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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Farideh on 23 May 2021, 18:17
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A new week has begun.
Oh no... Let Pintsize's galactic reign of terror begin!
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If Pintsize has permanently switched to a humanoid body, I'll be tempted to stop reading the strip. Some changes are just unacceptable.
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NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
I opened that strip and legitimately got the same feeling I do when I'm having a bad dream. Can't be real, can't be real, this is all wrong...
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Monster Hunger Fries
@jephjacques
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May 18
everyone who's like "I wish jeph would go back to classic qc characters like marten and pintsize" should check their monkey paws
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So it is!! i am curious and excited, there is only so much that we know about Pintsize and many places around town that he can visit and make friends, and hopefully not enemies, now! That he is just wearing shorts does feel like a bit of homage to Ardent!
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Maybe he’s moving on/ looking for a new companion? Marten doesn’t need him anymore
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A couple of secondary questions that come to mind after the initial shock is over:
- Where did he get the pink jockey shorts, and why are they the only thing he's wearing?
- Why is he calling Claire "they" instead of "she"?
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1. He found them on the floor of a Canadian strip club, and his other clothes were eaten by an allosaurus.
2. I read that as "humans in general," not "Claire specifically," though we don't know if Claire using they/them pronouns as well as she/her.
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NO NO NO NO NO......
Well, lets see how it goes.
How did MARTEN react, tho?
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NO NO NO NO NO......
Well, lets see how it goes.
How did MARTEN react, tho?
that is a good point!! It is possible that where he is with Bubbles, they arranged something together without needing to ask Marten, which, if so, he might even faint or something when finding out!! but also it will be in certain ways like making a new friend! They may even be able to play music together! Also, I am sure that Pintsize will want to get some sprays??
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So PIntsize finally dug into his funds of undeterminable size and bought a new body. Or tried downloading a firmware update again and it did weird things to his ancient chassis.
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I have this bad feeling that Marten doesn’t know yet, either.
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That is a good point, since Marten was always against Pintsize getting a more human-standard chassis. Then again, Pintsize didn't want to upgrade either, so what changed? Is he just messing with people (of course he is, it's his raison d'etre)?
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I don't like Pintsize's new body.
It's not pintsize.
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So, if I have this right,
- I am assuming this is a permanent change, though it looks so much like a comedy bit that some people mistook it for a guest comic on first glance.
- Companion AIs no longer need lengthy consultations with their owners ... whose status as owners is incidentally becoming increasingly suspect with every passing comic... before purchasing a new body.
- Pintsize is unaccountably rich enough to afford a new chassis (if Marigold needed an extended repayment plan from Momo then I'm sure Marten wouldn't be able to afford it)
- "Pintsize" is a rather unfortunate name for an AI to have given the rapid development of AI chassises(?) from actually pint-sized to fully human-standard
- Yet another huge development for a character happens offscreen and we the audience are informed about it after the fact.
So, with all that in mind, I guess his name is Fullsize now. I wonder if the huge metal dong he commissioned from Faye is going to attach to the new chassis somehow, or whether we're not coming back to that arc anymore.
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WHAT
The moment Claire said "Morning Pintsize", I had that momentary brain-lurching-sideways-in-my-head sensation that I have grown accustomed to associating with major paradigm shifts :psyduck:
(At first I thought it was going to be Claire's dream, with her waking up in a cold sweat in the last panel :-D)
From Pintsize's new appearance, I deduce:
Small-to-average stature, so on a par with Winslow and Momo,
Lots of visible seams, so not an upmarket model (Blue and cheap - maybe the same model line as Old May?)
Also Pintsize must have kept the same voice - for sleepy Claire to have responded like that with eyes closed, she must have recognized his voice.
So - instead of a horrible little goblin, we now have a more Puck-like character?
Also, I put "Other": Pintsize discovered that his non-standard military spec chassis is actually worth enough money to buy a reasonably priced humanoid body. Bubbles seems to be familiar with the situation, so I suspect it may have been reconditioned at Union Robotics.
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He bought it with Canadian Tire Money.
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He bought it with Canadian Tire Money.
He found it in an abandoned tire in Canada.
