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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: BenRG on 06 Dec 2020, 00:57
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Okay, so this one is entirely based on strips 4395 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4395) and 4396 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4396) where May is thinking about where she can go in terms of a new job. One thing is sure from the first panel of Strip 4396: Whatever she does, she intends to be sexy too!
What do you think are the three best options that could be open to her? You'll notice that I have included all the options Jeph suggested in strip 4396, even though I do think at least one of them is more Jeph's tribute to Charles Schultz than anything else.
What options have I chosen?
- Admin at Union Robotics - It's a logical outgrowth of her volunteering to work with Sam one afternoon. She figures out that Faye and Bubbles need someone to keep their 'files' in order and maybe take appointments. I think that her attitude would let her fit right in!
- Street entertainer/marketing leaflet distributor - Because this is a job that she told Faye that she likes
- Sven's professional muse - Because I'm a Svey shipper and I like the thought that, no matter what job she eventually gets, she can't get away from Sven and her affect on him!
You have three votes each!
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Oh thank god, I was completely drawing a blank on the QC related poll idea I had in the middle of last week.
Other: Something on-screen in television/streaming. Probably just local commercials or something, but can you imagine her as a news anchor? That has potential for hilarity. She'd probably either do the fluff pieces or on-the-scene segments.
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can you imagine her as a news anchor? That has potential for hilarity.
Better. Let her do the weather. Call it "Let me just fucking Google that for you". She'll make a big deal out of the fact that she's just pulling data from the National Weather Service which you could have done in five seconds from the device you're already watching her on.
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(Addendum:
Repo Man's always intense
I think May would jump right on to being a repo diver, but I think the story would be made so much more interesting if:)
May quits / gets fired from her convenience-store job, thinks about what to do for money, gets desperate after a while and pleads the case to Bubbles/Faye that they, despite struggling to be profitable, should take on another employee. May produces a list of qualities, like her no-bullshit sensibility and hard bargaining---qualities that she's actively demonstrating in that moment---and more, that'd make her a benefit to their business. Faye begrudgingly accepts it, half because May has a good point about how she could probably help the business and half from wanting to help May---begrudgingly, half because they don't know how they're gonna pay, and half because she hasn't really liked May recently. Sam's spray business, meanwhile, is on the up-and-up, so the four of them end up arranging that officially May'll be Sam's understudy or something (I think it might even end up being phrased that way), while mainly focusing on how to maybe improve Union Robotics. In theory, she'd be doing admin work, but really, she'd be doing all sorts of odd jobs, most of her own devise or Sam's bidding. At some point, Sam needs to do something for a few minutes, and she's used to Bubbles filling in her doodles when that happens, but this time, Bubbles is busy, too, so Sam asks May to ``fill in for me a sec.'' May doesn't really know how to proceed, the client voices their excitement about getting not only a collaborative spray, which is rare, but with a new artist---their friends will be invidious, etc---so May takes that cue to horribly mangle whatever cool thing Sam had started, but the client ends up liking it so well they pay extra, and get that part of their chassis replaced so they can hang it up for all to see. May achieves legendary status as a spray artist, but doesn't think she can live up to the expectations, so keeps producing ever stranger masterpieces, eventually starting to purposely do it as horribly as possible, just to try to get them off her case, but that's very in right now, so that only flames the fire more. May, of course, is not conscious of the art appreciation scene, but only knows that everyone wants her sprays. Eventually she caves, and starts trying to make good stuff, but less often, because she's under a lot of stress essentially working two jobs, wanting to focus on the Union Robotics admin work---just as the horribly mangled fad starts dying down. There are always diehard fans who won't like her newer stuff, but 96% of connoisseurs agree, if her early work was any good (and oh-boy do they thing it was good), then her newer work must be great. Meanwhile, May has been sorting out inefficiencies in Union Robotics, bargaining down the price of the parts they order, fairly aggressively advertising the brand she's, maybe not consciously, building. There's even a bit where she assumes Momo ``knows all that social-media crap.'' She ends up often telling Bubbles/Faye what to do, effectively becoming their boss, then after a while of the business being profitable, May notices that she still hasn't seen a penny from Union Robotics per se---she's been paid enough for her sprays, but is still struggling. They all realize the error, and make it official, and give her `back pay'---for however many months May's been on the books: so May is officially their boss now, though they are still very much the owners and can fire May if they really want. Or they reorganize it so that May is a contractor for Union Robotics, for Sam.</walloftext>
can you imagine her as a news anchor? That has potential for hilarity.
Better. Let her do the weather. Call it "Let me just fucking Google that for you". She'll make a big deal out of the fact that she's just pulling data from the National Weather Service which you could have done in five seconds from the device you're already watching her on.
Hey, TV's gotta try something to appeal to younger viewers. Tangentially, I remember back in the early 90s, when I took out my TV service. I was at friends' place, and a little kid was running around (I dunno, they were 5?) and there was a violent movie streaming, and the kid just looked at this terrible thing that happened on the TV, and was taken aback, and then it didn't even register. They're probably OK, but that horrified me.
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Space junk removal. Net the small stuff, attach de-orbit retro-packs to bigger stuff.
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My choices:
* Towtruck driver/repo girl: she would LOVE that
* Intern at the AI Advocacy Group: because she is already thinking about paying it forward
* Street marketing operative: she can intimidate passers by into buying stuff :D
With some of the other options, I think that her criminal record would prohibit her from actually getting the job, alas.
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I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
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I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
She might try for mechanic if she's got any inclination for that sort of thing.
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I get so excited when characters in different orbits are about to interact.
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I took me a while to figure out the meaning behind Brun's 'very restful sleep' comment. It was a nice dig through my memory banks :D
I don't think Millie will get as much joy out of her new femur as she did with her butt implants, but it must be a nice thought that her leg won't collapse under her any time soon.
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This is a nice comparison to May’s journey. Customizing and maintaining your body must be a life long investment for most AI, but because most seem to start off with a build (even if it’s basic), they don’t have the chronic, all consuming failure issues May did.
Also I really really want chibi Renee stickers. She gives such good advice!
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I hope Brun is OK watching what is pretty much minor surgery. *lol*
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I hope Brun is OK watching what is pretty much minor surgery. *lol*
I don't think Brun's the kind of person who would be bothered by that.
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since. Once again, we see that, on a conscious or unconscious level, most Synthetics have a strong "I want to do it how humans do it" impulse.
I do love how Brun is needing to recall Renee's advice to work out appropriate behaviour that normally simply wouldn't occur to her. I wonder how Renee would react to the revelation that she is Brun's guide to acceptable behaviour?
I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
There's the problem with your assumptions there: 'Reputable'. I mean, it would be better for May if her employer was straight and legit but you could very easily see her being seduced by the promise of adventure and not think of the legal consequences to her from being an Outlaw Repo Gal.
