QC Crossovers:
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Faye makes a living as a metalbender, though many jokes are made that she has a firebender ancestry. Alternating reasons being her hotness and her rage.
Dora and Sven are waterbenders. Dora is a twelfth level coffeebender. Sven is a liquor bender... sorry what was that? On a liquor bender. Gotcha.
Hannelore is a firebender. She does not like fire. At all. She mostly uses her powers to warm mugs of tea and have just, like, the coziest blankets.
Marigold jokes that she is an air bender, but it's only from her butt. It is a joke no one really appreciates.
Marten is an air bender. Acoustic bender, to be more precise. Who needs an amp for your eight string when you can control soundwaves through the air. Also uses it to blow in Claire's ear from across the room.
Claire does not have bending abilities, except maybe bookbending. Jokes about her being a genderbender seem to result in people being punched in the gut from the inside, and a very innocent-looking Marten.
... now, with Children of Anarchy dropping and more character creation tools, I'm just going to go off real quick and make the QC cast in XCOM 2
xkcd: All the characters are stick figures. Stick-figure Emily uses a backhoe to take all the scones from Coffee of Doom's pastry case.
xkcd: All the characters are stick figures. Stick-figure Emily uses a backhoe to take all the scones from Coffee of Doom's pastry case.
Black Hat teams up with Pintsize.
Emily is the Avatar.
Ok, it may just be me but I swear he's playing Faye & Bubbles very similar to the way he played Marten & Claire for a long time.Oh my god you're right! Give it to me!
That said, I expect that the next time we see Bubbles looking up into the night sky, there will be a cardigan over her armor...
Considering what at least one of Emily's other projects started doing, it might be safer for Bubbles if she *didn't*.Yeah, but where's the fun in that?
Ok, it may just be me but I swear he's playing Faye & Bubbles very similar to the way he played Marten & Claire for a long time.
That said, I expect that the next time we see Bubbles looking up into the night sky, there will be a cardigan over her armor...
Ok, it may just be me but I swear he's playing Faye & Bubbles very similar to the way he played Marten & Claire for a long time.
That said, I expect that the next time we see Bubbles looking up into the night sky, there will be a cardigan over her armor...
Faye and Bubbles are a cute couple.
Faye and Bubbles are a cute couple.
Bubbles, you can wear the cardigan over your armor.Yeah i can't see the problem with that either.
Can androids be benders?(https://wrathofnino.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/bender.jpg)
I wonder: blushing, hair, facial expressions and all the other things added to facilitate interacting with carbon-based people are expensive. Why would the government pay for all of that twice, once for the armor and once for the body underneath the armor? What if Bubbles looks totally blank and mechanical underneath?
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a helmet element to Bubbles' armour that covers her head but that she doesn't use anymore because it restricts her field of vision and makes her look a bit too much like a Cylon centurion.I wonder: blushing, hair, facial expressions and all the other things added to facilitate interacting with carbon-based people are expensive. Why would the government pay for all of that twice, once for the armor and once for the body underneath the armor? What if Bubbles looks totally blank and mechanical underneath?
Why should Bubbles have a full-fidelity human-simulating chassis? Well, firstly I suspect that, because most military equipment is built for humans, they wanted their military heavy infantry chassis to be as close to human norms as possible. So, at the very least, she'll be a giant Barbie doll, like May only much more muscular.
Secondly, I suspect that the chassis was designed for role flexibility. That means that it would need to be compatible for non-armoured operations like guard duty, occupation police duty, SCUBA insertion (using various buoyancy aids) and maybe even diplomatic protection work. In the latter mission, the ability to work in mufti and pass as a large but civilian chassis would be vital.
Finally, a derma covering of her entire body would massively improve her chassis' ability to deal with rain, frost, sand and other contaminants that could otherwise damage her inner workings.
Wait, I just noticed she's wearing a coat over her armor, so what the fuck's her issue with a cardigan?
Theory of Mind:
I think I have a mind. I think you do too. From what happens in my mind, I think I can guess what is in your mind.
(Somehow I don't think this applies to Emily...)
Wait, I just noticed she's wearing a coat over her armor, so what the fuck's her issue with a cardigan?
The cardigan is a tesseract (we can only see it as a cube). Every time Bubbles puts it on and takes it off, she's crossed over into a different comic.Who do you think Emily is? Raven?!
