Questionable Content 11: It's Like Seeing a Unicorn

[georgie_leech]

Since Sam's new haircut appeared here, I've seen multiple women on TV with somewhat similar haircuts.

Is his a new thing that I have not seen in person because I do not live on the hipster coasts?

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[Max_Killjoy]

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No, I'm certain I've not seen that haircut on real-life women that often in the past. I've seen it in fiction (at least one Joan of Arc portrayal, frex).

This happens with fashion trends (haircuts, clothes, etc) repeatedly -- they tend to come on all at once, as they finally reach things that I might actually see out here in flyover country, or actually make their way out here.

In the case of that haircut, I noticed it on two female soccer players who didn't have the haircut earlier this year -- it's a new thing.

[Beelzebub1111]

This child. Oh my god. That is a deadly lack of self preservation. She has been shown to be borderline suicidal three times just now.

She needs help

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This child. Oh my god. That is a deadly lack of self preservation. She has been shown to be borderline suicidal three times just now.

She needs help

Do not forget, when she, Marten, Eliot, Momo, and Padma were on that nature hike, Sam did a flying leap tumble down a cliff after a snake that should have killed her. She emerged with only bruises and abrasions AND the snake. Which was probably thinking "THE HELL KIND OF PREDATOR IS THIS???"

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2018

I think we should assume she's unkillable. And if Bubbles goes with her, keeping Sam from disproving that will be a full time job.

[Beelzebub1111]

That rubber band better hit herself back in the face soon. You don't get to be the kind of person that is hyper careless around a pnuematic press or rattlesnakes for very long.

Either that or she turns out to be a robot that thinks its human and has to face an existential crisis.

Call me old and jaded if you want, but it's not quirky, it's not precocious, it's too dumb to live.

[georgie_leech]

That rubber band better hit herself back in the face soon. You don't get to be the kind of person that is hyper careless around a pnuematic press or rattlesnakes for very long.

Either that or she turns out to be a robot that thinks its human and has to face an existential crisis.

Call me old and jaded if you want, but it's not quirky, it's not precocious, it's too dumb to live.

Says the guy with Monster Kid as an avatar

[Beelzebub1111]

Says the guy with Monster Kid as an avatar

There is a line, and that line is "gets stuck in a pneumatic press and procedes to stick head inside of machinery having learned nothing"

Just have someone sit her down and say, "this behavior is not okay, you will die" that's all I really want. Just for someone to acknowledge that what she's doing is wrong.

[Keltest]

There is a line, and that line is "gets stuck in a pneumatic press and procedes to stick head inside of machinery having learned nothing"

Just have someone sit her down and say, "this behavior is not okay, you will die" that's all I really want. Just for someone to acknowledge that what she's doing is wrong.

Sam already understands that what she was doing is wrong. She admits she got too excited. Theres a montage of Bubbles showing her the equipment and teaching her some things, and she manages to refrain from being horribly obnoxious in most of them (and Faye joins her the one time she disregards Bubble's safety warning, so one assumes that Bubbles was more concerned about what she could do than what she was actively doing).

As for punchbot, he is a technology that doesn't exist in the real world and thus we are in an extremely poor position to make judgments about the safety, or lack there of, of her actions.

[Honest Tiefling]

Punchbot felt comfortable walking through town with his bits hanging out. She might have assumed that if he was dangerous, he would have at least put some duct tape onto himself to warn people who might have otherwise walked into him.

If anything, I would assume that sticking her head into him was more rude then dangerous, but Keltest is right, we don't know how safe it is. Then again, they gave May one so it can't be that bad.

[Shadow of the Sun]

as someone who is incredibly accident prone, i've almost killed myself a lot more times than sam has shown in comic. none of it was necessarily on purpose, i'm just a doom magnet.

[Kato]

I wonder... Would a spray be a tat to a robot? Seems to me you'd have to actually... Etch (?) it in to be similar. Or at least do something more permanent than scribble it on the surface?

Also : so is this a new thing?

[Morquard]

Yes sprays seem more like Henna tattoos to me than real one

[Eldan]

I wonder... Would a spray be a tat to a robot? Seems to me you'd have to actually... Etch (?) it in to be similar. Or at least do something more permanent than scribble it on the surface?

Also : so is this a new thing?

Etching, anodizing, heat treatment, there's a lot of ways to permanently put designs or colour on metal, yeah.

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Oh no, they're going to have to take Sam on as a partner. Or at least employee. And turn the repair shop into a tattooing parlor. O_O

[Cikomyr]

That.. is an interesting and furtunate turn of events

[Traab]

Faye is also an artist with the metal work, this would actually be an interesting side business. Come in for repairs, get some flair added to you while you are at it!