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since. Once again, we see that, on a conscious or unconscious level, most Synthetics have a strong "I want to do it how humans do it" impulse.
(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/inspectorgadget/images/e/e1/Inspector-gadget-phone-glove-1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/600?cb=20180916101407)
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since. Once again, we see that, on a conscious or unconscious level, most Synthetics have a strong "I want to do it how humans do it" impulse.
I do love how Brun is needing to recall Renee's advice to work out appropriate behaviour that normally simply wouldn't occur to her. I wonder how Renee would react to the revelation that she is Brun's guide to acceptable behaviour?
I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
There's the problem with your assumptions there: 'Reputable'. I mean, it would be better for May if her employer was straight and legit but you could very easily see her being seduced by the promise of adventure and not think of the legal consequences to her from being an Outlaw Repo Gal.
'Outlaw Repo Gal' sounds like a movie/fic you've been working on for awhile.
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Millie may be my favorite character. And not just because I'm fond of that particular shade of green.
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since.
If you ask a child now to use their hand to pretend to talk on the phone, a lot of them won't make that gesture today. They will mimic a smart-phone with the open palm of their hand.
a) palm to face. b) hold their palm below their face and occasionaly make swipe gestures. c) hold their palm out further, as though making a video call or taking a selfie.
The hand gesture may just be a robot etiquette thing that evolved over time to help others distinguish when they on the phone (like everytime I walk up to someone at work with headphones on, are they? aint they? do I hear music?)
or it could be a default "gesture" added to all robots when they included voice chat functions, the "gesture" probably has patents, trademarks and million dollar court cases fighting over.
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since. Once again, we see that, on a conscious or unconscious level, most Synthetics have a strong "I want to do it how humans do it" impulse.
I do love how Brun is needing to recall Renee's advice to work out appropriate behaviour that normally simply wouldn't occur to her. I wonder how Renee would react to the revelation that she is Brun's guide to acceptable behaviour?
I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
There's the problem with your assumptions there: 'Reputable'. I mean, it would be better for May if her employer was straight and legit but you could very easily see her being seduced by the promise of adventure and not think of the legal consequences to her from being an Outlaw Repo Gal.
'Outlaw Repo Gal' sounds like a movie/fic you've been working on for awhile.
'Firefly' meets 'Demolition Man'?
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I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
There's the problem with your assumptions there: 'Reputable'. I mean, it would be better for May if her employer was straight and legit but you could very easily see her being seduced by the promise of adventure and not think of the legal consequences to her from being an Outlaw Repo Gal.
'Outlaw Repo Gal' sounds like a movie/fic you've been working on for awhile.
'Firefly' meets 'Demolition Man'?
To transliterate from the title of the original Japanese Anime: "Pretty Ronin Item Repossession Champion May-chan Blue Woman!"
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1) When I saw "professional muse", I thought "Of course!"
Who else could possibly be more able to supply totally horrible ideas for Sven, than May? Professionally speaking, it's a match made in heaven - taste-wise, however, it would be a giant downward step :-D
2) I think May's boss may have second thoughts about charging May for a new uniform, when every sleaze who usually furtively hangs around the adult book section, would instead be coming to the cashier to buy something, just so they can ogle the "new" cashier. Sales go up, so he starts playing nicer with May - maybe a raise if she plays her cards right?
3) Other:- Northampton has its weird way with May - she tries on Emily's "Team CoD" uniform (# 3927) and she becomes the latest costumed superhero/super-villain* in town...
* with May - take your pick...
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I'm just loving the "phone pantomime" thing.
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I'm just loving the "phone pantomime" thing.
Yes, I also liked this a lot.
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I'm not changing my vote, but I stumbled onto a new class of video last night: cleaner outer of storage lockers sold at auction. Going through and commenting on other peoples junk.
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since. Once again, we see that, on a conscious or unconscious level, most Synthetics have a strong "I want to do it how humans do it" impulse.
I do love how Brun is needing to recall Renee's advice to work out appropriate behaviour that normally simply wouldn't occur to her. I wonder how Renee would react to the revelation that she is Brun's guide to acceptable behaviour?
I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
There's the problem with your assumptions there: 'Reputable'. I mean, it would be better for May if her employer was straight and legit but you could very easily see her being seduced by the promise of adventure and not think of the legal consequences to her from being an Outlaw Repo Gal.
'Outlaw Repo Gal' sounds like a movie/fic you've been working on for awhile.
'Firefly' meets 'Demolition Man'?
There's an old DEEPLY weird movie called Repo Man. I found it in the BetaMax section of a video rental place, and decided to give it a try (Yes, I had a BetaMax, yes I'm older than dirt. The first computer storage medium I used was a 2 inch-wide strip of paper with holes punched in it.) Anyway, it's a good (if a little confusing) movie.
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Comic.
Jeez, if smelling salts are intense for humans, can you imagine what they must be like for AIs?
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I love how Faye just casually has this stuff ready.
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I love how Faye just casually has this stuff ready.
Well she does live with Marten so it sounds like it's experience on her part
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Comic.
Jeez, if smelling salts are intense for humans, can you imagine what they must be like for AIs?
See Melon and her reaction to the chemical concoction at Coffee of Doom...best I can tell, that's the closest combination to it and that's likely much worse than what they'd react to the salts(a simple ammonia/salt/alcohol mixture)
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Sam is low man on the totem pole so gets the worst jobs, but thankfully it's Brun so she's probably more likely to be interested in how things work than freaking out over seeing the muscle fibers and hydraulic fluids...
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There's an old DEEPLY weird movie called Repo Man. I found it in the BetaMax section of a video rental place, and decided to give it a try (Yes, I had a BetaMax, yes I'm older than dirt. The first computer storage medium I used was a 2 inch-wide strip of paper with holes punched in it.) Anyway, it's a good (if a little confusing) movie.
I think I remember when it came out...
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I love how Faye just casually has this stuff ready.
Well she does live with Marten so it sounds like it's experience on her part
Marten doesn't strike me as particularly squeamish - I think it might be related to Roko's fainting spells?
Brun will probably be fine, she'd be more interested in 'how things work' rather than trying to imagine 'what if it was my leg?'. I'm the same - love watching operations on TV etc because I find it fascinating. My husband and I used to joke about how, if I would ever need to have a caesarean, I'd insist on observing the entire procedure :D
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I hope Brun is OK watching what is pretty much minor surgery. *lol*
Why would you consider a complete replacement of the femur a "minor" surgery? I don't think Brun will hurl from it, but still, that's a pretty hefty hack job
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since. Once again, we see that, on a conscious or unconscious level, most Synthetics have a strong "I want to do it how humans do it" impulse.
