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AlexKorobeiniki
That’s fair. I mean, Yay is *exactly* the kind of being who would secretly commission bodies capable of surviving on mars or some shit just cause they can and no one else would know it was for them.
David Paul
Indeed. One must always be petting a cat when plotting intricacies.
Nicolas Demers
At the end of the story where Yay meets Aurelia, they casually mention they can function perfectly well at a ridiculously low temperature (80 Kelvin). Jeph's tagline went, "any lower than that and they need a scarf". So it sounds like each of their bodies is extremely durable in itself
Sorastro
Granted. Hercules deserves pets.
ValdVin
"Can I at least spin around in this office chair and pet Hercules, who is magically on my lap?"
Holly Nelson
* thou?
Holly Nelson
I suspect that Morays intelligence is distributed thru her whole corpus, not localized in one little nubbin of a brain. Thus, her whole body is a sensory and processing organ, like an octopus. She may look like a cutie-patootie, because she’s shaped like an aquatic cherub, but she is actually a being much weirder than Yay. Thus, getting a sample might be less like drawing blood, and more like cutting off a pinkie finger. 😳
Lucas Werkmeister
indeed, that would've been https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1607 (later referenced in https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2104)
Not that Patrick Foltz
@Charles Hirst Love me some Dick!
William Cole
Let's also not forget that Yay has a very cavalier approach to ethics and has probably done a lot of things that would count as crimes (almost certainly illegal surveillance/hacking, very possibly some financial shenanigans), and they've done it with an ease that would surely freak out human authorities. Assuming they could be apprehended/contained, the AI Powers that Be would probably feel obligated to put them in Robot Jail forever.
Onyx
Oh yes, but, least up to this point, we haven't seen them get into the chemical/potion stuff yet!
Not that Patrick Foltz
@Jenifer Pylko I read the first part of your post and thought 'Yay puts their hand upon her hip, when they dip, she dips, they dip'
awgiedawgie
Reminds me of Hanners secretly collecting DNA samples from her friends back in the early days.
AlexKorobeiniki
Replacement bodies, remember? Their CON is literally N/A because of anything happens to one of the bodies another one can show up
legobil
Omniboob. Such a delightful word.
legobil
CON is off the charts? Why is that? I feel like their WIS is also quite low, but they gets like +10 and always advantage at perception checks, unless Roko is present.
Joe
@Dean Reilly uh. yah nah.
Joe
@William Cole https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4008 think that ship has sailed, so to speak.
ValdVin
Hey, if I can't be called "The Exalted", do I even want to join?
Joe
@bookbeard gawd I miss Iain.
ValdVin
Can't help but admire a creator who knows their audience.
Shawn K. Younkin
Because what we do not understand, we destroy. Yay, being who they are has every reason to be very wary of people finding out about their existence.
Joe
I gotta fever, and the only prescription is more storyline?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s
Joe
it is difficult to keep a straight face when anyone, even someone well older than me, asks to be called "Elder".
NotEnufDog
Both of those have a localized consciousness. Moray can be reabsorbed into the Director at her discretion but until then she's an independent agent. Yay is, ostensibly, the only distributed consciousness, because based on current understandings of AI (in universe) should be impossible.
Charles Hirst
I leave that bit blank on all forms, only to find that someone (AI - Artificial Idiocy?) has filled it in. It's difficult to keep a straight face when someone a quarter of my age says, "You may call me 'Elder'."
David Durant
Still on the subject of Yay (obviously). Is it not weird that they're scared (not that they'd admit it) of being found out as an uber powerful AI when the Director, another uber powerful AI, is just floating out in the open in a tank off the coast of Canada. Not to mention Station. What's in Yay's backstory that makes them so paranoid what there's so much contradictory evidence?
Tabby
I can't help but think Yay and Roko in the middle panel are very reminiscent of the two women yelling at a cat meme :P
Clifton Royston
Gargamel, Gamergate, how much of a difference is there really?
Clifton Royston
And she guided Faye's hand right into her chest, Excitable Blob, they all said.
Clifton Royston
And the US. I hear it a fair bit along with "Yeah no."
