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You've never watched Malcolm in the Middle, have you? Poor Francis...

"I vunder vhy you need ghoggles"

edited 17th Aug '17 6:18:10 AM by blkwhtrbbt

Eh, compared to some internety things I came across today, "pint of moose in the eye" is pretty tame.

Except her eyes aren't eyes. So I don't think getting things in them is a huge concern for her.

Optics are fiddly and cleaning them is often a pain the ass. Plus her chassis is probably not very well waterproof so that's even more problems in potential.

So yeah, getting showered in decayable organic material would be not fun for her.

I mean, best case scenario, it doesn't have any effect on her directly, but now she smells.

Dose moose semen have that powerful an odor?

Who knows.

Well, it's organic, so probably? If not immediately, then when it starts rotting...

Yeah, rotting is what I was talking about.

Winslow's a good sport.

Winslow the AI activist. Call me a poker player with a great hand, because I am all in.

That is one badass pigeon.

Eh, birds can't taste capsaicin. It's how the seeds spread actually.

It's also entirely in-character for May not to know that.

On the other hand, she says "normal birds" don't like habanero nachos. Implying she tested this.

Of course, that could easily be for reasons unrelated to capsaicin.

also: bubbles pls

edited 22nd Aug '17 7:05:18 AM by wingedcatgirl

Still totally into cool mum Bubbles.

Also is anyone else having trouble with the RSS feed?

The RSS feed has had intermittent troubles for as far as I remember.

I'm having trouble, too.

oh hey the RSS feed is working again

She is very polite yet savage, damn.

I was hoping something like this would happen.

The message of privilege is a bit messy considering the AI setting and whether they're property or not, and people have made arguments regarding Winslow's privilege and whether he really deserved to have May bite his head off. I myself felt like the message hit me in the face like a pile of bricks, out of nowhere - hence my participation in the initial backlash.

But this strip helps soften the blow. Jeph gets to mention the thing he wants to raise awareness for, but there's an acknowledgement that May was kind of a giant asshole in how she went about it and hurt Winslow's feelings. The issue is that comics in a daily format exist in a vacuum for possibly days at a time, so you don't know where the message is going to go - for a few days, it was just May going "think about your privileged new asshole before you jam it in my fucking dirt-poor face" to what amounts to a child in appearance and temperament, and that bugged the fuck out of me. With Hanners stepping in and giving a subtle "what the fuck" to May, while understanding where she was coming from and respecting Winslow's decision that stemmed from the altercation, there is some redemption in this arc that had initially split me pretty damn hard.

That's our Pintsize! *cue laugh track*

Full points to Pintsize, that's one of the most horrifying things he's done in this comic.

I was going to say it's one of the least horrifying things he could have done with the old chassis. He could have really defiled it but he just put in a Butts app. All they have to do is uninstall the app and it's good to go again.

I'm going for my usual 'endearingly misguided' but I keep getting 'disturbingly malicious' instead!

That's a call back and a half!

New comic: Don't Shoot The Messenger

Did Winslow look up that pigeon fact on his old chassis? I guess A.I.s don't really hold any attachment to a body they aren't using any more.