I do love how Brun is needing to recall Renee's advice to work out appropriate behaviour that normally simply wouldn't occur to her. I wonder how Renee would react to the revelation that she is Brun's guide to acceptable behaviour?
I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
There's the problem with your assumptions there: 'Reputable'. I mean, it would be better for May if her employer was straight and legit but you could very easily see her being seduced by the promise of adventure and not think of the legal consequences to her from being an Outlaw Repo Gal.
'Outlaw Repo Gal' sounds like a movie/fic you've been working on for awhile.
'Firefly' meets 'Demolition Man'?
I would absolutely watch that
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There's an old DEEPLY weird movie called Repo Man. I found it in the BetaMax section of a video rental place, and decided to give it a try (Yes, I had a BetaMax, yes I'm older than dirt. The first computer storage medium I used was a 2 inch-wide strip of paper with holes punched in it.) Anyway, it's a good (if a little confusing) movie.
I'd be interested to know what you found weird about it---it seemed perfectly natural.
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I read the synopsis for 'Repo Man' on IMDb, and it sounds hilarious 😁
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This strip does so much to remind me why Sam is such a positive character despite all her fairly typically teenage personality flaws. She's all energy and joy; she loves her life and wants to enjoy it! However, you've got to empathise with Millifeulle sometimes about just how much you want someone involved in your procedure to be so gung-ho about getting it done!
I love how Faye just casually has this stuff ready.
If something like this can take out another synthetic (Roko), she doesn't want to be unprepared fr its effect on an unprepared human!
Brun will probably be fine, she'd be more interested in 'how things work' rather than trying to imagine 'what if it was my leg?'.
Actually, you could probably create an interesting Brun quirk/arc. It turns out that she is squeamish but didn't know it because she'd never had this specific experience before. She then sets out on a quest to find new experiences to catalogue if she has a negative response to them so her 'I do/don't like this' mental catalogue is more complete!
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I'm going to say it now: Millifeulle either saw a child playing make-believe phone conversation or saw someone do this on the TV or on a video. She just picked it up as "how humans use the 'phone" and has done it ever since. Once again, we see that, on a conscious or unconscious level, most Synthetics have a strong "I want to do it how humans do it" impulse.
I do love how Brun is needing to recall Renee's advice to work out appropriate behaviour that normally simply wouldn't occur to her. I wonder how Renee would react to the revelation that she is Brun's guide to acceptable behaviour?
I'm not sure you can do Repo-man work with a criminal record. At least not with a reputable company...
There's the problem with your assumptions there: 'Reputable'. I mean, it would be better for May if her employer was straight and legit but you could very easily see her being seduced by the promise of adventure and not think of the legal consequences to her from being an Outlaw Repo Gal.
'Outlaw Repo Gal' sounds like a movie/fic you've been working on for awhile.
'Firefly' meets 'Demolition Man'?
There's an old DEEPLY weird movie called Repo Man. I found it in the BetaMax section of a video rental place, and decided to give it a try (Yes, I had a BetaMax, yes I'm older than dirt. The first computer storage medium I used was a 2 inch-wide strip of paper with holes punched in it.) Anyway, it's a good (if a little confusing) movie.
The one with Emilio Estevez and Beer brand beer? That's a fun one to watch.
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I would absolutely watch that
Why, who would ever say 'no' to more Firefly ... but ... I'd have to say at this point that this ship has sailed.
Millie may be my favorite character. And not just because I'm fond of that particular shade of green.
I think thats viridian ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viridian
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There's an old DEEPLY weird movie called Repo Man. I found it in the BetaMax section of a video rental place, and decided to give it a try (Yes, I had a BetaMax, yes I'm older than dirt. The first computer storage medium I used was a 2 inch-wide strip of paper with holes punched in it.) Anyway, it's a good (if a little confusing) movie.
The one with Emilio Estevez and Beer brand beer? That's a fun one to watch.
Feeling Seven Up, I'm feeling Seven Up
Reaching up, moving up, feeling Seven Up
It's a crisp refreshing feeling
Crystal clear and light
America's turning Seven Up
And it sure feels right
Feeling lucky seven
Feeling seventh heaven
Feeling seven, seven, Seven Up
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Why, who would ever say 'no' to more Firefly ...
stePH raises his hand
That would be me; I'm probably the only nerd in the world with no great opinion of Firefly
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Why, who would ever say 'no' to more Firefly ...
stePH raises his hand
That would be me; I'm probably the only nerd in the world with no great opinion of Firefly
*raises hand too*
I love Firefly, but I want it to stay dead. It had a good run, and I have no faith in it being revived in a way that'd live up to its legacy. Besides, its legacy is MAINLY that of an unfairly cancelled series beloved by its fans. If it went on a bit longer, petered out and then got cancelled without fanfare, not provoking grand gestures and big campaigns to revive it, it wouldn't be NEARLY as present in collective memory as it is.
EDIT: I mean, if it ever got a reboot or whatever, I wouldn't be a hater. I just wouldn't care enough to watch it, probably. People who hate on things just because they are not "for them" are assholes, and I wouldn't be one.
But my general point stays.
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Back in grad school, one of my roommates accidentally swapped his Firefly DVD with my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy DVD. I've never watched the Firefly DVD (never got interested in it enough to bother). But I'm disappointed in myself for never making a backup of that Hitchhiker's Guide DVD (though I suppose these days I can probably find it on a streaming service other than the one I have an account for).
Please, I just want my chickens DVD back.
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Loving Millefeuille in the last frame.
That would be me; I'm probably the only nerd in the world with no great opinion of Firefly
Marf raises her hand, too
I've never watched it, though. I have watched (the first 15 minutes of) Serenity (2005), which I later learned was related to Firefly, but didn't find anything appealing in it.
The one with Emilio Estevez and Beer brand beer? That's a fun one to watch.
[Seven Up jingle]
I love the scene where he's eating meat flavor `food.' Like it would be fraudulent to just say meat. And that he ``couldn't enjoy it any more, ma,'' affecting yummy noises, against the suggestion to ``put it on a plate, son; you'll enjoy it more.''
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Why, who would ever say 'no' to more Firefly ...
stePH raises his hand
That would be me; I'm probably the only nerd in the world with no great opinion of Firefly
*raises hand too*
I love Firefly, but I want it to stay dead. It had a good run, and I have no faith in it being revived in a way that'd live up to its legacy. Besides, its legacy is MAINLY that of an unfairly cancelled series beloved by its fans. If it went on a bit longer, petered out and then got cancelled without fanfare, not provoking grand gestures and big campaigns to revive it, it wouldn't be NEARLY as present in collective memory as it is.
EDIT: I mean, if it ever got a reboot or whatever, I wouldn't be a hater. I just wouldn't care enough to watch it, probably. People who hate on things just because they are not "for them" are assholes, and I wouldn't be one.
