Questionable Content 11: It's Like Seeing a Unicorn

[eee]

OMG, it's a Melon-a-thon.

We have sinned against God and this is our punishment. :(

[Wraith]

Bugs are small enough to get into all sort of problematic spots at the slightest joint issue.

Do you remember that time that a cricket found its way inside of Pintsize's casing and fried itself on his motherboard? The effect was not unlike him experiencing a stroke, requiring Marten to remove his head and clean it out.

[Yana]

Y'know, I think I actually linked that comic in particular not too long ago.

[Max_Killjoy]

This probably means the previous strip was "played straight" and not metaphorical.

I'm guessing they don't actually eat this stuff so much as just taste it, similar to how Bubbles and Roko don't drink their tea.



(As a side note, if you ever want to get the singularity ninnies in a twist, mention Roko's Basilisk. It's a good way to see just how nutty they actually are.)

[Fawkes]

Roko's Basilisk is terrifying, in a sense that it's terrifying that anyone would take it seriously.

[Cikomyr]

OMG, it's a Melon-a-thon.

We have sinned against God and this is our punishment. :(

You will love Tilly, or else It Gets the Melon

Jeph knows how to manipulate his audience

[Max_Killjoy]

So far, I'll take Melon, at least she's somewhat entertaining.

Tilly has come across as a narrative device, who exists to help move another character through their arc but isn't interesting in and of... themself?

[Wraith]

So far, I'll take Melon, at least she's somewhat entertaining.

I much prefer Melon's randomness as an end-of-year filler over the usual Yelling Bird/Sweet-Tits garbage. Melon is at least an established character and through her we can infer some observations about the nature and place of AIs in the QC universe.

[EternalMelon]

I have to tell you, these comics are a really weird experience for me

[Temotei]

I have to tell you, these comics are a really weird experience for me

Is the Melon in the comic eternal or semi-eternal? Find out next time on Questionable C!

[eee]

Well, yeah. Nuns. Obviously we're in some sort of alternative alternative universe. If he'd have said Vatican III that would have made it clear. And freaked all the Catholics out.

(I never considered the question of if AIs have souls. This has deep theoretical implications. What would a robot Heaven look like? Is that where the calculators go when they die? (we'll see who gets that reference). What about a robot Hell? Is there any robot religion? Whoa, this has possibilities!)

And wishing all a Happy New Year!

[Keltest]

Well, yeah. Nuns. Obviously we're in some sort of alternative alternative universe. If he'd have said Vatican III that would have made it clear. And freaked all the Catholics out.

(I never considered the question of if AIs have souls. This has deep theoretical implications. What would a robot Heaven look like? Is that where the calculators go when they die? (we'll see who gets that reference). What about a robot Hell? Is there any robot religion? Whoa, this has possibilities!)

And wishing all a Happy New Year!

Didn't someone ask Momo about that once? And she basically responded with a fairly verbose shrug?

[AuthorGirl]

"Do robots have souls?" is a pretty interesting question, but not one that Jeph seems inclined to answer for us

[Max_Killjoy]

"Do robots have souls?" is a pretty interesting question, but not one that Jeph seems inclined to answer for us

We can't even answer it about humans.

[AuthorGirl]

We can't even answer it about humans.

There are loads of answers out there; take your pick.

[Traab]

Well, yeah. Nuns. Obviously we're in some sort of alternative alternative universe. If he'd have said Vatican III that would have made it clear. And freaked all the Catholics out.

(I never considered the question of if AIs have souls. This has deep theoretical implications. What would a robot Heaven look like? Is that where the calculators go when they die? (we'll see who gets that reference). What about a robot Hell? Is there any robot religion? Whoa, this has possibilities!)

And wishing all a Happy New Year!

Read a fanfic once set in star wars where hk-47 starts taunting battle droids with a robo religion he made up on the spot "I will send you all to the great demolisher in the sky!" Things like that. When asked he basically shrugged and said "If humans get heaven or hell, why cant robots get, I dont know, eternal oil baths or a great demolisher?"

[Keltest]

Read a fanfic once set in star wars where hk-47 starts taunting battle droids with a robo religion he made up on the spot "I will send you all to the great demolisher in the sky!" Things like that. When asked he basically shrugged and said "If humans get heaven or hell, why cant robots get, I dont know, eternal oil baths or a great demolisher?"

