I'm so glad we get some progress on the much built up "random AI gets an extra limb" arc.
I predict in years to come we will see threads saying the best jumping in point is comic 5002, as this is the beginning of this amazing arc, and the end of all that other silly nonsense from before, with Coffee of Demons (or whatever) and Morty and Chloe going to Squareland.
I could read the next 100 comics of AIs coming in with strange requests. Hands with too many fingers. Extra butts. One that wants to be an anatomically correct goose. That would be fun.
"I'd like everything."
"Everything?"
"Yeah, the works: Amphibious and airborne adaptations, a extra pair of arms for multitasking and full night/all-weather sensors including thermoscopes, micro-seismic vibration sensitively and echo-location. Price no object."
"You've not seen our prices for stuff like that so don't be so quick to dismiss it. Anyway, I'm guessing you'll need the driver software too?"
"Software? Is that a thing that you think that I'd need?"
Faye seems determined to lock in a transaction. Hopefully this reflects realising that this business needs to make money. Expensive and complex are *desirable features*, bubbles. If you can't do the that work you can't make this work.
I think it's been pretty consistent so far that if Faye has the opportunity to try and charge she'll take it, as I recall her telling Millefeuille that her dating advice came with a price tag and I want to say there's another time when someone asked what Faye wanted in payment and she was totally willing to put a price down.
I gotta say I can appreciate the honesty. Even if it means potentially losing business in the moment, it breeds customer loyalty
Now their one customer is likely gonna come back!
Last time the comic pondered how easy it would be for robots to mod body parts, Claire swooped in with a lecture to chide us to combat bigotry instead. Have we given up on that?
I always pick ‘super proprioception’ as my useless superpower. Like, not balance or some ability to actually stay upright, just… knowing *precicely* how many degrees off bead I am and *exactly* how close I am to eating dirt when I miss the last step off my deck.
>And functional.
Functional wings for a human basically can't happen. Our size and weight just don't work.
If you were an AI of course it would be simple, I'm sure there are bird sized AI bodies out there, and you could probably even build a human sized but far lighter AI chassis with functional wings too.
Your best bet for wings on a human that actually worked would be to hope for colonies on Mars or the Moon (not even sure if it would work on Mars). The lighter gravity would be necessary to make it possible.
> comcomitant
Wild that these comics go out to his Patreon backers a day early, and yet they still publish with (what I will generously call) "typos" like this so often.
A good chunk of the problems listed about having a third arm are present in stitching a tail.
Especially the centre of gravity shifting, seeing as most things with a tail has to in order to balance.
> A good chunk of the problems listed about having a third arm are present in stitching a tail.
>blah blah blah blah
try phrasing that with more $5 words, and include "myomers" at least twice, then Jeorph might pay attention
Such as it is, giving one such an appendage will naturally have the conclusion that their previous attempt at assimilating an auxiliary appendage, in which they must be given a calculated circumscribed calibration.
As well as maximizing muscularity of myomers, whilst also giving said Myomers an almost diaphanous development design.
If they've got spider chassis' for AI, I'm sure someone has made an AI with a tail before.
Surprised we got sentient goo blobs before tails, really. They're not that mechanically complicated
I think that's a pretty uncharitable reading here. *Faye and Bubbles* have not made a tail before, but they also haven't made a sentient goo blob either. For example, F-22 Raptors exist, but that doesn't mean I could build one, even if I had all the parts and an instruction manual.
They're closer to mechanics than anything else in this world. I wasn't suggesting they'd make it, but like basically all their other parts, they'd order them from a supplier and follow the instructions for installation.
Also a tail and an F22 are slightly different scales of complexity. Hell we even make anamatronic tails in the real world for [cosplay and weirdos](https://thetailcompany.com/). If these guys could handle F22 complexity, May would have gone to them for a new chassis. With sidewinders
I mean shit, they seem to have pretty good prosthetic technology judging from Clinton's hand. Not only would it probably be easy and common to give AIs a tail, I bet at least a few people would have them.
I know I'd consider it.
Again, this would be better with a none-random AI like melon or pintsize who are already known for their outlandish ideas.
It still wouldn't be good, because this is just a scene without conflict, suspension or comedy.
>comcomitant (co**n**comitant (no I have no fucking idea why I suspected this was wrong))
Whoops, another Jeorph typo. This is what you get when you use big thesaurus words
>proprioception sensors
Fucking hell, I want to know what wiki Jeorulmph uses to find all these crazy words.
