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Marten & Claire

3 (2.5%)

Dora & Tai

6 (5%)

The Secret Bakery Crew (Jim, Elliot and Renee w. Sam, Roko and Brun guest-starring)

9 (7.4%)

Roko and her search for meaning (including Beepatrice, May, SpookyBot & others)

15 (12.4%)

Union Robotics (Faye & Bubbles w. Punchbot, Sam & other customers looking in)

16 (13.2%)

The Old Apartment (Marten, Faye, Bubbles, Claire & Pintsize)

9 (7.4%)

The Voyages of Hannelore

20 (16.5%)

Roko, Melon & Elliot's interactions in their apartment complex (with Arthur and SpookyBot looking in)

3 (2.5%)

Dale, Marigold, May & Momo's domesticity

5 (4.1%)

Back to the Library (Marten, Tai and Momo and possibly Claire, plus the students)

2 (1.7%)

Coffee of Doom (Dora, all the barristas and their significant others as well as random customers)

8 (6.6%)

Steve & Cossette

2 (1.7%)

Penny & Wil

4 (3.3%)

The Brun-Elliott-Clinton-Roko axis

16 (13.2%)

Other (please specify in comment)

3 (2.5%)

Total Members Voted: 41

[Oenone]

Tbh it’d be more surprising if it was a perfectly normal progression of events that was so wholesome old!May would barf when looking at new!May’s life.

Omg like a kitten.

[OldGoat]

"Goblin" really is an excellent word, and it fits May so well.

[Is it cold in here?]

There was a Constitutional amendment establishing full equal rights for synthetics. That should include voting.

[Theta9]

I jacked off a dude with a watermelon last night.

That's nice. But why did he have a watermelon and what was he doing with it?

[TheEvilDog]

I jacked off a dude with a watermelon last night.

That's nice. But why did he have a watermelon and what was he doing with it?

To get jacked off by May, obviously.

[Theta9]

I guess it was a good thing he had the watermelon then.

...and now I'm connecting this in my mind with the lab watermelon in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

[Penquin47]

Beeps has abs!!!

[TheEvilDog]

Roko, if you come into work and Beepatrice has dyed her body and her hair...back out of there very slowly and change all the locks to your apartment!

Also, I wish I could just get abs by writing abs across my abs(domen).

[St.Clair]

Single Lavender Female

[shanejayell]

Sorry, Beeps, but I've learned just dressing like the cool people doesn't make you cool.

*lol*

[Gyrre]

Roko, if you come into work and Beepatrice has dyed her body and her hair...back out of there very slowly and change all the locks to your apartment!

Also, I wish I could just get abs by writing abs across my abs(domen).

Asimovian Replacement Syndrome. See both Perfect Blue (1997) and The Roommate (2011).

[brasca]

Single Lavender Female

That’s what I said on Patreon last night although gynoid  may be more accurate.

[hedgie]

Asimovian Replacement Syndrome. See both Perfect Blue (1997) and The Roommate (2011).

Perfect Blue still creeps the fuck out of me.

[JimC]

That's nice. But why did he have a watermelon and what was he doing with it?

Be sensible, you wouldn't want to use a grapefruit would you?

[BenRG]

Oh dear! Beepatrice has imprinted on Roko!

Seriously, though, this is both sad and yet cute at the same time. It tells us a lot about Beeps - their sense of inadequacy and essential introversion especially - that they think that dressing like someone they've identified as 'strong' will somehow solve their problems (many of which I assume only exist in their mind).

Now, am I the only one who's thinking that Beeps is going to be Roko's equivalent of Hannelore was for the original cast? The quiet, somewhat neurotic one who seems to have adhered to the protagonists because they're somehow a beacon for them to steer towards? I'm definitely getting a sense of Pintsize's more puzzled moments in dealing with his humans' eccentricities in Nelson's reaction to wearing those shorts!

Just to let you know that I spent hours trying to work what 'ABS' stood for before I realised that Beepatrice had written that on her abdomen in order to somehow simulate the far-more-toned street patrol chassis that Roko is wearing!

[ZoeB]

I hope I'm being too cynical. But Roko hasn't considered the possibility, and she should have.

The easiest, quickest and cheapest solution for the system to deal with May's substandard chassis is to just revoke her parole with no reason given. Otherwise there may be inquiries into who sold the government shoddy goods, the contractual arrangements etc. Powerful people too big to jail might be inconvenienced. Easier to make the problem go away.

