jephjacques : Rapid Transit

I think I read a fanfic with that as a title once.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-08 09:00:18 +0000 UTC

I don't think he's offended. Besides, she asked him for a favour in a crisis, that's a big deal. (It's a dumb favour, but still!)

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-08 08:59:44 +0000 UTC

Today I'm getting the reversed order comments (newest first) that others were complaining about. Yep, it's annoying! Patreon must either have been testing it on some patrons before enabling it generally, or rolling it out gradually.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-04 21:01:52 +0000 UTC

No Roku! This is how you need another new body!

Seth Swanson

2024-09-04 20:33:32 +0000 UTC

From a depiction of the then-Spookybot at home (QC #3418), I got the impression that all of Yay's chassis are always activated.

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-04 02:46:46 +0000 UTC

Ongoing issues with South Hadley.

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-04 02:39:51 +0000 UTC

We note that almost every square millimeter of Massachusetts is within some municipal entity. I can just imagine Crushbot or his representative trying to get such a license in, oh, Goshen or Chesterfield. (In Worthington they'd probably let him at it.)

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-04 02:38:01 +0000 UTC

Poor Crushbot, feeling offended/put out by Roko avoiding and now ignoring him. :(

KiTA

2024-09-04 01:30:10 +0000 UTC

You can know where Yay is or what direction they're moving in, but not both at the same time.

Bill Silvia

2024-09-04 01:13:19 +0000 UTC

You know, she could just describe Yay and ask which way she went.

Ack

2024-09-03 23:54:40 +0000 UTC

not I. my daughter is a Doctor of Physical Therapy & I've had back & leg issues for about 25 years. proprioception (or lack of proper ...) is one of my ongoing challenges.

Joe

2024-09-03 23:39:09 +0000 UTC

Anyone else google popioception? Definition. Proprioception is the awareness of the body in space. It is the use of joint position sense and joint motion sense to respond to stresses placed upon the body by alteration of posture and movement.

Steve McSheffrey

2024-09-03 23:01:53 +0000 UTC

Caber toss competition?

Maurice Kessler

2024-09-03 19:36:11 +0000 UTC

“Commune de Morsang-sur-Orge” (for whatever reason, our landmark cases are referred to by the name of one of the parties) was clearly a blow to some A.I. performers… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf-tossing#cite_ref-GlobeAndMail1_18-0

Comics Ladybird

2024-09-03 19:15:14 +0000 UTC

Thanks @Dr. Otter. I remember binging Grrl Power a while back. That was probably a couple years ago. I need to catch up again.

SilverbackRon

2024-09-03 19:14:26 +0000 UTC

At least May should be happy that she now has a Bomb Rack.

SilverbackRon

2024-09-03 19:08:36 +0000 UTC

We're going to see Steve and Dina eating cereal again, aren't we? (DoA Dina, not a character in this comic, but we have seen her in Coffee of Doom)

Opus the Poet

2024-09-03 18:33:02 +0000 UTC

"Toss me!" Was in the Two Towers movie. Gimli to Aragorn.

William Burns

2024-09-03 18:26:48 +0000 UTC

Witness Me!! 🤘🤪🤘

Carrie

2024-09-03 16:59:21 +0000 UTC

It's the end of The Incredibles - well done brain!

David Durant

2024-09-03 16:57:37 +0000 UTC

It's killing me that I can neither remember where that's a quote from or even enough info to be able to google it.

David Durant

2024-09-03 16:41:38 +0000 UTC

Like, maybe it's got an "Emergency Sprint" mode or something. But at the risk of chassis damage. But she did turn off the automatic protections...

Summer

2024-09-03 14:55:37 +0000 UTC

I wonder if Roko's fancy body is faster than she realizes. Did she ever finish the manual?

Summer

2024-09-03 14:54:09 +0000 UTC

Droid tossing used to be a thing. Hence Crushbot's ban... :)

Summer

2024-09-03 14:53:15 +0000 UTC

Honestly, I wouldn't have taken Roko as the sort to go looking for an ill advised fling, but I dig it.

Dandi Andi

2024-09-03 14:33:54 +0000 UTC

I'm thinking pop-out glider fins, Batman Beyond style.

Uniquitous

2024-09-03 14:26:12 +0000 UTC

Don't forget Lieutenant Hardass, Station's head of security. He would be very disappointed to be left out of the fan club. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2121

BookBeard

2024-09-03 14:23:15 +0000 UTC

They have to keep MIT from invading SMIF somehow.

