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I assume that's a rocket science term, but my brain went to South Park.

Bill Silvia

Sometimes it just goes up really late.

Yelling Bird

Or a cup of Hannelore's charged tea https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4469

Comics Ladybird

Does anyone have a line to Jeph? Today's Patreon update hasn't yet.

Stephen Wells

I always use my whole ass. Especially when it's socially inappropriate to do so.

Yelling Bird

Thanks BookBeard! Internet Jerry. I’m sure he sold Pintsize body without warranty.

legobil

The Claire technique: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3188

Clifton Royston

Moray in the bottom panel is all of us

Daniel Burnett

One of her types :)

Stephen Wells

Spaaaace!

Jeremy

Now I kinda want to see Randall Munroe do an explainer on what it would take for Bubbles to hurl Pintsize past the Kármán line.

Steve DeGroof

If anything, he's a good sport.

Cley Faye

Too bad it isn’t small chassis pintsize being tossed. He’d be more aerodynamic.

Steve H

I'd say from the wind up she is doing that it will be a left-cross and Pintsize to the moon.

Patrick Potter

If anyone else has gone down the Olympics rugby rabbit hole, Ilona Maher has BIG Bubbles vibes.

Smashy smashy

Just some of our favorite AIs re-encountering some extremely traumatic former moments with incredibly balanced approaches

Smashy smashy

I'm one of them.

Smashy smashy

Jeph, Bubbles is adorable in panel two!!

Joseph McGrath

...I can see Pintsize flying at Roko just as they get close to the back door.

James Lomele

In too late for caber toss?

Katrina Urmson

I like Pintsize telling Bubbles to do it right or don't do it at all, even though it is him being yeeted.

Wild Card

Moray certainly is!

KiTA

she was security for the joint, as well as "Corpse Witch's de facto bodyguard".

Joe

I'm all about this Olympics-informed sub-thread ...

Joe

Yay dodges (she's very nimble). Roko gets her next chassis; it doesn't have the butt emblem but her dysphoria resolves. Pintsize is buried at sea.

Stephen Wells

Bubbles limbers up in exactly the same say before certain other activities. Faye would have a Pavlovian response to this moment :)

Stephen Wells

Didn't Pintsize commission a giant chrome something-or-other?

Sammitch

Football, with a perfect spiral.

Sammitch

Thank you, @Miyaa. I did manage to figure out how to do that, and did it. I would love to know who in their right mind (or insane mind) thought it was a good idea to make such a unilateral change...

John A. Aiken, Jr.

I don’t think so and there’s no preference setting on either the browser or app version. Best to complain to Patreon.

Miyaa

Oooh, you think Bubbles will use the Claire technique on Pintsize?

Clifton Royston

RIP Doctor Mandibles. We hardly knew ye. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4561

BookBeard

Maybe it's just me, but it looks like she's willing to try it once, especially since it is Pintsized being tossed.

Richard Damoncord

I think she just discovered her type

Nulgar

Not unlike Disqus!

Nulgar

But Bubbles doesn't want to get into that line of work and we should repect her wishes.

Nicolas Dao-Phan

I expect her to put him down gently outside and lecture him. Because Pintsize won't enjoy that.

Nicolas Dao-Phan

YEEEEEEET

Timothy Roller

Or perhaps if Bubbles uses the front it will provide the needed distraction so Yay and Roko can sneak in the back. I would expect a large crowd to gather for the Pintsize Toss.

Doc Gumby

Volleyball serve.

Sean Kinlin

Yay deflects Pintsize with a rapidly deployed personal force field.

Sean Kinlin

Possibly Pintsize just wants Bubbles to be her best self?

Sean Kinlin

For an orbital insertion trajectory it's much more efficient to follow the Earth's rotation, so Bubbles is not likely to launch him directly toward Canada. If he makes orbit without burning up, he'll fly above Canadian airspace instead of through it. If he somehow lands on Canada anyway, he went the long way around, and it's probably his fault.

Zygo

I hate to use this space for irrelevant questions, but I figure there are Patreon experts here. How can I revert the comment stream to earliest comment first? I am having great trouble reading the current comment stream and keeping the chronology of the comments straight, and I can't find anything in settings to fix it...

John A. Aiken, Jr.

On the way up, Pintsize meets Liz's orbital pizza delivery on the way down...

Zygo

There's a difference between seeing Bubbles in the workplace and seeing Bubbles at work.

