WCDT - Apr 25th to Apr 29th, 2022 (#4771 to #4775)

[Baz_Yat]

Anyone else imagining a music box rendition of Pop Goes the Weasel playing as Beeps turns the crank in Melon's head, or am I just super tired?

Not music box. But midi/8-bit.

[Gyrre]

....Going to go out on a limb and guess someone showed Jeph fanart. Either that or he knows the internet too well.

In which category  of anime is Grendizer?

Mecha.

The poll doesn't offer that option, sadly.

As a french who grew up in the 70's and 80's, I was a Grendizer (or "Goldorak", as it is called here) fan. It was one of the first anime to be broadcasted in France, and even now, everybody knows its name.

Mecha should be the 6th option from the bottom. The examples given were Gundam, PATLABOR, and Armored Trooper VOTOMS.  I'll have to check that series out

[theMarc]

I'm amused that everyone has apparently concluded that Melon meant "e factorial" and not "e, but with gusto".

[Gyrre]

Can any of you imagine how would it be like if Bubbles used the "drunk" software?

Either quiet introspection, or sad crying? Might just get a bit silly.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

I'm amused that everyone has apparently concluded that Melon meant "e factorial" and not "e, but with gusto".

I note that in the first panel, Melon's crunkles are angular, rather than rounded like the others. Only in the first panel. So she's less crunked now.

[Farideh]

Comic's up.

Ugh, I'd hate it if someone started streaming me without permissions, especially if I was under the influence

[Wombat]

And you know there are people out there who would just get more into Roko scolding them, which just make the sudden streaming worse. Realistic, but uncomfortable.

[DaiJB]

Can any of you imagine how would it be like if Bubbles used the "drunk" software?

Either quiet introspection, or sad crying? Might just get a bit silly.

I hope so - I'd be a little worried that she might turn out to be an angry drunk - I mean, she has good reasons to be angry...

[traroth]

Why do people feel (and indulge) the urge to livestream private events (like a friend gathering) on public platforms? That will forever be beyond me.

[BenRG]

Why do people feel (and indulge) the urge to livestream private events (like a friend gathering) on public platforms?

Because, on a conscious or unconscious level, they want to have everyone looking at them, talking about them and thinking about them. It's quite a remarkable level of narcissism when you think about it and it suggests that the modern on-line media culture has induced this condition in a vast range of people with a vast range of underlying psychological backgrounds.

As I heard one person say: "Once I'm famous, everything will be okay!"

[DreDotJs]

Why do people feel (and indulge) the urge to livestream private events (like a friend gathering) on public platforms? That will forever be beyond me.

I mean, it's not my instinct, but if I did, it would be the same reason I'm taking pictures to post later; I'm having fun and I want my friends and family to see what I'm doing. There's of course the consequence that other people will see it, but I mean, that's up to them to actually tune in, right? You may ask, "why would you want to live stream private events on public forums", but idk, I ask, "why do you want to watch strangers party"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[John Allenson]

Some people show you they're dicks by showing you their dicks.

[Wingy]

I'm wondering why Roko is so hostile to anyone watching?  Or is this a leftover from her police days when anyone watching was automatically assumed guilty by the police?  Or is she just upset at Millie and venting on the supposed audience?  Any way you slice it, Roko appears to have some lurking anger issues.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

Some people show you they're dicks by showing you their dicks.

Roko's reaction makes me wonder. I'm not sure I want to hear this story.

( unsolicited dick pics )

[hedgie]

Granted, I've posted this before, but it was some time ago.  I once had a friend in need of a good laugh, so I sent her pictures of Dick van Dyke, Dick Tracy, Dick Cheney and Dick Turpin, and then promptly apologised for the "dick pics".  At least I knew my audience well enough.  The closest thing to pictures of genitals I've ever sent would be ones of flowers.  Now why people want to cut the naughty bits off of plants and give them as a romantic gesture is beyond me.

[Thrillho]

Some people show you they're dicks by showing you their dicks.

Honey consider this stolen

[notStanley]

I'm wondering why Roko is so hostile to anyone watching? 

I do not like being photographed.  Even by a friend, someone streaming, without an understood plan of events and consent, would get their camera removed.  If their target is elsewhere and I am "just" a bystander, remove myself from their view.  If followed, might become an altercation of self-defense against assault.

[hedgie]

I'm extremely camera-shy, even though when I was an art student, I primarily did photography.  It was rather funny that one professor took polaroids of the class in order to try to learn everyone's name.  Thankfully, my hair was long enough to do the cousin Itt thing every time he had a camera pointing anywhere near my direction.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

So for Melon, it's turtles? A search for 'lolturtles' actually returns hits.

( am interested in melons philosophical reasons )

[Roborat]

Every time I see Melon, I fall more in love with her.

[A_S00]

I'm a little unclear on the extent to which we're supposed to read Roko's grumping as a fourth-wall-breaking admonition to us readers (vs. the obvious in-universe admonition to whoever's watching the stream).  The former feels a little...unfair?

Like, the last seven comics have featured:

• Beeps in her underwear putting on a slinky dress
• Roko monologuing about how inappropriately short her dress is
• Roko, in said short dress, making a "is that a baguette in your pants" joke
• Beeps, after Roko's dissociative episode, offering her a choice between "I <3 Anal" and "Pound My Holes" pajama shirts
• Millefeuille bragging about her fat ass and putting on "Robot Sex Disco" as party music
• Millefeuille getting drunk and removing her top
• Roko yelling at people watching them for having their dicks out

I don't wanna say that Jeph has definitely had his dick out for the last week, but it does feel a little questionable to be admonished by the authorial voice after he decided to go this hard on Sexy Robot Week.  But maybe I'm reading too much into this, and he's really just telling a story about Roko being grumpy, not chiding his readers for finding Sexy Robot Week sexy.

