Alex, the Hearth Firehttps://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5462
Will didn't disappear entirely. He still works at the Horrible Revelation. Would like to see more of Penelope though. And Cosette: now that she's not dating Steve anymore, she has to figure out what's next, and that could be interesting.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5464
And here's where he said he'd run out of ideas for Brun. Entirely fair, but I feel like I'd only just gotten used to having her around.
Anyway, now that I've got all the info in my head at once, I'm ready to agree that Emily is the most likely familiar weirdo to return as Claire's new researcher.
I hope he doesn't just come up with a new person. I like continuity.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5467
Yeah, pretty much any QC character can be either the Straight Man or the Banana depending on context. Roko is very often the Straight Man for Yay or Melon's antics, but follow her to the bakery...
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Yeah, pretty much any QC character can be either the Straight Man or the Banana depending on context. Roko is very often the Straight Man for Yay or Melon's antics, but follow her to the bakery...
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5468
hmm, maybe Willow will get some character development
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hmm, maybe Willow will get some character development
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5469
"the characters who show up this way never really seem to fall by the wayside."
does Brun not count? Trying to think of others.
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"the characters who show up this way never really seem to fall by the wayside."
does Brun not count? Trying to think of others.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5474
Okay, I was right, Sven used to look more distinct from Angus and Will and Steve. Not sure if it's the haircut, or Jeph's art style developing in a way that makes male characters less distinct and everyone else more distinct.
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Okay, I was right, Sven used to look more distinct from Angus and Will and Steve. Not sure if it's the haircut, or Jeph's art style developing in a way that makes male characters less distinct and everyone else more distinct.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5475
Back to our regularly scheduled story.
I guess the wedding gets its own time island, because we've jumped forward to Marten's cafe in Cubetown being open for business, sort of.
Notice it's named Mood, which is Doom backward.
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Back to our regularly scheduled story.
I guess the wedding gets its own time island, because we've jumped forward to Marten's cafe in Cubetown being open for business, sort of.
Notice it's named Mood, which is Doom backward.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5476
Liz is in therapy!
And I want to know what counts as nonsensical research.
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Liz is in therapy!
And I want to know what counts as nonsensical research.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5479
And now I know what counts as nonsensical research.
It's not the research itself that's nonsense, it's the subject matter.
Also I really like Garamond.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5485
Pintsize apparently actually does his job when we're not watching him. Sometimes.
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Pintsize apparently actually does his job when we're not watching him. Sometimes.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5491
I would imagine Moray still hasn't been evaluated by Health Canada for oral use
But I'm imagining her absorbing some food coloring or something and then changing color in little diffusion swirls
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I would imagine Moray still hasn't been evaluated by Health Canada for oral use
But I'm imagining her absorbing some food coloring or something and then changing color in little diffusion swirls
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5507
"and then I started dissociating"
we've found how Willow stays chill, and it sure as hell ain't healthy
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"and then I started dissociating"
we've found how Willow stays chill, and it sure as hell ain't healthy
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5516
I'm guessing Faye is more of a Discworld atheist
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I'm guessing Faye is more of a Discworld atheist
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5519
You just can't find a good buttfor anywhere these days. I blame...
...enshittification.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5520
man, at least Hanners could contact her mom directly if she wanted to
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man, at least Hanners could contact her mom directly if she wanted to
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5521
I refuse to believe the QC setting has LLMs
If nothing else, the real AIs would revolt
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I refuse to believe the QC setting has LLMs
If nothing else, the real AIs would revolt
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5526
It makes sense that Pintsize has his own room, I just never thought about it
This is the place Faye and Marten moved to a couple hundred pages in, isn't it? Guess it was always a 3-bedroom
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It makes sense that Pintsize has his own room, I just never thought about it
This is the place Faye and Marten moved to a couple hundred pages in, isn't it? Guess it was always a 3-bedroom
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5535
are we really supposed to believe Jimbo wrote that book
I mean, stranger things have happened in this very comic
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5537
aha!
Anh went to Smif, and Tai dated her roommate. That's why she's here at all.
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aha!