Shawn K. Younkin
Gargamel is a little old man that lives in the forest with his cat. The smurfs torment this poor man daily and constantly make life hard for him.
enchantedsleeper
I think "yeah nah" also exists in the UK
enchantedsleeper
*sploot*
enchantedsleeper
Apropos of nothing (because I was thinking about early QC!Melon versus Melon now), I remembered that Melon's butt is detachable. Maybe she and Moray can bond over having detachable body parts :D (I actually wouldn't put this past Jeph at all xD Something something advanced butts disease)
enchantedsleeper
Roko used to ask that type of question, and the answers baffled her so much that she just took to rolling with it and moving on
enchantedsleeper
No wonder Liz likes her so much 😏
enchantedsleeper
Omg she woooould
Kristina
Love the lighting in this strip!! So glowy
Wednesday
MELON
Jennifer Pylko
sven has already done some freakiness with a melon, technically
SilverbackRon
@Jennifer. Headcanon! 100%. 😍
Doc Gumby
Residuals and visuals and laser shows, reaching into the speakers to try to hold on to the quarter-notes...
Jennifer Pylko
yay puts their hand on their hip and roko hides her hand behind her... they clearly WERE holding hands moments ago
Jennifer Pylko
well, you've lost me to the bone zone https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3767
Ursus Ridens
Lordloveaduck, Jeph -- look what you've started. You could have named her, oh, say, Gwendolen, and thus have saved Terpsichore from this agony. But noooo.
Ursus Ridens
Thank you both. I have lived quite smurflessly so far, and haven't been called any sort of child for...a long time.
BookBeard
Random semi-related anecdote, when I joined my local art museum the signup form forced me to select an honorific (no option for none), and I don't like being called "Mr.", so I chose one at random and for more than a decade now my membership card has started with "The Honorable". Nobody has ever questioned it.
BookBeard
Moray: "Yay! New friend!" Yay: "Curses, our cover is blown!" *flee*
Marc Tabor
Perfection!
allanfranta
Tasty?
David Durant
I here for Moray bumping into them and just smiling and saying "Hi Yay!" while Yay's head explodes.
Leak
Sägezahn... Sägezahn... Sägezahn... Sägezahn...
Leak
Please please please tell me they didn't take them back to work once it got colder outside... D:
allanfranta
The solution is more "storyline" isn't it?
David Durant
I met a lovely Canadian recently who seems to start every other sentence with "Yeah, no, you see..."
BookBeard
Melon: "Here, you can use mine!" *hands over dead squirrel* https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3711
Pejo
Yeah I'd like to touch Moray too, strictly for sensory seeking reasons, nothing else at all
SpookyPenguin
PLOTTING
David Paul
"Ugh, fine..." *removes fake moustache, converts it to fake goatee, starts stroking goatee*
Stephen Wells
Somehow simultaneously the omniboob and the omnibutt. A creature made entirely of our favourite curves :)
Stephen Wells
No wonder Bubbles likes her too :) remembering the butt implants storyline with Millefeuille.
Dean Reilly
Pretty sure "Yeah, nah" is exclusively Aussie though.
Jeffrey Anderson
Beautiful colors!
Charles Hirst
The thing about pronouns is that the only ones you can use about yourself are "I" or "we", unless - like Poirot - you refer to yourself in the third person. The ones that other people use to refer to you depend on their perception of you, modified by your preferences if they feel like it. In the 'old days', programmers used a 2-bit field for "Dr/Mr/Miss/Mrs" to save space (and sometimes tagged "esq." on after the name if they had used "Mr"). I was working in a university, so to allow for "Ms/Prof/Rev/The Hon...etc" I used a 6-bit character (ICL used 24-bit words) with &00 meaning no title and &77 meaning everything up to a ":" in the "firstname" field. As you can never be sure who (what or when) you are addressing when you email an organisation, I have started using "Goodmorrow Gentlebeing!" as it is gender, status, qualifications, nationality, ethnicity, species and time-zone neutral.
AlexKorobeiniki
The legends *were* true!
Aussie Jim
This fucking storyline is giving me everything. The drip feed is just the right pace. I may have a problem.
