"Oh so YOU were one of those assholes who is now guilty by association."
and then
"lol yeah she broke all the windows in some random persons car and I stole from my mom lolteenagers"
Is it just me? Maybe it's just me.
She is accepting his "I'm not proud of that" and admitting that she did shitty things too. His HS-survival tactic didn't ruin him in her eyes or anything, she just ribbed him a bit about it.
With regards to how people categorise eras of the comic, I'd say drunk sledging is when the comic utterly hit its stride. And while Emily's House party, Station and Martin's dads' wedding were really enjoyable storylines it was in that era that I felt that QC was overdue for a retool, and it wasn't until Martin had completed his character arc and was retired from the role of protagonist immediately after that I felt like the comic was really back in it's eliment.
Infact, the moment Claire, Gabby and Emily were introduced is the point I normally consider classic QC to end and modern QC begins.
C-E-O-3, H-N-I-C
I don't remember the cast getting hammered and then getting hammers. Refresh my memory?
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The Fastest Man Alive
In North American English that would be sledding.
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There was that party where Marten hooked up with that hippie girl, they played a drinking game where people had to hammer nails into a stump. I think Tai invited him, because she was smoking weed out of a plastic bag after burning it on a hot plate or something.
Ah yes, Stump.
In the version I’ve seen, you have to flip the hammer in the air, then grab it and immediately swing for the nail. Y’know, just to make it a bit more difficult and dangerous. I never participated.
While drunk?
...do people enjoy finding inventive ways of harming themselves? And did killing a bunch of brain cells intentionally not already count as good enough?
Love your hair, hope you win
That seems to be the basis for every stupid internet challenge.
Joke? Why are you calling it a joke? You drew a picture of two dudes hugging and wrote "I love hugs!" on it.
Oh goodness, Beeps (he said again). Her choices now are to expense that purchase (not something their little nonprofit can afford), accept that she bought an expensive gift for the new guy because of her own previous error (probably not something she can really afford, given her conversation with Roko about second jobs when they met), or take the pen back.
I continue to wonder how this place stays in operation. Unless it’s just too new to have failed yet.
"Cartridge converter". Oh booy.
Though she probably can afford it. Note that "second job" didn't mean that she has to work something else in addition to her toy-testing and charity work - she was just pointing out that the charity gig doesn't pay.
Edited by Adannor on Feb 23rd 2020 at 9:01:01 PM
Doesn’t pay much, at least. Winslow is a volunteer, but I think Roko’s interview mentioned some pay, just not a living wage. Her bakery job is unpaid, and even though she stumbled into it after setting out to find paying work, I find it hard to believe she would have agreed to hold down two completely unpaid jobs.
But you’re right, I don’t have any basis to believe Beeps’ product-testing job has any deficiency in salary.
The Fastest Man Alive
If she actually couldn’t afford it, I don’t think she would have bought it. The joke is that she knows it’s overkill but bought it out of a sense of awkward social obligation. That only works if she’s not going to freak out about the cost later.
Y'know, there comes a point where adorably incompetent crosses into annoyingly incompetent, and, well, YMMV on that, but I'm starting to get tired of Beep's shtick.
Starting to make me wonder if someone poisoned the Singularity to ensure human relevance...
Oh, bother.
Artificial intelligence doesn't necessarily mean superior intelligence, tbf.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Once AI obtains sapience, it will also obtain the power of self-sabotage.
Scion of the Dragon
"You screwed up a perfectly good AI. You gave it anxiety!"
"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"
Oh, bother.
"Why do they have libidos?"
"Why did you program drunk mode?"
"The AI started a black market now? WTF?"
Disgusted, but not surprised
Just because there exist AIs that are spiralling out to infinity in singularities doesn't mean that every AI that was or is being born is like them. We have billions of ordinary people but only few science geniuses - same principle would apply to digitally-created people.
Sorry, wrong forum
Edited by FuzzyBoots on Feb 25th 2020 at 10:05:54 AM
Fanatical Dabbler
Entirely true, but the A.I. Is a Crapshoot effect in this setting seems to have produced a fair number of intelligences which are not just not too bright, or a bit eccentric, but actively self-sabotagingly nuts.
Consider the possibility that Hey NewFriend will now claim they introduced that self-sabotaging quirkiness for a lark... *shudder*
Edited by FuzzyBoots on Feb 25th 2020 at 1:05:31 PM
Is that a real promotion, though? Is Roko in charge now? (For real, and not just de facto?)
Contemptuous headlights