Zlata Has Opinions
they're not GOOD opinions
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I just checked the website and and there is a page stating that questionable content dot com is for sale at $63911 outright or $2930 monthly.
I had made the mistake of typing in questionable content dot com, back in the early days (I think I had got a new computer at the time and hadn't copied my bookmarks over). Needless to say, the content was questionable indeed 🫢 Jeph does hold the www.questionablecontent.net domain, though.
Marten will see if he can find one.
Someone needs to give Liz some structure, I think. A goal she can identify with, but externally driven so she can watch herself achieve it.
Good luck with that in Cubetown.
If they make out they can't say things that make each other mad
I think perhaps you underestimate Liz's talent for making people mad. If she was gagged and unconscious in a soundproof, vacuum-insulated bubble, she could *still* manage to insult someone. Twice.
Zlata proves to be a lightweight. Just a few billion CPU cycles of lowered inhibitions, and even the other drunks want her sobered up.
Zlata gets drunk sort of how I did, the one time in my life. Except I wasn't given the privilege of lying across the laps of three attractive women. (I didn't like being drunk, so I never did it again.)
Run, Marten. Save yourself.
I think the last thing we need right now is Drunk Zlata in the same room as someone whose butt she has historically wanted to grab.
Oh, I'm gonna like drunk Zlata. :)
That's a Zlata 'pinions.
Thank you for pointing out the need for a sober person at a party. This is not commonly understood. At least one person must know where the keys were hidden.
And ruin the post-drunk scavenger hunt?!
Plot twist: that intoxication software Zlata downloaded had malware hidden on it and that’s manifesting in the form of her being a mean drunk
Poor Martin.
You ever notice the inherent contradiction involved in linking the presence of alcohol with the word "proof" ? Y'know.... seeing as 'proof' requires a measure of rationality and reason to exist, yet both rationality and reason cannot exist for long in the presence of alcohol?
As Pterry put it, it's not proof, it's just circumstantial evidence.
Well, Liz DOES need at least one temporarily debilitating orgasm, preferably not self-inflicted.
At least Liz doesn't have any risk of a freaky Popeye forearm. https://web.archive.org/web/20260117000118/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=808
If people should be less frivolous, does that include Zlata? Is she banking up on frivolousness now such that she won’t have to be frivolous when sober again?
You know, if I had a nickel for every time I heard, "if you had anal sex, maybe you'd be better at science", I'd have two nickels, but it's still weird that it's happened twice.
If she said it that way, Liz might actually have agreed.
Oh noooooo I have a bad feeling Faye's services may end up necessary soon
One adult, coming up! Let's hope he can adult enough though.
Wow! The Librarian needed an adult, and she called for Marten! True, her other option was Moray, but it still counts!
Things Marten never thought he'd hear when he was 18, Alex.
When calling for Marten to be the adult is your best option, that means you are encountering treacherous and tumultuous waters. Navigate carefully, Marten! :O
There be gremlins…
"Marten we need an adult" is a statement that could be used in a lot of situations.
They're at least polite/forgiving drunks; I expected Zlata to be talking from the floor in the last panel
Speedrunning all the ways to be drunk, Emily? Zlata hasn't yet asked for a sword haircut. https://web.archive.org/web/20160301015521/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2318 https://web.archive.org/web/20260312084701/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3354
(don't look at the datestamps) (... don't look at the ad for the "2016 sucks" shirt on the page) (2016 isn't an actual year) :-)
Give Zlata a break. This is the first time in her existence that she's removed her inhibitors. She's bound to explore all the avenues that one can while intoxicated. Just as long as she doesn't pick a fight with Liz...
I think she kinda did xD
The inevitable regrets and/or hangover for her administrative minion notwithstanding, this is a good sign for our Librarian. Claire choosing to let someone else be the adult in the room without being pushed is a not-insubstantial bit of character development. https://web.archive.org/web/20260317180238/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5050 https://web.archive.org/web/20260302070918/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5305
Wait, what?! It has been over three YEARS since Liz was introduced!?
Now would be a good time to deploy that Middle Name again, Claire. For both of them, actually
Oh no, that escalated 😬🙈 I sense this will be a Learning Moment, but maybe only when everyone has sobered up 😅
Learning moment (noun): A stupid moment when viewed from the next morning.
Drunk Party Zlata is a mess and I love her even if she's belligerent But also she is going to have a melt down when she reviews this later as Sober Business Zlata
I -NEVER- thought I'd hear anybody say, "MARTEN, we need an adult!"
Marten: "Hang on, I'll go find one!"
Zlata does not approve of pointless frivolity. You know, things like reading. People should be satisfied with glancing at the sky, or perhaps the occasional wink. https://web.archive.org/web/20260306023424/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3031
Is there a purposeful frivolity? Sports, I guess?
I guess being drunk makes Zlata athletic; she's doing laps.
Sigh
Drunk Zlata is not cool.
Oh no…The first time drunk mistakes!
I know a singular human being named Zlata in real life, and wow, these two could not be more different. (Jeph's Zlata is a lot more fun, lol)
Yes, a metaphor relying on obscure indy bands and their guitars will make all things right.
Surely Elizabeth "TITTIES" Applebloom would understand people making a drunken ass of themselves at a party.
No-one is allowed to out-ass Liz 😂
"We need an adult"? What, has another Borzoi wandered in? https://web.archive.org/web/20221102230858/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3879
Not yet, but give it time. I'm pretty sure Aurelia's dog summoning powers are hereditary, Claire's just haven't activated yet. Maybe Emily can give her some pointers. https://web.archive.org/web/20260331054913/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2993
Perhaps Zlata doesn't realize the intoxication program has sliders...
Hers MIGHT have been an early version, with knobs. (Broken ones, jamed at 11)
Technically, Zlata, you'd have one loonie now.
Which she'd owe to Liz for being mean.
Zlata will fear relaxing in the future. Is there something wrong with the software? Emily sobered up fast though. Liz needs to laugh it off. Claire needs to make Irish Coffee to mellow folks down. Later maybe metaphors can be discussed.
Nah, there's nothing wrong with the software, this seems like pretty standard stuff for "uptight person tries alcohol for the first time". Human or AI, you still have to learn your tolerance for intoxication, and that only happens through experience. Deeply embarrassing experience.
Yeah, probably a good thing that Martin is going sober for this
Time for an adult! We have none available, so Marten will have to do!
OK, Zlata was rude. She IS doing the drunk thing. What is the gremlin's excuse? Pot, kettle, black...
Claire is reveling in the wonder of partnership. Liz is struggling...
Oof Zlata 😬
Gosh, Liz, aren’t abrasive drunk people fun?!
ZLATA HUSH (too late!)
Yes. Let's put Marten back in the same room as drunk Zlata...
YES!
"...we need an adult!"
This is either going well or going horribly. Maybe both.
Wellibly? Horwell?
Opinions? Well those about LLMs one might let pass
I wouldn't. They were right on.
I had a friend's kid say this and my reply was well technically I'm an adult but I'm not sure I qualify officially.
Plot twist: you had just turned 18 😉🤪
Perhaps instead they should be about 20% cooler? … yes, I’m kicking it back to early 2011 memes.
That would imply you had a great day out and now they're calling your name like Ferris Beuller
GDI Claire, you ARE an adult. *Claire-face dot jeph*
She wants a SOBER adult.
This is going well
Unironically yes. Liz is now experiencing not being the drunkest person at the party for the first time, which may give her some perspective on her own role at her last few parties.