Donorifics
Added 2025-02-06 02:11:59 +0000 UTCGood luck Melon
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Melon actually takes blood and organs off the Black Market/Silk Road and donates them to hospitals and blood banks. At first the staff found this incredibly unnerving, but they're used to it by now.
Mikey Bear
2025-02-10 17:52:12 +0000 UTCBubbles and Roko just accidentally caught the Northampton Ripper.
Andrew L Butula
2025-02-09 15:47:39 +0000 UTCCircuitously?
Duncan
2025-02-09 10:19:39 +0000 UTCI could see a way she considers herself a blood donor...show up at the place and convince someone who wasn't planning on donating that day to do it. Then Melon is responsible for the donation, in a sense.
PsychOut
2025-02-08 15:48:34 +0000 UTCNot faulty. Just, um, circuitically different.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-07 23:58:56 +0000 UTCYou're a better person than am I. I just come here to read about what horrors Pintsize did last. :)
Joseph Bonnar
2025-02-07 18:45:57 +0000 UTCMy eardrums ruptured just thinking about that, William.
Joseph Bonnar
2025-02-07 18:43:24 +0000 UTCI could use a heart -- a human heart. I need to pump a lot of blood out of my basement --Bender B. Rodriguez
Matthew DeVries
2025-02-07 14:55:40 +0000 UTCBubbles expression in the last panel says it all. Beautiful, Jeph.
Joseph Bonnar
2025-02-07 09:19:29 +0000 UTCShe sings "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" to the donors.
William Cole
2025-02-07 05:51:52 +0000 UTCYou need better parasocial groups.
Miyaa
2025-02-07 00:44:39 +0000 UTCTo be fair, I have seen V8 offered to help donors recover from their donation. I’m sure they’d appreciate Melon.
Miyaa
2025-02-07 00:44:03 +0000 UTC@Sean Kinlin • Do not let Fart Captor try to resuscitate Melon using mouth to mouth.
Miyaa
2025-02-07 00:41:54 +0000 UTCI can imagine Melon’s nose glow and buzz as the medical student failed to get her 3D printer humor bone out AGAIN.
Miyaa
2025-02-07 00:38:57 +0000 UTCI love the jokes, but it’s the emotions in panel three that have kept me a patron for so many years.
Populuxe
2025-02-06 21:55:10 +0000 UTCAn AI version of the practice mannequins they use in medical classes... yeah, I could see that being a paying gig.
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-06 18:08:51 +0000 UTCKnow how the modern LLMs have hallucination problems? Yeah, that's the Lemon, Lomen, Melon, and Nolem series.
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-06 18:07:04 +0000 UTCWhy not both?
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-06 18:05:45 +0000 UTCYou can sign up with the ARC app
Bill Silvia
2025-02-06 17:55:32 +0000 UTCIt would extra funny to me, and charming, if the answer to this weird puzzle was wholesome. When she said she needed to be there extra early, I thought, maybe she volunteers at a blood drive, maybe as a blood cheerleader of sorts.
CaseyAEC
2025-02-06 17:10:12 +0000 UTCMy new headcanon is that Melon went to a children's Halloween party several years ago and they had "blood" made from tomato juice. Someone explained it to her, she misunderstood, and she's been bringing a 12-pack of V8 to the blood bank once a week ever since.
BookBeard
2025-02-06 15:34:47 +0000 UTCI would go unique.
Miyaa
2025-02-06 14:26:34 +0000 UTCIn any other parasocial group I'd be concerned about how many comments are joking (sic) about donating someone else's blood or organs. Not sure if that says more about me or the company I keep.
ValdVin
2025-02-06 14:23:16 +0000 UTC"[Melon's body] is a particularly strange model, and it seems to attract similarly strange inhabitants". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3566
Mark
2025-02-06 13:58:43 +0000 UTCHmm. One green eye, one pink eye… maybe she keeps odd eyes in a misunderstood attempt to improve her 3D vision?
Holly Nelson
2025-02-06 13:52:44 +0000 UTCBeat me to it.