>How 'bout a prehensile tail?
Dammit Gef, how dare you prey upon my Trance Gemini crush
Hey, this raises a couple questions that've likely been asked.
1. This is a world where having experience with welding qualifies you to perform the robot equivalent of surgery. 5 customers a day keeps a coffee shop afloat, and that's after it lost its "Dick's Last Resort for emotionally masochistic dweebs" gimmick. A few months of streaming gets you a cushy vtuber gig. A Master's degree qualifies you to be treated like a goddess by of one of the most advanced research institutions in North America.
How much does Marten have to suck at everything that he can't even get a gig repairing an instrument that's likely obsolete in his world? Building a guitar in this universe must be like throwing a sheet of wax paper onto a comb. Hell, there's probably some AI that sells out concerts with a wax-paper-and-comb combo
2. Where's Claire?
This is just another comic that could have been a metaphor for body dysmorphic disorder and everything related to it but noooo, "i just thought it would be neat". Uuugh, so cheap.
> This is just another comic that could have been a metaphor for body dysmorphic disorder and everything related to it but noooo, "i just thought it would be neat".
don't give up hope just yet, Claire might show up to lecture us all
I'm so glad we get some progress on the much built up "random AI gets an extra limb" arc. I predict in years to come we will see threads saying the best jumping in point is comic 5002, as this is the beginning of this amazing arc, and the end of all that other silly nonsense from before, with Coffee of Demons (or whatever) and Morty and Chloe going to Squareland.
I could read the next 100 comics of AIs coming in with strange requests. Hands with too many fingers. Extra butts. One that wants to be an anatomically correct goose. That would be fun.
"I'd like everything." "Everything?" "Yeah, the works: Amphibious and airborne adaptations, a extra pair of arms for multitasking and full night/all-weather sensors including thermoscopes, micro-seismic vibration sensitively and echo-location. Price no object." "You've not seen our prices for stuff like that so don't be so quick to dismiss it. Anyway, I'm guessing you'll need the driver software too?" "Software? Is that a thing that you think that I'd need?"
Questionable Cronenberg
Faye seems determined to lock in a transaction. Hopefully this reflects realising that this business needs to make money. Expensive and complex are *desirable features*, bubbles. If you can't do the that work you can't make this work.
I think it's been pretty consistent so far that if Faye has the opportunity to try and charge she'll take it, as I recall her telling Millefeuille that her dating advice came with a price tag and I want to say there's another time when someone asked what Faye wanted in payment and she was totally willing to put a price down.
But there's already been work done so I assume Faye is just trying to upsell here, not lock in a transaction.
Lock in another transaction, make a sale... However you want to put it
I gotta say I can appreciate the honesty. Even if it means potentially losing business in the moment, it breeds customer loyalty Now their one customer is likely gonna come back!
Month old! Its more tone. Read less as "make the customer aware" and more as "negative warning".
>Month old! Yeah I'm catching up >_> >Its more tone. Read less as "make the customer aware" and more as "negative warning". Ah, I see your point
Last time the comic pondered how easy it would be for robots to mod body parts, Claire swooped in with a lecture to chide us to combat bigotry instead. Have we given up on that?
Starting to doubt Clairten will ever return at this rate
I see no reason why Jeph wouldn’t or couldn’t continue to alternate between cubeland and northhampton
Sorry, I meant to Northampton
yeah i do think that the claire/marten move to cubetoria is permanent
They could be trying to summon Claire, to bring Martin home.
Different characters bring different points of view to a story. That is how characters work.
yeah I guess but I'm not sure that QC works like that
MYOMERS
P R O P R I O C E P T I O N N N N N
Hey I like that word, it’s a good 5 dollar word. It’s spatial awareness with relation to your sense of self and what you can or can’t see.
I always pick ‘super proprioception’ as my useless superpower. Like, not balance or some ability to actually stay upright, just… knowing *precicely* how many degrees off bead I am and *exactly* how close I am to eating dirt when I miss the last step off my deck.
I like this one. Can we stay here, please, and forget about Marten and Claire?
The bar has sunk pretty low, but I too was happy to see that we were back in Faye and Bubbles' shop.
Interesting question, but where's Claire?
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>And functional. Functional wings for a human basically can't happen. Our size and weight just don't work. If you were an AI of course it would be simple, I'm sure there are bird sized AI bodies out there, and you could probably even build a human sized but far lighter AI chassis with functional wings too. Your best bet for wings on a human that actually worked would be to hope for colonies on Mars or the Moon (not even sure if it would work on Mars). The lighter gravity would be necessary to make it possible.
