A "Mistake"
hi Yay
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So Yay decided on "We" instead of "I" pronouns? I'm glad. It is personally convenient for me to not have to get used to that.
I mean, speaking about Yay in the third person is the same either way? xD (They/them)
Faye: "Daah! How do you do that?" Yay: "I imagine you're giving Roko knee smoops. It's very energizing." https://web.archive.org/web/20240408040653/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5240
multiply dumbasses with octopodes: multiple dumb asstopodes … it sounded cooler in my head
yes my child is back, hello my child
An oblique reference to "A Confederacy of Dunces"? Regardless, well played!
ugh. the rare dnf from my library.
Print editions of QC can't be hacked. I'd pay for some. I miss Mommymilkers already.
There is his shop on Topatico. https://topatoco.com/collections/jeph-jacques/books
Ooh, a Yay/Anh collision upcoming. That's going to be fun. Egos in collision, Yay having Opinions on everything about Anh, Anh very likely taken with Yay's arrogance... (My Media Player random list threw up Dave Edmunds's version of "Sabre Dance" just as I started thinking about that, which felt wildly appropriate.)
Yay is using plural pronouns again?
Previously established. Roko encouraged them to.
hugely entertained by the box of feet
a carton of butts would also entertain.
...it's a dunce, obviously Faye. 🤣🤣
Is there an upper limit on the amount of time that Yay is willing to wait outside?
They do have a boredom threshold. (See the robot nightclub visit.) But they also value theatrical effect.
Yay! Spilt coffee en route? Things seem to coming together.
It's "a ship of fools" (note the double entendre) or "a fiasco of fuckwits." Of course these collective nouns are themselves a ridiculous affectation, aka a "wozzage of witticisms,"
Huh, when did yay go back to using "us"?
Context: https://web.archive.org/web/20260305144300/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5736
I love Yay. they are hilarious.
Strange… is this a different yay? One with the multiplicity installed still? They were using singular before
There was a strip where Roko encouraged Yay to keep using plural pronouns if they felt more comfortable that way. Edit: BB had the link, thank you: https://web.archive.org/web/20260305144300/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5736
Sorry about the website Jeph. Glad this is here though!
Faye, you literally invited the vampire across your threshold there. FAFO :D
Yay!
I have a feeling that the feet box could be used to create a secondary income stream...
Those feets are made for walkin'...
"Congress".
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
An Egos of Yay?
Good one, although I think Faye was meaning to include Anh in the multiplicity of dumbasses.
I live in a country run by a mistake of dumbasses that thinks it's a crime to say something as innocuous as "my PIN is 8647".
Now I need to change it. Again!
❤️ box of feet
A box of feet will take you pretty far.
Socializing, shenanigans, same difference.
Dumb Assembly?
I think you have hit on the correct term.
Now Yay, you can hardly argue with that, *some* of you is likely to be stupid. I mean, that's just basic statistics. https://web.archive.org/web/20260305112429/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4579
Standard question to politicians - "Do you realise that half of the {insert group} are below average, and what are you going to do about it?"
the term you are looking for is 'a kurtwood of dumbasses' (yes, i made that up. but i think it tracks.)
To be fair, even half of Yay's confidence WOULD be pretty absurd in a human. Yay's confidence factor is only slightly smaller than their ego, and that thing is galactic in scale.
When a Newfriend pops in Much to miss Faye's chagrin That's a more Yay
These never get old!
help me remember why Date would wonder if Yay has anything to do with Emily working at Cubetown. And I thought the fear that Cubetown had penetrated their cover was what sent Yay into hiding… so the Yay/Director rapprochement is a bit puzzling to me as well. Maybe Yay’s fears were justified, and the Director has reprogrammed them.
Way back when Yay (Spookybot at the time) first appeared, they recruited Emily for the expedition into Bubbles' consciousness and then later encouraged her to consider the experience as potential research material, which certainly indicates a respect for her abilities, possibly even a certain interest in her career. Faye was present for the first part of that, and the subsequent interaction could easily have come up in conversation. https://web.archive.org/web/20260309064511/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3393 https://web.archive.org/web/20260403174644/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3414
Let me see... Yay and Anh. Now all I need are the keys to the bomb shelter because I will most CERTAINLY want them. Anhyay way...