Philip Masters
2025-02-06 12:11:25 +0000 UTCShe probably arrives early to ask if anyone can give her some blood to donate. The staff are used to this by now.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 10:10:48 +0000 UTCRoko of course works there, although she's yet to convince Melon of that fact. Melon thinks this is Roko's identical twin.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 10:09:07 +0000 UTCI saw this one first xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 10:07:15 +0000 UTCIt looks the same to me, but I wouldn't put it past Melon to see Roko's unbrushed hair and decide it's an amazing style statement she should copy.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 10:04:47 +0000 UTCMelon is the best ♥️
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 10:02:39 +0000 UTCAs for non-chassis body parts, those can be manufactured (like joint replacements can for humans) but there probably are some that get donated/reclaimed from bodies too badly damaged to use, like the half chassis we once saw in Union Robotics whose owner lost a "very ill-advised" bet.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 10:00:10 +0000 UTC@Ursus Those are very valid worldbuilding questions to be asking! We do know that old chassis get donated because Winslow mentioned his old body was intended to be going to charity (that was when Pintsize installed the "ass zombie" app on it xD), which makes sense considering how much they cost new. However, they probably don't get top-of-the-line (or even middle-of-the-line) fully humanoid models donated a lot, because May wasn't able to get hold of anything better than the junk she was housed in for way too long. Which makes me wonder if there's a thriving second-hand market for bodies. There must be, if old humanoid bodies aren't being donated - I mean, what happened to Momo's old one when she became Tall Momo? Enquiring minds need to know! But it seems reasonable that people would want to recoup some of the costs of the new body because again, they're expensive. Then again, you've also got Pintsize buying his chassis from Internet Jerry - maybe THAT's where all the second-hand ones go xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 09:57:56 +0000 UTCTo be fair, you can't usually tell from the name, unless it's something like Moray X-21 xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 09:38:11 +0000 UTCIt doesn't necessarily have to be her blood.... or organs
Salodni Ikkis
2025-02-06 09:34:57 +0000 UTCPersonality xD
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-06 09:32:21 +0000 UTCPart of me is so curious to figure out why Melon is like this (magnets stuck inside her chassis? Errant lines of code? Corrupted files? Faulty hardware?), but the other part recognizes the joy in the mystery and how her just being "like that" is both hilarious and endlessly endearing.
Morgana Alexis Ravenwood
2025-02-06 09:11:44 +0000 UTCI just want to give them both a comb.
Dean Reilly
2025-02-06 08:55:48 +0000 UTCMight be an electric organ instead of a pipe organ. If it's a Hammond, then it's a significant donation! Those things are sought after!
Spartan Windrider
2025-02-06 06:15:08 +0000 UTCShe didn't used to be, if I'm remembering correctly. Her pink eye is left over from her face mishap.
Spartan Windrider
2025-02-06 06:12:32 +0000 UTCProbably traded an eye for an eye at the organ donors...
Leak
2025-02-06 06:12:06 +0000 UTCAs long as the "AI drive" (essentially processor, memory and storage bundled together) remains intact, they can seemingly survive virtually any other damage and be safely (if not always comfortably) uploaded to a new chassis. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3008 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3907
BookBeard
2025-02-06 05:19:50 +0000 UTCI want to know who is signing up robots for these.
Shane Wegner
2025-02-06 05:19:42 +0000 UTC...whose blood? ....whose organs?
Bagge
2025-02-06 05:18:52 +0000 UTCHow did I just now notice that Melon is heterochromatic?
Carl Fink
2025-02-06 05:16:15 +0000 UTCRoko's original body suffered catastrophic crush damage, but her brain had a standard reinforced casing that allowed it to survive even though her body didn't. AI brains apparently are nonvolatile enough to be able to survive for at least a time without any external support.
Czarzhan
2025-02-06 05:14:44 +0000 UTCStill is!
BobC
2025-02-06 05:02:58 +0000 UTCIt seems that they do have coolant.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-06 04:58:36 +0000 UTCIt sounds as if she already _was_ the first successful AI brain donor.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-06 04:57:15 +0000 UTCI dunno -- does she have any redundant subsystems so that she could donate one? It wouldn't be normal engineering in our world, but -- here AIs are people, so you wouldn't want them to expire from a single critical subsystem failure, the way us meat-people often do. But would they expire at all, or just sort of power down? (Here is where I tell myself, "Dude, you're overthinking this. It's a webcomic.")
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-06 04:51:29 +0000 UTCNah, Union Robotics fixed up her dermal sealant so they don't get in anymore.
William Cole
2025-02-06 04:46:17 +0000 UTCGive a kidney, you're a Hero. Give four kidneys, you're a "Person of Interest."
