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2021-06-10, 06:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
"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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2021-06-10, 06:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Adding to what others have said, they've actually been background characters for quite a while now - long before they had names, there were a number of strips where Willow, Iris, and Yemisi would react bemusedly to whatever dramatics the main cast was getting up to in their vicinity. It's only somewhat recently that we've started getting names for them, though (and as noted before, Yemisi was established as a personal shopper and wardrobe specialist, which is... *probably* what Pintsize is here for).
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2021-06-10, 06:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Fair point. I suppose it depends on context - Pintsize *is* a door-to-door pervert, but he's presumably not there in that official capacity, so in answering 'yes' he's stating that he intends to do both when Iris was implying that she wanted to know if he was one or the other.
It's not really a serious point, I just really wanted to use the word 'lexicographical' today. If anything, it's Iris' fault for asking ambiguous questions. She seems like the type of person who prefers direct statements and nitpicks people who don't measure up to her exacting standards (read: aren't literal mind-readers).~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2021-06-10, 07:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
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2021-06-10, 08:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I like her mug.
I have a mug that says "Turns out I don't like morning people. Or mornings. Or people."
Mean mugs are great.It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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2021-06-10, 08:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
It seems to be a thing. My wife has a collection which includes 'Friends don't judge each other, they judge others together,' 'I would tell you to go to hell, but I work there and I don't want to see more of you,' and 'I don't want to hear your problems until there's no more coffee (not in this mug, in the world).'
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2021-06-10, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
My favorite mug just says "probably whiskey." My office job gave it to me!
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2021-06-10, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2021-06-10, 01:25 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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2021-06-10, 01:58 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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2021-06-10, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I lost the thread of conversation here. Isn't "xor" the blending mode you use to make layers interact funny in photomanip programs?
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2021-06-10, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I just wanted to make a silly pun. I now regret it, and everything that came thereafter.
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2021-06-10, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-10, 03:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Have we seen other robots partaking of coffee before? I seem to recall Bubbles enjoying the aroma of tea, but I think I saw (part of) a French press in the first panel here.
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2021-06-10, 05:10 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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2021-06-10, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Apparently AIs enjoy the scent of most things in a way comparable to the way in which Bubbles likes tea. Momo 'enjoyed' the cookies that Veronica baked for Sam and her, Roko with bread is an extreme example, and Melon with her bucket of drain cleaner that she found under the counter at CoD is another, weirder one.
Or maybe the mug is empty and she's carrying it around because that's just what humans do when they get up first thing in the morning, so AIs copy them without quite knowing why, except that it's the same reason that Roko has a melon baller and a potato peeler in her kitchen?~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2021-06-10, 06:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Also possible the copying is deliberate - "Don't talk to me until I've had my morning coffee" is a common thing for humans, so carrying a coffee mug can help Iris signal visually to people that she's grumpy in the mornings, whether or not she gets anything from the coffee itself.
"'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2021-06-10, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Could be running a 'caffeine' or 'morning wakeup' program that mimics the morning lag and slow approach to full wakefulness of caffeine-dependent humans after that morning mug, similar to the 'drunk' program we saw Roko and other-robo-cop using that lets them share in the human "I'm so wasted lolol" experience. Pretending to be human is a weirdly large part of the AI culture in QC.. admittedly it's probably mostly so they can be treated as oddly-colored humans and avoid having the whole comic turn into an extended (..and.. probably really poorly handled..) sci-fi treatise about post-Singularity life with aliens that humanity created themselves.
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2021-06-10, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Pintsize IS vibing here. While i still dont care for humanoid Pintsize, i am at least slightly less worried that his character is now completely deleted. He's much more expressive now.
“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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2021-06-10, 10:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-11, 02:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
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2021-06-11, 06:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-11, 08:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Seems Iris was making coffee for her roommate, even while giving her massive sass.
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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2021-06-11, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
I kind of like the idea that an AI will make a cup of coffee for themselves, enjoy the aroma, and then when they have spent a suitable amount of time "having breakfast" they pass it over to a human to actually drink. Economic, and it saves on washing the dishes!
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2021-06-11, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-11, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Last edited by Manga Shoggoth; 2021-06-11 at 11:52 AM.
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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2021-06-11, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
"That's a horrible idea! What time?"
T-Shirt given to me by a good friend.. "in fairness, I was unsupervised at the time".
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2021-06-11, 11:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2021-06-12, 06:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-12, 06:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVII: "My Brain Is Trash And I Live On The Internet"
Not sure what the problem is - I've been brewing tea in mug since my university days and haven't had a problem (that's including the mug I used to use at work, with 404 the Dragon. He's still there in all his hand-painted glory).
Not putting things in a dishwasher I can understand - those things look to operate like mini sandblasters, as far as I can see. Saw one family essentially ruin some nice glassware that way...Last edited by Manga Shoggoth; 2021-06-12 at 06:47 AM.
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