Zygo

"Long have I waited for this day!"

Zygo

Hammer throw, held by the ankles.

William Cole

The last panel is Faye, May, Yay, Pintsize, Bubbles, and Roko all in a room, with half of them shouting "NO!" in unison.

Zygo

Discus isn't particularly efficient, but certainly more entertaining.

Zygo

Question that nobody seems to have asked: will Bubbles throw Pintsize like a shot put, or a javelin? Any other suggestions?

David Paul

What warranty? I doubt that neither the last owner nor the shadowy seller let there be any warranty remaining before selling it “as is” to Pintsize. It did house Dr Mandibles after all.

legobil

So who's going to bump into who outside the back door while ejecting Pintsize/sneaking herself and Roko inside?

Doc Gumby

We stan the ENTIRE Bubbles :) especially in, good lord, that dress.

Stephen Wells

A literal arc

drij

He already voided his warranty doing unauthorised yoga.

Stephen Wells

I was about to say "shiny and chrome", but that led me to wonder if any part of Pintsize was chrome, and... nope, not gonna go there.

Halloween Jack

Yay would at least have to tell Roko, and Roko would interfere on principle.

Carl Cravens

If it had been anyone else, Pintsize would shove them aside and go "GET IN LINE"

enchantedsleeper

That's a problem for in-five-minutes!Pintsize

enchantedsleeper

The wording there was very specific. No-one's coerced into *fighting*. They might be coerced into many other things.

enchantedsleeper

Please Jeph I would be so happy

enchantedsleeper

I like that theory, but I feel like if SecurityBot had been a fighter she would have seen Bubbles at work before. It sounds more like she heard..... things. Whispers. Rumours. Legends.

enchantedsleeper

Ooooh! Wait, yes!

enchantedsleeper

I feel like at one point Faye sat them down and outlined this business plan to Bubbles and Bubbles just went "no"

enchantedsleeper

Her face in the last panel 🤣🤣🤣

enchantedsleeper

Liz testing Bubble's tea (for deviancy?????) is the best

Bagge

Just occurred to me - this is a great opportunity for Union and Robotics to take a few lessons from the mafia. Have Bubbles wreck the local robots so they can get fixed up at Union Robotics. Don't want Bubbles to wreck you in the first place? Better pay for chassis insurance wink wink. Sure, it's incredibly unethical and would make them terrible people, but dang, what a money maker!

Green

01604 isn't a valid area code or country code; neither can begin with 0.

Graydon Armstrong

Gotta limber up evenly, or things feel weird.

Graydon Armstrong

Moray is so happy :)

Lucas Werkmeister

*puts down bong* 😔

Pejo

Well, the previous owner as well.

legobil

Extra points if you can hit the Satellite of Love with him!

Todd Ellner

Sorry folks, I augmented the likes on this from 420 to 421 😁

Mark

She can toss me anytime.

Yelling Bird

Thus begins another story arc of Pintsize getting a new chassis.

Panic Blitz

So, is the next comic going to be Bubbles shot-putting Pintsize into Yay and Roko as they come in the back door?

PixelThis

"And that throw was how the grave diplomatic incidents with Canada started..."

Leak

Pintsize would absolutely have voided any warranty by now as a matter of principle

Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell

Mmmm, Bubbles' whole ass

Fart Captor

Jared, that "nobody's coerced into fighting" answer from Corpse Witch in that comic definitely hits differently now that we know Bubbles's story, doesn't it. Wow.

Brooks Moses

Patreon extra content! Patreon extra content!

Brooks Moses

Whoa. That was an unexpected turn of events. Maybe they should let him land on Moray in that case, to soften the fall, such that his chassis doesn’t break. I mean, I doubt it has any warranty of any kind after all.

legobil

Not necessarily -- she could just be taking a deep whiff of it to see if she can see what Bubbles sees in it.

JCfromNC

It is no longer a thing to do to drives, but the "Bubbles treatment" might require massive defragmenting to hardware...

Scott

Maybe Securitybot is really the elusive Hank the Dismemberer!

William Cole

This makes legit everyone in attendance happy

David Martelli

I have never wanted to read someone's diary the way I wanna read Morays after this night

Aerin Moriarty

Starting to think Pintsize has a punishment fetish. It would explain a lot.

