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Wallace & Gromit

🕑 Added 2025-02-03 00:57:41 +0000 UTC

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Noodz

Schrödinger's coffee shop

enchantedsleeper

I... I never actually realised the robot's name spells "CEREAL" 🙈

enchantedsleeper

Oh, I see it now at the $10 level. "Monthly Q&A". Well, I'm at the lowest pledge level so it's possible they are happening around me 😆 (Or at the very least there'd be a backlog to read through).

prettydragoon

What has it got in its pocketses, preciouss?

Evan Fenner

Hi Jeph

Rich Holmes

Checklists are useless unless the first entry is "Actually check everything on this checklist". Ask me how I know.

Obliviontoad

I need to know what's in the damned pockets!

Frank Wales

And then Emily and Melon visit, and are confused by the lack of cats

Ursus Ridens

Now I'm expecting La Famille Roomba (or by now, probably Clan Roomba) to show up in Cubetown. Maybe they could have a concession to carry whatever hard-copy mail there is. Y'know -- sort of Owl Post for robots.

Doc Gumby

I was thinking more of wearing it as a Fashion Statement.

Maximum Turtle

That’s definitely valid

Mad Marie

"If this door is locked, we're closed. If it's unlocked, we're open. Until you try the knob, we're in both quantum states."

Hugh Eckert

Pedo Mellon A Minno

Sammitch

Effervescent Incendiarydevice

Sammitch

I think your best bet might be to send him a polite email. While he does occasionally respond to comments here, I wouldn't necessarily expect him to be sifting through our collective nonsense for genuine concerns.

ValdVin

Hey, that's Bumbershoot Cabbagepatch.

Ursus Ridens

Cubetown develops the fusion-powered, artificially-intelligent, empathic, on-command-electromagnetically-impervious Worry Hat! With Eliza-range therapy. Comes in a range of comforting and fashionable colors. Dispenses Girl Scout cookies, but only in early February.

Ursus Ridens

Wonderful idea, Claudia, they already have that in multiple forms, and it's been illegal for several decades for being too much fun. (But, ah, that deep understanding I had with a cat and a phonograph one night in '68!)

Ursus Ridens

All of those names (and others) are correct. On an irregularly rotating basis.

Ursus Ridens

Tinfoil hats all around! It's worked for me for years. No tigers around _this_ house.

Ursus Ridens

Correct patient? Which kidney? Does this guy really need his liver? (We're running a special today on multiples of things ending in "-ectomy".)

Ursus Ridens

Jeph does reply -- at irregular intervals -- to comments in this forum.

BookBeard

@Mark I think the smallest humanoid AI we've seen was C.E.R.E.A.L (although original Momo was pretty close). But we've also seen sentient toasters and baby roombas and suchlike that might technically be smaller depending on how you measure it. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2743

Stephen Wells

Oops we did fanfic in the comments. Again :)

enchantedsleeper

But then he'd forget to flip the switch...

enchantedsleeper

I suspect that Marten has already realised it's not a good idea to bait the scientists unless he wants to get drawn into a debate (and possibly wind up the co-author of a research paper).

enchantedsleeper

That would be SO FUNNY. All the more so if it's implied Liz has no more idea what's going on than we do 😂

Maximum Turtle

It’s listed in his $5 supporter description I think. I’d really like to reach out to this guy, but it feels like he’s super hard to get to respond to you on any media

enchantedsleeper

I wasn't aware Jeph had done Q&A before actually. I think he did one for 5,000 strips but that's the only one I'm aware of since becoming a supporter in 2022...

enchantedsleeper

I'll have to look it up!

Mark Eichin

If this fascinates/horrifies you, Atul Gawande's book "The Checklist Manifesto" is worth a look.

BookBeard

Or he could really bait the scientists in with "We are a superposition of both open and closed until you open the door and collapse the wave function."

BookBeard

Immediate time skip to three weeks later, Moray is wearing Beeps' pink tuxedo and saying "I now pronounce you... Gremlin and Power Loader."

Maximum Turtle

I became a supporter because I wanted to join in on a QnA but I can’t find any semblance of one having been done recently. Does he still do them? I have questions I’ve wanted to ask for years

Philip Masters

Given that one for your head alone would perforce have an opening the diameter of your neck, I'm not sure how well it would work. (Pro tip, k8iddies: Tinfoil hats probably wouldn't do what their wearer think they do.)

Stephen Wells

It took hundreds of years before surgeons were (recently!) persuaded to have a checklist of things like "Correct leg?" rather than winging it. Checklists are less common than they should be :)

Stephen Wells

...Jeph could win maximum troll points by having this exchange end with Evan saying "Anyway! Just dropped by to pick up my fiancee" and leaving with Liz :) No further exposition will be provided.

