Lemon to the R E S C U E
Yay: I get the feeling that she will be getting more prominent soon - not sure whyThey, not "she".
Side note: the new chassis has mellowed May out already. Volunteering to help out Beeps and May, acknowledging others as friends... Let's see if this continues once her body loses that 'new chassis' smell.
Err, my favorite characters are always Hanners and Raven. Third option, not sure.
I sort of like the faint double-image/out of focus effect Jeph is using to show the massive stress that Roko is feeling. It's a little hard to say "like" for something that shows the pain a decent character is dealing with. I'm uncomfortably reminded of the way I felt in high-school, in a classroom with twice as many kids as it was designed for, desperately fighting the urge to run out of the room screaming (undiagnosed severe social anxiety disorder).I think it's a highly effective way of visualising her strain to us. So I like it a lot in that regard - not in the sense that it means Roko is suffering.
It seems to be a given that Lemon sucks at her job...
Well, I like them all well enough but those arent my actual favorites.Err, my favorite characters are always Hanners and Raven. Third option, not sure.So, you don't really have 'favourites' in the current cast?
A poll for favourite character that doesn't mention Hanners is very weird to me.
I'm also confused as to why Bubbles & Faye can't be voted on individually.
As I explained, you don't get Bubbles OR Faye these days, only Bubbles AND Faye.
Because Hanners, like Marten and Claire, is hardly ever in the strip anymore. Even Jeph calls him the former protagonist!
Okay, so a simple poll for this week: Who is your current favourite focus characters?
I've kept the options to the characters who are the primary focus right now. So, characters like Hannelore, Dora, Marten and Claire don't appear as they've moved to secondary or even background characters right now.
if Jeph wanted to screw over May:.....How does that constitute a conspiracy?
Roko has to switch bodies, has to go with a way cheaper one, retroactively loses her BodyHub points, May then can't afford the Josefina
i don't think that's going to happen but for the sake of conspiracies...
if Jeph wanted to screw over May:.....How does that constitute a conspiracy?
Roko has to switch bodies, has to go with a way cheaper one, retroactively loses her BodyHub points, May then can't afford the Josefina
i don't think that's going to happen but for the sake of conspiracies...
The potted succulents are whispering among themselves. I sense a conspiracy brewing!
The potted succulents are whispering among themselves.
Regardless. I still think that a poll like this that excludes Hanners is weird. That was just my reaction. She still feels like a central cast member to me even if she doesn't appear as frequently as some others.I respectfully disagree. She's a popular character, but she isn't part of any of the current main two-plus-one storylines (Roko's dissociation, the Elliot/Clinton/Brun/Mille romantic tangle, and May's new body). I actually think Melon doesn't belong in the poll either. She's too one-dimensional to be a major figure.
And while I'm repeating myself, Bubbles and Faye, despite being glued at the hips, remain separate individuals that can be liked by readers together or individually.I do agree with this. Dora and Tai almost never appear apart anymore, yet they have wildly different personalities. Same with Marten and Claire, Veronica and Jim, etc. I don't think it's fair to call them "[essentially the same character]."
What do you mean?
I suspect the anti-damage and this program were almost certainly created by human beings.
Which is... interesting, I guess.
Modern ideas of rights and liberties are derived from what came to be known as “natural rights theory”—from the time when Jean Gerson, Rector of the University of Paris, began to lay them out around 1400, building on Roman law concepts. As Richard Tuck, the premier historian of such ideas, has long noted, it is one of the great ironies of history that this was always a body of theory embraced not by the progressives of that time, but by conservatives. “For a Gersonian, liberty was property and could be exchanged in the same way and in the same terms as any other property”—sold, swapped, loaned, or otherwise voluntarily surrendered. It followed that there could be nothing intrinsically wrong with, say, debt peonage, or even slavery. And this is exactly what natural-rights theorists came to assert. In fact, over the next centuries, these ideas came to be developed above all in Antwerp and Lisbon, cities at the very center of the emerging slave trade.
