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The dent in the wall in the corner.

3 (8.3%)

Marten's room. Usually on the floor next to the dresser.

1 (2.8%)

In Marten's BED. (Ever since Dora left, of course.)

4 (11.1%)

In a Faraday Cage.

2 (5.6%)

Duct taped to the wall (right above the dent in the wall in the corner).

5 (13.9%)

In a lead-lined box at the bottom of the ocean. (He keeps coming back.)

1 (2.8%)

Or maybe a lead-lined box at the bottom of the river?

0 (0%)

He is Celing Cat. He sneaks in via the overhead fan.

3 (8.3%)

He sleeps on the couch, now that Faye isn't using it.

2 (5.6%)

He sleeps with the waffles!

4 (11.1%)

HE NEVER SLEEPS! (Cue wicked laughter)

10 (27.8%)

Something else which hasn't occured to me.

1 (2.8%)

Total Members Voted: 36

[DSL]

Minus 9999 hitpoints.   Healing would be Plus 9999 hitpoints.

Oh but in Final Fantasy, damage and healing are shown as white numbers and green numbers respectively. So white numbers with a negative sign in front would be negative damage.

So, y'all are saying the Emster fixed Pintsize?

Or, put another way, Pintsize got ... fixed?

[cesium133]

Minus 9999 hitpoints.   Healing would be Plus 9999 hitpoints.

Oh but in Final Fantasy, damage and healing are shown as white numbers and green numbers respectively. So white numbers with a negative sign in front would be negative damage.

So, y'all are saying the Emster fixed Pintsize?

Or, put another way, Pintsize got ... fixed?

I didn't see a wrench or a ratchet involved, but I suppose a hard enough hit could remove his nuts.

[Y]

One suspects the damage is cumulative, even if he appears to recover.

How much more damage would Pintsize's chassis be able to take? I remember they replaced his chassis before too, but would Marten be able to afford it on his salary or would Pintsize end up in Momo's old chassis temporarily?

[DSL]

We did it, guys. We broke the pun jar.

[LordVaughn]

Anyone else notice that Emily has tears in her eyes?
Also, is it just me, or is Emily just going to be full of Azumanga Daioh-esque moments? Not that I'm complaining, I actually like it.

[westrim]

Anyone else notice that Emily has tears in her eyes?
Also, is it just me, or is Emily just going to be full of Azumanga Daioh-esque moments? Not that I'm complaining, I actually like it.

One comic she's going to stay over at Marten's and he'll wake up to her standing over him with a knife.

[de_la_Nae]

I'm telling you, first it's inappropriately personal questions and prodding with Momo, then casually assaulting Pintsize without due cause...next thing you know Emily's locked in an honor-duel with PT410X.

[Somebody]

Given that it's Pintsize, I'd say that Emily's hit was more pre-emptive than anything else...

She hit him with injurous force without so much as a minim of a self-defence excuse. Given the extension of "human" rights to AIs Clinton mentioned when he surveyed M & P (before freaking out over Hanners), Pintsize should have every right to press charges. This time.

Wait, why did she do negative 9999 damage? Wouldn't that have healed Pintsize? Ever since QC turned into a computer game I've lost track of logic. oO

Surely the damage was to *her*?

[PintsizeForPresident]

Anyone else notice that Emily's Ahoge are gone?

[jmucchiello]

Surely the damage was to *her*?

Tell that to the dent on Pintsize's head.

[ink slinger]

I know Pintsize can be a real shit sometimes, and I know that it's a comic so har har, but if someone I hardly know came into my home for the first time and almost immediately punched one of my best friends in the head as hard as she could, she would not be staying in my home very long. I certainly wouldn't be giving her a bag of peas to ice her hand.

Even if AIs weren't sentient, even if Pintsize was nothing more than a piece of property, I'd still be kicking Emily out.

