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Hanners is DIZZY over the ROMANCE!

Does she ever get bummed out about it? (Physical contact?)

Not really. She can't handle it NOW, but maybe someday!

And those 8 gigs of sexy fireman pics from Pintsize? (Only FOUR, and she prefers cowboys now.)

Mom explains it all to Marten

Stop talking and let me be happy for you. (Yes dear.)

Marten is suddenly hesitant: What if it doesn't work out?

You can't live life without taking any risks.

What if you don't know what risks to take? Then take a bunch!

No basement to move back into, though.

Nice cuddle times by the TV...

You're supposed to go to the movies and fancy dinners and stuff.

All we do is play video games and watch anime and make out.

Well, do you wanna do that stuff?

Meh. This is nice.

In the middle of makeouts: BAM BAM BAM! (Oh for the love of - )

Hey buddy! It's me! May!

"SHIT" "Nice to see you too, ass-dick."

[HauntingPoem]

He can't see her without them. This is her android body.

[T]

MWR threesome!!!

[Lubricus]

Yay for May! I didn't see that coming!

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[Loki]

MWR threesome!!!

I know you were joking, but just as a reminder, the "no shipping" rule still applies.

I must say Jeph's gleeful comment under the comic made me giggle.

...and I hadn't realized it's Friday! Dammit!

[T]

Well, technically there were no shipping in my post.

[KOK]

Considering the orangeness of her clothes*, I'm guessing that's her jail uniform (i.e. she just got out and Dale's place is the first place she went).

The purpose of jail uniforms is it to make fugitives easy to spot. Poeple do not wear them when released. And in robot jail they have no bodies and no need for uniforms.

[Fenriswolf]

First, for relevance: yay May! I had to grin at the timing (forum speculation --> May! With a body!)

P.S. - [7] = Windows 7; [8] = Windows 8; [iM] = iOS; [trb] = Trek reboot. For "N" I would substitute "FF" (since Firefox is the spiritual heir to Netscape/Mozilla).

Oo, update FTW. The juxtaposition of law and social science seems kind of awesome/potentially uncomfortable. I probably could have put $ with MD actually. *wanders off to finish decoding Geek Codes.*

[Thrillho]

I do not enjoy May.

[Barmymoo]

I was pleased to see her back - can't work out the context though. She's obviously corporeal now, which suggests release, but she's in prison uniform (maybe) which suggests still in the system. Parole maybe? Does the USA do release on parole?

[pwhodges]

Maybe May just likes an orange outfit to complement her blue chassis.

[Mlle Germain]

I do not enjoy May.

I have to say that I had a similar reaction. I'm not fond of the idea of her becoming a permanent character.
Also, it would probably be better for Dale and Marigold to just be left alone for a while. Momo can do that - she has her own life and knows how to give people privacy-; with May I doubt it.

[Barmymoo]

I think we're in for a healthy dose of character development here!

[Storel]

She's baaaaa-aaaaaack!

Considering the orangeness of her clothes*, I'm guessing that's her jail uniform (i.e. she just got out and Dale's place is the first place she went).

The purpose of jail uniforms is it to make fugitives easy to spot. Poeple do not wear them when released. And in robot jail they have no bodies and no need for uniforms.

Good point; I'd forgotten about the lack of bodies in robot jail. Besides, that looks more like a track suit to me than a prison uniform.

Plus, she looks a bit too calm and relaxed to be on the lam...

[Fenriswolf]

I do not enjoy May.

I felt the same for most of her time - completely over the top obnoxious. But near the end when she got to meet everybody I kind of warmed to her, and I quite like her as a new character.

[T]

I do not enjoy May.

You may enjoy May now.

[Chelicerate]

Awwwwww yisssss

[techkid]

Yeah, Dickmouth Stinkface pretty much rubbed everyone the wrong way (except for one dude here, I remember). But come the end, May did make a pretty good turnaround in her personality (poor impulse control notwithstanding). It'd be interesting to see what's been happening since. And why not the jeans she'd wanted?

[GarandMarine]

Yay May's back!

and Celt she's got a body now.

[T]

Yay May's back!

and Celt she's got a body now.

And if she is lucky, this time she won't be like a Barbie doll down there!

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if she is like Pintsize she will have 3 different kinds of stuff downthere

[Border Reiver]

I do not enjoy May.

Don't panic - it's June in 8 days.

[Barmymoo]

Personally I'm offended.

[TheRedMaiden]

I'm calling it now, this guy is gonna walk in right behind May, Jeph's gonna get a QC sitcom deal, and shenanigans and canned laughter will ensue. 

[jwhouk]

Personally I'm offended.

"You're not the May we're talking about..." (does strange Jedi-like wave of his hands)

On topic:

That outfit she has on looks a lot like Momo's kimono from her introduction way back when. I wonder if that's a basic "clothes" option for an Idoru chassis.

[Barmymoo]

And that makes it better how...?

[jwhouk]

Well, we all love you.

[jmucchiello]

But she'll behave like she's met everyone when most people did not even know Dale had an AI riding along on his glasses. She'll engage in wonderfully awkward conversations with the cast. It could be great. Bet she know Marten's Mom's past occupation as well.

[cesium133]

Perhaps the most important question of all: will she moon Faye again? 

[Sorflakne]

MAY'S BACK!! 

[Zwammy]

And why not the jeans she'd wanted?

At least it isn't the maid uniform. And from the name of that strip, Jeph has indeed been planning this for a while.

