Today's strip is quite adorable in its own way because it shows just what a close family this group are. Marigold doesn't hesitate to help fix May and she's actually quite eager to help deal with the whole chassis problem.
What is really lovely though is, when you parse out her bitterness filter, May really is very happy and grateful for her friend and their hospitality to the point where she feels genuinely guilty about accepting it when she can only give such a small amount in repayment. On the flip side, it's kind of sad that she thinks that she is disliked and that reminders that she isn't universally despised annoys her a little because maybe it requires revising her attitude towards other people!
Finally, Dale and Marigold are an increasingly effective double-act, aren't they?
Apart from screwing up becoming a fighter jet, May claimed she liked to be a "blue robot chick". So my guess is, she'd go for something similar like her current chassis (with my expectation of the model line actually being out of production, and some leftovers were sold to the government without supplying spare parts).
I put "other":-But can it turn into a 15' (5m) tall vaguely humanoid robot? :-D
With all the trouble she's been having with her body literally falling apart lately, I think May will go for the most reliable, no-frills, easy-maintenance body on the market - sort of like the Volkswagen Beetle of robot bodies :-D
(Of course, it'll be blue!)
I put "other":-
With all the trouble she's been having with her body literally falling apart lately, I think May will go for the most reliable, no-frills, easy-maintenance body on the market - sort of like the Volkswagen Beetle of robot bodies :-D
(Of course, it'll be blue!)
May's parole officer can now walk into Dale and Marigold's apartment without a warrant, for example, and toss the place.
Okay, but remember that "Horrible Little Goblin" is rapidly becoming May's brand.
So, is Marigold fourth walling us in the fourth panel?I wouldn't say in the 4th, but maybe in the 3rd.
Also, nice to see Marigold again, it feels like it has been a while. It appears that lots of sex agrees with her, she looks happy, and it looks like her self esteem is at healthy levels.Agreed.
So Paff Paff may not fix everything but it sure can help.Hmmm.... I wonder if some AI have a psychological need for social contact like humans? Can AI become "touch starved"?
And I kinda like how when Marigold came in instead of typical anime misunderstanding first thing she saw was May hip joints looking exposed. Both Dale and Marigold really try to be good supportive friends to May and that is stuff I love.
I think we can see a lot of May's character growth in the fact that her response to an offer of a hug is now "OK, why not" rather than "I DON'T DO HUGS."
So Paff Paff may not fix everything but it sure can help.
And I kinda like how when Marigold came in instead of typical anime misunderstanding first thing she saw was May hip joints looking exposed. Both Dale and Marigold really try to be good supportive friends to May and that is stuff I love.
*I still think Clare and Bubbles are 'new' characters for all my perception of how time moves in real life or this forum.Considering that Claire (and Emily) is only 300 strips away from having been in the comic for HALF it's life, that's quite telling.
Hmmm.... I wonder if some AI have a psychological need for social contact like humans? Can AI become "touch starved"?
Thank you for the information, now I've got something new to research in order to find out why I'm so screwed up. Heck, I found out I had a Social Anxiety Disorder from a television commercial of all things. Until that point, all I knew was that there was something horribly wrong with me. Finding out the WHY was a big help in developing coping mechanisms, basically letting me ignore the annoying things something in my head kept trying to tell me. I spent the first 30 years of my life trying to avoid human contact, maybe I can get that straightened out now.
[Most research indicates a majority of Americans suffer from this.]
Hmmm.... I wonder if some AI have a psychological need for social contact like humans? Can AI become "touch starved"?
Thank you for the information, now I've got something new to research in order to find out why I'm so screwed up. Heck, I found out I had a Social Anxiety Disorder from a television commercial of all things. Until that point, all I knew was that there was something horribly wrong with me. Finding out the WHY was a big help in developing coping mechanisms, basically letting me ignore the annoying things something in my head kept trying to tell me. I spent the first 30 years of my life trying to avoid human contact, maybe I can get that straightened out now.
