Absolute Foolishness
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Man, this and the next makes me think- it must be really hard for some trans folks having friends who can just radically change their bodies on a whim. I mean I’m happy for you Zlata really, but.. ohhhh I uh, forgot that this line of thought is kinda pertinent. Hm.
ok, I am sorry that I am doing this here, but I can't find another way to ask @Jeph Jacques about this: did you mean to lock all the posts with comics? why hasn't the website been updated in over a week?
I like her. can we keep her?? she's funny.
I feel very bad for her, actually. Even though she is just an imaginary person.
tbh I though she was way cuter in the previous chassis, but so it goes!
Also I would totally read Robot Convent if you wrote it, Jeph.
Let's start with the apologies - and then maybe do some introspection on why you wanted a new body. (My bet is on seducing Marten and/or "this one matched several Fun Person parameters")
This.^
There's a political correctness problem in Jeph's world. Robots would absolutely want to be attractive. They would largely be running around in perfect athletic curvy bodies. Human females wouldn't like it. That conflict is totally absent in the comic. My other problem is that someday we're going to get flashbacks of bub's past, and she's going to have a helmet on. Can't wait to see that helmet design...
What is wrong with you? Like, as a human being.
Coming soon...the Vicissitudes of Forward Zlata,
I think a better title would be "Absolut Foolishness"
Zlata will take full responsibility, and apologize to Lord Va- , er, The Librarian.
You're halfway there, Z, you;re already statuesque.
"On your left is the Venus de Cubetown, who had herself installed in a statue as a cautionary example. As an example of what, we're not sure."
Wool! Catholicism mentioned!
Lets be specific: Nice, scratchy sheep's wool. Perfect for the penitent who isn't ready to commit to horsehair.
I do hope she returns to her old body. This new one is.. meh.
I tend to prefer a little bit less in the boobage department, Zlata, but you do carry them well. Check the manual, you may be able to adjust the size. I wonder if Marvel will sue if you put a 4 in a white circle between them?
🤖😈“🎵 Knee deep in electric slime / enduring tortures most-of-which rhyme / trapped forever here in Robot Hellllllll!🎵Of course that’s just for starters!”
Zlata if you don't wanna keep that body can I have it 🥺
I love this SO MUCH!
It is a rather drastic length to go to in order to get a nose.
Waiting for the Robot Convent spinoff miniseries on [insert streaming service here]
Post-modern anchorite and split the difference?
I would read about the robot convent, I have so many questions and thoughts
Is it just me noticing that she's making like ZERO effort to getting back in that older body
That body would make a very statuesque statuary.
Sister Zlata Gazonga?
She could run away and join the robot carnival. ROBOT CARNIVAL - "Opening" & "Closing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQKxQ-Z6Nc
Total recall when a blackout would have been a sweet mercy.
perhaps Absolut foolishness...
More like Absolut foolishness...
You’ve been enjoying Questionable Content. Now get ready for the hot new spinoff, Christianable Convent!
I like the implication that Zlata just has enough money in the bank to get a new body. She seems like the type to save.
Robot body aside, I'm wondering what kind of shirt material works like those boob socks she's showing.
Probably something Emily came up with by accident and immediately moved on from.
Which reminds me - did Jeremy upgrade to a human equivalent and settle down with Seven.
Yes, but it will take a better man than I to find the page.
If she needs somewhere to live after she becomes a statue, I know a museum with a first-class Existential Crisis and Cautionary Tale wing. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4209
BookBeard, did we ever find a good ship for Agatha?
I'm imagining her voice to be some kind of brassy Bette Midler, and I don't know why.
I would think it would be more like Milla Jovovich’s voice from The Fifth Element.
So would such a robot convent smack a book across their forehead while singing their Gregorian chants? And would Zlata’s new breasts be the same size as two Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
Huge ... stacks of memory.
...but why be worried about changing bodies at all? Besides being worried about being judged or paying for the new one, anyhoo
To be fair, waking up in a different body than you went to sleep in with no memory of how it happened would be pretty disconcerting.
A convent? This raises an interesting question: has religious impulse or belief by an AI ever been explored in QC? Ostensibly, we created *them* in *our* image — so what form would that take? Personally, I’ve never understood why mankind would ever create AIs with *any* form of sexuality, much less human secondary sex characteristics…as Zlata’s new body so marvelously displays. (Jeph, you’ve outdone yourself.😊) Would sexuality, or enjoyment of pleasure of any kind, be a natural emergent trait of any human-like intelligence? It’s certainly been a source of endless fun — and difficulty — for our species!😅 The short answer, of course, is what popular painter Bob Ross liked to remind us: *in art, you have infinite power*. Jeph has created QC, and its universe – which, by the way, looks like it would be a lot more fun to live in than the universe we have! – simply because he *felt* like it, and no other answer is necessary. But the answers, and the thinking behind them, would be fascinating to discuss.