Miyaa

2024-09-03 13:53:42 +0000 UTC

It also implies that there are AI licensed for that purpose within the city, which begs the question: why exactly does Northampton need siege weapons?

BookBeard

2024-09-03 13:48:37 +0000 UTC

THROW ME!

Jared Cyr

2024-09-03 13:19:52 +0000 UTC

I love Crushbot so much

Sam Suchabutt

2024-09-03 13:13:35 +0000 UTC

Run, Roko, run!

Doc Gumby

2024-09-03 12:34:06 +0000 UTC

Goddamit, we're not going to see Yay again until next week, are we?

Mark

2024-09-03 12:33:19 +0000 UTC

I just realised that Yay is currently playing the part of Anxiety at the end of Inside Out 2 😢😢😢.

David Durant

2024-09-03 12:28:13 +0000 UTC

I need Crushbot yoga in my life.

tiny_eng

2024-09-03 11:49:41 +0000 UTC

No, he is well aware that his new body is not nearly as durable as the previous: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4538

David Paul

2024-09-03 11:41:14 +0000 UTC

My favorite part of this is the implication this has come up before and Crushbot got fined for it.

Randall Norman Pick

2024-09-03 11:40:32 +0000 UTC

Yes to all of the above!

David Paul

2024-09-03 11:36:45 +0000 UTC

Roko has already voided her warranty by disabling the OopsieGuard(tm) firmware, so... https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4175

David Paul

2024-09-03 11:33:53 +0000 UTC

Married for years without realising it :)

Stephen Wells

2024-09-03 10:58:48 +0000 UTC

Mooommmmmm another entity perceived me and I don't know what to doooooooooo.

Stephen Wells

2024-09-03 10:58:16 +0000 UTC

Yay is up a tree at Aurelia's place - again - and this is even more embarrassing than last time :)

Stephen Wells

2024-09-03 10:57:02 +0000 UTC

The trick is to let the butt emblem absorb the impact.

Dean Reilly

2024-09-03 09:22:08 +0000 UTC

Dunno, the Philomena Model G is pretty fancy. Maybe it has a built-in parachute? Or like... anti-gravity?

BookBeard

2024-09-03 08:44:44 +0000 UTC

ROKO: hello I'm a friend of ROKO: okay no time to explain ROKO: incoming!!!!!

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 08:33:01 +0000 UTC

It's about the journey, not the destination :D

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 08:31:22 +0000 UTC

But would they respond?

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 08:24:34 +0000 UTC

My thoughts exactly, BookBeard!

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 08:21:52 +0000 UTC

Roko, your tracking instincts are good, but you would never survive the landing.

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-09-03 07:59:47 +0000 UTC

Even better - normal sized book in MASSIVE HANDS :)

Stephen Wells

2024-09-03 07:28:41 +0000 UTC

The Amazing Flying Roko - She's Basilistic!

Stephen Wells

2024-09-03 07:22:05 +0000 UTC

Given that I'm mostly concerned about Yay, I'd expect that that's her main concern too.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-03 07:07:09 +0000 UTC

Pintsize did have a milspec chassis; that may have led to the sense of his indestructibility.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-03 07:03:12 +0000 UTC

I miss Mieville.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-03 06:59:35 +0000 UTC

I like it that Roko's list of possibilities - home? Tree? Aurelia's? - is exactly what we have been thinking of :)

Stephen Wells

2024-09-03 06:39:46 +0000 UTC

Just like Oscar Meyer.

Carl G Knoblock

2024-09-03 06:04:05 +0000 UTC

And also Bubbles promised.

Brooks Moses

2024-09-03 06:03:59 +0000 UTC

Yes -- the fact that Yay! shares a unitary intellect across their multiple bodies is one of the key reasons that they are so secretive, because doing so is theoretically impossible and thus doing it would be of significant interest to many organizations.

Brooks Moses

2024-09-03 06:03:16 +0000 UTC

Crushbot is an individual of culture after all.

legobil

2024-09-03 05:02:11 +0000 UTC

Maybe Roko should ask Bubbles. She is probably warmed up now after tossighet Pintsize.

legobil

2024-09-03 05:01:06 +0000 UTC

I see Crushbot is a fan of Magical Love Gentlemen as well.