But my general point stays.
I have to agree with you. I recently ran across some video that claimed it was "After Trek". Basically an attempt at dragging out the series, with all-new actors (using the same names) in continuing adventues. It's one of the most painful things I've ever watched. And yet I keep watching the blasted thing, I guess hoping they'll get a handle on it and suck less.
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Yeah, I’ve seen something like that - “Star Trek Continues”, I think it was called. The production values were actually comparable to the Original Series, but the acting was mediocre and the writing was poor-quality fan service. Didn’t make it past the middle of the first episode.
The thing that most Firefly fans actually want is not a reboot or continuation - but for the original show to have not been prematurely cancelled, so we’d have more episodes of the series. And we know we’re never getting that. Doesn’t mean we don’t still dream about it. (I have joked, from time to time, about an alternate universe where Firefly got 8 seasons...)
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Can robot's vomit? It'd be funny if Sam were so intent on watching Brun for symptoms of queasiness or fainting that she completely misses Millie spilling her fluids due to stress of the audience there or sympathetic queasiness her AI manifested for the humans involved. :-D
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[Firefly]
My main problem is that I like the setting, but it's destroyed by a cast of characters for whom my feelings range from "I don't care about these people" to "FUCK THAT GUY" (Jayne and Malcolm live at the latter end of the spectrum.)
Watching the thirteen episodes (so I could hate on it properly) I actually grew to like Wash. Then he was killed in the movie Serenity, so fuck Firefly.
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I loved most of the characters, and even Jayne made a decent foil for all of those who actually did have morals. Like most things Joss Whedon has done, however, it doesn't age all that well. Akima has passionately and eloquently spoken about its shortcomings, which become more and more obvious, even tho white Westerners as time goes on.
That said, I still miss it, and the crew. I will admit that I watched so much of Castle, just because of Nathan Fillion, as well as the amounts of fanservice given.
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Comic's up.
Stop ogling Millie guys! You're making her uncomfortable.
Union Robotics might consider getting a changing room, and maybe some of those hospital gowns? So that their customers can undress in peace and keep themselves covered while they're being worked on. It's just basic decency (IMO).
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a cast of characters for whom my feelings range from "I don't care about these people" to "FUCK THAT GUY"
Any human male who can watch Firefly and not care (at the very least) about Kaylee is clearly already dead.
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Not just human males. She's just so sweet and innocent and adorable that you can't deny that adorkableness.
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Millefeuille is clearly not drunk enough. Because when she was drunk she wanted everyone to look at her butt.
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In those cases her butt was still covered by her pants, though.
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"Why DO robots need underwear?"
"FASHION."
"Ok, that works..."
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“But why do robots need underwear?”
”I said it’s important.”
“But why?”
”IT JUST IS.”
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4081
According to this getting new femur should have taken only few days.
So can we say that last 15 months of comic happened only in like a week or two?
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Well, I think panel 2 pretty much torpedoes the notion of Brun being ace.
(Unless it's an instance of aesthetic attraction).
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I have never watched Firefly, belonging to that rare breed of people entirely uninterested in all things Joss Whedon.
However, I do dream of the day when US producers learn that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing - or, to put it another way, you should always leave your audience wanting more.
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Yes, Millie, they all admire you, even if it's only as a job well done!
Right now, Sam finds adult sexuality an intensely funny thing to watch. In some ways, I'm looking forward to the first time she sees a guy or girl whose physical attributes are hypnotic to her, just to that Faye and Bubbles can mock her in return!
"Why do robots need underwear?"
"Why do humans?"
"To help support and stop chafing to... er... Oh."
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Could also consider not stating like creepy bastards
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For someone who loves playing romatic simulation games, Millie is missing some choice opening lines.
She didn't ask Brun about her feelings towards her, didn't ask her about "other options and techniques?", and Brun has complimented her butt twice.
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Could also consider not stating like creepy bastards
Yeah, there's something off about today's comic. Like, I felt as though Jeph was playing it for laughs, but what they were doing was downright exploitative. If that's the way they treat all their customers, they deserve to fail.
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Imagine if this was at a doctors surgery or something, wouldn't be quite as cute or as funny as the author clearly thinks it is
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Right now, Sam finds adult sexuality an intensely funny thing to watch. In some ways, I'm looking forward to the first time she sees a guy or girl whose physical attributes are hypnotic to her, just to that Faye and Bubbles can mock her in return!
Being that Sam acts likes shes 12 I'd sooner not have anything to do with her and sexuality in this comic for a good long while
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Right now, Sam finds adult sexuality an intensely funny thing to watch. In some ways, I'm looking forward to the first time she sees a guy or girl whose physical attributes are hypnotic to her, just to that Faye and Bubbles can mock her in return!
Being that Sam acts likes shes 12 I'd sooner not have anything to do with her and sexuality in this comic for a good long while
As of Strip 3161 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3161), Sam is 14 years old, just so you know. Still rather young but old enough that the first crush may come crashing through the window at any second!
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As of Strip 3161 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3161), Sam is 14 years old, just so you know. Still rather young but old enough that the first crush may come crashing through the window at any second!
Sure shes 14 but she acts like a 12 year old but be that as it may I'd still rather not see this author attempt that type of story line, it's one thing to get it wrong with adults (today's strip for example) but its quite another when it involves a young teenager
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Right now, Sam finds adult sexuality an intensely funny thing to watch. In some ways, I'm looking forward to the first time she sees a guy or girl whose physical attributes are hypnotic to her, just to that Faye and Bubbles can mock her in return!
Unless Northampton is suddenly overrun by sultry snake-men, she's probably fine.
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Imagine if this was at a doctors surgery or something, wouldn't be quite as cute or as funny as the author clearly thinks it is
What makes you think the author, who has shown years of interpersonal sensitivity, thinks it's not horrid? I think it's an excellent page, in part for that very fact, that what's happening is horrid, simply because Union Robotics didn't think that part through. That's horrid, but the question is, how does Union Robotics respond, when someone tries to let them know? It might be an honest mistake, but depending on the response, that honest mistake becomes willful negligence. The proper response would be to listen to the person's concerns, understand them, figure out the different ways to change, and then implement the best change, to most improve the service.
In our world, that rarely happens---first they'd dismiss the person's concerns, or bullshit their way out of it; then, if the person persists, insisting the concern be heard, they actively play stupid, intentionally misinterpreting what the person is describing, even going so far as pretending the person said something else entirely. In a rare case, that it gets past this stage---now they know the concern. Sometimes, they still do nothing. More often, they try to put some temporary fix, that's not a solution, and the problem reoccurs. If they do try to solve the problem, often, their solution is nowhere near the best---sometimes, worse than what was before. The only time they'd implement anything near the optimal solution, was when I spelled it out for them.
