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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Kugai on 20 Dec 2015, 11:48
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And onwards towards Christmas
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My (almost certainly wrong) guess: Sweet Tits and Shame Orb go to Yelling Bird's funeral.
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Cremation, with the coffin held shut with Coach Bolts. ;D ;)
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Jeph always does a special over the holiday week so I'm expecting that we don't get back to the professional destiny of Emily Azuma until the new year!
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Doesn't he usually do it the week between Xmas and New Years?
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Yes, I expect the Questionable Content Holiday Special will be next week, not this week.
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So... basically what I am seeing is a slight suggestion Hannelore may be a better manager than Penelope?
Hanners > Peppers
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So... basically what I am seeing is a slight suggestion Hannelore may be a better manager than Penelope?
More compassionate and understanding rather than 'better'.
Hanners is the one to whom you assign the new trainees so that they don't run out by lunch times in tears. Penny is the hard-nosed, methodical one to whom you assign the smart-alecs who have been around the block a few times and think that they know how to game the system.
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New comic up! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3116)
Well... It looks like Emily has decided that Espresso = CPU clock accelerator. I wonder two things:
- If Dora is going to end up having to do an intervention and help Emily kick her new habit before it becomes serious;
- Whether Emily is right about coffee enabling her to enter a 'slow time' increased productivity mode!
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It is by the juice of java that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by espresso alone I set my mind in motion.
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Mmmmm coffee...
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Cremation, with the coffin held shut with Coach Bolts. ;D ;)
Sweet Tits, Shame Orb and Andy sit down to holiday dinner. The roast bird is suspiciously small.
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Regarding the coming 'Barbaric' strip:
Jeph has been writing little text strips in his Twitter feed of the adventures of his astonishingly stoic RPG parody character 'Bembo the Barbarian'. Maybe he's decided to turn Bembo into his new fallback character?
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Oh Crod
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This is the part where Dora ends up seriously questions her decision to hire Penelope. Or decides it was the best decision she ever made; the next few strips will tell the tale.
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It is time to introduce Emily (and Dora, and the other employees, as well as the customers) to the
Death Wish Coffee Company. (http://www.deathwishcoffee.com/)
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Yeah but does it taste any good? Is it two crack or those burnt offerings from starbuckets?
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I want the Valhalla Java cause it looks cool. I hope it sticks around, because I cannot justify buying even more coffee than is already in my cupboard.
Someone else should try Emily's espresso shot and see if it's actually any good.
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ZOMG! I hope it's Bembo! He should either make that into a strip himself, or get the guy who does Oglaf to draw them.
Regarding the coming 'Barbaric' strip:
Jeph has been writing little text strips in his Twitter feed of the adventures of his astonishingly stoic RPG parody character 'Bembo the Barbarian'. Maybe he's decided to turn Bembo into his new fallback character?
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Poor Emily. This arc will end with her giving blowjobs for French roasted Arabica beans. :-(
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Comic!
Butts.
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It figures that Pintsize would proposition marriage after a sphincter symphony like that. In any case, it's nice to see May out of her work clothes for a change. I had been wondering when she'd finally get around to buying some; since, as I recall it, we haven't seen her in anything but her uniform since she got hired.
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That ... backfired.
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It's your own silly fault, May! If you aim low, you get low!
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I totally thought May was sitting on Marigold's butt until I realized that was the back of a computer chair.
(I had an account but I forgot what my username was)
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built in sub-woofer seems like a bit of a luxury feature for a cheap prison-issue chassis
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Awwww yeah, keepin' it classy.
(Momo's book, "Caring for your human," gave me a laugh.)
That ... backfired.
More like...buttfired. :clairedoge:
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Nobody's going to mention the extreme upgrade to May's hair? It's so glorious right now.
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why does she have a speaker there...?
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why does she have a speaker there...?
