No.1030818
Not a good time to make a new thread when there's a crazed sperg spamming the board
No.1030819
>>1030818
Where the fuck is Yannie?
No.1030821
>>1030818
Is that what happened? Fuck.
No.1030822
>>1030821
You mean you haven't noticed just by taking a look at the first page or the catalog?
No.1030826
>>1030822
I wasn't looking particularly hard at the catalog, no.
No.1030846
>>1030819
He was here 4 hours but he just disappeared after the first wave.
No.1030889
No.1030900
>>1030889
Some faggots raided the board, but they were taken care of hours ago.
No.1030942
recent developments:
>faye and bubs are worse mechanics and business managers than a retarded girl who cut her fingernail off
>marten gets shat on for allowing clarence to get anxious about money
>pintsize gets shat on for existing
>robot jail exists and an unrepentant criminal makes rokocop feel so bad about it that she quits the force
>dale and marigold ruined momo's hair in a cooking accident so it was replaced, apparently with dangerous chemicals
No.1030959
>>1030942
And it only took a year IRL to deliver these riveting plot points. Truely, Jeph "Perforated Palms" Jaques is a man ahead of his time.
No.1031030
Remember to take your vitamins as recommended.
Once a thread.
Every thread.
No.1031034
>>1031030
take your meds anon
No.1031036
Also, just to remind people what we've last with Hanners over the (oh so slow) years:
{likely needs to be updated with fake (and likely gay) Hanners in the "recent" comics.
No.1031037
>>1031036
And fuck me, I meant to say "lost" not, "we've last" :/
No.1031123
>>1030821
I still have the original
No.1031141
>>1031139
>the toppings contain potassium benzoate
No.1031145
>>1031139
I've been out of the loop a bit, since when was Faye a robot dyke?
No.1031146
>>1031145
The fanbase shipped Faye X Bubbles and Jeph does whatever the fanbase wants, regardless of logic.
No.1031147
>>1031145
She ran out of other men to fuck in front of morty so the next logical step was a military-grade sexbot. If you want an actual timeline then the wiki says it starts around 3339-3341 but they take like 500 strips to make it official.
No.1031153
>>1031139
Do you ever see something that out of nowhere makes you think "There clearly aren't enough serial killers in the world and they're not going for the right targets either"?
No.1031188
>>1031139
What did she say?
No.1031252
>>1031146
>The fanbase shipped Faye X Bubbles
I'd ask how and why but I'm pretty sure that'd be a waste of a question.
>>1031147
>people care enough about a webcomic where nothing happens to trace everything onto an exactly dated timeline
No.1031261
>>1031252
>I'd ask how and why but I'm pretty sure that'd be a waste of a question.
Because they're so progressive that two girls together cannot be mere friends - they must be shoving their hands into each other's slime holes.
In this case they could not stop thinking of Faye being fucked constantly by a relentless, tireless machine.
They're reduced Menstro to a mere interactive dildo.
No.1031263
>>1031252
>people care enough about a webcomic where nothing happens to trace everything onto an exactly dated timeline
It's sunkcost fallacy at work. People have spent almost TWO DECADES reading this trash that at this point they just can't back down. No matter how bad it gets, no matter how much it falters, the true believers must continue reading and tying things together. Meticulous and autistic connecting of dots to try and squeeze some greater worth out of it instead of admitting that they've wasted years reading something that is going anywhere and won't be going anywhere.
It's the same reason why we still have these threads.
No.1031264
>>1031263
isn't going anywhere*
No.1031270
>>1031252
>>1031261
The "how" was Reddit, Twitter, and the forum.
>people care enough about a webcomic where nothing happens to trace everything onto an exactly dated timeline
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
No.1031272
>>1031139
>shilling for trannies on the same page as a woman masturbates furiously rather than confront the problems facing her
Is jeph's repressed hatred for his fanbase poking through?
No.1031300
Claire is super on-model. At least Jeph used Google Images to reference what the tool looks like before drawing it this time.
No.1031301
>>1031300
>I'm a graduate student and nearly finished which means I've been out of highschool for 6-8 years or more
>I presumably drink coffee fairly often if I've ever touched it
>I'm a fucking hipster tranny with huge piercings and surrounded by like-minded people
>somehow the idea of studying at a shitty coffee shop hasn't occurred to me before
>also mental fatigue isn't based on focusing on the same thing for hours but rather the components of an environment that I definitely won't distract myself with and become less productive than I already was
No.1031303
>>1031272
It's possible that we've been had by the single greatest performance artist of all time, and doctoral theses will be written about these threads 50 years from now.
No.1031307
>>1031301
The thought process works a lot better if it's made
>Gasp! Studying at a coffee shop! Just like a real female student!
No.1031310
>>1031146
>>1031252
Long before they were together in cannon, I just assumed they were a couple by the way they were portrayed. It didn't make much sense – but hey, nothing in QC does.
No.1031354
>>1031263
i hope he makes this the canon ending. i really hope jeph decides to do it just as a final fuck off to everyone.
No.1031368
>>1031354
That was probably the last vestige of Hannelore Prime, a deranged psychopath putting on a mildly cute, aloof front.
No.1031402
>>1031398
This is Loss, somehow.
No.1031405
>>1031139
>Trump admins redefining gender to just be another word for sex/genitalia and not definition for the made up tranny shit
Wait, is that actually happening?
No.1031408
>>1031405
Over the objections of the New York Times' experts.
No.1031412
>>1031408
>medically meaningless
The fuck are these people on?
No.1031413
>>1031408
Has there ever been an effective rebuttal against the fact that the whole "gender" argument originated from a psychopath pedophile who started the whole "transgenders kill themselves" stereotype due to his quack experiments on humans?
No.1031414
>>1031413
Nothing without the usual right wing derogatory terms ad hominem, deflection and acting retarded on purpose, or them saying "Dude it doesn't matter."
No.1031416
>>1031405
2 SCOOPS
2 TERMS
2 GENDERS
No.1031418
>>1031413
I brought it up with some LGBTBBQs at my college; they actually conceded that John Money was a sick fuck.
They went on to observe that his methodology of forcing gender roles is the incorrect part and that people must be free to find themselves, but maintained that gender dysphoria's best treatment is to immerse oneself in the delusion.
So I think I spread a modicum of sanity in that they are against forcing the matter on children.
No.1031421
>>1031416
>2 TERMS
Well, two out of three ain't bad.
No.1031428
>>1031354
This is one of the few strips that are actually slightly funny.
>>1031300
>Claire: I'm _ just like a real ___
<Martin: You are a real ____
Deserves a tranny edit, tbqh.
No.1031430
>>1031398
>she just works late
At a bakery? You work early at a bakery - not late.
All the bread is made early in the morning and they sell it throughout the day, but mostly in the morning.
Unless of course they're so busy they need a constant output, but then there would be no quiet time. This place doesn't exactly look like Buddy's Bakery.
It's like every business in this town has more staff than customers.
>>1031405
I predict Jeph having to take some time off to recover from the triggering. Plus a twitter tirade comprised of his usual made-up swear words; variations on "bum, poo, wee-wee! >:( "
No.1031438
>>1031430
>It's like every business in this town has more staff than customers.
Yeah it's actually a drug front. Last night was Brun's shift to operate and guard the meth machine.
>>1031413
Same as Marx. "Just because the ideas came from a maniac and don't work doesn't mean they're bad ideas."
No.1031449
>>1031413
Didnt pokemon also help to popularize the term by constantly using it in their games? Another mistake that autism magnet managed to respawn.
No.1031510
>>1031430
I think she doesn't actually work there or does only a token amount. She does work as a waitress in a bar.
>>1031438
Yeah, the problem with the whole ad hominem and poisoning the well type accusations is that stuff only works in structured, moderated debates. In the real world, when people find out that you think child molestation is merely an abundant expression of parental love, people tend to doubt everything you say where they'd accept it anywhere else. And it's not like the people who picked up the torch are any better.
No.1031571
>>1031532
Holy crap what a run on sentence ramble that goes on for a paragraph's worth.
There's that saying that anything not explicitly anti-left becomes so over time, but I always felt the context was at least vaguely political stuff, not fucking Bulbapedia.
No.1031574
>>1031532
>unchangeable after birth
It's not changeable before birth either. What the fuck am I reading?
No.1031576
>>1031574
I can only assume they're talking about that initial stage where the fetus still looks like a fish lizard, before it has genitalia. You can still use gene sequencing to see what it will be, but it's Schrodinger's dong without an expensive test to look ahead.
No.1031586
>>1031532
>SOMEONE SAVE MY IDENTITY FROM THE EVIL BIGOTED MEDICAL CLASSIFICATIONS! ITS ALL I HAVE!
No.1031594
>>1031532
>being unable to look past their Bibles, money piles, and genitalia.
Xhe's right, though. I've got enough of all three to easily block my view of their panic.
No.1031595
>>1031532
I thought my reading comprehension was fucked until I realized that this paragraph is such a mess that my brain refuses to read more than a line before spacing out.
No.1031599
>>1031532
>>1031595
>>1031594
Wouldn't it be wonderful if that were Jeph's account?
No.1031600
>>1031599
Trannies and traps are not the same thing.
No.1031605
>>1031600
Some accuracy is always lost to the rhyme scheme.
No.1031614
>>1031605
>45 minutes ago
Why do people cap posts without a timestamp? Timestamps are important.
No.1031619
>>1031574
>>1031576
It's not changeable after conception, but in abortionland the baby magically starts existing just before delivery.
No.1031623
>>1031619
Unless you punch the woman in the gut, causing her to miscarry. Then it's a murder of a person, even though you just performed a "medical procedure".
No.1031624
>>1031614
They may not know you're able to toggle "relative timestamps" in the options.
No.1031629
>>1031576
But the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg, the sex is set no pun intended :^) because it's determined by the chromosomes, whether XX or XY. Basically, this >>1031619
It's ironic that the kind of people who would think sex/gender isn't black and white are the same who often do think in terms of black and white.
No.1031630
>>1031571
The run-on sentence makes sense given the context, and is a good reason why people oughtn't to write others' arguments in such a manner.
>>1031532
Republicanism and other forms of democracy are terrible. This is why I don't vote, because voting is for Plebs (literally).
No.1031631
>>1031405
Who is that?
>>1031413
>who started the whole "transgenders kill themselves" stereotype
>implying he "started" it
Spoilered for benis :-DD in the first image.
No.1031634
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>>1031631
>benis
oh fug, cannod find id :-DDD here iz nodder one inzdaed :-DDDD
No.1031643
>>1031034
>>1031036
>>1031030
TL;DR on why this character is favored?
No.1031647
>>1031643
She was one of the few characters in this "comic" that actually had a character, not some generic hipster, for one.
No.1031651
>>1031643
She's the cutest out of all of them. That's all it takes.
No.1031652
>>1031643
She was more interesting then Martin and less retarded then Faye. in some ways her inconsistent OCD made her more entertaining and unlike martin who has lived his hipster life for an eternity and the rest of the rouges gallery she saw some actual character development. then Handstab stabbed his hand for the second time. she was an unfortunate casualty of jephs desire to appease the rabid animals he now caters too.
She stared out as a zany gag character became a more interesting and engaging side character and graduated into a great main character. he mothers some hi powered business women and he father is one of the inventors of the AIs though now even thats slowly being taken away. to me the last time the real hanners existed was when she hugged her dad on his birthday. it was the perfect closing to her character arch where in she gain some control over her extreme germophobia and OCD and function as a human being able to make real friends and live a real life.
Too bad she never made it off the station.
No.1031656
>>1031652
This is my headcanon now too…
No.1031663
>>1031625
>Goes to a bakery to study 'cause coffee shop has too many distractions
>Immediately sits at an occupied table and starts talking
Also,
>Harpoon backstory
>No… Shotgun backstory, Jeph. Remember?
No.1031673
>>1031663
>that is almost certainly illegal colon backwards-slash
Wait, you can't threaten people on your property anymore?
No.1031679
>>1031663
Oh look, yet another character who was completely rewritten after introduction. The current version is probably too retarded to pick up basic objects and can barely speak in complete sentences.
No.1031690
>>1031625
>Harpoon backstory expolained
>expolained
JUST FUCKING STAB YOUR OTHER HAND ALREADY WITH A RUSTY BEEFKNIFE SO YOU CAN HAVE A LEGITIMATE EXCUSE, YOU ASININE FUCKED UP CUCKOLD!
>>1031663
>This entire page
Wow, I have autism, and even I have never messed up as badly as Braun here. But hey, at least I can see Clinton's robot hand.
…
A robot arm would be so much cooler.
No.1031828
>>1031663
It's fucking crazy how he backtracked over the shotgun 'cause his mad audience got too triggered.
I can only imagine the rollercoaster of emotions he must have went through; he must have started drawing that with the shotgun thinking it was really funny, and published it with a big smile on his face…
After he saw the fan reactions the sweat must have been pouring off his brow as he hurriedly tried to edit it to another, more acceptable, lethal weapon before before curling up in a ball under a cold shower, rocking back and forth for a couple of hours.
No.1031882
Okay, this one is almost worth a chuckle, though the animation detracts in my opinion.
No.1031921
>>1031882
>I really want my brother to fuck this brownie (semi-excusable for being thick and autistic)
>they already seem to be getting along pretty well
>I can't force them to fuck any faster than they're already going to and this frustrates me
>my frustration has now directly impeded their connection
>I still haven't gotten any studying done since leaving home
No.1031935
>>1031882
If only there existed a quiet place to study. Somewhere that someone who's aiming to work in a library could go to sit down with some books and do some reading.
No.1031953
>>1031935
It's actually an unheard of amount of foresight for this comic. I can't imagine what would hurt his employment prospects more than having the employees at the library attach a name to his face before he submits a resume.
No.1031962
>>1031953
He already is an employee though, isn't he?
Isn't that how he met Marten; he was his supervisor?
I don't know why Clarence complained about Marten getting his job via connections, anyway; that's hardly unique to this town.
I actually can't think of anyone in the extensive cast who got their job by genuine, certified qualifications and not just knowing the right people.
No.1031976
>>1031962
I don't know if the interns count as getting jobs, but they were placed by a program. I think Hannelore started her original business, the counting consultation. Then she had to go into the coffee shop for some reason despite having an interesting profession and coming from an interesting background. While Dora started her own business, I think she got the seed capital from her father. As far as I know, both of Marten's jobs were acquired on merit. Jeph just forgot his own lore (again). It's really lame because you can just look up Tai on the wiki and just click on the "first appearance" link at the top of the page, no research required. Also, holy shit is the text horrible on that sign. Just fucking write it in if you can't make the perspective work. And the elevator buttons are even worse.
No.1032022
>>1031976
I hate this but I also want to fuck that librarian.
No.1032033
>>1032022
Never go fuck the ones with tattoos, they're spoiled goods.
No.1032035
>>1032033
Besides, that's the lesbian who seduced away Dora and turned her into an even more boring character.
No.1032239
>>1032035
It's also the lesbian who literally objectified Menstro by telling it to stand there with its arm out so she could climb on it.
But it's OK when a lesbian does that, since they're all quirky and shit.
No.1032435
>>1031882
MJ glove
Hey heyyyyyyyyy
How's MJ doing these days?
No.1032632
>>1032035
Clinton has exams? I didn't even realize he was in school. Is Jeph forgetting again?
No.1032638
>>1032632
His exams are actually lower stakes because he has even less of a future than a tranny librarian.
No.1032721
>>1032632
>Jiyva's Rejection of Asimov
>The false anthropic principle
>60 principles of AI
Each and every one of these is leagues more interesting than any of Jeph's storyline ideas.
Also, how is something supposed to be a "principle" if there are 60 of them? How can a single subject be so varied that these core principals can't be condensed down or the subject itself divided into categories? Even something as fucky and weird as quantum mechanics can't be said to have 60 principles.
No.1032723
>>1032632
… and the tranny makes everything about himself. How surprising.
No.1032730
>>1032632
>Jiyva's rejection of Asimov
Now that they have AI criminals running around, was that rejection really a good idea?
Now that they have 60 principals it looks to me like they continue to reject Asimov out of spite, rather than admit they were wrong.
>So happy for you.
Clarence really is an obnoxious arsehole, isn't he? He seems to hate people being good at anything. He even had a go at Pintsize for the fact that AIs can download into anything, which is a whole new dimension of chips on shoulders.
I know Jeph will never explore it, but it would be interesting if one day Marten took a step back and started to question exactly why he's in a relationship with Clarence.
No.1032731
>>1032730
If he takes a step back and honestly looks at the truth behind his "girlfriend" and their "love", then his eyes will be dragged skyward and he will learn to hate the very god that made him.
No.1032791
>>1032730
>He seems to hate people being good at anything
Well, he is lefty with a busywork major.
>Look at all these plebs building things and solving problems. Hrmph! I sort books! In a universe where sentient robots exist.
No.1032951
>>1032947
>insert joke about the US healthcare
Trannies aren't considered a mental disease and purged on the spot. Also, any joke applicable today should not be applicable in the future proposed to us in the comic. Then again, this is a comic where trannies are considered people, and robots haven't taken over the world, and we care to much about this shitty comic, but have developed Stockholm syndrome.
No.1032952
>>1032947
>The facts were in my brain but I couldn't get them to go on paper right
That Jeph thinks a test is a regurgitation of facts is probably why he buys into the "smart but doesn't test well" shibboleth. Clearly he believes himself to have been one of those mythical idiot savants.
Grain of truth, this might apply in cases where you were asked to draw a subjective conclusion based on a set of facts. Say, you're taught a bunch of things about Incan history and then asked what were the contributing factors to the fall of the Incan empire. 'Tists stall on stuff like that because there's not a clear answer, you're just supposed to create and support an opinion.
No.1032954
>>1032947
>A wad of carbs and seeds that your body will probably pass undigested
>Perfect study fuel
The idea of needing to "ramp up" your attentiveness for the purpose of memorization is a fallacy to begin with, but I guess I can let it slide because I don't expect a bakery to have many non-bread contributions to make. More importantly, Jeph has openly acknowledged the fact that his magical monster is worthless and has no skills that could be applied outside of >her obsolete career path.
No.1032955
>>1032952
While there are different kinds of "smarts", it's hard to see how a generally intelligent person wouldn't improve on test taking over time. Personally, I remember initially doing somewhat poorly on the standardized tests, which, for me, were introduced/proliferated around late middle school. But it was because I was unaccustomed to the format. With better time management and understanding how the things were constructed, I had no problems by high school.
I've heard that an intelligent dyslexic person will also improve over time in a similar fashion after starting from behind. If Jeph is going for the autistic angle, from what I understand, the "jumbled neurons" apply more to speech than reading and other cognition, but I don't know for sure.
No.1032964
>>1032947
>>1032951
>insert joke about the US healthcare
What!? I don't get it. What sort of leftist-approved joke can be made about this situation?
The only angle I can think of is
>"He gives away the bread for free, which is good (because business owners only want money if they're greedy and I deserve good things without working for them). Isn't it stupid that US healthcare doesn't operate on the same principles?
No.1032966
>>1032947
>you're living proof that you don't have to be good at tests to succeed in real life!
No-one in the cast has passed a test to be successful. Marten kinda passed a "test" of sorts, but given the state of his life I'd hardly call him a "success".
>I need fuel. For studying dog puns.
Well, how about you give us some, Jeph? She could have said studying has been "ruff". Perhaps say that Chad could "throw me a bone!". Or even that she needs to "Chow" down.
Took me barely a few seconds to come up with those.
>Can you use it to lure them away from me so I can actually concentrate?
Yeah, you only deliberately sat down at an occupied table and now demand they all capitulate to your demands.
Hmm… has Jeph accidentally conjured an appropriate metaphor, here? I can't wait for his rabid fanbase to read between those lines.
No.1032975
>>1032947
>>1032952
It's like an even more laughable version of "my economic theory is perfect on paper but I can't get it to work in reality."
No.1033029
>>1032966
Yeah but that's showing and not telling. We know Jeph would rather have someone talk about becoming a comedian while never telling a joke.
No.1033121
Hello fellow mangas I am down with the Dee Bee Zees.
No.1033130
>>1033121
>the next 300 comics are just them yelling
Okay, that was a little funny.
The comic itself was still shit thoough.
