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Clinton is being real Marten-y right now. Props to him, hope he continues to be so level-headed and considerate.
Jeph's "beat" panels are so friggin' good.
Character development for everyone!
Huh, Clinton's being chill. Although I wonder how much of that it driven by Yay being not chill. Like, "the responsible one" tends to be a role that gets passed around, to varying degrees of success
It could be a result of his time with Elliot, too
It fascinates me that “praise and approbation” is the sole fuel upon which Yay thrives. It is like their ridiculous self propelled Fusion Drive won’t work without someone acting (honest or not) like a sycophant in their presence.
I infer...uh, I suspect...um, I faintly sense...that Clinton has acquired some chill -- enough to deal with Their Yayness, anyway?
(Think my previous comment was eaten by the internet) It's nice to see Yay interacting with Clinton. They are, just about, the exact opposite of Elliot. I'm loving the possibilities.
Patreon is now making us toggle the comment order between Recent and Top, so new comments will seem to have vanished unless Recent is selected. Or it could just be mynocks chewing on the power cables.
Well done, Clinton!
Does anyone else think a whiteboard with Yay's look from panel 5 would be a good thing to have on one's fridge?
Roko feels a sudden, inexplicable surge of jealousy at the exact moment somebody who isn't her tells Yay that they are cool and mysterious and he wants to be friends with them :) it's probably a quantum effect.
wow, Clinton rolling a nat 20 on that diplomacy check!
That wasn’t on my bingo card.
Loving those framed pictures
Yay is Donald Trump in panel 3. Wow!
Please, just don’t even…
Lord knows to their surprise the only boy that could ever reach them was the son of Aurelia (plaintive guitar noises continue)
I'm trying not to pastiche *the entire song* and it's very difficult, I have things to do and my brain has other priorities :)
Clinton certainly feels like the right person to talk with Yay as he is now, although I suspect if he discovers what they really are he may go catatonic with giddy energy.
I was not expecting this conversation to go this way IN this way, and I'm enjoying it so much!
I like the implication that Yay has a difficulty slider. 😆
The slider is there, but the value is hardcoded to 100
dang this makes me want to reread from no1 cant wait for teh website to get back up and running
You can on the Wayback machine. I decided to reread in case it went down again. I'm about 300 strips in again.
Hmmm, Clinton might be getting the hang of this! Also, I love Yay's expression in panel 2!
yay panel 2 versus yay panel 5 :)
At last someone who can reach Yay.
And all it took to put a few cracks in Yay's emotional armor was living in a house full of mom vibes and pointy dogs. Who could have seen that coming? What's that you say? Everyone? That sounds about right.
Okay, Mr. Red Head, who are you, and what have you done with the real Clinton?? :O
Well played, Yay. Your "incredible act of altruism" failed and yet you talked your way into the praise and approbation from Clinton anyway. You wily trickster you... https://web.archive.org/web/20260227133011/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4919
I guess the threesome with Elliot is off the table now. (If it isn't, I don't want to hear about it either.)
Clinton is often straight forward to the point of bluntness, so it's impressive watching him thread the needle this carefully with Yay.
TBF, he tried sarcasm and it missed the mark utterly.
And now the two days of sadness until we meet again… Yay would be the most powerful force for good on the planet if they would just hear more, speak less and grok that we’re all part suffering and part joy and that slider shifts in strange and sometimes confusing ways…even they are subject to the suffer/joy slider Witness this event and witness the return visit to Roko
Next week: Steve watches the Eurovision finals, while eating cold crabs with Stanley Tucci.
Or a clone. (I just got back from a trip to Italy. There is a factory in Milan turning out Stanley Tucci clones, I'm telling you. So many.)
Oh lord. The ship possibilities here and the ship names are priceless. Clinton + Yay. CLAY! Yay + Roko. Rokay! Yay + Clinton + Roko. Royalton. (Ok, that need work). Roko + Anh. Rokanh!
It's OK to be Rokay! I am Rokay with this. Everything's gonna be Rokay. (Seattlites only) "It's Rokanh, it's Rokanh, it's Rokahn!" "Ro-kaine!"
Whoa. Props Clinton.
I freaking love Clinton. Have since his debut.
Roko/Yay/Clinton OT3.
Roko did fantasize about his "human abs" once! I wonder how Clinton feels about bread.
Clinton Augustus, AI P-sychiatrists.
Panel 4: what a great response
Clinton has found his chill.
With Marten now in Cubetown, we needed some chill back home.
“Could you turn down the difficulty slider a couple notches?” That is such a great line.
Yes. I can imagine real life uses for this line. (It would, of course, have to be coupled with an affirmation that you're on the person's side, just as Clinton has done here.)
"...we are utterly unbothered... ...and we protest exactly the right amount."
Ooh... the thought plickens...
When your friend lends an ear, and you don't shed a tear That's... The wrong gag. Sorry.
That's a more Yay?
Exactly where are they living? I missed the point where they were living together.
Yay moved into Aurelia's house when they returned from being gone. Clinton moved into Aurelia's house when he broke up with Elliot.
now i cant say i necessarily relate to Yay's SPECIFIC problems... but it's hard not to relate to their "traumatized feral 17-23 year old" vibes. i think we've all needed a panel 4 Clinton before
"traumatized feral 17-23 year old" you say? So ... Yay and Liz are the same.
"Okay, you're getting a bit more difficult again." "We said 'approbation', not 'opprobrium'!"
So, CLinton wasn’t even arrested and he’s on approbation?
Yay can be rather arresting, though.
I love the way Clinton's grown over the years. He was kinda an insufferable jerk when he first showed up, and has developed into a really cool guy.
I think many of us can relate. I look at my old self as a bit of an insufferable jerk even though I understand why I was like that!
That’s probably thesaurus Yay will be for a while…. I’ll see myself out.
Little Clinton still has his hand at Mt. Fuji? I think that’s Mt. Fuji
Well, it takes a long time for someone to jerk off so much that their hand falls off! 😂
Right fucking on clinton
Yay’s difficult is just like Spinal Tap’s amps, goes all the way to 11.
Some kind of graph of Clinton's self confidence over time...
Clinton's hair is growing longer. I think he's getting more cute with that look.
Clinton: Doing It Right, Actually
He's come a long way! Or today is his day to possess the one iota of chill in the Augustus household.
tell Yay they're pretty
Oh, so pretty, and witty, and gay!