[Game and Watch Forever]

You... have a point. She just damaged one of his friends. Isn't this a case where Marten should be standing up for the little guy (and maybe he will next strip...)? And if not, is it because Pintsize can be "fixed"? Or is it because it's Pintsize and he probably had it coming? 

[westrim]

And if not, is it because Pintsize can be "fixed"? Or is it because it's Pintsize and he probably had it coming? 

Yes.

[pwhodges]

is Emily just going to be full of Azumanga Daioh-esque moments?

Her surname is Azuma, so what do you think?

[Welu]

I think Marten is standing up up for Pintsize with his last line. Even if Pintsize's head was soft, punching it with the force she did would probably still have caused some damage. I was amused by the strip and the expression on Emily and Marten in the last panel is drawn really well, although character-wise I don't like Emily as much as I did.

[Is it cold in here?]

Such a disgusting craving to play Final Fantasy with all these references in the recent weeks...

Pintsize was dented but still coherent after Faye dismembered and Marigold thumped him, but one blow from Emily knocked him into a spiral. Does she do karate or something? Generate EMP when hurt?

Neither Marigold nor The Pugnacious Peach hit him hard enough to injure their hands. This may be a new level of impact.

How will Marigold react? She is sensitive to AnthroPC abuse, but may have made a permanent exception for Pintsize.

[Is it cold in here?]

One suspects the damage is cumulative, even if he appears to recover.

How much more damage would Pintsize's chassis be able to take? I remember they replaced his chassis before too, but would Marten be able to afford it on his salary or would Pintsize end up in Momo's old chassis temporarily?

The current one is mil-spec, and Marigold mentioned on Twitter once that the dents pop right out.

[westrim]

Neither Marigold nor The Pugnacious Peach hit him hard enough to injure their hands. This may be a new level of impact.

The Third Impact, if you will.

[Pilchard123]

Neither Marigold nor The Pugnacious Peach hit him hard enough to injure their hands. This may be a new level of impact.

They may have been more prepared for hitting a hard object. You punch soft thing differently to hard things.

f(0) := 0
f(1) := 1
f(n) := f(n-1)+f(n-2), n >= 2

I know that's pretty much the definition of that sequence, but it's also one of the (if not the) slowest known algorithms for generating a the Fibonacci sequence. IIRC, it also uses a lot more storage than other methods as well.

[Skewbrow]

So glad that you brought this up. Here is a link to a relevant Q&A in my favorite social media for math nerd(ette)s. A much faster method is described there.

[Pilchard123]

I always read Liber Abaci as Liberace (or Liberaraci)  at first.

[Method of Madness]

I wonder where they were...and also why Momo needs to be "watched".

[DSL]

I just had to remind myself that, in comic time, the gang woke up "this morning" at the lake house (either that or Marten doesn't change his shirts very often).

Which might help explain why Hanners is still looking a bit dazed and confused, whatever the state of her pigmentation.

It's been an interesting day in QCHampton.

[Soulsynger]

We did it, guys. We broke the pun jar.

There's punty more where that came from. No need to punder about such things aimlessly, my good pun... eh... chum.

(Although yes, we did make a pun jar explode.)

[cesium133]

Making a pun jar explode? There should be a punishment for that!

[DSL]

(Although yes, we did make (bold)a(endbold) pun jar explode.)

I see what you did there.

[jwhouk]

So what would YOU do first upon meeting Pintsize?

Aim for the dent in the wall in the corner.    3 (11.5%)
See if that mouth is actually movable.    2 (7.7%)
Play "Red Ryder BB Gun" (poke his eyes out).    0 (0%)
DONK on the head!    1 (3.8%)
...except I'd use a metal gauntlet.    0 (0%)
...or a hammer.    0 (0%)
...or an axe!    1 (3.8%)
Toss him in the freezer next to the waffles.    3 (11.5%)
Two words: Duct Tape.    4 (15.4%)
Play magna-doodle with his arms and legs.    0 (0%)
Eat cereal out of his torso.    0 (0%)
Bake a cake with his torso.    2 (7.7%)
Transfer his personality into Momo's old chassis. (Hilarity ensues)    9 (34.6%)
Something else - please, share!    1 (3.8%)

Total Members Voted: 26

[foolsguinea]

Best way to introduce oneself to Pintsize!