[oddtail]

Also, I wish I could just get abs by writing abs across my abs(domen).

Abs domain?

(I refuse to apologise for this joke. Even though it makes no sense.)

[TRenn]

Also, I wish I could just get abs by writing abs across my abs(domen).

Abs domain?

CROW, JOEL, and SERVO: "They tampered in Abs Domain."

[cybersmurf]

I hope I'm being too cynical. But Roko hasn't considered the possibility, and she should have.

The easiest, quickest and cheapest solution for the system to deal with May's substandard chassis is to just revoke her parole with no reason given. Otherwise there may be inquiries into who sold the government shoddy goods, the contractual arrangements etc. Powerful people too big to jail might be inconvenienced. Easier to make the problem go away.

You mean sending May back to robot jail? Not gonna happen, as long as May has a say in it. And Roko may have thought about it, but discarded it, for the obvious reasons (including stigmatizing May more, unnecessarily).

Would it be easier and cheaper for the System? Very much so, and hardly anyone would even think about believing May's side.

[BenRG]

I hope I'm being too cynical. But Roko hasn't considered the possibility, and she should have.

The easiest, quickest and cheapest solution for the system to deal with May's substandard chassis is to just revoke her parole with no reason given. Otherwise there may be inquiries into who sold the government shoddy goods, the contractual arrangements etc. Powerful people too big to jail might be inconvenienced. Easier to make the problem go away.

There is one reason and one reason only why this won't happen (at least in an in-universe context): May now has Roko fighting in her corner. Persecuting someone with a representative who is willing to fight is just a long-running low-intensity headache for whichever ADA has been left with the case file. The long-running cost and inconvenience of having to oppose appeal after appeal and endless negative publicity would turn out to be worse for those in power than just giving May a sparkly new chassis.

Right now, the easiest solution is to say "We'll look into it" and then not to do so. May is going to end up having to source her own new body but I can see the Department of Corrections covering around half the cost in exchange for this particular dead raccoon being thrown in someone else's back yard.

[JoeCovenant]

WOW!

Beepatrice has an Anti-Lock Braking System!

Sweet!

[SordidEuphemism]

Oh no! They're cute!
(Did we ever have Word of Jeph or some other concrete declaration of pronouns for Beeps?)

[Is it cold in here?]

Oddly, I have some information about policies in this area.

My pen pal from Federal prison was transferred to "supervised release", which is not parole but works just like probation does.

Part of being allowed out is that the probation officer has to approve the housing arrangements. For a synthetic, this might include chassis assignment. For my pen pal, it was a bit nerve-wracking since she didn't have any housing options on the outside and had to get approval for homelessness.

It was Illinois, I believe, where many nominally paroled sex offenders stayed behind bars because there was no approved outside housing option.

My pen pal's PO would have had to take time to go see a judge to get her put back in prison and didn't go to the trouble, so she did get out.

Which reminds me of some reasons Dale's actions were so meritorious. If someone gets released from prison to a homeless shelter, you can't get mail at a homeless shelter. You can't get a post office box, because the form to get one requires your home mailing address. Good luck re-integrating into the legal economy under that handicap. By subletting to May, Dale made success more possible for her.

[Thrillho]

That's nice. But why did he have a watermelon and what was he doing with it?

Be sensible, you wouldn't want to use a grapefruit would you?

Yes.

[TheEvilDog]

That's nice. But why did he have a watermelon and what was he doing with it?

Be sensible, you wouldn't want to use a grapefruit would you?

Yes.

[Thrillho]

If anybody is remotely confused by this interaction I may remember to post in the TMI thread. Or Google it. Or ask in the TMI thread in case I forget!

Anyway.
I am simultaneously all about this story and a little confused about its success so far.

[TheEvilDog]

I wasn't confused, because I remember that post from the TMI thread. That's just more my reaction to remembering.

[OldGoat]

Is it even possible for a grapefruit, or a watermelon for that matter, to give consent?  What about drupes?

[DSL]

Perhaps Beeps is simply encased in ABS plastic there. It's used in protective cases for electrical and electronic equipment. It's also used for Lego.

And ground fine, it's also a colorant in tattoo ink. Somebody tell Sam; Sharpie "sprays" might not cut it for all her customers.