[Most research indicates a majority of Americans suffer from this.]
Actually, 10HP/sec is not really a commonly used measure. Horsepower already is a measure of force per second as in 1 HP = 550 pound feet per second or the power to lift 550 pounds 1 foot in one second.
It'll be blue, feminine, and with massive boobage, given May's previous comments and choice of reading materials. Whether Sven has any input into the decision is an interesting plot twist, especially if May's choice is between a humanoid body and something like a fighter drone.
I could see an arc where she picks the drone, gets supremely disenchanted, and later opts for a humaniform chassis as possible. Such an arc would certainly show May having to choose between two desires and having to come to grips with being vulnerable - potentially about Sven who might have moved on by that point.
So, is Marigold fourth walling us in the fourth panel?I wouldn't say in the 4th, but maybe in the 3rd.QuoteAlso, nice to see Marigold again, it feels like it has been a while. It appears that lots of sex agrees with her, she looks happy, and it looks like her self esteem is at healthy levels.Agreed.
Ohmigod, is Marigold... glowing?
This isn't the exact spectrogram that Melon and Yay are using, but it's close:Going by the text at the bottom of the page, that's probably it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzRnIYVXnY
This isn't the exact spectrogram that Melon and Yay are using, but it's close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzRnIYVXnY
This isn't the exact spectrogram that Melon and Yay are using, but it's close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzRnIYVXnY
Is it weird that I kinda miss that sound?
New strip up. Morse code (both are the same): "Indeed. It was very quaint."
The spectrograms look kind of like modem handshakes.
This isn't the exact spectrogram that Melon and Yay are using, but it's close:Well that took me back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzRnIYVXnY
Just an additional point: Roko gets more beautiful every time I see her.
Actually, 10HP/sec is not really a commonly used measure. Horsepower already is a measure of force per second as in 1 HP = 550 pound feet per second or the power to lift 550 pounds 1 foot in one second.
10 horsepower per second might or might not be much, but I think 10 health points per second is remarkable. Except if you have like 100k.
This isn't the exact spectrogram that Melon and Yay are using, but it's close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzRnIYVXnY
Is it weird that I kinda miss that sound?
This isn't the exact spectrogram that Melon and Yay are using, but it's close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzRnIYVXnY
Is it weird that I kinda miss that sound?
No...it's perfectly reasonable too want to remember the past and appreciate how much better we have things nowadays.
Plus we don't kink-shame here :-D
Dial-up internet. makes me kind of nostalgic.
Although IIRC my family was a bit on the late side, adopting internet, and some things sound rather unbelievable.
I think Yay aka Spookybot kinda likes melon's goofiness. Probably because they know Melon is mostly harmless, and her intentions are innocent, but apparently she knows quite a bit of stuff. They probably could tell her how to access an old, (almost?) forgotten nuclear silo and launch a ICBM, but she never would actually do it.
This isn't the exact spectrogram that Melon and Yay are using, but it's close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzRnIYVXnY
Is it weird that I kinda miss that sound?
Not really. I like telling kids I used to drive 5 miles to the nearest library to use the internet and it was dial up.
I long suspected that Jeph was a Bill Watterson fan but actually having Melon and Yay playing a Calvinball version of Jenga proves it!As long as she doesn't choose to forget things like old Coyote. Wouldn't want to risk another Loup coming into existence.
I kind of love the relationship between Melon and Yay. Melon's bizarro-world version of reality and how it works must be endlessly fascinating to Yay. For a being who probably knows everything, it must like being able to spend time in a whole new world full of fresh ideas and things to experience!
There's already a game where you play Jenga and one person makes things up as they go along.
It's called "Dread", and it's a horror-themed tabletop RPG with Jenga as the mechanic for death (or otherwise losing your character). It's pretty amazing and I highly recommend it.
I wouldn't play whatever Melon is playing, though. I was never a fan of things being random and arbitrary and making little sense. And I doubt Melon's thought processes make much sense to anyone but Melon or a god-tier AI.