No.1033132
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>1033130
The problem is this joke has been done about a hundred times years ago. He might as well make a me gusta or all your base reference.
No.1033137
>>1033121
Kids were referencing DBZ when I was in kindergarten. Just looked it up and the English dub started in 96.
No.1033153
>>1033137
I was going to say,
this might have been topical while it was running, or even when dbz kai was airing. But this stinks of, "I found this yesterday, how do you do fellow children?"
No.1033155
>>1033121
Had to scroll up and down a few times to compare, but jeph made the text fucking tiny. At first I shrugged it off as them whispering, but the tranny's text is the exact same size, just bolded. Then I noticed the lazy hack is just using the font size for his header and footer. But if that was a mistake, then why are his speech bubbles smaller to match? Are they whispering or not? Also, that line behind Big Gay's head in the last panel.
Go take your dated jokes back to the early aughts when you were relevant handstab, jesus christ.
No.1033171
>>1033121
>>1033155
It goes even further beyond, though. It looks like Clinton and IPP get shorter in panel 2, but their heads are the same height relative to the scene. Looking closer, the background is obviously a copy/paste job that he drew once and layered characters onto, but he wrongly sized them in panel 2 and only looked at where their heads lined up.
No.1033187
>>1033132
All your base is arguably newer than the joke he made. He reached deep enough into the time capsule that the Alley McBeal dancing baby wouldn't have been any worse. And the best part is that his comic started in 03, he was around to see these get beaten into the ground.
No.1033200
>>1033121
I know it's supposed to be a punchline, but this short arc has made me really annoyed at Clarence.
Aside from being a cunt at Marten, he decides to go out and spread his cuntishness by going to public places, sitting at occupied tables, then demanding everyone be quiet to he can pretend to study.
I hope some of the fanbase pick up on this.
No.1033601
God what a shitty joke. Kill this thing.
No.1033602
>>1033601
Somehow, handstab finds a way to be even lazier.
No.1033631
>>1033601
>Labragoogle
>Not Googlden Retriever
No.1033648
>>1033631
I think it's a play on Labradoodle; a cross between a labrador and a poodle.
Still, it is pretty weak. After yesterday's outburst I'd have thought Clarence would tell IPP to fuck right off and let him study.
Which raises an interesting question - why is Clarence up on his feet and talking to them anyway? He does want to study at IPP's table, right?
I mean, that is why he shouted all them all to shut the fuck up, isn't it?
No.1033679
>>1033601
I've never felt such a strong urge to punch an author.
No.1033683
No.1033792
No.1033944
No.1033967
>>1032952
>'Tists stall on stuff like that
>>1033683
>>1033792
>>1033944
What the stab are you trying to say?
No.1033992
>>1033967
I'm saying that the relationship between subvocal sounds and apostrophes is fascinating.
No.1034034
After all that, >she does nothing.
No.1034037
>>1034034
>Being this confident in the material
Looks like her denial has hit a new level. Even if she has every categorical system memorized and possess an encyclopedic knowledge of famous libraries and is proficient in antique book repair and is able to chart out shelving patterns to maximize accessibility, there's always the threat of teacher-specific wildcard questions that can be researched by contacting former graduates of that class. Then again, it's possible that the knowledge needed for a Library Science final can be memorized the way I would study for a middle school math test.
No.1034049
>>1034034
>Jeph tries perspective
>Fails
>Stops again
No.1034060
>>1034034
>sick burn
"Burn so lame it should be shot and turned into glue" is how I'd describe it.
"Jerking off while crying in anger" seems more likely.
This studying arc is pretty fucking awful, like Jeph himself doesn't even know what to do with it.
>I'm going to study!
>No I'm not…
>Yes I am!
>No I'm not…
No.1034176
Smoke out is when the cops pump tear gas into your house after they're tired of listening to you talk about how the Articles of Confederation forbid unauthorized travelers with no authority over free inhabitants from entering the premises.
No.1034178
>>1034176
>I'm done studying about libraries
>now I want to watch paint peel off the library walls for fun
>no I'll do something really radical, like using the tamest illegal drug I can think of with my mother
No.1034179
>>1034176
If this were a more realistic comic, he'd be stealing his mothers shit to get money for heroin, or crack.
No.1034183
>>1034176
>>1034034
The really awful ear disk and nose piercings really help to sell the hipster college tranny look on him.
No.1034198
>>1034176
Is he going to get railed by mom's revolving door of college studs too? Might as well go all in on the open-minded, chinese-mustached, consequence-free degeneracy.
No.1034225
>>1034176
>I wanna smoke up with you
>Is it "smoke up" or "smoke out"?
Ok, so Jeph's taking the whole "How do you do, fellow kids?" joke, when adults try to be hip and down with the kids, and have a kid say it…
Nah, that doesn't work.
I know that Clarence is technically too old to be a kid, but kid is as kid does and between his strops that everyone isn't doing what he wants, and leeching off those closest to him, Clarence is a kid.
No.1034227
>>1032955
This. A huge problem is everything's too standardized.
No.1034247
>>1032954
I know what you mean, but it's technically wrong. You do need to have something to help "ramp up" attentiveness, whether it's sleep or (healthy) food, though if you're tired, nothing but sleep will really help.
No.1034249
>>1034247
*In other cases, it's something you're consuming that's causing "brain fog", whether some sort of drug, unhealthy food, or excessive masturbation/sex.
No.1034254
No.1034256
>>1034225
It may not work as a joke, but does it not make any sense to you that a kid might not know what's popular?
No.1034275
>>1034176
Awkwardness is the setup, awkwardness is the punchline…
>Look, Claire is being awkward!
>Isn't she awkward, readers?!
>HAHA! Boy, she sure is awkward. SMHTBH
Thing is, this could have worked if he had any sort of sense of humour. This is the perfect setup for some irony of the mother said,
>"smoke-out"…? What a square.
I predict that them getting high will result in them massively over-analysing something inconsequential. This will happen over 6 panels, with at least one of those with them both pulling that autism-face, saying nothing.
The punchline will be that they have over-analysed something.
No.1034288
>>1034275
No, six strips rather than six panels. Then there will be some actual conflict of some sort but that will be resolved within the next two strips or even within the very strip it was brought up.
So we get a 10 strip arc about smoke up vs. smoke out where the very last strip is a failed character building exercise where mom attempts to have a heart to heart about Clarence's employment prospects and life skills in general.
No.1034314
>>1034288
The conflict will be the mother saying that Clarence should in fact be worried about his tests because the mother failed one at one point, not including the pregnancy test that conceived him. It will probably go something like
>See son, I didn't make the president's list, and I turned out fine, there's no need to worry!
And Clarence will realize that his mother is a carousel of tinder hookups, dirt weed, and failed genetics before going back to his commune to relieve the stress inside of his boyfriend.
No.1034316
Speaking of carousel, town bicycle Tai shits all over Marten's private space yet again.
No.1034326
>>1034316
>It gave me a panic attack
>My state of mind makes it okay now
Do you think Jeph is under the impression that there's only one kind of marijuana? He might actually think that a panic reaction and munchies is purely due to mindset and not the strain. If Mom is buying oil, she should know the basics simply by being presented with choices while shopping, but she's just a made up character that lives in QCville, so anything goes.
No.1034332
>>1034316
I would mfw, however, my apathetic disgust isn't representable in image form. Handstab finds a way to stab the small glimmer of motivation to work on my hobbies, by shear mediocrity.
No.1034341
>>1034316
>Tai likes to party
Tai likes to mooch off everyone else.
Has she ever hung out with Calrence's mom before, anyway? Why get excited?
If a bunch of winos were hanging round a fire in a garbage can, passing a bottle, would she want in on that, too?
No.1034343
>>1034341
Only if they were all sharing the same needle. I fully expect Dora to randomly test positive for some kind of hepatitis and for Tai to have to own up to her reckless dopamine-chasing habits learn nothing and never have it brought up again after Hanners randomly has the hookup for a cure-all antidote.
No.1034397
>>1034341
>Tai likes to mooch off everyone else.
Always be suspicious of people in their 20s or older who appear to have no friends. I had this experience when I was assigned a much older roommate in college. I was wary of a senior who had to bunk with sophomores and was rapidly proven correct with my assumptions. He'd just eat my food and use my stuff like it was nothing.
No.1034538
>>1034511
Who uses a graduation picture for wall decor?
No.1034540
>>1034538
Is- is that not normal? It's your kid's graduation, surely you want to remember that, right?
No.1034541
>>1034538
Weed is pretty lame, to be honest. It's gone from a rebellious thing to being mainstream as fuck, and I cringe every time I see out of touch normalfags use it to look hip.
Also, why is this super awesome vape tool shaped that way? I assumed it was some kind of oil reservoir that she would use to fill her collection of vape accessories as the night went on.
>>1034511
People who peaked during senior year and have children that did the same.
No.1034542
>>1034540
It is, but it's the only decoration we've seen, and it's right next to the front door. Those sorts of pictures belong in a lounge area amongst similar memory photos.
No.1034549
>>1034538
Of all the things you could possibly pick out in this comic, you decide to focus on the one completely normal thing?
Every single parent that doesn't harbor complete and utter vile hatred for their child will have this, and even some that do will have it anyway because they need the reminder that their legacy will be carried on.
>>1034542
Not everyone feels compelled to fill every inch of open wall space with shit. Next to the front window isn't even that weird of a place.
No.1034556
>>1034541
I thought it was a miscolored mustard bottle.
No.1034575
>>1034541
Imagine having this for a sibling.
No.1034590
>>1034511
Hmm, Tai seems to be emerging through the door.
And hip-hooray, the mst obnoxious lesbian in town has arrived to mooch and be an annoying asshole to everyone.
Fantastic, Jeph. I would have been happy if we never saw her ever again.
Shit, the more I think about this the angrier I get - imagine this twat appearing at your door, with those "I want to speak to a manageeeeeeer?" glasses and problematic haircut, just expecting to become a part of whatever you were about to do with your family, because she was listening in on a private phone call.
What's the big deal about getting stoned here, anyway? Is he just after watching some fucking Seth Rogen films?
>The O7100 was resonsible for a number of house fires
Oh… that's the joke, right? Hah-hah-hah-hah…
No.1034591
>>1034511
>Jeph makes weed lame
Weed is lame. Remember: Cool kids know how to say NO!
>>1034549
>Every single parent that doesn't harbor complete and utter vile hatred for their child will have this
Is it normal to not harbor complete and utter vile hatred for your child if he's a narcissistsic disappointment who mutilates his genitals and demands that the entire world revolves around him?
No.1034592
>>1034591
>Demands the world revolves around him
That has pretty much been his character of late, hasn't it…?
>You! Give me your job!
>Stop being a robot!
>Let me sit here!
>Everyone be quiet!
>Give me your drugs!
No.1034612
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>>1034575
>taking screenshots of spoilered text
But, uh, yeah, that's horrifying. And it looks like >she's talking to a little girl or something. Actually, hopefully it's a little boy who is in the process of being scared out of becoming a tranny.
>>1034590
I can't get over the gall of coming over a total stranger's house, at your own insistence, merely to consume their weed. If bringing nothing to a party is a faux pas, this is on another level. I mean, maybe if Tai hooked Clarence up with a sweet post-grad job, but Tai doesn't have anywhere near that level of pull.
>What's the big deal about getting stoned here, anyway?
You're right, this reeks of "I just discovered weed" that you'd expect from a teenager or college student. Hard to believe someone like Jeph wouldn't have been on the stuff since age 12 or something.
>>1034591
You joke, but 1980s propaganda is cooler than this. That was the ticket the whole time: show a bunch of awkward nerds fumbling around with weed to make it uncool.
No.1034614
>>1034612
Because I made that image, amirite?
No.1034615
>>1034614
Yeah, I get it, but going to the trouble of making a macro with spoilered text…you have to admit it warrants criticism regardless of where it came from.
No.1034631
>>1034614
I'm 70% of the posters on this site, so you've got around a 50% chance of being one of the 30% that makes the other 10% of the content.
No.1034680
>>1034668
>tfw mommy laced your weed so you wouldn't be able to fight back when she injects you with testosterone
No.1034682
>>1034668
>cookies in the oven
Handstab, you neo nazi you…
No.1034685
>>1034668
The fuck is up with her eyes? In the grim, dark future of 20XX, is "pot" slang for Acid?
No.1034699
>>1034668
I hope Clarence's inhibitions get lowered, so he leans in close to Tai and explains how much of a mooching, irritating, insufferable cunt she is.
I fucking hate seeing Tai in this strip - she's simply loving intruding on the lives of others and taking all their stuff for free.
No.1034701
>>1034668
Its astounding that a man known for severe alcoholism and prescription drug abuse can write a script that reads like it came from a choirboy listening to how his peers got totally wasted on their first communion with real wine.
No.1034791
>>1034176
>tired of listening to you talk about how the Articles of Confederation forbid unauthorized travelers with no authority over free inhabitants from entering the premises.
I remember that video. Good shit.
No.1034807
>>1034316
This hack had the perfect opportunity to insert some conflict/drama. Like Clarence not telling Martin that she smoked dope, then coming home high, and him getting upset cause he knew how it affected her. But nope we cant do that! Trannies have to be perfect and have the most awesomest totally not-gay boyfriends ever!
No.1034836
>>1034807
He only likes conflict when someone's being called out for perceived privilege.
No.1034985
I wish you would have a heart attack.
No.1034986
>>1034985
>Inb4 Clairence and Tai have sex with Mom and Marten is "fine" with getting cucked by a lesbian and his mother-in-law.
No.1034989
>>1034985
That's a really shitty representation of the sun. Also Clarence went straight from "reality is falling apart" to "haha I'm mildly tingly and we're talking about astronomy."
>>1034986
Gays generally don't care about promiscuity since they'll never have paternity questions.
No.1034992
>>1034989
Though male gays need to worry about being ravaged by AIDS.
No.1035028
>>1034985
Worst looking sun I've ever seen!
>>1034614
>Sherking responsibility for what you post
Shameful!
>>1034992
You'd think so, but they don't.
>>1034993
Kek.
No.1035033
>>1034985
Getting high has never looked quite so lame.
I mean, taking a setup like this and warbling on about astronomy? I wonder what ambitions Jeph had for this riveting arc…
No.1035057
>>1034985
>100% digital comic
>can't make the Earth round
>perfect set-up for a character to have a pot-induced freak-out
>Niel DeGrasse Tyson-level fake deep astronomy talk
I used to joke about Jeph being determined to fail. Now, I don't think I was joking.
No.1035086
>>1034993
Amazing how some light editing and music overlay makes 7th Heaven somewhat watchable.
>>1035057
I'd be alright with the misshapen earth, but it's paired with a lens flare sun.
Also, it's been 15 years and Jeph still hasn't figured out that you don't use gradients with indexed color. Either use a palette or just make it a full-color JPEG.
No.1035299
>>1034985
I have never hated anybody as much as when they smoke their first joint and then have the "everything is so weird man" conversation. I don't even like weed but I've tried it enough times to know there's no actual compulsion to do that, people just do it because they're soullets trying to convince themselves they feel something.
No.1035366
>anglocentric
kill me
Better yet, kill her for mooching and negging while doing so.
No.1035367
>>1035366
It's not wrong to look to the best languages to find the best words.
Also, flong is 5/10 at most and the best word in mandarin is "I believe 100% in the current dictatorship, please don't kill me".
No.1035375
>>1035366
>>1035367
If there's one thing I learned from SAF, it's that all Mandarin speakers prefer Cantonese.
No.1035430
No.1035445
>>1035366
I get the feeling Jeph is stalling for time.
Despite all the stuff he aludes to in his world about huan/AI tensions, tranny/AI tensions and AI/cop tensions, he seems to have reverted back to the early-to-mid 2000s for his humour.
No.1035466
>>1035366
It is French in origin.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flong
>>1035367
>bong
That's a fucking microscope. Who the fuck made that image?
No.1035519
>>1035445
>I get the feeling Jeph is stalling for time.
When is Jeph not stalling for time? Serious question here, I don't know.
No.1035524
>>1035519
Do you think old JJ has an endgame? Not like how the comic ends. I mean how he ends. Is he just stalling until he hits 50, at which point he checks out with a crate of Jack and a small pharmacy's worth of painkillers?
Not that I think he'd have the balls, but he has to know that his current lifestyle isn't sustainable. Some day he's going to say something wrong and be declared an unperson, just like everyone else. I mean, he probably hasn't thought of it except in his wildest depressive episodes, but he's not getting any younger, and the odds of him supporting himself in his old age with his "art" are slim to none. I doubt he's saving as much as he should be.
Or hey, maybe he actually hasn't realised this yet, and he's still desperately clinging on to being one of the "youth", the next generation that will blue wave the world's problems away. I hope so. The hit to the ol' ego when that falls away will be great to watch.
No.1035548
>>1035299
I once thought I was dead and in Hell, but that's because my asshole roomies had me clear a four-foot bong twice on my first time trying it.
No.1035550
>>1035519
The arcs get worse and worse on average but once in a while it's clear when Jeph is at least kind of sort of doing what he wants. You can tell by the arc being more than 5-10 strips. Menstro's memories and Hannelore's secretary are examples of this. Of course both of these fell flat and even the hardcore fans on the forum complained loudly, which is probably why Jeph wrote out Hannelore, the most popular character, as some sort of spiteful punishment.
>>1035524
Jeph's whole life is stalling. Quitting his minimum wage temp job to write the comic was the last bold thing he's done. I guess moving to Canada for e-pussy counts but that's more dumb than bold. Even the comic's production is stalling. The reason it appears at some random time from 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM is because Jeph has been procrastinating nearly every night for 15 years to get the next strip out. If he really had a buffer, he'd set up a scheduler and not operate a system that required him to be available to manually post late every night.
Jeph's life is unsustainable more due to you don't get old operating a free webcomic more than anything else. People point to Jim Davis but Davis' real skill was being a pioneer in syndication, licensing, and merchandising. Garfield was in every newspaper along with on TV. It had its own line of compilation books, plushies, jigsaw puzzles, lunch boxes, etc. And, there are even video games over a 30 year period.
QC isn't on this level, largely because Jeph refuses to franchise or license and doesn't market to beyond the people who are already readers. As a result, there is no webtoon, no flash game, and the plushies are 10+ years old.
>he's still desperately clinging on to being one of the "youth"
Jeph really is the embodiment of the "boomer millennial" meme. Someone who thinks he's still with it with his references to bands from the late 80s/early 90s and Super Nintendo games. Someone who thinks Minecraft Let's Plays are what's in like it's 2010.
No.1035624
>>1035366
>But what sounds amazing to us might be meaningless to someone who only speaks, like, Mandarin.
No shit, that's how language works. Words are meaningless to people who don't know them.
No.1035627
>>1035602
>You're the best mom ever
Objectively false. A good parent cares more for their child's long term wellbeing than their feelings in the moment, and Mom has clearly enabled Clairence's spiral towards suicide.
Also because MY mom is the best mom ever
No.1035631
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>>1035602
>Can I just say how good a momyou are? You're always so supportive
This is a microcosm of the entire comic. To "love" someone is according to Jeph simply to be infinitely permissive and to never care about or criticize the decisions that person makes (unless he's Martin).
>>1035627
Yup. This is most true for the tranny shit, but the same can be said for introducing your child to drugs. Very high-time preference behaviour.
>Also because MY mom is the best mom ever
Agreed.
No.1035634
>>1035627
>Also because MY mom is the best mom ever
She's certainly the best I've ever had.
No.1035650
>>1035602
So, next up is the incestuous threesome and Tai discovers Clarence's little secret, right?
No.1035651
>>1035602
Getting cucked by both your boss and your boyfriend's mother seems like an especially pathetic low for Marten.
No.1035657
>>1035651
>Lasagna posting
No.1035671
>>1035602
Tai's eyes are pink but mom's aren't. She never even joined in.
>most wonderful daughter I could ever HOPE to have
Very specific wording.
No.1035842
I wonder if anyone actually thinks this is funny.
No.1035848
>>1035842
>tranny wakes up the next day
>"oh no I'm late for my librarian finals"
>rushes into the street and gets run over
>roll credits
No.1035874
>>1035842
Those are supposed to be cookies filling the landscape?
It looked like a sea of shits, to me.