William Cole

And collides with the jet-powered Roomba.

adrian koren

@adrian Korean Also a good possibility, doesn't have to be the same chassis or nothin

Not that Patrick Foltz

Perhaps SecurityBot was a fighter and Bubbles repaired her?

adrian koren

We have no idea

Not that Patrick Foltz

Naw, she'll loosen the other, and likely her hips too. It takes your whole body to properly put your whole ass into it

Not that Patrick Foltz

Someone get Bubbles some of Elliot's study bread. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3864

BookBeard

@Jared Kolbly I wouldn't put it past him to upgrade given the concern he showed when he first got his body of not being able to survive a fully enraged Faye anymore. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4538

Not that Patrick Foltz

Sometimes I just want to go to space! https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4162

SilverbackRon

Ah, good points. I was thinking her repair job would mostly be happening behind the scenes, but she would certainly have been more visible as Corpse Witch's bodyguard. And as the local AI bar it's likely that some of Bubbles former coworkers are regular patrons here.

BookBeard

Yeah! "Thank you thank you, come see me at Union Robotics. I will be there all week". Perfect promo at an AI gathering!

SilverbackRon

While she didn't fight, she was very much a fixture there as the actual fixtures until Faye entered. I'm also relatively certain word of what went viral on BitBot, if Securitybot frequented the fights she might put 2 and 2 together. Heck, I lay money she knows Punchbot, 07, or Jeremy.

Not that Patrick Foltz

See now I want to know if Securitybot has done competitive Bar Brawling and if she met Elliott. Maybe it'll turn out she's the one that threw the chair? https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3326

BookBeard

And Pintsize is one of them!

That Blair Guy

One time I told a friend to punch me in the boob. No idea why, but if I ever did, I definitely don't remember now. And she did it immediately. No hesitation. No "wait really?" nonsense. Did not hold back. Now that's a true friend right there.

Green

Oh, yeah. Why else would he be goading her?

Maurice Kessler

Bubbles has another fan! And the gremlin's drinking her tea!!!!

Maurice Kessler

Jokes on everyone. This is a top 2 dream for Pintsize.

Hawkeye

A true agent of chaos.

AlexKorobeiniki

Also, just noticed this episode's title. Is the next one going to be "Throwup"?

kaitou

It's disappearing/reappearing ink!

Minzoku Bokumetsu

"For Sale: Robot Parts. Never made orbit."

kaitou

Orbital Railgun Justice is the best justice.

Cass

She didn't fight, but she was Corpse Witches "defacto bodyguard" and was used for intimidation - she'd have been well known to anyone with even a passing interest in security https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3420

Cass

See panel three: Moray is sort of looking forward to this.

ValdVin

I’m so glad someone else’s mind went there, too. :-)

Foal Papers

Entering Canadian airspace? I sense an International Incident upcoming.

ValdVin

Morey is thinking this day keeps getting better and better

Drazi

A left-handed AI? I had no idea Bubbles was Canadian. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4692

BookBeard

Can you make her go super sayan first

M. R.

Houston, we have lift off

Stephen Brown

There are people who would PAY to have a woman built like Bubbles throw them out.

Richard Damoncord

Knowing Pintsize, and him knowing himself, I would bet he has one of those reinforced AI drives that can withstand being run over by a tank. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3008 You would still need to be able to find it though.

Jared Kolbly

From the 413 area code to the 01604 dialing code. (And probably another country Pintsize is banned from entering.)

Miyaa

witness!

Brendan Luster

I can only assume it's a case of knowing her from being around in the background, and/or Bubbles being a bouncer for the fight arena. I can definitely imagine that kinda place getting some AI that were too rowdy, or who had bad reputations trying to enter, or some other such and that Bubbles was Corpse Witch's security as well as the one who fixed bots up. Double likely if you read this bouncer saying "I've always wanted to see a real pro at work" meaning a pro of a bouncer, since she's just asking Bubbles to toss him out, rather than knock him around.

Sarah Valentine

Ooh, Bubbles is sinister! Does Faye know this?

Miyaa

And after dealing with him for a few minutes, promptly return him to Northampton... via orbital railgun.

BookBeard

Pretty sure she never fought and only did maintenance and possibly security, and I'm also pretty sure that a fair number of the patrons that saw her working there wished to see her fight.

Jared Kolbly

Rule 1: You do not talk about robot fight club

SpookyPenguin

Mind, if it were Melon's special blend she was drinking, well... You can drink anything. Once.

Joseph Bonnar

He might go *over* Canada...