[...]
Just as lawyers have spent a thousand years trying to make sense of Roman property concepts, so have philosophers spent centuries trying to understand how it could be possible for us to have a relation of domination over ourselves. The most popular solution—to say that each of us has something called a “mind” and that this is completely separate from something else, which we can call “the body,” and that the first thing holds natural dominion over the second—flies in the face of just about everything we now know about cognitive science. It’s obviously untrue, but we continue to hold onto it anyway, for the simple reason that none of our everyday assumptions about property, law, and freedom would make any sense without it.
I strongly disagree with Jeph about Robot College being like Dumbing of Age College: you actually graduate from Robot College, it'll take 80 years to gradate from Dumbing of Age college at the rate Willis is moving the storyline along!I dunno, he just advanced the timeline by four months in the past week.
Sure ladies, let's just stand around talking about what to do while another woman is clearly having a dissociative episode rather than doing anything.
Note at this point Roko looks like she is less freaking out and more thinking "I have to depend upon these two idiots?"
I strongly disagree with Jeph about Robot College being like Dumbing of Age College: you actually graduate from Robot College, it'll take 80 years to gradate from Dumbing of Age college at the rate Willis is moving the storyline along!
Faye: "You DO realize I know how to take you apart? LITERALLY."What kind of crime is it if you disassemble an AI's chassis without their consent? I'm guessing (and hoping) that it's more severe than vandalism but less so than disassembling a human.
May: "Sorry. MISS Shortcakes?"
"Better."
Oh, and the disembodied voice? All AI's recognize the Yay-I when they speak. It's the humans that have a problem knowing what they are.Corpse Witch (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3412) didn't seem to. Nor would this make sense given Yay's known backstory as an extremely covert AI.
Miss Bubbles looks a little cranky.Possibly annoyed that May was rather rude to Faye a moment ago? Though I must say that I don't read her expression as cranky myself.
If you can change bodies simply by plonking some money down (that'd be nice) is size really a big deal for robots?
But what if Bubbles gets new heels, too?:mrgreen: We must not allow, a high-heels gap!
Faye: "You DO realize I know how to take you apart? LITERALLY."What kind of crime is it if you disassemble an AI's chassis without their consent? I'm guessing (and hoping) that it's more severe than vandalism but less so than disassembling a human.
May: "Sorry. MISS Shortcakes?"
"Better."
I think May is a bit high on her new body and really wants to show off a bit...however it seems she is forgetting a few manners .
I think May is a bit high on her new body and really wants to show off a bit...however it seems she is forgetting a few manners .I would have used stronger words to state the same, but yes.
I kinda assume it's been done to Pintsize at least once as a prank. :-DMy archive-fu is not good enough to find you the link but Marten definitely disassembled Pintsize and used his head or torso as a cereal bowl once. Punishment for some prank Pintsize pulled or something like that. That one might have been before robots had full civil rights though.
Yeah, I don’t remember that last one? Not least because Pintsize would have wanted to keep it that way…I kinda assume it's been done to Pintsize at least once as a prank. :-DMy archive-fu is not good enough to find you the link but Marten definitely disassembled Pintsize and used his head or torso as a cereal bowl once. Punishment for some prank Pintsize pulled or something like that. That one might have been before robots had full civil rights though.
And there was also the comic where someone (Faye?) replaced his head with a dildo.
If you can change bodies simply by plonking some money down (that'd be nice) is size really a big deal for robots?Depends on a) if you were stuck being short, b) how long you were stucking being short, c) how inconvenient was it to be stuck being short, d) did you like/come to terms with being short.
What kind of crime is it if you disassemble an AI's chassis without their consent? I'm guessing (and hoping) that it's more severe than vandalism but less so than disassembling a human.None if you are customs and border control or any other enforcement agency if you are referencing the Real World [tm]
Faye: "You DO realize I know how to take you apart? LITERALLY."What kind of crime is it if you disassemble an AI's chassis without their consent? I'm guessing (and hoping) that it's more severe than vandalism but less so than disassembling a human.
