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[Perfectly Reasonable]

When miners found some silver ore that refused to smelt properly, they decided it must have been cursed by 'kobolds'. That ore actually turned out to contain a new element -- that we now call 'cobalt'.

As for 'moxie' -- what can you expect of a celery-flavored soda? The taste-- then there's the aftertaste. Then the undertaste. (I won't mention Diet Moxie. It has its own special kind of infamy.)

But the webcomic 'Angel Moxie' is really neat. Have a look.
(http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/0/0/001.html)

Momo is awesome, as usual. She will quickly clue Marigold in to the weirdness that is going on. And slam the door in Dale/May's faces. (Probably not. Since Jeph has worked hard to get us to this point...)

[KOK]

The real question is, can we make Jeph draw a size comparrison chart of all his females in underwear/swimsuits?

This http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QC-MUCHA-PRINT&Category_Code=QC is probably the closest we will get.

[Loki]

There is also blatant pandering.

[mtmerrick]

Maybe we need a combination of the random thoughts and weekly comic discussion threads.

I just had an existential QC-verse thought:

What if the big news Jeph mentioned is a major plot twist? Could it be that the QC-verse is in fact a false reality electronically created and implanted into the consciousness of May? The characters may be based off real humans, but maybe her crime was worth the effort of creating and running an artificial reality full of artificial intelligences (and artificial artificial intelligences) solely for the purpose of those AIs one day helping to rehabilitate a criminal.

Actually, what if May is in fact a real human being who has had her consciousness downloaded for the purpose of modifying and returning it to its body for the rehab?

Can AIs actually be CREATED? Is there a limited number? Did all programs simultaneously develop consciousness while some did not?

Wouldn't it be ethically wrong to modify a person's memories and consciousness solely for the purpose of teaching them a lesson that may or may not have actually been based on a real event?

QC may be a simulation in the real world that runs on a supercomputer for the purpose of observing artificial intelligences over time. Perhaps I am inside this simulation, as are all of you.

I should probably go to sleep.

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this reminds me of the AI creation methodology from Red vs Blue. Which, if you haven't watched, you should.

[cesariojpn]

The real question is, can we make Jeph draw a size comparrison chart of all his females in underwear/swimsuits?

This http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QC-MUCHA-PRINT&Category_Code=QC is probably the closest we will get.

You also have this holiday comic, this fan disservice one, and there was a joke strip that I can't find......

[Akima]

Also, why do I feel like I'm being corrected for saying there are multiple valid spellings when all evidence presented since that statement confirms it?

I'm sorry Westrim. I have a condition; someone only has to make an ex cathedra statement like this:

The originator of the term may have been spelled Moxie, but everything since then that used it as a name has spelled it Moxy.

And I am immediately compelled to research its truth. Mea culpa.

[Sidhekin]

I've never seen the expression ex cathedra used in such a context before.  (Not a native speaker, here.)  Seems ... useful.

* Sidhekin snags.

[Zebediah]

Not a native speaker of Latin? Not too many people are, these days. 

[westrim]

Not a native speaker of Latin? Not too many people are, these days. 

We're all pretty Latin the game to do so.

[Method of Madness]

Doesn't work. B- for effort, though.

[Redball]

It worked for me. B+.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

May, for a robocriminal with fighter-jet aspirations and who has probably engaged in the Robot Jail equivalent of joining a prison gang and robo-shanking the new fish for giving lip to PX-0967 (he runs the Linux Brotherhood)...you're all right, May. You are all right.

You know, given that Momo seemed to expect Dale, I wonder if she's not playing matchmaker? Forum, why don't you hand me redtext warnings when I really need them? Like "Warning: Everyone discussed this insight two pages ago. Please don't post this. You idiot."

Not a native speaker of Latin? Not too many people are, these days. 

We're all pretty Latin the game to do so.

*bestows official Vatican rimshot unto His Holiness, Pope Westrim VI*

(That's a joke about where "speaking ex cathedra" came from, y'see, and... )

[Pilchard123]

There's also the whole "Latin is the official language of the Holy See"

[Nepiophage]

Why are we arguing about the anatomy of hypothetical rat/dog/lizard creatures, when it is far better to discuss the awesomeness of Marigold's knockers?

