Build A Better Mousetrap
Added 2025-02-17 01:41:09 +0000 UTCit might work
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Before switching body AND job, she said to her old boss (or colleague…? Not sure what O’Malley was) that she felt wired for companionship. But no real surprise this all has taken a lower priority in her life with all other tumultuous events that has gone down for her. Change of job, change of body and now close friend ghosting.
legobil
2025-02-19 05:43:42 +0000 UTCNah. We've already seen Roko give Spooks a hard time, and she'd (she _will_ we hope) give them the royal what-for.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-19 00:36:26 +0000 UTCI don't know whether Jeph is set up for life, but he probably could be by offering a stuffed plush chibi Bubbles (decked out as Momo when we first met her) on Topatoco.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-19 00:33:30 +0000 UTCI would date an AI because at least the I implies intelligence which has been really hard to find lately.
Kuragari
2025-02-18 22:16:16 +0000 UTC🤔
Claudia D.
2025-02-18 21:33:42 +0000 UTCto be fair the whole "my approval" on a string trap would get me every time
Sydney J Freedberg
2025-02-18 20:48:01 +0000 UTCSee, now I'm imagining tiny Bubbles in an original-Momo style chibi anime chassis...
BookBeard
2025-02-18 17:54:39 +0000 UTCBrun is a regular 👀 Potentially busy with Millefeuille, though I'd love some confirmation of that...
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-18 16:46:03 +0000 UTCOooh, I hope so XD
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-18 16:45:20 +0000 UTCGOSH I can't even imagine that match-up but I want to see it xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-18 16:44:36 +0000 UTCI think the faint blush is because Bubbles is thinking about how cute Faye is :) which is, in turn, very cute.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-18 15:49:09 +0000 UTCAs soon as Hanners hears about that she'll be doing some test runs with Roko and Bubbles. Develop a Robot Tea Ceremony.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-18 15:47:59 +0000 UTCtotally agree, Roko deserves some lovin'
Noodz
2025-02-18 12:16:50 +0000 UTCRenee does, but seems quite straight and is also in some kind of long-distance relationship with Shitty/Hot Dan https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4505
Mark
2025-02-18 10:04:15 +0000 UTCI’m sure it will eventually, but Roko definitely deserves a positive arc after her struggles and body dysmorphia. Love her character
Maximum Turtle
2025-02-18 08:38:42 +0000 UTCToday I Learned
Clifton Royston
2025-02-18 06:10:37 +0000 UTC*shudder*
Todd Ellner
2025-02-18 02:51:00 +0000 UTCI keep thinking, "Eliot?", but nah, he's, um, busy. Jim's also unavailable. Doesn't anybody else work at Secret Bakery?
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-18 02:50:07 +0000 UTCThanks for the explanation, Todd. But at CoD, at least, we've sometimes seen, well, teabags.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-18 02:47:45 +0000 UTCBubbles acting rather a lot like Momo. (Momofication??)
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-18 02:44:28 +0000 UTCAnd on that day a new ship was launched. The Remily.
SilverbackRon
2025-02-18 01:48:13 +0000 UTCHow funny would it be if Yay just walked into Marten coffee shop and said “ok let me talk to the ai that runs this place” and looks in the coffee maker for the big bad lol
Hawkeye
2025-02-18 01:42:24 +0000 UTCEnglish SO needs tweaking.
Claudia D.
2025-02-17 23:39:12 +0000 UTCIf she's going to date a human, they are for sure going to be a baker.
Beth Goode
2025-02-17 23:39:04 +0000 UTCAnyone who’s raised or taught teenagers knows THOSE feelings! Woo, do,you need lots o’.patience.
Claudia D.
2025-02-17 23:35:51 +0000 UTCMaybe they were trying to protect their friends? Trying to annoy the friends into not looking for them b/c of a perception of danger? Just trying to give the situation the benefit of the doubt until shown otherwise…
Claudia D.
2025-02-17 23:34:10 +0000 UTCWho's going to be Roko's cute human? How's Emily Azuma (sp?) doing?
Chris Warren
2025-02-17 23:23:45 +0000 UTCI do hope all this Yay talk leads up to their return, otherwise this is just unnecessary torment.
Noodz
2025-02-17 22:38:13 +0000 UTCMaybe, but I doubt it. The goodbye note was typically selfish and self centered Yay.
Todd Ellner
2025-02-17 19:31:35 +0000 UTCGong fu cha involves repeatedly covering the leaves with a small amount of water and pouring off the liquor. It gives all the developing flavors of the tea
Todd Ellner
2025-02-17 19:29:33 +0000 UTCDo robots just buy a cup of tea and sniff it or do they go for the whole gong fu cha experience?
Todd Ellner
2025-02-17 19:27:10 +0000 UTCBubbles’ face in panel 3 is a picture. In fact very deft expressions all round.