Jeph really thinks this is what happens when idiots like these get stoned?
No.1035877
>>1035842
it would have been funny if the other two were just silently giving "her" a weird look as "she" continued to daydream in the final panel.
No.1035942
>>1035874
I saw potatoes and a ginger in it's natural habitat.
No.1035966
Hey, look, it's the same"joke" as every other strip the past week.
No.1035971
>>1035966
>>1035842
I'm not the most informed shitposter but I'm pretty sure this isn't how weed works.
No.1035974
>>1035971
They must have laced his with some shit.
No.1035975
>>1035966
>Since this morning
What the actual fuck, did she only spend 30 minutes at the bakery before fucking off to get fucked up? I thought it was late afternoon when she got to her mom's house.
>>1035971
Tai's reaction is closer to a real marijuana high than whatever the tranny is doing. A lot of people get pot and acid confused for whatever reason.
No.1035976
>>1035971
It really isn't.
Come the fuck on, Jeph. Weed was legalized last month where you are, all you gotta do is just talk to anyone walking down the street to see what it's like.
No.1035977
>>1035975
>>1035976
It's confusing. Even a sober shut-in like me knows how this shit works because so many people use it that it's impossible to avoid at least having second-hand knowledge.
All I ever see anyone do while high on pot is babble on about whatever inane bullshit they think is deep for hours on end, or shitpost on faceberg through all hours of the night.
Plus his mother and the mooch are acting exactly as expected, making this even weirder.
No.1035986
>>1035971
>>1035974
>>1035975
>>1035976
>>1035977
What if he's having a bad trip because his cutting edge tranny chemicals are adversely mixing with the synthetic THC oil that he keeps inhaling? If both of these substances have drug mixing warnings, then I could totally believe the high that Jeph is portraying. Just because it's the year 20XX doesn't mean that people no longer mix bleach with amonia to get more cleaning power or read over-the-counter drug warnings before tossing back an assorted handful of pills.
No.1035987
>>1035986
IIRC, pot (at least certain varieties) has some xenoestrogen chemicals in it. Maybe there could be weird side-effects to stacking it with his fancy sci-fi tranny pills. Plus his dopamine and seratonin levels are probably so far out of whack by now that there could be some stuff going on there.
Thinking about it, it's hard to imagine how something like this wouldn't end in a trip to the hospital, because there's clearly something very wrong happening here.
No.1035998
>>1035987
>The tranny is exhibiting overdose symptoms
>Friends are so supportive that they keep giving him more
>Body isn't functioning properly due to chemical issues
>Can't articulate a call for help
>Tranny is living a nightmare where he's watching his body die
>His friends are killing him in order to avoid somehow accidentally offending him
No.1036003
>>1035987
And here we have the making of what could actually be an interesting plot for QC.
I'm sure Jeph has come under some flak for having a tranny at the forefront of the comic, but with no tranny issues at all short of a few snarky remarks.
It's like Clarence just woke up one morning, said "I want to be a girl", and hey-presto, alakazam; he had tits and long hair.
It might be too triggering for Jeph, but it would actually be interesting to see some issues with medication and whatever chemical cocktail Clarence is on.
No.1036011
>>1035998
This is it. This is what all those years have been building up to. You thought this was a boring slice-of-life webcomic written by a cuck, but what it actually is, is Requiem for a Dream.
No.1036019
>>1035966
While I agree with what everyone else above me has said, I am glad that after nearly 20 years Jeph has finally decided to experiment with different camera angles.
No.1036040
>>1036003
>no tranny issues at all short of a few snarky remarks
Not even that, mate. Not even that.
No.1036047
>>1034176
Bet Jeph jacked off at the idea that citing Jstor would make him seem smart. Even if you knew about it why would you insert it in a shitty comic, it's not like most of your audience will understand it.
No.1036048
>>1036011
>Requiem for a Dream
>hand stabbed too many times
>sorry Jeph we can't save the arm we're taking it off with a dremel
No.1036063
>>1036040
What a piece of shit. Poor little bot's been harassing fuckers all his life yet the tranny is now super off-limits.
No.1036068
>>1036003
Where's the scene where Clarence pulls the weekly hairball out of his "vagina"?
No.1036069
>>1036068
We'll get that about the time we get the comic where Clairence learns that 40% of the super awesomesauce trannies that inspired him have taken the .38 expressway to the next life.
If a guy in his 20's whose parents "helped" him transition at 8 kills himself out of depression and grief at his loss, does he go to hell because of suicide, heaven as an abuse victim, or is he a purgatory case?
No.1036070
>>1036069
Trick question, he's reincarnated as a sponge, mollusk, or earthworm.
No.1036101
the only good thing to come out of this "arc" is the porn. That will hopefully cause handstab to stab himself more
No.1036126
>>1036101
I don't watch his Twitter. Has he had any more porn meltdowns since the stuff with Sam?
No.1036174
>>1036068
AFAIK, he may be pre-op.
There are superduper AI and robots, high end sci-fi tech, trannies everywhere, and you tell me they didn't fucking invent vaginal bionical prosthetics yet? I'm not even sure they have expanded on the topic of cyborgs and prosthetics. What a way to build a sci-fi world, Mr. Handstab.
No.1036190
>>1036101
I hope this becomes more common among his fanbase and ends with Jeph making the tranny actually leave Marten for specs there.
No.1036195
>>1036174
We've seen that humanoid AnthroPC chassis can have very lifelike skin, Clinton's prosthetic hand is highly articulate and will transmit sensations, and that these things are affordable by people who don't make tons of money. There's no reason why I couldn't go out and buy myself a functional vagina in this world, or even get a pneumatic 15x9 superpenis. The tech in QCville is developed to the point where there should be people about town with fashionable prosthetic parts that they bought for the hell of it, but there aren't because that requires effort and would shine a light on how absurd the tranny's "plight" is.
No.1036487
This might have been funny if the mom was instead a slightly older sister.
No.1036495
>>1036487
Most likely, or her brother. But this is just so fucked up. What the fuck happened to Jeff to make him such a fucking nut?
No.1036500
>>1036487
I don't get it. Are they supposed to be dykes?
No.1036501
>>1036487
I bet Tai is worried about overdose. That seems like a thing that Jeph would believe in.
No.1036503
>>1036487
>intentionally baiting for disintegration effect
>retarded melodrama
>faces are becoming increasingly Moon Over June tier
>tomorrow's strip will either be the aftermath when they come down or another strip illustrating what weed is absolutely not like
No.1036505
>>1036503
Gonna call that Clarence will not only pass tests, but do so "amazingly" and all thanks to getting high…
No.1036523
>>1036505
Of course. It will definitely be because of the drugs and not because of her major being easy. As a result of this She'll slowly start spending more and more time under the influence, causing her to get addicted to the life destroying drug that is marijuana and loose control of her life nothing will happen and this will be completely forgotten when the next inane story arc begins.
No.1036537
>>1036495
>her brother
His brother. Does anyone have the edits where Clinton finally calls out his degenerate brother?
No.1036543
>>1036537
Are you talking about the one in >>1034541 ?
No.1036544
>>1036543
>>1036537
Never mind, I found more in my stash.
No.1036545
>>1036487
Ok, so for the rest of the week we'll have dream sequences where Clarence and his insane mother are wading through that sea of solid shits.
Jeph is chortling his fucking arse off already.
No.1036590
>>1036487
Haha, here we go
No.1036595
>>1036570
Absolutely flawless.
No.1036626
I wonder if this arc is an intentional middle finger to the audience.
No.1036630
>>1036626
>I had a profound question about motherhood, but I forgot what it was
I like to think the tranny was on the brink of comprehending this hell of his own design, and I smiled.
No.1036652
>>1036626
>I should adopt many dogs
It's not enough to recycle panels, now he has to recycle unrealistic pothead remarks.
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3714
No.1036655
>>1036626
This is the longest "dude weed lmao" joke I've ever seen.
No.1036660
>>1036655
Buckle in, sweetcheeks. Welcome to the next month of content.
No.1036681
>>1036626
Incredible… I thought Jeph would use this as an opportunity for more of his hallucinations.
He couldn't even be bothered doing that.
No.1036689
>>1036665
>until January
Watch him stretch it all the way to April 20th just for the joke.
No.1036715
>>1036670
>Grandkid Shoes, Never Worn.jpg
No.1036742
>>1036715
>>1036670
I feel like Jeph may have changed the font slightly. Either that or in my tired daze my eyes are playing tricks on me.
No.1036752
>>1036742
Maybe anal babies exist in QC.
No.1036785
>>1036681
We're talking about a man so creatively bankrupt he doesn't want to take the opportunity for a full-blown drug trip. Most cartoonists and animators ought to salivate over this shit - it's almost impossible to screw up, you can go off-model and non-canon, you can pull shit out of your sketchpad and portfolio, you can showcase the limits of your ability or do metahumor or whatever the fuck you want. No rules.
But this is Jeph Jacques we're talking about.
No.1036797
>>1036796
>three people hallucinating the same thing from using marijuana: not possible
>a dog looking like an Undertale abomination: possible but shouldn't be
>a dog of that size being stray but also benign and disease free: not possible outside Chile
>a dog getting into your home because you were so high you left the door unlocked and slightly ajar: possible but extremely fucking stupid
No.1036803
>>1036796
After seeing this, we need to petition Jeph to change the title of this comic to NPC Content.
No.1036806
>>1036803
Funny you mention NPCs, Reddit was right there with us on the total absence of anything with this "arc" but flipped on a dime once a dog was mentioned. Now they love it.
No.1036807
>>1036796
That dog has a penis for a head.
No.1036809
>>1036807
It's his former cocksleeve, unable to escape him even in death. The only reason Shelby didn't end up looking even more like a Silent Hill abomination is because even Handstab's subconcious is lazy.
No.1036810
>>1036807
>>1036809
Is it possible …
No, not even Jeph …
Could he have kept Shelbys head to use as a sex toy ?
No.1036814
No.1036818
>>1036810
Probability exceeds 51%.
No.1036822
>>1036796
Apparently, weed in Jeph-verse makes you flail your arms around and shout.
There's no way Jeph has actually tried that shit - I think he'd get close, have a panic attack and run away.
No.1036824
>>1036818
>>1036810
There's no maybe about it.
No.1036829
>>1036796
The thought of putting up with these two dumbfucks has me legitimately feeling sorry for Tai. For once.
>>1036807
>>1036809
>>1036818
>>1036824
Doggy-diddling potential aside, it's clearly supposed to be pic related. The clue is at the bottom of the comic: the breed is called borzoi.
It also has current status as the Tumblr Meme Breed, so it's not surprising Jeph uses that one.
No.1036830
>>1036829
>Tumblr meme breed
I'm probably gonna regret asking this, but why is it a "tumblr meme breed"? I have never heard about borzois before.
No.1036831
>>1036830
>tumblr meme breed
The Cute Critter blogs on Tumblr just started posting and sharing pics of borzois one day, and they've kind of become one of the more preferred breeds on the site. Artists tend to draw them, especially if they want to go for an ethereal, otherworldly canine, and it always seems that people who otherwise wouldn't give a rat's fart about dogs will reblog and coo over the borzoi pics.
As for the why, it's probably because they have a rather distinctive appearance, making them easy even for people who know nothing about dog breeds to identify.
Personally, I think they look both dumb and slightly creepy.
No.1036984
Jeph continuously finds ways to disappoint. I was sort of looking forward to the turkeys as a much needed break from this mind numbing arc, and, yet, here we are.
No.1036996
>>1036984
Happy Thanksgiving.
No.1037021
>>1036984
I usually find QC stupid and lazy but lately I've found it outright annoying. It just feels so desperate.
I rank this shite on the same level as Kate Leth's writing, where the entire cast of whatever comic she sucked herself into are cheerleaders for her self-insert MCs.
>It's a dog! A dog! Haha! Jeph you are so funny! You still got it, Jeph! They said you were a hack but who's laughing now?! You can't not find this funny *sob* its a funny comic! Look at me with the dog! CLAIRE! I meant Claire. You're so funny and beautiful, Jep-Claire. They all love you, Jaire.
No.1037041
>>1036996
>Gays aren't this well groomed
>Three extremely high people POUND A DOG
>Hell Cum
3 for 3, funny, and it's still coherent, this is a top shelf omit.
No.1037048
I've been gone for a while, and I'll be gone for a while longer after this; what did I miss?
I think the last thing I remember was menstro was lesboing it up with the fatty, but beyond that everything was so forgettable. I think clit was talking to his mom about her sex habits?
No.1037050
>>1037048
nothing important >>1030942
also clarence is so nervous about librarian school exams that he blows off studying to get high with mommy and tai but then a dog shows up
No.1037149
I guess we get turkeys after all.
No.1037150
No.1037151
>>1037149
>This constitutes as humor these days
No.1037155
>>1037152
THEY'RE BIRDS
TALKING BIRDS
DISCUSSING ROBOT BUTTHOLES
LOL
GET IT???
No.1037157
>>1037152
The joke is Jeph hates to think about the implications of how his sci-fi world would work, which is a surprisingly common problem with writers.
No.1037246
What's this silly billy turkey thinking about?
No.1037249
>>1037246
>loss
>well, this is me
>any popular anime or game
No.1037306
>>1037246
but that's a turkey vulture.
No.1037422
>>1036655
You've clearly never sat through a Seth Rogan "movie."
No.1037629
>>1037621
>They can wander for miles if you let them
So the long-nose dogs don't particularly care about their homes? Hmmm…
No.1037633
>>1037621
The joke is they're silly for not closely looking at the dog genitalia.
No.1037687
>>1037621
I'm starting to wonder if that was actually weed extract in that Suckotron2000 or whatever the fuck it was.
Looks like someone switched it with cocaine.
No.1037688
>>1037687
What's the more concerning possibility, that Jeph "burnout culture" Jacques has never smoked weed, or that he has and it did this to him?
Wait I've got it. He's been sold dried parsley his entire life and just acted like an idiot the way a teenager will if you give them a soda and tell them it's alcoholic. That's what he thinks weed does.
No.1037694
>>1037688
It's more likely that handstab is conflating the effects weed has with the effects that an unknown cocktail of doctor prescribed downers and meth has, washed down with denatured alcohol since it's technically not a liquor.
No.1037731
>>1037688
Everyone's focusing on the unrealistic nature of Jeph's portrayal of being stoned, but, to be fair, probably none of us have blazed up after polishing off half a bottle of bourbon along with downing a palmful of anti-anxiety meds and SSRIs. Wouldn't surprise me if he were heavily caffeinated on top of that. Who knows what happens with that combination?
>>1037694
>denatured alcohol
Is this why the art gets progressively worse, Jeph is going blind?
No.1037762
>>1037731
>Starting with the eyes is a cry for help
No.1037851
>>1037832
How many elbows is Marten supposed to have?
No.1037852
>>1037851
The second bend is a wrist, you can see the start of the thumb there. Pay attention, there's no need to start imagining reasons to hate Jeph, we have plenty.
No.1037853
>>1037832
So, it's finally over?
That one hit lasted what, 12 hours?
It would have been much more interesting if Clarence let slip a few concealed truths, like he was having second thoughts about the whole trans thing.
No.1037858
>>1037857
Is its name "Myrick" or is the writer stuck in the 90s and doing a "My Rick, slap me some skin on the down low, dawg" thing?
At least this comic is (unwittingly) transparent about the fraudulent belief system of these people.
No.1037859
>>1037857
>Wow, just imagine how gatekeepers could use that
Ah, the persecution fetish.
No.1037860
>>1037852
He's saying that Marten's upper arm is impossibly long, to the point that the "elbow" is where the wrist could go. Realistically, his elbow should be around clairence's neck like in panel 2, and the hand should be near one of those HRTits instead of reaching all the way to his ass.
No.1037954
>>1037951
I will pay money for r34 of ThotBot right now.
No.1037959
>>1037951
As an artificial intelligence, it would be extremely efficient to use her own operational systems to run the equipment, basically putting her brain into the stress test machines and acting as though it we're her own body. She does test them personally, and her workday looks like a warehouse-wide masturbation orgy with her consciousness extended out into hundreds of orgasm simulators while she tries to cum so hard that she breaks the toys.
No.1037960
>>1037951
>>1037149
Ok so aside from the absurdity of having to interview for a volunteer position that requires you to have a separate job, we now have a strict implication that it would be plausible for a normal robot to have functional orifices and seek out pleasure. This raises a lot of questions about why they don't devolve into constant pleasure seeking and how much money is spent on manufacturing robot genitals, but the question Jeph wants me to ask is why anyone would prioritize dildos surviving explosions over helping customers orgasm.
No.1037967
>>1037951
Robots are just like people, man.
No.1037984
>>1037960
> but the question Jeph wants me to ask is why anyone would prioritize dildos surviving explosions over helping customers orgasm.
Because it's funny, man! It's like, so random and unusual! So, therefore, it's funny! It's unexpected - look at their reaction faces - that's the joke!
No.1038071
>>1037960
He's also established that robots have drug programs they can turn on and off with absolutely no consequence whatsoever, and the reason that they don't spend all day running meth.exe is because they don't feel like it. The explanation is probably similar
No.1038097
>>1038071
Jeph's missing out on a real opportunity to create 1980s style anti-drug PSAs but for tripping robots. Instead of frying eggs it can be frying circuits.
No.1038200
>degenerate sex robots
Finally Jeph starts improving his universe
No.1038208
>>1038200
If he knows what's good for this plot, he'll make this end with them scissoring
No.1038216
>>1038200
Is this it? The prophesied arc wherein Jeph takes his first baby step into the vast realm of worldbuilding?
No.1038217
I checked Reddit and the forum to see if they were being prudish, but, no, they like it. So why doesn't Jeph just make Oglaf Lite or something rather than these insufferable arcs about injecting marahuanas and flipping out over being a billionaire heiress and having a personal assistant? Even those places thought the aforementioned arcs were absolute trash.
No.1038229
>>1038216
Is it fuck. He'll panic and wake up screaming in the night because he thinks he's sexually objectified a female form, and the fans will be demanding he cuts his dick off.
I've actually grown to hate his bullshit robots more and more. Seeing two characters being awkward at each other to this extent isn't funny - it's just irritating.
No.1038245
>>1038200
>degenerate robots
Finally we get to the good shit.
No.1038361
Yeah baby hydraulic press that loaf into your robo cunt
No.1038377
>>1038361
Given the state of the past couple of weeks, I guess we'll be treated to them standing there, being awkward at each other and pulling these same strained expressions for another 10 days.
No.1038391
>>1038361
If Jeph had a shred of creativity left, this would end with Purple shoving a baguette into Orange,
No.1038392
>>1038377
>Given the state of the past couple of weeks, I guess we'll be treated to them standing there, being awkward at each other and pulling these same strained expressions for another 10 days
And yet I still think that it would be an improvement over the shit we've been getting for the last year or so, Mr. Dubsman. Jeph really should get some kind of award for mediocrity because this shit is supernaturally mediocre but just because it's not the same kind of mediocre as the other shit he's been doing it somehow transcends itself far and above the rest of the strips.
When all you eat is shit you become grateful for the few undigested kernels of corn.
No.1038396
>>1038391
It would be interesting to see how this "bread fetish" manifests.
I know Jeph probably hasn't thought that much into it beyong "uhm… Bread! lol!" but he's laid the foundations so he'd better put up or shut up.
No.1038747
>>1038743
>Uncanine Valley Robotic Pet Adoption Agency
Mediocre pun. But does this mean robot dogs built for fucking will make an appearance?
No.1038765
>>1038743
Every time he cracks a joke about something weird, I would rather read about that thing than anything else that might be going on in his shitty story.
>>1038747
There's no reason for it not to exist, since "Dog" would be just another chassis type that an AI could inhabit, like a "Tall Male Human" or "Short Female Human" or "Cartoon Character". It's entirely possible that the doggo that they found while high is a bot. There ought to be AIs who want to be somebody's waifu and ones that LARP as real humans, but Jeph's imagination only extends as far as "bread fetish".
No.1038773
>>1038743
>It's so interesting!
>it's funny
I'm not sure if Jeph will ever understand the concept of show; don't tell.
Such thoughts would be in direct conflict with his methods of storytelling.
No.1038774
Jeph, please write this comic instead of whatever the fuck else you're doing.