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All you used to have to do to find Canadian Tire money is look in enough glove compartments. Lots of it would get stuffed into them, never to be seen again. Now you can collect CT money on your credit card, so the amount of physical bills in circulation will decrease.
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Huh. I honestly expected him to go for something very hunky and sexualised, given his preferences.
Also, it would have been hilarious if members of the cast suddenly found him attractive.
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Companion AIs no longer need lengthy consultations with their owners ... whose status as owners is incidentally becoming increasingly suspect with every passing comic...
I don't have a link to it, but quite some time back Jeph explained companionship contracts and said that QC society was increasingly unfriendly to the word "owner". I'm not sure but that may even have been before the ERA.
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A couple of secondary questions that come to mind after the initial shock is over:
- Where did he get the pink jockey shorts, and why are they the only thing he's wearing?
- Why is he calling Claire "they" instead of "she"?
I read "They" as "they - humans in general" than "They - non-gender specific pronoun"
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Companion AIs no longer need lengthy consultations with their owners ... whose status as owners is incidentally becoming increasingly suspect with every passing comic...
I don't have a link to it, but quite some time back Jeph explained companionship contracts and said that QC society was increasingly unfriendly to the word "owner". I'm not sure but that may even have been before the ERA.
News post under Number 1996: Grounds For Divorce (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1996).
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I like the idea of Pintsize in a new body. While other characters have been changing, even growing/evolving, Pintsize has not.
His friends, well peer group, have all taken on humanoid bodies. This will help him interact with them more.
I'm interested in Pintsize again. What is he going to do? How are other people going to react to him?
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For the love of God and all that is holy NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
About damned time...
I wonder if Fullsize and May will make brownie batter farting scat porn together... Wonder if Fullsizes chassis even has the standard number of human holes...
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I too am coffee deficient.
Cut the clown act, Melon.
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Whatever is going on, Jeph is in on it. The impostor is using the same RGB values as Pintsize.
Wake me when the coffee's ready.
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Bubbles is here with a cup of visibly ordinary teabag tea. We have not seen her partake except for her specials at Coffee of Doom.
What is -in- this coffee?
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SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA
PINTSIZE LOOKS REAL FREAKY
:psyduck:
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I'm going to assume for now that pintsize asked to see what it would be like in a humanish model chassis and this is a spares/repairs model from the shop that Faye and Bubbles found that he's trying on. Either that or he went into the equivalent of eBay and bought whatever he could for under 50 bucks that was listed as working.
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It's possible that he's going to have a thing going where he has two bodies he routinely swaps between, depending on his mood.
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He bought it with Canadian Tire Money.
A LOT of Canadian Tire money.
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New comic.
So it's all just an elaborate prank? Not sure if I'm relieved or disappointed.
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Words cannot express my relief.
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People presume Pintsize is saying he won't tell Marten that because Marten's supposition is true....
This is what happens when you gripe about not seeing enough of old characters, people.
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Oh.
Oh no.
Oh no, oh no.
Oh no oh no oh no oh nooooooooo...
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Poor Matren. *lol*
I thought Pintsize's old body was rare military surplus. Wouldn't he NOT want to give it up?
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Sad to see the real Pintsize go :-(
Looks like Jeph likes to draw potoo eyes. (https://www.questionablecontent.net/alice3.html)
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I'm about 95% sure that it isn't a one-off joke, and that Pintsize is just using the question to further mess with Marten. That it is, in fact, a permanent change.
I think it's arguable that Pintsize's original appearance exists because Jeph wasn't a very good artist in the early days, and a near-stick figure for a robot was the best he could do back then. Just go look back to strip #1. Jeph's drawing skills have been evolving for as long he's been drawing the strip, and he's come a long, long way from drawing figures with vague ellipsoids for limbs.
I'm having a hard time with the new body for a variety of reasons. Scrawny, plus the eyes (now that we can see them) mostly. Maybe I'll just come to accept it, assuming it is indeed a permanent change.
I don't miss Winslow-as-iPod. He didn't have much character back then, and I think the square block body was part of that. I do rather miss Momo-as-doll, since there were a lot of jokes that played off her size and doll-like appearance. May's body change was minor compared to those major shifts.