[_Islanio]

Apparently, mistakes were made.

[St.Clair]

I'm guessing that Roko went on a blistering rant about those **********ing ****ers at Valley Semiconductor (and possibly a few other *********s she's had to deal with lately).

[_Islanio]

Or maybe ranting about the faulty AI prison system, and the lack of support for AIs like May.

[Gyrre]

Apparently, mistakes were made.

Seems that way.

[hedgie]

I'm a little unclear on the extent to which we're supposed to read Roko's grumping as a fourth-wall-breaking admonition to us readers (vs. the obvious in-universe admonition to whoever's watching the stream).  The former feels a little...unfair?

Like, the last seven comics have featured:

• Beeps in her underwear putting on a slinky dress

I'm surprised that Melon didn't try a Slinky dress

As far as the comic itself goes, Jeph does enjoy trolling his readers at times, and at least what I got from it is how things can and will go horribly wrong.

[DreDotJs]

I see that exactly the kind of shenanigans you can expect from a situation where someone encourages you to get drunker than you typically would have, in fact, occurred. Never a good sign when someone asks you what you remember from last night.

Also, deeply entertained at the idea of drunken robot amnesia. Like, is part of the protocol that memory banks just stop recording or are they archived and you need to sudo in somehow

[traroth]

Did the last evening's events involve any rabbits? Or combine-harvester? Or carrot bread?

[_Islanio]

Like, is part of the protocol that memory banks just stop recording or are they archived and you need to sudo in somehow

Maybe their memories get stored in the RAM, and when drunk, they dont get transfered to ROM. Depends on how many processes they can kepp running alongside the booze software.

[Pseudowolf]

I don't wanna say that Jeph has definitely had his dick out for the last week, but it does feel a little questionable to be admonished by the authorial voice after he decided to go this hard on Sexy Robot Week.

Are you saying you feel the Content is Questionable?
(sorry, couldn't resist)

[hedgie]

Thinking more about how everything went down, it does make quite a bit of sense.  The whole "girls' night out" thing is supposed to be an emotional boost.  Beeps wanted them to be able to be their hottest, consume some questionable data (booze), and, for a few brief hours, be (along with Roko and the others) be unstoppable forces.  But, particularly with *that* dress, the thought of getting tarted up a little was a major trigger for Roko's dysphoria.  No matter how "hot" she looks to others, any attention to her looks, even her own just makes her more of aware of what she normally suppresses.

[notStanley]

Did the last evening's events involve any rabbits? Or combine-harvester? Or carrot bread?

Carrot Bread.  But for some reason it was with Emus?  Could have been worse, only a couple of them had the invisibility add-on :}

[Perfectly Reasonable]

Try to be more charitable, folks, Remember Jeph is a Butts Disease sufferer in recovery.

[hedgie]

One cheek is one too many; two is not enough.

[DaiJB]

Beeps: I mean, what with Mille being topless again...and what Melon was doing...I'm sure - pretty sure - that no-one even noticed what you were doing at all...

Roko: That is even less good news, Beepatrice

[Gyrre]

This may have been covered already, but does Mille also have a screen face like Beeps'?

[artag]

If I found the right math e! is only about 4.26?  So Melon is practicing moderation - most unusual!

But e, the base of natural logarithms is never capitalised.
Whereas E, the last-but-one digit in base 16, (perhaps especially relevant to an AI .. do AIs have binary brains ? IDK) is quite often capitalised.

[notStanley]

If I found the right math e! is only about 4.26?  So Melon is practicing moderation - most unusual!

But e, the base of natural logarithms is never capitalised.
Whereas E, the last-but-one digit in base 16, (perhaps especially relevant to an AI .. do AIs have binary brains ? IDK) is quite often capitalised.

wwooooo, and 14! is 87,178,291,200?  that would be very drunk!!!  A mere organic would have been dead long before reaching such heights :{

[pwhodges]

And as Melon starting melting trying to go to 11, it seems the hex interpretation is wrong...

[notStanley]

And as Melon starting melting trying to go to 11, it seems the hex interpretation is wrong...

Maybe they could get a witch to come down from Amhurst and remove that hex?

[Wingy]

This may have been covered already, but does Mille also have a screen face like Beeps'?

Since she's sans nose, apparently yes.

Beepatrice's choice of sleepwear cements in my mind that Beeps was built as a sex droid, found defective, and is now working in the factory to pay off her indenture.  Or else she is completely and utterly clueless about how organics handle the whole sex thing.  Or both.  Sigh.

Millie popping her top off was a surprise.  I wonder what that portends.

And great, now Melon is going to be dysphoric too?  Can the negaverse cope?  Or are we going to see more of Lemon?

[Scarlet Manuka]

Millie popping her top off was a surprise.  I wonder what that portends.

We've seen before that she has an exhibitionistic streak, and likes to turn Drinkr up pretty high. So this wasn't surprising for me.

[Wingy]

And why does Melon have different colored eyes now?  Is that all UR had in stock?

[traroth]

Just to illustrate the level of fame of Grendizer TODAY in France: some metal-working business put a giant Grendizer on roundabout in 2018 (so 40 years after the show first aired in France) somewhere in the middle of Auvergne, and it made the tv news on the main french tv channel, TF1. Just saw that now.

https://fb.watch/dRg5Y4IvxO/

[Gyrre]

Just to illustrate the level of fame of Grendizer TODAY in France: some metal-working business put a giant Grendizer on roundabout in 2018 (so 40 years after the show first aired in France) somewhere in the middle of Auvergne, and it made the tv news on the main french tv channel, TF1. Just saw that now.

https://fb.watch/dRg5Y4IvxO/

Neat