James Dore
2025-02-17 19:14:01 +0000 UTCThe first part, probably. Even if they know it's a big deal they'll try to play it off, but there's no way Roko lets it pass without comment. I think Yay is going to find themselves getting lectured and/or guilt tripped into oblivion by Roko, Melon, Bubbles, Faye and Aurelia simultaneously, in five different bodies.
BookBeard
2025-02-17 17:36:14 +0000 UTCI am afraid that when Boo Notfriend returns they will just blithely waltz in as if nothing had happened, and Roko will eagerly crawl back to them
Todd Ellner
2025-02-17 17:19:24 +0000 UTCIt is possible, based on past evidence, that Yay could move under the box, take a look around, and get out before Roko could react and tug on the string.
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-17 17:11:38 +0000 UTCThey'd know it's a trap, but in knowing be confidant of not being caught, and it's worth at least checking the box, right?
Raymond Dannelly
2025-02-17 16:50:17 +0000 UTC*their head
Runhildr Zaetl
2025-02-17 16:45:58 +0000 UTCElliott already gave her lessons!
jonesnori
2025-02-17 16:43:17 +0000 UTCRoko and Emily. They can bond over their love of assam. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3575
BookBeard
2025-02-17 15:30:49 +0000 UTCI'm the flip side: I didn't know what Roko's Basilisk was til Roko showed up. Then again, QC taught me about eight-string guitars.
ValdVin
2025-02-17 15:02:06 +0000 UTCI'm curious which human Roko would take on a double date with Bubbles and Faye
AlexisLeBluer
2025-02-17 15:00:48 +0000 UTCAnd yet her favorite silicone items are still her collection of non-stick bread pans and cake molds.
BookBeard
2025-02-17 14:53:48 +0000 UTC... You know this HAS to end with Yay with a cardboard box over her head now
Nutjob
2025-02-17 14:17:51 +0000 UTC.....after many years I just now realized that Roko is named after Roko's Basilisk...
Fafner
2025-02-17 12:22:09 +0000 UTCRemember the one where Yay helped Roko with her hair and Roko suggested Yay should move in with her and get a cat? I think that interaction was basically "marry me" in robogay.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-17 11:41:20 +0000 UTCBeeps doesn't smooch Roko, she just keeps her supplied with factory-surplus sex toys. Roko currently has 276 different silicone items in her closet. And two more elsewhere.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-17 11:39:50 +0000 UTCSo far she seems to be robosexual
Todd Ellner
2025-02-17 10:19:29 +0000 UTCThank you Sam! Could not parse the image properly, but I see it now :)
Stephen Wells
2025-02-17 10:09:22 +0000 UTCOne can be both relieved and explode with frustration.
David Paul
2025-02-17 10:01:26 +0000 UTCRoko (loudly): What's that? Someone's left a bunch of greyhound photos under the big net in the park?
Dean Reilly
2025-02-17 09:34:21 +0000 UTCShe's pouring out the tea she made after she's done smelling it.
Sam Trenery
2025-02-17 09:14:00 +0000 UTCNote that in panel 2 Roko doesn't specify a gender of "cute human".
Mark
2025-02-17 09:07:38 +0000 UTCWe just had one of those flower in our local Botanic Garden. The problem with Melon would then be stopping her from rubbing herself on it!
Mark
2025-02-17 09:06:12 +0000 UTCBubbles ships Roko and her hypothetical date, like Roko was enamoured by the story of Bubbles and Faye getting together. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3899
Mark
2025-02-17 09:03:48 +0000 UTCPlugging in her bread machine.
Alasdair Mackintosh
2025-02-17 09:00:01 +0000 UTCI think pouring something out of a mug
Charlie Rose
2025-02-17 08:27:05 +0000 UTCBoth? Both is good. 😋
kupo
2025-02-17 08:00:21 +0000 UTCCan anyone work out what Roko is doing with her hands in panel 1? Confused. Edited to add: Sam Trenery enlightened me, she's pouring out her tea.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-17 07:56:14 +0000 UTCShe likes bread (almost exclusively) and we know she's fantasised about "Human Abs", accompanied by bread.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-17 07:54:03 +0000 UTCPanel 2 is the high-quality bait, Bubbles in Panel 3 is the fanservice
Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell
2025-02-17 07:14:49 +0000 UTCWho said anything about a FAKE datee?? Why would I want anything less than maximal Roko-smooching Now, Smooching Beeps would be problematic cuz she's her boss, but nobody's perfect
Fart Captor
2025-02-17 06:29:51 +0000 UTC...unless you're dating Melon.
