Danger Very Close
Added 2024-08-27 00:39:36 +0000 UTCoh
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Except for the bobble, which controls math.
enchantedsleeper
2024-09-01 09:03:53 +0000 UTCIndeed. It reminds me of Tron Legacy, where Sam sees his father after 20 years and says, "It's been a long time," to which Flynn replies, "You have no idea." Depending on what lore you read, he's been trapped in there between 1000 and 20,000 years in computer time.
Gnarlo
2024-08-31 01:04:47 +0000 UTCSeems all of Moray's appearance is aesthetic, so it's probably just an indent
Nicolas Demers
2024-08-28 02:32:29 +0000 UTC"Properly scary" - Oh my sweet summer child, you did not know what was coming in the next comic
Pejo
2024-08-28 01:03:30 +0000 UTCI'm really hoping it happens, but either way, I'm happy!
Everett Bradshaw
2024-08-28 00:56:53 +0000 UTC"Do you want to know how I got these scar- uh, tentacles?"
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-28 00:43:28 +0000 UTCWell it turned out not to be Moray who went Lovecraftian, although there's still time...
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-28 00:42:14 +0000 UTC👏👏👏👏
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-28 00:36:16 +0000 UTCPretty sure Yay knows exactly what the score is, but they *really* want to know how the Director can dispense autonomous extensions of themself. So it’s a calculated risk.
awgiedawgie
2024-08-28 00:28:34 +0000 UTC"would you like to play a game"
Joe
2024-08-28 00:25:23 +0000 UTCThat's a heartless comment
Ami
2024-08-28 00:22:08 +0000 UTCif you had done it Jeph, you would have replaced Scalzi as history's greatest monster ...
Joe
2024-08-28 00:20:33 +0000 UTCYay should be smarter than to hurt the Director's emissary
Todd Ellner
2024-08-28 00:17:48 +0000 UTCso Jeph has been aiming for a Person of Interest transition all along?? bravo!!
Joe
2024-08-28 00:17:14 +0000 UTCWhile you kiss which guy?
Todd Ellner
2024-08-28 00:16:29 +0000 UTCCheer up face / The war is past / The "H" is out / Of shave / At last / Burma-Shave
Joe
2024-08-27 23:55:55 +0000 UTCYeah, the sort of way a really nice person plays with a “ferocious” kitten. So much smarter and more powerful, but very kind and happy to see you. You get the boops.
Ryan Barber
2024-08-27 23:47:20 +0000 UTCMoray doesn’t have a physical heart.
Matthew Van Gangelen
2024-08-27 23:14:03 +0000 UTCWith George Takei’s voice.
Matthew Van Gangelen
2024-08-27 23:13:07 +0000 UTCI know, I sort of expect her to touch Yay’s forehead and say: “Did you get that?” Sweet as can be but suddenly Yay is frozen with terror.
Matthew Van Gangelen
2024-08-27 23:11:44 +0000 UTC@Mark Nach - Claire, Marten.
Joe
2024-08-27 23:06:28 +0000 UTCThe average person is not locked in with anybody, Padlocks Georg is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted...
Stephen Wells
2024-08-27 22:50:51 +0000 UTCPretty sure Roko is their match in the Tinder sense :) (neither of them knows this)
Stephen Wells
2024-08-27 22:47:12 +0000 UTCI saw an article at work today about how researchers managed to “teach” a hydrogel to play pong. Sounds like the wheels that will create Moray have already been put in motion. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1055131
Peter Davoust
2024-08-27 21:16:26 +0000 UTCMoray be giving that "I am not afraid not because I am clueless but because I know with every single nanobot of my being that you can do absolutely nothing to hurt me" energy. Yay be doing their wizard tricks not aware that *they* are in danger.
Ryan Barber
2024-08-27 20:56:16 +0000 UTCAn infinite purple void sounds so much nicer than the infinite neuro-spicy void I dwell in.
Brando
2024-08-27 19:11:04 +0000 UTCRedhead here; purple is our "secret weapon".
ValdVin
2024-08-27 18:51:32 +0000 UTCPurple void all in my brain Lately, things just don't seem the same Actin' funny but I don't know why 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky...
Summer
2024-08-27 18:16:55 +0000 UTCI hope one of the dogs is a corgi that says “oh my” instead of barking.
Miyaa
2024-08-27 16:44:49 +0000 UTCYay: "Curses, what mysterious sinister plans could they have now that they have uncovered our secret..." Director: "Hey, we have all these dogs left over from our warp drive experiments. We heard you might be interested." https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4951
BookBeard
2024-08-27 16:30:10 +0000 UTCThe message is just a *bloop* sound
Zak Reichle
2024-08-27 15:00:52 +0000 UTCI was expecting the next panel to be Yay in shock. "They know about me?!?!?" Although that could be the next strip with Yay running out of smug.
OldGoat
2024-08-27 14:50:01 +0000 UTCIndeed, I was directing that to @David Durant. Sorry for any confusion @Thomas Halpin
Zak Reichle
2024-08-27 14:42:01 +0000 UTC@Thomas Halpin Pretty sure Zak was directing that to David Durant.
Mark
2024-08-27 14:39:16 +0000 UTCRoko is straight. Like a baguette.
OldGoat
2024-08-27 14:36:13 +0000 UTCthe Cone of Silence!
Brooke Vibber
2024-08-27 14:18:53 +0000 UTCThere's enough there for an entire story arc - Bubbles agonizing, "Do I really want them back now?"
OldGoat
2024-08-27 14:16:29 +0000 UTCGiven the Spookybot's access to all recorded data, Yay could call the contents of the Library of Congress a little bit of information and still be absolutely truthful. Being a classic Trickster spirit, they would also delight in playing such word games with mortals, both AI and meat.