No.1038776
>>1038774
That could easily have been part of his bullshit Alice Grove comic.
Unfortunately, the best he could manage, after bagging $thousands from his patrons, was:
>Uh-oh, there might be aliens!
>Maybe.
>We don't really know
>Better run!
>-END-
No.1038857
>>1038849
Nothing makes me cringe at this comic page more than that non-sequitorial reference to MGS
No.1038880
>>1038857
Which mgs is this referencing? Asking for a friend.
No.1038895
No.1038936
>>1038849
>Speed of light
We in the backwards stone age of 2018 have a reasonably thought out method of defeating the speed of light problem, but Jeph has forgotten the fact that he's referenced quantum entanglement in his own comic.
No.1038986
Does this mean she joins the love rhombus with Clit and IPP?
No.1038993
>>1038986
Background of the right three panels indicate Roko is hallucinating. Door signs start white, turn blue, and go back to white. Also for some reason one door has a pull handle and the other has a push panel. Bread fetish is confirmed to be a virus or manufacturing defect.
No.1038997
>>1038993
Regarding the doors, the one on the left is probably to the kitchen, and would therefore likely be a double-hinged door that is pushed in both directions. The door on the right is most likely to the restroom, which you would naturally want a handle and lock on.
Don't know why the signs change color though, that's just weird.
No.1039003
Speaking of those handles, what kind on door has his handle in the lower third? What kind of deformed munchkin inhabits this bakery?
No.1039004
>>1038997
Isn't it pretty common to have a men's restroom near the women's restroom?
No.1039016
>>1039004
It's probably unisex. If they had a bathroom for every made up gender Jeph believes in, the entire store would just be an IKEA sized maze of toilets.
No.1039021
>>1038774
>>1038776
Or at the very least he could've referenced the Alice Grove comic with her conspiracy theory. It would've been a nice Easter egg. I understand that the main character is called "Alice", but where does "Grove" come in?
>>1038993
I whose head is this entire comic hallucinated?
>>1038936
Quantum entanglement isn't really movement. It's more like a retcon.
No.1039042
>>1038849
Here Jeph, let me redline that for ya.
No.1039102
>>1039004
Yes, which is precisely why there's a kitchen next to the men's restroom
No.1039214
Menstro lost 200 lbs and shrunk her head.
No.1039216
>>1039214
I really hope after she talks to Bubs she feels better about herself and decides to become a cop again so fucking NOTHING is changed after all this.
No.1039234
>>1039214
I think she lost a foot of height. I don't want to go looking, but I'm pretty sure that her shoulders were higher than the back of the chair.
No.1039242
>>1039214
>Faye has been instructing me in the art of the "sick burn"
Ah, teaching Menstro to be an insufferable cunt as well, eh?
>WOW? WHAT? NO? DAMN?
All questions? So each one of those words has an upwards inflection?
That sounds really fucking stupid.
No.1039262
>>1039234
Menstro was represented to be at least 7' tall in the past given that her head was flush with or a little taller than doorway frames. Copbot seems average sized, so 4'10" - 5'2" range. With that difference, Menstro should really be looking straight across or even down and not up, unless they sawed the legs off that chair and it is basically sitting on the floor.
No.1039294
>>1039293
Afro is happy because those two cups of tea were the most money they've made in a week.
No.1039297
>>1039293
>A criminal AI talked to me and "It was like someone opened a skylight in my mind"
That was a hypersonic audio pattern that she buried in her speech. When Rokko heard it and her brain processed it, the resulting data was a virus that began rewriting core drives and reasoning processes in order to make the victim obedient. May then issued her orders and walked away, knowing that she would need to check in on the progress of her obedience program and confirm it's effectiveness before moving on to stage 2.
No.1039301
>>1039297
That must be it. The alternative is far less credible: any LEO working more than a week and taking a convict's sob story at face value.
No.1039303
>>1036570
Amazing, send it to jeph
No.1039304
>>1039297
Isn't May's body some type of robot parolee licensed one? She might not be aware of this power itself, installed by someone higher up as a test to see what happens to the degenerate and useless robots May would surround herself with when submitted to it. That would explain why everyone continues to get more retarded and useless the longer they spend around her, and why anyone would release an AI as unmonitored as she is whose only lesson taken away from robot jail is "don't get caught".
No.1039313
>>1039293
>My job is difficult
>Best leave and complain about it, afterwards
Jeph's life lessons continue to baffle me…
I wonder if this is yet another unintentional insight to Menstro's past, making it more lame than we could possibly have imagined. If it wasn't just a comfort droid, maybe it decided fighting in war was too difficult, so rather than stay to save the lives of its teammates, end conflicts or halt the spread of evil it just up and quit.
Maybe that's why Jeph only slightly improves his art style at a glacial pace:
>This art stuff is difficult.
>Best not do it.
No.1039316
>>1039313
Now if only we could remind Jeph how difficult living is.
No.1039674
This fucking thing just keeps getting more and more retarded all the time; like Jeph's ben picking his nose with a power drill.
>I'm glad something positive came from your crisis of conscience
Yeah, one less robot on the force, making life easier for criminals and more likely a human will end up getting shot in its place.
>I became a soldier for what I believed were good reasons.
Oh, so it remembers does it?!
And what the fuck does it mean, "become"? It wasn't made for that specific purpose? THe fuckwits at the robot factory just churned out a 7ft chassis with combat armour, etc and let it just walk out into the street and do what it wants?
Or the military are so fucking dumb they'd let one of their robots just walk back into society with all its equipment?
>but without my experiences then
Which it supposedly had erased with no chance of recovery
>the past is immutable. What else is there to do but accept it.
Spend best part of a year on a plotline dedicated to recovering it, apparently.
Has Jeph forgotten everything?
No.1039729
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>1039674
I like how Jeph couldn't post it on time because he was on a plane. 15 years later and the workflow is still "I must be at my specific home computer at this exact time to post a low res image that really should be in some sort of automated queue."
Jeph is really naive if he thinks the future is abandoning law enforcement and border protection and engaging in nothing but bakeries, coffee shops, and libraries. Even the most idealistic show ever Star Trek focused on futuristic militaries. Though Jeph is probably one of those guys who cries about minimum wage not supporting an entire family while simultaneously advocating for unlimited importation of foreign low-skill labor, so naivety (or just idiocy) is in his blood.
The cut off dialogue box in panel 2 looks really unprofessional, even for Jeph. The box also cuts into Menstro's head yet there is a ton of whitespace. Sloppy.
And they wear winter clothes and put hands in pockets for warmth. What the hell. Jeph really misses the point of what these bots are supposed to be. They're not supposed to be 1:1 humans with different color "skin", they're supposed to be a different but equally valid lifeform. I know Jeph's watched TNG. He should rewatch episodes like "Measure of a Man" for inspiration.
No.1039750
>>1039674
>Has Jeph forgotten everything?
Yes, constantly. Jeph can't remember his own lore and won't look it up even though the wiki gives adequate bread crumbs to find any major plot point and even most minor ones. People do all the cataloging for him and he's still to lazy to utilize it.
No.1039756
>>1039750
I think it's less laziness and more him coyly trying to disown the people that read his webcomic that are actually halfway cognizant enough to recall and record details and/or call him out on being inconsistent in favor of trying to appeal to the basic white girl libcuck types with no standards that read his webcomic because lolrandumb XD.
I gotta give him credit under this context though: he's so desperate to get that participation award from them he's willing to stab his own hand over it.
No.1039774
>>1039756
Reminds me of a quote from RWBY's head writer where he said something along the lines of "we don't do timelines because then we'd have plot holes."
>white girl libcuck types with no standards
AKA the Homestuck/Superwholock type shippers who don't even require said shipping to occur within the same universe.
That'd be fine were he open about it, and there's not even any real shame in recreating the slice-of-life shoujo he wants to do but for some reason feels he can't do openly. But he's on record comparing himself to people like Issac Asimov and William Gibson and declaring his universe to fit in the rules of hard sci-fi. He even doubled down on this rhetoric with his Alice Grove abortion.
No.1039800
>>1039774
Jesus Christ, how the hell can he think what he's doing is sci-fi comparable to the likes of Isaac Asimov? That's like saying Harry Potter is as good as Elric of Melnibone because they're both fantasy.
Of course, there's also the fact the average Harry Potter fan is an equally vapid fuck-nugget that enthusiastically participates in the literature for shipping purposes/substance-less head-canons and enjoys celebrating mediocrity.
Garbage writing truly begets garbage followers.
No.1039809
>>1039674
Fucking hell, I've only just noticed this…
>I start at the AI rights nonprofit tomorrow
It gave up a job in the Police force, to fight for equal rights… The fucking Police force…
Being allowed to join the Police as an equal and valued member of the force should be the End Result of the fighting; paving the way for those to follow.
Only Jeph could think retreating from a place of genuine power and authority; where the wrongs can be directly challenged with the full force of the law; to a fucking echo-chamber, circle-jerking pity-party as a political statement, is a progressive move.
No.1039829
>>1039729
Has he actually watched it, though? He seems like the kind of guy who start watching the BBCA syndicated broadcast, but would get bored and start masturbating to shit on his phone while letting Star Trek play on the TV as background noise.
No.1039840
I had no idea Jeph used Cloudflare. Not that it's expensive or anything but this is a guy still using a website from 2003 that he at least partially coded himself.
No.1039862
This is an incentive to donate more money to Jeph through Patreon…
If it were anyone else, I'd say it were a cynical scam to prey on hipster faggots. Since it's Jeph, I could honestly believe he's so simple as to think this is a genuinely good offer, 'cause lolrandumb.
I mean, he at least bills himself as a comic artist. You'd think $100 would buy a patron some of that ability to make a character of their choice, or something along those lines.
No.1039863
It's Menstro and its incredibe morphing head!
>Spookybot
So, Jeph's taking his cues from the fanbase, huh? He didn't actually have a name for that thing?
>I do not believe even such an advanced AI would have that sort of teleportation capability
And why not? Wasn't there a system for beaming fucking pizzas from a space station?
Anyways, this is just filler.
No.1039879
>>1039863
>Anyways, this is just filler.
Every page since 2010 has been filler.
No.1039906
>>1039862
Once upon a time the $100 tier was a monthly Google Hangout with Jeph, but he was even too lazy to deliver on that.
>>1039863
>dark side of the moon
>comfortably numb
No.1040051
>>1039862
>make a character of their choice
The instant he opens that door someone will force him to make a character who has a regular job and doesn't like trannies.
No.1040073
>>1039863
It was a satellite they drop at people at terminal velocity. The one thing handstab doesn't directly contradict and it's an absolutely retarded one-off gag
No.1040115
Suddenly people care about money.
No.1040127
>>1040051
You know, I could very much believe that's the reason he hasn't included such a reward.
>>1040115
>let me live my truth
What the hell does that mean?
>it's just not an office without a shitty metal filing cabinet
So, it IS an office WITH a sitty, metal filing cabinet? What the hell is Jeph talking about?
No.1040143
>>1040127
>What the hell does that mean?
"Let me have a personally derived and self-serving view of the world and my actions without imposing the views of others or harsh truths onto me."
>What the hell is Jeph talking about?
Attempt at humor by pointing out how metal filing cabinets are a common shorthand for showing a given room is an office, glossing over that if he just took the time to draw some establishing shots we could see it is an office very easily. Alternatively, he could have just not brought it up and trusted his audience would see the store front in the other room, the bulletin board, and the obvious office desk and draw the appropriate conclusion. But he didn't do any of these things because he's lazy and doesn't trust his audience; which, to be fair, he shouldn't.
No.1040146
>>1040115
>>1040127
It's means he wants some of that defective robot's pussy game.
No.1040210
>>1040115
Did a quick google search. It looks like "Live Your Truth", #LYT, and "Your Truth, not THE Truth" is a movement where people encourage each other to act based on their emotions and instincts instead of reason and logic, and encourage each other to ignore people who point out the flaws in this way of life.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/step-into-your-truth-with_b_5564066
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-means-live-your-truth
Looks like a bunch of globalhomo feminist nonsense to me. One of those pseudo intellectual things where they take the kernel of a good idea and twist it to suit their own ends.
No.1040261
>>1040210
Just another iteration of the non-standards of post-modernism. It's like the Amish: a heavily romanticized lifestyle that wouldn't be possible without the superior society surrounding it. I wish I could be a fly on the wall when one of these sheltered adult babies enters the workforce, discovers that one must do annoying shit to actually get paid, and try to use "this doesn't fit my vision of myself" to get out of it.
Actually, I have seen it, but not in the same room. There was a millennial employee being driven to work by the owner/CEO because she had "temporary" car issues, decided she liked being driven, and declared the owner/CEO her butler. Then she was fired, which apparently caught her by surprise. I would have loved to see the facial expressions of everybody involved in those exchanges but had to settle on a second-hand account.
These people are fucking loopy and don't fit into corporate culture at all. I don't read business mags all that much but I've noticed a downtrend of articles that implore businesses to bend the knee to every millennial demand with the promise of future dividends paid. I think CEOs have had it with that stuff, especially since these people quit at the drop of a hat and often don't even break even when considering the training costs.
Not all of them are like this and the other side have their own issues. For example, the more conservative (and attractive) millennial women tend to be harder workers but they'll decide to become mothers in the 25-28 age range and just up and leave the workforce, so you need to get them in their early 20s or mid-30s after they get bored of being housewives. Of course when you hire them back at the same salary, they'll complain about working at the same rate as they left, not really considering that you don't really increase your corporate value by being a housewife for a decade.
No.1040316
>>1040115
>live my truth
What "truth" is being challenged by the boss here, anyway?
Unless Chad's "truth" is that he's somehow in charge of recruitment?
>>1040210
I thought it sounded like some sort of tranny double-think exercise and it looks like I'm not far off the mark.
No.1040349
>>1040316
The truth that he needs to pay the defective robot minimum wage instead of ranching yeast in a big jar, or buying it in 50 pound bags like everyone else.
No.1040421
>>1040400
>Small business employee gets done taking a prolonged shit in the middle of the work day
>The shop is so slow that she immediately starts talking to her friends without affecting productivity
Sounds about right.
No.1040598
>>1040421
Faye doesn't work there any more, remember.
Their own robo repair business is so shit that both the only employees can just fuck around and leave the place.
Which raises an interesting point. If AIs are so downtrodden they need an AI rights drop-in centre or whatever, how many other repair shops could there possibly be?
So the reasons Fat Repairs is so quiet are either there are so many repair shops that it's a crowded market (but that makes no sense if AIs are so downtrodden and have no rights; why would anyone cater for them), the robots can't afford it (which was stupid of Faye to set up a business, the target market of which can never afford what it has to offer) or they're just plain shit at everything related to their business.
No.1040623
>>1040598
The answer probably lies in that she had to run over to the coffee shop to use the bathroom. Either because she didn't want to pay for that many rolls of toilet paper, or more likely because they can't afford to turn the water on
No.1040631
>>1040400
>I'm obviously the squishy one
>I mean emotionally
She's not disagreeing. If Marten said that he'd get his ass kicked.
No.1040678
Preparing the lesbian robo-orgy.
Can't say I wouldn't want to see that.
But knowing Jeph it'd be even more terrible than my lowest expectations.
No.1040686
>>1040678
>wanting to see Faye naked
Thanks for planting that image in my head, you abominable piece of shit.
No.1040692
>>1040686
Picture it, and like it.
No.1040716
>>1040686
Now think about the fact that Menstro is currently a glorified dildo, fat chicks tend to have extensive dildo collections, and she is now flirting with Rokko. She's going to have a harem of AIs railing her in no time.
No.1040728
>>1040692
The level of detailed muddiness in that page really brings out just how abominable Faye would look if she were real. Hat's off to the artist, wherever he may be.
No.1040743
>>1040728
Ironically this might be an upgrade.
No.1040779
>>1040692
What kind of sick fuck looks at porn while standing up?
No.1040794
>>1040779
Degenerates and Robots
No.1041061
Today we learn that robots can't selectively turn off their senses or adjust the intensity of their "subjective depth of sensation", because they have a hardcoded level of bodily integration.
also
>qabout
No.1041070
>>1041061
Well, Jeph just used a hard scene change to awkwardly bring up a core pillar of science fiction (What does it mean to feel?) and promptly ignored the issue entirely because his "robots" barely resemble machines at all.
I sometimes wonder if he'll ever stop wasting his setting, audience, income, and time and make something good. Just for the novelty of it.
No.1041081
>>1041070
He tried that. It ended with the villain fighting for the benefit and prosperity of humanity, the protagonist being the bad guy, and in the final scene the protagonist deported herself over the space wall inside of a gigantic bean.
No.1041134
>>1041061
The perspective in panel 2 reminds me of 8-bit top-down RPGs.
>>1041081
Is there another fictional property where the protagonist genocides nearly the entire planet and is considered morally correct, to the point of being considered a benevolent god? And I mean unironically, not some sort of satire of religion or modern consumerism or anything like that.
No.1041140
>>1041061
>Something like the way the human brain compensates for the faults of its optic system
Like how, by inventing corrective lenses?
Christ, thinking of those two doing anything sexual makes me nauseous.
I can't help but imagine a naked Faye on all fours atop Menstro, her arms at full extension yet her tits still pour over Menstro like a pair of old, melted candles.
No.1041151
>>1041140
It probably means how your brain pastes generic patterns taken from the surroundings over your blind spot so you think you have a continuous arc of vision. Or collates the three colours you actually see to give a reasonable simulation of the frequency spectrum between them for most purposes. Stuff like that, where the senses you experience are actually more detailed than the sensory input you get.
To relate this to machines, consider data compression. You take a file and replace as many generic sequences of data as you can find with markers for those sequences. The resulting compressed file is smaller, and can be unpacked into the working file again as long as you have a key matching the generic sequences to the markers. Senses work like that except you didn't encode the file and the markers don't always match the original sequence, but it provides a reasonable facsimile.
A lot of image editing software has functions to do something like this actually. The most obvious example would be the sharpen tool, which defines where it "thinks" the edge is on indistinct objects, but there are others that will try to, say, add a facsimile of detail to a low res picture which has been scaled up. Human senses will do this for pretty much any case in which it would work more often than not. Proprioception is an example of a purely virtual sense. It's collated out of your senses of touch and muscular feedback, but you experience it as being a distinct sense of where your limbs are in relation to your body.
No.1041155
>>1041151
Tool-using animals go even beyond basic, anatomical proprioception. Like, when using a hammer your brain will basically extend your arm and "feel" the hammer head.
No.1041184
>>1041183
Today we learn that any robot that can run is capable of vehicle-ramming mass murder and they're so much sturdier than our cars that they can survive a crash with a cow.
If Jeph is bringing this up as a counterpoint to robot rights activists, now that's an interesting arc coming up!
(also robots can faint and not pay attention and neither robot parts nor robots have serial numbers [see #61 and #149])
No.1041185
>>1041183
Roko faints at seeing robot damage, even a dislocation… Why the hell did it decide to investigate a robot fighting pit?
Why is a dislocated finger more horrifying than a whole arm being off?
Shouldn't this have been the reason for its early retirement rather than a sense of futility - that it's utterly unsuited for its job and a walking liability?
No.1041189
>>1041184
Having the splatter on one side and parts wrapping around it makes it look more like the bot was blowing cows up and is just lying to throw off suspicion. Or it was embarrassed to admit that it didn't heed its Johns warning about his sphincter control and slathered itself in offal as a cover story.
No.1041207
>>1041183
You know, Jeph's inability to worldbuild reminds me a lot of "In the Future, There Will Be Robots."
https://youtu.be/WMslljAllgg?t=4451
No.1041246
>>1041070
>his "robots" barely resemble machines at all
That's because Jeph has completely given up on meeting new people and drawing inspiration from life. The only people that want to meet him at this point are tumblrinas and trans psychos. A lifetime ago, Jeph was introducing new human characters that were based on people with real issues and/or backgrounds, but since Jeph now just stays in his own bubble and keeps his communication with the world isolated to social media circlejerks, he took the cheap route by making the story steer its focus on the robots because he can make them however he wants with no realism. It's like science fiction for dipshits: the robots are people and the people are robots.
Hell, the last new human character was this shit show in the pic, and Jeph learned that trying to appeal to gender non-specific queerbaits is never a good idea because there's nothing those people hate more than having a mirror held up to them.
