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2021-10-13, 09:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2021-10-13, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-10-13, 03:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
There's a decent chance the customers are actually listed as things like 'Smiley-face buttons jacket guy.' Hanners didn't say she had their names on there, just 'our regulars and their usual orders.' A name would also be useful for knowing who to call for the drink, but that doesn't necessarily mean the name they're using is the customer's actual name (ref Bleminda... and it may be part of Coffee of Doom's 'quaint local charm' that being a regular there involves having the staff give you a spontaneous nickname.)
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2021-10-14, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
That's true, Pizza Girl works at COD, and is banging notorious supervillain The Poet. I forgot that
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2021-10-14, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I remember when Clinton was hot. He went through a genuine arc of personal growth, including changing his physical appearance and getting through the Brun's-home-burning-down crisis with confidence, responsibility and a cool demeanour that even Hannelore found platonically attractive not unlike a USB stick full of pictures of fire fighters.
I miss that guy. It's a shame that he was vaporised by space aliens and replaced by the secret part-human, part-chittering-rodent clone that features in today's strip.
That's fair. I misunderstood confusion for bewilderment, and it does now read a lot closer to what you said than what I did.
In a similar vein though, whatever happened to Dora the micromanager? The one who threatened a customer with a sword for having asked about her boyfriend, whose relationship ended because she was controlling and anxious, who went to see a therapist and was diagnosed with control issues? The last thing I remember about that was Tai complaining that she hadn't seen her therapist for a long time, after all - She's just okay with Hannelore setting up a newsletter about her baby, the coffee shop?~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2021-10-14, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
That's quite a post. The first half throwing crap at Jeph for still depicting the Clinton/Claire relationship they had when Claire was first introduced, and the second half throwing crap at him for having Dora ever get over any of her issues (issues which she was explicitly shown getting over).
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2021-10-14, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Adrie, half elven bard. Drawing by Vulion, avatar by CheesePirate. Colored version by Callos_DeTerran. Thanks a lot, you guys.This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here."There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered."Book of shadows, book of night, wake the beast and banish light.
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2021-10-14, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I mean, its a newsletter, it has no actual bearing on the shop, so dora doesnt care about it. And while claire and clinton have grown a bit, they are still siblings with that classic sibling energy where they can go from full support to slap fight hissing in 5 minutes. That doesnt just go away when you graduate college or whatever.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-10-15, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I live in a college town. I promise you, Claire's behavior is entirely consistent with a fresh college graduate in a niche field.
For that matter, my cousin is a librarian. She had to literally leave the country before she was able to start consistently finding jobs that would take her.“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2021-10-16, 05:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
The other thing about Dora's website is that she abandoned that project. Dora dissed it before Marigold saw it, then Marigold dissed it so hard that Dora got annoyed at her. Dora hasn't been doing the tech-savvie side of things for a long time. She probably couldn't even do the old website now, nevermind make a proper new one. Dora hasn't been paying attention to a relatively unimportant part of her business during a time she's been working 60-80 hour weeks.
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2021-10-21, 05:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Yes, that is a somewhat suggestive illustration / pose. Especially as the human appears to be nude.
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2021-10-21, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I really enjoyed the last panel of today's comic. It's simple, but you can clearly "see" the thoughts going through each of the characters' heads: "Oh dear..." "Oh, my!" "Oh, for fu-..."
Shame about the typo. And the missing speechbox arrows. And the missing joint on Beepatrice's neck. Goddammit, Jeph....
It's also interesting to see that this image was drawn by 2 AI's who are essentially pastel-coloured humans, but they still think of robots as being "Lost In Space"-style "TV Antennae For A Head" contraptions. Neither of them have ever been such a thing, and we haven't seen an AI who looks remotely like that in.... I want to say scores of strips, possibly even hundreds?
And yet that's still how they perceive themselves. An interesting story could be told with that, especially considering Roko's dysmorphia involving what she "should" look like.Last edited by Wraith; 2021-10-21 at 09:40 AM.
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2021-10-21, 10:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
i can't even think of a logical reason for using that pose for the human in the first place. What kind of idiot...?
... Oh yes. Beeps.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-10-21, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-10-21, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Let's not all blame Beeps here! How in the hells could Hanners even think THIS would "fix it"?!
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2021-10-21, 12:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I mean, technically it worked - there's no implied innuendo if you just use a porn trope in it's place?
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2021-10-21, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2021-10-21, 02:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I was going to mention this exact example. The cultural meme of what a 'robot' is would have been established long before AIs actually happened, and carried on through the early eras of AI before they mostly standardized on pastel painted people - everybody has this image when you say 'robot' even if they also recognize that there are few to no actual robots that look like that.
Which probably also makes it an extra poor choice for the purpose of this poster, because the concepts of 'goofy childs image of a Robot' and 'AI are people and should be treated with the same respect' are probably not naturally attached.
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2021-10-21, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Maybe it's a Gunnerkrigg reference? https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=209
Renard even lets Annie ride on his back!Last edited by Vinyadan; 2021-10-21 at 03:03 PM.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-10-21, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I don't suppose Station is equipped to completely sterilize the planet. This isn't Star Trek. But things look bad for Massachusetts.
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2021-10-22, 02:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Ponies not only make ME want to be a better person than I was before they entered my life, they make me want to HELP OTHERS be better people too.
And that is a GOOD thing by any definition.
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2021-10-22, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-10-22, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
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2021-10-23, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Oh hey, I'd missed that!
My first assumption was that "cantilever" was an override command as others stated, but now it looks to me like Dora only heard the tail end of the conversation (i.e. the bombardment-ordering). She assumes that Hannelore is nuking CoD from orbit because Dora failed to read the newsletter and is hastily trying to rectify matters before it is too late.
That's actually way funnier than my first read!
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2021-10-24, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
This is a example of where Jeph falls on his face, the "ha ha, isn't Hannalore's mental issue funny, she's going to bombard the whole block because of a typo" sort of thing.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2021-10-24, 09:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I think it is a pretty funny opportunity for me to drop the comic from my reading list.
I’ve dropped quite a few last year with various update speeds
and even though this has consistently a new strip every day it’s gotten a bit stale over the years.Last edited by Agi Hammerthief; 2021-10-24 at 09:45 AM.
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2021-10-24, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
What I find funny is that Dora is using the test word from the newsletter as a BDSM safeword to avoid orbital bombardment. Reminds me of T4S Broly. https://youtu.be/FJBgzX2HMe8?t=1130
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-10-25, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Ah yes, beloved QC character the Humming Slab, back once more to delight us all with their antics. Screw it honestly, I have a new favorite.
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2021-10-25, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
One-off weird customers are a long and storied tradition in this café.
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2021-10-25, 07:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
If the humming slab doesn't have some method of communicating payment, it isn't a customer. Otherwise one question is, are the prices at CoD all distinct? If so, it could make payment, and expect the corresponding drink. I'm not sure we can answer that with certainty -- they have sold drinks not on the chalkboard menu that we see.
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