This reminds me of my continuing desire to install some sort of cell phone jamming apparatus at my workplace that would prevent anybody from being on a phone within thirty feet of the counter. Would make my life so much better.yeah, that's a felony (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/03/09/cta-riders-complained-of-dropped-calls-before-arrest-of-alleged-cell-phone-jammer/)
Unicorns and Pegasi -
Yes, it's an amusing conceit for story purposes. I don't know about anyone else here, but (as a veteran) I am frankly alarmed at the notion that a bio/chem weapon detection system can be manipulated/spoofed in such a way to generate visual/olfactory hallucinations. Kind of undermines the reliability of something that lives could literally depend on, especially if the hallucination were designed to be something not so obviously unreal...
"It's all right, Colonel, you can sent the human battalion through, nothing here but an olive grove..." (as opposed to an Alice Grove...)
Hanners picks up the pizza caller, dials up a deep dish with extra cheese, extra anchovies. Lock in on the cell phone signal and ... PLACE ORDER.
I'm not sure if cellphone jammers are the right idea. Granted, 95% of the time the call is probably chit chat but 5% of the time it could be someone in hospital or an urgent conversation with someone in a bad place. A coffee can often help me focus with calls like those.
Do people really just hold out their wallets to let servers take the money out? I'd almost feel tempted to take the largest denomination note, and put the change in the tip-jar...
yes. Especially older people who do have difficulties properly handling cash.That's nowhere close to being the same thing as this. And even in their case, they would ask, and not simply shove it in the cashier's face while talking on the phone.
So, Juicy returns and reminds Hanners all over again why she hates her: She is the avatar of all the things she loathes in people. Somehow, she does all the things that annoy and/or trigger Hannelore!
Yes, there will be payback...
... And, yes, there will beblood! Antiseptic and protein remover
yes. Especially older people who do have difficulties properly handling cash.That's nowhere close to being the same thing as this. And even in their case, they would ask, and not simply shove it in the cashier's face while talking on the phone.
Hannelore is, I suspect, also not a fan of entropy. It makes things messy.
Who says entropy is the end?
Yay, 100 postings. Where´s the cake?
In the next testchamber. Pleas keep going and contribute for science.
It is not, but yes, there are people who'll hand the server their wallet (which was the question). Juicy lady is very rude, but the wallet-thing alone wouldn't be problematic, especially if there's a good reason. (sometimes even the people at the manicurists who don't want to ruin their new manicure do that...)
You know, I think I know where the story in today's strip ends. It ends with a dark void without even the slightest energy difference between the few remaining particles. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Emily's voice rings out:
"Eureka! Let there be light!"
I like to think that anyone who knows science is awesome. Science is awesome.Totaly true
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Emily's voice rings out:
"Eureka! Let there be light!"
So is Emily the smartest person in the QCverse by far?
Quite the opposite, really. The endgame for entropy is everything being uniformly distributed.
So is Emily the smartest person in the QCverse by far?
Yay, 100 postings. Where´s the cake?
In the next testchamber. Pleas keep going and contribute for science.
Wikipedia got rid of those after that (https://xkcd.com/446/) xkcd.
* Nemesis, n.: A rival or opponent who cannot be beaten.Well, that doesn't mean you can't beat your nemesis, just that doing so makes them no longer your nemesis, right? Or at the very most it means they retroactively never were.
* Nemesis, n.: A rival or opponent who cannot be beaten.Well, that doesn't mean you can't beat your nemesis, just that doing so makes them no longer your nemesis, right?
I for one would never want a pooped burger no matter how well his chassis has been cleaned.
Apparently people actually do have the ability to poop burgers. (http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/)Why did I click that link? I knew I was going to regret it. 'scuse me while I go and claw out my eyes.
P.S.: Maybe I'm over-interpreting but it sounds to me that Clinton has required several MRIs in his time, post-robo-hand. I wonder why?
If you knew why you clicked that link, you might be tempted to claw out your brain.Apparently people actually do have the ability to poop burgers. (http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/)Why did I click that link? I knew I was going to regret it. 'scuse me while I go and claw out my eyes.
This would be more impressive if the male contingent of the comic were any sort of competition,Why is the sex of the "competition" relevant? Why is it more impressive for a woman to be smarter than a man than a woman? Is the implication here that men are generally more intelligent than women, and that is what would make it more impressive? If so, I'm disappointed that we haven't left that sort of gross sexism behind by now.
Quick question - has Claire moved in with Marten and Faye in the time skip? Because she always seems to be in their flat.