I'd also like you to inspect the documents your doctor has you complete. You might find some dangerous clauses you're `agreeing' or highly sensitive data you're volunteering, unnecessary for treatment.
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Imagine if this was at a doctors surgery or something, wouldn't be quite as cute or as funny as the author clearly thinks it is
What makes you think the author, who has shown years of interpersonal sensitivity, thinks it's not horrid?
The author commentary around the strip, for starters.
"r o b o t b u t t s"
"nice"
Also, see that angling of their heads and their dazed expressions? He's played that joke of this cast admiring butts before.
He also provided some unsubtle fan service in panel 2.
Nah, I don't see any evidence that it occurred to him.
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Imagine if this was at a doctors surgery or something, wouldn't be quite as cute or as funny as the author clearly thinks it is
What makes you think the author, who has shown years of interpersonal sensitivity, thinks it's not horrid?
The author commentary around the strip, for starters.
"r o b o t b u t t s"
"nice"
Also, see that angling of their heads and their dazed expressions? He's played that joke of this cast admiring butts before.
He also provided some unsubtle fan service in panel 2.
Nah, I don't see any evidence that it occurred to him.
I don't think that's enough evidence that it hasn't occurred to him. For one, it looks like irony, and a potent set-up for the issue. Bubbles & Faye, focused on the object of their work, forget to consider the patient's comfort---much like how many hospitals are efficient at just the medicine part, disregarding the patient's mental well-being. And then Brun, clueless, is enthusiastically reaffirming their objectification, exacerbating Millefeuille's discomfort. Sam is actually trying to be halfway decent---leering away while others are ogling (tangential: she's becoming a fine young woman, in this frame), stifling the snigger from the ``nice ass'' comment---but it seems mainly due to taboo, instead of consideration.
That would suggest that it's too early to know---the offending situation has happened, we'll see what happens next---if it's addressed, how it's addressed---or, by the emphasis on them disregarding Millefeuille's mental well-being, and her mental (un)well-being from their actions, one might suggest that it did, in fact, occur to him.
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Ogling uncomfortable people is old QC joke, like with Marigold and her boobs.
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I get why other people are uncomfortable at this joke, but I laughed super hard at the idea of being proud of its craftship.
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About JJ not seeing the problem with his characters' behavior, I will suspend my judgment until the end of the arc.
On another level, that's the first time we see Brun showing some interest for anything... let's say... another person's body related.
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Right now, Sam finds adult sexuality an intensely funny thing to watch. In some ways, I'm looking forward to the first time she sees a guy or girl whose physical attributes are hypnotic to her, just to that Faye and Bubbles can mock her in return!
Um. Speaking as someone who only discovered sexuality at age 46... it was far more hilarious and disconcerting than you can imagine. Especially since I discovered I was straight, when I had assumed that if it happened, I'd be Lez.
I'd observed sexual attraction before then of course. I knew it existed. I knew that it had made rational human beings do things that could and sometimes did get them killed. It was obviously powerful JuJu. I just didn’t understand it, nor could imagine myself experiencing it.
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However, I do dream of the day when US producers learn that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing - or, to put it another way, you should always leave your audience wanting more.
I would also like them to learn something that seems like the opposite on first glance but is actually the same: it’s OK for a long running show to change.
Specifically I’m thinking of Stargate SG-1 here, and the Ori arc. Like, humanity finally wiped out the big bads, scored alliances with the big goods, and then suddenly even bigger, badder bads appear. We did not need Goa’uld 2.0 guys. Seriously, even down to having hilariously OP ships and their troops using staff weapons.
There were a few hundred plot arcs that could have been followed up on and were even planned, like the revelation of the … well, everything, to the general public on Earth, but nope, plot reset, back to day one but turned up to eleven.
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I didn't take panel 2 and Brun as anything other than she's looking at what everyone else is looking at. Sam is trying to figure out what's going on, which is why she's looking at Faye. Brun could be thinking about how she slept on that butt and it was quite comfortable.
Brun in panel 3 then speaks her truth, though she's most likely missed the whole social context, which is what makes Millie uncomfortable at hearing what she already thinks everyone else is thinking. Sam is snickering at Millie's discomfort after Millie's response.
Or at least that's the way I'm reading it. We shall see where it goes.
On Sam, I'm thinking she's going to have a sudden and deeply weird experience wherein she recognizes sex exists and she wants to be in on the party. Now, whether it's with Winslow or Fairy is my only question.
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"A man who would letter-space lower case would steal sheep."
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I didn't take panel 2 and Brun as anything other than she's looking at what everyone else is looking at. Sam is trying to figure out what's going on, which is why she's looking at Faye. Brun could be thinking about how she slept on that butt and it was quite comfortable.
Brun in panel 3 then speaks her truth, though she's most likely missed the whole social context, which is what makes Millie uncomfortable at hearing what she already thinks everyone else is thinking. Sam is snickering at Millie's discomfort after Millie's response.
Or at least that's the way I'm reading it. We shall see where it goes.
On Sam, I'm thinking she's going to have a sudden and deeply weird experience wherein she recognizes sex exists and she wants to be in on the party. Now, whether it's with Winslow or Fairy is my only question.
I agree with you here. Brun slept on Millie's butt but hasn't seen it and doesn't know how to react to seeing it so it to me isn't sexual: just genuine interest in it for what it is- her friend's butt. Brun's reaction is one of simply restating what the others had said but not getting the shock or obvious discomfort of Millie, which is simply Brun being Brun and her unfortunate autism causing her to unintentionally put her foot in her mouth when anyone else would have reassured Millie in a different way
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And I agree with others here, it was completely unprofessional by the two to ogle a repeat paying customer who has referred more business to them than anyone else. There is no excuse, they were there when the implant were put in so they have no reason to ogle Millie. If they can't shelve their sexual sides then they're in the wrong business because they are not only sexually harassing customers- they might even be breaking the law.
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This comic did make me uncomfortable. Let's see what today's one brings.
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"A man who would letter-space lower case would steal sheep."
Word-stretch by some langues ｅｍｐｈａｓｉｚｅｓ (as english slants) quoth this sheep-thief?
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That would suggest that it's too early to know---the offending situation has happened, we'll see what happens next---if it's addressed, how it's addressed---or, by the emphasis on them disregarding Millefeuille's mental well-being, and her mental (un)well-being from their actions, one might suggest that it did, in fact, occur to him.
True, it might.
It might also suggest it occurred to him later.
Regardless, that was the way it came across to me, intended or otherwise.
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I like Brun. She might be blunt to a fault, but you can tell she means good.
Also, is it just me or does Brun's skin tone almost look gray compared to Sam's?
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I get why other people are uncomfortable at this joke, but I laughed super hard at the idea of being proud of its craftship.