There's already a game where you play Jenga and one person makes things up as they go along.
It's called "Dread", and it's a horror-themed tabletop RPG with Jenga as the mechanic for death (or otherwise losing your character). It's pretty amazing and I highly recommend it.
I wouldn't play whatever Melon is playing, though. I was never a fan of things being random and arbitrary and making little sense. And I doubt Melon's thought processes make much sense to anyone but Melon or a god-tier AI.
I would. This is basically Calvinball.
Okay, but remember that "Horrible Little Goblin" is rapidly becoming May's brand.
And I kinda like how when Marigold came in instead of typical anime misunderstanding
Wonderful ... I can sense a week of heavy "preachy Spookybot" content a-comin'.
Wonderful ... I can sense a week of heavy "preachy Spookybot" content a-comin'. :roll:
Somehow, I don't think moving to a third body is going to actually solve Roko's dissociation issues, she'll probably have to learn ways or have developments that help her adjust to this one. And, from a narrative/dramatic standpoint, that would just be too easy of a fix.
they may decide to go into Roko's head to talk to herI strongly doubt that. Remember that they've already refused that opportunity quite strongly, partly because they couldn't be friends with someone after such an intimate intrusion. Since their efforts to befriend Roko have actually started paying off, they're even less likely to go down that route now.
I feel like this comic really captures Roko's dissociation better than any of the others. It just hit me how weird it is to suddenly feel like you don't control yourself at all.I don't think it is an inability to control oneself, that is a completely different set of maladies. Parkinson, et al.
On the other hand, imagine the hilarity that would ensue if May ended up with Roko's current body, and then Winslow went to the store... :psyduck:I think I called that possibility something like 6 weeks ago... :wink:
Thing is, there's going into her head, and there's going into her head. The former is having a chat in a virtualised arena (ala Lemon's chat with Roko after the Crushbot Incident), the latter is going in and manipulating what's there (ala Emily shooting a deletion program visualised as a kaiju).they may decide to go into Roko's head to talk to herI strongly doubt that. Remember that they've already refused that opportunity quite strongly, partly because they couldn't be friends with someone after such an intimate intrusion. Since their efforts to befriend Roko have actually started paying off, they're even less likely to go down that route now.
These three remind me of Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry from Sabre Marionette.
These three remind me of Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry from Sabre Marionette.
Welcome, new person!
I feel so culturally illiterate these days ... but I could always Google it.
Maybe it is a 'handshake' of sorts too - Specifically, the initial crypto phrase that sets the Substitution Cypher. To Melon, it's a game. To Yay, it's basic communications security.
It's hard to imagine someone humanly speaking fluent morse code.You clearly haven't been around very many old timer CW* ham radio operators or military "dit chasers."
Maybe it is a 'handshake' of sorts too - Specifically, the initial crypto phrase that sets the Substitution Cypher. To Melon, it's a game. To Yay, it's basic communications security.
I don't know. It is a strange phrase to use as a handshake.
I just wish I could read the waveforms... it might shed better light on it.
I had an instructor who advocated using unicode characters for passwords.Maybe it is a 'handshake' of sorts too - Specifically, the initial crypto phrase that sets the Substitution Cypher. To Melon, it's a game. To Yay, it's basic communications security.
I don't know. It is a strange phrase to use as a handshake.
I just wish I could read the waveforms... it might shed better light on it.
I'm told using swearwords from a dead religion in a dead language makes for a strange password, but it works well enough.
EDIT: not sure if I'm prasing that well enough.
EXAMPLE: Swearing by Osiris' missing dong or Ra's eye, or whatever in the kmt language. (No, I'm not using that one.)
It's hard to imagine someone humanly speaking fluent morse code.You clearly haven't been around very many old timer CW* ham radio operators or military "dit chasers."
The names of the All-Father:I understand they're to be in Portland early next year.
It's been well established since the early days that the different speech bubbles are how Jeph indicates electronic sounding voices. An AI with rounded speech bubbles is using a more high fidelity voice.