Jermey's modded chassis looks like an integrated model to me but I'm not sure if that's just Faye and Bubbles having got bits that look like they go together. The arm is so much longer relative to the legs that I'm thinking that either it can telescope or is from a similar but larger model. Either that or the engineer who designed it had a thing for the body architecture of gorillas. For some reason, I can also hear a distinct pneumatic "Chshhh-chshhh!" nose as Jeremy moves.
Seven actually appears to have the same base chassis as Bubbles, except with a head more like Jeremy's.You'd think they were drawn by the same artist. ;) But, yep, you're right.
Seven actually appears to have the same base chassis as Bubbles, except with a head more like Jeremy's.You'd think they were drawn by the same artist. ;) But, yep, you're right.
Seven actually appears to have the same base chassis as Bubbles, except with a head more like Jeremy's.You'd think they were drawn by the same artist. ;) But, yep, you're right.
Not necessarily the same chassis per se. Bubbles is wearing armor and we're not entirely sure which bits are removable armor and which aren't.
07 is also shorter than Bubbles. Probably shorter than Elliot, too. But still taller than Faye.
I am not remotely knowledgeable enough about incense to either attempt an answer to Brun's question or understand her pun.
What kind of incense do horses like to eat?(click to show/hide)
However, this is ignoring Brun's clearly-stated determination that she will not sell, disrespecting her and (in a way) disrespecting Hannelore's gift.It could be worse than that. In my moral code if someone gifted me something they had no way of knowing was valuable and I sold it straight away I would consider myself morally bound to hand over at least a large percentage of the money to the giver. In my ethics gifts are quite different to buying and selling in that respect. But if its an item I desire for itself, not for its value, and plan to keep indefinitely I wouldn't think myself under any such obligation. That would mean that if some idiot took it on themselves to sell the item for me I would feel morally bound to hand the cash over. So if Brun thought like me the end result of Renee selling the clock would be Brun having neither the money nor the clock.
PLOT TWIST:
Tortura is in town not only to visit Steve, but she's also in town looking for the clock as it holds vital information hidden inside it that could save or destroy the world.
IMO, it is nothing to do with Brun (and Renee) and everything to do with the fact that I think Jeph has been struggling to find a direction in which to take the strip after Faye's post-Angus breakdown and its consequences. Only in the Faye & Bubbles arc has he found something that really works. More or less everything else has the feel of throwing plots and character quirks at the wall to see which one sticks.
Know what the major rule for writers is when they do such dark storylines? YOU TAKE A BREAK WHEN THE STORY HAS BEEN WRAPPED UP!
Know what the major rule for writers is when they do such dark storylines? YOU TAKE A BREAK WHEN THE STORY HAS BEEN WRAPPED UP!
I've been thinking about the clock arc and I think I know where this is going.
I'm sure that you do and, the minute that Jeph does another difficult and personally emotionally-taxing storyline like Faye's he'll take a break but, and I need to make this entirely clear, to me the 'Bubbles' Memories' arc was not even remotely a 'dark, taxing storyline'.
It's not static electricity, Brun's going Super Saiyan.
I'm Mr High-Electrostatic Skin. I was prohibited from entering the workshop at a computer repair shop where I used to work because just being around me could cause delicate chips to freak out and EPROMs to spontaneously wipe themselves. Walking around on thick carpet can be interesting for me, especially if there are metal fittings on earthed furniture. Once, I actually managed to flash-discharge the battery on a portable 'phone. So, yeah, I empathise with Brun's pain here.
Elliot would make such a terrible poker player, he can't hide his emotions for anything. The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it. Telling them to "quit it" rarely works, as that also shows that you were bothered by what they said.
Renee seems to actually feel bad, so that's something.
The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it.Quite so. My father's advice was: "Never let them see you cry."
The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it.Quite so. My father's advice was: "Never let them see you cry."
The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it.Quite so. My father's advice was: "Never let them see you cry."
Eh. It's better than my dad's advice which was something about crushing enemies, driving them around and lamenting women. Quite the backwards thinker, my dad.