Apparently people actually do have the ability to poop burgers. (http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/)Why did I click that link? I knew I was going to regret it. 'scuse me while I go and claw out my eyes.
Yay, 100 postings. Where´s the cake?
Apparently people actually do have the ability to poop burgers. (http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/)Welp! There goes my plans to vacay in Okinawa.
Something that occurred to me: Clinton needing to have his hand mount removed would be a major operation. It appears to be pretty firmly integrated into his forearm - it probably attaches to the bone and is controlled by the nerves of his arm. So removing it would be tantamount to another amputation.
In short, they'd probably try to find any possible alternative to an MRI that they could in Clinton's case.
Isn't it a relevant bit of discussion of Jeph's art to look at how he has distributed intelligence, courage, good looks, and everything else among the characters? And how he's not bestowed hyper-intelligence on any of the men?
Relevant, but wrong. Sven had the kind of mind that can coast through school easily. At the rarefied heights of intelligence, Hannerdad and Station have prominent places.
Something that occurred to me: Clinton needing to have his hand mount removed would be a major operation. It appears to be pretty firmly integrated into his forearm - it probably attaches to the bone and is controlled by the nerves of his arm. So removing it would be tantamount to another amputation.
In short, they'd probably try to find any possible alternative to an MRI that they could in Clinton's case.
I'm not quite sure it would be as drastic as that.
A lot of current medical implants have to be MRI safe and are made from non-ferromagnetic materials. These materials would be tested to ensure that they can be used for implantation, but also so that they can be used and examined with the minimum of invasive procedures. Often in an emergency time is critical and if you have remove an implant because you think it might interfere with equipment, that's time that is potentially fatal for a patient.
staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer
Not going to lie, I agree with the issue, but...
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.
I'd rather see these issues made through the art and demonstrated through the experiences of the story. In just about all media I find it irritating when characters proselytize to the audience as a proxy for the author. QC doesn't get a free pass, no matter how much I agree with the issue and enjoy the comic.
North Carolina lawmakers must have recognized that careful scrutiny of the bill would have doomed it. They convened a special session on Wednesday — which cost taxpayers $42,000 — to ram the bill through. The House allowed for 30 minutes of public debate, limiting speakers to two minutes.And the Governor signed it that night.
Transgender and gender non-conforming people frequently experience discrimination, harassment, and marginalization across college and university campuses (Bilodeau, 2007; Finger, 2010; Rankin, et al., 2010; Seelman et al., 2012). The minority stress model (Meyer, 2007) posits that experiences of discrimination often negatively impact the psychological well-being of minority groups. However, few scholars have examined whether college institutional climate factors—such as being denied access to bathrooms or gender-appropriate campus housing—are significantly associated with detrimental psychological outcomes for transgender people. Using the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, this study analyzes whether being denied access to these spaces is associated with lifetime suicide attempts, after controlling for interpersonal victimization by students or teachers. Findings from sequential logistic regression (N = 2,316) indicate that denial of access to either space had a significant relationship to suicidality, even after controlling for interpersonal victimization. This paper discusses implications for higher education professionals and researchers.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00918369.2016.1157998?journalCode=wjhm20
Not going to lie, I agree with the issue, but...
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.
I'd rather see these issues made through the art and demonstrated through the experiences of the story. In just about all media I find it irritating when characters proselytize to the audience as a proxy for the author. QC doesn't get a free pass, no matter how much I agree with the issue and enjoy the comic.
It's been a very special week. I'm now forced to use the men's room in NC.
Actually by the phrasing it sounds to me like the intent is to state that none of the male contingent of the comic are as smart as any of the females which in general is true from a certain perspective. We men tend to not think about anything before we act. I feel that proper application of intelligence is what make one smart.
Not going to lie, I agree with the issue, but...
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.
I'd rather see these issues made through the art and demonstrated through the experiences of the story. In just about all media I find it irritating when characters proselytize to the audience as a proxy for the author. QC doesn't get a free pass, no matter how much I agree with the issue and enjoy the comic.
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.Jeph did NOT have Claire doing that, but quite obviously looking at, and speaking to, Pintsize.
Not going to lie, I agree with the issue, but...
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.
I'd rather see these issues made through the art and demonstrated through the experiences of the story. In just about all media I find it irritating when characters proselytize to the audience as a proxy for the author. QC doesn't get a free pass, no matter how much I agree with the issue and enjoy the comic.
It's been a very special week. I'm now forced to use the men's room in NC.
Jeph did NOT have Claire doing that, but quite obviously looking at, and speaking to, Pintsize.