[hedgie]

I recall listening to a PJ Harvey show that was introduced by John Peel.  He noted that the previous night that the sexual freedom coalition held some big event and that there were a number of oiled cucumbers still on the ground.  He advised people not to eat any.

[Thrillho]

Didn't mean to imply anyone posting lacked understanding. But if someone was reading and not getting that they had options.

God, I miss John Peel.

[TheEvilDog]

I never understood why citrus could be so apeeling!

[hedgie]

God, I miss John Peel.

As do I.  He introduced me to so much music that I would have overlooked otherwise.  And he seemed like such a kind, gentle, and reassuring person.

[shaodyn]

Anyone else notice that Beeps's abs are labeled in the most recent comic?

[jwhouk]

I never understood why citrus could be so apeeling!

What's worse is when the rinds are too thick. It's like... well, fornicating with a brick.

Anyone else notice that Beeps's abs are labeled in the most recent comic?

Ladies and gentlebeings, I present to you the post of the year.

[TheEvilDog]

Anyone else notice that Beeps's abs are labeled in the most recent comic?

Beeps has abs!!!

Also, I wish I could just get abs by writing abs across my abs(domen).

Also, I wish I could just get abs by writing abs across my abs(domen).

Abs domain?

Beepatrice has an Anti-Lock Braking System!

Sadly no, none of us noticed.

[TheEvilDog]

Comics up. And is there a digital full moon at the moment, because there is an awful lot of weird things happening with the AI.

[shanejayell]

May's last comment made me *lol*

(Wasn't it Momo who 'sexed' a Magic Love Gentleman doll in her old body?) 

[Case]

I wasn't confused, because I remember that post from the TMI thread. That's just more my reaction to remembering.

Definitely, DEFINITELY not going to ask...

(click to show/hide)

No srsly, I won't...

(click to show/hide)

Oh bugger...

[Scarlet Manuka]

May's journey to developing a group of friends has been a long and painful one, hasn't it? I now find myself wondering just when and under what circumstances she'll first say "I love you"?

Visit to a military airfield?

[OldGoat]

May's journey to developing a group of friends has been a long and painful one, hasn't it? I now find myself wondering just when and under what circumstances she'll first say "I love you"?

Visit to a military airfield?

Yup.  She's decide she likes older guys and start dating a C-130 Hercules.

[BenRG]

Poor May! She was sort of expecting this but still Momo managed to nearly bowl her over! He expression in Panel 3 is curious, isn't it? Sort of trying to look annoyed whilst holding in the urge to laugh? I can't blame her for not wanting Momo being so clingy but, on the other hand, her words remind us that she values Momo and their relationship.

I suspect that May is going to make it an objective to find Momo a boyfriend before her sexual tension starts causing real behavioural issues. I'm sort of wondering what May would consider 'helping'!

On the flip side, I do have to wonder if May is ready to cope in a world where she has three room-mates who are basically going through the 'I have just discovered sex and I do it all the time' phase.

[MamiyaOtaru]

May's last comment made me *lol*

(Wasn't it Momo who 'sexed' a Magic Love Gentleman doll in her old body?) 

she can also shoot live eels out of her 
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1298

[Mr_Rose]

In respect to today’s strip, #4034, and the various activities implied by May’s statement, I bet he wishes he couldn’t.
That is all.

[traroth]

Momo is actually quite naughty...

[Thrudd]

Well she works in the Library and has indexed that rather large collection of Victorian Porn.

[cesium133]

May's last comment made me *lol*

(Wasn't it Momo who 'sexed' a Magic Love Gentleman doll in her old body?) 

she can also shoot live eels out of her 
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1298

I was reading through the comics after that one and... I look forward to the random snowball hitting Faye 10 years from now.

[TheEvilDog]

Momo is actually quite naughty...

Yeah, you never see that anywhere.

[traroth]

Momo is actually quite naughty...

Yeah, you never see that anywhere.

That website is awesome. They even  know Kaamelott!

[Case]

May's journey to developing a group of friends has been a long and painful one, hasn't it? I now find myself wondering just when and under what circumstances she'll first say "I love you"?

Visit to a military airfield?

Yup.  She's decide she likes older guys and start dating a C-130 Hercules.

She's a fightergurl, so I can't see her dating a Hercybird. A F4U Corsair, maybe ...