BookBeard

I'm predicting the effect that BUBBLES might have on the biological life form that drank her tea... :)

Joseph Bonnar

No-one can predict the effects that Bubbles' tea might have if actually consumed by a biological life form.

Simon Green

Hmmm, interesting. Securitybot apparently recognizes Bubbles from the robot fight club, but Bubbles previously told Faye she did not fight. I had assumed she meant she never fought, but perhaps she just meant that she didn't fight anymore? https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3019

BookBeard

I can picture it now, Bubbles launches Pintsize ala fastball special, and he goes "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" the entire time he's in flight.

FuzzyDragon Cosplay

Station instantly reacts with a precisely modulated laser pulse to kick him the fuck back down to Earth again.

Simon Green

The trip back from orbit may be incendiary. At least enough to cook a pizza!

BobC

Doo eeet!

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Oh good GRIEF. Gremlizabeth has Bubbles tea. SHE might be the one not to survive!

Joseph Bonnar

Right in the kisser! (and who knows what that kisser has kissed)

Sean Kinlin

"Oh, you misunderstand me. I'm going to back you up first then be prepared to potentially install you in a new chassis."

Carin Maja Brooks

Bubbles has to limber up and loosen the old joints first. And apparently she's a southpaw.

Sean Kinlin

Bubbles is going to enjoy this.

Joseph Bonnar

So, my patreon subscriptions got stopped as my credit card was compromised and I needed to wait for a new one. This happened before they entered the club. I get my payments up to date today, get the newest comic, and am completely unsurprised at where the comic has progressed to. As if it could have gone any other way XD

Hexagonal Crank

Well, that solves the problem of whether Pintsize will go to Canada or not.

Kenneth Carlile

Faye sees $$

Gary Walker

Some day, Pintsize. Pow! to the Moon!

Todd Ellner

Pintsize is about to get yeeted into another area code and he is ALL about it. Strangely, we all are, too

Anthony Gaglianese

i'm with Pintsize, send him to the stars don't worry Station will catch him

Blake Manor

GO BUBBLES!

Paul Higdon

I get the feeling she has been looking for an excuse to rough Pintsize up for a while.

Armcannon Productions

Has he forgotten that he’s no longer indestructible?

Matthew Van Gangelen

I appreciate how happy Moray is as she observes everything! Plus, two buff bot babes?? Yes, yes please!!

Shawn K. Younkin

Ngl, if I was in pintsize's shoes, I to would like to be bot-handled fully.

Tannerbot

spaaaaaaaace

Ting

FYI Jeph, you forgot the word "Security" on Securitybot's shirt.

BookBeard

Fortunately he knows someone who can repair his chassis after it returns from orbit.

Abhayakara

Escape velocity me, senpai!

Jason Wotzko

Ooh, so we are learning that Faye & Bubble’s shop is starting to make an impression with other robots. And Pintsize is about to add to that lore with his compression. The business could be turning a corner!

Miyaa

I CALLED IT, I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD ASK HER TO BOUNCE SOMEONE. I just didn't think it'd be pintsize, although that's a dumb mistake on my part🤣

Aditya Rameshan

He's pretty much always been good about accepting punishment for his actions. They just don't deter him.

Bill Silvia

Interesting promotion opportunity for Faye and Bubbles to bank on her celebrity. Good to see Bubbles has fans.

Andrea Andrew

I'm with Pintsize on this. I want to see Bubbles send him to space.

Andrew Mitchell

Sounds like the right thing to say, to me.

Daryl Sawyer

Oh God. Pintsize on station is a nightmare waiting to happen

Sorastro

It's no fun when all the trophies go to one person.

Bill Silvia

Hey, you gotta respect Pintsize for not throwing a fit about being banned. He knows what he did and dodging responsibility would be lame.

AlexKorobeiniki

She could take the gold at Olympic Bar Fighting.

Daryl Sawyer

Can Bubbles throw me, too?

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

Pintsize also wants to be a professional. He wants to be DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Bill Silvia

To Bubbles it's more of an art form.

Doc Gumby

Fight*

Nathan Kinsey

But don't put your whole ass into space, that's more Melon's thing. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3487

BookBeard

She could go to bar right regionals

Nathan Kinsey

"Send me to space" is the wrong thing to say, Pintsize. I have every confidence in Bubbles' ability to both send you literally to space, and aim you accurately enough to hit Station.

ValdVin


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