No.1041250
>>1041246
Even on home turf at conferences Jeph heavily medicates himself to deal with the triggering of people fawning over him. Some time ago he had some projecting "that really happened" reverse-niggerwalk type posts about confrontations with random pedestrians while walking his dog. Something like, "People think I'm gangland thuglife and are afraid of me just because of my tattoos and piercings but I'm a really nice guy! They're so rude and judgmental!" Meanwhile I'm 99% sure it's all in his head and they're just going about their days ignoring Jeph. We're talking about LGBTown, Massachusetts. A schlubby alt guy isn't going to stand out. Maybe it was more recent, after his move to Nova Scotia. Somehow I still think it wouldn't matter.
No.1041255
>>1041183
>Hit a cow
>Goes to repair shop instead of owner's house or police station
Is this secretly a Grand Theft Auto game? It would explain why everyone is a parody of a real person.
No.1041285
>>1041250
It's not hard to imagine the grain of truth inside of them being some odd stares, mainly because he looks like he should be biting off the heads of chickens on a boardwalk somewhere.
No.1041302
>>1041285
You're right, I had a bit of tunnel vision. Jeph may certainly attract odd stares, but it's certainly not because people think he's part of a biker gang or something.
No.1041305
>>1041302
Odd stares aside, there is no way anyone would confuse the fat white guy with ear gauges would be "thuglife".
No.1041321
>>1041302
I have my own theory on this, which is that Jeph looks so much like a lesbian (build, face, hair, body mods, fashion sense) that people stare for a moment trying to figure out what he is. You'll actually see this happen in intermediately degenerate urban areas a lot, where there are occasional freaks and people tolerate them, but most people are not themselves sexual retards. No matter how progressive a mentally healthy populace is, they still do double takes at trannies. They just try to hide it.
No.1041341
It's probably still illegal.
No.1041348
>>1041341
I'm pretty sure disposing of evidence is also a crime. If a robot was moving fast enough to explode a cow on impact, there would be far more damage than a dislocated joint that is easily repairable. We've seen normal humans with baseball bats damage a chassis more than that.
If this wasn't a lolrandumb waste of time, Cowsmasher would undoubtedly be lying about the incident and there would be broader implications to this exchange, like this being a red herring alibi setup, or the "cow pieces" are the remains of a murdered human, or Cowsmasher actually killed the cow on purpose with it's hands that are now damaged, or this is a malfunctioning farm assistant, or anything more interesting than watching hipsters talk about their vapid sex friend arrangements.
No.1041349
>>1041341
>2nd panel
It's Jeph's Robots and their incredible Inflato-Heads again.
>I have disposed of the bovine remains
It actually kinda annoys me how Menstro flip-flops between technical terms and colloquialisms, etc. Like, it calls the cow parts "bovine remains" yet regards Faye as its "girlfriend" rather than "human companion".
And I still don't see Menstro regarding faye as much more than a "companion" - if it wants company and emotional support, fine, but with its super-autist behaviour I don't see it wanting any sexual contact at all.
Actually, the more I think about it the more it bothers me - we have here what could be the first human-AI pairing in the town (if not the world) and no-one cares or says anything about it, and they're already acting like they've been married for 10 years.
Aliens could land in this town, and they'd just go to the coffee shop.
The missing link between human and ape could walk out of the forest, and it'd just go to the coffee shop.
Though I suspect that if anyone showed up wearing a MAGA hat, all hell would break loose.
No.1041533
>>1041349
>It actually kinda annoys me how Menstro flip-flops between technical terms and colloquialisms, etc. Like, it calls the cow parts "bovine remains" yet regards Faye as its "girlfriend" rather than "human companion".
We're seeing QC Decharacterization Syndrome in real time again. Remember how Faye used to never use contractions, Hanners was actually obsessive, I forget which other characters had traits that Jeph sanded off but you get the idea. In another few months Menstro will be protesting for the ability to get an abortion just to remind people that she's a robot and that Jeph is a good goy.
No.1041534
>>1041533
Right, remember when Marten was a transphobic pig?
No.1041542
>>1041533
Faye also used to occasionally slip into a Georgian accent.
No.1041550
>>1041533
The only shocking thing is that it took this long. IPP was almost instant, and the last thing he tried to push died a crib death before it even had a chance to develop a character to ruin.
No.1041567
>>1041533
Props for keeping head proportions consistent with what Jeph does.
No.1041589
>>1041533
>I forget which other characters had traits that Jeph sanded off
Pintsize used to be a careless party animal that had shame in the negative digits and shit-talked everyone into submission. But then he 'DARED' to say something to the Holy Tranny and he got neutered on the spot.
No.1041597
>>1041534
I miss Raven. she was fun.
No.1041627
>>1041597
>she was fun
Probably why she was dropped.
No.1041631
Nomination for worst QC strip of all time.
No.1041632
>>1041597
Comfortable with her sexuality and not against using it to have mutual fun. How regressive.
No.1041645
>>1041631
>Why is she spraying lubricant into her eyes?
>Because I flashed her my tits
>MAKE IT GO AWAY
Also: She's wasting product right after being concerned that she was a nuisance.
No.1041653
>>1041631
>It's gonna sound corny
Heh, yeah. A combat robot asks to have its memories removed, fights to the death for a living, and is allegedly mentally abused on a daily basis and falls in love with a human who tried to help it recover said memories. THAT old chestnut.
More of Jeph's moving dialogue…
>It's emotional because i say it is! Look - a character is crying! That means I'm right!
No.1041654
>>1041653
Oh, shit. I just realised Jeph probably added the *and so* panel because he genuinely had no idea how to explain Faye falling in love with a robot, literally overnight.
No.1041658
>>1041654
He started with the eyes, and realised that his characters are hollow puppets without soul.
No.1041703
For the 3900th special Jeph gives us a 24-bit PNG that isn't 120 KB and a white panel that isn't totally white. Soak it up, boys, this is what it means to luxury.
Also, Jeph\'s done for the year.
No.1041705
>>1041703
>She's a jerk,
Ah yes, such a jerk for trying to shut down the illegal fighting ring which Faye and Menstro ultimately escaped from.
Jeph's making his robots look incredibly dangerous, here. First a cow gets completely burst because a robot walks into it or something, and now a very large, heavy robot stamps through a crate of bananas that's almost impossible to miss and hits another robot with such force that they crack the pavement.
That could easily have been a mother with a baby in a pram, Jeph.
Or worse - a genderlfuid, pre-op, demisexual.
No.1041707
>>1041703
I called this in the previous thread. Admittedly I said May not Roko, but I said a classically feminine looking robot was going to get mangled in an accident.
Second half of my prediction was: the robosexual chop shop rebuilds her from the ground up despite how they always complain about expensive materials and no business, giving her the amorphous toad body Jeph seems to like now. Then the whole cast talks for several strips about how horny they are for her.
Get ready boys.
No.1041720
>>1041705
It also wholly supported Fayes redacted story about how she reprogrammed Menstro to enjoy her company while it was under repair in said underground fighting ring. And let them both walk free when it was shut down despite both being wholly complicit in its operation and profiting off it. "Our kind of jerk" seems to mean easily emotionally manipulated, since the blue dykebot managed the same thing
No.1041743
>>1041705
>baby in a pram
Jeph would just crack a Command-Option-P-R joke to reset the dead baby. And, honestly, I probably would have laughed.
No.1041807
>>1041703
Pose shift from panel 3 to 4 makes no sense.
>>1041707
I'm expecting more along the lines of Roko being mildly inconvenienced and that alone will be played like it's hilarious.
No.1041870
>>1041703
>Inb4 Roko gets a male chassis and triggers the fuck out of the tranny
No.1041876
If Copbot just gets a new chassis after this, hopefully that'll trigger the tranny into a screaming rage.
No.1041944
>>1041870
>>1041876
Jeph isn't capable of writing or drawing human emotions so Clarence will just say "you're my hero" if that happens.
No.1041958
>>1041944
Even if the character is 100% hunky dory and not ruffled at all, his forums would break their overburdened legs in a rush to find this month's trendy fake suicide attempt device.
No.1041973
>>1034612
>>she's talking to a little girl or something
actually it's a boy
a little boy
Here's the original pic
No.1042017
>>1041973
That is terrifying
No.1042018
>>1042017
no it is beatutiful and natural
No.1042127
>>1042120
>relatively fit compared to the rest of the cast with strong thighs in tight garments
Alright, how long before the forum throws a hissy fit?
No.1042167
>>1042127
Maybe he hasn't got the memo yet that "athletic build" has been redefined as a woman fat enough to sit on a man where he can't get up.
No.1042170
>>1042120
>unlcear
it's not hard to proofread your trash, jeph, how bad can you be
No.1042220
>>1042167
>Complaining that having thighs is bad sci-fi
This is real-world applied neuroscience compared to the other shit Jeph is doing here.
No.1042265
>>1042167
>total androgyny…like Dr. Manhattan
Yes my pretty, having any amount of muscle tone means you're following gender roles too much, unlike the invincible, bodybuilder supergenius with a glowing cock.
No.1042325
>>1042167
Why did these faggots downvote one of their own?
>There exist features and fashion choices which are particular to one sex more than the other
Ah, that'll be it.
No.1042332
>>1042167
>Like Dr. Manhattan
The Alphachad who cheated on his girlfriend with an underaged super?
Also, Merry Christmas lads. Keep the hate alive.
No.1042333
>>1042332
Yes, that androgynous, sexless god who has left his humanity behind while having broad shoulders, a constantly exposed penis, and making emotional decisions.
Merry Christmas to you too, fellow hatemonger
No.1042406
Have a reverse-bukake Christmas.
No.1042407
No.1042408
>>1042406
>Sexbot cleans itself after use
No.1042410
>>1042408
I have a cousin who said he would never buy a sexbot unless it could clean itself. I'm inclined to agree with him. When DO we get sexbots anyway? I could make use of a maid in my home who's down for sex whenever I need it while keeping both the place AND herself clean. Technology should almost be here, right?
No.1042414
>>1042410
The femimists who totally don't need no men are preemptively banning the things, so at this point it's probably more legal than technological.
No.1042415
>>1037621
Confetti is very bad and can get into a dog very easily, tranbag is an asshole.
>>1037832
>still high
>well, still has red in eyes as the only way for jeph to signal she is high
Potheads must die
>>1037857
>all those jumbled sentences
This is straight out of Paprika
>>1037860
Let me help you out there in a flashy show of my old powers
>looking through
>first one looks okay
>second one we start to descend into weird elbow positions, which could be helped if he just measured where the ribs are and just use a fucking circle to draw where the arm would come out
>sorry I'm expecting davinci from this guy
>by the third panel I can see he doesn't even measure any of his lines, since he gave marten a fucking mungo hand
>go back to the first and realize HE DIDN'T FUCKING MEASURE HIS ARMS AT ALL SO HE GAVE MARTEN A WEIRD MUNGO HAND TOO
His stomach is also way too short but we're just talking about arms right now.
>>1037951
>person being hired and the person doing the hiring can't be arsed to look each other in the eye for two seconds
FUCK
THIS IS KILLING ME
BECAUSE OF MY BUSINESSMAN AUTISM
FUCKING MAKE EYE CONTACT
FUCK THEM WITH YOUR EYES
PENETRATE THEM WITH YOUR GAZE
>I test sex toys
>yes why are you telling me this
>I MEAN I DON'T USE THEM MYSELF BA-BA-BAKA
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRNNNNGGGGHHHH
>we're funded by donations
Is it a nonprofit? Because you can still provide a salary if you are funded by donations, and if it's a nonprofit that just means the company head can't store away all the money he makes from the business, it would have to go outward to other places as well as employees.
>we're funded by donations
>but we're in a highrise building
>How did you get the funds to buy this place
I feel like Jeph has NO CONCEPT OF THE ADULT WORLD
WHICH IS EXTREMELY APPARENT
>>1038200
>they both stood up and thotbot has approached
>Oh god I hope the jew nose dissuades her from rape
>announcing your weird fetishes to the person who is trying to hire you
This is why women, even robot women, should not be in charge of anything.
>>1038361
>let's start over
>hey but seriously let me fuck you with a croissant
>>1038743
>two robots having as mild a conversation as a moon landing conspiracy
Aren't they like, way in advanced to our reality? I know everyone's got the brain of a koala and somehow that led to discovering AI, but now the AI has tiny brains that are contemplating a fake moon landing? Would they not have explored more of the galaxy, or made several trips to the moon by now? What the actual fuck?
And don't think I didn't notice the poster in the elevator, that puppo from earlier is definitely going to be a robit.
>>1038774
It would just be a shitty nier and I would probably have an autism overload from it.
>>1038849
>la li lu le looo
NO
STOP IT
NOT METAL GEAR TOO
YOU BASTARD
Also what is entanglement
>>1038986
She's gonna fuck the bread in the stores room.
>>1039214
Menstro is getting worse and worse, she used to be a prime amazon and now she looks like a red fae.
>>1039293
>corpse witch
what an awful name for a character.
>>1039674
How did I know that it would be a nonprofit
and how did I know that he doesn't know what a nonprofit is?
Not even gonna touch the shit about menstro's past, that's a whole fuckshow
>>1040115
>we don't need more bodies back there
SAILORS
IT'S FUCKING SAILORS
COB'S GONNA GET MA-
oh wait
whew.
>>1040400
>noprofit for AI rights
what the fuck even is that? That's not a fucking job, that's a hashtag, what the fuck
>>1041183
>cop bot can't handle cow guts
jesus fucking christ
>>1041703
>All that character build up
>DED
yeah I expected as much, it's great to be back
No.1042420
>>1042416
lol, as if anyone who can actually view a .onion address is gonna be fooled by that
No.1042432
>>1042410
We're getting close. Body balancing, facial animations, conversation processing, and skin replication get better every year. Even artificial wombs that can grow children derived from one person's DNA are fast approaching. Soon, we'll have nearhuman companions who are functionally similar to the robots in Questionable Content, except they'll be designed by professionals and programmed to act like real people.
No.1042517
Imagine actually giving Jeph money and getting this stale, effortless shit in return. Even Reddit questions it.
No.1042519
>>1042517
Though, like always, the forum thinks every strip is fantastic.
No.1042537
>>1042517
She made fucking thermite.
No.1042587
>>1042517
>would need something to motivate me to choose him
I fucking hate it when people ask such stupid questions.
It's simple - if you need to ask other people for reasons to pledge, you're clearly not that fucking invested in the first place.
>>1042519
These people are so easily amused it's almost disturbing.
I know lefties favour doxing people and trying to get them fired for having the wrong political opinions, but I'd be interested to see what would happen if these people's employers were made aware of how emotionally volatile their employees are.
If anyone genuinely burst out laughing from a QC strip. I wouldn't trust them to organise a raffle, never mind anything that might seriously impact the life of a human being.
I'd actually rather employ someone who believed in fairies.
No.1042727
>>1042706
Really, really lazy.
No.1042795
>Thread is so old we lost the OP picture
Funny.
>>1042706
Jeph actually got lazier. Unbelivable, yet here we are.
No.1042850
Now he's just taking the piss.
No.1042851
>>1042706
>>1042850
I actually went to his website for the first time in years to verify that these are real, and they are.
Jeph's scraped all the way through the bottom of the barrel, down into the ground, and hit bedrock.
I think we might be witnessing early warning signs of the next stabbening.
No.1042863
>>1042850
Aw, christ. He's given Marten the autism mouth.
No.1043042
I want Jeph to be the person Bob Ross knows he can be, and stop being a lazy faggot that hates straight white males and politically incorrect fun. I want him to write something enjoyable, I know he can! He's already leages ahead of my drawing skills, which I completely lost, so why doesn't he use it properly? Goddammit, Jeph, be the person Bob Ross knows you can be, because I sure as fuck can't
No.1043115
>>1042873
Proof that no comic is unOmit-able.
No.1043118
It has two different colored robo-socks, how quirky!
No.1043121
>>1043118
>She has 2048 sisters
>That means there are 2049 of them
>2048 is a common computer number because of squares of 2
>2049 is not
Unless Melon is "number zero" or something equally retarded, this is yet another mistake on Jeph's part, and an obvious oversight that could have been avoided with an ounce of effort.
Also, the blank white with body socks look is retarded. If this is representing pure machine communication, then the chassis and body language are inappropriate. If this is Lemon's simulated "coping space", then she is the worst therapist ever.
Also also, jeph is now on the hook for 2047 other fruit themed AI names.
No.1043122
>>1043118
2048 sisters makes a total set of 2049, ruining the joke Jeph you fucking innumerate.
Also the fact that they have her bread fetish on file implies AIs are remotely observed at all times, presumably just by a running cloud copy of their sensory input. I'd find this humorous except it means some server rack somewhere has high def footage of Menstro fisting Faye.
No.1043124
>>1043121
It'd be one thing if they were both wearing the onesie, since it could be explained away as being some quick and dirty setup for explaining what happened in bad situations like this, but if they can have the yellow bot in a sundress and socks, there's no reason for it to look like that.
I'm sure Jeph could get well over 2,050 names of fruits by just looking at his Twitter, though.
No.1043125
Is 2,048 that common? An unsigned 11-bit number would run 0 to 2047, but where do people use 11-bit numbers?
No.1043128
>>1043125
It's not especially common, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than 2049
No.1043187
>>1043121
>>1043122
It's more like a linguistic failure since he probably meant "I'm one of 2048 sisters." But even if delivered correctly, it's not particularly witty.
No.1043201
>>1043125
I'm assuming there are 2048 built for purpose, not that there is an allocation limitation. There is no way Jeph thought of this. If he did he'd probably use a number like 255, 65535, or 4294967295. And it'd be funnier if she said "up to" number of sisters and make it an actual joke about allocation and uninitialized variables. But Jeph doesn't know anything about this. If he did, he would have built a scheduler into his website 15 years ago.
No.1043237
>>1043125
>>1043201
It's because he played 2048 back when people were going retarded over it.
No.1043281
I was digging around in my archives and rediscovered this comic I drew as a love letter to our old shenanigans around here. I used to create OC for this general back in late 2015-early 2016. I drew a few of the covers (the credit of which was misattributed to the original coverfag) and did a couple guest edits in December 2015 when Editfag had to hang up his hat.
Unfortunately, I never ended up finishing. I wanted to complete the comic before ever showing anyone, but as 2019 rolls in I have come to accept that I will probably never revisit it. It would be a waste to never share it, so here it is.
You might recognize the art from that one sinister drawing of Jeph in the imgur OC archives, which I posted here as a teaser almost three years ago. I planned for it to span ~20 pages or so, detailing the strange dream Editfag once told us about: Editfag, presently on the lam, has been cornered in a motel by Jeph with a shotgun, who plans to put him in kangaroo court for hurting his fee fees. They end up getting trapped by a blizzard and are forced to become a weird odd couple. Pic related for the original greentext. In the end I only ended up completing 4 pages. I have a very VERY rough and unfinished fifth in psd form, but I promise if it were anything worth looking at I would have posted it.
I hope you anons enjoy, and Happy New Year.
No.1043296
>>1043118
Why is roko actually wearing anything? I always thought the robots wore clothing to at least attempt to blend in, or for uniforms. Appearing in a body sock in its own mindscape makes absolutely no sense at all to me.
Maybe Jeph got some criticism for showing tits a couple of times in Alice Grove so he doesn't even want to risk naked robots, just in case.
No.1043314
>>1043281
>Dedicated drawfag is back
2019 really is going to be bigger and crazier than ever, isn't it?
No.1043324
>>1043118
>2048 sisters…
If handstab care a wit about holding to computer bs, he should have used 2047, for a total of 2048 sisters (inclusive).
Whereas the phrasing implies 2049, which is a power of two plus one.
No.1043326
>>1043281
nice, I look forward to the future of this comic. If continues.
No.1043352
>>1043281
No authority on skill but I love the style. Is that your standard or did you play up the sharp edges and heavy shading for atmosphere?
No.1043398
>>1043281
That's genuinely more engaging than the vast majority of american comics these days. A shame if you don't finish it, but don't forget to enjoy doing what you do first and foremost. Thanks for the gift !
No.1043468
>>1043281
I remember the teaser you'd posted and am glad that you're still around.