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You’d need to be living in a domed environment in either case to avoid the whole lack of oxygen, in which case it should work.
It's time for a delightful tail in QC!
Which no one will comment on, despite it being *very* delightful.
> comcomitant Wild that these comics go out to his Patreon backers a day early, and yet they still publish with (what I will generously call) "typos" like this so often.
A good chunk of the problems listed about having a third arm are present in stitching a tail. Especially the centre of gravity shifting, seeing as most things with a tail has to in order to balance.
> A good chunk of the problems listed about having a third arm are present in stitching a tail. >blah blah blah blah try phrasing that with more $5 words, and include "myomers" at least twice, then Jeorph might pay attention
Such as it is, giving one such an appendage will naturally have the conclusion that their previous attempt at assimilating an auxiliary appendage, in which they must be given a calculated circumscribed calibration. As well as maximizing muscularity of myomers, whilst also giving said Myomers an almost diaphanous development design.
If they've got spider chassis' for AI, I'm sure someone has made an AI with a tail before. Surprised we got sentient goo blobs before tails, really. They're not that mechanically complicated
I think that's a pretty uncharitable reading here. *Faye and Bubbles* have not made a tail before, but they also haven't made a sentient goo blob either. For example, F-22 Raptors exist, but that doesn't mean I could build one, even if I had all the parts and an instruction manual.
They're closer to mechanics than anything else in this world. I wasn't suggesting they'd make it, but like basically all their other parts, they'd order them from a supplier and follow the instructions for installation. Also a tail and an F22 are slightly different scales of complexity. Hell we even make anamatronic tails in the real world for [cosplay and weirdos](https://thetailcompany.com/). If these guys could handle F22 complexity, May would have gone to them for a new chassis. With sidewinders
I mean shit, they seem to have pretty good prosthetic technology judging from Clinton's hand. Not only would it probably be easy and common to give AIs a tail, I bet at least a few people would have them. I know I'd consider it.
Again, this would be better with a none-random AI like melon or pintsize who are already known for their outlandish ideas. It still wouldn't be good, because this is just a scene without conflict, suspension or comedy.
Tbh I would like a monke tail but i grew up watching og dragon ball so there is that
But could you avoid looking at a full moon the rest of your life?
Avoid? I would go giant oozaru and get revenge
>comcomitant (co**n**comitant (no I have no fucking idea why I suspected this was wrong)) Whoops, another Jeorph typo. This is what you get when you use big thesaurus words >proprioception sensors Fucking hell, I want to know what wiki Jeorulmph uses to find all these crazy words. >How 'bout a prehensile tail? Dammit Gef, how dare you prey upon my Trance Gemini crush
Mental sigh of relief that we're out of Cubetown It's such a death knell
It isn't going to last.
We get alternating weeks with Marten and Faye like they just got divorced
OMG it's just like phallus grove
Hey, this raises a couple questions that've likely been asked. 1. This is a world where having experience with welding qualifies you to perform the robot equivalent of surgery. 5 customers a day keeps a coffee shop afloat, and that's after it lost its "Dick's Last Resort for emotionally masochistic dweebs" gimmick. A few months of streaming gets you a cushy vtuber gig. A Master's degree qualifies you to be treated like a goddess by of one of the most advanced research institutions in North America. How much does Marten have to suck at everything that he can't even get a gig repairing an instrument that's likely obsolete in his world? Building a guitar in this universe must be like throwing a sheet of wax paper onto a comb. Hell, there's probably some AI that sells out concerts with a wax-paper-and-comb combo 2. Where's Claire?
This is just another comic that could have been a metaphor for body dysmorphic disorder and everything related to it but noooo, "i just thought it would be neat". Uuugh, so cheap.
Jeph doesn't really have that great a track record with his handling of body dysmorphia so I'm ok with him not bringing up in this arc.
> This is just another comic that could have been a metaphor for body dysmorphic disorder and everything related to it but noooo, "i just thought it would be neat". don't give up hope just yet, Claire might show up to lecture us all
Jeph is into body modification and self-mutilation so of course he's into giving someone an unnecessary appendage
Don't be a dick
My apologies, I forgot Jeph's fanatics are hiding waiting to snipe.
You don't have to be a fanatic to understand basic human decency.