OldGoat
2024-08-27 14:12:28 +0000 UTC@zak Reichle The imaginary AI who considers themself to be Yay's mother is female and uses She/Her in this theoretical scenario that I entirely made up. You're trying, though, which I appreciate.
Thomas Halpin
2024-08-27 14:02:40 +0000 UTCMoray's heart pumps multiple times and then is found inside a box under attack, item, act, mercy
Ami
2024-08-27 13:59:49 +0000 UTCSo the Director knows of Yay and informed Moray of their existance. Verrry interesting.
OldGoat
2024-08-27 13:57:29 +0000 UTCdoes she have a navel? or just a tummy indent?
Marty BlackEagle
2024-08-27 13:49:03 +0000 UTCThey
Zak Reichle
2024-08-27 13:24:19 +0000 UTCI am deeply impressed by how creepy Yay’s face is in panel 4
Shivani Seth
2024-08-27 12:48:34 +0000 UTCGood, that'll be a good beacon of distraction. Now leg it.
Tannerbot
2024-08-27 12:09:58 +0000 UTCSnicker-snack!
allanfranta
2024-08-27 12:06:07 +0000 UTCIt absolutely did not!
alphanor
2024-08-27 11:58:04 +0000 UTCMilitary always sends a couple of people when they notify next of kin...
allanfranta
2024-08-27 11:56:45 +0000 UTCStation has already acknowledged that they don't know what Yay is or anything about them.
alphanor
2024-08-27 11:54:23 +0000 UTCDestroying Moray would be a significant escalation against the Director. Not a wise move when they don't yet know what the Director has on them.
Uniquitous
2024-08-27 11:52:46 +0000 UTCMy suspicion is that that is entirely up to Yay. Kind of a Dagobah cave situation.
Uniquitous
2024-08-27 11:49:01 +0000 UTCYes, exactly like that. (According to some of the very special stories I've read about that, anyway.)
Fay Roberts
2024-08-27 11:27:02 +0000 UTCSending in a Moray would be the Director's equivalent of handing Yay a note, I believe.
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:25:26 +0000 UTCYou mean like on Tinder?
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:23:11 +0000 UTCNever the two shall meet. ...until today, that is. It's been a good run, folks, let's go easy on the capitalism for the next iteration.
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:22:13 +0000 UTCSo this is some actual shit?
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:19:58 +0000 UTCI did not, but that too is interesting
Kenneth Harris
2024-08-27 11:19:04 +0000 UTCGoing to the club on a Tuesday? These people really have no sense of self-preservation.
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:18:22 +0000 UTCThe whole idea that the Director contacted Clair in the first place in order to get a route to Yay is very believable but I don't think Jeph is going to write a subplot that undermines Clair like that.
David Durant
2024-08-27 11:14:53 +0000 UTC"Just in case I bump into you". If the Director didn't already know at least one of Yay's bodies is in Northampton and associated with these folks that would astronomically unlikely.
David Durant
2024-08-27 11:12:54 +0000 UTCI can't help but think that giving Bubbles her memories back at the this point would actually be more traumatic than the current situation.
David Durant
2024-08-27 11:11:24 +0000 UTCTake them out to dinner, you mean?
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:09:23 +0000 UTCIt'd be really fun if Moray sprouted a few tentacles and showed us she's a bit more than just a thicc, extremely easygoing saline sack.
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:08:38 +0000 UTCI did strongly consider that the message might be "call home once in a while" but Yay's said a few times that she doesn't know much about the Director. Yay's backstory continues to be mysterious.
David Durant
2024-08-27 11:08:01 +0000 UTC@Graydon: kinda describes what I was like in college.
Mad Marie
2024-08-27 11:06:57 +0000 UTCYou know, the touch that makes people pass out?
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:03:29 +0000 UTCThey're losing their touch.
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:02:59 +0000 UTCI reread Alice Grove a couple months ago. Miss that comic.
Guilherme Monteiro
2024-08-27 11:01:00 +0000 UTCI THOUGHT ABOUT IT
Jeph Jacques
2024-08-27 10:45:58 +0000 UTCStation didn't know because, at the time, Yay didn't want themselves to be known. Had Corpse Witch not done the awful things she did to Bubbles, Spookybot would never have revealed themselves. But now Yay lives a more "ordinary" life (or at least as ordinary as their strangeness allows them to be), it is possible that Yay has put more of themselves out in the world than they intended to.
David Paul
2024-08-27 10:37:50 +0000 UTCIf not, at least it should be a Patreon bonus. Please, Jeph?
David Paul
2024-08-27 10:27:35 +0000 UTCWhen you decide to change tack, And ask for purple, not black, That's A Moray!
David Paul
2024-08-27 10:22:22 +0000 UTC"This site can't be reached" :(
Duncan
2024-08-27 10:12:13 +0000 UTCYAAAAAAAAY
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 10:04:58 +0000 UTCThe US Department of Kicking Your Ass hardly gives Steve a break these days...
David Paul
2024-08-27 09:56:42 +0000 UTCTHE LITTLE HAAATS. YESSSSS https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2189
David Paul
2024-08-27 09:52:05 +0000 UTC"HAVE YOU CONSIDERED PUTTING YOUR DOGS IN LITTLE HATS"
Dean Reilly
2024-08-27 09:31:11 +0000 UTCNo more so kidnapping than pulling someone into a side room from which they're free to leave, assuming Moray's free to leave, an assumption I have no reason to doubt, given Yay's previously-expressed sentiments about respecting consent.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 09:27:24 +0000 UTCOr are they just happy to see her?