[Thrudd]

Just to chime in with a possible bit of trivia that may have some bearing on the situation.
Did not Dale, at the beginning of the DMSF arc, agree to something in the way of a contract?

And just for luls, here is my updated GC

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Code: [Select]

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1.2[a]
GCS/GE$/GS/GTW$ d+ s:+ a++ C++ UB* P L+ !E @W++ @N+ o !K w++(---)[@7][!8] O @M V
PS+ PE @Y++ @PGP++ t* 5++ X+ R*+++($) tv+
@b+ DI++++ D++(+++) G++(++++) e++>++++ h* r* z?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

I'm thinking that a simple script could handle the generation of an updated code.
I think it would be a good idea to date stamp the year of the code generation though.
Things have changed quite radically in some areas of the land that is geek.

[celticgeek]

And we must not forget the Nerd Test.

[cesium133]

Even that one's a bit outdated. I just got to the "Can you program the time on a VCR?" one.

The questions that ask what constants you've memorized seem to separate the physics undergrads from the people who have been doing it for a while... I don't bother memorizing constants, I just look them up when I need them. Mathematica exists for a reason. 

"Have you used a computer in the last half-hour?" I'm using a computer right now, you dolt!

"Have you ever multitasked (ran 2+ applications simultaneously)?" *counts icons in taskbar* Does 12 count?

[Thrudd]

It does need a complete rewrite and I think the database has taken at least one hit in the past since I faintly recal the number of submissions being much higher when it first came out.

I also wonder on exactly what algorithm they are using and how the answers are weighted for determining the purity that is nerd.

[cesium133]

I'm apparently 40.8% nerd pure. This may belong in the Confessions thread, but I've never bothered watching Star Trek or any of the Star Wars movies other than the original one.

[judemorrigan]

Even that one's a bit outdated.

Maybe a bit.  I enjoyed the "Do you own more than one computer with at least a megabyte of RAM?" question.

(A *mega*byte of RAM?  Woah!)

[cesium133]

Incidentally, I'm looking for parts to build a computer for the lab, and I just figured out I'm going to have to tell my advisor that I was wrong about the number of memory slots on the motherboard and I can fit *only* 32 gigabytes of RAM in it...

[Is it cold in here?]

It at least used to be standard procedure for the prison to give a released inmate a suit of clothes and a token amount of money for a fresh start. For an AI the equivalent of a suit would be a body. It probably was never an expensive suit of clothes, though, and May's chassis looks way more expensive than Pintsize's.

[Thrudd]

Contrast that with an SDK85 with a whacking 256 Bytes of RAM  [yes Bytes - that is not a typo] and its Titanic sibling the SDK86 with 2k RAM.
  much RAM, many functionality, such utility 

Warning - while you were typing a new generation of computing devices has been released. You may wish to upgrade your OS to negate any gains in computing power, functionality or speed.

[GarandMarine]

It at least used to be standard procedure for the prison to give a released inmate a suit of clothes and a token amount of money for a fresh start. For an AI the equivalent of a suit would be a body. It probably was never an expensive suit of clothes, though, and May's chassis looks way more expensive than Pintsize's.

Pintsize's chassis is military hardware for one, and pretty outdated as I recall.

[Method of Madness]

I'm only 26% nerd according to that test

I'm not sure why it gives you the percentage of not-nerd you are as the default, fuck that.

[celticgeek]

Even that one's a bit outdated.

Maybe a bit.  I enjoyed the "Do you own more than one computer with at least a megabyte of RAM?" question.

(A *mega*byte of RAM?  Woah!)

For the first computer I bought, I went for the FULL MEGABYTE of RAM, and the FULL 40 MEGABYTE hard drive - top of the line stuff.

And for the record, I own three really good slide rules, and I even taught slide rule at a junior college (in my younger days, of course).

[Mad Cat]

My question is, WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?????

She's not  a personal hologram in a set of Glasses anymore. When she embodied, why would she embody into a chassis with the skin color her prison form had?

[cesium133]

She just felt a bit blue from the experience.

[Kugai]

She IS a Hologram


Maybe we should send her to the Delta Quadrant.

[Pilchard123]

My question is, WHY IS MAY STILL CYAN?????

Possibly so Jeph could drop this on us (the monster!) on a Friday and have us recognise her straight away. If she was (e.g.) green, we might have just gone 'Huh, some robot that Dale knows', and needed another strip to explain it.

What's the term for a human-form AnthroPC? Is there one?

[Loki]

anthropomorphic personification

[Neko_Ali]

She did introduce herself with the name that Dale gave her... So I'm pretty sure he (and the readers) would have gotten the joke even if she wasn't blue. It might well be though that she chose that color because that's how Dale saw her.. Or maybe she just likes blue. There was no reason why her image had to be blue.. It wasn't even a hologram, just superimposed on his vision by the Glasses. The readers just saw her as a 3D image because that's how Dale saw her.

[Pilchard123]

anthropomorphic personification

HO. HO. HO.

[Mr_Rose]

Maybe Dale just had his glasses set to tint the HUD blue so he wouldn't confuse it with something real by accident, and May had/has no idea what setting he used and the colour of her issued shell is a complete coincidence?

[foolsguinea]

But she'll behave like she's met everyone when most people did not even know Dale had an AI riding along on his glasses. She'll engage in wonderfully awkward conversations with the cast. It could be great. Bet she know Marten's Mom's past occupation as well.

She'll become a dominatrix and take over Veronica's clients!

No, probably not. XD