[cesariojpn]

Making a pun jar explode? Thats a paddling.

Fixed that for ya.

[riccostar]

Tan-ners' expression in the very first panel made the day for me.  Awesome strip!

Anyone else notice that Emily's Ahoge are gone?

Not the ahoge! 

[DSL]

Making a pun jar explode? Thats a paddling.

Fixed that for ya.

Pretty sure I'm glad I don't get that.

[Bluesummers]

Making a pun jar explode? Thats a paddling.

Fixed that for ya.

Pretty sure I'm glad I don't get that.

Simpsons reference. XD You poor repressed child.

[Toe]

Making a pun jar explode? Thats a paddling.

Fixed that for ya.

Pretty sure I'm glad I don't get that.

Not getting a Simpsons reference? Oh, you better BELIEVE that's a paddlin'!

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

In fact that's a double paddling.

[Kugai]

Well, nothing like a preemptive strike

[Litch]

Emily and marten are so going to end up in bed.

[Carl-E]

...where she will inappropriately apply the bag of frozen peas, ruining everything. 


Actually, though, that scenario makes less sense than Padma/Marten did.  She's an intern under him, and while such a thing isn't unheard of, a) it's sexual harassment, and b) WAY OOC for Marten! 

[ysth]

She's an intern under him

I see what you did there.

[Soulsynger]

Oh my, aren't we all clever today. Oo

Quick, this thread's-a gettin' too fly, someone make a butts joke!

@DSL:
I had to look up the paddling thing, too. And I'm a Simpsons nut. You're not alone. In fact, I think there's a salticida in your hair...

[cesariojpn]

@DSL:
I had to look up the paddling thing, too. And I'm a Simpsons nut. You're not alone. In fact, I think there's a salticida in your hair...

Use some Smecklers Powder for that.

[pwhodges]

Emily and marten are so going to end up in bed.

Tsk, tsk.

I shall distract the company by mentioning that I have never seen The Simpsons.

She's an intern under him, and while such a thing isn't unheard of, a) it's sexual harassment,

Not necessarily; but people are lazy these days and use presumptions of guilt rather than looking at the case.  My mother married her professor; and even to suggest that sexual harassment was involved would be utterly ludicrous.

[Soulsynger]

@Comic:
Is that a Futurama reference? I think it is.

For comic #2340...

1. Marigold looks very "rowr-y" in panel #1
[ ... ]

Dito for today's installment. Woof.

[Akima]

Marigold and Momo must share an extremely limited closet space. It's not as if Mari is a clothes-horse; her wardrobe seems to be very limited. Jeph's comment on today's strip is a little odd. Momo, unlike Pintsize, has always worn clothes.

[Soulsynger]

[ ... ]Momo, unlike Pintsize, has always worn clothes.

Not necessarily. Those could've been permanent clothes attached to the chassis. (we've never seen the old Momo chassis without those clothes, have we? Oo)
Except... for modding freaks in the QC world a model with such clothing limits would've been a letdown.

[K1dmor]

[ ... ]Momo, unlike Pintsize, has always worn clothes.

Not necessarily. Those could've been permanent clothes attached to the chassis. (we've never seen the old Momo chassis without those clothes, have we? Oo)

 Yes, #1298 
 
 
 

[Is it cold in here?]

Isn't part of the closet taken up by manga?

Momo's clothes for the old chassis were changeable: she started out in something I would (probably wrongly) call a kimono.

[pwhodges]

Momo's face in the last panel - so..... cute.....

[Carl-E]

And the comment - how long had she been planning that?  "Sartorial space..."?   

[de_la_Nae]

MILK!

[Vurogj]

Isn't part of the closet taken up by manga?

Quite a large part, if this is any guide.