Idk I don’t like that part combined with the ogling. It’s objectifying on a lot of levels
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I mean, yeah. On one of those levels is the fact that the ass is a literal object that they made. That's absurdist as hell, which I find funny. But I also see this as more vaudeville than lustful.
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Also, is it just me or does Brun's skin tone almost look gray compared to Sam's?
I think that's just shadow.
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Comic's up.
I'm with you Brun, this IS fascinating. Wish I was there to watch it!
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This response from our resident clockwork fan makes total sense.
Also, I can see why Faye warned Brun. Them's some muscle lookin' muscles.
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I think this is the most emotion we've ever seen Brun show.
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Brun may have just found a new career.
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I wish a human hip replacement was that easy. Relevant to me because I will probably need one in a few years.
But yeah, Jeph has gotten one thing right that most sci-fi tv “androids” get wrong: to look at all human-like, the android body would need something that moves the same way muscle does. The way Star Trek showed Data having circuits and wires just below the skin wouldn’t look anything like a human body.
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Brun is feeling an intimate emotional connection, possibly for the first time. And on a subcutaneous level! That's some serious bonding stuff.
I hereby christen thee the good ship Brunfeuille!
(Millehilde?)
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Bruille.
No, on second thought, let’s not go there. ‘Tis a silly place.
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Bruille.
Dr. Steve?
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4081
According to this getting new femur should have taken only few days.
So can we say that last 15 months of comic happened only in like a week or two?
In comic 4411 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4411) Millefeuille says "It's finallly here?" - to me this indicates that it took rather longer than expected.
Also, I just noticed the title of that comic is "It Took A While". So presumably it has been quite a bit longer than initially expected.
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New strip up.
Brun: "THIS... IS... AWESOME."
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New strip up.
Brun: "THIS... IS... AWESOME."
I do believe this may be the start of a new hyperfixation.
I'd also being willing to lay odds that either Renee or Elliot are one of the humans who puke at the sight of robot innards.
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We've already seen Brun's fascination with intricate machinery through her love for clocks. Does she now see her new friend as an ultimate expression of the Clockmakers art? Does she fall even harder for Millefeuille, not in spite of her being an AI, but in fact because she is one. This also ties in to the theme that humans (e.g. Clinton & Elliot) are confusing and their behaviour doesn't follow predictable rules. For Brun, I think the mechanical part of Mille's nature makes her more attractive. Lots to think about from one frame.
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For the moment, I'm reading this as an admiration for the mechanics, rather than anything romantic, as well, really.
The ship may be on the stocks, but it might be a little early to launch, still. Besides, what kind of relationship could ensue if I like how you are mechanically put together, and want to literally take you apart and put you back together again is about the level of the most amazing experience for one of the partners? If I were were Millefeuille, that might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
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As of Strip 3161 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3161), Sam is 14 years old, just so you know. Still rather young but old enough that the first crush may come crashing through the window at any second!
Sure shes 14 but she acts like a 12 year old but be that as it may I'd still rather not see this author attempt that type of story line, it's one thing to get it wrong with adults (today's strip for example) but its quite another when it involves a young teenager
This is one of the few things I'll agree with AO3's detractors ("antis") on. While I understand teenagers need a safe outlet to express/explore their sexuality with, the fact of the matter is that we're dealing with the internet. Trying to prove who's who and how old they are is quite difficult. Which makes protecting minors from predators and sussing out who's a pedo and who's actually a teenager difficult. The whole thing is quite messy. And Lord knows any legislation put forward as a means of sorting things out will just get misused as a way to enact cyberpunk dystopian levels of draconian measures that don't actually address the issue.
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For the moment, I'm reading this as an admiration for the mechanics, rather than anything romantic, as well, really.
The ship may be on the stocks, but it might be a little early to launch, still. Besides, what kind of relationship could ensue if I like how you are mechanically put together, and want to literally take you apart and put you back together again is about the level of the most amazing experience for one of the partners? If I were were Millefeuille, that might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
For humans, a lot of our attraction is also based on 'I like how you were put together', so that shouldn't be a big issue ;)
The 'taking apart and putting back together' bit though... That tends to be horror movie material.
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.[big snip] The proper response would be to listen to the person's concerns, understand them, figure out the different ways to change, and then implement the best change, to most improve the service.
In our world, that rarely happens---first they'd dismiss the person's concerns, or bullshit their way out of it; then, if the person persists, insisting the concern be heard, they actively play stupid, intentionally misinterpreting what the person is describing, even going so far as pretending the person said something else entirely. In a rare case, that it gets past this stage---now they know the concern. Sometimes, they still do nothing. More often, they try to put some temporary fix, that's not a solution, and the problem reoccurs. If they do try to solve the problem, often, their solution is nowhere near the best---sometimes, worse than what was before. The only time they'd implement anything near the optimal solution, was when I spelled it out for them.
[little snip]
Case in point, COPPA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act). It's unconstitutional at best.
SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA all failed to let the U.S. government try to put the internet under it's boot heel, so they pulled a Mrs Lovejoy and started shrieking 'won't somebody think of the children'. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if that stupid Momo (or whatever she's called) hoax from last year that an alarmingly large amount of people fell for was set up solely to get the American people behind COPPA.
EDIT: When lodging a complaint, be very specific about what's wrong and needs to be changed. Otherwise you'll get the aforementioned run-around along with the 'fix' that's worse.
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Okay, on one level, this is disturbing: Brun is more into what's inside Millie's skin that what's outside.
On the other level...? This strikes me that something Jeph has wanted to do on a world-building level for a while. Just like he showed us just what was under the derma on May's head when she had the skin tone of her replacement face changed way back when. However, if that is really the whole point of this strip, I'd have preferred it if he'd done it as a bonus full-page panel ("What is inside Millefeulle's skin") or something rather than waste a day of this arc. Bottom line: Today's whole strip could have been done as a single full-width panel leaving another 2/3 of the page for actual narrative.
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I think this is the most emotion we've ever seen Brun show.
The most expressive. The most emotion was page 3235 row 3 frame 2 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3235).
[want to literally take you apart and put you back together again] might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
I'd love being taken apart and put back together.
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Okay, on one level, this is disturbing: Brun is more into what's inside Millie's skin that what's outside.
On the other level...? This strikes me that something Jeph has wanted to do on a world-building level for a while. Just like he showed us just what was under the derma on May's head when she had the skin tone of her replacement face changed way back when. However, if that is really the whole point of this strip, I'd have preferred it if he'd done it as a bonus full-page panel ("What is inside Millefeulle's skin") or something rather than waste a day of this arc. Bottom line: Today's whole strip could have been done as a single full-width panel leaving another 2/3 of the page for actual narrative.
I disagree. Today's comic is not about what's under Millefeuille's skin. It's about Brun character building and evolution. She discovered so much since yesterday!