I've got the feeling she's been saving up for the hardware modification so that she could run that app in the way shown in today's strip for some time. It tells you a lot about her as a person. :-P
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why does she have a speaker there...?
Could it be that she has a vent down there, but the app makes the fan make the noise? Just like some people can make music with hard drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM63nUaGgao).
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May continues to be my favorite character. Up there with Emily.
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Ah, Jeph's Butts Disease seems to be flaring up. Poor chap. The Holiday period always seems to be stressful enough to cause flare ups of people's conditions.
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why does she have a speaker there...?
Could it be that she has a vent down there, but the app makes the fan make the noise? Just like some people can make music with hard drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM63nUaGgao).
Looks like the panel 1 speech bubble is attributes to her rear, though.
I suspect May had it custom installed for purposes of talking out her ass.
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Does anyone else think it's high time for Pintsize to get his own humanoid chassis?
It's weird seeing him in his old tiny model while everyone else runs around with thumbs.
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OK, May's ass app has drowned the topic out, but (butt?) re: Emily's test shots ... would those not be stong shots that are the basis of other coffee drinks? So thet'd by concentrated and mot meant to be taken straight up? And Emily would not know that? Gin her approach to experiencing the world, the sudden hypercaffeinated slowtime would be just another thing to her?
... In my travels I frequent truckstops. At the coffee dispenser counters there are, more often than not, little creamer style plastic cups containing a substance called Stok. It's for adding caffeine to your coffee. The concept frightens me. The concept of someone piloting 40-plus tons of diesel-powered commerce while jazzing on it ... yikes.
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Espresso shots? They're concentrated and often used in other drinks, but they're absolutely drank (drunk?) by themselves.
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Regarding the coming 'Barbaric' strip:
Jeph has been writing little text strips in his Twitter feed of the adventures of his astonishingly stoic RPG parody character 'Bembo the Barbarian'.
:) yes that would be most welcome! The text only Bembos have added to my understanding of why i appreciate Jeph as a comics author and artist. it is quite difficult to make use of 150 letters or less, and still create something that feels immersive, unpredictable and complete! They do have the magic of text based computer fantasy adventures. Full Bembo comics would be unbelievable!! they seem to bring Jeph's sense of humor in ways that most often leads to this sort of reaction, even in the text only medium!
(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/11113/111130746/3886633-2559988948-37837.gif)
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Does anyone else think it's high time for Pintsize to get his own humanoid chassis?
It's weird seeing him in his old tiny model while everyone else runs around with thumbs.
No. Nope. Nada. Noooo way. Uh-uh. NOPE. He's capable of enough mayhem with weird little orb hands and a whole twelve inches of height without giving him something over five feet and with opposable digits.
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I kind of doubt Pintsize would want a more human-like chassis, honestly. He gets away with a lot of what he does because he has the chassis he does. Things he wouldn't be able to get away with if he had a more human looking chassis. Human nature being what it is, we expect human like behavior out of things with human appearance. That's why the Uncanny Valley concept exists. And we've seen that the closer to human looking an AI is, the more like a human people will treat them. Perfect example is how Momo was treated in her chibi chassis vs the Idoru one she wears now. Same person, but before she was treated more like a child, and now she is treated more like an older teen/young adult. For more extreme examples, consider how Gordon the spider-bot, Bubbles and Momo are treated.
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ZOMG! I hope it's Bembo! He should either make that into a strip himself, or get the guy who does Oglaf to draw them.
A little late to the discussion on Bembo, but just wanted to point out the author/illustrator of Oglaf is definitely not a dude.
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why does she have a speaker there...?
It's possible that her chassis has a pair of operable cheeks, which can be slapped together rapidly. Assuming the correct fluidity for the faux-cheeks, this could produce a far more realistic sound than a speaker. If there were an air cavity behind the cheeks, this would work even better.
I used to have this stuff called "Slime" which came in a plastic cup. Turning the cup over and pressing the material back in with your hand produced an extremely convincing greasy flatulent sound. With practice you could get a large repertoire of noises, from small high-pitched to deep throaty ones.
