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Venti

Upside-down

Caramel

Macchiato

Four splenda

Three raw sugar

187 degrees

Lack of butts

[katsmeat]

Hopefully they know better than to offer  Bubbles the experimental, espresso/yerba mate concoction from about 1600 comics ago.

[osaka]

Hopefully they know better than to offer  Bubbles the experimental, espresso/yerba mate concoction from about 1600 comics ago.

I have a feeling that if they did, Unicorn Grove would turn into hit flash game Robot Unicorn Attack. Or maybe Techno Kitten Adventures.

[USS Martenclaire]

UNICORNS RULE !!!!

... no wait, that was redheads !

The world's leadership problems were solved after Empress Claire was crowned atop her unicorn.

[Lubricus]

My brain suddenly produced the title "Grand Theft Auto: Unicorn Grove". I think I need medication... 

[DSL]

Hopefully they know better than to offer  Bubbles the experimental, espresso/yerba mate concoction from about 1600 comics ago.

I have a feeling that if they did, Unicorn Grove would turn into hit flash game Robot Unicorn Attack. Or maybe Techno Kitten Adventures.

Unicorn Grove would become Alice Grove.

[Zebediah]

Coming soon to a QC strip near you:

"Claire? What's your favorite Meat Loaf song?"

[BenRG]

@Zebediah,

Purely FWIW, I'd like it if Claire's mother turned out to be a rocker back in her college days. She still has the leathers to prove it (signed by Lemmy Kilmister, of course). Claire has... borrowed them on occasion for when she's supporting Marten at Deathmole gigs.

Oddly enough, being a part-time rocker chick has actually enhanced her reputation amongst her fellow MLS students.

[ThePerilsOfDan]

I don't like my unicorn grove time infringed upon either.

[cesium133]

Coming soon to a QC strip near you:

"Claire? What's your favorite Meat Loaf song?"

"Man, fuck Meat Loaf. Meat Loaf SUCKS. Lemme go back to sleep."
*FOREBODE*

(also more known, at least by me, as the inspiration for Weird Al Yankovic's first radio parody, "My Bologna")

There are a lot of songs I only know through the Weird Al version.

[Case]

If the local classic rock station can play Red Hot Chili Peppers as classic, Meatloaf counts too. His lyrics are no better or worse than any other artist/band. Sometimes often they are better.

I have heard of all those songs, and I am only two years older. Most of my peers are similar. He sells out shows still, or did up until 5 or 6 years ago. Might depend on location though.

In the interest of full disclosure, I love Meatloaf.

Classic? I still own a copy of Bassplayer Magazine that contains an interview with Flea on account of "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" being played nonstop on the radio ...
... aaaaaaaaaand that article is older than the both one of you! (It also confirms that Flea is certifiably nuts. And a genuine musical genius. For anybody who had any doubt about either.)

42 is definitely too young to feel old ... 

EDIT: Basic Arithmetic

Nothing wrong with liking Meatloaf - though for me, the whole "Bat out of Hell II"-Brouhahah kind of came out nowhere when it came out. My first thought was "Rock-Opera? They still make those?". Freddy Mercury had died only two years prior - maybe that's why the whole concept of Rock-Opera felt a bit ultra-retro to me at the time.
   
Though it's probably wrong to call him a "serial one-hit-wonder", I guess there's a difference to how he is perceived outside the US.

...
"I will do anything for butts -- but I won't do that"

Uhmmmmmh, not to sleaze up the WCDT -> But Rule 34.5 ("Every double entendre you think you came up with ... was made into a one-hit-wonder in the 90s (or into an Opera by Meatloaf)") applies to that thought ...
(Just google within quotes - first link. Safesearch mandatory!)

I'm just sayin'!

It's an interesting factoid, right?

Dont judge me! 

Well, that was what I was referencing anyway, so I'm not sure if rule 34.5 applies...

And I was born in 1985, so I guess I'm old enough to know that Meatloaf has plenty of hits. Dang kids.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeellllll ... I could say that googling that phrase of yours shows that "I will do anything for butts -- but I won't do that" was what Meatloaf meant anyhow (along with a lot of other authors of 90s-hits), but truth be told:
There was a distinct lack of caffeine in my system when I 'invented' Rule 34.5, so there.

Still: I invented Rule 34.5 ! Yay me!

1985 - The year everybody had just finished re-reading Orwell's 1984 and nobody had any notion yet as to where the fuck Chernobyl was ... 

Difference is, you really have to be a 90s fan to know any of those songs (with the possible exception of Anything for Love) whereas everyone knows Beethoven's 5th and 9th symphonies, Für Elise, and Moonlight Sonata (even if not by name)

If you're going to be like that, then feel free to substitute Antonio Salieri.

Became obscure after he died, but not a one-hit wonder by any means.

True, but would anyone remember him if he hadn't been the guy who messed with W.A.Mozart's headmeat? (Well, I would, because I had to practise an piano-etude of his for the entrance exam at Conservatory Arnhem ... And it probably wouldn't be wrong to say that it wasn't that difficult to mess with Mozart's headmeat, on account of it being pretty ... idiosyncratic ... to begin with.)