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I mean, yeah. On one of those levels is the fact that the ass is a literal object that they made. That's absurdist as hell, which I find funny. But I also see this as more vaudeville than lustful.
I see what you’re saying, but I think what makes me uncomfortable is that it’s an object they made for a sentient being. It’s now part of Millefeulle. At what point does it stop being an ass they made and start being a Millefeulle’s ass?
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As of Strip 3161 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3161), Sam is 14 years old, just so you know. Still rather young but old enough that the first crush may come crashing through the window at any second!
Sure shes 14 but she acts like a 12 year old but be that as it may I'd still rather not see this author attempt that type of story line, it's one thing to get it wrong with adults (today's strip for example) but its quite another when it involves a young teenager
This is one of the few things I'll agree with AO3's detractors ("antis") on. While I understand teenagers need a safe outlet to express/explore their sexuality with, the fact of the matter is that we're dealing with the internet. Trying to prove who's who and how old they are is quite difficult. Which makes protecting minors from predators and sussing out who's a pedo and who's actually a teenager difficult. The whole thing is quite messy. And Lord knows any legislation put forward as a means of sorting things out will just get misused as a way to enact cyberpunk dystopian levels of draconian measures that don't actually address the issue.
My kid is 12 and has a lot of older friends. From this, I’ve learned there is a large variation of behavior in middle school adolescents. I hadn’t seen so much variation in kids looking different in age/maturity since preschool. I think it is because growth and hormones at that age range can really vary from one person to the next. From a parenting perspective, it is a really big change which makes it challenging, but I love seeing my kid and her friends go through this. It happens so quickly compared to other parts of childhood, and it is amazing seeing them become the people they may be when they are adults. Anyhow, most of them (even the more mature of them) still seem to have random energized super silly moments not encountered in most adults. Some even still have impulse control issues, but to be fair? Plenty of adults retain that. None of the characters (so far) seem to have unrealistic behaviors for their ages.
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I mean, yeah. On one of those levels is the fact that the ass is a literal object that they made. That's absurdist as hell, which I find funny. But I also see this as more vaudeville than lustful.
I see what you’re saying, but I think what makes me uncomfortable is that it’s an object they made for a sentient being. It’s now part of Millefeulle. At what point does it stop being an ass they made and start being a Millefeulle’s ass?
It'll always be an ass they participated in making, but how much of her ass is their handiwork.. It is, always was---always will be---her ass. Unless she disowns it. Or it's repossessed?
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For the moment, I'm reading this as an admiration for the mechanics, rather than anything romantic, as well, really.
The ship may be on the stocks, but it might be a little early to launch, still. Besides, what kind of relationship could ensue if I like how you are mechanically put together, and want to literally take you apart and put you back together again is about the level of the most amazing experience for one of the partners? If I were were Millefeuille, that might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
What was Amanda's quote that one time? "That was the day I learned there's no way you can remove your head from inside another girl's thigh in a nonchalant manner"?
Doesn't sound quite right.
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When was that bucket last cleaned?
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For the moment, I'm reading this as an admiration for the mechanics, rather than anything romantic, as well, really.
The ship may be on the stocks, but it might be a little early to launch, still. Besides, what kind of relationship could ensue if I like how you are mechanically put together, and want to literally take you apart and put you back together again is about the level of the most amazing experience for one of the partners? If I were were Millefeuille, that might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
Sooooh ... HMS Bruille it is then?
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I can relate to Brun's reaction. I went to college for massage therapy ages ago, partly because I'm fascinated by anatomy, and there was an optional class where there was an opportunity to visit a neighbouring college for a cadaver lab. I have to say... it's one thing to read about body parts in a book, and another to see them up close in person. I think I freaked out my classmates by being so interested in it.
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Besides, what kind of relationship could ensue if I like how you are mechanically put together, and want to literally take you apart and put you back together again is about the level of the most amazing experience for one of the partners? If I were were Millefeuille, that might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
Sure, that could be serial killer levels of creepy, but this is Brun we're talking about. She's... got a giant harpoon... Nah.........
I mean, yeah. On one of those levels is the fact that the ass is a literal object that they made. That's absurdist as hell, which I find funny. But I also see this as more vaudeville than lustful.
I see what you’re saying, but I think what makes me uncomfortable is that it’s an object they made for a sentient being. It’s now part of Millefeulle. At what point does it stop being an ass they made and start being a Millefeulle’s ass?
You can admire the artist's work while still accepting enjoying your ownership of said work. I've never had a tattoo, but I feel there's good parallels there, since the skin could arguably be as important an organ as the butt.
The thing I wanted to point is that it's very not human in the sense that the... what did they call it, lubricant?... is likely all contained in that black pipe. In a human, with a surgery like that, it's a bloody procedure at the best of times. This is very tame in comparison, but I bet it was a much different story when that injury initially happened. If I recall, there was a lot of squelching and squishing. It's understandable that they wanted the bucket around as a "catch-all" policy
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I think this is the most emotion we've ever seen Brun show.
The most expressive. The most emotion was page 3235 row 3 frame 2 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3235).
[want to literally take you apart and put you back together again] might be a slightly disconcerting, if not downright creepy, idea.
I'd love being taken apart and put back together.
Only if I'm getting repairs and replacements.
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Comic's up.
Yes, I'd want to watch that as well, it sounds very interesting! Also, Millie's blush in the first panel is adorable :)
Only if I'm getting repairs and replacements.
I've always wanted a third arm.
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Who knew Brun had such a wide range of facial expressions?
And why do I feel like the voltage test is going to go wrong somehow?
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Poor Milly. And excited Brun is cute. :D
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I can relate to Brun's reaction. I went to college for massage therapy ages ago, partly because I'm fascinated by anatomy, and there was an optional class where there was an opportunity to visit a neighbouring college for a cadaver lab. I have to say... it's one thing to read about body parts in a book, and another to see them up close in person. I think I freaked out my classmates by being so interested in it.
As long as you're not trying to stitch any parts together in an attempt to make the perfect human, you're doing better thana certain Italian-Swiss medical student.
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Well, that's Brillie holed below the waterline and taking on water fast! I don't know about anyone else, but I would probably feel uncomfortable going beyond 'friend' with someone who is a lot more interested in my internal anatomy than they are with being there for me during a difficult moment!
All credit to Brun for trying to maintain her interest in Millifeulle's well-being but it still is what it is.
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Of course holed below the waterline, that's what happens if you launch before finishing the planking.
Brun may have come with the intention to do the right thing and be supportive, and she makes an effort, when she remembers, but really it's just showing her fascination with mechanics. So I'm afraid it doesn't even show much of character development, really, beyond showing Brun in her element.