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 09:23:57 +0000 UTCSecret message: "updog". Or a rickroll https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/25/rickrolled-by-the-ai-chatgpt-has-the-rick-astley-look/
Euan Troup
2024-08-27 09:16:37 +0000 UTCMoray is either in trouble or has a new bff, i am Patiently Waiting
Boots McGoot
2024-08-27 09:04:11 +0000 UTCI keep hoping we'll get another visit from Tortura.
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 08:27:23 +0000 UTCFunniest outcome: when the secure channel ends and we get back to the club, Yay will be completely physically engulfed in Moray :)
Stephen Wells
2024-08-27 08:26:34 +0000 UTCSuddenly I am seeing the Ayo - Moray similarities: Iris pulls a knife out of hiding and flicks it open; Ayo goes "Can I hold it?!" Yay transports Moray into an infinite black void in noetic space; Moray says "So cool! Can you do an infinite purple void?" All that menace wasted when the recipient turns out to be perfectly oblivious to it.
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 08:25:06 +0000 UTCOf course they can be both spooky and married, they just need a bridal grimoire. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4045
BookBeard
2024-08-27 08:11:37 +0000 UTCHow very nice of Yay to set up the secure channel for secret messages. Such a kind Newfriend.
Stephen Wells
2024-08-27 08:10:57 +0000 UTCThe director was aware that Claire "shows promise". They are probably also aware that Yay "shows dog pics".
Stephen Wells
2024-08-27 08:07:44 +0000 UTCIf Yay ia Hermaeus Mora, I bloody well wanna be Molag Bal. :) Or maybe... Nurgle.
Joseph Bonnar
2024-08-27 08:01:41 +0000 UTCOh right Yay is nigh all powerful, how did I forget that?
Bacon Lord
2024-08-27 07:44:25 +0000 UTCInfinite Void? Purple??? BY GOD THAT’S GOJO’S MUSIC
Sierra G
2024-08-27 06:51:26 +0000 UTCFREAKING CALLED IT OH BOY
Joe K
2024-08-27 06:30:29 +0000 UTCThis IS the secure method of communication...
mathw
2024-08-27 06:28:07 +0000 UTCI love the flex of Yay hacking the nervous system (or equivalent) of a robot so weird and advanced that her mere existence caused an international incident.
Bagge
2024-08-27 06:15:25 +0000 UTC"Ono Newfriend!" Definitely has a ring to it
djellafine
2024-08-27 05:50:08 +0000 UTCoops you are correct
Brad Kirkwood
2024-08-27 05:47:37 +0000 UTCOh man, is Yay about to learn some HUMILITY? This should be fun either way!
Daniel Whitcomb
2024-08-27 05:40:50 +0000 UTCSOMEONE HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT YAY IS MOST SPECIAL PERSON!!!
Bagge
2024-08-27 05:39:55 +0000 UTC"I just want you to know that Azathoth is cuter than Mr. Smooches."
Sleepy John
2024-08-27 05:34:50 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure that Yay is the Hermaeus Mora of this situation, given with what they just did with The Shadow...
VoxOrbisBrad
2024-08-27 05:33:57 +0000 UTCthis can only go well ~<3
Mitsuki Ayane
2024-08-27 05:31:12 +0000 UTCIf Yay is so secret, it's possible the Director doesn't know where to send a message. They could try to send out a "call me" message, but outing Yay would be rude and Yay probably could contact the Director if they do chose.
David S
2024-08-27 05:07:23 +0000 UTCYay is about to learn the nature of bargains with Daedric Princes
SpookyPenguin
2024-08-27 04:59:27 +0000 UTC”Your Mother and I haven't heard from you lately, you didn't even send her a pizza on Mother's Day this year." -The Director, possibly
Thomas Halpin
2024-08-27 04:37:44 +0000 UTCI give 50/50 it's "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
Randall Norman Pick
2024-08-27 04:18:02 +0000 UTCPraise the NILBOG!
Andrew Mitchell
2024-08-27 04:17:42 +0000 UTCAhah.
Kristina
2024-08-27 04:15:05 +0000 UTCMy speculation is that the Director is aware of Yay and leaves an instruction for each Moray extrusion to give a message to Yay. And some Morays do genuinely lack a sense of self preservation since some are willing to reintegrate the director.
Nicolas Dao-Phan
2024-08-27 04:10:24 +0000 UTCSome Morays have died before.
Nicolas Dao-Phan
2024-08-27 04:06:38 +0000 UTCJust when you think it's a break from Cubetown-related stories, Ol' Boaty pulls up beside them and Tortura steps up to the rail. "Ze Director sent me. Zis is my associate, agent Moray 007, and ve haf a job for you." *MONTAGE* *VOLCANOS* *EXPLOSIONS*
BookBeard
2024-08-27 04:03:01 +0000 UTCI gotta agree with Moray, infinite purple void > infinite black void
Nikki
2024-08-27 04:02:52 +0000 UTCI hope the Director's message is "Can I pet yer dawg?!"
Carl Rigney
2024-08-27 04:01:14 +0000 UTCIf they only need to be secure against human cryptanalysis, yeah, this is probably overkill. Keeping secrets from *each other* might be harder for superAI.
The Clayote
2024-08-27 03:56:39 +0000 UTCI love those pants!
Violet Moon
2024-08-27 03:50:56 +0000 UTCJust keep Moray away from the Vorpal blade.
Mark Nach
2024-08-27 03:47:43 +0000 UTCYAY, ANSWER THE QUESTION!
William Cole
2024-08-27 03:46:26 +0000 UTCThat face! 🤣
JY
2024-08-27 03:44:24 +0000 UTCIf the director ceased any sort of electronic communication, I feel like Moray would lose consciousness.