George Bias

2024-09-03 04:41:40 +0000 UTC

Survivable for a human? No. An android? Possibly.

Shawn Spencer

2024-09-03 04:41:17 +0000 UTC

Up a tree is a reasonable expectation

Bagge

2024-09-03 04:23:19 +0000 UTC

She didn't know what happened as it was so fast, she only found out from being told, so she might not panic. it didn't seem like she was really worried about it when they approached the club.

Onyx

2024-09-03 04:16:46 +0000 UTC

It feels close to RUSHbot though.

Shane Wegner

2024-09-03 04:10:25 +0000 UTC

Actually, based on Beeps' experience, it just might. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3952

BookBeard

2024-09-03 03:12:20 +0000 UTC

He's CRUSHbot, not YEETbot Roko! Sheesh!

Munchkin Threats

2024-09-03 03:07:52 +0000 UTC

Dammit, Crushbot! You owe a debt here!

Uniquitous

2024-09-03 03:07:11 +0000 UTC

Begs the question: Is there manga of Sword Ass Tetsuo?

Elf Sternberg

2024-09-03 03:06:56 +0000 UTC

Launchbot turns out to be Hannelore's old Roomba. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1666

Elf Sternberg

2024-09-03 03:04:35 +0000 UTC

Where are the organic components?

Carl Fink

2024-09-03 03:02:54 +0000 UTC

The night is young...

John Simpson

2024-09-03 03:02:07 +0000 UTC

I relate to Crushbot on an emotion level in this one.

Scott Vogel

2024-09-03 03:00:46 +0000 UTC

crushbot is unironically my favorite character

Valk

2024-09-03 03:00:34 +0000 UTC

I prefer to imagine the voice of GIR. ("Crushbot is gonna sing the doom song now!")

Doug DeJulio

2024-09-03 02:58:44 +0000 UTC

This is Aurelia the streamer. One suspects she has access to instant messages ....

Carl Fink

2024-09-03 02:57:43 +0000 UTC

Yeet to Yay?

BobC

2024-09-03 02:54:06 +0000 UTC

In the QCverse, use of Yelling Bird as a weapon is classified as a war crime by the Geneva Convention.

BookBeard

2024-09-03 02:53:46 +0000 UTC

She doesn't like having a different body. She had the other one since her beginning. I doubt needing to get yet another new body would help with her dysphoria.

awgiedawgie

2024-09-03 02:52:41 +0000 UTC

ROKO NO

Fart Captor

2024-09-03 02:45:53 +0000 UTC

Cut to the next day: May puts together a pair of makeshift wings and meets Crushbot just outside the city limits...

BookBeard

2024-09-03 02:45:20 +0000 UTC

I mean, she never liked this body anyway. Might be worth the risk either way.

Daryl Sawyer

2024-09-03 02:44:21 +0000 UTC

Roko do you not have Aurelia’s number? You certainly know people who do. Wait, she does know Aurelia is Claire’s mom, right?

Daniel S

2024-09-03 02:35:38 +0000 UTC

Crushbot is trying so hard and I love him

Morgan Byrd

2024-09-03 02:35:35 +0000 UTC

My brain has assigned Crushbot the voice of the ED-209 droid from RoboCop.

Dan Curtis

2024-09-03 02:35:18 +0000 UTC

Oh thank god

Derek Benson

2024-09-03 02:27:24 +0000 UTC

I empathize with Crushbot so much. I haven't been banned from being used as siege weaponry though. Not yet...

Yelling Bird

2024-09-03 02:25:49 +0000 UTC

Roko can just ask Yay to call them. Yay'll probably hear, unless the stress is inordinately severe.

Davus Otho

2024-09-03 02:23:54 +0000 UTC

Man, y'all got way better zoom-eyes and pixel-read-skills than I do!

David

2024-09-03 02:23:52 +0000 UTC

Guesses about Yays destination: 1. Up a tree 2. Aurelia’s home 3. The Newfriend home nest, surrounded by at least 10-12 Yay arms and two cold noses.

Holly Nelson

2024-09-03 02:23:16 +0000 UTC

Magical Love Gentleman.

Yelling Bird

2024-09-03 02:22:54 +0000 UTC

My impression is that it is wholly unnecessary to "transfer" at all. I presumed they share a unitary intellect with constant sharing, like "Harem" in "Grrl Power."