According to Momo, although different from those of humans, some AI do have something akin to religious belief. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2465 Of course some robots are interested in the more... traditional faiths. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3645 And AI sexuality being an emergent phenomenon was certainly May's theory. Although she phrased it rather more colorfully. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3303
Sigh. I'm horrible, she looks delicious. She pulled the credit card out to get something / someone she had intended to do. This cybernetic AI fembot has "wanted" Martin like ( Bascalisk SP) Wanted a barechested nerd holding sourdough bread.
Looking forward to Zlata realizing her old clothes don’t match her new body in size. Gotta go with stock clothes, or visit the experimental clothes division! Maybe she can be Emily’s new project.
It would be a conventional idea
*appreciative golf clap*
“Should I activate the self-destruct sequence?” “… or did I technically already do that?”
Hopefully Zlata did not activate the "release the virus" protocol.
I would like to see a QC focusing on what is done with usable pre-owned bodies. There must be a market. Or they get parted out. Meeting your new self, etc.
Pintsize bought a used body from some shady character named Internet something-or-other.
🎶If you're happy and you know it overthink. If you're happy and you know it overthink. If you're happy and you know give your brain a chance to blow it. If you're happy and you know it overthink🎶
Ouch. That song is TOO TRUE.
I'm impressed at the fast delivery on robot bodies. "We need to get the customer transferred into this one before they can sober up!"
Probably uses the same method as orbital pizza delivery like we saw earlier.
Who wants Questionable NunTent as the name of their Christian death rock band?
would a questionable nun tent protect 11 nuns from the thunderstorm arriving?
It's dubious.
Do Not Stack, she's already stacked enough
Questionable Convent.
I helped tidy up at a questionable convent once. Picked up a lot of bad habits. *Claireface*
cubetown cloisters??
DO DAH. DO DAH.
Questionable Convent was right there
...and is obviously the smut we've been waiting for...
the remembering is never easy
We've all had hangovers like that. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5450
Somehow she bumps into Sven.
I wouldn't worry. With cushioning like that, she could safely bump into anything. But I'm still hoping that May will show up on Sven's door with a reimbursement check and a watermelon.
Assuming she’s not severely over-reacting, what on Earth did Zlata do that we don’t know about yet?
Perhaps she treated the treatise on possible HR violations as a To Do list? or Perhaps she did that with the org chart.
I hope they have a good refund policy. Then again, in this universe there might be enough AI who have done this that someone would be understanding.
In the movie, Citizen Kane the journalist goes out to find one of Kane's top men. The first words out of his mouth is "memory is the worst curse ever bestowed upon man." I can't help but agree.
Especially if you’ve lived with someone you loved declining into dementia.
Returning a robot body is like returning a mattress, you technically can do it under warranty but they really don't want you to since it's a pain in the ass for them to ship back.
also they don't want you to because of the ... fluids
I realize this was a drunken decision but do her boobs need to be that big? Didn't May do that already? Not every woman wants big boobs. I do have them and they're kind of a pain.
So in May's case it's kind of a power play and a middle finger. She likes aggressive hardware and she likes "weapons loadouts" that make those around her uneasy, and those are both. In Zlata's case, we have yet to see the motivations called out specifically after the fact, but you could predict feelings of inadequacy or a desire to increase what she perceived as her attractiveness. I'm sure that when we find out more, it will be more interesting than my theorizing.
But it will turn out she can’t return the body and even with the trade in on her old one she can’t afford to quit until she pays it off. (Alternatively, she starts a Robot OnlyFans channel)
Zlata could probably count on a significant fraction of the QC readership subscribing.
I think she’s leveled up.
she made some specific choices on the attributes
What? Remembering WHAT?
Let's see... there's nearly making a pass at her boss' boyfriend: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5845 Then there's insulting Liz by poking at her sore spot: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5847 Then she berated her boss over her lack of attentiveness towards said boyfriend: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5848 Don't you think that's enough?
Ooof, that is a fast spiral. I hope she gets pulled out of it soon.
It is a Mystic Spiral.
Robot convent?
At the Church of Robotology?