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why does she have a speaker there...?
Could it be that she has a vent down there, but the app makes the fan make the noise? Just like some people can make music with hard drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM63nUaGgao).
Or floppies. (https://youtu.be/5gnMgmlKi_o)
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why does she have a speaker there...?
Could it be that she has a vent down there, but the app makes the fan make the noise? Just like some people can make music with hard drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM63nUaGgao).
Or floppies. (https://youtu.be/5gnMgmlKi_o)
People got very creative with floppies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzXjJN1RH0)
On topic: I am hoping for a week of this kinda stuff. Silly self contained comics. It also helps that I have a very childish sense of humour.
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*Sticks hands in pockets and walks off shaking head slowly*
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... In my travels I frequent truckstops. At the coffee dispenser counters there are, more often than not, little creamer style plastic cups containing a substance called Stok. It's for adding caffeine to your coffee. The concept frightens me. The concept of someone piloting 40-plus tons of diesel-powered commerce while jazzing on it ... yikes.
Better IMO, than piloting that same 40-plus tons of diesel commerce while nodding off. Ideally, no-one should try to drive while sleep deprived, but if it must be done, better the sleep-deficient driver be well caffeined-up. At least they'll be alert.
Regarding the comic; HA! Serves May right! Compared to the shenanigans Pintsize has pulled, her little fart app is amateur hour. I'm surprised he's impressed, quite frankly.
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Thanks for the correction. I did some light Googling for Oglaf's creator before posting, but couldn't find any SFW links. I assumed the masculine. My bad.
ZOMG! I hope it's Bembo! He should either make that into a strip himself, or get the guy who does Oglaf to draw them.
A little late to the discussion on Bembo, but just wanted to point out the author/illustrator of Oglaf is definitely not a dude.
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Somebody made a Storify thread out of Jeph's Bembo tweets:
https://storify.com/geoffreyhts/bembo
(Caution: may contain spoilers for the upcoming comics.)
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Pintsize has some sort of fart apparatus. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=246)
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Look at it from Pintsize's angle. He has met
-- a female robot
-- with a butts/fart obsession
-- and an "I don't give a f***" attitude
It's what he has been looking for for the entire series. No wonder he's in love.
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Look at it from Pintsize's angle. He has met
-- a female robot
-- with a butts/fart obsession
-- and an "I don't give a f***" attitude
It's what he has been looking for for the entire series. No wonder he's in love.
All the evidence I can recall shows that May just isn't really into boys. (I'm not sure she's into girls either)
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She was totally into Bubbles' butt.
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*Shakes Pun Flagon at Zeb*
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I wonder why Momo is reading instead of downloading the content directly to her memory? I know for me that there's def types of reading i prefer to do with real paper, but it seems like for something so self helpy shed be more into content than process.
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Ah, Jeph's Butts Disease seems to be flaring up. Poor chap.
Whatever... I LOLd. :D
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I wonder why Momo is reading instead of downloading the content directly to her memory? I know for me that there's def types of reading i prefer to do with real paper, but it seems like for something so self helpy shed be more into content than process.
It helps with her ability to relate to humans.
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How amazing would that be if it was part of the workbook activities of that book? Like, "your human acquires information best linearly; here, you try!"
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Does it count as shipping if only one party consents?
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Well...yeah? Shipping goes against reality all the time, so in your ship, May's apparently into it.
...just keep it off the forum :roll:
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(I'm not sure she's into girls either)
Beg to differ. Here (last panel). (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2509) Or here (also last panel). (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3075)
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Have May and Pintsize met before? I don't remember them talking before, May seems to be Pintsize's type with or without Farts.exe.
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She is certainly interested in female anatomy, if nothing else.