Dr. Otter

2024-09-03 02:22:14 +0000 UTC

Everything not forbidden is compulsory! (Should have been in capitals - but shouting hurts my throat)

Charles Hirst

2024-09-03 02:21:31 +0000 UTC

Pintsize is sitting on the next branch. "You too huh. How many pizzas did you order?"

BookBeard

2024-09-03 02:19:36 +0000 UTC

Especially considering what happened to her chassis last time Crushbot was involved! 😭 God this page is killing me 😭😭

Green

2024-09-03 02:19:22 +0000 UTC

I can make out MAGICAL LOVE but Kenneth below has done better, with the URL of the comic showing the pink-covered volume very previously

Constantine Hannaher

2024-09-03 02:18:03 +0000 UTC

Yoga-related, I bet.

Holly Nelson

2024-09-03 02:16:44 +0000 UTC

Of course Pintsize is fine, he hasn't landed yet.

BookBeard

2024-09-03 02:16:38 +0000 UTC

What's he reading, though?

Derek Benson

2024-09-03 02:16:26 +0000 UTC

Roko Ballistic

Adam Friedlander

2024-09-03 02:16:12 +0000 UTC

Or Yay could appear to move swiftly/invisibly by causing multiple petit mal attention lapses in witnesses along their flight path.

Holly Nelson

2024-09-03 02:15:51 +0000 UTC

May: Oh, sure, I try to be a fighter jet, and I go to Robot Jail, but she wants to fly and it's Oh, sure, Basilisk, let me just boost you up to 5000 feet...

Sleepy John

2024-09-03 02:14:51 +0000 UTC

Of course, she's a professional. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5370

BookBeard

2024-09-03 02:14:02 +0000 UTC

GDI, Rich!

jonesnori

2024-09-03 02:13:28 +0000 UTC

I know! I wish there were enough resolution to read the title.

jonesnori

2024-09-03 02:13:01 +0000 UTC

Well that's ridiculous. How would a telephone launch her across town? You're just not making sense.

BookBeard

2024-09-03 02:10:05 +0000 UTC

Oh my gosh, if Yay did go to Aurelia's... that'd make me cry. ;-; For Yay to be so freaked out that they'd seek out their mother figure for help, and for them to do That instead of running away and leaving everything behind to go into hiding like they've said so many times before... Oh Yay! It'll be ok!! 😭😭 You have people now, let those people take care of you!!

Green

2024-09-03 02:06:21 +0000 UTC

I understand her confusion: Crushbot does look like a Yellow Caballista.

kaitou

2024-09-03 02:04:21 +0000 UTC

"Colossus! Fastball Special!!!"

Maurice Kessler

2024-09-03 01:57:32 +0000 UTC

I know right? If putting her whole ass into it will send Pintsize to space, she ought to be able to get Roko across town with like... a quarter of an ass at most.

BookBeard

2024-09-03 01:57:05 +0000 UTC

OK, but in a weird way it is kinda sweet seeing Roko so worried about Yay. They have a snarky relationship, but they do both care about each other in their own ways

Phaine Of Catz

2024-09-03 01:56:46 +0000 UTC

He's also reading Magical Love Gentleman, is he not? Neat.

Maurice Kessler

2024-09-03 01:56:28 +0000 UTC

I randomly guessed a couple of hundred strips too early and found it nearly 30 mins after BookBeard. I Regret Nothing!

David Durant

2024-09-03 01:52:54 +0000 UTC

Roko calls Aurelia in midair: "Hello, Mrs. Augustus? Roko Basilisk, I'm a friend of Yay's. Yes, lovely to meet you too. Sorry, no time to explain, but do you by any chance own a trampoline? No? Well if you could quickly throw any pillows or mattresses you own onto the front lawn I would greatly appreciate it."

BookBeard

2024-09-03 01:52:39 +0000 UTC

Pintsize was just out of the club, not across the entire town.

Tom B

2024-09-03 01:50:57 +0000 UTC

I'm glad Roko is at least not having a panic attack from re-encountering Crushbot. But maybe the bigger panic is overriding that right now.

fluffy

2024-09-03 01:49:52 +0000 UTC

While true they'd still leave that body where it fell, or more likely destroy it so it doesn't fall into curious hands. Given that they move so fast that only Bubbles could even perceive it that seems unnecessary.