[Keltest]

Oh no, they're going to have to take Sam on as a partner. Or at least employee. And turn the repair shop into a tattooing parlor. O_O

I don't think she's quite old enough to have an actual job yet.

[Yana]

Since when has our reality gotten in the way of Jeph before?

[Ibrinar]

I think tattoo artists would probably branch out to that in that setting.

[Felius]

I think tattoo artists would probably branch out to that in that setting.

Unlikely, given the requirement to be a tattoo artist and hygiene requirements that don't really apply to robots, specially not if when they are just going for permanent marker on metal, which, despite the name, can be easily removed with some solvent. They'd be quickly crowded out, at least in most part, by less qualified amateurs who are nonetheless skilled artists.

[Max_Killjoy]

Unlikely, given the requirement to be a tattoo artist and hygiene requirements that don't really apply to robots, specially not if when they are just going for permanent marker on metal, which, despite the name, can be easily removed with some solvent. They'd be quickly crowded out, at least in most part, by less qualified amateurs who are nonetheless skilled artists.

They'd probably do it if an AI paid them their standard fee on the basis of their particular artistic style and skill -- no reason not to do it if the money is the same.

[Eldan]

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DAMN, that's an unfortunate name.

[Honest Tiefling]

I don't think she's quite old enough to have an actual job yet.

I forget her age, but in most states, you can't work until you're 14 (unless it's farming/baby sitting or similar jobs). A quick, but nont thorough google search implies this is the case for Massachusetts. I just don't know how old Sam is, but she's probably a bit too young. And I am not sure how Massachusetts feels about kids working in industrial settings. So unless Massachusetts forgot to put that into law and she JUST turned 14, she cannot be hired.

As for a 'spray' being more like henna then a ink tattoo...So? Robots don't shed skin like people do, so some forms might last longer for them. And why get something permanent when you switch out body parts on a regular basis?

I want Faye to install some flame jets. Now that's body modification right there!

[Felius]

They'd probably do it if an AI paid them their standard fee on the basis of their particular artistic style and skill -- no reason not to do it if the money is the same.

Well, yes, but why would the vast majority of the AIs pay those prices when they can get a kid with a sharpie to do it for a literal small fraction of the price, if that?

Now, I could see the absolute best and/or most famous getting some jobs, or a more or less specialized service engraving or more permanently altering their parts in an artistic manner (although generally not by tattoo artists, the skill sets would be rather too different), but the vast majority of actual tattoo artists are going to have to conform themselves with human clients (or AIs who got a body with very good synthskin ).

[Traab]

I forget her age, but in most states, you can't work until you're 14 (unless it's farming/baby sitting or similar jobs). A quick, but nont thorough google search implies this is the case for Massachusetts. I just don't know how old Sam is, but she's probably a bit too young. And I am not sure how Massachusetts feels about kids working in industrial settings. So unless Massachusetts forgot to put that into law and she JUST turned 14, she cannot be hired.

As for a 'spray' being more like henna then a ink tattoo...So? Robots don't shed skin like people do, so some forms might last longer for them. And why get something permanent when you switch out body parts on a regular basis?

I want Faye to install some flame jets. Now that's body modification right there!

Meh, there are ways around that sort of thing if everyone involved agrees. They wont be able to cut her a paycheck and file it with taxes, but there is no reason they cant toss her a 20 every now and then. Totally unconnected to the artwork she does for free of course. No law against drawing is there?

[Honest Tiefling]

Meh, there are ways around that sort of thing if everyone involved agrees. They wont be able to cut her a paycheck and file it with taxes, but there is no reason they cant toss her a 20 every now and then. Totally unconnected to the artwork she does for free of course. No law against drawing is there?

If you have a cop that's highly suspicious of you and you have industrial equipment and solvents lying around this might not be the best idea. I don't think Faye is doing the kid any harm (always good to encourage those interests) but it might not be legal.

[Cikomyr]

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon. Please enjoy your complementary month of noticing all those things that you notice for the first time coming up repeatedly.

How about you notice more often after learning that you notice more often. Does it works on thr 2nd degree?

Also, hilarious name origin. Talk about random name.

[Cikomyr]

I have to admit Sam has an eye for artistry business.

It would never have occured to me

[Max_Killjoy]

Is there some reason they're "of course" called "sprays"?

[Keltest]

Is there some reason they're "of course" called "sprays"?

Because Jeph gets excited about things and nobody wants to take that away from him.