What's Bugging Aurelia
Added 2024-09-08 01:07:28 +0000 UTChouse centipedes are our friends. our creepy, disturbing little friends.
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John Pallister
2024-09-11 20:48:41 +0000 UTCThey ARE cute!
Jennifer De Lurio
2024-09-09 13:08:10 +0000 UTCI was main tank healer, I wasn't moving for shit til raid leader told me I could lol
Aerin Moriarty
2024-09-09 03:40:40 +0000 UTCOr squishy. If it has more than 4 legs, it’s a bug, especially those nasty underwater big handed cockroaches people eat
Joshua
2024-09-09 02:59:27 +0000 UTCMight also have been a silverfish, they look vaguely similar and like bathrooms.
Joshua
2024-09-09 02:58:17 +0000 UTCNah, it happened during WoW, you’re not allowed to stop that for anything short of fire, flood, or booty call.
Joshua
2024-09-09 02:57:29 +0000 UTCWe have an agreement. They stay out of my way, and they get to live. Same for spiders, but if they web anywhere I walk, they’re getting evicted.
Joshua
2024-09-09 02:54:40 +0000 UTCI don't know if the Australian centipedes are deadly venomous, but if it's the same kind that's endemic in Hawaii, Southern Polynesia, and Southeast Asia, the bite is excruciatingly painful, and the bites tend to get nasty infections too.
Clifton Royston
2024-09-09 00:08:39 +0000 UTCExactly
Rachel Maeroff
2024-09-08 21:53:10 +0000 UTCYes!
Opus the Poet
2024-09-08 20:13:05 +0000 UTCWhen we lived in Hawaii the centipedes could kill cats and small dogs, and were reputed to have killed a toddler.
Opus the Poet
2024-09-08 19:58:49 +0000 UTCNext, find a video of them moving. That's the thing that sends me into "k!ll mode"
Nicole Sweetmercy
2024-09-08 17:37:23 +0000 UTC... she's hiding in the basement, isn't she?
KiTA
2024-09-08 13:15:41 +0000 UTCOne of the earliest naturalists on Australian TV was notorious for grabbing all sorts of dangerous wildlife and hauling them up in front of the camera, but in one episode he filmed a centipede bustling past and said something to the effect of "OK, we'll just leave him alone" and I wondered what kind of killing machine that must have been that even this maniac didn't want to touch it.
Mark
2024-09-08 13:05:28 +0000 UTCNo, too convenient...
Doc Gumby
2024-09-08 13:00:12 +0000 UTCYay is probably already in it, right?
Melissa Wilson
2024-09-08 12:20:26 +0000 UTCAnything is better than cockroaches. *shudder*
Sean Kinlin
2024-09-08 11:48:51 +0000 UTCSo Yay is George Bailey?
Sean Kinlin
2024-09-08 11:41:13 +0000 UTCStill prefer centipedes over cockroaches, any day.
David Paul
2024-09-08 09:53:21 +0000 UTCThere'll probably be a Linux patch to support them, though.
David Paul
2024-09-08 09:34:42 +0000 UTCI've got 2 spiders living in webs on my front door glass. They've caught heaps of bugs.
Jim
2024-09-08 08:59:54 +0000 UTCThat house centipede is a coworker to Melon, thank you very much
Bagge
2024-09-08 08:24:56 +0000 UTCHuh, in Swedish we just say “half wings” about Hemiptera, but then we don’t really use the word bugs like English do. Maybe “insekter”/insects or the slang “kryp” (translates to crawlers or creeps) is mostly used similar to the term bug.
legobil
2024-09-08 08:24:38 +0000 UTCMaybe they didnt delete the codes, but hopefully changed them…? 😬
legobil
2024-09-08 08:16:57 +0000 UTCWonder if Yay is in there. One or maybe some of their units…?
legobil
2024-09-08 08:14:24 +0000 UTCAre we talking about the centipedes, or Yay?
Graydon Armstrong
2024-09-08 06:31:42 +0000 UTC“I like the way Dneirfwen thinks!”
Graydon Armstrong
2024-09-08 06:30:31 +0000 UTCI implore any parents out there: teach your kids NOT to have the attitude towards nature's creatures displayed by the characters here.
Chas Simmons
2024-09-08 06:17:16 +0000 UTCI'll take house centipedes over ticks all day every day.
Mandy Hoskins
2024-09-08 05:44:45 +0000 UTCI just claim "It's a feature."
Clifton Royston
2024-09-08 05:26:15 +0000 UTCIf you have a basement boiler room or an attic, toss them there and you'll likely never see them again (they prefer temps around 100°F and humidity near 100%)
ArtemisFolly
2024-09-08 05:18:44 +0000 UTCI've had to deal with roaches. I'd much rather have had centipedes.