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... In my travels I frequent truckstops. At the coffee dispenser counters there are, more often than not, little creamer style plastic cups containing a substance called Stok. It's for adding caffeine to your coffee. The concept frightens me. The concept of someone piloting 40-plus tons of diesel-powered commerce while jazzing on it ... yikes.
Yep, yep. We used to do the same thing on all-night coding runs, crumbling a no-doz into every can of soft drinks. We called it "Coke with a Kick." Does it make you any happier to think of the people who wrote your operating system or accounting software being wired to the eyeballs when we did it?
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Does it make you any happier to think of the people who wrote your operating system or accounting software being wired to the eyeballs when we did it?
I don't know about 'happier' but I can certainly say 'unsurprised' :-P
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Well, the soft drink of the German hacker scene is Club Mate, a carbonated "ice tea" based on yerba mate (it actually doesn't have too much in common with it). It has 20mg/100ml caffeine, so a 0.5l bottle has 100mg of caffeine, which is two and a half of these Stok shots.
The wiki of our hackerspace has a category called "Tasty things with Mate" (https://entropia.de/Leckeres_mit_Mate), which contains edible/drinkable and unedible/undrinkable mixtures on the basis of Club Mate. Starting with the common cocktail "Tschunk" (crushed ice, chunks of lime, cane sugar, rum and Mate) and going as far as the "GewürzKoMa" (a diced gherkin, cane sugar, Korn schnaps, crushed ice, Mate) which was developed as a desperate and surprisingly drinkable substitute for Tschunk, when they ran out of ingredients during a party.
The wiki also contains the Mate++, which is Mate with a caffeine pill. Also called Mate EL (enhanced lethality). According to the wiki the highest somebody ever took this was a Mate+6 (that's 6 pills, with 200mg each. This results in 1300mg of caffeine. Lethal doses can start at 2000). There's also the possibility of putting guarana powder into the Mate, which makes it a "Mate of Insomnia". The wiki also mentions a prophesy, according to which somebody who consumes a Mate of Insomnia+8 will cast off the yoke of sleep forever. It fails to mention that this probably works by dying.
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Wouldn't dying be literally the opposite of never sleeping again?
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Well, I wouldn't consider death and sleep the same thing. Sleep is your body regenerating. Death is your body degenerating.
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Both involve not being awake. Death is, from the relevant party's perspective, just dreamless sleep that never ends.
...probably.
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That's not entirely true, though. "Awake" is not a binary thing. Sleep and wakefulness are different brain states and different levels of consciousness, but you are still conscious, the brain is still functioning and processing information, from both internal and external sources. In death there is no consciousness or brain activity.
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... In my travels I frequent truckstops. At the coffee dispenser counters there are, more often than not, little creamer style plastic cups containing a substance called Stok. It's for adding caffeine to your coffee. The concept frightens me. The concept of someone piloting 40-plus tons of diesel-powered commerce while jazzing on it ... yikes.
Yep, yep. We used to do the same thing on all-night coding runs, crumbling a no-doz into every can of soft drinks. We called it "Coke with a Kick." Does it make you any happier to think of the people who wrote your operating system or accounting software being wired to the eyeballs when we did it?
That, plus the earlier reply about espresso shots taken straight -- explains quite a few things and a few people of my experience and acquaintance.
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New comic up! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3118)
Sometimes, I do find myself thinking that Bubbles enjoys delivering these dry put-downs to Faye. I also think that, her denials aside, she does want and need someone to whom she can say these things. She's admitted these truths to herself a long time ago, of course. Saying it to someone else...? Well, that's a different thing altogether.
Plus... Yeah... Building a microwave oven for fun? Each to their own, I suppose; we all have our little hobbies! Faye's, for example, appears to be semi-serious mockery of her friends.
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Well, the title does just say "building a microwave for fun." It could be a microwave transmitter, or it could be a microwave kill-ray designed to cook Bubbles' enemies (Faye).
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Wouldn't dying be literally the opposite of never sleeping again?