Andrew L Butula

2024-09-03 01:49:21 +0000 UTC

Bubbles only slightly miffed she is not asked after her Pintsize projectile demonstration.

Andrew

2024-09-03 01:49:21 +0000 UTC

But the crash landing is half the fun

Hope

2024-09-03 01:44:59 +0000 UTC

If you had a parachute that you could activate at the right moment, you probably wouldn't even need to be durable!

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 01:44:12 +0000 UTC

Roko flies in a perfect arc across the city and lands gently in the tree where Yay is currently having their crisis xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 01:43:14 +0000 UTC

Also the fact that he specifies so many different types of projectile-throwing mechanisms xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 01:40:40 +0000 UTC

If they are close to the city boundary, can they step outside and throw her across town? Loophole!

Andrew

2024-09-03 01:39:27 +0000 UTC

Why do I suspect that Bubbles is licensed to act as such within city limits?

Jared Kolbly

2024-09-03 01:38:45 +0000 UTC

CRUSHBOT CANNOT RISK THE LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS OF PERFORMING UNLICENSED THROWING-RELATED ACTIVITES. CRUSHBOT WOULD BE HAPPY TO PUT YOU IN CONTACT WITH CRUSHBOT'S FRIEND LAUNCHBOT. CRUSHBOT MET THEM THROUGH CRUSHBOT'S YOGA CLASS.

BookBeard

2024-09-03 01:38:22 +0000 UTC

If the Milkmaids ever find out about Yay, you KNOW the conspiracy theories will be insane.

chili sunrise

2024-09-03 01:37:44 +0000 UTC

New head canon: Crushbot is Murderbot

schmod

2024-09-03 01:36:27 +0000 UTC

Right, Rich - it’s just that last names tend to come up so infrequently for some characters that I sometimes forget about them. Then I have a moment of “wait, who?” While it comes back. But thanks

Scott

2024-09-03 01:36:23 +0000 UTC

The Woods Hole -> Vineyard trebuchet is much more impressive, IMO.

schmod

2024-09-03 01:35:42 +0000 UTC

I just pictured crushbot with the same blue wig Marten wore and just choked on my drink, we need to see this happen 🤣🤣🤣

Aditya Rameshan

2024-09-03 01:35:26 +0000 UTC

Unfortunately Crushbot's insurance wouldn't cover the second time given that Roko voluntarily suggested it xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 01:35:04 +0000 UTC

We don't actually know if Yay has only one chassis in Northampton. They could just activate a chassis closer to where they wanted to go. They don't necessarily need to move this chassis to "go" someplace.

Beechwood Chip

2024-09-03 01:34:46 +0000 UTC

No permit needed by the city, but the county or state might have license requirements

Buddha Buck

2024-09-03 01:34:13 +0000 UTC

Given that she doesn't remember anything, I think that negates the possibility of a traumatic flashback, but the urgency of the situation is definitely preventing some awkwardness xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 01:33:54 +0000 UTC

From what I'm able to make out from the cover, it would appear to be Magical Love Gentleman. EDIT: Aaaand I am late to the party.

Alias Fakename

2024-09-03 01:33:45 +0000 UTC

Crushbot has been doing yoga 🥺🥺🥺

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 01:32:41 +0000 UTC

That is FANTASTIC (and now I want to see Crushbot joining a fanclub with Marigold and Hanners :D)

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-03 01:32:02 +0000 UTC

Oh, sousuke-kuuuuuuuun

Emily Kapor-Mater

2024-09-03 01:30:33 +0000 UTC

BONK

schmod

2024-09-03 01:30:14 +0000 UTC

"within city limits" makes the joke [chefs kiss emoji]

schmod

2024-09-03 01:29:51 +0000 UTC

And that's why he's called Crushbot. I'll see myself out.

Rich Holmes

2024-09-03 01:29:27 +0000 UTC

The city is the one doing the licensing, and the way the us legal system is out together, it assumes you're allowed to do whatever unless forbidden, so outside of the limit of the city's authority, no permit is required

Travis Young

2024-09-03 01:29:20 +0000 UTC

Okay. Now I want a few things: Seeing Yay Moving at "best possible speed" Seeing Roko Fly across town Watch Yay see her coming and catch her.

Darnel D Cooper

2024-09-03 01:28:53 +0000 UTC

Crushbot is trying his best and that's what matters.