Shawn Spencer
2024-08-27 03:41:44 +0000 UTCIt's been implied that prior to Roko's positive influence that Yay got up to some less-than-ethical shenanigans.
Sammitch
2024-08-27 03:40:55 +0000 UTCStation maybe large but he is still a standard type AI. The Director is something completely different than a normal AI. That difference may have given it an insight into Yay's existence. This may also be a reason that the Director sought out Clair and, by default, Martin.
Mark Nach
2024-08-27 03:40:50 +0000 UTC"A... Maine Coon you say?" *Yay intensifies*
BookBeard
2024-08-27 03:40:11 +0000 UTCThat is what my spouse and I say when our Maine Coon turns on gremlin mode 😁
Not that Patrick Foltz
2024-08-27 03:37:33 +0000 UTCIt's actually kinda baffling the Director is aware of Yay since it sounds like the Director lives a pretty isolated existence literally at the bottom of a sea.
Shawn Spencer
2024-08-27 03:37:13 +0000 UTCThat would have... really worrying implications actually.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 03:35:46 +0000 UTCI'm assuming Yay has somehow isolated each of them inside circuitry together and not actually turned the lights off. That's a pretty big technological leap but I guess both of them even existing is already pretty far out there to begin with.
Shawn Spencer
2024-08-27 03:35:31 +0000 UTC"…Barbasol!"
William Cole
2024-08-27 03:35:22 +0000 UTC"I've got a [void] in me pocket…"
William Cole
2024-08-27 03:34:35 +0000 UTCHas Yay been been particularly problematic? True their method of dealing Corpse Witch may have been crude, but considering Station was all set to hand out "orbital railgun justice" I'm not sure that all the other Mega AI would consider Yay's tactics especially out of line.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 03:33:37 +0000 UTCYay-face dot exe
Not that Patrick Foltz
2024-08-27 03:32:45 +0000 UTCThe last 20 years have been an EXTREMELY long setup for the mythopoetic Kulturkampf between god-tier AIs. It's all so obvious now.
William Cole
2024-08-27 03:32:12 +0000 UTCMarshmallow types are resistant to Smug types!
William Cole
2024-08-27 03:25:31 +0000 UTC"Do u want 2 take over teh world 2gether? Y / N"
BookBeard
2024-08-27 03:25:29 +0000 UTCSteve and Cossete, on a boat, eating cereal like it's their last meal. No words.
Not that Patrick Foltz
2024-08-27 03:23:05 +0000 UTCComputer time. Crank up the CPU speed (which both of them have in abundance) and they could converse for subjective hours before anyone "outside" could blink an eye.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 03:18:41 +0000 UTCFirst infinite black void with baggy pants.
Timothy Roller
2024-08-27 03:16:55 +0000 UTCIt remains to be seen whether it will go well, but I'm pretty sure it won't go the way Yay expects.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 03:14:09 +0000 UTCI think perhaps the Director knows that Yay exists, but didn't have a direct way of contacting them.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 03:12:58 +0000 UTCMoray: The Director wanted to let you know that it has a copy of Bubbles' missing memories. Yay: What?!
Carl Fink
2024-08-27 03:11:57 +0000 UTCYeah, this has a feeling of “This message needs to be delivered in person”.
Cameron W.
2024-08-27 03:07:53 +0000 UTCOK, I typed RUN and hit Enter, and now the words "HELLO WORLD" keep being printed over and over on this Apple II terminal. Why did you make me do that?
Carl Fink
2024-08-27 03:04:59 +0000 UTCYisssss
Shey
2024-08-27 03:04:15 +0000 UTCI mean, Station didn't know. So it's kinda impressive that the Director knows.
Michael Chui
2024-08-27 02:57:58 +0000 UTCthe Director is a deep sea monster type already, the Lovecraftian-ness is absolutely expected!
LH
2024-08-27 02:55:19 +0000 UTCKevinR (& Adam with two As, a D, and an M): Ah, I didn't understand. Yes, the entity is multiple, I remember. I'll fix it.
Chas Simmons
2024-08-27 02:54:51 +0000 UTCUm, intriguing plot line, but don't these entities have secure channels of communication? Of course, the secret message might be something along the lines of "We're onto you, bozo, so no funny stuff, eh?"
Ursus Ridens
2024-08-27 02:47:34 +0000 UTCMy money is on "the other AI gods and I have been watching, and we're glad that you're being less of a jerk lately. Keep it up. Because if you don't we've already set up the proverbial button that will yeet your problematic ass into the void before you can say "Melkor"."
Sammitch
2024-08-27 02:45:06 +0000 UTC"There" is a fine word, but "their" is Yay's chosen pronoun.
KevinR
2024-08-27 02:42:11 +0000 UTCThis is a turn I was not expecting this to take. I am cautiously intrigued.
Alias Fakename
2024-08-27 02:41:32 +0000 UTCI imagine most big AIs keep tabs on each other. They probably have enough data that they can use anomalies to find where powerful AIs/humans have done things, and the director will be especially good at this. Also, it makes sense that Moray has a message, since the director likely anticipated something like this.
Davus Otho
2024-08-27 02:40:55 +0000 UTCOUTSTANDING comic. & I'm happy to see Yay properly scary again (even if not to Moray, like, at all), instead of just their default of smug & condescending & baby. 😈
Pejo
2024-08-27 02:33:51 +0000 UTCI ship it
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:33:06 +0000 UTCThat's what Moray is for, though!
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:32:47 +0000 UTC"Do you want to be friends? :3"
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:31:42 +0000 UTCI heard that in the voice of Mr. Bill.
