate words for blue and green, the colour of grass comes on the blue side of the divide.I'll take a wild guess and suppose it works similarly as in Breton. In Breton, the word "glas" covers a range of color as they are found in the environment, including grass, the sky, and the various colors the sea can show (which means some kinds of grey are covered as well). Separately, the word "gwer" is the specific word for green as found in clothing, crafted object, and eyes. My guess is Breton "glas" and "gwer" work similarly to their Welsh cognates "glas" and "gwyrdd/gwerdd".
You can't have a dark shade of pink; that's a contradiction in terms.No it isn't. Pink is desaturated red. You can have dark pinks, to an extent.
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge (http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge)
Okay. I went by the dictionary.com definition: "a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple", but I see that other definitions, like the World English Dictionary's, are less restrictive: "any of a group of colours with a reddish hue that are of low to moderate saturation and can usually reflect or transmit a large amount of light; a pale reddish tint".You can't have a dark shade of pink; that's a contradiction in terms.No it isn't. Pink is desaturated red. You can have dark pinks, to an extent.
Is there any accent where "cyan aide" is pronounced remotely close to "cyanide"?
Is there any accent where "cyan aide" is pronounced remotely close to "cyanide"?
Is there any accent where "cyan aide" is pronounced remotely close to "cyanide"?
Is there any accent where "cyan aide" is pronounced remotely close to "cyanide"?
People who are from the same part of England as Dick van Dyke.
If May was forced to use a certain body colour in oder to display the fact that she's a convict, this would more or less be public shaming for AI criminals even after they've had their prison sentence. I know that in the US, the legal standards with respect to this are different (I think that public shaming can be a legal punishment in court, right? Though probably not on top of another punishment the criminal has already served) but in many other countries that would be forbidden.