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Actually, that would be so like Pintsize - to swap randomly between two bodies, just to keep everyone permanently off balance... :evil:
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[Neutral semi-reassuring pat response triggered]
Time will tell.
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imagine having access to body modification
and not having fun with it
sounds miserable, godspeed pintsize you lovely gremlin
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I don't like Pintsize's new body.
It's not pintsize.
how is it not?
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'Pint-size' means being small in size. This chassis is not small, hence: Pintsize isn't pint-sized
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Pintsize having opposable thumbs and a longer gait is, I'm pretty sure, the very thing prophesied to bring about Ragnarok.
I warned you about thumbs, bro! I fuckin' told you!
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No no no no no. Pintsize in a human-standard chassis? No.
Also, why is he still speaking in a Macintosh voice/font? He has (supposedly) a more modern voice box now.
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If Pintsize were in a body like Bubbles I'd be concerned.
I think there are some interesting concepts flying around with robot bodies with the different characters.
Roko, changed bodies involuntarily, is having problems with her new body similar to neurodiversity problems.
Winslow, got a new body as a gift from a friend. Smooth transition (except for the time scorpions got into his chassis.)
May, had a horribly disfunctional body as part of (unofficial) on going punishment. Got a wish-fulfillment body through crowd-funding charity that she is still ambiguous about.
Momo, is guilty about recieving a body she feels she hasn't earned.
Pintsize, got a new body on what might have been a whim without human intervention. If humans are going to oppose his physical autonomy, what does that say about attitudes to the others' autonomy? Are people going to be treating him differently, that's an interesting bias?
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No no no no no. Pintsize in a human-standard chassis? No.
Also, why is he still speaking in a Macintosh voice/font? He has (supposedly) a more modern voice box now.
Personal preference?
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Others swapping shells almost at whim may not help Roko's issues with getting comfortable in hers.
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People gave Pintsize a lot of leeway in his behaviour because his chassis made him a minimal threat. A relatively human standard chassis makes his antics (eg. sexual harassment) more serious and threatening. So, yea, people are going to treat him differently.
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People gave Pintsize a lot of leeway in his behaviour because his chassis made him a minimal threat. A relatively human standard chassis makes his antics (eg. sexual harassment) more serious and threatening. So, yea, people are going to treat him differently.
I really hope the comic actually does go into exploring that.
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I would LOVE it if the comic took a hard left turn and started following Pintsize. His character has never really been explored beyond pratfalls. He deserves it, he's the oldest character along with Marten!
Pintsize! Pintsize! Pintsize!
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Two days of Pintsize being not so Pintsize, beginning to suspect this may not be a one-off. So, has he joined the rest of the main AI cast in getting a new body? Is this permanent, a loaner, or is he going to swap back and forth? And I don't want to know how he paid for it, if it isn't a loaner. I am not sure how I feel about this, previously, his mayhem was limited by not having usable hands, so him now having thumbs is potentially terrifying. This could be funny, or the start of a reign of terror; time will tell which side it comes down on.
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It may or may not be weird and I don't care if it is, but I'm finding the robot characters that started out with non-humaniform bodies less relatable now that they have humaniform bodies. Winslow in particular; his oversized iPod body was, to me, part of his personality.
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Others swapping shells almost at whim may not help Roko's issues with getting comfortable in hers.
It might help her to see that what makes a body yours isn’t inhabiting it but claiming it.
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Well, May's onboard.
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Is anyone surprised Pintsize upgraded just to troll people? *lol*
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Two days of Pintsize being not so Pintsize, beginning to suspect this may not be a one-off. So, has he joined the rest of the main AI cast in getting a new body? Is this permanent, a loaner, or is he going to swap back and forth? And I don't want to know how he paid for it, if it isn't a loaner. I am not sure how I feel about this, previously, his mayhem was limited by not having usable hands, so him now having thumbs is potentially terrifying. This could be funny, or the start of a reign of terror; time will tell which side it comes down on.
Yeah, I'm concerned that a Robot Jail arc is on the way if it isn't temporary :evil:
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Of course that's where Pintsize would keep a plug-in cord.
This is the most interesting he's been in a long time. That was definitely the best interaction he's ever had with May.