Maurice Kessler
2024-09-08 04:33:16 +0000 UTCSo I just Googled house centipedes, because we don't really have them here in the UK and you're right: they're SO CUTE! Have you seen their widdle faces?! Aww... Also: they eat things I detest, so that's a big bonus.
Fay Roberts
2024-09-08 04:22:10 +0000 UTCMeh, they're fine. Whatever
Larry
2024-09-08 04:08:00 +0000 UTCOh, geez, BookBeard. Great reference. That directly led to Bubbles getting out of her armor. One of my favorite QC arcs. Though there was some dresser portage between the two.
BobC
2024-09-08 03:47:56 +0000 UTCNo Yay, skynet is not a good role model!
Professor Harmless
2024-09-08 03:42:45 +0000 UTCOkay I saw a house centipede last week and it absolutely was on-sight. And then I googled them, and they're great pest repellent, so next time it gets thrown out the door far far far far far away from an entry 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Kristina
2024-09-08 03:30:14 +0000 UTCI was wondering that too. "I've been looking *everywhere* for you!" "I've been hiding here waiting for you!" (Tears, hugs, kisses, fade to black)
Clifton Royston
2024-09-08 03:27:33 +0000 UTCAs long as it wasn't Prefabricated Hovels Inc.
Charles Hirst
2024-09-08 03:14:54 +0000 UTCHouse centipedes are fine, kinda cute almost. But I might have that opinion from too much experience with the *big* centipede varieties that are big, creepy, big, and also bitey. And big.
Clifton Royston
2024-09-08 03:14:23 +0000 UTCEach other. Bits of dead skin.
Todd Ellner
2024-09-08 03:10:18 +0000 UTCSuggestion: Skip the Wikipedia article on centipedes. Especially the photo of centipedes-on-a-stick.
Ursus Ridens
2024-09-08 03:02:59 +0000 UTCI think I would prefer a PC filled with house centipedes to one filled with cockroachs. I don't know. I've only seen the second. I'm really not interested in seeing the first.
Drazi
2024-09-08 02:58:38 +0000 UTCTIL this. I've lost way too many thinly sliced trees to silverfish. But what do house centipedes eat once the silverfish are gone?
BobC
2024-09-08 02:57:03 +0000 UTCClaire: Honey, you know Dora's famous Spidercoffee? I just got the coolest idea for your cafe in Cubetown.
ValdVin
2024-09-08 02:55:41 +0000 UTCAKA "EFKAY", the Entity Formerly Known As Yay.
BobC
2024-09-08 02:54:55 +0000 UTCPT410X could get neckbeard house centipedes! Methinks it would fit the ethos. Because bugs, amirite?
BobC
2024-09-08 02:52:48 +0000 UTCAerin, you are a very strong and brave person.
Green
2024-09-08 02:50:13 +0000 UTCAh. Thanks. I am now going to put off repairing any more computers until, oh, after the 235th Congress meets.
Ursus Ridens
2024-09-08 02:49:03 +0000 UTCAn AI to freak out our friend Gary?
Ursus Ridens
2024-09-08 02:46:25 +0000 UTCSo *that's* where Cosmo came from. Yay playing the long game by secretly letting a borzoi loose in the city to find a home, so that they could replace it in a worst-case-scenario situation. Devilishly clever!
Sarah Valentine
2024-09-08 02:44:36 +0000 UTCYeah nah, I get that some people find them cute, and that they're technically helpful (thus "paying rent" as I like to say in response to people who say they don't let spiders hang around because they "don't pay rent") in that they eat other bugs like earwigs and boxelders (both are rather common at this time of year where I live, especially this year) but goddamn they're creepy to me, I can't stand them. This year is the first time I've run into them firsthand, and I was *not* fond of the first time it happened, or the fact that they're so much faster than the other house bugs I usually have to get rid of...
Sarah Valentine
2024-09-08 02:41:13 +0000 UTCTo get away from you!
Am Queue
2024-09-08 02:40:57 +0000 UTCWe know this from Winslow.
Am Queue
2024-09-08 02:39:20 +0000 UTCI really need to make time for another total re-read of QC
Aerin Moriarty
2024-09-08 02:34:33 +0000 UTChttps://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1842
Captain Button
2024-09-08 02:32:29 +0000 UTCNOPE!
William Cole
2024-09-08 02:32:08 +0000 UTCNOPE!
William Cole
2024-09-08 02:31:01 +0000 UTCIs that Welsh?
William Cole
2024-09-08 02:29:15 +0000 UTCAnd vice versa
Todd Ellner
2024-09-08 02:26:13 +0000 UTCCantilever! CANTILEVER!