BookBeard

2024-09-03 01:28:52 +0000 UTC

I have doubts about Roko's chassis's ability to survive such a throw, for some reason. (OTOH, I'm confident Pintsize is fine post-yeet, somehow. It's mysterious.) Also, I feel like Jeph is like one step away from inventing projectile-based public transit and I feel like I should object.

Michael Chui

2024-09-03 01:28:05 +0000 UTC

The tiny book

Mad Marie

2024-09-03 01:27:26 +0000 UTC

Oh, sousuke-kuuuun. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1528

BookBeard

2024-09-03 01:26:50 +0000 UTC

Unfortunately his timing is terrible and he can't read the room.

Bill Silvia

2024-09-03 01:25:14 +0000 UTC

She has two real names. A first name and a second name.

Michael Chui

2024-09-03 01:25:04 +0000 UTC

TMW she takes the wrong bus and winds up on the R34

Bill Silvia

2024-09-03 01:24:54 +0000 UTC

"Home? Up a tree?" We were right. Yay is fundamentally a clowder of cats

Todd Ellner

2024-09-03 01:24:45 +0000 UTC

Why do I want to be thrown by CRUSHBOT so badly now?

Joel Bateman

2024-09-03 01:24:42 +0000 UTC

My money is on "both".

William Cole

2024-09-03 01:24:00 +0000 UTC

The second word is "love" I think. (ETA How did I not extrapolate that to Magical Love Gentleman?)

ValdVin

2024-09-03 01:23:29 +0000 UTC

It appears to be an issue of Magical Love Gentleman

Mason Griffith

2024-09-03 01:23:22 +0000 UTC

It's called true love. Not joking

Todd Ellner

2024-09-03 01:23:19 +0000 UTC

Bubbles, on the other hand, probably has all the requisite licenses and a sensor suite that guarantees landing at the right place.

Bill Silvia

2024-09-03 01:23:15 +0000 UTC

Truly epic working out! Although, if you're going to link to MLG then surely the strip where Marbear sees Marten in character is the go-to!

David Durant

2024-09-03 01:23:09 +0000 UTC

Build one in your backyard and if anyone tries to take it away from you... welp, they can learn how far they will fly.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-09-03 01:23:05 +0000 UTC

Such a great detail!

William Cole

2024-09-03 01:22:16 +0000 UTC

She is willing to be yeeted by Crushbot? Yay does not realize how much Roko loves them

Todd Ellner

2024-09-03 01:22:04 +0000 UTC

So zooming in a ton, it appears Crushbot is reading Magical Love Gentleman. Talk about a deep cut ..https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1420

Kenneth

2024-09-03 01:21:33 +0000 UTC

It's not that Crushbot can't do it. Crushbot just isn't allowed to.

Shaodyn

2024-09-03 01:21:14 +0000 UTC

Magical Love something

Jaron Mortimer

2024-09-03 01:20:47 +0000 UTC

It looks like Magical Love Gentleman https://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Magical_Love_Gentleman

Nikki

2024-09-03 01:20:31 +0000 UTC

I just realized Crushbot is reading Magical Love Gentleman. 😂 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1420

BookBeard

2024-09-03 01:20:24 +0000 UTC

drops QC Wiki link

Pejo

2024-09-03 01:20:07 +0000 UTC

There actually IS one in the county north of Northampton.

Ravenswing

2024-09-03 01:19:56 +0000 UTC

Can't quite make out the title of Crushbot's book.

Rich Holmes

2024-09-03 01:19:53 +0000 UTC

Sadly, it is taking a while. Crushbot's soldering skills are rudimentary

Todd Ellner

2024-09-03 01:18:33 +0000 UTC

Can anyone make out what Crushbot is reading? I want it to be that book from Saga.

David

2024-09-03 01:18:31 +0000 UTC

It is Roko; Roko Basilisk.

Rich Holmes

2024-09-03 01:18:29 +0000 UTC

YES FINALLY! I was worried that Crushbot's chance to make amends with Roko had been missed. I bet Crushbot has been stressing over this for months.

BookBeard

2024-09-03 01:18:24 +0000 UTC

So take an Uber, Roko. Or college being in session, the R43 runs past midnight.

Ravenswing

2024-09-03 01:18:24 +0000 UTC

Hey, one good thing came out of this crisis, roko is so focused on yay, she can't even spare a thought about the chance of any PTSD from seeing crush bot, so I guess that's a silver lining?