And no, I'm not surprised that he glowed up just to troll people. Martin has changed a lot in the last few years, he has settled into a job he is competent at and enjoys doing. Martin has a healthy relationship now. I wouldn't be surprised if Pintsize were feeling neglected.
Sometimes people act out since negative attention is better than zero attention.
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i mean maybe but also like
it's fun? and funny? you can do things just because they're fun. googly eyes are almost always funny! my friend had some quietly delivered to her at the warehouse back when we worked there and we put them on receipt printers and packing material dispensers to make them look like they were barfing material. barcode scanners cuz then they were googly :0 faces.
management um... got annoyed. especially when we put them on the pictures of them on the department corkboard. but they were also literally evil, some of them. outside of being killjoys
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Of course that is where he would want his charging cable to connect to. :roll:
Also, why is he still speaking in a Macintosh voice/font? He has (supposedly) a more modern voice box now.
Personal preference?
Recall that he has been trying to do a version of the invisible gorilla experiment on Marten and Claire. Keeping the voice the same is an important part of presenting a façade of normality.
Beyond that, I don't think he would necessarily want to change his voice. Pintsize has always seemed pretty happy with most aspects of himself.
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A relatively human standard chassis makes his antics (eg. sexual harassment) more serious and threatening.
After today's strip, it's apparent he's going to sexually harass women with a USB cable.
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Well, May's onboard.
Honestly, I'd have been surprised if she wasn't.
Now we just need more interaction between Pintsize and May. They don't get enough screen time together causing chaos and bouncing their personalities off each other.
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Well Union Robotics seems to be in on it, so my guess on the real story is that he talked them into letting him do an extended test drive on a refurbished chassis for one of their clients.
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That seems plausible.
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Well now I'm wondering if Jeph is a Ken Ashcorp fan
, because it feels like he may have been singing along to the chorus of this while writing today's dialogue.
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Assuming this isn't a custom job, who designed that cable placement? :-D
May admures trolldom in it's purest form it seems
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Oh no. First he gets a humanoid body, and now he's about to get infinite energy by plugging both ends of a cable into himself.
Will no one stop this fiend?
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Surely that would cause a feedback loop which would then make him implode?
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I'll go one step further: I think it is entirely possible that we're seeing the leading edge of an arc about Pintsize moving out of the apartment (Claire and Faye won't let the little pervert stay now he's an android) and maybe even an previously-unanticipated romantic relationship with May.
As well as the whole sexual harassment of his female room-mates, Pintsize has said on several occasions that he feels that his work with Marten was done. With Faye also on a fairly even keel, he may feel no need to stay anymore and he might want to move his unique form of psychotherapy to a new venue and a new set of 'clients' (although he very obviously has his own income stream, given the quality of that chassis).
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Anyone else think he’s after May? Romantically, I mean?
They already had some physical intimacy but realised they weren’t really equipped to appreciate it… what if he wants to try again now that they both (possibly) are?
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Remember how Jimbo was permanently barred from entering Canada? This will end at the Hague with Pintsize censured for violating the Geneva Accords.
Is that one of Marigold's bras?
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Well, May's onboard.
I'm not actually 100% sure of this, her expression is a bit odd, it could definitely also be read as 'negatively' hysterical.
(I would lean towards that interpretation when looking at this drawing. The emotion is mixed probably so good luck portraying that 100% clearly in one comic panel ^^')
Hope Jeph's going to elaborate on this in one of the following days I'm really curious about that now.
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Anyone else think he’s after May? Romantically, I mean?
And if he is, which I really doubt, it's likely to go unrequited as May still wants Sven. Not that Pintsize is above colluding with May to get Sven jealous enough to rekindle Sven+May for a fee.
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I think May's in a much better position to appreciate the joke now that she's in a non-sucky body and has just acquired non-sucky employment. If you'd sprung this on her a month or two ago (in-strip time)...
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Remember how Jimbo was permanently barred from entering Canada? This will end at the Hague with Pintsize censured for violating the Geneva Accords.
Is that one of Marigold's bras?
I think it's a crop top.