[Neko_Ali]

UNICORNS RULE !!!!

... no wait, that was redheads !

No, that's Tunnel Snakes. Because that's us! And Tunnel Snakes rule!

[Timemaster]

UNICORNS RULE !!!!

... no wait, that was redheads !

That was BUTTS! 

We´re a a QC-forum here. How could you anyhow go so wrong. 

TM

[Zebediah]

So then the butt of a red-headed unicorn would totally dominate. Got it.

[Kugai]

But with Bubbles being a cybernetic organisim, is that Unicornmatrix 0?


 

[lummo]

This is one of my favorite bits in QC ever!

The author has, on occasion, delivered some very finelly tuned emotional moments.

[mustang6172]

But with Bubbles being a cybernetic organisim, is that Unicornmatrix 01?

I think you mean Unicornmatrix 0.  Way to blow a Star Trek reference, nerd. 

[cesium133]

New comic...

The difference between Pintsize and Bubbles: Emily doesn't dare hit Bubbles without asking first.

[mad hands murphy]

lol emily, so randumb

[Tova]

Emily doesn't dare believes it would be impolite to hit Bubbles without asking first.

[chaospersonified]

lol emily, so randumb

This new way of writing that word accurately describes my life from 13-16 (approximately)

[Estron]

What would have polite, there, would been to use "May I" and include the word "please."   

[electromgneticDstroyosaur]

Emily's not weird about Bubbles, she's weird all the way down.

[cesium133]

So then the butt of a red-headed unicorn would totally dominate. Got it.

[Radium_Coyote]

I have noted that, over time, people gravitate to the crazier characters.  Emily was bound to grow as a replacement for Hanners, just as Bubbles is bound to be a replacement for Pintsize.

It's OK. The comic is old, and the focus is obviously shifting.

[BenRG]

I was initially going to ask why Emily would want to hit Bubbles as hard as she can with a rubber mallet. Then I remembered that this is Emily that we're talking about. The answer probably wouldn't make any sense. She probably wants to know if her exo armor would ring like a bell like it would in the Loony Toons or something similar!

This leaves Bubbles with a perplexing social dilemma: How do you respond appropriately to a request like that, made in such an innocently cheerful manner, without implicitly leaving objective reality for Emilyland?

P.S.: This is the prettiest Jeph has drawn Emily for a while, IMO.

[Timemaster]

Bubbles response to this situation will be interesting. Will she be embarrassed and leave CoD, just to return to sulking in her room in the skatepark? Or is she selfconcious enough to stay and talk Emily out of hitting her? Or maybe she will even show some humor and let Emily actually hit her with the rubber-thingy?
I dunno. I find it difficult to assess Bubbles here. What do you think?

Emily is, well, Emily. Again. She´s great, I love her.
And Ben, you´re right. Jeph has drawn her very good today. Very realisic and attractive. She is tall and slender without being skinny.

TM

[Is it cold in here?]

"Of course, Emily, but it will only be fair if you let me hit you back as hard as I can".

[BenRG]

@IICIH,
That would inevitably lead to the two of them having a squeaky rubber mallet fight whilst giggling like six-year-olds. Come to think of it, that would be fun to see (even though it would weird out everyone else in CoD)!

[anahata]

Well, that would certainly show us a side of Bubbles we haven't seen before.

[osaka]

New comic...

The difference between Pintsize and Bubbles: Emily doesn't dare hit Bubbles without asking first.

Emily doesn't dare believes it would be impolite to hit Bubbles without asking first.

Emily just doesn't think Bubbles is soft, which was the case with Pintsize. Or maybe she learned her lesson after discovering that she had broken her hand. Either way, at least she asked. I guess the next thing someone should do is tell Bubbles that it isn't just her what makes Emily react this way - it's just how Emily is.

[swapna]

What the hell, Emily. How is that even.. I mean, Emily manages to interact with people on a regular basis, and don't get punched in the face that much. But as of now, she has a remarkable track record with AI - she punched Pintsize, manages to push Momos buttons and now she wants to hammer Bubbles?

I.. I can't say I like it very much. Or maybe I should be happy that she graduated from physical attacks and groping to asking first.

[osaka]

She is a computer science student. I can tell that we have very little care about general computing components, both ours and of other people, at least from my experience (both myself and close friends). Emily might not have dissociated those from the AIs.

I don't know how I'd handle myself when meeting an AI honestly, although I guess that physical assault would be completely out of the question.

[chaospersonified]

In her defense, Swapna, have you ever hit a truly solid object, say a concrete floor, or potentially, a military-grade droid chassis, with a rubber mallet? Shit's fun. Bouncy-bouncy.

I agree it's troubling, but I've had a lot of fun with rubber mallets before. Painful fun on at least one occasion when it bounced back a bit further than I expected, but it left no permanent marks. My soft human child-face took a bit of bruising, but no scarring. I think Emily's got about the same excitable brain as I had when I was then, so I think I understand her motivation in this. Like you said, at least she asked.