Since it keeps coming up: Yay's transition to a combined consciousness in a singular body doesn't presume that the plural 'we' isn't just as valid as 'I'. As it has been pointed out several times, Roko supported them to use the personal pronoun that feels most natural. As ourselves and our fellow multiplicity systems here, we feel we can state with confidence that "I" and "we" are always valid regardless of context. Because we are valid. ☺️🪷
Back when in the "Dumbing of Age" comments section I wrote a stock answer to the endlessly repeated "Is Carla trans?" question, with relevant links
My keen perceptions tell me Yay Newfriend does not seem to display much impostor syndrome.
Indeed. When they are an impostor somewhere, they are gleeful about it.
"A Multiplicity Of Dumbasses" is such a versatile title, I LOVE it! Please make sure to release your memoirs before I start pushing up the daisies, so I get a chance to read them. I might have no other choice but to come back and haunt you otherwise.
Oh Yay should know that Faye would have no problem backing that up HEY-OO
Wasn't Yay working on practicing singular pronouns?
I think that Aurelia managed to convince them that whatever pronoun they chose was valid. BOOKBEARD! (help)
Yay's part perfectly aligned with a line on the door behind them in their first panel, and I was briefly convinced they were translucent.
That seems like something Yay would do intentionally.
The collective noun for dumbasses used to be twitter, but it may have changed now.
"Xitter."
I don’t recall Yay recovering their other selves on-camera so I hope we’re about to learn why they’re back on the plural pronoun train.
Because Roko encouraged them to keep using “we” if it still felt more true for them
I wonder if they get a bulk discount on feet, as long as they buy at least a mile.
Like "A Confederacy of Dunces" but with more butts?
Actually, I'd be tempted to use "Confederacy" for this purpose, mostly because it might annoy certain people.
Hi Yay
I thought it was "a Fracas of Dumbasses".
Lurking outside is certainly a spooky behavior. I wonder if Yay realizes that being spooky and socializing can often be at odds with each other.
Unless it’s a Multiplicity of Goths
I'm sure there will be even better titles in the future.
Yay continues to be my favourite for so many reasons
Collective heads of knuckle
Or ninnyhammers if you're in a rush.
Clown to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Stuck in the middle with Bubbles
"with Bubs" would fit the meter better. (Also, there's a "Here I am" in there.)
"A Multiplicity Of Dumbasses" would also make a great QC anthology book. Jus Saiyan
Yes, but are you Super Saiyan?
Faye doesn't want half of Yay's confidence to use it herself, she just wants to take it away from Yay.
Faye doesn't want the world, she just wants Yay's half.
Yay is using plural pronouns again... hmm...?
They had a conversation with Roko about how it still felt natural and Roko encouraged them to keep using it in that case
Whatever happens to them, Yay always has the most deliberate and extravagant hand gestures. (No, not that one.) In my head it makes them sound even more, if not too, self-assured.
Can confirm that I will preorder a signed copy of “A Multiplicity of Dumbasses” Maybe two copies
I will order a multiplicity of copies!
Cue Pintsize running in, covered in parrot shit and screaming about needing a valve fixed.
I love Pintsize!
Can we sic Yay on Anh's dad? That could be funny.
I’d pay to see that!
Reminds me of the old book "A Confederacy of Dunces". Based on an old Jonathan Swift quote: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
I read it for a book club my ex-wife ran. We both hated it so fucking much.
Hi yay: mildly sarcastic. Yippee! Hi yay: extremely sarcastic. Yippee! Hi, yay. Mother f****r. The world can't handle this level of Faye sarcasm.
Anybody not hearing that last line in Samuel Jackson's voice worries me.
Missed a golden opportunity for that box to say "butts"
Can't put liquids in boxes: "The butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equaling two hogsheads, being between 450 and 1,060 litres (99 and 233 imp gal; 120 and 280 US gal) by various definitions."
"This is the moment we look back to when we went from a fun time to mistakes were made."
A Congress of Dumbasses.
Con-gress is the opposite of pro-gress.
Yay and Ahn are gonna be bestie. Lol
“Anh-Yay West” would be the worst shipping name ever.
Faye and Bubbles! I've missed them.
YAY ITS YAY <333 literally my favourite
Yay! Newfriend!