Doug DeJulio
2025-02-17 06:17:24 +0000 UTCoh god i snerked so loud my cat freaked
SpookyPenguin
2025-02-17 06:09:35 +0000 UTCi give it 4 out of 5 squees
SpookyPenguin
2025-02-17 06:07:53 +0000 UTCRoko has had romantic fantasies about Clinton, so… not that that would exclude of course.
legobil
2025-02-17 06:00:12 +0000 UTCAaaand that’s the lack of closure.
legobil
2025-02-17 05:59:00 +0000 UTCIf Yay was a bread,, what kind of bread would Yay be? I suspect some variant of marble rye/pumpernickel...
FE
2025-02-17 05:32:11 +0000 UTCRoko would be delighted if that was the case x3 But she can't be sure that Yay is even in the same galaxy these days.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-17 05:29:21 +0000 UTCOof, no. Fortunately, we haven't seen Winslow do anything to act on his crush on Roko and Roko remains unaware that he has one.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-17 05:28:14 +0000 UTCAs long as it's not during the Titan Arum blooming period...
FE
2025-02-17 05:27:55 +0000 UTCAs a compromise, go on a date with Crushbot. He knows what he did :)
Andrew
2025-02-17 05:23:24 +0000 UTCNope. We can only assume Yay wouldn't have left them without a carer, but it hasn't been addressed in-comic.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-17 05:17:49 +0000 UTCI'm not sure if Roko would be mad at that point or just relieved xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-17 05:16:34 +0000 UTCBubbles looks like Sam in that third panel. Sooooo cute!
Drazi
2025-02-17 05:14:22 +0000 UTCMight need something stronger than cardboard, Roko.... or line it with pointy dogs. Yay wouldn't harm dogbox.
Granite
2025-02-17 04:55:05 +0000 UTCImagine a big arrow sign that says BREAD and also points at bread.
JFCIsIt2029Yet
2025-02-17 04:37:21 +0000 UTCLOL- she's a fictional comic strip character and I am rooting for her love life!
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-17 04:24:06 +0000 UTCHave we ever learned Roko's orientation, come to think of it?
Yonatan Zunger
2025-02-17 04:19:27 +0000 UTCRoko has a lot of friends secretly rooting for her love life, it seems.
Clifton Royston
2025-02-17 04:15:15 +0000 UTCMostly human. :D
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-17 04:14:22 +0000 UTC(raises hand to volunteer as The Bait)
Mad Marie
2025-02-17 04:07:41 +0000 UTCHuh! Where would I as a human arrange a double date with two human/robot couples? I think it'd have to be the botanical gardens. Their improved olfactory senses could really get something out of that.
Doug DeJulio
2025-02-17 04:05:10 +0000 UTC!!THE WORLD WAS NOT READY FOR THE CHAOS LOAF!! https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4077
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-17 04:05:09 +0000 UTCBubbles's little smile & blush in panel 3 is unbearably cute.
William Cole
2025-02-17 03:57:05 +0000 UTCIt's the perfect trap!
William Cole
2025-02-17 03:51:29 +0000 UTCThank you and my apologies for the wrong pronouns, I have it fixed!
voyager-ngc5195
2025-02-17 03:41:19 +0000 UTC*they
BookBeard
2025-02-17 03:38:59 +0000 UTCMaybe she’s not ghosting. Maybe she trapped. Or hurt. Or lost. Or, or,or. Oh, no, Yay!
Claudia D.
2025-02-17 03:37:00 +0000 UTCBut are you a girl *WITH NICE CRUSTY BREAD*? Play to your audience.
Josh Medin
2025-02-17 03:33:11 +0000 UTCAnd from the formless Brad they called forth BREAD and it was GOOD.
Claudia D.
2025-02-17 03:33:02 +0000 UTCBrad is the formless chaos out of which bread emerges.
Captain Button
2025-02-17 03:21:40 +0000 UTCIt might work, but the point is to stop carrying that torch for someone who ghosted you
Todd Ellner
2025-02-17 03:18:02 +0000 UTCIt certainly might work.
The World Famous Chocomerican
2025-02-17 03:15:12 +0000 UTCBrad IS bread
Pete
2025-02-17 03:11:00 +0000 UTCI'm a girl, but I would still like to formally apply for the position of Roko's date!
Sean Brannon
2025-02-17 03:09:17 +0000 UTCSee, here everyone is having very serious psychological discussion of what such a relationship would mean, and I'm just thinking that after the Valentine's Day post, panel 2 is Jeph engaging in mild fan service for his (mostly human) Patreon audience. :)
Yonatan Zunger
2025-02-17 02:53:35 +0000 UTChonestly if i were yay that would do it
Tamara Macadam
2025-02-17 02:51:55 +0000 UTCBox and stick would 1000% work.
Simpin4Holo
2025-02-17 02:43:25 +0000 UTCYou can't live for the approval of others. I live for my own approval. The odds are slightly better that I can attain that. Admittedly, it's a low bar, but I somehow find a way to make it a hurdle.
