I really need to go back to sleep.Psst: Ananas = Pineapple in english.
English and Spanish being the only ones to call it otherwise is why I put "Ananas". A parenthetical has been added.I really need to go back to sleep.Psst: Ananas = Pineapple in english.(click to show/hide)
Rosehips.
The cast all assume she would go by "Rose" or "Rosie", but her sisters all actually call her "Hips". The thought of calling her "Rose" never occurred to them.
So you're suggesting it was Avacado's idea to shorten it to 'Hips'? :DRosehips.
The cast all assume she would go by "Rose" or "Rosie", but her sisters all actually call her "Hips". The thought of calling her "Rose" never occurred to them.
Them darn hipsters! *shaking fist*
Here's hoping Elliot goes in to see Roko and helps her get out of the 'face washing loop' she's in.
Ding, ding, ding! Give them a cigar!
Yeah, we could discuss the implications of AI and clothing.
Or we could talk about the fact that Roko seems to be suffering a breakdown, to the point where she's willing to start disfiguring herself!
And Melon isn't acting in her regular off the wall self in this strip. By any definition of the word, she's trying to talk Roko down from the edge.
Yeah, we could discuss the implications of AI and clothing.
Or we could talk about the fact that Roko seems to be suffering a breakdown, to the point where she's willing to start disfiguring herself!
I do like that we're exploring more of Roko's issues with her new body, and I'm not qualified to talk about how realistic her progression is. So perhaps others here can comment: To me the only part that doesn't seem plausible is Roko calling for a vegetable peeler so soon after the "melon baller" incident. Opinions?
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I'm mad at myself for hearing that as Snagglepuss's voice when I read it.Yeah, we could discuss the implications of AI and clothing.
Or we could talk about the fact that Roko seems to be suffering a breakdown, to the point where she's willing to start disfiguring herself!
Or both, even.
So it's considered awkward to see a robot naked. That says they're not simply treated as equal to organics, they're treated like organics.
Or is it just respecting their wishes? Momo wore a towel out of the shower even around a close female friend.
Elliot is the kind of guy who always is concerned with others' dignity and agency. He also is the sort of guy who would be very easily embarrassed by seeing someone naked, human or synthetic. The nudity taboo is a real and powerful thing, you know! :-P
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I do like that we're exploring more of Roko's issues with her new body, and I'm not qualified to talk about how realistic her progression is. So perhaps others here can comment: To me the only part that doesn't seem plausible is Roko calling for a vegetable peeler so soon after the "melon baller" incident. Opinions?
Called it.Common enough that there's a known range of reactions as Roko's is unusually intense. Quoth Lemon, "You've been traumatized. Give it a few days, and if you still don't feel any different, we can discuss further therapeutic options." (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3914)
One wonders why Roko wasn't referred to a AI therapist as a precaution once the body switch happened. These sort of issues can't be uncommon....
So it's considered awkward to see a robot naked. That says they're not simply treated as equal to organics, they're treated like organics.
Or is it just respecting their wishes? Momo wore a towel out of the shower even around a close female friend.
I'm starting to think Roko would have been better of with a totally different chassis, rather than that similar-but-still-slightly-different one.
Hopefully, tomorrow's comic will not be Faye and Bubbles assessing the damage Roko inflicted to herself...
I just had the image of Roko making a deliberate scar on the dermal. Self-harm done in a mirror to FORCE her mind to recognize this as her face.
"That's my scar on my face. It's Mine."
After reading the last week's thread, with all it's guesses... Just wanted to stop by and say I'm 99% certain what Jeph is trying to convey is that Roko is going through a kind of dissociation. The umbrella of dissociation is quite wide; and even fits 'regular' ol' PTSD under it(though this was already covered via Bubbles). She doesn't feel integrated with her body. She is depersonalized. (comic=3914, 3919, 3948, 3952, 3953, 3960, 3965, 3966). Now it's not certain if Robots in this universe are able to experience this, so I'll hang on to my hat - but I wanted to say I deeply appreciate the route this is seemingly taking.
If this is right - Dissociation is one of the most 'weird' and undiscussed mental illnesses and I'm glad someone, somewhere is tackling it and especially someone with reach. I have a strong desire to see how this plays out. Thank you, Jeph.
“I was playing football at school,” Killick wrote in an email. “For some reason I looked down at my hands and my mind said, ‘They are not yours.’ I just started screaming and running in every direction in absolute horrendous fear.”
When he was only a few months old, Killick’s house was destroyed by a V2 rocket and he was rescued from beneath the rubble after being missing for two days. He subsequently endured a childhood of extreme physical and psychological abuse from both his parents and grandparents, precipitating (according to psychologists now) the disorder that still plays a large part in his life.