Charles Hirst

I got an email with a link from Jeph rather than Patreon after I found this post. I got emails about the above comments from Patreon. As my son would say "Go figure!"

Miyaa

It’s Evangelion, and she’s dating a mecha, much to Liz’s chagrin.

Atashkada

I still receive mails. Have you double-checked your spam folder and patreon settings? Websites behave oddly sometimes.

Stephen Wells

Do I mean the containment on Evan's embonpoint or the containment on Liz? Yes.

Captain Button

I did also.

Captain Button

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

enchantedsleeper

🤔 I mean, there's no reason why AI *couldn't* have retracting boobs...

enchantedsleeper

Veronica is DELIGHTED to consult on the design. She also gets to visit her son in the process.

enchantedsleeper

"If you can see the goblin eyes, you're already too close."

enchantedsleeper

I'm pretty sure Evan's already a Mood Coffee regular

enchantedsleeper

I did get a push notification for this one...

enchantedsleeper

3 weeks in, Claire consigns Marten to the couch for tripling her workload 😅

enchantedsleeper

You would think Marten would have a shop opening checklist as it is...

Frank Wales

There could be a sign that says "Perhaps we're open, why not find out?" Or "We're always open, and sometimes here". Or even just no sign at all, and let people/robots/cyborg pals enjoy the pleasure of figuring it out for themselves while deprived of tea vapours or caffeine. That should be fine, right?

Dean Reilly

When we learned that Marten had forgotten to flip the sign, my first thought was that he should source an automatic sign-flipping machine. I'm not sure I like what that says about me...

Andreas_B

alternatively: tinfoil-hats for everyone!

BookBeard

Don't be silly, there's no way he forgot a name like Evenhanded Interlocutor. Wait, no... Eventful Invigilator. Evangelist Insinuator?

Onyx

Or just a basic electric sign.....

Stephen Wells

Liz didn't yell "Titties" when Evan came in, so we know the containment is holding. For now.

Maurice Post

Ooof, you Aced that of Base! 🤣

Charles Hirst

No Patreon emails? I had to use an old link and then find "recent posts".

Veronica Jane

[Flintstones voice] It's a living

legobil

Plot twis: A faraday cage built by people in Cube town would act as an amplifier.

Sammitch

Evan's tactical snack pockets: Cherry, Vanilla, and Blueberry.

Pete Hanson

Something tells me Marten doesn't remember Evan's name.

SilverbackRon

I miss the Worry Hat! 🤣

Hawkeye

Evan’s uniform is doing work.

Halloween Jack

In Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Randall Flagg has a hoodie that blocks telepathy when the hood is up. For most telepaths, anyway...

Mark Eichin

Have we seen any AIs smaller than pintsize? It probably wouldn't be a *popular* job, but I could see someone who's Had Enough and Just Needs A Break signing up for a year as a self-flipping sign...

Mark Eichin

smaller population → smaller market → dominant quasi-monopolies emerged relatively early. (Also means that, even by US standards, the service quality has always been pretty low...)

Ilana

See we solved it already! You could totally have it linked to your main switch or control scene and then other switches for off hours

Chas Simmons

People use (incomplete) Faraday cages for their heads -- it's called a tin foil hat. I'm amazed to see people here taking that idea seriously.

jonesnori

Scheduled means if you're late (or early) to work, the sign won't agree with the actual opening time. Maybe hook it up to the main light switch, and use a lower light setting for your setup and teardown period.

Maurice Kessler

We'll see 'em when we need to see 'em.

Maurice Kessler

I see what you did there, and I do not disapprove.

Opus the Poet

Different energy bars, granola, and fruit leather.

Gary Walker

Evan’s emergency snacks say trans rights.

Opus the Poet

Even accounting for the exchange rate?

Opus the Poet

I have slept in a Faraday cage and it was pretty good. But I'm not dependent on being connected electronically.

BobC

I've had my head in a Faraday cage. Well, my whole body, TBH (exciting nerd story deleted). It's not a bad place to be! Except the cellular and WiFi reception sucks.

schmod

Liz and/or Pintsize as a Greek Chorus is actually perfect

Melissa Wilson

OMG I so want to be a test subject as soon as those wonderful vision tazers become a thing in real life!

Melissa Wilson

Excellent! I love me a sans serif siege engine.

Captain Button

"I suppose you're wondering how they got in this situation..."

Melissa Wilson

Wait… that’s Liz? I thought it was Alan Brady!