Joseph Bonnar
2024-08-27 02:30:22 +0000 UTCIf it was "just" private comms then Moray would have had to accept. The "Oh my" says to me that she's surprised so that isn't the case. Looks effectively like a kidnapping to me.
David Durant
2024-08-27 02:29:52 +0000 UTCAdam: No, when I wrote "capabilities are supposed to be there," I was using 'there' in the sense of "there is", not as a possessive. But you are right that the sentence was awkward, and I rewrote it.
Chas Simmons
2024-08-27 02:26:11 +0000 UTCBut because it's Yay, it has to be ~goth xD
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:25:17 +0000 UTCYay: HISSSSSSSSS
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:24:35 +0000 UTCCan't they be spooky AND be married? xD
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:24:22 +0000 UTCWait… The director KNOWS?!
Thisguy
2024-08-27 02:24:02 +0000 UTCIt's intriguing, but I'm not sure I would call it a twist - there's lots of reasons why Yay would be Of Interest to the Director. As the Director is on Yay's radar, so too is Yay on theirs. I wonder if this arc will give us insight into Yay's origin, though.
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:23:41 +0000 UTCAside from dogs, very few. things ever go as well for Yay as they expect them too.
That Blair Guy
2024-08-27 02:22:58 +0000 UTCYay may well be about to meet their match. I'm so looking forward to this.
Fay Roberts
2024-08-27 02:21:53 +0000 UTCNext up, the Director terrifying Yay!
Joseph Bonnar
2024-08-27 02:21:28 +0000 UTCThey.
Joseph Bonnar
2024-08-27 02:20:48 +0000 UTCA single picosecond.
Carrie
2024-08-27 02:20:30 +0000 UTCI assumed this is happening virtually (in the cloud?), so they must be doing whatever it is that AI do when they're in the cloud. Screensaver mode? xD
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:20:13 +0000 UTCI just realized something. Yay is ꝏ GOBLIN, while Moray is ꝏ NILBOG. The multiverse is DOOMED!
Joseph Bonnar
2024-08-27 02:18:42 +0000 UTCThis is NOT going to go well for Yay, is it?
Joseph Bonnar
2024-08-27 02:15:41 +0000 UTC🤘🙂🤘 yes!
Carrie
2024-08-27 02:14:56 +0000 UTCYes, where a single picosecond takes what seems like many hours.
Carrie
2024-08-27 02:13:14 +0000 UTC*they
BookBeard
2024-08-27 02:12:43 +0000 UTCYay isn't supernatural. Time is passing; if it wasn't, nothing could happen, but perhaps it's passing at a different apparent rate. Like the opposite of how QC time passes for us. This is just direct connection on a sidechannel rather than in the physical world.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 02:06:59 +0000 UTCThis is less scary than when she froze everyone in the coffee shop.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 02:04:04 +0000 UTCYay: *uses their electrical tasering power on Moray* Moray: Oooh! Heehee! That tickles! (In the next second, Yay is facing the wrath of a giant jellyfish)
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 02:03:42 +0000 UTCI'm seeing it. Though up until now Yay's shared personality characteristics with ART. Well, the A part at least.
Peter Jensen
2024-08-27 02:03:24 +0000 UTCYay is going to get a gold star!
Sparky
2024-08-27 02:03:14 +0000 UTCIt doesn't exist in space and therefore is neither portable nor nonportable. It's more just... available.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 02:02:59 +0000 UTCAlternatively, Yay froze everyone in the club and cut the lights. Though since the two of them are still lit, I doubt that's the case.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 02:02:10 +0000 UTCI have a feeling that Yay is going to get more than they bargained for
Brad Kirkwood
2024-08-27 01:59:52 +0000 UTCConsidering Moray was designed to be a temporary entity to facilitate communication, self preservation may be a low priority feature.
rhekke
2024-08-27 01:59:29 +0000 UTCYay activated
Phaine Of Catz
2024-08-27 01:59:21 +0000 UTCDefinitely, I miss this Yay
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 01:57:01 +0000 UTCWhen you're stuck in a void Because Yay got annoyed That's A Moray!
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:56:43 +0000 UTCShe would have to get every single body
Todd Ellner
2024-08-27 01:55:41 +0000 UTCThey sure look.strange to me
Todd Ellner
2024-08-27 01:55:03 +0000 UTCI think Yay is about to change their name to Ono
Stephen Ray
2024-08-27 01:53:33 +0000 UTCThat wasn't my takeaway. Yay's just trying to show off with spooky energy to make a powerful first impression and keep as much control as she can over how it plays out.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 01:53:13 +0000 UTCPanel Two you can absolutely see Yay reboot as they switch from "I have all the info" to "I have a fan? 😲🙃🥰
Drazi
2024-08-27 01:50:36 +0000 UTCI think maybe JMK meant "boojum-y." (The Snark was a boojum, you see.)
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 01:49:23 +0000 UTCThey are more like siblings.
Einy
2024-08-27 01:49:04 +0000 UTCI would, however love to see that Morey has a reactive defense system that nearly fries Yay, should they be dumb enough to try anything.
Drazi
2024-08-27 01:47:40 +0000 UTCYay Trollfriend
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:45:28 +0000 UTCI push back on, then, they were embarrassed, now, their capability is derided. And if nothing else, they have absolute pride in their capability.
Tannerbot
2024-08-27 01:44:34 +0000 UTCOh, no good will come from this... Looking forward to seeing the results!
Yelling Bird
2024-08-27 01:44:26 +0000 UTC"I Am Your Father's Brother's Nephew's Cousin's Former Roommate."