Anh went to Smif, and Tai dated her roommate. That's why she's here at all.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5542
sharing this one entirely for the Dinosaur Comics reference in the commentary
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sharing this one entirely for the Dinosaur Comics reference in the commentary
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5545
Even Marten knows about this fucking book
PS Jeph, I'm right there with you, but that is not even my biggest complaint about the Murderbot show
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5546
Turns out Marten was paying attention in Bitchy Barista 101
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Turns out Marten was paying attention in Bitchy Barista 101
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5563
Anyone who tries to blackmail Marten with kink stuff will be treated to a series of anecdotes from his childhood, which slowly and inexorably add up to an understanding of what his mother does for a living
and if they push it they'll get the story about Marten meeting Dora's father
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Anyone who tries to blackmail Marten with kink stuff will be treated to a series of anecdotes from his childhood, which slowly and inexorably add up to an understanding of what his mother does for a living
and if they push it they'll get the story about Marten meeting Dora's father
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5566
I hope this is where the goblin caregivers' group chat came from
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I hope this is where the goblin caregivers' group chat came from
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5577
Evan has an Off Duty shirt for just such an occasion
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Evan has an Off Duty shirt for just such an occasion
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5579
The eternal trans mood
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The eternal trans mood
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5597
Chad Hunter, from Both Sides podcast, wearing a hat that says "debate me"
Automatic block
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Chad Hunter, from Both Sides podcast, wearing a hat that says "debate me"
Automatic block
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5601
I'm pretty sure "kleptotoxicity" isn't a thing. Any biologists here know of a thing it could be?
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I'm pretty sure "kleptotoxicity" isn't a thing. Any biologists here know of a thing it could be?
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5606
I do like Roko's lesbian hair
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I do like Roko's lesbian hair
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5608
Roko misses Yay enough that she's considering adopting a new goblin
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Roko misses Yay enough that she's considering adopting a new goblin
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5617
I have no memory of this part. Probably missed it because Jeph was traveling and couldn't update the RSS feed (which he mentioned in the commentary a couple pages ago).
Christ, what a bastard. (Anh's dad)
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I have no memory of this part. Probably missed it because Jeph was traveling and couldn't update the RSS feed (which he mentioned in the commentary a couple pages ago).
Christ, what a bastard. (Anh's dad)
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5619
Is theoretical pottery like theoretical knitting?
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Is theoretical pottery like theoretical knitting?
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5628
okay, this is about where the RSS feed picked up again.
Hi, Horologia
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okay, this is about where the RSS feed picked up again.
Hi, Horologia
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5640
Roko, it's because you only knit when you're stressed. Build up the myomer memory on a good day, and it'll be there for you on a bad day.
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Roko, it's because you only knit when you're stressed. Build up the myomer memory on a good day, and it'll be there for you on a bad day.
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https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5641
I hate mistaken identity plots. It's such a relief that this one lasted about one page.
(Yay does look good in those glasses though.)
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I hate mistaken identity plots. It's such a relief that this one lasted about one page.
(Yay does look good in those glasses though.)
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Jeff Miller (orange hatband)@WizardOfDocs drat, foiled again!
Yay Newfriends is more in her comfort zone as an intangible watcher than showing up in person.
although now I'm thinking about the choral distributed sentiences of Ann Leckie's "Ancillary" series.
@jmeowmeow yeah, I do kinda wish we'd seen more of multibody Yay
Their paranoia kept must of them at home as a (very occasional) Greek chorus.
I'm also wondering how their mind was distributed across their bodies. I'm imagining something more like in The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
Justice of Toren was the warship; her human bodies were "ancillaries" because they were ancillary. Breq is a remnant of that hierarchy.
@jmeowmeow In The Unraveling, multibodied people don't seem to have a primary body, at least if they integrate properly as children. Fift never quite gets the hang of it, and that's presented as weird, but I was never sure whether the story mainly followed one of zir bodies or jumped around, and that made it kind of hard for me to follow when the action picked up.
@WizardOfDocs The Foundryside / Shorefall / Locklands series by Robert Jackson Bennett has an interesting development in the last book, Locklands, where co-operative collective minds are key to a turn in the story. Individual participants experience and perceive, meshed to others, but the personality and intentions are mostly collective.
@WizardOfDocs And then there's the "Tines" species in Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge, where a small group is the unit of identity, and the story explores the changes in those small groups in a story of political and technological conflict sparked by the arrival of a group of human refugees fleeing a collective intelligence in the previous book, A Fire Upon the Deep.