The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it.Quite so. My father's advice was: "Never let them see you cry."
Eh. It's better than my dad's advice which was something about crushing enemies, driving them around and lamenting women. Quite the backwards thinker, my dad.
He just wants you to succeed. How else will you become king?
Good thing neither Claire nor Hannelore are along for this or the squee right now would be deafening.
Faye is abnormally adorable in today's comic.
The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it.Quite so. My father's advice was: "Never let them see you cry."
Did anyone check for compatibility i know cabling issues always come up... but its not the length of the cable that counts...
"Waa-ah-oh-oh, caught in a robomance!"
If you can fit it into a Lady Gaga song, how can the answer be no?
I'd really like to know what's going through blushin' Bubbles' mind right now! :wink:
Looks like Jeremy's arm is in fact telescopic.The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it.Quite so. My father's advice was: "Never let them see you cry."
Addendum: Nor let them see the flash of anger in your eyes. Many will try to goad you into fighting if they do.
And then there's J.I. Mathers' advice, "Never throw the first punch. Always have a witness. And, … AIM FOR THE BALLS!!!".
I know hitting 'below the belt' isn't considered "fair", but being out numbered isn't fair either.
A nice romantic momnet to cap off the storyline.
The best reaction to a jibe like Renee's is to act like it means nothing to you, otherwise the person making the jibe is liable to keep poking at you with it.Quite so. My father's advice was: "Never let them see you cry."
What is "Bront"?
Though Arthur is a great name, Jeph missed the boat on a slick Elder Scrolls reference: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_the_Plant (http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_the_Plant)
Did anyone check for compatibility i know cabling issues always come up... but its not the length of the cable that counts...
Does the prohibition on discussing characters' "private parts" extend to AI cabling, ports, plugs, and assorted dongles?
Did anyone check for compatibility i know cabling issues always come up... but its not the length of the cable that counts...
Does the prohibition on discussing characters' "private parts" extend to AI cabling, ports, plugs, and assorted dongles?
I shouldn't be surprised that Bubbles had such an... intense reaction here; it's still pretty amazing to see how seriously she's taking it.
What's really funny is Claire squeaking out the pun at the end. She doesn't know if it would be welcome and doesn't want to sound like she's mocking Bubbles' one-result random name generator. However, she's literally got to pun when the door is left open for it or she'll explode or something. So, it's a tiny whisper then!
An early request: I don't care how much you like Girls With Slingshots. Arthur will never talk back, no matter how much alcohol is involved!
Bubbles has buddha nature.All sentient beings have Buddha-nature, and I see no reason why this would not be true of artificial intelligences. The trick is to realise that nature, and I see no reason why an AI could not to do this. Silicon satori, you might say.
Did anyone check for compatibility i know cabling issues always come up... but its not the length of the cable that counts...
Does the prohibition on discussing characters' "private parts" extend to AI cabling, ports, plugs, and assorted dongles?
If multiple AI members of the forum report feeling unwelcome as a result then yes :-)
We shouldn't wait for someone to be unhappy before taking steps to make them welcome. On the other hand we would want evidence that such a subject was actually analogous to human causes of embarrassment, which we can't simply assume.
AI forum members are better known as spambots. I feel they should be made to feel unwelcome.
Did anyone check for compatibility i know cabling issues always come up... but its not the length of the cable that counts...
Does the prohibition on discussing characters' "private parts" extend to AI cabling, ports, plugs, and assorted dongles?
If multiple AI members of the forum report feeling unwelcome as a result then yes :-)
There is the newspost below this comic, though: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1996
AI forum members are better known as spambots. I feel they should be made to feel unwelcome.
AI forum members are better known as spambots. I feel they should be made to feel unwelcome.
Did anyone check for compatibility i know cabling issues always come up... but its not the length of the cable that counts...
Does the prohibition on discussing characters' "private parts" extend to AI cabling, ports, plugs, and assorted dongles?
If multiple AI members of the forum report feeling unwelcome as a result then yes :-)
Which raises the issue of when a Turing-equivalent AI would be welcomed here.AI forum members are better known as spambots. I feel they should be made to feel unwelcome.