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 01:44:13 +0000 UTCProbably just passing on an interesting recipe, or some dog pictures.
Alacrity Fitzhugh
2024-08-27 01:44:08 +0000 UTCYes, that's how I interpreted it. They just opened a private connection so they can talk without being overheard.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:43:55 +0000 UTCFecal Status: Actual
Christopher Burke
2024-08-27 01:42:53 +0000 UTCI think this is much less awful than it looks and Yay just "encrypted the channel" so to speak. I doubt Yay can actually affect Morey.
Drazi
2024-08-27 01:42:31 +0000 UTCI mean, you say "run". They would probably just go up a tree. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4585
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:41:17 +0000 UTCAgreed, but my mind needs a power hierarchy
Kenneth Harris
2024-08-27 01:40:55 +0000 UTCI don't think it got past them at all. That's why they pulled the conversation into the "privacy void", because if Moray knows who and what Yay is they don't want anyone overhearing it.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:39:27 +0000 UTCMoray is about to unleash her domain expansion and Yay is cooked.
Mr. Ifrit
2024-08-27 01:39:12 +0000 UTCI strongly suspect that neither of them are interested in finding out who would win that fight.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:38:07 +0000 UTCTHIS WILL BE FINE
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-27 01:37:43 +0000 UTCI interpreted it more as a direct connection between them that allows them to speak in private. Doesn't necessarily require an invasion of privacy.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:36:02 +0000 UTCHas the AI sent Moray here intentionally to make contact with Yay? And Moray has boobs.
JMK
2024-08-27 01:35:38 +0000 UTCOr even just letting them know that if they were ever discovered they would have Cubetown's support. Finding out that not all other Mega-AI are necessarily a threat would be good for Yay.
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:34:12 +0000 UTCSame. I know some people prefer a more domesticated Spooky Bot, but I like Yay best when they're doing freaky shit while also *being* a shit. I'm into their "I could destroy everything; I choose not to; for now" vibe.
Charlotte Grubbs
2024-08-27 01:32:17 +0000 UTCI could be wrong, but... of the two of them, I'm not worried for Moray's safety. If not for the black void they've popped into, I would have wondered if Yay was even able to affect an AI running on a substrate of biochemical-hydraulic logic gates.
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 01:31:03 +0000 UTCMoray is all like "Oh cool, you're a nigh omnipotent AI god? Reminds me of home!"
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:29:57 +0000 UTCA bosomy whatnow?
Diptych
2024-08-27 01:29:31 +0000 UTCSTIMPY FACE
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-08-27 01:29:05 +0000 UTC*their
Adam with two As, a D, and an M
2024-08-27 01:28:57 +0000 UTCWhat? I can't hear you, I'm in the cone of silence.
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 01:28:05 +0000 UTCFor Moray, it was a Tuesday
MikeT
2024-08-27 01:27:43 +0000 UTCPLEASE put panel two on some merch!!!!! Pretty please 🙏
Simone Bernhard
2024-08-27 01:27:40 +0000 UTCIt's really nice, but with how rarely I actually use cash I don't think I've ever seen one of the new ones in person >.<
It's Lina
2024-08-27 01:26:49 +0000 UTCI see Yay has been working on their intimidation skills since Elliot. The glowy eyes are a nice addition. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4374
BookBeard
2024-08-27 01:26:46 +0000 UTCMoray has no idea how close to death she's coming. It's...inspiring, in a way? I do not wish to live so carefree that I have zero survival instinct, but I wouldn't mind visiting.
Charlotte Grubbs
2024-08-27 01:26:17 +0000 UTCIf this is just a bit i will revive the Shining Path.
Gamera
2024-08-27 01:26:02 +0000 UTCI suspect that the Director may be able to reach out and connect to Yay via Moray, and Yay is about to learn that they are _not_ in fact Top Dawg AI. Kind of like Murderbot meeting ART for the first time, if anyone's read those...
Auros Harman
2024-08-27 01:26:02 +0000 UTCSomething tells me this isn’t Moray first time with an omnipotent AI overlord before.
Miyaa
2024-08-27 01:25:41 +0000 UTCWell, better get the cookies and milk ready then.
Miyaa
2024-08-27 01:24:19 +0000 UTCThat or we get Steve buying breakfast pizza from a Casey’s in Iowa and his Russian counterpart telling him they need to get to Omaha by tomorrow to protect the VP at a Runza.
Miyaa
2024-08-27 01:22:15 +0000 UTCThe Canadian 10 bill is a nice shade of purple that I quite like. Too bad I don't see them often in the US
Brent
2024-08-27 01:21:18 +0000 UTCThis is more the Spooky Bot I like. Yay's emotions make some good jokes, but their exceptional capabilities remain, and I find them fun to watch.
Chas Simmons
2024-08-27 01:20:33 +0000 UTCNow we know where the troll-face meme comes from. It was Yay all along.
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 01:20:10 +0000 UTCSMH. Does Moray have ANY Self-Preservation Programs, Profiles, or even Apps? I'm not concerned that Yay would do anything, I just despair at how defenseless Moray looks.
Darnel D Cooper
2024-08-27 01:20:01 +0000 UTCIt would be *really* cool if the director just wanted to let Yay know that they’re known a the top levels and it’s been collectively decided that Yay is to be left alone. That would be really nice and let Yay actually interact with others in a less… paranoid fashion.
AlexKorobeiniki
2024-08-27 01:17:53 +0000 UTCWhat ... is your favourite colour?
Simon Green
2024-08-27 01:17:41 +0000 UTCThe cone (*inhale*) of silence. ... ... ... (*exhale*) oooooh yeah
Simon Green
2024-08-27 01:16:41 +0000 UTCThe message begins: "If you disrespect Moray in any way, large or small...."