Me thinks Elliot has prior experience in talking someone down from an anxiety/dissociative spiral.Elliot works at the Horrible Revelation. So talking someone down to defuse a situation is something he does on a regular basis.
Me thinks Elliot has prior experience in talking someone down from an anxiety/dissociative spiral.Elliot works at the Horrible Revelation. So talking someone down to defuse a situation is something he does on a regular basis.
Me thinks Elliot has prior experience in talking someone down from an anxiety/dissociative spiral.Elliot works at the Horrible Revelation. So talking someone down to defuse a situation is something he does on a regular basis.
Instead of a scar to mark the new face as her own, maybe she could be persuaded to try a piercing, like Claire's perhaps. She might find talking to Claire helpful, as one commenter mentioned earlier.
Instead of a scar to mark the new face as her own, maybe she could be persuaded to try a piercing, like Claire's perhaps. She might find talking to Claire helpful, as one commenter mentioned earlier.
Perhaps Skull-Master, Master of Skulls has a nice spray that would be right up her alley.
Finally... I wonder if Melon really does know what the next number will be? She's not demonstrated brilliant pattern-recognition skills in the past!
As I was walkin' round Cambridge City,Yeah, but the difference is that when they come back to Cambrdige City, the AI will still be a 'pretty fair robot'. In the original, she's gone because she's aged along with him.
'bout the hour of twelve at night
There I saw a fair pretty robot
Cutting her bangs by candlelight.
She had twenty, eighteen, sixteen, fourteen
Twelve ten eight six four two none;
Nineteen, seventeen, fifteen, thirteen
'leven, nine seven five three and one.
While I'm sure Roko doesn't object to Melon's attempts to be helpful, I have to wonder if it isn't just a little bit problematic. Since Roko's issue is that she doesn't "feel like herself," the fact that Melon isn't acting 100 percent like herself either might be a distraction (and not a good distraction).
So in panel 4, I'm imagining Roko thinking "THERE is our adorable little cloudcookoolander. Never change, Melon."
After reading the last week's thread, with all it's guesses... Just wanted to stop by and say I'm 99% certain what Jeph is trying to convey is that Roko is going through a kind of dissociation. The umbrella of dissociation is quite wide; and even fits 'regular' ol' PTSD under it(though this was already covered via Bubbles). She doesn't feel integrated with her body. She is depersonalized. (comic=3914, 3919, 3948, 3952, 3953, 3960, 3965, 3966). Now it's not certain if Robots in this universe are able to experience this, so I'll hang on to my hat - but I wanted to say I deeply appreciate the route this is seemingly taking.
If this is right - Dissociation is one of the most 'weird' and undiscussed mental illnesses and I'm glad someone, somewhere is tackling it and especially someone with reach. I have a strong desire to see how this plays out. Thank you, Jeph.
Melon appears to be a scatterbrained airhead -- but I wonder how much of that is obfuscation. She has a really good sense of what to do in an emergency, and she only does ridiculous things when it doesn't matter. Could it be that she's a clown, not an airhead?
I think we now see the side of Melon that makes her Roko's friend. Although she may be weird as hell, she is a good person underneath that... mess of a fruit salad.
So it's considered awkward to see a robot naked. That says they're not simply treated as equal to organics, they're treated like organics.
Or is it just respecting their wishes? Momo wore a towel out of the shower even around a close female friend.
Well Roko’s chassis has nipples so there’s some anatomical correctness. I don’t think AIs are required to wear clothes, but they may be programmed with a sense that a naked AI with the features of a Barbie doll would be disturbing so they dress for the sake of convention.
Wait, what?https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3914
When was it established her new chassis had nipples?
Oh.Wait, what?https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3914
When was it established her new chassis had nipples?
Congratulations Roko, you now have a human friend who lives in close proximity that you could make bread for without it being unexpected or weird. Those cooking utensils are a self fulfilling prophecy.Not to mention Faye and Clinton, who would probably react favorably to a 'hey, I wish to fabricate and insert nutrition into some organics. Please join me so as to ensure I create something edible, if not delicious, and that I do not waste ingredients."
Congratulations Roko, you now have a human friend who lives in close proximity that you could make bread for without it being unexpected or weird. Those cooking utensils are a self fulfilling prophecy.
Not to mention Faye and Clinton, who would probably react favorably to a 'hey, I wish to fabricate and insert nutrition into some organics. Please join me so as to ensure I create something edible, if not delicious, and that I do not waste ingredients."
How does Melon pay rent?
How does Melon pay rent?
She has a job - She plays the victim in a scorpion pit in a Chamber of Horrors show somewhere.
Isn't having an unofficial career as a counselor supposed to be the bartender's thing, not the bouncer's? :DTaking it back a layer, there are official counselors but cops are often called upon to be unofficial or even semi-official counselors. (After all, a bouncer is a business establishment's internal policeperson.)