Jathby Dredas
2025-02-06 04:15:27 +0000 UTC3rd frame is the HALP MELON ATTACK 1000 yard stare
SpookyPenguin
2025-02-06 04:10:22 +0000 UTCI thought Hannelore is more like Gizmo Duck’s alter ego. You know you toss coins on the ground and she could tell you which ones are loonies and which are toonies. Also has an accounting degree. Is a judge for the 2025 Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet World Championship.
Miyaa
2025-02-06 04:09:30 +0000 UTC14 kidneys would be fine, but 15? No chance.
BookBeard
2025-02-06 03:59:47 +0000 UTCMaybe she volunteers as an "organ donor" for surgeons to practice on? Kind of like volunteering as a CPR subject, only more intense.
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-06 03:58:47 +0000 UTC@Captain Button: Melon Just Wants to Have Fun
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-06 03:55:23 +0000 UTCVampire robots sound like something that would appear in Dr. McNinja.
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-06 03:50:40 +0000 UTCWell that's just not going to work! Her blood and organs will be full of bugs
Nicolas Demers
2025-02-06 03:45:53 +0000 UTCFuckin’ Melon, man. Can’t believe how hard I laughed at this one.
Hawkeye
2025-02-06 03:37:31 +0000 UTCSee, this is why I'm glad I don't remember everything from my college years.
Maurice Kessler
2025-02-06 03:36:57 +0000 UTCIt’s a lowery from the 80s. She put it on Craigslist
Gary Walker
2025-02-06 03:26:54 +0000 UTCThey'll give her an electronic cookie, to track her donations.
Amelia Lewis
2025-02-06 03:23:56 +0000 UTCTbh I am now feeling grateful that none of my friends or family are like Melon... I could NOT cope.
Andrew Mitchell
2025-02-06 03:13:30 +0000 UTCYou do realise she could be 3d printing blood & organs in her torso? She has to get there early for the nacre solution to be refreshed
Steve Prowse
2025-02-06 03:11:07 +0000 UTCOh this is priceless. Your holiday helped, even if they were written last year
Steve Prowse
2025-02-06 03:07:48 +0000 UTCThis is why Melon is so good at making Roko feel better, she can transition seamlessly from being wholesome and comforting to being weird and distracting. My favorite example of this remarkable talent: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3918
BookBeard
2025-02-06 03:07:22 +0000 UTCIt just occurred to me that Hannelore is basically The Count.
Daryl Sawyer
2025-02-06 03:02:08 +0000 UTCIt hurts so good.
Daryl Sawyer
2025-02-06 03:01:39 +0000 UTCher neighbours or the needy's neighbours?
LH
2025-02-06 02:55:15 +0000 UTCThe additional scrutiny is the reason she needs to get there so early. Every time she shows up to donate, it leads to many hours of questioning by concerned authorities.
Likeablejerk
2025-02-06 02:54:48 +0000 UTCShe's So Unusual
Captain Button
2025-02-06 02:52:47 +0000 UTCMonty Python's Flying Circus had a sketch about that back in the day.
Captain Button
2025-02-06 02:52:36 +0000 UTCIs it just me, or has Melon's hair gotten shaggier?
Cody Renton
2025-02-06 02:49:29 +0000 UTCBlood donor? You're not even a blood owner. ( this is a joke from an old How to Be A Ventriloquist record )
Tudza
2025-02-06 02:43:08 +0000 UTCBubbles is all of us right now…staring blankly ahead with an expression that lies at the Venn diagram intersection of confusion, disbelief and resignation…
Darren Franzen
2025-02-06 02:40:00 +0000 UTCI donate blood and organs all the time. Not MY blood and organs, but still.
Yelling Bird
2025-02-06 02:39:14 +0000 UTCShe used to have pink earcups for ears wayyyyy back when.
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-06 02:38:49 +0000 UTCGlad someone else thinks the way I do.
Thisguy
2025-02-06 02:37:04 +0000 UTCHonestly I see her just rocking up with a piece of paper that says blood and giving it to them... Then waiting for the cookie that she can't actually eat.
Bridgette Ryan
2025-02-06 02:35:29 +0000 UTCThat conversation warrants additional scrutiny of Melon. Just to make sure...
Commodore_Perry
2025-02-06 02:32:31 +0000 UTCP O I N G https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4801
BookBeard
2025-02-06 02:31:59 +0000 UTCAlso doubles as WiFi receiver, as Faye & Bubbles can attest.