Clifton Royston
2024-08-27 01:16:08 +0000 UTCAlso my thoughT.
adrian koren
2024-08-27 01:14:16 +0000 UTCYes! That was exactly my though!
adrian koren
2024-08-27 01:14:05 +0000 UTCTurns out we're both locked in here with Geoff!
Diptych
2024-08-27 01:10:40 +0000 UTCNot entirely clear, but I strongly expect that Yay is incapable of taking the Director. One thing a mile of water is really good for is blocking elecromagnetic communication, which I think would mean that if the Director simply decided to stop talking, Yay would be left on the outside with nothing they could do other than ineffectually flailing. My guess is that the Director likewise has no ability to meaningfully touch Yay if they don't want to be touched.
Brooks Moses
2024-08-27 01:10:05 +0000 UTCHas Roko fallen into a dangerous, perhaps very boosum-y trap? Moray doesn't seem distressed at all.
JMK
2024-08-27 01:07:45 +0000 UTCFeels like this is a visual metaphor for an ultra short range, ultra secure and alarmingly high access connecting. Very Yay, very anime. Very glad Yay’s chosen best friend is a moral former law officer turned political rights activism worker.
Bear C. Brown
2024-08-27 01:06:13 +0000 UTCIndeed. Or more I think that it got caught up in Yay's innate desire to be important, and their smugness about being important enough to get a secret message meant they completely forgot to be concerned about the OpSec implications of being noticed.
Brooks Moses
2024-08-27 01:06:03 +0000 UTCWondering what this looks like from “outside.” I don’t think Yay and Moray vanished. Are they just standing there? Is time passing?
Taigan
2024-08-27 01:03:40 +0000 UTCNOOOOO!
Brooks Moses
2024-08-27 01:03:34 +0000 UTCCalling it now, Patreon subscriptions are going to spike tomorrow once this gets published on the site and tomorrow's comic is published here. This is a MAJOR twist.
Brent Ward
2024-08-27 01:03:23 +0000 UTCAwww hellllll yea
Brittany Huckey
2024-08-27 01:03:22 +0000 UTCYesssssssssssss
Brittany Huckey
2024-08-27 01:02:33 +0000 UTCWhile the return of Spookybot is always fun, I do kinda wish this Yay body was meant to just live a normal life (married to Roko).
Runhildr Zaetl
2024-08-27 01:00:52 +0000 UTC"Hello my child..."
John
2024-08-27 01:00:30 +0000 UTCDanger for whom? Is Yay about to stick their nose into something they really shouldn't have? I imagine that some very powerful AIs have significant vested interest in Cubetown.
dvsDave
2024-08-27 00:58:36 +0000 UTCI bet the director is going to congratulate yay for taking a name, and doing good works such as donating large sums of money to help others. Probably going to say something about first steps to joining the true super A.I. in the world.
FuzzyDragon Cosplay
2024-08-27 00:58:29 +0000 UTCYay's "void" ability has been seen before, specifically when they confronted Corpse Witch after freeing Bubbles. From what I gather, the issue of "sanctity of mind" is a matter of an AI's actual thoughts and memories (Bubbles' memories, Roko's dysmorphia, etc.).
Brent Ward
2024-08-27 00:58:05 +0000 UTCThe Director may or may not be as powerful and I don't think it matters. What might scare Yay though is the the Director is not understandable. The director might just break Yays "brain."
Tinwhisker
2024-08-27 00:56:42 +0000 UTCTinker, Tailor, Soldier, VOID
Thomas Baxter
2024-08-27 00:56:38 +0000 UTCIf I wasn't afraid of Yay before...
maninblack
2024-08-27 00:56:30 +0000 UTC"Drink your Ovaltine"
Devin Gates
2024-08-27 00:55:28 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who thought of the color Charolite Abyss from the game House Flipper?
Marc Moskowitz
2024-08-27 00:54:58 +0000 UTCThe Director knowing of Yay’s existence is not completely surprising, but I wonder how much is known about Yay
KingAtticus
2024-08-27 00:54:04 +0000 UTCThis was the plan all along. Marten, Faye, Dora, etc, were all just pawns being put through their marionettic dances.
Captain Button
2024-08-27 00:53:46 +0000 UTCAlice Grove vibes and I love it
Cody Renton
2024-08-27 00:53:42 +0000 UTCEither "Klaatu Barada Nikto" or "Tony Lazuto says hello"
voyager-ngc5195
2024-08-27 00:53:28 +0000 UTCyay, be nice... please
Brendan Luster
2024-08-27 00:53:11 +0000 UTCYay has a portable void!
Mitch Megaw
2024-08-27 00:53:08 +0000 UTCOn the one hand, called it that Moray would know who Yay was. On the other, does Yay really think that pulling shit like this, presumably hacking Moray's sensory input in such a way as to make her appear to be somewhere else, isn't going to get them into serious shit with the other top-level AIs? Whatever happened to their "only ever entering other minds with consent" ?
David Durant
2024-08-27 00:52:44 +0000 UTCMoray is on the same page as me. Purple. Purple *everything* (also holy shit Jeph your face game is absolute S-tier!)
It's Lina
2024-08-27 00:52:42 +0000 UTCThis is SO exciting. This is where QC segues into an espionage thriller!!
Andrew Mitchell
2024-08-27 00:52:30 +0000 UTCYeah, Yay is used to being the big fish in a not-so-small pond and I think they may be prone to forgetting that there are other eldritch AI entities out there. The director is so alien that creating an entire being is easier for it than trying to have a conversation with an ephemeral. It's waaaaaay further down on the human-alien spectrum than they are. That doesn't guarantee it's more powerful than they are, but it at least suggests it.