William Cole
2024-09-08 02:25:39 +0000 UTCOne of those blue light versions from Faro Automated Solutions.
Captain Button
2024-09-08 02:25:38 +0000 UTCMy old apartment had house centipedes. They'd crawl over my toes while I was raiding in WoW at 3am and I'm shocked I never had a literal heart attack cause it was always a bad experience
Aerin Moriarty
2024-09-08 02:25:09 +0000 UTCi annoy all my friends by asking "is it in hemiptera?" any time they call something a bug
Jennifer Pylko
2024-09-08 02:23:36 +0000 UTCThey're arthropods, myriapods, chilopods, not "true bugs" (hemiptera), but they are called bugs casually, as is pretty much any arthropod, and they can certainly be bugging Aurelia. Sorry if this bugs you :)
Pete
2024-09-08 02:22:40 +0000 UTCGross bug but luckily harmless
Bradley Richard
2024-09-08 02:19:39 +0000 UTCDoesn't Melon's job involve that?
Captain Button
2024-09-08 02:19:31 +0000 UTCcentipedes are top on my nope list. they seriously freak me out. guess I'm getting vaporized.
Ashley Thomas
2024-09-08 02:19:18 +0000 UTCSemi aquatic?! Perry the Platypus!
Andrea Andrew
2024-09-08 02:17:38 +0000 UTCIt's okay, I'm sure the house centipedes would just get eaten by the scorpions. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4050
BookBeard
2024-09-08 02:16:31 +0000 UTCTechnically most things we call bugs aren't bugs cuz they're not semi aquatic beetle-like insects and yet anything crunchy with too many legs is still a bug
Fart Captor
2024-09-08 02:16:15 +0000 UTCThe Vault-Tec Corporation, presumably.
BookBeard
2024-09-08 02:14:17 +0000 UTCHey, spiders are our friends but as much as I love what they do, I can't be around them either. They're hard working little guys that I need to stay far away from me.
Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson
2024-09-08 02:11:45 +0000 UTCMUCH more likely to replace us as the next apex species. They’ve done it before and desire our throne *narrows eyes*
AlexKorobeiniki
2024-09-08 02:06:50 +0000 UTCA house centipede? Commence orbital bombardment. Kinetic, EMP, warheads. Full target suite. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
BookBeard
2024-09-08 02:04:55 +0000 UTCHouse centipedes also eat spiders.
Daryl Sawyer
2024-09-08 02:00:12 +0000 UTCOr Melon.
Daryl Sawyer
2024-09-08 01:59:38 +0000 UTCOh so THAT's what I saw in my bathroom last week. Had to drop a goddamn textbook on it.
Green
2024-09-08 01:53:35 +0000 UTCwait, who built the fallout shelter?
Brendan Luster
2024-09-08 01:53:13 +0000 UTCDon't worry, I'm sure you won't need the fallout shelter. Surely the military wouldn't be so careless as to allow the nuclear codes to fall into the hands of a civilian AI.... right? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1997
BookBeard
2024-09-08 01:52:48 +0000 UTCYay Dneirfwen
BookBeard
2024-09-08 01:47:06 +0000 UTCIt happened to Bubbles once. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3463
BookBeard
2024-09-08 01:45:51 +0000 UTCNo one tell Winslow.
Green
2024-09-08 01:43:34 +0000 UTCTechnically, centipedes aren’t bugs. They’re arthropods.
Andrea Andrew
2024-09-08 01:42:04 +0000 UTCBut Mellon is batshit, even by Yay's standards.
Tannerbot
2024-09-08 01:41:10 +0000 UTCYay consolidating into a Borzoi. ENDLESS AURELIA PETS.
Benzy
2024-09-08 01:41:03 +0000 UTCOpinions seem to vary on that subject. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4561 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4790
BookBeard
2024-09-08 01:39:05 +0000 UTCwow i hadn't thought about it before but to AI an EMP device is like a serious existential threat
16 Crows In A Trench Coat
2024-09-08 01:38:41 +0000 UTCSince I moved to Japan I haven't actually seen any house centipedes, but if I find them in my dwelling I will containerize them and relocate them outside. (I've stopped doing that with the jumping spiders because they're cute and I want them to eat any mosquitoes that get inside.)
Zig Justice
2024-09-08 01:38:01 +0000 UTC"Hi, I'm Millie! Millie Pede. Do you like my robot body?"
BobC
2024-09-08 01:37:35 +0000 UTCI have a chilly detente with house centipedes. They eat the nasty bugses and stay out of our living spaces and I don’t AAH SMASH IT SMASH IT SMASH IT AAAH
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-09-08 01:34:51 +0000 UTCBut then there's Melon's job.