[Welu]

Faye's splotchy stained top is annoying me. I know whatever she wears is bound to get dirty in her work but looking at it makes  me feel unclean.

[Akima]

Why does CoD have a rubber mallet? For mashing the banana smoothies?

People do seem to have a tendency to intrude into the personal-space of AIs. We've had Hannelore "squeaking" Momo's epidermis, and Emily denting Pintsize, pushing Momo's belly button to cycle her hair-colours, and now wanting to hammer Bubbles. Of course Momo gave Pintsize a bit of a pounding too. Anyone might think that QC was supposed to be a funny comic or something.

[War Sparrow]

Emily was denting the counter with the other hammer, so Dora bought her a rubber one instead. Dora's tax forms must be an interesting sight for all concerned.

[BenRG]

People do seem to have a tendency to intrude into the personal-space of AIs.

This seems to be an indication of a broader issue in the QC-verse towards Synthetics. I've posted an opinion before that I think the 'AIs are people' ruling is relatively new, possibly happening during the course of the strip. Because of this, a lot of people are still getting their minds around the fact that the AIs are no longer property but people and you can no longer manhandle them for your amusement.

With Emily, though, I think it is more of a lack of a reaction filter. She seems to do the first thing that comes into her head sometimes and literally doesn't bother to verify her impressions or wonder whether what she wants to do is appropriate. She just does it and genuinely can't understand why people react badly.

It's my guess that, if Bubbles were to do her usual thing and speak sternly or try to be intimidating, it's very likely that Emily would assume that it's part of the 'game' and treat it as such.

[oeoek]

Experience with computers, Emily? Computer Science by any chance?

(must admit for myself: in the past 40 years I have been tempted to this approach more than once...)

[Rincewind]

I think this is one circumstance where the old "It's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission" does NOT apply.

[Is it cold in here?]

The constitutional amendment protecting their equal rights happened during the course of the strip.

The two points that follow are that it was necessary, and that major legal changes happen only after long and difficult preparation.

[DSL]

Why does CoD have a rubber mallet? .

Emily said it was her rubber mallet. Dora will probably warn her about liability issues involved in using personal equipment on the job. Of course, she could be speaking figuratively, and the mallet might well be shop property -- for pounding the martial-arts-monk-head-shaped dents out of the souffle pan.

[Is it cold in here?]

I have to leave the house soon and can't do an archive crawl. Didn't somebody in the strip say that Dora had switched Emily to the rubber mallet?

[celticgeek]

New Rubber Mallet (3144)

[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]

I think this board may have covered this already, but do we know how most people (who don't have several AI friends) think of AIs and their chassis?  Would people think Bubbles is scary because she is a killing machine, insecure/strange because she's wearing a killing machine in a civilian context (like people who proudly/defiantly open carry rifles everywhere it's not prohibited), or something else entirely?  Does her Geth Prime-like body even read as combat, or heavy lifting?

[Kugai]

At least Emily is learning to ask before doing anything weird these days.

[Akima]

Faye's splotchy stained top is annoying me. I know whatever she wears is bound to get dirty in her work but looking at it makes  me feel unclean.

Faye has embraced her inner junk-yard dog.

[Pilchard123]

It only occurred to me today that if Bubbles is/was supposed to smell weapons, maybe that's why the rest of her squad is dead. What if she didn't/couldn't warn them in time? Is this particular arc going to be more about why Bubbles is how she is?

[hedgie]

That's a sad thought.  It makes sense, but I do hope that it's not the case.

[swapna]

She is a computer science student. I can tell that we have very little care about general computing components, both ours and of other people, at least from my experience (both myself and close friends). Emily might not have dissociated those from the AIs.

I don't know how I'd handle myself when meeting an AI honestly, although I guess that physical assault would be completely out of the question.

That's interesting My experience is quite contrary - I've very seldom seen CS students handle equipment carelessly, nor have I done so myself. Yeah, we do know how much it can take, but usually we're quite careful. (Stuff's expensive...)
AIs, on the other hand, are software - easily changed, discarded, remade... I don't know how I'd handle sentient AI, but in QC-Verse their sentience has been accepted and they have even been granted rights. So, probably with curiosity, but then, that's how I treat most beings.

[Is it cold in here?]

I think this board may have covered this already, but do we know how most people (who don't have several AI friends) think of AIs and their chassis?  Would people think Bubbles is scary because she is a killing machine, insecure/strange because she's wearing a killing machine in a civilian context (like people who proudly/defiantly open carry rifles everywhere it's not prohibited), or something else entirely?  Does her Geth Prime-like body even read as combat, or heavy lifting?

I think that's a wide-open field for discussion.

If she were a carbon-based human of that size and build, that alone would leave many people intimidated around her.

We haven't seen any other military bodies except Deathbot, so it's likely that the sight of them is unusual and unexpected.