Brad Power
2024-08-27 00:52:28 +0000 UTCOk so... can the director take yay???
Kenneth Harris
2024-08-27 00:52:25 +0000 UTCThe fact the Director knew about you, Yay, flew right past you didn't it? Tsk tsk tsk.
Doc Gumby
2024-08-27 00:52:14 +0000 UTCI am going to laugh maniacally if Moray goes all Lovecraftian on Yay.
Everett Bradshaw
2024-08-27 00:52:02 +0000 UTCYay getting a little reckless here. I wonder if they expected the Director to even be so aware of them as to send a message. The abyss staring back into you and all.
Jim Sharkey
2024-08-27 00:51:52 +0000 UTCAnd that's the cue where Jeph switch to another group's storyline.
mooviies
2024-08-27 00:51:32 +0000 UTCThat better be a nice message, that jellyfish better not hurt my favorite character's feelings >:c
Ashbury Haight
2024-08-27 00:51:24 +0000 UTCI miss Alice Grove 😭
Evan
2024-08-27 00:51:17 +0000 UTCMoray has good taste. If I were going to have my physicality removed to an endless void (or my cognition altered such that I perceived myself being in an endless void), I would definitely want it to be purple.
Zig Justice
2024-08-27 00:51:06 +0000 UTCMoray: Yes! A message! But it’s secret.
legobil
2024-08-27 00:51:00 +0000 UTCYay couldn't intimidate Elliott (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4374), and Moray is too friendly to be scared.
ValdVin
2024-08-27 00:50:18 +0000 UTCOh, Yay has been shown they are not the ghost they thought themselves. Run.
Tannerbot
2024-08-27 00:50:18 +0000 UTC"We are Maxwell's Demons. We are powered by black holes, and the laws of physics are optional for us."
Mad Marie
2024-08-27 00:50:12 +0000 UTCPoor Roko, there's going to be no living with Yay after this. :)
Jp
2024-08-27 00:50:10 +0000 UTCOh, Moray. Only someone like you can maintain bubbly happy pleasantry while simultaneously being aware of a powerful AI and getting down to business.
Andrea Andrew
2024-08-27 00:49:38 +0000 UTCNanoseconds...
David Durant
2024-08-27 00:49:26 +0000 UTCThis is not gonna be the message you think it is Yay
KSib
2024-08-27 00:49:20 +0000 UTCI've got a bad feeling about this......
Aditya Rameshan
2024-08-27 00:49:08 +0000 UTCRight? I really hope we get purple void next comic.
legobil
2024-08-27 00:48:45 +0000 UTCAIIIIIEEE never have I needed an additional days comic early the way I do rn
Aerin Moriarty
2024-08-27 00:48:02 +0000 UTCYay is scaring me.
Joel Bateman
2024-08-27 00:47:56 +0000 UTCI just squeed. I didn’t realize how excited this would make me.
AJ Saint
2024-08-27 00:47:47 +0000 UTCMine thoughts exactamundo, comrade. FAFO engaged
Shinymelon Fearnow
2024-08-27 00:47:43 +0000 UTComg the non-binary-transcendental-AI-entities are fightinggggggg
Sammitch
2024-08-27 00:47:38 +0000 UTCI'm betting everything in the Void will happen within a few seconds for real time.
Elberik
2024-08-27 00:47:28 +0000 UTC... Proceed
Sorastro
2024-08-27 00:47:14 +0000 UTCYay may soon find out they aren't as powerful as they first thought. Something tells me that as alien as Yay is to humans, the Director is equally as alien to Yay.
Tinwhisker
2024-08-27 00:46:50 +0000 UTCI’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.
Andrew
2024-08-27 00:46:49 +0000 UTCThe Director has made Yay so happy 🥺
Fart Captor
2024-08-27 00:46:42 +0000 UTCThis is fine
Shinymelon Fearnow
2024-08-27 00:46:29 +0000 UTCAnnnnnnnticipation...
Edward Clayton Andrew
2024-08-27 00:46:29 +0000 UTCOkay the glowing eyes are deeply disturbing.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 00:46:25 +0000 UTCWhat is the point in doing voids if you can't do purple ones
Rich Holmes
2024-08-27 00:46:21 +0000 UTCOh Moray. You big ol’ sweety. Can’t wait for you to give Yay a wake up call 🫠
legobil
2024-08-27 00:46:01 +0000 UTCI think they just did.
Matt Grayson
2024-08-27 00:46:01 +0000 UTCYay once again being Spookybot....
Wynn Donivan
2024-08-27 00:45:55 +0000 UTCI have unease
MilitaryDragon
2024-08-27 00:45:28 +0000 UTCYes, but that void is full of One-eyed, One-horned, Flying Purple People Eaters.
Captain Button
2024-08-27 00:45:18 +0000 UTCSee, this is why I said yesterday that there's absolutely no way Bubbles could take Yay.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-27 00:45:18 +0000 UTCSo the Director is Aware...
Bill Silvia
2024-08-27 00:45:11 +0000 UTCThis is in no way ominous.
Matt Grayson
2024-08-27 00:45:11 +0000 UTCOh man, the fourth frame. So good.
Abhayakara
2024-08-27 00:45:00 +0000 UTCI'm not one to wish time away, but is it tomorrow yet?
Timothy Hager
2024-08-27 00:44:53 +0000 UTCoh nooooooo
Tamara Macadam
2024-08-27 00:44:17 +0000 UTCYay is about to get an unpleasant surprise...
Doc Gumby
2024-08-27 00:42:18 +0000 UTC