William Burns
2024-09-08 01:34:50 +0000 UTCA new identity? Like "Netram Deer, international financier and ostrich racer?"
Captain Button
2024-09-08 01:34:05 +0000 UTCOh God, that's horrible. What everyone seems to be forgetting is that house centipedes like heat.That's why they go into the house. What is hotter and more accessible than the CPU inside an AI's casing.
Darth Hypno
2024-09-08 01:33:10 +0000 UTCHouse centipedes eat silverfish. Silverfish eat books. Hurray for house centipedes
Todd Ellner
2024-09-08 01:31:32 +0000 UTCAurelia hous centipedes are friends. They eat these scary bugs like the cockroaches and the earwigs that eat your books
Michael Phillips
2024-09-08 01:30:56 +0000 UTCSo they *didn't* have each other's number before (which takes down my messaging/group chat pals theory xD). Aurelia really is just good at rolling with random AIs showing up at her house.
enchantedsleeper
2024-09-08 01:30:01 +0000 UTCThe kicker is that “they’re more afraid of you than you are of them” is absolutely TRUE, but that just means that now you have a house centipede scrambling for dear life across your neck and chest 🙃
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-09-08 01:29:36 +0000 UTCIf Fallout's taught me anything, it's that the rads make bugs angry and people-sized.
voyager-ngc5195
2024-09-08 01:27:13 +0000 UTCI don't begrudge HOUSE centipedes their right to exist. Regular centipedes? Yeah, no, those I exterminate on sight (fortunately for the both of us, I rarely see them and it's been like almost 2 decades since my last encounter). Millipedes, on the other hand, I find absolutely adorable.
Zig Justice
2024-09-08 01:26:57 +0000 UTCIt would be if Yay realized it, but I'm not sure they do.
William Cole
2024-09-08 01:26:14 +0000 UTCFallout 4 is based in Boston.
Miyaa
2024-09-08 01:24:59 +0000 UTCWith you on this. I don't begrudge centis their right to exist, as long as I don't have to perceive them and their far too many legs.
William Cole
2024-09-08 01:24:50 +0000 UTCUmm. What if… what if Yay just had a moment of not thinking and went to answer the Director In Person? Y!
Katrina Urmson
2024-09-08 01:24:09 +0000 UTCBut why do they have to move SO FREAKING FAST?!
Rachel Maeroff
2024-09-08 01:23:58 +0000 UTCWhich one?
JoeTheCynic
2024-09-08 01:22:47 +0000 UTCCentipedes squick Roko out? She's becoming more and more human. (Does she read William Seward Burroughs? He bloody HATED centipedes.)
OldGoat
2024-09-08 01:22:15 +0000 UTCAnd THEN nuke it, to be sure to be sure
Andrew
2024-09-08 01:18:42 +0000 UTCIt’s where she streams playing fallout
Andrew
2024-09-08 01:17:47 +0000 UTCNightmare fuel…gonna keep watching Army of the Dead to erase those thoughts
Darren Franzen
2024-09-08 01:17:38 +0000 UTCYay has so many friends that are worried about them…that’s kind of a great sign, right?
Darren Franzen
2024-09-08 01:16:32 +0000 UTCAurelia would have a Fallout Shelter, wouldn't she?
JoeTheCynic
2024-09-08 01:15:00 +0000 UTCI'm with Roko on this. Not that an EMP would do much to me aside from making me upset that my phone stopped working moments before I was vaporized.
Orion Rhine
2024-09-08 01:14:17 +0000 UTCI know that house centipedes eat other insects and are beneficial, but they squick me out something fierce. Jumping spiders are the cute ones what eat other insects in the house.
Zig Justice
2024-09-08 01:13:48 +0000 UTCJust ask Spaceship & Tilly to laser it out of existence. It’s the only way to be sure.
Miyaa
2024-09-08 01:13:13 +0000 UTCWhat if Yay is huddled in Roko's bedroom while Roko is here being all logical?
Bill Silvia
2024-09-08 01:12:48 +0000 UTCOf course AIs wouldn't like bugs. Both the software kind, and the ones that would gum up their insides.
Tannerbot
2024-09-08 01:12:43 +0000 UTCI’ve had house centipedes fall on my torso and head no fewer than three times in my adult life, they are the worst
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-09-08 01:12:13 +0000 UTCOf course she has a fallout shelter, why wouldn't she?
Doc Gumby
2024-09-08 01:11:51 +0000 UTC[Edit: Ha! I wrote the following before I saw the comment under the comic:] Centipedes are our friends. They eat insects, and are actually rather cute looking when they run.
Chas Simmons
2024-09-08 01:11:12 +0000 UTC