Where are you getting gendering? They use plural pronouns, dress ambiguously...I was looking at the shorts and crop top on the right. Or did I badly misread that? If so, I apologize if I offended.
Azathoth is their dog. Or possibly dogs? I don't remember for sure if they have more than one.
Raccoons have appeared in several strips.
I'm also looking at the stars outside the window. Is it night wherever they are, or are they on a shielded orbital of some kind? Fascinating to speculate!
Sorry... Small arms and the like is one of the fields I've always been interested and researching. Back to your normally scheduled QC Strip, already in progress.
Anyone else notice that Spookybot's speech bubbles are, well, actual bubbles in the last panel, instead of the rectangular ones he/she and other AI normally have?
Mistake by Jeph, or could there be more behind it?
Anyone else notice that Spookybot's speech bubbles are, well, actual bubbles in the last panel, instead of the rectangular ones he/she and other AI normally have?
Mistake by Jeph, or could there be more behind it?
IIRC, Spookybot has has human-style speech bubbles more often than rectangular robotic ones. It's just another reminder of how very advanced they are.
There's actually a lot of meat to panel 6 and how Jeph shows the Spookybot Nodes. For the first time, we see them acting as individuals or at least as not being of one mind. I'm wondering if this is indicating they have a degree of independence or whether or not we're seeing different aspects of Spookybot debating on the next step. Sort of a literal Id, Ego and Superego or something like that.
I'm also looking at the stars outside the window. Is it night wherever they are, or are they on a shielded orbital of some kind? Fascinating to speculate!
nothing gendered about a crop top and shorts, anyone can totally rock it!!
I respectfully disagree, I don't think you need a particular body type to be able to pull anything off. Rocking what you're wearing is more about how confident you feel wearing it than it is what you're actually wearing. If you think you look good, people tend to agree. And those who don't? fuck 'em
I respectfully disagree, I don't think you need a particular body type to be able to pull anything off. Rocking what you're wearing is more about how confident you feel wearing it than it is what you're actually wearing. If you think you look good, people tend to agree. And those who don't? fuck 'em
Like pretty much anything to do with aesthetics, there are as many opinions as there are people. I can't pull off a crop top - in large part because I don't think I can. Many people would say that with my fat upper arms I can't wear sleeveless shirts either, and yet in the summer it takes either a really cool day or a really cute dress/shirt to get me to wear sleeves. Because fuck 'em, I do what I want.
As for Claire's new hairdo... Well, she has said that she likes it short and there is something about the Brun-style floof poof on her head that seems in-character for her too. I'll still always remember her old hip-length hair with affection but I've got to say that I get why she might have preferred it shorter.
I respectfully disagree, I don't think you need a particular body type to be able to pull anything off. Rocking what you're wearing is more about how confident you feel wearing it than it is what you're actually wearing. If you think you look good, people tend to agree. And those who don't? fuck 'emI didn't say squat about body tyrpes.
Anybody can 'pull off' any clothes they wish to wear.In the literal sense, yes, but I'd argue on hats.
Anybody can 'pull off' any clothes they wish to wear.
GROUCHO FTWAnybody can 'pull off' any clothes they wish to wear.
And it can be even more fun when you have someone else to pull'em off for you.
in the summer it takes either a really cool day or a really cute dress/shirt to get me to wear sleeves. Because fuck 'em, I do what I want.Sleeves are bullshit.
in the summer it takes either a really cool day or a really cute dress/shirt to get me to wear sleeves. Because fuck 'em, I do what I want.Sleeves are bullshit.
Hi Marisha.in the summer it takes either a really cool day or a really cute dress/shirt to get me to wear sleeves. Because fuck 'em, I do what I want.Sleeves are bullshit.
Did anyone else start hearing Helen Reddy's voice when they hit panel two?With the last panel I could hear her singing "Leave me alone, just leave me alone..."
Looks like Durian came in 1st place, with Kiwi and Peach in 2nd and 3rd.My waiter buddy at my favorite Pho place was flabbergasted when this white boy ordered a durian smoothie. Someday I'll get a chance to try the stuff in its natural form.
Berry and grape came in dead last with zero votes.
Durian is, at least for me strange. It can vary in taste between light and sweet, and something akin to how it smells, sometimes in the same mouthful.Ah turpentine with just a hint of lacquer thinner and maybe some naphthalene mixed into the bouquet.
Durian is, at least for me strange. It can vary in taste between light and sweet, and something akin to how it smells, sometimes in the same mouthful.I've never tried it, and I hesitate to try to smell it (sensitive sense of smell).
Marten is good people though.
Am I the only one, or does the Cast page need an overhaul?You are not the only one. Maybe Jeph will be willing to delegate the task to one of the senior ancient old-timers who remembers all the characters from when they were just ink squiggles.