Questionable Content 10: La Li Lu Le Lo

[AvatarVecna]

Where is Pintsize getting money from, anyhow?

Boring (and therefore likely wrong) answer: Marten's wallet.

More interesting answer: Pintsize is running a private server where he hooks up anonymous people with whatever porn it is that their perverted little hearts desire.

[Mith]

I assumed that Pintsize owns a small time website that possesses the largest database of legal porn in the world. So he's not makinging a huge amount of money, but enough to allow him to pay for things.

I say legal porn, because I do not think that Pintsize is really that amoral, he just likes to get on people's nerves. At least nothing he's done has been actually malicious in my recollection.

Tangential thought: Do AI have their own network set up to pay for the resources (if any) they consume? I have always assumed that they had an (improbably) high quality battery that they recharge every so often, so that means electricity bills, or do they have an internal reactor that gives them a set life in their shell?

We have examples of AI that work, but then Pintsize doesn't seem to do work. Momo didn't work before she got her new chassis.

I would assume that the smaller grade chassis do not consume significant amount of power that cannot be covered by a slight increase in power bills. Would these power bills be subsidized due to the equivalence of Human Rights (Sapient Rights)?

[Flickerdart]

More interesting answer: Pintsize is running a private server where he hooks up anonymous people with whatever porn it is that their perverted little hearts desire.

You can't make money just by being a search engine. The way you rake in cash is ads. Perhaps Pintsize is in the endorsement business, using his notorious reputation as a mega-pervert to provide a stream of customers for various film-makers?

[Cikomyr]

I dont remember the original.joke the last two comics have referenced.

Can someone help refresh my memory please?

[Qwertystop]

I dont remember the original.joke the last two comics have referenced.

Can someone help refresh my memory please?

There's no original joke being referenced. They're doing a sex thing, except neither of them have genitals so it's just kinda dull.

[Keltest]

I assumed that Pintsize owns a small time website that possesses the largest database of legal porn in the world. So he's not makinging a huge amount of money, but enough to allow him to pay for things.

I say legal porn, because I do not think that Pintsize is really that amoral, he just likes to get on people's nerves. At least nothing he's done has been actually malicious in my recollection.

Tangential thought: Do AI have their own network set up to pay for the resources (if any) they consume? I have always assumed that they had an (improbably) high quality battery that they recharge every so often, so that means electricity bills, or do they have an internal reactor that gives them a set life in their shell?

We have examples of AI that work, but then Pintsize doesn't seem to do work. Momo didn't work before she got her new chassis.

I would assume that the smaller grade chassis do not consume significant amount of power that cannot be covered by a slight increase in power bills. Would these power bills be subsidized due to the equivalence of Human Rights (Sapient Rights)?

I was under the impression that being a companion AI was Pintsize's job. Momo's, too, and she just has two of them like many people do.

[Kato]

It is a logical extension of the previous comic.

Huh, somehow I totally missed fridays comic... probably too busy.


So... is it just me or does the art look weird today? I mean, not bad but... something is off. Too much space over the characters?
The idea is good but I fail to sing the themes to the proper tune. Then again, I can't sing for ....

[Cikomyr]

There's no original joke being referenced. They're doing a sex thing, except neither of them have genitals so it's just kinda dull.

But.. Pintsize mentions a "feeling of transgression"

[Flickerdart]

But.. Pintsize mentions a "feeling of transgression"

Pintsize is a huge pervert, and his thing seems to be "things other people find perverse." Bumping uglies without the uglies just doesn't cut it.

[Lethologica]

Apropos of nothing, Alice Grove is in some kind of place.

[Cikomyr]

This is a sensible precaution, IMHO

[eee]

They should talk to Momo, she knows about eels! At least she could shoot them out of an orifice in her old body.

Going back a strip, you have to wonder about a theme song that needs a Theremin.

"Good, good, GOOD, good vibrations...!"

[Eldan]

The OoooOOOOOooooo-ooo-ooo sounds in old classic horror movies are made on Theremin. So, probably that.

[Morquard]

I'm not sure if Faye was the only one with an alcohol problem at CoD ...

[Shogo]

This brings back memories.

A friend betting me that they could cut a tiny flash card in half with a katana. Him telling me to hold it for him. Me refusing. Him for some reason deciding that that particular flash card MUST be cut in half and volunteering to be the one to hold it. Me agreeing. Me attempting to cut the flash card with the katana. Me hitting his fingers instead of the flash card.

Fortunately the katana was decorative and not actually meant to be used on anything. That dull blade kept me from having to explain why I cut off a friend's fingers. Also fortunate that all he ended up with was bruised fingers. Explaining how I broke a friend's fingers would also have been pretty bad.