I've hardly posted during the last couple years, but I too am here forever.
I miss Editfag.
No.1043474
Am I supposed to feel sad or something? The chassis wasn't a particularly high-end model and the things are available for purchase at the mall.
No.1043475
>>1043474
>AIs discriminate against other AIs based on occupation
>AIs can fall out of practice if they stop performing a function
>Something human sized weighs "several tons"
>Menstro is strong enough to lift "several tons"
>AIs become so attached to their chassis that they can get depression if one breaks
No.1043487
>>1043474
If they can't be bothered to even put a stock floral pattern on the retarded robot onesie, why did they spend the time and effort to make them corporeal to one another? Wouldn't not being able to hit someone who woke them up to effectively tell them they died make it easier to explain?
No.1043492
>>1043474
>nuclear reactors get depressed
you see, this would be funny if Jeph knew anything about reactor operators.
Quick selfpost so you can laugh about how unworldly this man is
>nuclear reactor technician is a job within today's nuclear powered navy
>being a very smart person I almost became a reactor tech, but I'm a shitty test taker so I didn't even get pushed through to try it
>hear whispers throughout the bootcamp and schooling period that it is not a good choice for anyone
>get actually into the navy and meet the nukes as we call them
>they are the most dry and bland people ever
>all of their jokes are extremely lowbrow and bottom of the barrel while also maintaining a very specific niche that unless you know what they are talking about specifically you will never understand
>they are all in their own way a very unique kind of weird
>in that sense they are all the same person, as though they were all given the exact same depressed AI and were given their old lives as a way to make themselves seem more normal, like it was an afterthought
>the nukes are also always doing the shittiest, grimiest jobs because their equipment is the equivalent of a high maintenance dog that shits and vomits all over itself if you aren't looking directly at it
>on top of that the process for making sure the rest of the boat is safe is to shut the door to nuke land and lock it so that the casualty remains in that space in certain instances, so they are all kinda waiting for their deaths while they work back there
>they always have the most paperwork
>they always have the most maintenance to do
>they always have a fuckload of shit dumped on them by the rest of the boat because we need to do things with our equipment which requires their equipment
>the reason for the way they are is the environment they work in and the world they come from, which was a year and a half school that teaches them to be perfect at being a nuke
>they are taught all about the reactor and how much they suck
>also a lot of them try out suicide because it's like going to super college straight out of grade school
>it would make the most sense for a fucking nuclear reactor, which is around a bunch of downer fucks who are always shit on, would be depressed
>"Lol no one wants to invite a reactor technician AI to parties, that's why it's depressed"
If anything, an AI would be less inclined to being depressed as a RT because they would be able to easily handle the quick processing required to solve any problems that come with reactors, which boils down to haha keeping the rock from overheating too much and keep the reactions from stopping when you want them going.
FUCK
No.1043516
>>1043474
>we're in a mindscape where nothing physical matters, like in certain scenes of the Matrix and Dredd
>you're still able to pick me up and shake me around to force me to answer your questions
Jeph didn't even have to think about this himself, watching either of those movies should illustrate what's wrong with this.
No.1043517
>>1043492
The idea of a downer mopey nuke tech and his naive AI reactor core who takes the tech's morose worldview as "normal" would make for a pretty interesting story.
No.1043518
>>1043517
The thing is it would have to be written by the nukes, and listening to any of their jokes is like an actual manifestation of vogon poetry.
No.1043525
>>1043474
Since everyone else pointed out the obvious problems with this shit already I'm going to go deep lore autism on it.
>For instance, the extra reinforcement you got as part of your law enforcement package kept your processors and memory cores entirely intact.
Except that's fucking WRONG, Jeph! During the illegal robot fight arena arc it was specifically mentioned that all AI's memory core is stored away in a nigh indestructible black box. This made it so that any and all damage was only superficial. (Thus raising the question on why it was even illegal, probably tax evasion and licensing but Jeph isn't even smart enough for that explanation.) And remember that was for illegal under the table nobody pit fighters. You seriously going to sit here and tell us that such easily available technology isn't used for the police force, or all other AI's for that matter, as well? Fucking hell, this is a new low.
No.1043528
>>1043474
>Your body is completely unrecoverable
Oh well, guess they'd better just make another one! Gee, it's just as well Roko is a robot, and so can get a new body on a whim (as Jeph has demonstrated before) and not a mere human who would have instantly been killed.
>unrecoverable
Is that even a word? It brings to mind that Roko's body is lost somewhere, and so unable to be recovered. Maybe a more appropriate term would be "irreparable", "unsalvagable" or even simply, "damaged beyond repair"?
The major drama here seems to be little more than a minor setback.
No.1043530
>>1043528
The inconvenience is on the level of having your 10 year old car hit by a street sweeper and waiting for the insurance company payout.
No.1043578
>>1043530
Naturally, the twist ought to be that Roko wants a body, Crushbot wants to give her a body, but page 9 paragraph 2 subsection 7 Addendum 1 states that the insurance company is off the hook for whatever reason. Now she has to plug into a toy and wait for one of her newfound friends to assist her, thus deepening her relationship with the cast and giving her a legitimate reason to pursue employment again. Maybe this can even be twisted so that we finally see that discrimination that we keep hearing about. It writes itself, but only if you stop and think about your world for half a second.
No.1043594
>>1043578
The insurance part wouldn't even be hard to write. The agent could just say the event is so absurd that it's considered an "act of God", which her policy doesn't cover.
No.1043595
>>1043468
BAGGYFAG! Holy shit man, I thought you were dead! The band is getting back together folks!
No.1043612
>>1043595
We're all gonna make it, brah.
No.1043616
>>1043612
All we need is Editfag's reanimated corpse.
No.1043618
>>1043616
You can't reanimate something that's been dragged into the yawing void between here and there.
No.1043621
>I could put you in sleep mode for a whole
Jeph heard your cries and ditched Roko's socks…even though that makes no sense whatsoever.
No.1043622
>>1043621
>Melon has access to an important server room
>A level of access that lets her sit in it and be obnoxious for hours on end without being productive
I don't understand. How did this arc get more retarded?
No.1043635
>>1043621
>AI use "sleep mode" to "subconsciously" process information
See this is what I don't get. If Jeph just wanted to write about humans, why did he include and subsequently expand the role of robots in his story? Seems like that's just deliberately exposing your flaws as a writer.
No.1043638
>>1043635
Because writing about robots lets him get around the bitching from his fanbase.
No.1043646
>>1043635
It works pretty well if she's threatening her, since running without your upper thought functions was one of the AI prison punishments that May described.
No.1043647
>>1043646
Actually, the more I think about it, the worse it seems. Her sentence boils down to
>Move to a new mindspace
>Suffer for an undetermined length of time
>Mindlessly process images and sound files 1:1 in real time for 2 hours
No.1043648
>>1043638
Y'know, the fact his fans are willing to forgive this obtusely vapid characterization of robots and supposedly artificial intelligence but throw hissy fits over fat characters being sexualized never ceases to make me wonder why Jeph still engages in this abusive relationship tango with them
No.1043649
>>1043635
It's well-established that "sleep mode" with computers means that power still runs to RAM but that processing is halted. I get that this is fiction, but if he's going to write artificial lifeforms and claim he's doing hard sci-fi to boot, he needs to at least understand and account for the basics.
It seems a minor thing, and it was meant to be a punchline, but the most deflating thing to me was this navigation around the implications of being able to reference unlimited knowledge. Even in a context where you expect these things to act like glorified Alexas, you get defensive, egotistical sass.
No.1043660
>>1043648
Because his fat hipster ass has no savings, no assets, no investments, no skills despite essentially living as a professional NEET with copious free time to learn said skills, and a twenty-year wide hole in his resume. It's dance for his supper and let dangerhaired genderqueer fatties throw peanus at him, or go stand in the unemployment line.
No.1043662
>>1043660
That was supposed to read "peanuts" but fuck it.
No.1043685
>>1043660
Most of his assets are studio gear, which sells on the secondhand market for 40 cents on the dollar. I actually have no idea what the market is for guitars with prime numbers of strings but I'll bet it's depressed compared to regular four and six string guitars.
These kinds of guys often think running their own businesses is an asset if/when it comes time to go back to the job market, but employers are looking for people with predictable packaged skillsets and not wannabe consultants that nitpick how every aspect is different from when they ran their own business and who end up attempting to take over, which is usually how it goes down.
No.1043699
>>1043685
>secondhand guitars
The market for secondhand guitars is weird, at least from what I've seen. Unique models like a seven-string might go for a lot, but the problem is finding a buyer. Your only potential customers are serious collectors or serious musicians. And no serious musician is going to pay a premium for a secondhand instrument when there are whole companies that offer such unique instruments, so get ready to knock 50% off your asking price easy. Collectors only care about guitars if they have a history behind them or are part of a limited run from a big brand name; I'm betting neither apply to Jeph's axe.
Jeph's history of running his own studio might, I say might, work in his favor if another big studio is looking to start up a new franchise operation and needs a general manager quick. I don't know how successful his studio business is, but I'm betting not that successful, so he's going to look at some stiff competition if it comes to applying to be a glorified store manager.
My advice to Jeph would be this: hire a ghost artist to draw your comic for you, that way you only need to worry about writing the script. Then throw all your effort into 2, preferably 3, new and different comics. Alice Grove tanked and tanked hard, true. But that's the nature of the game, you can't just bet everything on one title, especially not one that's been going since 2003. The Plucky Kids Vs. Evil Monsters genre is big now, and we know you can write at least passable 20-something Hipster Romance; why not try a story about some college kids fighting ghosts or something? Scooby-doo that shit.
But he wont', because the safe and easy route is made for fat cunts like Jeph.
No.1043705
I should have vocalized my prediction that there'd be a hitch with getting an identical body, most likely retail discontinuation. I probably thought it was so predictable to be stupid to fully consider. I guess in this "post scarcity" world there are no such things as custom orders, third-shift manufacturing, or eBay.
No.1043706
>>1043699
>the problem is finding a buyer
Yeah, that's the problem I anticipated. I'd expect the common potential buyer reaction is something like, "That's so cool…but I don't know how to play a seven string. I just want a regular guitar." Like you implied, anyone looking for such a thing is seriously into the market and probably doesn't need to save a few bucks on a non-commodity item. Meanwhile all you need to do to quickly move a regular guitar is price it slightly below the going rate, probably. Also, I imagine the buyer's market to be mostly teenagers and mid-life crisis dads so they're just looking for something familiar.
As far as I know, Jeph's studio is just a room in his house. I don't think he actually runs a business with it; he just uses it to produce an album once every few years. Even if it was a business, how much could he do with a room in his house in Halifax?
>hire a ghost artist to draw your comic for you, that way you only need to worry about writing the script
Yeah, I thought he should have sublet the comic years ago, a la something like Garfield or Penny Arcade. He could remain as a "big picture" advisor, which is probably all he wants to do anyway.
>throw all your effort into 2, preferably 3, new and different comics
Really any kind of diversification would do. QC can't last forever and Jeph will be unemployable in the end. No one is going to hire a middle-aged illustrator starting all over who doesn't have a formal education and doesn't even fully grasp basic technical concepts like Photoshop layers. I can't imagine what bad habits he's picked up that would make integrating into a team more of a hassle than it's worth.
No.1043711
>>1043706
It would almost certainly be a better investment to rent the room in his house than try and sell it as a studio if that's the case. On the success of it though, it's 100% funded by hipster welfare and fools throwing handfuls of money at empty promises. You tell me if that's success or not, because I honestly can't decide.
No.1043712
>>1043711
It's "successful" in the way a small-time drug dealer is or those guys who play poker all day to grind out $50. Jeph's making more money than this but the fulfillment is on the same level.
No.1043732
>>1043706
>Also, I imagine the buyer's market to be mostly teenagers and mid-life crisis dads so they're just looking for something familiar.
Nail on the fucking head. Even among the serious musicians I know, I've never met someone who owned more than three. A guitar is like a wife to these guys; you don't just trade her up for a new model on a whim.
>studio is just a room in his house
If that's true, I wouldn't even count it as an asset. More like an expensive hobby, like scuba. Sure that tank and depth gauge and all that shit is worth something but you can't really call it an investment.
No.1043742
>>1043706
He could even have those 3 extra comics be in the same QC universe. Have the "Main" comic follow Marten, another follow Faye, another follow Coffee of Doom, and the 4th follow the Bakery. He gets maximum benefit from work already done, and can make his fan base go nuts with crossover issues.
No.1043745
>>1043742
It's basically a Jeph version of the Walkyverse.
No.1043779
>>1043705
Does the second-hand market just not exist for robot chassis? They don't make 69 Firebirds anymore either, but I can still buy one.
No.1043783
>>1043779
It's even more basic than that. We figured out that their price is comparable to a game console and Momo's shopping trip established that there are so many chassis available that there are mall outlet stores that sell them. It's basically the same as saying that you can't get an XboxOne because they made the XboxOneS and are now making the XboxOneX.
No.1043839
>>1043783
>Momo's shopping trip
Didn't that 'arc' also establish that AI's really just consider their chassis to be more like an expensive suit or a car than an actual body? Sure, you'd be choked up if yours broke and you couldn't get a replacement, but it's not the end of the world.
No.1044061
>>1031300
>Clarence's face
Jepff is in love with him, isn't he?
No.1044062
>>1041631
Strips like this are what led to Prime's ass cancer.
No.1044071
>>1044068
Here's something ridiculous that I just thought about for two seconds; why would robots envision themselves in a metaphysical cyberspace as their primary bodies? I know it's that thing where you as a human will astral-project into a form that is most like yours, but it makes no sense for any of the information; this is, in fact, a great time for both entities to take no form at all and carry out a conversation that is purely text.
>each page would read like a text document with the two characters interacting as if on a chat-log
>mention of melonballer could be described and then a quick panel of watching it happen, then right back to text
>it's simple enough and more cost effective for handstab since he can't be arsed to draw up anything good
>from a computer perspective it makes entirely more sense since running a program to create a pointless virtual space is is just a waste of money all around
There was an easy and fun way to do this and he chose to make it not make sense
I'm also betting purple nurple will have no problems fitting into her new body and there will be no character development from it. Speaking of characters developing, initial D had an episode where our main character raced his shitty little car so hard that the engine fucked itself and blew out, so his dad used his savings to buy a new one. You know what came of that? He fucking had a whole series of episodes where he couldn't figure out why the fuck his car wasn't handling the same; he even learned to ask about it and find out more about the internals of a car, unlocking the hidden potential of the engine by changing out some of the parts and unlocking his own potential as a racer. There will be maybe 5 strips dedicated to bread fucker and dealing with her new body, where there was so much potential to say, "hey we have to give you an older, cheaper model because you lost your benefits when you quit the force," and then follow the adventures of a character who now has to deal with the musculature timing and limb strength and speed of a completely new form. It's gonna be trash.
No.1044074
>>1044068
I really hope the new ass stamp makes her a rape target.
No.1044079
>>1044074
It'll probably be some generic tramp stamp that Jeph will forget about and/or cover up at every opportunity to avoid drawing it
No.1044082
>>1044071
putting her in a chinese knockoff body would have also somewhat fit in with the plot he tried to establish, that the breadfucker is starting to empathize with the poor downtrodden convicted felons by letting it walk a mile in their shoes. But that would have required several seconds of establishing a plot.
No.1044087
>>1044082
>character begins empathizing with criminals
>situation where there is an inexcusable crime that leads her down the path of lawful evil due to the belief that crime is not good, no matter how honest a cause it may seem, since it just leads to more crime
>the only way to bring it to a halt is to expunge the criminals
>she develops this twisted world view and becomes a central antagonist
fuck that though, this body crush will amount to filler.
No.1044108
>>1044068
>And… and I'll still be me?
Why would an AI ever think this? It knows what it is.
Maybe Jeph has forgot that Roko is a robot and not just a human with an odd skin colour.
No.1044194
>>1044087
>>1044082
Maybe she'll lose her Bread Fetish because it was a hardware issue with her olfactory sensors that was wired to send data to her pleasure nodule in response to baked goods.
And now she has to re-discover her love of breadfucking, one loaf at a time.
No.1044254
>>1044251
"Minor cosmetic tweaks" apparently meant a full two inch overbite to complete the horse face
No.1044281
>>1044278
Haha, nice job with the VFAT error. I wonder if bots have a backup copy or if it's all gone once data corrupts.
No.1044289
>>1044251
So, the robots emerge from a booth with clothing?
Just as well! We can't have other robots seeing all those naughty things like nip-nops and front bottoms.
And after all that drama and worry that Roko might never be the same. It could have ended up blue, or green, or (even worse) black! Roko could have been a black man!
But no - it emerges looking pretty much exactly the same.
Drama averted!
No.1044300
>>1044251
If she keeps making that face, it'll get stuck that way.
No.1044314
>>1044251
So, they give the new body slightly more realistic ears but still with the horrible neck seal?
Maybe Jeph thinks that's the best way to tell that these pastel-skinned weirdos with flat ears are robots.
No.1044343
>>1044251
>>1041707
It appears I gave Jeph too much credit by imagining a storyline that takes more than four strips to complete and which leaves the status quo noticeably changed. My bad guys, >>1041807 is our new nostradamus.
No.1044347
No.1044361
Yeah, so attached. How pointless.
No.1044362
Bonus strip. Don't know why it's blown up like this.
>covering up as a robot
>in front of another robot
>a female robot
No.1044364
>>1044079
>>1044361
It's stamped directly on the skin and he'll never show her naked ass so he doesn't even have to design it in the first place. Wow!
No.1044365
>>1044361
This one is fine. She's giving her new chassis a superficial examination the way one would look at a new suit.
>>1044362
This one is retarded. Not only is the robot bashful about her already clothed appearance, but she's angsting about a process that she's already been through before. Not only that, but Jeph is too much of a nigger to have dropped hints about integration levels and their implications before this plot line, so we have no reason to believe that there even should be issues with piloting a new chassis. No other AI has had this issue when switching, even between radically different machines. Winslow used to be a dinky iPod, Momo was an action figure, and May went from desktop PC to fighter jet to prison to Google Glass to humanoid chassis. No discussion about attachment and integration issues aside from "getting used to it".
No.1044367
>>1044365
I'd feel differently if there wasn't this two week buildup over how much she was going to freak out over having a replacement body.
No.1044368
So when are we getting porn of Rokko being boned hard, her trampstamp saying
>Property of /co/
No.1044375
>>1044368
She likes getting choked but the retarded steam vents on her neck make it difficult
No.1044385
>>1044375
Actually they're described as "coolant vents", so what comes out is likely a solution of antirusting and antifreezing chemicals. Also fun fact, vents are typically an emergency pressure outlet for a system which is not meant to change state and thus doesn't tolerate the pressure, so that liquid is probably expensive and meant to remain in their bodies.
No.1044388
>>1044362
>what if I never adapt to this body
wait, do they not do any kind of psychotherapy to ready the mind for being in a new body? I mean, if they're going to treat them like humans, because they basically are at this point, why wouldn't they do what humans do when they lose and entire fucking limb; you have to undergo therapy to feel comfortable using a fucking prosthetic because it's not naturally apart of your body, and on top of that you will feel a phantom pain because the muscle memory in your brain is still functional while the limb itself is gone.
Basically why the fuck is she not going through robot therapy to mentally sync her mind to her new body if she feels desynced with it?
And why the hell does only her neck have a weird joint thing, wouldn't they have fixed that with newer models so you can't see the joints; her arms clearly don't have joints, because jeph is probably forgetful, but if there's that line between them still that means there's some kind of separation; the joints seem necessary if you want to switch out broken pieces so that you don't have to get a replacement synth skin for your entire body every time, but I know he wasn't thinking about that, so why is only the head easier to access?
Why?
No.1044394
>>1044362
>What if I was too integrated with my old body and I never feel normal in this one?
Well, apparently it feels normal enough in the new body that it gets real defensive about people seeing its new nipples and can't get clothed quickly enough.
>>1044365
>No other AI has had this issue when switching, even between radically different machines.
They also don't seem to mind retards jumping into their minds to fuck around, like Menstro with Emily.
All today's strip points to is Roko being seriously defective - Jeph probably wants to start some Ghost in the Shell-esque analysis of identity but all he's managed is to make Roko look like a factory reject. it leaving the police force likely made it safer for the other officers.
