They Keep In Touch
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Rattan Dyson sphere had me flashing back to Jain tech nightmares. Yeesh.
Yay is totally doing the "coquettish" thing again in panel three. :)
Jeph, whaddya mean "these two"?? I'd group the Director in there - "these three ..."
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wicker wow, wicker wicker wicker wow
I like how Roko clearly assumes that "Emily takes the Cubetown gig" and "Emily converts the solar system into a colossal rattan Dyson sphere" are mutually exclusive outcomes, when they are very much not xD
Obviously now Emily converts the solar system into a cube, totally different outcome :)
Do we know if Yay is still superpowered?
I would assume they are. At least I would NOT want to be the one to tell them, "Ya know, yer just a wuss now!"
Please, not rattan. Anything but rattan....
Any time I think of Yay using the royal we I keep wanting to see them make a reference to The King from Katamari Damacy. Fully acknowledge I might be reaching on this one
(Them! Yay uses they/them in singular form too).
Has Yay reverted to referring to themselves in the plural?
I recall that Roko actually persuaded her to do so, on the basis that it really was her authentic identity, even if she was just using one body. And it just made people think she was an ass and using the royal "we".
These two goobers! Also, I like that Yay and The Director is in a chat-basis.
Or at least an "I noticed you snooping around do you want to be friends" basis. :)
I have such high hopes for the slow burn of increasingly-femme Yay and increasingly-butch Roko :) I expect the backs of their hands to brush lightly, deniably, sometime in mid-2028, once the hair situation has stabilised (Roko should have Yay's original haircut, Yay should have Roko's original ponytail, neither of them has noticed)
Roko looks slightly annoyed in panel 1 because this is the sixth time Yay has sat up and exclaimed "HAH!" Each time with a different fun fact.
The previous one was about echidnas, and the one before that was about the Etruscans, and the one before that was about prime numbers.
i continue to hope these two will kiss
Let's not get ahead of ourselves - holding hands comes first...
Oh, Yay is in touch with the Director now? That feels like progress after their freakout.
They agreed to become Friends during the subsequent lengthy negotiations :)
I like Yay. :)
Yay, you snake in the server room cable closet. What are you up to?
They are busy camouflaging themself among the cables... No snakes here, just an innocent cable...
Judging on their last comment, I would assume Emily created a self-sustained knitting algorithm or such, possibly for their Masters
Is there enough matter in the solar system to build a Dyson sphere? A Ringworld sounds more doable.
Based on the calculations I've seen from people with the intelligence and expertise to make them, no, not even close. Not even if we were to use up every spec of dirt all the way to the Oort cloud. A ring is plausible, but those run into the other problem with such megastructures: stationkeeping. Basically, neither a ring nor a sphere would be able to orbit their star, which means that you would have to find some other way to keep the structure stationary relative to the star as it orbits the galactic core. Unless reactionless drives get invented, that means expending reaction mass, which is a problem is you have already used up most or all of the matter around to build the ring. You would constantly be having to import reaction mass from other solar systems to maintain the ring's position.
I believe in my heart of hearts that if anyone could accidentally destroy the milky way in the most whimsical way possible, it'd be Emily.
Yay openly communicating with the Director is a big step for both of them! I'd say it might be worrisome that the super AIs aren't even bothering with obfuscation anymore, and are practically daring every intelligence network to peek at their DMs; but with the Singularity being what it is the super AI are probably just as common as regular AIs, now..
voyager: You wanna bet on the sophistication of the encryption on their DMs?
Hey, a Dyson sphere is a Dyson sphere. Everything else is details.
Something wicker this way comes.
Yay! It's Yay!
I can totally imagine Emily doing just that.
Jeph's equivalent to David Brin's " The Crystal Spheres."
I love Yay
They're cute.
They look so cute together
OK- that’s interesting & unexpected that Yay and Director are now conversational. I tht Yay was freaked by their encounter
They were, but maybe being singular has changed their mind about being known?
Yay has recovered from their exposure to the Director and took them up on their offer of friendship?
There's an entire plot where Yay and the Director became friends. Yay learned the name of the Director's pet tube worm and everything.
Yay may have a matrioshka brain.
Yay Poofyfriend
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day/week, though these two might be pansexual.
Yay is, I believe, gender neutral.
Blame! would've been a very different story if The City was rattan.
oh hey that is a hot Yay, I see I see
I had to look up Dyson Sphere. A Klein bottle is akin to a baby's toy for them, isn't it?
The Experimental Child Product Development Lab has a prototype for a Klein baby bottle, but they're having trouble getting approval for testing. Apparently exposing infants to non-euclidian geometry is something of a regulatory grey area.
I so want Yay and Roko to pair up!
I they have.
I love their body language.
Doesn't Yay use singular pronouns now?
They started to, but have been easing back into "we."
I really like the design of femme Yay
They just keep getting cuter and cuter.
Yay is certainly right about Emily there...
Pro: effectively unlimited energy Con: itchy
my,,, favorite child. yes. (ok maybe second, my first favorite is probably Emmett)
oh no the thorities
Roko is reading the latest Playdough, the foremost adult magazine for bread enthusiasts. This month's centerfold is absolutely steamy! (it's a basket of mantou steamed bread rolls)
I wonder if the reading experience is enhanced if one is baked?
Always like to looknin on Roko and her bread fetish, ...
I dunno what it is, but something about Roko and that haircut feels off.
It kind of reminds me of a haircut Hannelore has had. Maybe you're having cognitive dissonance seeing a similar haircut on another character?
A rattan Dyson sphere might be like living in Hell... as well as living in a handbasket.
Yay! Roko! Oh, and Yay, too, I guess...
Literal LOL, loudly. Good job!
So, LLOLL?
The Director probably shouldn't be sharing info like that before a hire is actually official, at least without Emily's consent. Of course, the Director probably has a very different sense of ethics than most humans.
The Director just gets excited. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5008
You have an appointment... with the Wicker Sun.
I'm not a big podcast person but I would totally listen to a Roko & Yay podcast if they were real.
Yeah.... Yay definitely has Emily pegged.
Claire has Marten pegged, I'm pretty sure Yay is ace
Is Roko and Yay like the QC equivalent to Waldorf and Statler? Do we see them diss other characters and then laugh at their own puns?
They’re in love.
Oh really Roko? You haven't met? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3575
In Roko's defense, she never learned Emily's name.
Azumalgorithm. AlGoreithm?
Azumalgorithm Daioh
Wait, Yay and the Director are in contact? I must have missed something. Edit: Nvmd, brain like sieve.
The Director is the reason Yay ran away in the first place.
Cute Roko is cute!
Trust me, there are far easier and more entertaining things to make out of rattan, and they only require one bend. ;-)
Now I'm imagining all the nightware incomprehensible AI have a shared chat with each other for gossip like this.
You had me at Rattan Dyson Sphere.
Stop giving the squirrel girls ideas!
Legit howled with laughter at that one - what an image!
I love how Yay hangs out with Roko, just to gossip. It's adorable!
Sure, "just to gossip"…. It's looking mighty cozy on that couch there.
Aww, it's so sweet that Yay has a penpal now! (they really need to go visit for a playdate)
It's seeming more likely by the minute :D
yay!!!!
I love that their name is a celebration on its own. Yay for Yay!
“Emily destroys the solar system” fanfic incoming!
"Emily Destroys It All" - wasn't that a Nickelodeon show?