May: "Sorry. MISS Shortcakes?"
"Better."
If they don't have the same civil rights as humans, then at the very least it's vandalism and destruction of private property...if they do actually have rights, it's at a minimum assault with a dangerous weapon as well as assault and battery causing severe bodily injury(two separate crimes).
Cereal bowl was back at comic 464 (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=464), so definitely before AI civil rights (a constitutional amendment had been passed by #1900). The dildo one was 2649 (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2649).
I am glad that Lemon specializes in AI therapy because the "smell this weird, possibly toxic goo" thing would be a very bad grounding technique for a human patient.
I am glad that Lemon specializes in AI therapy because the "smell this weird, possibly toxic goo" thing would be a very bad grounding technique for a human patient.
I kinda assume it's been done to Pintsize at least once as a prank. :-DSeveral times, actually.
WELP. Lemon may be more put together and 'normal,' but she is definitely part of the same series that Melon is from!
I think May is a bit high on her new body and really wants to show off a bit...however it seems she is forgetting a few manners .May?
I think May is a bit high on her new body and really wants to show off a bit...however it seems she is forgetting a few manners .May?
Manners?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA coughspluttercroak
I think May is a bit high on her new body and really wants to show off a bit...however it seems she is forgetting a few manners .
I think May is a bit high on her new body and really wants to show off a bit...however it seems she is forgetting a few manners .May?
Manners?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA coughspluttercroak
I think she purposely deleted them alongside tact and self-control...
Well, what do you know - looks like Lemon is not completely hopeless at her job after all. :-)
Though it's looks like Roko was already back in her body by panel 4 thanks to the mindfulness grounding exercise. So the dumpster goo probably wasn't necessary. That said, smelling salts were a strong unpleasant smell, right? Is this a modern equivalent?
She's not wrong, you know...smelling salts work on the same principle and smells are often a huge factor in triggering memories which helps to shock the brain into focusing on other things causing the episode to end.
I'm really curious if theres actually 2048 different fruits - or if they had to switch the naming scheme at some point.P.S.S. They probably wouldn't be able to use any apple names, seems a certain computer company has a lot of lawyers and goes after anyone that uses similar names, logos, or even UI design choices.
P.s.: Nevermind, apparently there are 7500 kinds of apples ALONE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars
Lemon and Melon are definitely related.
i miss the days when Roko said "FAHK" instead of "FUCK"
Is it ironic that she has to go into Airplane Mode to get grounded?
Yes, I just went through the registration process and made an account just to make that lame joke to you all.
Interesting speculations, all. Buuuuuut. What does Beeps smell with? Her body draws her face on a screen at will, so there's no physical nose...Maybe her smell receptors are at the underside base of her chin? They could also be tucked away in her hairline.
I'm really curious if theres actually 2048 different fruits - or if they had to switch the naming scheme at some point.P.S.S. They probably wouldn't be able to use any apple names, seems a certain computer company has a lot of lawyers and goes after anyone that uses similar names, logos, or even UI design choices.
P.s.: Nevermind, apparently there are 7500 kinds of apples ALONE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars
Interesting speculations, all. Buuuuuut. What does Beeps smell with? Her body draws her face on a screen at will, so there's no physical nose...
Interesting speculations, all. Buuuuuut. What does Beeps smell with? Her body draws her face on a screen at will, so there's no physical nose...
What does Beeps smell with?
Maybe her smell receptors are at the underside base of her chin? They could also be tucked away in her hairline.
Just because she doesn't have a nose, doesn't mean that Beepatrice doesn't have olfactory sensors.
Just because you don't have a physical representation of a nose does not mean that you don't have olfactory sensors in your face or elsewhere on your head...