Veronica Jane

I assumed it would be a normal plug in sign with some sort of sensor so it turns on when Marten opens the door in the morning. And...some sort of other sensor to stop it turning on and off every time a customer comes in. I dunno, I'm not a Cubetown engineer

BookBeard

Silly Marten, you already have a hat that repels sadness and anxiety. I'm sure with a few minor tweaks it could also block out Cubetown's overthinking field. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1203 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1806

Taigan

If that’s intentional, I greatly appreciate it. 🏳️‍⚧️💪

LH

faraday cages only work if they completely enclose something. what Marten needs is not a tin foil hat but a tin foil gimp mask

Graydon Armstrong

Oh my god, it's like Cubetown is just one big XY problem.

Sean Kinlin

🎵Jeph can't hide, those goblin eyes...

Sean Kinlin

🎵Did not flip the sign It must have slipped his mind, to flip the sign Can't be opening, without clear messaging So, flip the sign, and you'll open up on time, just flip the sign! 🎵

Nulgar

Do you have the slightest idea of how little that narrows it down?

ValdVin

Eh, upvoted, but when I hear that goblin voice I want those goblin eyes!

Captain Button

Or a rotating black hole to pull the sign down.

Sean Kinlin

It seems like a chunk of recent strips involve Liz as an off-panel voice. I wonder if that will be a regular thing; in some scenes we won't know Liz is even there until there's suddenly incoming snark.

Amelia Lewis

My personal head canon is that that's a message from Jeph to readers/[mp]atrons who have been having a _really fucking bad_ couple of weeks.

BookBeard

That's just what they want you to think.

Tom B

They did a study, turns out, tin foil hats actually increase the signal going into the brain rather than blocking it. Don't tell the conspiracy theorists.

Fart Captor

Evan robotrans confirmed

Fart Captor

Yes they COULD just be smooshed in there but retracting into her body would be more comfy

Holly Nelson

Oooh, in Moscow, in the perogie shop? Good times, good times.

Richard

Three Nintendo Switch systems with different-colored Joy-Cons.

Maurice Kessler

"The gravity of the situation" is a clue to Appleboom's solution to the problem, and will involve a tiny trebuchet.

Maurice Kessler

It's a push-up vest.

Maurice Kessler

I know someone who's been complaining about Rogers for years.

Cozy

Tell me when they invent one of those

Thisguy

Yeah, me too. But I understand the Wallace Vs Grommet problem solving methods…

Minzoku Bokumetsu

Pamphlets: "So, you decided to commit a felony..."

Doc Gumby

Man, now I want a Faraday cage for MY head!

KingAtticus

That’s called a tin foil hat, Marten. The local crackpot can help

Rich Holmes

Strawberry, mint, and plain chocolate Kit Kats. She was trained by Nosh.

Claudia D.

Maybe they just induce instantaneous and paralyzingly wonderful visions. Person is just frozen on the spot in wonder. No harm, no pursuit needed.

Zig Justice

Genius 🤣

Claudia D.

Yeah, but 💗Oh! Canada!💗

Diptych

It's like Radiohead, but the reception keeps getting blocked for some reason...

uwu

Cracking cheese, Evan!

Ryan

Way more expensive, fwiw.

Clifton Royston

And incorporating a surplus cuckoo clock and a miniature railway. Ob-Cuckoo Clock reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PGK7a2IFo (Bathtime in Clerkenwell, for those of you suspicious of random links.)

Miyaa

Wonder how awful are the mobile phones subscriptions are in Canada compared to the USA?

Ilana

Aw man I was expected something more Wallace and Gromit. What a let down! Also you could just plug your lighted sign into a scheduled outlet (or I'm sure they make an app lol)

Michael Steamweed

I contacted their service dept. Turns out, yeah, due to expected tariffs, they won't ship them.

alphanor

tasers? that's pretty dark, given her previous statements to Marten

Clifton Royston

Nah, it's her trans pride granola bar assortment! (If AIs can adopt human genders, they can also decide to change them when they want to.)

Diptych

I see Jeph added some smoosh lines to her shirt to represent the complex folding going on beneath.

alphanor

either different fruit leather flavors or trail mix packets or granola bars, take your pick

Kurist Zero

Looks a bit like the trans flag colours, but I could be wrong - not sure on Evans background :-)

Captain Button

At best, it has a wireless charging receptor. At worst it has a built in RTG (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator) good for 100,000 years.

Fart Captor

From left to right: - Human nerd taser - A.I. nerd taser - Appleboom taser

Grace Kieser

Only if it has a clock in it, otherwise it would just be a regular sign that needs power

Rich Holmes

Of course they won't ship to Canada.

Rich Holmes

It's called a tin foil hat, Marten. I'm sure you can find them for sale online.

Shawn K. Younkin

Different type of flavors for her Pez dispenser.

ValdVin

Different fruit leather flavors, I think.

Captain Button

I was assuming those were reactive armor.

Fart Captor

I'm choosing to believe Evan's massive yabbos retract back into her chest cavity like one of those "transforming" action figure's from the 90s when she's got that vest on