I mean, even beings incapable of touch and who lack genitals are in awe of them.

The real question is, can we make Jeph draw a size comparrison chart of all his females in underwear/swimsuits?

After all, my biggest burning question is... who's bust is bigger? Marigold or Dora?

In descending order:

Gabby
Marigold
Faye
Dora's mom
Raven
Padma
Cosette
Penny
Tai
Emily
Claire
Dora

[Sidhekin]

There's also the whole "Latin is the official language of the Holy See"

Not many natives there, though, what with the celibacy and all.

(As you may have guessed, I had in mind the context in which ex cathedra was used when I denied being a native speaker, but sure, I'm no native speaker of Latin, either.)

[Emperor Norton]

Honestly, I don't think she is playing matchmaker as much as facilitating them being friends.

I don't think Momo is trying to get them to date is what I'm saying.

[jwhouk]

In other words, she's not shipping them as much as she's trying to get them on each other's mailing list?

[Is it cold in here?]

She's done as much before, like when she told Hannelore that Marigold was hinting about watching a movie together, and told Marigold that Hannelore would like her to take a shower first.

[SageJiraiya]

Momo-tan is the modern QC-verse equivalent of the cricket conscience guy in Pinocchio. Except she is trying to get humans to be human, instead of wooden puppets to be human.

[Loki]

Well, I'd argue that getting humans to be humans is hard enough alright.

[Akima]

I've never seen the expression ex cathedra used in such a context before.  (Not a native speaker, here.)  Seems ... useful.

Heh, I'm a stranger here myself, so you shouldn't necessarily follow my my example.

[Carl-E]

Ji

Momo-tan is the modern QC-verse equivalent of the cricket conscience guy in Pinocchio. Except she is trying to get humans to be human, instead of wooden puppets to be human.

Jiminy Cricket.  And in the original book, he got squashed around page 23. 

[ZoeB]

Except she is trying to get humans to be human, instead of wooden puppets to be human.

Did I mention that I like Momo? Of those in the QC verse, she's the one most like me, in both virtues and failings.

Except I don't have an Evil Twin.

[jwhouk]

I get from that single frame that she probably would not want to become an AnthroPC.

[Is it cold in here?]

It's a big step down from being a mercenary fighter jet.

[ZoeB]

It's a big step down from being a mercenary fighter jet.

I can easily imagine Momo being a MEDEVAC VTOL though. I think that's her style - more risky even if less gung-ho.

[J]

is it me, or is may blushing in panel 2?

[mtmerrick]

Ji

Momo-tan is the modern QC-verse equivalent of the cricket conscience guy in Pinocchio. Except she is trying to get humans to be human, instead of wooden puppets to be human.

Jiminy Cricket.  And in the original book, he got squashed around page 23.

Yay!


I did not know that, but having a conscience sucks, so I'm happy.

[westrim]

It's a big step down from being a mercenary fighter jet.

She should watch/read some version of Area 88 (there are several, I've seen 1 and a half), that'll cure her of any desire to go that path. The one I remember better was mostly a good mix of reasonable "war sucks and affects those in it badly" messaging and fighter jet action- mostly, except for the ending.

[Loki]

Ji

Momo-tan is the modern QC-verse equivalent of the cricket conscience guy in Pinocchio. Except she is trying to get humans to be human, instead of wooden puppets to be human.

Jiminy Cricket.  And in the original book, he got squashed around page 23.

As far as I remember though, he got better.

[GarandMarine]

It's a big step down from being a mercenary fighter jet.

She should watch/read some version of Area 88 (there are several, I've seen 1 and a half), that'll cure her of any desire to go that path. The one I remember better was mostly a good mix of reasonable "war sucks and affects those in it badly" messaging and fighter jet action- mostly, except for the ending.