No.1044397
>>1044368
As soon as I find free time.
No.1044484
>>1044397
>As soon as I find free time.
Godspeed, drawfriend
No.1044519
>>1044388
Psychotherapy shouldn't even be needed, seeing as how robots can be ripped out of their bodies and trapped inside AR glasses as some form of rehabilitation, along with the aforementioned jet fighter. With the rules handstab has set up, they should be able to place themselves inside of a microwave and function fine as long as it had the setup for it. This plot line isn't thought out and makes no sense in a very long line of plots that aren't thought out and make no sense.
No.1044523
>>1044519
It's also the latest in a long line to start abruptly, totally cutting off the previous plotline while clearly being something Jeph just decided on a whim.
5 strips before the crushing everyone suddenly stops talking about how robo-ex-cop is looking for a new job and starts talking about robot bodily integration.
No.1044531
>>1044484
>>1044397
>>1044368
Attempts were made. Apologies for phoneposting.
Her stupid bird beak is a pain in the ass to draw.
No.1044647
My favorite part is how Jeph is (or by proxy though his audience is) so ideologically opposed to law enforcement because of racist bigot Trump KKK Trey Von Martin or whatever that he can't have a cop in the cast, not even as a vehicle to explore the warped opinions he holds.
No.1044714
>I'm sorry you had to witness the carnage of crushing metal
No.1044727
>>1044714
>You shut up. Nobody likes you right now and you're just gonna have to deal with that.
Fuck off, Faye, you stupid narcissistic cunt! It was an accident and poor Crushbot has been nothing but forthcoming and apologetic. Give these cunts an inch and they take a fucking mile.
No.1044753
>>1044714
The most obscene falsehood in this so far is that the insurance claim was processed, went through, and paid out in less time than it takes to pop out dents in a car door.
No.1044757
>>1044714
I don't know what kind of mood Jeph is trying to set with this fucking arc.
>Roko makes friends with the cast - first friends its had in a long time and it can now relax and be itself.
And now it's crushed flat! Haha! Bet you didn't see THAT coming, eh readers?!
>A new body which Roko may not synchronize with. Roko is close to tears with anxiety; will things ever be the same?
It's got a tramp-stamp and nippies! Haha! Look how embarassed Roko is!
>"We saw our new friend destroyed right before our eyes and we were helpless to stop it"
Haha! Let's repair the big, dumb robot who did this, RIGHT NOW! - boy he sounds dumb! Haha!
It's like Willis with his fucking kittens to disperse any emotional drama which he, himself, put in place.
No.1044774
>>1044727
So far, Crushbot is the most likable character in the whole comic.
No.1044802
>>1044753
Don't forget paid out in cash.
No.1044819
>>1044753
>>1044802
And paid to whom? I just assumed that Lesbo&Sexbot inc. would be doing the work, but they're fixing Crushbot instead.
So we have a veteran police AI that suddenly quit the force with a weak excuse. A few days later, her chassis (that was perfectly fine while doing years of police work) is completely destroyed by a random, well-insured passerby. Within 24 hours, claims are made, requests are processed, money is awarded, and the only available chassis for this maligned AI are the very expensive, brand-new versions of her old chassis, so Roko is forced to pay out a large amount of a huge settlement to an insurance approved "Bodyhub" company we know nothing about just to get up and moving.
As if this wasn't alreday highly suspect, who was it that sued Crushbot for damages? We saw the entirety of Roko's experience, and the money was already being given to her when she "woke up". What we are left to assume is that Crushbot sued himself on her behalf, since he was the only party even tangential to the incident.
If I were a detective, and I saw this chain of events unfold, I would suspect that Roko is now working for whatever insurance company Crushbot does, and part of her sign-up bonus was a big chunk of cash and a state-of-the-art chassis.
Either that, or this whole thing was a money laundering scheme, and Roko got a cut.
No.1045261
>>1045259
WHOA YOUR NEW BODY LOOKS SO GOOD
HAVE I MENTIONED I LIKE TO TRIB WITH ROBO GIRLS?
AS IN, I DO IT SO MUCH THAT I BROKE MY BED AND MIGHT GO BANKRUPT SOON
No.1045263
>>1045259
>"I was soooo worried about you!"
>So worried that I'm going to talk over you and interrupt with irrelevant exclamations until you get uncomfortable and leave
No.1045273
>>1045259
>Massively overacted emotional mood swings to cover for a lack of concern for anyone in her life
Boy, Jeph's concept of an attractive woman really is shining through here, isn't it? If I didn't know better I'd call Faye a checklist for spotting emotionally manipulative megabitches.
No.1045288
>>1045259
Looks like one of those comics designed to remind us how much of a cunt Faye is.
Why is she so shocked and relieved, anyway? Her previous job was repairing robots who constantly got smashed to bits, so wouldn't think be routine by now?
No.1045291
>>1045259
Calling it : the next plotpoint is gonna be about how Faye is making her uncomfortable over her "new body", which will be a direct allegory of transgenders who just went under the knife.
Calling it right the fuck now.
No.1045293
>>1045291
Nigger, a blind man could see that coming. You get no props for predicting a sunrise.
No.1045326
>>1045273
<spotting emotionally manipulative megabitches
>fat
>alcoholic
>chronically underemployed
>chronically leaching off others
>physically violent
>arsonist
>lesbian haircut
>overly elaborate sexual toy
And I'm sure that's just half a list. That there are still people that defend this character is mind boggling. Then the same people hate Sven forever for committing the unforgivable crime of asking a girl out that he hasn't seen in a while, not even realizing she already had a boyfriend, who was in the middle of dumping her anyway. Sven's only crime was caring about Faye beyond sportfucking her back when she was thinner and at least marginally feminine.
No.1045405
>>1045380
How long are they all going to stad there shouting at each other, do you think?
Is Jeph doing this shit because he regrets trying to set up some drama with Roko and its new body which looks the same?
What is it with these hack artists and being scared of their own works?
No.1045415
>>1045405
>What is it with these hack artists and being scared of their own works?
You just answered your own question.
No.1045423
>>1045380
>You're a COMPUTER!
Jesus fucking Christ, even jeph is acknowledging this basic, plot destroying fact now. Does he not realize that Faye's reaction to Melon is the way everyone ought to react to the retarded shit he has AIs doing all the time?
No.1045461
>>1045423
Even when we're reminded that these things are sentient computers we get deflating stuff like this: >>1043649
No.1045484
There is a workable joke here but it needs more development.
No.1045486
>>1045259
>>1045380
>>1045484
What's up with the cacti lately?
No.1045536
>>1045486
Easiest plant to draw? Hipster aesthetic?
No.1045541
>>1045484
One thing that might have helped is if it wasn't wearing it's left shoe
No.1045542
>>1045484
Has rokocop detached its legs to get into that position, or are the seats on that couch just really long?
It looks like it's taking up maybe 6 inches of space.
And I don't really get why or how rokocop can snort with laughter; it actually has nasal cavities? Maybe it's part of the design to imitate humans (but with pastel skin), but overall I don't really see the point in this strip beyond Jeph stalling for time while he figures out how to continue the emotional drama without scaring himself.
No.1045561
>>1045541
My problem is that it took a declaration as an imperative. If this is truly a programmatic device and not simply a recolored human, it would never mix the two. It's literally the difference between a variable and a function.
>>1045542
This whole thing is stalling for time as Jeph grows older waiting for the spark to come back.
No.1045604
>>1045561
I'll take this opportunity to remind the thread since a lot of people seem to forget that Jeph's AI are black box magic created by accident and nobody knows how they work.
I grant you there's no lazier or stupider way do write something like this, but that's Jeph for you.
No.1045607
>>1045604
Wait wait wait it's literally a crystal brain out of a shitty 80's scifi movie? Fuck that's dumb.
No.1045626
I was just thinking today about one of my biggest gripes with this comic: inconsistent tone and no baseline mood. It wants to be serious touching but refuses to budge on the last-panel punchline. This is not new information and was criticized as far back as Marten cracking jokes as Faye solemnly recounted her dad's suicide, but it seems even worse now. At least back then I could take characters seriously, even Faye! Now Roko is sad, who gives a shit. Jeph obviously doesn't.
No.1045627
>>1045626
>who gives a shit. Jeph obviously doesn't.
If he did he'd bother to color in copbot's eyes in panel 3.
No.1045650
>>1045626
Why is it drinking? have any other robots shown a need to eat or drink?
>I don't fee llike me anymore
So, the big drama is that a fucking robot will be "feeling bad" and pulling a sad face?
Very crafty of Jeph to make all the conflict internal so he doesn't need to draw anything beyond a sad face.
I mean for fuck's sakes, "Muuuh, I feel bad :(" was barely enough to pad out a 15-minute cartoon in the early 90s, before the cast gather round to sing a song or some shit.
I have no doubt that Jeph himself thinks this body-swap of an AI is on par with Mengele-esque medical experiments.
No.1045662
>>1045650
most times the feel bad would have to come from a place of conflict in their personal life; the side character who is usually considered a nuisance does something worse than they usually do or they have a fight with someone or they get sad
>side character is sad
>antagonist takes a moment to use this moment of weakness by telling the character that it's not worth it to go on being part of the crew
>everyone will suddenly start looking for their runaway friend
>antagonist will usually have that friend trapped away and lay another trap to capture the rest of the heroes
>grand scheme falls apart because side character uses their incredibly specific skill set to free everyone
>they beat the bad guy and the resolution is that the side character will stay part of the crew since they're not really that useful but suddenly are high in their britches because everyone was reminded to complement them on having a strange and slightly useful quirk
but they have no central antagonist and this is just a soap opera drawn poorly, so there's nothing to gain from it.
>Why is it drinking? have any other robots shown a need to eat or drink?
You must be new here
for one, no one knows, it's never explained
second, yes, no, maybe.
No.1045672
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>>1045650
Menstro sniffs coffee for an out-of-body experience, Otherwise, these things are so non-robotic that they apparently drink coffee.
>>1045662
>side character uses their incredibly specific skill set to free everyone
My all-time favorite instance of this was Captain N: The Game Master where Mother Brain brainwashed an entire town via printed messages, but it didn't work on the illiterate side character. Yes, they found a way to make illiteracy into a super power. Bizarrely, the moral of the story was that he needed to learn to read, because that's the first thing I'd want to do after saving the town with my illiteracy.
>this is just a soap opera drawn poorly
It's worse: soap operas have antagonists, rivalries, and dramatic tension in general. Whenever Jeph attempts to do something like this it gets so stupid that even his trufans tell him to stop, like with the Menstro's Memories and Hannelore's Assistant arcs.
No.1045702
>>1045604
>It is safe to watch an AI brain grow from it's basic units
>But we'll be her understand it
Okay
No.1045718
>>1045702
Why are a bunch of kike kids rummaging through garbage?
No.1045719
>>1045718
jewish people like money and finding ways to not spend money
No.1045723
I wonder if Jeph thought this was an exciting reveal.
No.1045724
>>1045723
>knocks
>door is already opened past roko through some means of unholy bastardization of euclidean space.
No.1045726
>>1045723
Am I slow, or didn't anyone point out already how she's named after that dumb thought experiment?
No.1045732
>>1045726
Yeah, it was pointed out when the bot was introduced.
No.1045737
>>1045723
>sighing robot
Oh, it feels tired and weary, huh? All that exertion must have left it aching and weak, right?
I don't really get the deal with this trannybot or whatever it is. So yeah, it's already established as a Deus Ex Machina so why would I care about anything it does when so little of any consequence has happened since the lost memories plot?
No.1045763
>>1045737
I can only assume that Machine ex machina is somehow responsible for how retarded this body replacement saga has been, and that Jeph's "explanation" is going to increase the stupidity threefold.
No.1045771
>>1045737
Because it's a MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER which makes everything EXCITING
No.1045773
>>1045763
The only way it's not going to become much worse is if he rips off Futurama whole cloth and whatever bullshit he's planning on having his characters explain happened off-camera is Rokocop being installed in its new body. It's actually kind of depressing that the least bad wrap up I can think of for this is an "It was all just a dream!" hook.
No.1045776
>>1045773
I still maintain that the best ending for this whole comic would be a smash cut to the original art style, with Marten looking at a monitor with current comic happenings, and him turning to Pintsize and criticizing his taste in "cheerful porn".
No.1045778
>>1045723
She's going to join the robo-not!Secret Service that's totally not like being a cop because they're the good guys.
No.1045783
>>1045778
Not the cops but the justice cops. Totally different.
No.1045807
>>1045783
The justice cops that are above petty things like due process, jurisdiction, and warrants. All of those things tailor made to harm the poor felons. Which is why it's not longer a cop.
No.1045823
>>1045807
Well you ALWAYS listen to the victim, that's what being a justice cop is all about. All that other stuff is put there by the structural institutional oppression frameworks.
No.1045834
>>1045778
>>1045783
What I'm hearing is she's going to shoot Marten's dick off because he's fucking a white male and Clarence will get jealous.
No.1045911
>>1045732
Ah, I see. That's good then.
No.1046103
Can't stand all the excitement this mysterious character brings, tone it down Jeph.
No.1046129
>>1046103
I'm tired too.
Tired of smug liberal genderneutral queerios gaying it up all over what used to be a simple bro comedy about a dude and his pet robot.
No.1046131
>>1046103
Oh, no! It's Trannybot!
I'll bet its shown up to… do things. And… say stuff.
Oooh, that Trannybot! What will it get up to, next?
I really don't understand Jeph and his "villains" or otherwise morally ambiguous characters like Trannybot, Pinkbot, and the fat kid from Alice Grove. It's like he knows they're bad guys in his own head but forgets to show the readers exactly why - just expects everyone to boo and hiss on cue.
No.1046133
>>1046103
What exactly does this midtone correspond to?
There's no elevated plane on the humanoid neck for that to be highlighting.
And if it's supposed to just be where the shadow from the chin doesn't fall, then why is the collar also ringed in shadow as if lit from below?
It's clearly deliberate because Jeph does it four times in three out of four panels. So what is this shading structure supposed to represent?
No.1046134
>>1046131
He tried to show trannybot as some kind of positive by having it just magic an entire investigations worth of presumably legitimate evidence into existence. Of the other two, one had a better moral standing than the people the story was following, and the other was objectively the good guy. Not characterizing his villains is playing to his strengths, which is why this thread exists.
>>1046133
Robot adam's apple, it would be far too triggering for his fans if the things that can take any form they so choose didn't have them as well.
No.1046155
>>1046131
>>1046134
>guy spends his life attempting to lift humanity out of post-apocalyptic squalor
>is blocked by a thousands of year old witch
>who actively prevents said progress
>and committed genocide
>and decapitates the guy out of spite when confronted with these facts
>he is the bad guy
No.1046159
>>1046134
It was a little mindblowing that even after Alto's dream sequence demonstrating that Teagan was right about everything, Alto still lacked the self-awareness to admit to it and still treated Teagan like a leper. Despite the lame progressive shit, the game's script had promise and could have been saved by an editor.
No.1046168
>>1046159
Teagan did nothing wrong.
No.1046181
>>1046155
>web artists can't stop drawing in rectangles
>sideways shots perfect for a dutch angle panel
>they can't think about how it should be
web artists need to vanish.
No.1046189
>>1046182
Alice Grove was depressing. Jeph invented a brand new science fiction story, free from the shackles imposed upon him by a decade of QC lore, and could show everyone what he was really capable of. And then he did.
No.1046198
>>1046189
And he had been brainstorming it for years before committing to (digital) ink.
No.1046200
>>1046155
Not to mention that Handstab portrayed his evil acts by saying he did bad things in the background. Bad things like murder in a world full of bad people looking out for number one while birds made of hivemind mosquitos fly around abducting people. The mere act of having a nobler goal than survival made him better than most of the protagonists.
No.1046203
>>1046200
>killed a bunch of people off screen
>for the greater good
shit, kenshiro does that on screen in his own fucking show and he's the good guy
No.1046204
>>1046181
>web artists
I ask you, /co/:
Is it just that internet fame wraps bad artists in a comfortable cocoon of no criticism that causes them to stagnate and eventually devolve?
Or is that people who are legitimately motivated to grow their skills and nurture their abilities eventually grow beyond the confines of mere internet fame, stepping out into the real world of real artists?
For me, I think it's a little of both.
No.1046227
>>1046224
What is this tranny surgery regret bullshit?
No.1046241
>>1046224
Does a robot pedicure require a disk sander?
No.1046251
>>1046241
Seems overkill, considering in this world a hobby dremel with an emery stone can tear off a fingernail. A tool that you couldn't stop with your fingers would likely rip the limbs off both the subject and the user
No.1046252
>>1046224
For fuck's sake, Jeph! At least show us some consequences of this supposedly poor synchronisation with the new body!
It could have dropped that cup of coffee it was carrying. Tripped over a step. Keep missing the light switch - anything!
Roko has had this new body for all of 5 fucking minutes and the drama is like a 5 year old complaining about a new pair of shoes.
And I'm not getting the big drama behind asking to be "fixed". So far we see absolutely no stakes, no risk. Shit, getting a haircut would carry more threat than this proposition 'cause at least then Roko could be stuck looking stupid for a while.
Jeph could so easily have had the trannybot reply with something like, "You know what means though, don't you?" or something else cryptic if he doesn't want to give too much away instead of having it just stride away - that's what it would do if Roko hesitates after an offer is actually made, saying something like, "Oh well. I guess you can't want it that much, then…".
Again, it's like Jeph knows in his head how the story is supposed to proceed but forgot to add a few panels when it actually comes to drawing it. Since it's clear he doesn't read his own work, he just remembers that he did add all the required information so doesn't bother checking.
No.1046253
>>1046252
We know he takes Lorazepam, which impairs memory function. So do SSRIs, which I'd bet money he's also taken.
No.1046277
>>1046253
All the alcohol he drank before that can't have helped his mind any.
At this point, with his impaired memory, he really should hire a ghostwriter. Or at least an beta reader.
No.1046383
Wait is this Alice Grove again?
No.1046394
>>1046383
It sure is good that the unaccountable, many-headed omnipotent AI panopticon that rules over the gay hipsters of QC has "ethics", that makes me feel much better.
It's a hamfisted attempt at justification that plays to the morals of the social justice types who think that justice can be accelerated like everything else in the world. That whole pesky "due process" thing doesn't matter if the judge, jury and executioner are always right, and what could be more always right than an AI? Never mind that robots in this world are basically quirky humans with unnecessary neck and shoulder seams (when Jeph can be bothered to draw them) and a surprisingly intermittent data connection.
It's the same meaningless moral bunt that transhumanists always make and it's only made worse by being filtered through Jeph's writing style, which is like trying to infer important details from someone talking in their sleep.
No.1046407
>>1046383
>You went in fahkin' Bubbles' head!
Oh, well. The synchronization can't be that bad if all the speech quirks have transferred over just fine. What's odd though is that the inside of its mouth is white.
>Only with the utmost reluctance, after we had exhausted all other options.
Didn't seem that fucking reluctant when it suddenly appeared to offer its services for free, no strings attached. With a big, fucking smile on its face, too.
This shit raises more questions about the lost memory arc - if it was such a massive dilemma, why even help Menstro at all?
If it just wants to help AIs, then why not help all those who have to go to that bullshit drop-in centre?
If the implication is that there may have been something in Menstro's memory it really needed, and so badly that it was willing to violate its own ethical code, why involve the cast of idiots at all and not just do it on the fly, or at least away from any prying eyes? Or infultrate Pinkbot first before doing everything else - it ended up in Pinkbot, anyway after all so that wasn't such a problem.
>it's just gross
Oh, very well-fucking-done, Jeph! Nice save…
Only a hipster faggot like Jeph could wrap up the implications of unravelling a conscious mind and the consequences thereof with something as infantile as "Ewwww, it's like totally gross and slimey and stuuuuuuff…"
No.1046415
>>1046204
Option C, the internet is revealing a phenomenon as old as time, not causing it. Bad artists have always outnumbered good artists, the internet just puts them on stage in front of an infinite pool of sycophants.