Yelling Bird
2025-02-17 02:36:42 +0000 UTCSo when Yay reappears, is that when we're going to find out that the Director and them have been going steady since just after the time skip and just haven't let anyone know since they've...been busy?
kupo
2025-02-17 02:22:51 +0000 UTCI mean, I see on in the kitchen already...
Kurist Zero
2025-02-17 02:22:42 +0000 UTCAdd that to the list of reasons that Yay really needs to talk to Claire.
BookBeard
2025-02-17 02:21:57 +0000 UTCHmm. Dating to bring your true love out of hiding? Perhaps she should post that she’s worried doing that would backfire in public forum; As asking for advice that won’t trigger more panic attacks would be a better plan. Learning to bake would be a good idea.
Sparky
2025-02-17 02:20:33 +0000 UTC(didn't check the link first, oops)
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2025-02-17 02:12:04 +0000 UTCnot bread?
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2025-02-17 02:11:44 +0000 UTCMaybe May should date Roko.
Andrea Andrew
2025-02-17 02:09:47 +0000 UTCJealous or so interested in what it means that they have to come out of hiding? Have these two not realized Yay is probably watching them have this conversation?
Steve McSheffrey
2025-02-17 02:09:32 +0000 UTCI can't remember, but has the disposition of Yay's dogs been addressed?
Czarzhan
2025-02-17 02:07:25 +0000 UTCThis plotline inevitably leads to Roko realizing that her true soul mate is, and will always be, Brad. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3961
BookBeard
2025-02-17 02:07:21 +0000 UTCIt’s gonna be Winslow, isn’t it?
Andrea Andrew
2025-02-17 02:04:27 +0000 UTCGod, I hope not... like, as an allegory for a trans person, that would be a nightmare... let me just destroy my very essence of self and being to conform with what society expects so that I can live a safe life.
Bridgette Ryan
2025-02-17 02:00:41 +0000 UTCI don't. Dating someone to make someone else jealous is contemptible. It is manipulative and deceptive. You are using the fake datee and lying to them. And you are encouraging the target to have nasty destructive emotions.
Captain Button
2025-02-17 01:56:27 +0000 UTCYeah, Roko wants to hug Yay like a constrictor, but STRAIGHTLY!
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-17 01:54:23 +0000 UTCAnd a warm loaf of sourdough.
ValdVin
2025-02-17 01:53:16 +0000 UTCI get a sinking feeling that the next time we see yay they will be far less embodied. Call it Chekov's Lobotomy
Nilbog Trog
2025-02-17 01:52:20 +0000 UTCI support this plan Roko, go on dates and smooch people til they get jealous
Fart Captor
2025-02-17 01:52:09 +0000 UTCSince the last human Roko thought was cute is now taken, a box and a stick is the best option.
ValdVin
2025-02-17 01:51:56 +0000 UTCA Very Special episode of Questionable Content.
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-17 01:49:52 +0000 UTCRoko's heart continues to beat for Yay.
Doc Gumby
2025-02-17 01:48:56 +0000 UTCWhereas catching Roko would require a breadbox and a stick.
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-17 01:48:24 +0000 UTCRoko needs to broaden her circle of friends. Bubbles happens to know some pretty cool people.
SilverbackRon
2025-02-17 01:46:22 +0000 UTCI don't know, but I am sure it is someone with "HUMAN ABS".
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-17 01:45:25 +0000 UTCSo… Roko… just so I can be sure I have this right… you want to set up a date with some random stranger in order to make your “friend” so jealous that they break their self-imposed isolation. You do realize that that’s the kind of plot a sitcom would use to get the endgame couple back together?
Taigan
2025-02-17 01:45:06 +0000 UTCOh Roko, you need a hug, and probably 20 minutes sniffing a baking loaf of sourdough
Tannerbot
2025-02-17 01:45:05 +0000 UTCYou should see if Elliot has another baker friend of his that you can date, Roko! Or even better go to France and date a French baker!
Miyaa
2025-02-17 01:44:51 +0000 UTCI mean, if they didn't crash that date with the two dozen croissants then they're probably not crashing any dates at all.
voyager-ngc5195
2025-02-17 01:44:40 +0000 UTCAs silly as Roko's idea is... Yay would TOTALLY FALL FOR IT!
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-17 01:43:48 +0000 UTCDoes Bubbles have someone in mind with particularly nice buns?
Simon Green
2025-02-17 01:43:45 +0000 UTC"Fluffy dog pictures"
Andrew Denton
2025-02-17 01:43:37 +0000 UTCWell, she does know her multiply embodied genderless partner.
Bill Silvia
2025-02-17 01:43:27 +0000 UTCa box and a stick
Brendan Luster
2025-02-17 01:42:57 +0000 UTC