You want the original OVA of Area 88. For those two don't know, it's an old school anime that follows the pilots of a French Foreign Legion style mercenary company that is composed only of fighter pilots. It is brutal, real and /very/ hard core while not being a gore fest. If you liked Mobile Suit Gundam: 8th MS Team this is the anime you wish you've known about.

[Carl-E]

Momo-tan is the modern QC-verse equivalent of the cricket conscience guy in Pinocchio. Except she is trying to get humans to be human, instead of wooden puppets to be human.

Jiminy Cricket.  And in the original book, he got squashed around page 23.

As far as I remember though, he got better.

It was only a flesh wound. 

[westrim]

It's a big step down from being a mercenary fighter jet.

She should watch/read some version of Area 88 (there are several, I've seen 1 and a half), that'll cure her of any desire to go that path. The one I remember better was mostly a good mix of reasonable "war sucks and affects those in it badly" messaging and fighter jet action- mostly, except for the ending.

You want the original OVA of Area 88. For those two don't know, it's an old school anime that follows the pilots of a French Foreign Legion style mercenary company that is composed only of fighter pilots. It is brutal, real and very hard core while not being a gore fest. If you liked Mobile Suit Gundam: 8th MS Team this is the anime you wish you've known about.

That's the one I saw. Terrible ending, I wish I could unsee it. The main character throws away all his effort to get out of the war without even running it past his One True Love (gets on the phone and doesn't even talk after 3 years!), just because he didn't feel terrible about the fight with French street punks, and flies off to known suicide. He 180s from being selfless to the ultimate selfish act. All his wingmates have already suicided, because the formerly calculating base commander suddenly gets stupid when they back him and doesn't fly them off to form a resistance. It's just a case of "okay, we're done with our story, kill everyone or leave them unhappy, because we're trying to hammer home the point that war sucks."

[Is it cold in here?]

Heh, I'm a stranger here myself

??????

[Carl-E]

She meant the language - I'm pretty sure she was referring to Latin, not English. 



Even though it's not her first language, IIRC.  And despite that, her implementation is still better than most native speakers. 




Clearly, an overachiever!   

[Loki]

class Akima extends Person implements English {

        ...

}

[pwhodges]

I'm bemused.  To me, ex cathedra is simply an idiomatic English usage of a phrase from Latin, just like et cetera or nota bene, and no more remarkable than them though admittedly less commonly brought out.

[ZoeB]

As far as I remember though, he got better.

insert obligatory "he turned you into a newt?" question here.

OK, I suppose I better do it, there's bound to be some unfamiliar with the scene.

[Method of Madness]

If you're unfamiliar with that scene, go watch that movie. Now. We'll wait.

[jwhouk]

That is NOT a request. Run! Run away!

[westrim]

If you're unfamiliar with that scene, go watch that movie. Now. We'll wait.

The last time I saw someone insist another watch it, it was a girlfriend to her boyfriend. Two weeks after watching it, they broke up.

I'm pretty sure those are unrelated events however, since both apparently enjoyed it and they're decent people.

[Zebediah]

I once spent an enjoyable evening watching that movie with a friend who had never seen it. It was great fun watching her as she suddenly understood jokes she had been hearing for years. 

[Border Reiver]

If you're unfamiliar with that scene, go watch that movie. Now. We'll wait.

Really.  We will.

[Mr_Rose]

If you're unfamiliar with that scene, go watch that movie. Now. We'll wait.

Really.  We will.

No, seriously, why are you still here? TV's a' waitin'…

[Neko_Ali]

What waiting? I am going to join the watching. I'll bring the popcorn.

[jwhouk]

Clop-clop, clop-clop, clop-clop...

[Kugai]

Beware of The Knights Who Say Ni!

[Carl-E]

My potential son-in-law works at a grocery.  He mentioned they carry coconuts now.  I asked if they were delivered by swallow. 

He said, "Two, actually.  They were European swallows."



A good man's hard to find. 

[Method of Madness]

And he fell short. A pair of European swallows wouldn't be able to carry a coconut. An African swallow, maybe...

[Carl-E]

But if you run a line between them... perhaps a bit of vine?