Miyaa
2025-02-06 02:29:19 +0000 UTCMelon should never meet Emmett because they would be too successful in whatever kind of shenanigans they would do.
Miyaa
2025-02-06 02:27:07 +0000 UTCI just got the significance (?) of her colors…watermelon. Green outside and pink inside ? 🤦🏼♂️
FreeReedz
2025-02-06 02:24:39 +0000 UTCI have concerns. Because she's gonna come back like she was successful. And I don't think we want to know how.
Graydon Armstrong
2025-02-06 02:23:55 +0000 UTCMelon is the first successful AI brain donor!
BobC
2025-02-06 02:23:36 +0000 UTCNo, Melon, you can't just show up with 15 kidneys and expect to not be questioned.
Simpin4Holo
2025-02-06 02:23:22 +0000 UTCReminds me of the funny meme. I was going to donate blood today but they started asking way too many personal questions like, “Whose blood is this?!" and “Where did you get it?!"
Chris
2025-02-06 02:23:13 +0000 UTCgod shes peculiar
Tamara Macadam
2025-02-06 02:22:23 +0000 UTCGah didn’t see Bill’s earlier comment…
Andrew
2025-02-06 02:21:28 +0000 UTCIs Melon....stealing organs and blood from people????????????? Genuine question.
Kristina
2025-02-06 02:21:03 +0000 UTCWhose blood is she going to donate? Some guys.
lilibat
2025-02-06 02:20:47 +0000 UTCIt’s a church organ, why so much drama?
Andrew
2025-02-06 02:20:19 +0000 UTCI can’t tell if this will lead to them finding Yay, or if Melon’s being uh…Melon. Then again, maybe androids do have something like blood.
Andrea Andrew
2025-02-06 02:20:06 +0000 UTCMelon is living whiplash and i love it
Jon
2025-02-06 02:19:51 +0000 UTCLike a cat’s tail.
FreeReedz
2025-02-06 02:19:51 +0000 UTCMelon has an extensive collection of antique keyboard instruments and is on her way to donate one of her finest 18th century reed organs to the Northampton Museum of Music. Obviously.
BookBeard
2025-02-06 02:19:13 +0000 UTCHave we seen Melon's ahoge hair before?
ValdVin
2025-02-06 02:18:36 +0000 UTCI vant to drain your coolant!
Andrew
2025-02-06 02:18:14 +0000 UTCThis is why I love Melon!
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-06 02:17:30 +0000 UTCWe did wonder who bought blood packs from CoD…
Andrew
2025-02-06 02:16:56 +0000 UTCMelon has a handy mood indicator on their scalp!
Xionwalker
2025-02-06 02:16:51 +0000 UTC(Evil Melon prowls the street in search of prey)
Michael Boettger
2025-02-06 02:16:33 +0000 UTCMelon is donating her pipe organ to the needy? Well, I guess that will make the neighbors happy.
Bill Silvia
2025-02-06 02:16:09 +0000 UTCMelon is back in her new skin!
Not that Patrick Foltz
2025-02-06 02:15:57 +0000 UTCRoko, stop Melon before she donates a spare (sic) part of her chassis to the AI rights org.
ValdVin
2025-02-06 02:15:45 +0000 UTCMelon breaks brains. Human or AI, no matter, it's her calling.
Doc Gumby
2025-02-06 02:15:36 +0000 UTCAre there… vampire robots in QC?
Miyaa
2025-02-06 02:15:31 +0000 UTCMelon is EXTREMELY confused but she got the spirit.
Valerie Kaplan
2025-02-06 02:15:11 +0000 UTClook, it's fine. the blood and organs belong to her, so she can do with them what she likes. no more questions please
dizzy ditzy
2025-02-06 02:15:07 +0000 UTCI've missed Melon. (and Lemon, for that matter!)
Alacrity Fitzhugh
2025-02-06 02:14:57 +0000 UTCMelon doesn't seem very organ-ized.
Peter McDevitt
2025-02-06 02:14:54 +0000 UTCMan she has a busy schedule
Michael
2025-02-06 02:14:52 +0000 UTCShe's actually going to goodwill.
Colin McBride
2025-02-06 02:14:07 +0000 UTCMy love of Melon knows no bounds.
JMK
2025-02-06 02:13:53 +0000 UTC