Star Wars really goes back and forth on the sapience and free will of droids. Most often they go with droids just being a really, really big library of responses to stimuli and therefore not actually people, and then occasionally have somebody like R2 inexplicably not conform to that.

[Cikomyr]

There are loads of answers out there; take your pick.

There are two:

Yes
No

Variations are on the topic as to *why* Yes.

Little variation on the No side.

[Vinyadan]

I am now quite confused.

First, is the Tilly arc (abruptly) done?

Second, are these filler comics? Does Bluebot really live with Orangebot? I completely lost track of her.

Third, was Pizza Girl the mouthpiece of Jeff in saying he was starting out a MONTH of alternate universe strips?

[memnarch]

I am now quite confused.

First, is the Tilly arc (abruptly) done?

Second, are these filler comics? Does Bluebot really live with Orangebot? I completely lost track of her.

Third, was Pizza Girl the mouthpiece of Jeff in saying he was starting out a MONTH of alternate universe strips?

1. Unlikely
2. Yes and probably
3. No, that's the extra text at the bottom of these page here

[Cazero]

Does Bluebot really live with Orangebot?

Is it possible that you've mistakenly took Melon for May?

[Vinyadan]

If he'd have said Vatican III that would have made it clear. And freaked all the Catholics out.

Why freak out? There have been 20 councils already, it would be slightly early for a new one, but I would not be surprised if one were called in the next ten years.

1. Unlikely
2. Yes and probably
3. No, that's the extra text at the bottom of these page here

Is it possible that you've mistakenly took Melon for May?

Ah, OK, thanks. Blue people all look the same to me!

[eee]

Why freak out? There have been 20 councils already, it would be slightly early for a new one, but I would not be surprised if one were called in the next ten years.

Vatican II introduced changes that some in the Church STILL have not come to grips with. And I'm not talking about those who for sentimental reasons want to hear the Mass being said in Latin again, just as it was when they were growing up. Many Catholics are inflexible in many aspects of their faith and worship; indeed just the recent proposed changes to the "Our Father", even if they represent a better translation and a more appropriate view of God's behavior towards His children, cause a firestorm. The idea of another Ecumenical Council introducing wholesale change at a time when the Church is facing major problems and stress, especially if it was left vague about what those changes had been in-story, would be like the news that a Constitutional Convention had been convened and had made changes to the Document, but not saying what they were...

[Vinyadan]

Oh, OK, that makes sense.
There's probably two more factors: one is that Catholicism with one more council is a different one from the one in our world, which brings to huge questions about what a QC Catholic would actually be; the second one is Jeff's general attitude towards representation of religion in his comic (which is, not talking about it, to avoid making people angry).

A website by Jeff I didn't know about: http://www.indietits.com/archive/200...1_archive.html

Also, oldish news about Jeff, Walmart, and a horse: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/m...-of-its-stores

[The Glyphstone]

No RW religion, guys.
COUGH

[geoduck]

Vatican II introduced changes that some in the Church STILL have not come to grips with. And I'm not talking about those who for sentimental reasons want to hear the Mass being said in Latin again, just as it was when they were growing up. Many Catholics are inflexible in many aspects of their faith and worship; indeed just the recent proposed changes to the "Our Father", even if they represent a better translation and a more appropriate view of God's behavior towards His children, cause a firestorm. The idea of another Ecumenical Council introducing wholesale change at a time when the Church is facing major problems and stress, especially if it was left vague about what those changes had been in-story, would be like the news that a Constitutional Convention had been convened and had made changes to the Document, but not saying what they were...

The Vatican Rag.

[John Cribati]

I wonder what will become of Hannelore when her mother imevitably cuts the funding to her. Pretty much her entire lifestyle is based on her coasting off her mother's money.

[georgie_leech]

I wonder what will become of Hannelore when her mother imevitably cuts the funding to her. Pretty much her entire lifestyle is based on her coasting off her mother's money.

...No it isn't? She counts things for money. And she works at Coffee of Doom.

[Traab]

...No it isn't? She counts things for money. And she works at Coffee of Doom.

And even if she was being supported im fairly sure her father, mr "I built own and operate a space station and invented half the coolest robotic and cybernetic gear in existence" could help out.

[John Cribati]

Oh yeah. Forgot all that.