Claire probably won't kick Pintsize out, they actually have a pretty decent relationship. After all, Pintsize was the one to get Marten to pay attention when Claire was struggling with anxiety over her upcoming exams.
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The thing I'm curious about is whether or not there's some sort of safeguard to keep an AI from inhabiting more than one body at a time.
Because otherwise pintsize might have not so much migrated to a new body as multiplied.
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Pintsize and a actual JOB. Seriously? :-D
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I can just see him in the R&D department of the sex toy factory, coming up with new designs...
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Anyone else think he’s after May? Romantically, I mean?
They already had some physical intimacy but realised they weren’t really equipped to appreciate it… what if he wants to try again now that they both (possibly) are?
While possible, I don't see it, personally. I could see them experimenting physically, trying out the new bodies and all, but I never got a sense of romance behind any of their interactions. At most, friends with benefits.
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Protip for job interviews: a tie doesn't give a positive impression if you're not wearing a shirt.
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Going shirtless doesn't usually give a positive impression, but given that, I suppose a tie wouldn't actually hurt... Besides, I like how it matches his shorts.
Re. romantic speculation about Pintsize with May or anyone else, this seems entirely foreign to anything we've seen of his personality, and I'd go so far as to say that a Pintsize in a relationship would be unrecognizable and, in effect, a completely new character.
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i mean maybe but also like
it's fun? and funny? you can do things just because they're fun. googly eyes are almost always funny! my friend had some quietly delivered to her at the warehouse back when we worked there and we put them on receipt printers and packing material dispensers to make them look like they were barfing material. barcode scanners cuz then they were googly :0 faces.
management um... got annoyed. especially when we put them on the pictures of them on the department corkboard. but they were also literally evil, some of them. outside of being killjoys
If it was food, their concern was food contamination (on top of being killjoys).
I'm a line inspector for a food production facility and often find myself in the roll of 'fun police' because one of the production supervisors is an apathetic lazyass who actively avoids work. The only reason he's still employed is because he can run (and fix) every line machine in the building.
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The thing I'm curious about is whether or not there's some sort of safeguard to keep an AI from inhabiting more than one body at a time.
Because otherwise pintsize might have not so much migrated to a new body as multiplied.
it's been established in-strip that AI algorithms cannot be copied, only moved. Some readers have theorised that any attempt to copy would fail because the differences in environment and sensory input from two chassis, no matter how small, would instantly cause the two algorithms to diverge and rapidly become two very different individuals.
Setting that aside, I do kind of like the idea of particularly well-off synthetics having different bodies the way that you or I have different sets of clothes. Either for different activities or just in case they feel like looking different today.
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Going shirtless doesn't usually give a positive impression, but given that, I suppose a tie wouldn't actually hurt... Besides, I like how it matches his shorts.
Re. romantic speculation about Pintsize with May or anyone else, this seems entirely foreign to anything we've seen of his personality, and I'd go so far as to say that a Pintsize in a relationship would be unrecognizable and, in effect, a completely new character.
Uh, you’re kidding, right? He was clearly depressed after his online boyfriend rejected him and he was trying to date Roko for a while there. Am I the only one who remembers that?
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... he was trying to date Roko for a while there.
Pintsize totally fouled up his only date with Roko; I expect she left early.
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While possible, I don't see it, personally. I could see them experimenting physically, trying out the new bodies and all, but I never got a sense of romance behind any of their interactions. At most, friends with benefits.
I’m pretty sure that the latter scenario would fall apart once he finds out that May opted for only the standard human number of holes.
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The thing I'm curious about is whether or not there's some sort of safeguard to keep an AI from inhabiting more than one body at a time.
Because otherwise pintsize might have not so much migrated to a new body as multiplied.
it's been established in-strip that AI algorithms cannot be copied, only moved. Some readers have theorised that any attempt to copy would fail because the differences in environment and sensory input from two chassis, no matter how small, would instantly cause the two algorithms to diverge and rapidly become two very different individuals.
Setting that aside, I do kind of like the idea of particularly well-off synthetics having different bodies the way that you or I have different sets of clothes. Either for different activities or just in case they feel like looking different today.
So why does that not happen when an AI "moves"?
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Going shirtless doesn't usually give a positive impression, but given that, I suppose a tie wouldn't actually hurt... Besides, I like how it matches his shorts.