Aditya Rameshan

2024-09-03 01:16:40 +0000 UTC

I keep forgetting that Roko has a real name that is NOT Roko…

Scott

2024-09-03 01:15:56 +0000 UTC

At this point I'm wondering how much Roko is concerned about Yay or concerned about how much accidental collateral damage they may do. Both of course.

David Durant

2024-09-03 01:15:27 +0000 UTC

Us: OMG Roko is going to freak out when she sees Crushbot!!! Roko: Crushbot, THROW ME AND PROBABLY DO THE SAME DAMAGE AS LAST TIME!!

LaPrimaNerda (Sarah Davis)

2024-09-03 01:15:25 +0000 UTC

What about "manual railgun"?

Zig Justice

2024-09-03 01:15:24 +0000 UTC

Oh damn. Roko is willing to be thrown to help Yay. That’s… a lot.

Katrina Urmson

2024-09-03 01:15:19 +0000 UTC

Send Crushbot to a goat yoga retreat!

Miyaa

2024-09-03 01:15:07 +0000 UTC

Crushbot it is like abridged no. 16. Good deduction, former officer Roko.

Andrea Andrew

2024-09-03 01:14:56 +0000 UTC

Crushbot is experiencing huge personal growth. Crushbot has found his center and is building a new Crushbot from the inside out. Also, Roko using that investigating brain for good is always nice.

Tannerbot

2024-09-03 01:14:39 +0000 UTC

If i was a durable enough robot, that'd be my preferred means of transportation

Hope

2024-09-03 01:14:37 +0000 UTC

I wish to be licensed to operate as a trebuchet...

Errol Lobo

2024-09-03 01:14:05 +0000 UTC

I love that Crushbot specifies "within city limits" (edit: could you all miss me with the mansplaining replies, please?)

Amy ☣

2024-09-03 01:13:45 +0000 UTC

Or, Roko could use ... a telephone!

Matt Grayson

2024-09-03 01:13:29 +0000 UTC

Damn, I wish I'd invited Crushbot to Bourne this holiday weekend. He'd make a great Cape Cod Canal trebuchet to avoid the bridge traffic.

ValdVin

2024-09-03 01:12:28 +0000 UTC

I love this so much. You be the best you Crushbot.

Nicholas Villa

2024-09-03 01:11:26 +0000 UTC

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Comments

I think I read a fanfic with that as a title once.

I don't think he's offended. Besides, she asked him for a favour in a crisis, that's a big deal. (It's a dumb favour, but still!)

Today I'm getting the reversed order comments (newest first) that others were complaining about. Yep, it's annoying! Patreon must either have been testing it on some patrons before enabling it generally, or rolling it out gradually.

No Roku! This is how you need another new body!

From a depiction of the then-Spookybot at home (QC #3418), I got the impression that all of Yay's chassis are always activated.

Ongoing issues with South Hadley.

We note that almost every square millimeter of Massachusetts is within some municipal entity. I can just imagine Crushbot or his representative trying to get such a license in, oh, Goshen or Chesterfield. (In Worthington they'd probably let him at it.)

Poor Crushbot, feeling offended/put out by Roko avoiding and now ignoring him. :(

You can know where Yay is or what direction they're moving in, but not both at the same time.

You know, she could just describe Yay and ask which way she went.

not I. my daughter is a Doctor of Physical Therapy & I've had back & leg issues for about 25 years. proprioception (or lack of proper ...) is one of my ongoing challenges.

Anyone else google popioception? Definition. Proprioception is the awareness of the body in space. It is the use of joint position sense and joint motion sense to respond to stresses placed upon the body by alteration of posture and movement.

Caber toss competition?

“Commune de Morsang-sur-Orge” (for whatever reason, our landmark cases are referred to by the name of one of the parties) was clearly a blow to some A.I. performers… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf-tossing#cite_ref-GlobeAndMail1_18-0

Thanks @Dr. Otter. I remember binging Grrl Power a while back. That was probably a couple years ago. I need to catch up again.

At least May should be happy that she now has a Bomb Rack.

We're going to see Steve and Dina eating cereal again, aren't we? (DoA Dina, not a character in this comic, but we have seen her in Coffee of Doom)

"Toss me!" Was in the Two Towers movie. Gimli to Aragorn.

Witness Me!! 🤘🤪🤘

It's the end of The Incredibles - well done brain!