And the best part? We weren't even drunk! Just stupid teenagers still in high school.

[John Cribati]

... Didn't Dora fire Faye for being drunk on the job?

[AvatarVecna]

... Didn't Dora fire Faye for being drunk on the job?

As I recall, Faye was fired not necessarily for being drunk (that happens here with enough regularity to not be an issue), but because Faye was fairly consistently drinking/drunk on the job, to the point that it could be labelled an unhealthy coping mechanism that she'd become addicted to. Demanding sober employees all the time would be asking quite a lot (and would be hypocritical, as shown here and many other times), but there's an ocean of difference between drinking responsibly, drinking irresponsibly, and using your addiction to alcoholic beverages to avoid dealing with a lifetimes worth of psychological issues gradually piling up.

[Cikomyr]

I will not qualify "playing with a sword while drunk" as "drinking responsibly"

[AvatarVecna]

I will not qualify "playing with a sword while drunk" as "drinking responsibly"

Neither would I, hence the inclusion of "drinking irresponsibly" as a medium step between "drinking responsibly" and "full-blown alcoholic in a downward spiral". Mind you, I'm of the opinion that the only kind of responsible drinking is the kind that doesn't involve alcohol at all, so make of that what you will.

[Yuki Akuma]

Dora is an awful person - adding 'hypocrite' to her list of personality flaws isn't changing much.

[Cikomyr]

I remember the discussion here after the Faye Firing.

A big point was made of just how plain dangerous for the employer to have his employees intoxicated on the job. That can lead to lawsuits and insurance premium hikes. Which is why most people who were on Dora's side for the firing event had made that choice.

But then this happens. At least please establish that CoD is closed?!?

[Admiral Squish]

I dunno, it could be argued that Dora's being hypocritical, but I feel there is a line to be drawn between this and Faye's behavior. It's clearly not the consumption of alcohol itself that's the problem, as evidenced by the emergency burboun. The issue isn't even being drunk at work, because they've all done that before, and are doing it now. IIRC, the firing came when Faye came into work in the morning, drunk, not buzzed, but DRUNK. Getting drunk AT work, ALONG WITH your boss is one thing. One presumes Dora to be aware of the context of the situation, and generally responsible enough not to let herself or her employees get drunk right before a busy period or at an otherwise important time. Showing up drunk, or sneaking drinks at work (as implied by stashed booze), when your boss does not approve, suggests that you don't particularly care about doing your actual job.

[Kato]

Well, obviously jeph and the characters are aware of the problem and discuss it... I'm not sure where this is going except an argument against alcohol... And Emily to the hospital, I guess.

[eee]

I'm pretty impressed they can reach this level of intoxication in just 10 minutes.

Maybe that's not alcohol, but some sort of toxin Faye had stored in a bottle.

[Admiral Squish]

I'm pretty impressed they can reach this level of intoxication in just 10 minutes.

Maybe that's not alcohol, but some sort of toxin Faye had stored in a bottle.

QC-verse has some pretty legendary liquors. Wurmvater Totenkopfgeburtstag, Old Panther, Midnight Hobo... I don't remember the name of it, but the liquor store had it in a special case and I believe it caused time-dilation upon consumption.
I think this one's called 'Old Bull Moose', but it's hard to read the label.

[Mith]

Pintsize: A modern day Robin Hood. However, instead of banditry, he resorts to minorly discomforting extortion.

[Flickerdart]

Well, we got our answer to the questions about Pintsize's income stream.

[Cikomyr]

Pintsize: A modern day Robin Hood. However, instead of banditry, he resorts to minorly discomforting extortion.

Its actually a blessing in disguise. He makes the poor feel like they earned the money they got instead of feeling they got handouts.

Pintsize is one true Philantropist. :-P

[Cikomyr]

Okay. Quick reality check.

There is absoluty nothing wrong. Or illegal. Or exploitative by Faye to put the synthetic skin on her face, right?

[AvatarVecna]

Okay. Quick reality check.

There is absoluty nothing wrong. Or illegal. Or exploitative by Faye to put the synthetic skin on her face, right?

Putting it on nobody important? Sure. Putting it on May, potentially giving the ex-con a disguise? Probably not. Potentially viewable as "aiding and abetting" if May actually uses her "disguise" to perform a crime? Potentially, but that's not a thing I expect to happen. Of course, that Faye is associating with May is probably viewed as questionable; it's entirely possible that the agent was following May for some reason and is now suspicious because it lead back to the illegal bot fight mechanic, rather than that she was stalking Faye and happened to witness this meeting.