Re. romantic speculation about Pintsize with May or anyone else, this seems entirely foreign to anything we've seen of his personality, and I'd go so far as to say that a Pintsize in a relationship would be unrecognizable and, in effect, a completely new character.
Uh, you’re kidding, right? He was clearly depressed after his online boyfriend rejected him and he was trying to date Roko for a while there. Am I the only one who remembers that?
I did honestly forget about his brief online relationship in the very early days of the strip. His more recent forays into dating apps, including his disastrous date with Roko, don't seem like very strong counterexamples, since his interest seems to be mainly in trolling other users.
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The thing I'm curious about is whether or not there's some sort of safeguard to keep an AI from inhabiting more than one body at a time.
Because otherwise pintsize might have not so much migrated to a new body as multiplied.
it's been established in-strip that AI algorithms cannot be copied, only moved. Some readers have theorised that any attempt to copy would fail because the differences in environment and sensory input from two chassis, no matter how small, would instantly cause the two algorithms to diverge and rapidly become two very different individuals.
Setting that aside, I do kind of like the idea of particularly well-off synthetics having different bodies the way that you or I have different sets of clothes. Either for different activities or just in case they feel like looking different today.
So why does that not happen when an AI "moves"?
It does; have you noticed the way that AI characters change when they change chassis? Some of it is natural character growth but it's strongly enabled by the fact that they're got a different sensorium.
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If it was food, their concern was food contamination (on top of being killjoys).
no, we're not that dumb.
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talking about the differences between moving and copying and limits thereof, without noting the seeming exemption of Yay (however many letters they use)
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Part of the problem is that there is actually no such thing as a "move" operation in any digital storage I'm familiar with, only "changing pointers" or "make a copy, then forget about/overwrite/destroy the original."
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talking about the differences between moving and copying and limits thereof, without noting the seeming exemption of Yay (however many letters they use)
The whole point of Yay is that they are an exception so I don’t think that actually adds much. I mean we don’t even know if they are a series of individual instances that happen to be networked or if they are operating out of a colossal mega-brain somewhere that is just puppeteering around a bunch of (relatively) dumb terminals. Heck, they could be Geth for all we know.
Part of the problem is that there is actually no such thing as a "move" operation in any digital storage I'm familiar with, only "changing pointers" or "make a copy, then forget about/overwrite/destroy the original."
Various kinds of RAM have destructive reads; i.e. it only retains the data because of a looping buffer that writes the read data back after the read operation. Depending on the architecture used, this could be exploited to provide a true move-only command.
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Claire probably won't kick Pintsize out, they actually have a pretty decent relationship.
After all, Pintsize was the one to get Marten to pay attention when Claire was struggling with anxiety over her upcoming exams.
There was the birdseed incident that established the pecking order between them some time back.
The whole scene had me with a very strong sense of Déjà vu, and it took some pondering before my abused memory filing system spit up an answer.
GWS - I have the two ton slip cased and signed edition looming on the top shelf of a bookcase glaring at me.
I must go now and sacrifice the appropriate items on the altar to appease the goddess.
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Part of the problem is that there is actually no such thing as a "move" operation in any digital storage I'm familiar with, only "changing pointers" or "make a copy, then forget about/overwrite/destroy the original."
There is nothing to suggest that the AIs are digital. They're almost certainly analogue and may even have quantum (and, by definition, fractional) elements. So, instead of '1' and '0', there are probably also factors of 1/3 (lepton spin) and, because quantum is like that, a 'maybe' and 'maybe not' state.
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The thing I'm curious about is whether or not there's some sort of safeguard to keep an AI from inhabiting more than one body at a time.
Because otherwise pintsize might have not so much migrated to a new body as multiplied.
it's been established in-strip that AI algorithms cannot be copied, only moved. Some readers have theorised that any attempt to copy would fail because the differences in environment and sensory input from two chassis, no matter how small, would instantly cause the two algorithms to diverge and rapidly become two very different individuals.
Setting that aside, I do kind of like the idea of particularly well-off synthetics having different bodies the way that you or I have different sets of clothes. Either for different activities or just in case they feel like looking different today.
