Red Alert

This.. actually explains a lot about Moray...

Uh-oh

Poor Zlata… she’s so cute and anxious, having a massive crush on her monogamous boss’s long-term partner is _rough_

happy pride

That's what you get for getting those boy-sensors installed, Zlata

Cute boy? Not, um, meatlife of interest?

I guess, if one is going to run mind-affecting malware, it would come in the form of a .EXE. I'd think it was more of an LD_PRELOAD myself.

of COURSE there's a butt reference. The author is JephJaques.

This is interesting! Back in the arc when Zlata was first introduced, I wasn't sure if the joke was her immediately falling for Marten or if it was that her eyes were legitimately bugging out. I guess we know now!

Next Week: Steve enjoys hiding out at Agent 47’s high tech hideout while 47 extols about his favorite cereal: Lucky Charms. It allows 47 to reclaim his childhood a bit. Both of them are there to help another spy, James Bond, accept that he is an alcoholic and can never ask for his usual shaken not stirred martini anymore.

The Power of Magical Love Gentleman compels you!

I love how Marten apparently canonically looks like Timothee Chalamet

I would have thought NTXCTD would have been a DLL to be loaded as required, rather than an executable. I’ll get me coat…

Getting a robot "drunk" seems like a great way of getting around the Asimovian Three Laws of Robotics.

With all due respect, I don’t understand at all why you would imagine a hypothetical future in which AI have genders. Or secondary sex characteristics. Or any interest in sex at all. OK, for purposes of writing an interesting and entertaining story, I can see throwing in such complications. But realistically, why? Human beings have enough trouble managing such things as it is, without imposing our weaknesses and situational insanity on our robotic creations. Or would it be a natural consequence of any emergent AI consciousness?

Uh-oh...

Zlata saw what it was like - and then immediately covered her eyes 😂

are we *sure* this arc isn't ending with Marten and Claire forming a robot polycule?

The nudist doesn't like having inhibitions? You don't say.

Boy, that escalated quickly

I forgot Zlata is carring a torch for Martin -- This may be interesting.

"Who could possibly have forseen this.", so deadpan he's not even putting a ? at the end. And Marten doesn't even know the half of it!

It is a good idea! It is the best idea! (no, It is not)

Re: Beer can suspended in gullet: Moray no!

Poor Zlata. We need to find somebody for her to touch butts with.

I'm just going to imagine her invasive thoughts are voiced by GLADOS.

This is how you get butts disease

Do AIs get multiple personalities when intoxicated? Are we going to meet Reda Lert?

Uh Oh.

I wanna touch his butt too. He is cute.

In Soviet Russia, Butt Touches YOU!

Is Zlata living a contraction-free existence?

If there is one constant, it is butts.

I like how just a little intoxication programming took her straight to “touch his butt”. Classy.

Touch it! Touch it!

Poor kid. Do we have a spare cute boy? Or does she need the equivalent of a manly shirtless firefighter?

I think I need a t-shirt that says "Do not touch his butt."

IT IS A GOOD IDEA.

if ( "boy" = "cute" ) butt = touched

That *does* sound like a good idea.

I really like Moray’s drink holder; looks so handy! I’ve done that with plastic champagne flutes: pop the circular base off, slide the stem between *the girls*, and voilá, two-handed hors d’ouvre-ing. Add a straw and you never have to do anything with the glass except sip, smile, and ask for a refill.

I knew Moray had a freaky side.

Touch butts command accepted

Uh oh. Claire needs to lay down the law. Although Zlata probably likes her butt too.

WHO COULD HAVE PREDICT IT Reader, I have predict it

Zlata, Zlata, you've had too much to drink. You'll go crazy. Pretty soon, don't you think? But nothing will match your sorrow, When you wake up tomorrow, 'Cause all will laugh At the photograph Of your butt in the kitchen sink.

LOL that internal monologue is golden

When booze dot ee ex ee Just makes you feel sleepy That's A Moray!

"Captain, she's only just started, but she canna take much more of this!"

She looks at Claire and gets CUTE GIRL DETECTED, TOUCH HER BUTT. Then she looks at Liz and gets CUTE GREMLIN DETECTED. TOUCH ALL OF HER.

It *is* a good idea.

Butts, lol.

Don't worry, Claire gets it. She knows that at times, when a butt is sufficiently cute, a limited amount of outside-the-relationship grabbing can be permitted. As long as Zlata brought her wallet, of course. https://web.archive.org/web/20260228184017/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2301

Zlata: "Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the Marten butt."

Zlata, no!

Whole Zlota Inhibiting.

Toooouuuuccchhhh eeeeeeeeeeeet

"I want to touch, but..."

Poor Martin. Always a boy, never a man.

Did he sign the consent form earlier?

Oh no, she has butts disease!

TOUCH. THE. BUTT. Ask first, though.

When was the last time Marten was identified as a cute boy? Had to be the first time Dora met Marten, right?

Oh no. All of Claire’s workers are falling for her boyfriend.

wow, 8.3 filenames in 2026

Aren't her inhibitions being uninhibited? De-inhibited?

INHIBUTTIONS

Everything is butts.

Well, that's a new "everything goes wrong" record.

Adorable.