AlexKorobeiniki
Yes, they, thank you.
Stephen Wells
Classic high INT but dumped WIS and CHA build.
Stephen Wells
Yay has been firmly in Gargamel territory as long as we've known them :)
SilverbackRon
I am with Fart Captor on this one. That seems like a very efficient way to collect samples. Kind of like saying Hello but you just slip a little bit.
Onyx
Melon's analysis and the Gargamel reference are both hysterical.
Bagge
They contain multitudes like that
Andrew
Ask nicely like Faye and you can stick your fist in her…. chest?
LaPrimaNerda (Sarah Davis)
As someone who had the traitors removed and replaced, they wouldn’t be that hard to come by if Melon knew which nurses to ask. Surgeons have several nearby during surgery so they can adjust on the fly and one of my nurses had several unused ones in her home freezer as cold packs.
Jonathan
*they
legobil
Some light nibbling maybe?
legobil
Losing residuals sounds like a bad idea for Moray, considering she looses intelligence if that front hair bob is removed.
Leak
Shhh... it's a secrete!
Leak
No, but it'd probably make Yay both the whole smurf village AND Gargamel...
Fart Captor
Look, if you wanna be REALLY covert, you gotta collect that sample by sticking your tongue in her mouth. I feel like she'd be game for that
AlexKorobeiniki
Yay… I hate to break it to you, but you have a CHA of like, 6. INT of 20, CON off the charts, but she has the bedside mannerisms of a space alien
Andrew
Roko, yay! Oh and Yay also
Todd Ellner
Some people have no sense of adventure
Magic Chopstick Games
When you feel like a breast from your feet to your crest That’s a Moray!
Charles Hirst
The web gets everywhere!
BookBeard
In a way, Moray is entirely made of artificial breasts. She is the omniboob.
Miyaa
@BookBeard • Ah, Lemon. Living up to her name.
Andrew Mitchell
@Simon when I read your comment I heard Annie Lennox in my head.
BookBeard
Gargamel is the archenemy of the Smurfs.
Andrew Mitchell
You win the internet for today. Here's your trophy. 🏆
BookBeard
Marten doesn't know much that Yay would be worried about him spilling. He isn't aware of them being multiply embodied, he just knows they are a powerful AI that helped Bubbles and is friends with Aurelia. (Also, Yay is they/them)
Carrie
🤣😂😂🤣 Oh you sweet summer child.
legobil
@Julie Chan: but it has to be said during sex.
Charles Hirst
Beyond Lies the Wub (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28554)
Carrie
😂🤣🥵
Tamara Macadam
loving the implication that "yeah right" is somehow exclusive to australia
Aerin Moriarty
Thank you so much for this because the sensory seeking part of me has been desperate to know what it'd feel like to touch Moray
Jared Kolbly
Why do I get the feeling that if Yay meets Moray while Marten is around he will accidentally say something that will hint at what she is that Moray won't pick up on, but she will repeat to someone who will and is interested in without the best intentions.
Ursus Ridens
I know not of this Gargamel. It sounds like a name for the Mouthwash of the Undead.
Charles Hirst
The australian "yea! right!" is the only case where a double positive is a negative.
Creeperkry
I mean... technically Moray DOES have artificial breasts, it only makes sense she'd feel like that.
SilverbackRon
Seriously that long and proud heritage was one of the funniest things I had ever read. It was stuck in my head for days.
Bagge
Would that make Melon a smurf?
Magic Chopstick Games
wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub
SilverbackRon
I Swear To God, in panel one I thought Roko and Yay were holding hands. I was about to do a dance of celebration. But they are not. That's OK. I will still do the dance. We ARE at a club after all.
Julie Chan
"Happy birthday grandma!"
Hawkeye
Does Moray get residuals for the residuals?
JD
thanks I hate it
William Cole
"If I said you have a great body, would you secrete on me?"
BookBeard
With any luck, Jeph will take that as a challenge.
Drazi
Exactly.
Not that Patrick Foltz
Yay Okay
Captain Button
She went to dinner in her Sunday Best, Excitable Blob, they all said.