So how does Yay work? Are they really one entity managing multiple bodies, or multiple entities that are so similar and interconnected that they may as well be one?
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Yes?
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The thing I'm curious about is whether or not there's some sort of safeguard to keep an AI from inhabiting more than one body at a time.
Because otherwise pintsize might have not so much migrated to a new body as multiplied.
it's been established in-strip that AI algorithms cannot be copied, only moved. Some readers have theorised that any attempt to copy would fail because the differences in environment and sensory input from two chassis, no matter how small, would instantly cause the two algorithms to diverge and rapidly become two very different individuals.
Setting that aside, I do kind of like the idea of particularly well-off synthetics having different bodies the way that you or I have different sets of clothes. Either for different activities or just in case they feel like looking different today.
It was also established that Marten has a backup of Pintsize on his computer, indicating that which makes pintsize pintsize can in fact be copied.
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Pintsize and a actual JOB. Seriously? :-D
Comics up.
"NO FREE DILDOS?! Fuck it, I'm gone."
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They get there are are promptly told to apply for the job via the company website.
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Oh no, imagine if they both get hired.
Pintsize and Claire as co-workers? It can only end in tears.
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If it was food, their concern was food contamination (on top of being killjoys).
no, we're not that dumb.
I've seen some pretty stupid shit here.
Thankfully we passed the FDA check this week with just a warning.
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Oh no, imagine if they both get hired.
Pintsize and Claire as co-workers? It can only end in tears.
"...Of fun!"
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Pintsize and a actual JOB. Seriously? :-D
Comics up.
"NO FREE DILDOS?! Fuck it, I'm gone."
No, I reckon he'll still consider it! - Extra income, getting to mess with sex toys all day long AND having first dibs on any new products freshly hatched from the fertile imaginations of sex toy developers... :roll:
I think it's still Pintsize's dream job - it's a practical joker's paradise! :-D
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The thing I'm curious about is whether or not there's some sort of safeguard to keep an AI from inhabiting more than one body at a time.
Because otherwise pintsize might have not so much migrated to a new body as multiplied.
it's been established in-strip that AI algorithms cannot be copied, only moved. Some readers have theorised that any attempt to copy would fail because the differences in environment and sensory input from two chassis, no matter how small, would instantly cause the two algorithms to diverge and rapidly become two very different individuals.
Setting that aside, I do kind of like the idea of particularly well-off synthetics having different bodies the way that you or I have different sets of clothes. Either for different activities or just in case they feel like looking different today.
So how does Yay work? Are they really one entity managing multiple bodies, or multiple entities that are so similar and interconnected that they may as well be one?
My guess is a combination of Quantum Entanglement and regular synch sessions to 'iron out' any differences.
There are enough differences between all the Yay instances (mostly ultra-subtle) that I wonder if each one represents a different part of the overall single psyche.
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Pintsize sadly removes tie, puts it around Claire's neck.
Claire gets the job! She learns that it is actually a front for the Army to test new anti-materiel ordnance in secret. (That's why the 'dildos' explode, burst into flame, penetrate brick walls, etc.)
Before her security clearance can come through, she finds a letter from a library in her mailbox.
They want to hire her!
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Do.... do people just decide to go in for an interview like that? Every interview I've gotten in the past 10 years or so, there's been some kind of remote pre-screening.
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Do.... do people just decide to go in for an interview like that? Every interview I've gotten in the past 10 years or so, there's been some kind of remote pre-screening.
Good point.
I suspect that for entry-level, low-skill jobs, you can just show up for the interview. Flipping burgers at McDonald's, for example. For any professional job, they won't talk to you until they've read your resume and decided you're worth the time.
It's not clear what's involved in this job. Other than dildos.
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Yeah, that’s how I got my call center job. And now, at some teacher job fairs, you can just show up with your resume, and sign a contract right then. That’s normally not a great sign tho.
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Do.... do people just decide to go in for an interview like that?
My favorite grocery has "instant interview" signs up for a variety of workers. I suspect that really means, if you indicate interest, they find the MOD who chats you up after you run through the computerized interview system. If the MOD likes you, you're hired and put into the rotation more or less instantly.