Is it ironic that she has to go into Airplane Mode to get grounded?I can sympathize with that.
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Also I dont get why US americans claim that puns would be "lame". :?
There are days I think this entire site is "Powered by Punnage". ©And overthinking things.
I'm really curious if theres actually 2048 different fruits - or if they had to switch the naming scheme at some point.P.S.S. They probably wouldn't be able to use any apple names, seems a certain computer company has a lot of lawyers and goes after anyone that uses similar names, logos, or even UI design choices.
P.s.: Nevermind, apparently there are 7500 kinds of apples ALONE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars
Someone better tell Apple Martin she is banned from using her given name...
All joking aside, this is actually an issue that pro wrestlers have when they leave one promotion or another. A name is only "owned" by a company if it's created by them. Your given name isn't owned by them, they legally can't bar you from using it. They can bar you from presenting as being part of a family or associated with a company, but they can't bar you from using your own name.
Except in more forested regions, where it's powered by Punditry.
Also I dont get why US americans claim that puns would be "lame". :?
Not in *here* surely?
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I thought Beeps has just a very flat face.Is it ironic that she has to go into Airplane Mode to get grounded?I can sympathize with that.
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Also I dont get why US americans claim that puns would be "lame". :?
I suspect that's one of those oft repeated but often underexplored memetic pop-opinions people tend to repeat. Like 'I hate country music' or 'black licorice is gross'[1]. Fun fact, I've given folks[2] who say they hate black licorice black licorice[3] and they actually liked it. Two of them straight up asked me what it was because they'd never tasted it before.Arm the xkcd cannons!
There are days I think this entire site is "Powered by Punnage". ©And overthinking things.
Our two sources of power are punnage and overthinking. And shippers.
Our three sources of power are punnage, overthinking, and shippers. And nitpickery.
... I'll come in again.
Silly?There are days I think this entire site is "Powered by Punnage". ©And overthinking things.
Our two sources of power are punnage and overthinking. And shippers.
Our three sources of power are punnage, overthinking, and shippers. And nitpickery.
... I'll come in again.
Dammit, I knew that dog joke was going to trigger a Monty Python cascade. Now stop that, it's silly.
Is it ironic that she has to go into Airplane Mode to get grounded?
Yes, I just went through the registration process and made an account just to make that lame joke to you all.
"But doctor, it feels so good when I stop hitting my head against the wall!"
Also, secondary thing--does it bother anyone else that Lemon has 2048 sisters, rather than 2047? That means there are 2049 FROOTS™ in total, which isn't a power of two.
Dammit, I knew that dog joke was going to trigger a Monty Python cascade. Now stop that, it's silly.It's not silly, it's a very naughty thread!---And now for something completely different:
"licorice"I suspect that's one of those oft repeated but often underexplored memetic pop-opinions people tend to repeat. Like 'I hate country music' or 'black licorice is gross'[1]. Fun fact, I've given folks[2] who say they hate black licorice black licorice[3] and they actually liked it. Two of them straight up asked me what it was because they'd never tasted it before.Arm the xkcd cannons!
Fire!
*** https://xkcd.com/2241/ ***
No specifics at all. Not even singling out a single flavor, brand, or styling.Licorice is the specific flavor: from Glycyrrhiza glabra or Glycyrrhiza lepidota plant. And if that's what was meant, it's not bias at all because it would mean the flavor generally. Although this may be more a case of maturing palate, because I hated licorice as a kid but now I love it. Unless there really was some innovations in the licorice plant that I'm not aware of.
That's author bias.
No specifics at all. Not even singling out a single flavor, brand, or styling.Licorice is the specific flavor: from Glycyrrhiza glabra or Glycyrrhiza lepidota plant. And if that's what was meant, it's not bias at all because it would mean the flavor generally. Although this may be more a case of maturing palate, because I hated licorice as a kid but now I love it. Unless there really was some innovations in the licorice plant that I'm not aware of.
That's author bias.