Well, sort of. Among the Kaffeine Krew, sleep is often referred to as "Practicing to be dead." But we're usually joking when we say that. Usually. Once you start to hallucinate, there's a risk that you may wind up doing it without nearly enough practice....
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I like Bubbles
She knows exactly how to deal with Faye.
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As a PTSD survivor who used to do everything I could to avoid sleep due to recurring nightmares, I can tell you from experience that longterm sleep deprivation is no joke.
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I would venture to say that Bubbles is one of the most interesting characters of the comic thus far. She's a complex cookie and yet not too much is given away about her straight off-bat.
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AnthroPCs sleep. Do they dream? Do they have nightmares?
The combination of human emotional reactions with a perfect memory seems like a recipe for chronic psychological pain.
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They dream of electric sheep.
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I think I respect Bubbles more than I like her.
And it's unusual to see a character written like that so well.
I think it's a very interesting contrast against Tai, who I like a lot but don't respect. It's a really interesting spectrum of characters.
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Nobody's going to mention the extreme upgrade to May's hair? It's so glorious right now.
Plus a complete absence of lips. On anybody.
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Faye has 'em, but not Bubbles.
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Faye has 'em, but not Bubbles.
I feel like Faye having lips has been more consistent over the years than other characters.
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Maybe. I honestly wouldn't notice if it wasn't for you guys.
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Bubbles wouldn't survive long in the South if she doesn't like being called honey.
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I've noticed that Bubbles has a pretty narrow social response lexicon. She uses the word 'uncomfortable' as a synonym for almost any unfamiliar emotion. When Bubbles says 'uncomfortable', I read 'out of my normal emotional zone'. So, there is no telling exactly how Faye calling Bubbles 'honey' really made her feel except that it is something that she really isn't used to! :wink:
Still, this is Bubbles' opportunity for revenge of a strange kind. Now it's her turn to stalk Faye, needling her and trying to get her to open up. Turnabout being always fair play.
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Bubbles wouldn't survive long in the South if she doesn't like being called honey.
Honey, truer words have ne'er been spoken, or typed as they were in this case
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I wouldn't survive long in the South for many reasons, being called honey is least among them.
Given what I know of Southern cuisine, starvation is likely threat.
As for Bubbles, I think it's more likely the South wouldn't survive long.
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I'm sure Faye is aware that the best way to persuade Bubbles to open up is to open up herself.
But there's knowing, and then there's doing...
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Is it time for The Talk (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=500) again?
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Is it time for The Talk (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=500) again?
The Talk 3: You Only Talk Thrice
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Talk Hard
Talk Harder
Talk Hard With A Vengeance
Live Free Or Talk Hard
A Good Day To Talk Hard
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I've noticed that Bubbles has a pretty narrow social response lexicon. She uses the word 'uncomfortable' as a synonym for almost any unfamiliar emotion. When Bubbles says 'uncomfortable', I read 'out of my normal emotional zone'. So, there is no telling exactly how Faye calling Bubbles 'honey' really made her feel except that it is something that she really isn't used to! :wink:
Still, this is Bubbles' opportunity for revenge of a strange kind. Now it's her turn to stalk Faye, needling her and trying to get her to open up. Turnabout being always fair play.
Insightful!
It is subtle and easy to miss but Bubbles has a wide educated vocabulary for everything but feelings.
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Nice dodging the question there Faye.
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Nice dodging the question there Faye.
Dodging the question, or laying out bait?
See, she's got Bubbles curious now and actually engaging in reciprocal conversation rather than soliloquy or snark; a first!
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"CLANK" Here is a traditional Faye punch without the traditional bruising I guess...
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You think Faye's gonna punch Bubbles? Wha?
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You think Faye's gonna punch Bubbles? Wha?
Not 'think', she did. She probably pulled it more than slightly to avoid shattering her fingers and snapping her wrist like it was a twig, of course.
