Friends To Rivals
Two coffee makers AND a trap door
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Attend the tale of Appleboom! Her skin was pale and her mood was gloom! She brewed the lattes of scientists Whose presence thereafter was sorely missed! She trod a path that led to doom, Did Appleboom! The Goblin Brewer of Cubetown!
Omg this is genius
I would definitely be in favour of the trap-door coffee shop. People could fall to their demise. We'll call is Coffee of Demise. I don't plagerize, honest.
On a mostly unrelated note, I heard yesterday that Hampshire College, where Jeph went to school, is going to close down at the end of this year. I don't know how you feel about this, Jeph, but I offer my condolences anyway.
Oh man. Lupita Nyong’o & Ken Burns were among their alumni.
Bad Mood Coffee: Where Trouble Is Always Brewing™
Okay, that works TOO well 😂
Quantum Coffee - by academics, for academics
I’ve had a lot of that coffee - it gets the job done but it doesn’t taste good
I wondered where Marten was going to sit the filter if he doesn't already have a pour-over coffee setup. I guess you CAN just sit it in the cup, though then it'll be soaking in the resulting coffee. This is Cubetown; surely someone somewhere has a funnel he can appropriate for the process? (Though you might need to sterilise it).
Cubetown does have plenty of funnels, and also filters. Why, their latest invention of a filter was based on principles inspired by the novel A Mote In God's Eye. (something about toolmakers or watchmakers or whatever)
Wouldn't the trap door just drop you into the ocean?
Yep. Excellent stimulant. Very invigorating!
Moob Coffee, offering Phytoplankton cold brew
I do not want my coffee to have a uranium glass glow.
Mood Coffee vs Doom Coffee. Wait.
You never know when a trap door will come in handy... cf. https://www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-855
Attagirl! You get him!
Does the trap door lead to The Spider Zone?
The Spiderverse.
The title has me recalling the SF novel "Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods" by Jack Williamson.
I prefer “A brother to dragons and a companion to owls”. (Shame it’s a mistranslation.)
the barista he told you not to worry about:
When science meets coffee: my comic with the Small Caffeine Collider: https://www.kaitou.org/comic/archives/comic/creamer (I kinda hate linking my comic, but it's too on-topic. Do check the mouse-over text.)
Excellent imaginary-ation you got!
everyone's a barista at heart
No, not everyone. Some of us are tea drinkers. (Waiting to be flamed, now, lol.)
you can really taste the scientific data
Mmmmmm, 5 sigma goodness!
I genuinely want Liz to get her mojo back. She’d still be a gremlin, but she’d be a gremlin with mojo!
Lots of gremlins have mojo. It's not a major alteration of the species.
Next week: Steve is called to see who replaced the protein in Sonny’s coco puffs with a futuristic illegal drug that sounds like it came from Pokémon which is why Game Freaks hired Steve. Meanwhile, Cleo investigates which cereal mascot could have offed Sonny to be in line as the next mascot.
Idk if timey-wimey but this feels like how his first GF decided on the vibes for that coffee shop before she went lezzie soft goth
I thought Dora already owned the coffee shop while she and Marten were dating. Also, I thought she was already Goth, and bi. Did I miss something?
Happy customer: "How do you make Bad Mood Coffee so bitter? Overextraction?" Liz: "What you want to learn I can't teach you."
Finally Liz and Hanners get to start that business selling Genuine Venusian Coffee™ just like they always planned. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5320
In 2033, Liz and Hanners (backed by the big-wig AI consortium of Earth) open up the first coffee shop ("Publish and Perish") on another planet (Mars). They immediately secure a multi-trillion dollar contract to expand to Venus. Hanners' prescient vision finally becomes reality.
Bad Mood Coffee doubles as a journal. Liz will pore over customers' research.
Did you mean "pour over"?
Bad Mood Coffee is a great name for a coffee spot though. I would go there.
The irony is not lost on me. Go in grumpy. Interact with kind efficient staff. Drink luscious coffee. Feel better.
I only started drinking coffee in the last few years. With enough sugar and cream it's not bad. I had to switch to something because I can't drink alcohol anymore. My liver is fucked up.
I like my coffee like my heart: black and bitter.
And a microphone.
Now, on to a serious question that wasn't addressed about yesterday's post, people. Who do we ship with MomRay?
Everyone all at once, as per the usual arrangement.
Gremlin Coffee & Tea For when your mood Is just too good!
Perfect!
Liz immediately obtains a prosthetic arm with a built-in milk frother.
At least she'd have a career with the MommyMilkers fandom.
Marten! You're making the pourover wrong! You need a gooseneck kettle and a chemex!
It better be a cadmium kettle, otherwise why even bother?
The important thing, I think, is that Gremlizabeth isn't as depressed as we've seen her earlier in her arc. She IS getting better. And it's great to find out that her reaal pesonality is truly evil. :)
She's starting to remind me of Little My.
Just make sure the coffee explodes from time to time, to fit in with CubeTown's aesthetic.
Not to toot my own horn, but gifted kid burnout is a hell of a thing. It’s like one day, all the wires in your brain get tangled and some unplug, and you don’t know how it was arranged in the first place so you don’t even know how to put it back together, which leaves you questioning if you even had your shite together to begin with. I’m hoping Liz finds her stride sooner than later, rooting for the little gremlin.
...have you been watching me? On a real note, it sucks. Makes you feel insanely stupid. Hope it gets better for you. Im still in the "how do explain to others this isn't neurotypical burnout" stage.
The quality of her coffee reflects how good your paper was. Shitty coffee for bad science, And shitty coffee for good science because she's jealous.
It'll be like The Saloon in San Francisco. It'll be a badge of honor to get kicked out by Liz.
There's no reason to pit two bad bitches against one another... unless it makes for a better comment in which case I guess there is.
Get the REAL BITTER! Bad Mood Coffee!
I'm sure there's a market in Cubetown for a gremlin-run coffee shop where your research is derided as much as your coffee choices.
I could see Liz, still feeling uncreative, fall into the role of paper-critiquing coach. She can still judge how good an article is (as Jeph has shown) and presumably tell someone what the weak points are and suggest fixes. There are lots of worse things than "consultant" to have on your resume.
Liz: "And our menu board will have better puns!" Marten: "You realize that nobody likes puns which aren't awful."
"But subtle puns are like puns that sneak up on you and hit you over the head with a bat."
I mean, she definitely knew how to find the coffeemaker when she met Marten.
So much sibling energy, it could power a coffee maker
Sibling energy: a viable alternative power source? This sounds like it needs... RESEARCH.