Unlike spambots, real AIs would be expected to pass our Turing test on registration.
Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
Were you required to take a Turing test before you were admitted? *I* certainly wasn't.Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
I'd assume that humans that would fail a Turing test wouldn't be allowed in either.
Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
"Once they became self-modifying, spam-filters and spam-bots got into a war to see which could act more human, and since their failures invoked a human judgement about whether their material were convincingly human, it was like a trillion Turing-tests from which they could learn. From there came the first machine-intelligence algorithms, and then my kind."
I do love how Bubbles is so comically serious. :-DFor some odd reason I, all of a sudden, pictured John Cleese saying that line quickly juxtaposed with Hugh Laurie. :psyduck:
And unless there is as-yet-unrevealed aspects of the QC robots/AI/Singularity event, it looks as though robots and AI, while capable of learning through experience, deductive and inductive reasoning, and other forms of mental growth, are created adult. No terrible twos, no adolescence, no hormone driven rages or teen angst...
I do love how Bubbles is so comically serious. :-DI'm on the impression that Bubbles is just joking around with Claire. She looks to me like someone who sometimes takes advantage of being serious most of the time so she can be a smartass every now and then without anyone realizing.
Nah, it's just that 'George' was already taken.
Bubbles can underclock her processor.
Did anyone check for compatibility i know cabling issues always come up... but its not the length of the cable that counts...
Does the prohibition on discussing characters' "private parts" extend to AI cabling, ports, plugs, and assorted dongles?
If multiple AI members of the forum report feeling unwelcome as a result then yes :-)
We shouldn't wait for someone to be unhappy before taking steps to make them welcome. On the other hand we would want evidence that such a subject was actually analogous to human causes of embarrassment, which we can't simply assume.
I think Bubbles takes her responsibilities very seriously. Arthur Plant is in good hands.But what about the other half of the plant?
You're not a Congress critter, are you? If not, then no Turing test required.Were you required to take a Turing test before you were admitted? *I* certainly wasn't.Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
I'd assume that humans that would fail a Turing test wouldn't be allowed in either.
I always assumed those were a variant of KrynoidWere you required to take a Turing test before you were admitted? *I* certainly wasn't.Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
I'd assume that humans that would fail a Turing test wouldn't be allowed in either.
You're not a Congress critter, are you? If not, then no Turing test required.
"Pervaya demokraticheskaya respublika armeyskogo kiber-oruzhiya" (https://translate.google.de/?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&client=tw-ob#en/ru/First%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20army%20cyber%20weapon%20one)In translating the Russian into Chinese, because it's the sort of thing a Chinese military AI would declare, I discovered that the German for "simplified" is vereinfacht, which sounds like a dangerous medical condition.
Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.
I'd assume that humans that would fail a Turing test wouldn't be allowed in either.
"Pervaya demokraticheskaya respublika armeyskogo kiber-oruzhiya" (https://translate.google.de/?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&client=tw-ob#en/ru/First%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20army%20cyber%20weapon%20one)In translating the Russian into Chinese, because it's the sort of thing a Chinese military AI would declare, I discovered that the German for "simplified" is vereinfacht, which sounds like a dangerous medical condition.
"Pervaya demokraticheskaya respublika armeyskogo kiber-oruzhiya" (https://translate.google.de/?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&client=tw-ob#en/ru/First%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20army%20cyber%20weapon%20one)In translating the Russian into Chinese, because it's the sort of thing a Chinese military AI would declare, I discovered that the German for "simplified" is vereinfacht, which sounds like a dangerous medical condition.
Hmm. The name "Arthur" popped out from Bubbles' AI subconsciousness rather quickly. Could it be the name of a comrade in arms, missing in action?
Which raises the issue of when a Turing-equivalent AI would be welcomed here.AI forum members are better known as spambots. I feel they should be made to feel unwelcome.
Unlike spambots, real AIs would be expected to pass our Turing test on registration.
Also, are Turing test not like literacy tests in the South? We assume that fleshbots are welcome, but AI's have to prove something before they'd be welcome? That's bigotry of the worst sort.