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NB: No need to quote the post above you, it's assumed that's who you're responding to unless you say otherwise.
And ahh, didn't notice the clank, although that's hardly a traditional Faye punch. If Faye'd punched her, she'd have a broken hand.
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Jeph has recently renamed the original The Talk to "The Talk IV: A New Talk".
Looking forward to the prequels.
Talk Hard
Talk Harder
Talk Hard With A Vengeance
Live Free Or Talk Hard
A Good Day To Talk Hard
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Ha, I actually checked the archive, you got me. Well done.
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[DarkseidVoice]Well played[/DarkseidVoice]
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Faye used a contraction. That only happens when she's been drinking.
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Or when she's comfortable with someone.
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Or with something, I'd say. She's been using them a lot in the fighting ring since she started and I doubt she warmed up to Bubbles at first sight - hell, I doubt she's warmed up to Bubbles yet. She just might be comfortable doing welding stuff.
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She could be more "at ease" working with things (mechanical work) than with people.
I am a wreck emotionally and physically if I have to take a people-type job (service work, cashier). I hate people, each and every one of you. Well... not QUITE but I do have social anxiety that I am working on... :)
Put me in a mechanical job (repair, welding, trade-work) and I'm totally at ease and "myself." I relate to mechanical things and processes better than I do people.
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I'm beginning to wonder if she sees Bubbles as a replacement for Dora. I think she may be using her growing friendship with Bubbles to avoid the inevitable of having to deal with what happened between her and Dora and what occurred afterwards.
Not healthy Faye. Somewhere along the line you're going to have to face up to Dora.
And Dora is going to have to face up to Faye.
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Something tells me that Bubbles has learned never to agree to a 'charity event' suggested by May and Momo without more information about what it will require of her.
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Bubbles is certainly not amused indeed.
Although given her VERY large frame I would've put Bubbles in charge of the Santa costume. Which she might have enjoyed more than the Rudolph costume.
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Bubbles mentioned at the party that her armor is removable.
But for as long as we've seen her, she has never removed it.
Recalling the case of a vet friend of mine who admitted that he was injured and got shrapnel removed from his thigh only years after returning from the war he fought in, I'm wondering if she is hiding physical damage under there.
Survivor's guilt and an emotional need to be punished with pain is a hell of a thing.
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Indeed
And I think that May would have been better in a Dark Elf costume :-D
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Bubbles is certainly not amused indeed.
Although given her VERY large frame I would've put Bubbles in charge of the Santa costume. Which she might have enjoyed more than the Rudolph costume.
Judging by her robo-blush, she seems embarrassed, matter of fact.
As to her being Santa, that would make Momo the reindeer, and I do not see her being capable of that.
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Why do you think Momo wouldn't be capable of wearing the reindeer costume? She seems pretty capable to me.
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This is just wrnog. Except that May looks good an elf. Wrnog, wrnog, wrnog.
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Why do you think Momo wouldn't be capable of wearing the reindeer costume? She seems pretty capable to me.
Oh no, the costume, she could do, though she's better fitting as an elf. It's the reindeer's responsibilities she couldn't handle. She barely seems sturdily-built enough to haul a large suitcase, let alone a sleigh. Meanwhile, Bubbles is an anthropomorphized tank.
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wrnog
...am I missing a joke or was that just a typo you made four times?
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wrnog
...am I missing a joke or was that just a typo you made four times?
My money is on alcohol.
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But was it Wine or Beer?
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wrnog
...am I missing a joke or was that just a typo you made four times?
My money is on alcohol.
I'm with you, but you got to admit, they were Perfectly Reasonable with their arguing
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But was it Wine or Beer?
Yes.
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Why is it I hear you saying that in a Vorlon voice??
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The Talk:
- Hard Words
- Even Harder Words
- Thesaurus World
- Bibliophagia
- Rigor Mortis
- Petrification
- Neutron Decay
Cider - Extra Dry
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