I imagine before her apartment burnt down, it'd be ticking with synchronised clocks, and probably one in the progress of dis- or re-assembling on the table. And a couple lined up, in dire need of some care. (Not at all like the watch waiting under its dome at the other end of my desk, no. Not at all. Really. :roll:)
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And one set a couple of minutes early so she has a warning for when all the others chime at once.
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I imagine before her apartment burnt down, it'd be ticking with synchronised clocks, and probably one in the progress of dis- or re-assembling on the table. And a couple lined up, in dire need of some care. (Not at all like the watch waiting under its dome at the other end of my desk, no. Not at all. Really. :roll:)
Brun has mentioned that too many clocks are a bad thing: (http://"https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3944")
"Too many clocks means too much timekeeping. That way lies madness. Endless weight and pendulum adjustment. Ticks sliding in and out of phase with each other. Eventually you start talking to your clocks. Eventually, they start talking back."
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Sounds like she's speaking from experience, though.
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I imagine before her apartment burnt down, it'd be ticking with synchronised clocks, and probably one in the progress of dis- or re-assembling on the table. And a couple lined up, in dire need of some care. (Not at all like the watch waiting under its dome at the other end of my desk, no. Not at all. Really. :roll:)
So, will Brun turn out to be Emmett Brown or Gabriel Grey/Sylar?
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Jeremy Clockson?
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I imagine before her apartment burnt down, it'd be ticking with synchronised clocks, and probably one in the progress of dis- or re-assembling on the table. And a couple lined up, in dire need of some care. (Not at all like the watch waiting under its dome at the other end of my desk, no. Not at all. Really. :roll:)
Brun has mentioned that too many clocks are a bad thing: (http://"https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3944")
"Too many clocks means too much timekeeping. That way lies madness. Endless weight and pendulum adjustment. Ticks sliding in and out of phase with each other. Eventually you start talking to your clocks. Eventually, they start talking back."
You mean tocking back, right? :claireface:
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Took me a minute to realize what I was thinking.
Brun also really likes clocks and how all the little bit go together and work properly.
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I wish a human hip replacement was that easy. Relevant to me because I will probably need one in a few years.
But yeah, Jeph has gotten one thing right that most sci-fi tv “androids” get wrong: to look at all human-like, the android body would need something that moves the same way muscle does. The way Star Trek showed Data having circuits and wires just below the skin wouldn’t look anything like a human body.
But do the myomer need to be flesh-coloured? It serves no purpose than to make some organic people faint at the sight of it...
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I'd love being taken apart and put back together.
But what if "I put you back together, but there's this one little piece left and I don't know what it does"?
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I'd love being taken apart and put back together.
But what if "I put you back together, but there's this one little piece left and I don't know what it does"?
Hmm, looks like it's the skull. Dang, and I already assembled the whole head; it would be such a pain to take it all apart again...you know what, you'll be fine. Probably isn't that big of a deal. *tosses skull away*
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Eh, it's just impact protection. Smack a helmet on, itll be fine.
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Eh, it's just impact protection. Smack a helmet on, itll be fine.
Also, it's apparently really bad if they break, so you're probably better off without it anyway.
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I'd love being taken apart and put back together.
But what if "I put you back together, but there's this one little piece left and I don't know what it does"?
There's obviously a great deal of trust, and skill, that would go into it---just like BDSM; There's some sophisticated BDSM out there.
BDSM awry, may lead to the hospital---If Brille sails that way: Union Robotics.
I wonder if Millie has this kink.
I wonder if I have that kink. I certainly love observing my own medical procedures. I figured it was because I didn't want them to slip something in without me knowing, but I have found it fascinating, too.
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To all those lamenting that "this ship has sailed" please remember that love is a choice. You can be fascinated by someone, infatuated with them, or even enthralled by their sheer charisma, and it would not be love unless there was a free and active choice being made to cultivate and grow that relationship.
Brun being fascinated by Millie's body does not preclude a later relationship. If anything, Brun's active choice to be there for her friend when she's obviously fascinated by the less "morally supportive" aspects of being there shows that she's making the decision to build this relationship. It's those decisions, including Millie's decision to let her observe the procedure, upon which relationships are founded. There's also nothing unhealthy about her fascination. That sort of fascination is what drives innovation, so the robot chassis would not be around if it weren't for that fascination.
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This is going to be that thing Galvani did to the frog, right? I guess it's for Sam's benefit. Or is there a reason to think the myomer has been damaged since last seen?
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It could also be a simple test to prove the myomer is reacting as expected, and not somehow deficient, before putting it all back together again. It would be more than a little annoying to get rebuilt and then have to undergo all this again to fix something that should have been caught the last time...
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Probably just a check to make sure that they didn't damage the myomer during the procedure.
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Or all of the above. Could also be a function check, if they’re using Millefeuille’s own systems to apply the current.
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I'd love being taken apart and put back together.
But what if "I put you back together, but there's this one little piece left and I don't know what it does"?
Ask Merrill Bainbridge. (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bmLPbkrgiHg&feature=share)
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Brun being fascinated by Millie's body does not preclude a later relationship. If anything, Brun's active choice to be there for her friend when she's obviously fascinated by the less "morally supportive" aspects of being there shows that she's making the decision to build this relationship. It's those decisions, including Millie's decision to let her observe the procedure, upon which relationships are founded. There's also nothing unhealthy about her fascination. That sort of fascination is what drives innovation, so the robot chassis would not be around if it weren't for that fascination.
There are many pernicious, I think, practices, surrounding dating. Assigning a negative value to showing interest in the body, is among them. My favourite intimate relationships, were with partners, who---mind and body---were interesting and interested. Not necessarily sexually. The interest in the body, enhanced interest in the mind, by having us together more. I think it's a hasty criterion, of not showing enough interest in the mind, before body.
Perhaps they're in a rush to be mentally intimate with someone. In some cases, that may be reasonable, but I suspect that in many cases, it's that they're inexperienced, about living alone.
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I wish a human hip replacement was that easy. Relevant to me because I will probably need one in a few years.
But yeah, Jeph has gotten one thing right that most sci-fi tv “androids” get wrong: to look at all human-like, the android body would need something that moves the same way muscle does. The way Star Trek showed Data having circuits and wires just below the skin wouldn’t look anything like a human body.
But do the myomer need to be flesh-coloured? It serves no purpose than to make some organic people faint at the sight of it...
Hmmm......I suppose it would depend on the material used to create the myomer and how easy it is to dye along with the pricing of said dye(s). If memory serves, some plastics have a weird semi-flesh like color to them prior to dying.
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I feel for Millie here, but I'm glad that she understands Brun well enough to not be offended that Brun wanted to see the operation after she made it clear that she would forgo it just to support Millie. It's subtle, but it shows friendship and understanding even if a little disappointed...so, like any other friendship.
Sexual tension might be there, but I'm seeing something more that's coming out.