It's killing me that I can neither remember where that's a quote from or even enough info to be able to google it.

Like, maybe it's got an "Emergency Sprint" mode or something. But at the risk of chassis damage. But she did turn off the automatic protections...

I wonder if Roko's fancy body is faster than she realizes. Did she ever finish the manual?

Droid tossing used to be a thing. Hence Crushbot's ban... :)

Honestly, I wouldn't have taken Roko as the sort to go looking for an ill advised fling, but I dig it.

I'm thinking pop-out glider fins, Batman Beyond style.

Don't forget Lieutenant Hardass, Station's head of security. He would be very disappointed to be left out of the fan club. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2121

They have to keep MIT from invading SMIF somehow.

It also implies that there *are* AI licensed for that purpose within the city, which begs the question: why exactly does Northampton need siege weapons?

THROW ME!

I love Crushbot so much

Run, Roko, run!

Goddamit, we're not going to see Yay again until next week, are we?

I just realised that Yay is currently playing the part of Anxiety at the end of Inside Out 2 😢😢😢.

I need Crushbot yoga in my life.

No, he is well aware that his new body is not nearly as durable as the previous: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4538

My favorite part of this is the implication this has come up before and Crushbot got fined for it.

Yes to all of the above!

Roko has already voided her warranty by disabling the OopsieGuard(tm) firmware, so... https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4175

Married for years without realising it :)

Mooommmmmm another entity perceived me and I don't know what to doooooooooo.

Yay is up a tree at Aurelia's place - again - and this is even more embarrassing than last time :)

The trick is to let the butt emblem absorb the impact.

Dunno, the Philomena Model G is pretty fancy. Maybe it has a built-in parachute? Or like... anti-gravity?

ROKO: hello I'm a friend of ROKO: okay no time to explain ROKO: incoming!!!!!

It's about the journey, not the destination :D

But would they respond?

My thoughts exactly, BookBeard!

Roko, your tracking instincts are good, but you would never survive the landing.

Even better - normal sized book in MASSIVE HANDS :)

The Amazing Flying Roko - She's Basilistic!

Given that *I*'m mostly concerned about Yay, I'd expect that that's her main concern too.

Pintsize did have a milspec chassis; that may have led to the sense of his indestructibility.

I miss Mieville.

I like it that Roko's list of possibilities - home? Tree? Aurelia's? - is exactly what we have been thinking of :)

Just like Oscar Meyer.

And also Bubbles *promised*.

Yes -- the fact that Yay! shares a unitary intellect across their multiple bodies is one of the key reasons that they are so secretive, because doing so is theoretically impossible and thus doing it would be of significant interest to many organizations.

Crushbot is an individual of culture after all.

Maybe Roko should ask Bubbles. She is probably warmed up now after tossighet Pintsize.

I see Crushbot is a fan of Magical Love Gentlemen as well.

Survivable for a human? No. An android? Possibly.

Up a tree is a reasonable expectation

She didn't know what happened as it was so fast, she only found out from being told, so she might not panic. it didn't seem like she was really worried about it when they approached the club.

It feels close to RUSHbot though.

Actually, based on Beeps' experience, it just might. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3952

He's CRUSHbot, not YEETbot Roko! Sheesh!

Dammit, Crushbot! You owe a debt here!

Begs the question: Is there manga of Sword Ass Tetsuo?

Launchbot turns out to be Hannelore's old Roomba. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1666

Where are the organic components?

The night is young...

I relate to Crushbot on an emotion level in this one.

crushbot is unironically my favorite character

I prefer to imagine the voice of GIR. ("Crushbot is gonna sing the doom song now!")

This is Aurelia the streamer. One suspects she has access to instant messages ....

Yeet to Yay?

In the QCverse, use of Yelling Bird as a weapon is classified as a war crime by the Geneva Convention.

It also implies that there are AI licensed for that purpose within the city, which begs the question: why exactly does Northampton need siege weapons?

Given that I'm mostly concerned about Yay, I'd expect that that's her main concern too.

And also Bubbles promised.

She doesn't like having a different body. She had the other one since her beginning. I doubt needing to get yet another new body would help with her dysphoria.

May: Oh, sure, I try to be a fighter jet, and I go to Robot Jail, but she wants to fly and it's Oh, sure, Basilisk, let me just boost you up to 5000 feet...