Not going to lie, I agree with the issue, but...
I find the whole "Very Special Episode" style with the character staring straight ahead and preaching directly to the reader/viewer to be, well, condescending.
I'd rather see these issues made through the art and demonstrated through the experiences of the story. In just about all media I find it irritating when characters proselytize to the audience as a proxy for the author. QC doesn't get a free pass, no matter how much I agree with the issue and enjoy the comic.
I feel the same way. The message was uncharacteristically heavy-handed, namely panel 4 - it just doesn't feel like natural conversation. The message is great, and right, don't get me wrong. The delivery was just kinda... awkward? I dunno what word I'm looking for here.
Pintsize hadn't said one word about technology supposedly solving non-technical problems such as bigotry.Pintsize said: "Eh, it'll be fine. Eventually everyone will be able to have whatever kind of body they want." So he was certainly suggesting that technology would fix the problem of any mis-match between mind and body, and then everything would be "fine". Like Claire, I'm perfectly certain that it won't.
This is the assertive Claire that, as I recall, a handful of people took to disliking around about this time in the strip.Just so.
It seemed in character to me. E.g.:I always forget Gabby exists.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2205
This is the assertive Claire that, as I recall, a handful of people took to disliking around about this time in the strip. Curious, that.
Either Pintsize has grown up a lot or Claire has committed to dropping stealth globally.
This. Why is nobody talking about this? Claire just told Pintsize (Pintsize of all people!) that she's trans.
And he didn't even react to that.
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Forget time travel, THIS is what makes my mind ache.
It's a mercy that he didn't make crude suggestions like he did to Faye. He's decent to Claire, but there's infinite scope for disaster if he's getting his ideas about trans people from his porn database.
It felt more natural - it was something Momo wanted to talk about, and she was already upset. She also didn't feel the need to lecture Marten about the topic (she assumed he was on her side, she just clarified why she was sad).
In Claires case - she felt the need to reiterate something everybody already knew (pintsize isn't surprised), she argued against a strawman (in no universe did Pintsize say that tech would solve all problems, he just said everybody could have the body they wanted). If she continued the conversation another way (it would be awesome if being able to have whatever body you want would actually solve all problems, but she can't see it going that way, because bigotry, for example) it would have felt like a conversation friends actually have, not a lecture.
Claire is one of the few people that actually understand that Pintsize is not a rampaging a-hole. I mean she says as much. He's crude, he's rude, he enjoys shocking people... But he's also a companion AI. And really, he does help people. He does so while being crude, rude and nasty towards people. In a lot of ways he's like a old jester. He deliberately makes himself the butt of jokes to act as a goad and provide catharsis to those around him. He sets himself up to be a joke, even be abused... but he also amuses people and sometimes makes them think.
Claire may have heard people saying everything would be all right later, and they may have said it in a spirit of refusing to look at her daily issues.Which is a thing people do. All the time. Whether it's the inequality of women and ethnic minorities, or denial of basic civil rights to trans people or homosexuals, the reaction is much the same: "Oh, but it's getting better isn't it? Please stop banging on about the injustice you face in your daily life."
That's not something that randomly happens, that's a choice Jeph made.Indeed it is. His comment under the comic refers explicitly to wanting to make a point. And it doesn't go down very well, apparently.
Whether it's the inequality of women and ethnic minorities, or denial of basic civil rights to trans people or homosexuals, the reaction is much the same: "Oh, but it's getting better isn't it? Please stop banging on about the injustice you face in your daily life."
Claire may have heard people saying everything would be all right later, and they may have said it in a spirit of refusing to look at her daily issues.Which is a thing people do. All the time. Whether it's the inequality of women and ethnic minorities, or denial of basic civil rights to trans people or homosexuals, the reaction is much the same: "Oh, but it's getting better isn't it? Please stop banging on about the injustice you face in your daily life."That's not something that randomly happens, that's a choice Jeph made.Indeed it is. His comment under the comic refers explicitly to wanting to make a point. And it doesn't go down very well, apparently.
Claire is used as a mouthpiece, and in the process is portrayed as somebody who feels the need to condescendingly lecture a friend.
The arc of history bends towards justice only because a lot of people have expended a lot of effort doing the bending.Truer words were never spoken. It helps more than you know not having to do it alone though.
Word.The arc of history bends towards justice only because a lot of people have expended a lot of effort doing the bending.Truer words were never spoken. It helps more than you know not having to do it alone though.