Chauncey
I mean, after a while, people get curious. There’s this club I used to go to where I found out all sorts of things I was in to. Candles can be fun.
Captain Button
I wonder if Beeps' workplace tests breast implants also.
BookBeard
You mean by inheriting it via the long and proud heritage of the Newfriend clan? https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4042
Chauncey
Sven with 5+ instances of Yay, and all the slightly over ripened produce they can find at the nearest grocery store.
JD
‘Maybe if you ask nicely she’ll secrete you some’ is one of the worst things I’ve ever read
Maurice Kessler
I expect your QC database is quite comprehensively keyworded.
Chauncey
I will pay good money to see what that scene looks like.
lilibat
oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz
BookBeard
When you're made out of goo But leave no residue That's a Moray!
jonesnori
Melon and Moray both feel too innocent to me for that pairing.
Cerril
I was reading on my phone and misread 'Gargamel' as 'Gamergater' which when talking about residue collecting, honest mistake.
Yelling Bird
"Like a breast implant." Come on Jeph. you're making it too easy. ;)
LH
technically no AI can have "big naturals"
That Blair Guy
Has Yay met Sven yet?
Shawn K. Younkin
Just posting, once again; how much I ADORE Melon!
Shawn K. Younkin
LOL- I knew which one you were going to link to without needing to go to it. That's such a good one!
Sorastro
Yay, stop twirling your moustache
BookBeard
Woob woob woob https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4135
Simon Green
Pretty sure Eurythmics wrote a song about it ... "Some of them want to secrete on you, some of them want to be secreted on..."
Drazi
I mean, remember how Yay got their name...
Rich Holmes
Yay nay
Graydon Armstrong
They're different types of freaky.
BookBeard
She probably picked up the hobby from her sister. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4354
ValdVin
And Marten's blood. Wait, that's Hanners.
ValdVin
The whole relationship of AIs to implants could be the source of a lot of fanfic. Look at Millefeuille's butt.
Dan Isaacs
I take it COVID is giving you a runny nose. 😁
Shawn K. Younkin
I appreciate that Roko gives Melon advice in getting the residue, she doesn't judge or ask why Melon has recently started collecting residues. Just friendly advice, that will probably work to.
Diptych
Yay yea.
Todd Ellner
And just like that Yay's cunning plan hit a rock and sank
Miyaa
Melen
Ron Hamann
Roko’s life is just one long sigh after another with those two.
Likeablejerk
Nah, Pintsize previously explained that the Coat Check at the club was just where you go to have someone check out your dope coat. But Roko and Yay still don't need it, because they aren't wearing coats.
William Cole
But according to Pintsize, Coat Check is a great spot for some low-level sin (and boob flashes).
Rich Holmes
I mean, I'd guess that's what she and other breast-having AIs have.
Logan Nix
I feel there's a joke to be made about charming women so they'll secrete on you but I'm too tired to formulate it
William Cole
I don't know if Sven is ready for Melon-level freakiness.
BobC
Since when did Yay become kinky? Not the slime, but by wanting the same thing as Melon!
Tannerbot
This has big "I collect spores, molds and fungus" energy.
Likeablejerk
The problem is that statement starting with their name already sounds like enthusiastic agreement.
Taigan
Is nobody gonna question Melon’s first-hand tactile experience with breast implants?
BookBeard
Yay perhaps.
BookBeard
Svelon
Vilinda
Yay has got me absolutely dying!
Rich Holmes
The colors, indeed. The colors!
BookBeard
I mean, it's not hard to get a sample of Moray. She is very excitable. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4864
Edward Clayton Andrew
Yay... you know what, you have a right to f up too.
MikeT
Hol' up there "Dexter" Melon
ValdVin
I don't know if either Roko or Yay are there for the coat check. They're both too honest to try stealing someone's coat.
Ashbury Haight
Hi melon!
Cas Wanden
Yay YES
Miyaa
Oh hi Melon! (Ooh, maybe we can ship Melon & Sven?)
JD
Melon!!!
Z Winningham
Yay yes
Tamara Macadam
yay n-why do i even bother