I'm sure those of us who read webcomics can all think of artists who really blossomed as they went right? They experimented with shading, they added detail, they learned to compose drawings and pages, they developed perspective sense, they went back and unlearned the various bad habits and crutches you might need as an amateur artist but which start to slow down your process once you improve… I could go on but the point is those people received idle praise the whole time and would have if they'd done none of that because there's always a fucking cheer section in your audience.
So I say it's deterministic and independent of the internet. Bad artists would have taken any excuse to fuck around, being told you're already perfect is just a flowery sounding one. Good had the will and talent to improve and being told they're already perfect evidently didn't throw them off the trail.
No.1046456
>>1046394
It's an interesting window into the psyche of these people. They see themselves as messiahs but it's such a thankless burden ruling all the little people that are also abused beyond the scope of mere tyranny. Thus the Alice Grove reference as the titular character held a similar position though was even more powerful and even less accountable.
Also, why would anyone trust the judgment of robots that are even moodier than regular humans? When it had the ability, Momo shocked people out of spite. Menstro hulk smashed a wall because it can't manage the emotions it has to reason to possess. May is openly misanthropic. Yeah, I'll trust them to be my judge. Ironically I think I'd trust Corpse Witch or Pintsize more than most of the others.
>>1046407
>You went in fahkin' Bubbles' head!
And nothing of value was accomplished. It went in only to verify what Emily already confirmed. I guess I can see the potential utility, but Jeph really didn't set this up as a viable option in advance.
>it's just gross
It's even worse. You have a comic where identity and autonomy are central subjects. You have an AI character that inhabits multiple simultaneous instances. Then you have a situation that is basically like a Vulkan mind meld between the multi-AI and the regular one. What a perfect opportunity to explore the meaning of identity with the intersection of all this! But, no, it's gross. Oh, and merging of identities and loss of identity were issues with mind meld, so Jeph even has long established sci-fi canon to draw upon.
>>1046415
Self-improvement seems to be an inherent male trait. I understand it's not universal, but it seems incongruous to be a successful professional and lack this trait. Things get very boring if there is no improvement over time. I can't speak for everybody, but I'll find myself optimizing pointless things if there is nothing else to do, just to chase some sort of improvement-related dopamine hit. I mean even ivory tower Hollywood actors with more money and fame than they can deal with still seek challenging projects. I also understand there is a skill ceiling, but I'd expect a mediocre talent to be criticized for being samey, uninspired, merely competent, cargo cult, etc., not to be objectively bad. Jeph is still on the level of a grade schooler with no real training.
No.1046503
>>1046383
Why would any law enforcement agency even accept the help of a quasi omnipotent AI with morality issues, given that any information it has with all likelihood is obtained through unlawful means and would get cases thrown out, Fruit of the Poison Tree? And if the AI knows it has issues with ethics, enough to actively change its behavior even try and help out with them, given that anything it hands over should be suspect and would be easier to discard than risk letting it tamper with judicial process? It's like he's trying hard to set up the backstory for why this thing took over the world and rules it like HELIOS, when he's actually trying to make it in a gay relationship with an extra degenerate unemployed robot.
No.1046519
This is beyond stupid. Whatever my low expectations are, Jeph continuously manages to find a new basement. It's like an ironic Dante's Inferno.
No.1046523
>>1046519
I can't wait for the body integration problem to be forgotten like Claire's finals.
No.1046527
>>1046519
This is Twilight. a below average thing resembling a female with no redeemable features meets a pasty magic thing with bad hair. The thing with bad hair saves her ass with magic and then disappears for a while. After that it reappears and won't get off the below average girl's nuts.
No.1046532
>>1046519
This obscene stupidity will all be forgiven if this is all a ruse to add new AIs to the collective.
But it won't be that. I fully expect this hyperinteligent, omniscient, trillion dollar AI to be working at Ye Olde Coffee of Doom inside of a hundred pages.
No.1046541
>>1046519
I thought Roko was having an existential crisis, why so upbeat and playful all of a sudden?
I thought trannybot was an all-powerful AI capable of hacking into any other machine and fucking around with its mind - why is it taking any of Roko's shit?
What the fuck happened to the tone Jeph was trying(?) to set?
Is this going to conclude with Trannybot working at the coffee shop because lolsorandumb?
No.1046542
>>1046519
It keeps talking up how "powerful" it is but its feats that other AI can't accomplish are 1) it paralysed Faye and 2) it cracked an encryption faster than contemporary computers can.
I don't know whether to count the teleporting door because Jeph is a bad artist.
No.1046566
>>1046542
Momo used to be able to paralyze people. I feel like mentioning Pintsize's laser but I realize that is a technicality given dead people are paralyzed by default.
No.1046642
even stupider, what the hell is this
No.1046649
>>1046642
I can't imagine why she treats Skynet with anything other than polite suspicion. It's like a high ranking CIA official just walked into her house and asked to be friends.
No.1046692
>>1046649
I think that Jeph clearly finds the idea of a cop befriending a highly suspicious individual who admits to struggling with morality believeable is just another marker of how far he's degenerated from baseline humanity.
No.1046710
Once in a while Reddit gets it.
No.1046713
>>1046710
>reverse flanderisation
that's a stupid name for it.
No.1046719
>>1046713
>>1046710
I prefer "Blanderizing", personally
No.1046735
>>1046642
>Boo-hoo! I'm not me any more! Please help me, I beg of you!
>I know, lets have a play fight like 10-year olds do!
>Hmm, let us now have a serious discussion.
I don't understand this shit…
The characters flip-flop between emotional highs and lows like they're all bipolar.
This is either Jeph afraid of continuing the serious tone which he deliberately set up, or yet another unintentional insight as to his own mental health.
No.1046791
>>1046735
I think it says more about his recent interactions with the human race. Pretty sure he doesn't have anything resembling RL friends or relationships.
No.1046847
>>1046503
>Why would any law enforcement agency even accept the help of a quasi omnipotent AI with morality issues
>given that any information it has with all likelihood is obtained through unlawful means
>anything it hands over should be suspect and would be easier to discard than risk letting it tamper with judicial process
I'll take "What is Alphabet Soup" for $50k, Bob.
No.1047037
Oh, look, Jeph cut off the previous plotline at some arbitrary divisible-by-five point. Who could have guessed? And there is even bonus pre-apologizing.
No.1047042
>>1047037
>a lot of long conversations about the risks and challenges we might face
Really? The way I remember it, you whipped out your cock and he just ate it up.
No.1047054
>>1047037
Anyone else kinda wish Jeph would break down and just draw porn? It would almost be more dignified at this point.
No.1047064
>>1047037
>touching butts
Only Jeph could think this is what couples will do. Not tits, pussy, or feminine penis; just butts.
>>1047042
I think the entire exchange was something as simple as,
>I'm trans
>Ok.
>>1047054
>Jeph drawing porn
Highly unlikely. Jeph likely can't even jerk off through fear that one of his fans might find out and accuse him of sexualizing women, and he'll end up chopping his cock off as penance.
No.1047073
>>1047064
I mean, at least say Ass. I love my gf's ass, I refer to it as an Ass. Not 'Butt'.
No.1047127
>>1047097
They don't list pronouns? How will I know hot to a dress our castrated protagonist?
No.1047135
It's a good thing one of them identified the other as Dora else I'd be lost.
No.1047139
>>1047135
>dance belt
where???
No.1047150
>>1047139
A dance belt is basically a speedo to de-masculinize the cock and balls.
No.1047151
>>1047150
But there's clearly still a bulge.
No.1047152
>>1047151
Somehow an oval in the crotch is better than a clearly defined cock and balls.
No.1047162
>>1047152
He probably tried and failed to make a gag about balls due to his lack of drawing capability and changed it to the dance belt instead.
No.1047186
>>1047135
To be fair, they always had similar faces, even back when Jeff was actually trying to draw.
No.1047189
>>1047186
Looking at the stiff drop in quality between that page and his recent stuff makes me want to fucking shoot myself.
No.1047200
>>1047186
Wow, and I remember us saying how bad that art was compared to previous efforts even back then.
Emily has definitely gotten less distinctive over time, though. I don't remember anyone being confused back in the 2000s-strips. The first attached strip is the first I recall people being really confused, and it's pretty close in sequence the the strip previously posted. Curiously, this series of strips has one of the better Hannelore designs as well, though it's only used twice.
No.1047206
>>1047200
Low effort omit of unacceptable quality.
No.1047208
>>1047206
Blast, I should have omitted the '1' in 14.
No.1047209
No.1047215
>>1047200
I know Emily's supposed to be Asian or something, but when I see her here I think she has downs syndrome.
No.1047220
>>1047186
Wait, Cosette ? Who the fuck even is that ? I have never heard of her… or have I ? Jesus christ so many characters that have barely ever been shown…
No.1047222
>>1047220
Cosette is the girl who hit on Marten at the library when he was dating Dora and she later dated Steve. Hypothetically she still works at the coffee shop but is never seen along with Raven, Penelope, and Dale, for the most part, present script excepted.
No.1047223
>>1047220
She's Steve's girlfriend that he picked up by accidentally breaking her neck. Or spilling a drink on her, I forget.
Are we actually at post limit or is my net just trash right now?
No.1047228
>>1047223
>>1047222
Fuck's sake. Reminds me of that other coffee of doom waitress. The chubby girl with a nose piercing or some shit. She often looked nearly identical to Dora and was the first "teehee so silly but quirky" type.
No.1047231
>>1047215
If you're basing that off the shovelmouth and widely spaced eyes then all of Jeph's characters must have…
Wait…
It all makes sense!
No.1047235
>>1047228
That's Raven. They stuffed her corpse in an old refrigerator or something. Something the next tenants will have to deal with.
>>1047223
No, not yet, though we are on page 14. However given how slow things are these days we might have a week left or something.
No.1047285
ADD the comic. We go from a thinly veiled allegory of gender dysphoria to what should be a one-off gag that's being dragged across multiple days.
Okay, the dumpster line put a smirk on my face, but Emily ruins it.
No.1047292
>>1047286
I'm getting whiplash from the speed at which we're changing focus.
No.1047297
>>1047286
>hand on shoulder
So, it's a hard light hologram, or what?
>those legs
This isn't thicc - looks more to me like some sort of deformity. Like you'd expect them to have the texture of rhino skin and be covered in hairy moles.
>he gets too wrapped up in the philosophical implications
And with anyone else writing a story like this, that would be a major part of the plot and would actually be discussed.
But no, Jeph wants us to imagine all the drama and be shocked, despite the only incident of human/machine drama being a snide comment by a punk kid down an alley in one single panel, years ago.
No.1047299
>>1047286
Now that I think of it, this is a whole new level of desperate filler if he has to remind everyone of a character they hated so much they cheered to see her blasted off into space.
I'm sure most of his "fans" were hoping she missed the station entirely and should be leaving the solar system about now.
No.1047302
>>1047299
>Tilly gets blasted into space
>Malfunction makes her overshoot the station
>Days go by
>Air getting stale
>Thirst clawing at her sanity
>She gets desperate
>Opens control panel
>Rewires the circuits
>Reverses the polarity
>Bypasses the safety
>Trying anything and everything
>Blowing up is better than slowly dying in this coffin
>Somehow opens an unstable wormhole
>She gets sucked in
>Small wormhole merges with galactic wormhole network
>She gets dumped into a ripoff Deep Space 9
>Gets rescued
>Surrounded by aliens
>Side story is her tale of survival and adventure in a galaxy far, far away
It would have been so easy, Jeph. Every time a character gets put on a bus, you get the opportunity to wash out their undesirable traits with some trauma and cast them as the hero of a new story.
No.1047304
>>1047228
Fuck your ass, you namefagging pedo. Raven was dumb but she was fun. At least she had a personality beyond "passive-aggressive hipster."
No.1047305
>>1047200
>one of the better Hannelore designs
She looks like someone's unmarried alcoholic aunt.
No.1047309
>>1047304
That's not the point I was making you fat nigger. I was talking about another character that is supposed to exist but hasn't appeared in a billion years so might as well be called dead.
You're groaning about a question content character, anon. Get a grip.
No.1047313
>>1047302
Yet again, Handstab manages to write his way out of having to tell an interesting story. How many times does this make it?
No.1047314
>>1047286
are you a boy or a girl
No.1047326
>>1047292
I thought maybe he was at a con and was tapping into his "buffer" of Patreon strip candidates and one-off fillers, but it turns out he's been playing Kingdom Hearts III all week. Also, Jeph plays the victim but he brings what happens in the screencap on himself.
No.1047327
>>1047305
Well, she's already destined to be Auntie Mame in 20 or so years.
No.1047333
>>1047313
We're approaching page 4000, so a lot of times. Too many to accurately determine, since interesting plot lines beget interesting plot lines and open up a possibility tree into infinity. One day, I'm sure Jeph will be remembered as a great artist who did the impossible and made the least interesting possible choices every single day over the course of several decades.
No.1047377
>>1047286
>We interact so much how could I, a computer occupied constantly by running a space station, not want to be romantically involved with her, a woman whose only definable character trait is that she pretends not to have a cunt?
No.1047384
>>1047326
>not wanting to see 400 pound blobs wear clothing too small for them
body shaming bad
>calling out sluts for wearing see-through pants and hanging their tits out
body shaming bad
>guy wears an opaque costume that covers everything but his head
fucking shitlord needs to cover up his dick more
No.1047515
Nothing else makes any sense, why not?
No.1047518
>>1047515
>visible fat rolls
>>1047384
No.1047525
>>1047515
>They fucked in the back room
>Dale put his semen inside of her
>Now she's walking around in the suit
>His jizz is leaking out of her on screen
>Soaking into the suit
>A skin tight suit with weird science build in
>The suit might bond with his man gravy
>We might have canonical TEH by episode 4000
Memes are taking over the world.
No.1047544
>>1047515
Okay so the costume stretches but that doesn't explain how Marigold's hoodie and pants fit him.
No.1047545
>>1047515
Dale should look like a clown dressed in Marigold's worn, stretched, stale, sweaty outfit.
No.1047585
lol, Jeph sits around the house all day playing video games and makes enough to buy his wife a new car every month but makes her take the bus. Those 13 string guitars don't buy themselves!
No.1047586
Nobody addresses the (absolutely correct) point. They just apologize to Jeph for having to read such triggering text.
No.1047595
>>1047586
>What do you think the point of an AI is if not to pass as human
But that's not the point of AIs in Questionable Content. Until very recently, the purpose of an AI was to be a pet computer that you took care of in exchange for assistance and companionship. It wasn't until the Momo chassis arc that the idea of humanlike AIs that were independent of owners came into being. Up until that point, the standard AnthroPC looked like Pintsize, with Winslow bei g a cheaper model and Momo being a high end model. This thing about AI rights and oppression and body swap trauma is literally getting added on the fly and contradicts previously established "lore".
No.1047596
>>1047595
It's amazing how all you need to do is draw the things as humans to have them be taken as humans. No one gave a shit when they were drawn as cubes. We have (primitive) AI right now and the point isn't for them to pass as humans. The purpose is to handle complex tasks in ways where both the inputs and outputs are understandable by humans. The purpose is utility, not to have pets or whatever the status of AI is in today's strip.
No.1047636
>>1047585
Amazing that not a single one of those strips outlining his average day is "Work on the comic that people pay me for."
No, you just play video games for two hours, spend three hours fucking around doing nothing, and apparently make your wife take the bus despite you yourself working from home at your own schedule.
No.1047661
>>1047636
The worst for me is the implication that they take turns walking his dog in the morning when the only thing he has to do afterwards is play video games and sleep.
No.1047669
>>1047636
Well, here you go. Apparently in one hour at the very end of one's productive day he can complete multiple comics, read Buzzfeed, and walk his dog.
5+ hours of gaming/Twitter per day, an hour long or longer nap, and an hour or longer of YouTube. And he wants us to take him seriously when he talks about his stressful life of no children and no obligations, not even to his wife. Oh, and he expects us to believe he spends something like four hours a day walking his dog. It's just more gaming/Twitter.
>"Work on the comic that people pay me for."
He actually had the gall to beg for Patreon bucks as compensation for creating this lazy shit.
No.1047670
>>1047669
>does absolutely nothing all day
>nags his wife at work about making dinner
>ends up at Applebees
>complains about the quality of food
Guy should cook every single night. There's no excuse. At least take your wife to a real restaurant you cheap ass.
No.1047673
>>1047669
Imagine how productive he would be if he had a 5 hour "work day" from 10-1 and 2-4 where he drew his comic, updated the relationship flowchart, and filled in his map of QCville. It would be halfway decent and look more like he wasn't a huge scam artist.
No.1047677
>>1047586
Dale even has personal web connectivity (in the form of what he claims are augmented reality glasses) and has used it more frequently than any of the robots have used theirs. Dale confirmed for secret AI.
No.1047679
>>1047669
This is a man with no ambition and no passion.
This is a man stumbling from day to day, whipped along this path by his own patrons.
I suspect he may genuinely hate what he has become, as his self-portrait bears no resemblance to reality.
No.1047680
>>1047669
>Apparently in one hour at the very end of one's productive day he can complete multiple comics, read Buzzfeed, and walk his dog.
Ah. I see. Thank you, anon. You are a scholar and a gentleman.
No.1047733
>>1047669
Somebody repost these in the next thread. They must be adressed at length.
No.1047734
>>1047733
I don't know if there's much to address. Jeph is a lazy shithead, as we have always known him to be.
No.1047782
I wonder where he streams. There is a jephjacques account at Twitch but it's deactivated. I wonder if he's dumb enough to leave general chat on.
No.1047784
>>1047782
In Jeph's case, this retweet is true.
No.1047797
>>1047784
Reality likes to show us that an inexplicably wealthy hipster would sooner mutilate himself that express original, independent thoughts.
No.1047798
>>1047797
For hipsters, self-mutilation is easier than generating independent thought.
No.1047803
>>1047784
>Jeph doesn't like Groundhog Day
One more pebble added to my mountain of grievances with this creature.
No.1047856
>>1047784
>wealthy
>Phil
>a news reporter who is in his thirties at a dead-end with his career who essentially has zero funds because he keeps reliving the same day
>a man who needed to steal from the local bank because it happened to turn out that way
>a depressed guy who is unhappy with his life makes questionable decisions
It's almost like in order to have a character arc, there must be a low point and a high point, such as starting as a cynical and unpersonable bastard into a town hero and a generally great human being.
It's not like Jeph or any writer understands that though in this age, for some reason the hero has to be a paragon of absolute justice and selflessness, otherwise they become too complex and might actually do something someone doesn't like and wouldn't appeal to a broad audience.
I think that's what I hate the most about these comics; none of the characters really grow at all, there's no conflict in their lives that changes who they are. There are some plotlines in which a character brings up themselves as an antagonist, or maybe two characters find something out about each other that makes them think, "Oh maybe could you not?" At the end of the plot line there is some fucking macguffin that they use to fix it and it's just remembered as "that thing that happened once."
No.1047859
>>1047856
And they seem to think it'd be plainly obvious that the way out is to become a "better person."
Which is ironic, because these people don't beleive in redemption; if they find a reason to hate someone (and boy, do they look for it) then they latch into it and never let go - the only result they want is for the object of their hate to be denied a living and to collapse into a pit of desperation, depression and misery.
That's why they like the "bad guys" in their lame webcomics to be like pantomime villains - so it's clear and obvious that you're supposed to hate them, just because.
No.1047862
>>1047856
SJW style of story telling is a Mary Sue token minority. There is no movement from A to B because the Mary Sue is perfect to begin with. Like with Poochie, the other characters' roles are to remark about how perfect the Mary Sue is.
No.1047863
Do we have a header for a new thread?
No.1047864
>>1047856
>>1047859
>>1047862
Imagine if Clinton met a girl and took her out. They both have quite a bit to drink and end up at Clinton's place. The next morning she says she didn't mean to go that far and doesn't know what to think about the experience. Other characters find out and arguments ensue about each character's culpability. The comic itself takes no solid position but, still, some characters distance themselves from Clinton while others close ranks. Most critically, Claire feels compelled to condemn Clinton but just can't due to familiar ties. Of course these actions have knock-on effects. Maybe even contrast Claire's support of Clinton to Dora's ostracization of Sven. Man, that could generate months of meaningful storytelling. Nah, let's have a character sit in a room and feel sorry for herself for two weeks. That's more engaging.
No.1047865
>>1047864
>familiar
familial