Once In A Lifetime
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There's no pot on the table. What game are they playing?
They're actually playing President because none of them knows how to play poker. The chips are just for show!
GORDON!!!!!!!!
Also my first reaction! <3
Yay melon
"Expistence?"
I'm sure Pintsize said that on purpose, until it changes and he didn't.
Spider dude!
His name is Gordon.
Pintsize took one look at how those two walked in and knew it was time for him to GTFO or risk severe Chassis Damage. Which then would be repaired at a massively inflated price.
I don't think Bubbles would inflict REPAIRABLE chassis damage :)
Pintsize stands for us: horrible little permanently juvenile voyeuristic creatures who would dearly like to see hot girl on robot action but whom are going to be restrained from doing so by some combination of better impulses and main force. This strip reminds me of this old Wally Wood Galaxy cover: <a href="https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1959-04" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1959-04</a>
Melon is a shark?!?! Look at all her chips!
She just hasn't placed a single bet all night.
Am I the *only* one who takes Pintsize's claim at face value? If this blossoming of love between Bubbles and Faye touches us so deeply, isn't it fitting that it would touch him like nothing else has?
expistence
Tomorrow: Steve enters with the bowl of cereal in his hands. - Huh, so this is where the tunnel leads. Deal me in.
Decorum my ass, this is basic survival skills.
WHERE IS THE STEVE EATING CEREAL THAT WE WERE PROMISED
Robot Poker Night is in Steve’s basement (courtesy of the tunnel).
If he had not exercised basic decorum, I think Pintsize would have been dismantled into his component atoms.
"Actually, I'm here because one of my humans has a new sex-buddy and they wanted me out so I didn't disturb them with my commentary!" FWIW, I'm wondering if Jeph is setting up the next drama. PT410X doesn't like humans very much and is a pretty radical AI liberation campaigner. He's the sort of synthetic who'll see Bubbles as betraying her kind by sleeping with a human.
Umm... how much drama could one grumpy Linux nerd create in our world? Plus, unless these relations would require some heavily copyrighted proprietary algorithms/appliances he would be totally cool with it - Bubbles is as free in her expressions as any other AI. And, on the side note, any real intention of harm towards Bubbles could trigger all sorts of some... spooky consequences.
"Come on, ask me, ask me1"
She's not actually eating the cards. She's saving them up for a 12-card flush.
Melon, please don't eat the cards. But seriously... Jeph, a thousand thanks for Melon!
I think Pintsize could border depression, he has never succeeded in pursuing a human, he hasn’t a humanoid body either.
Pintsize explained he doesn't want a humanoid body in a pretty recent strip.
I wanna to know whether Melon's chassis actually has a system which allows her to digest stuff, or if all the weird stuff she eats just ends up clogging her up
At least one of Pintsize's bodies couldn't digest stuff but could at least pass it?
I'm not sure it's so much basic decorum, but self preservation.
Hey. if we give him the credit for one act of decorum, he might be incentivised to follow it up with others.
Now I imagine that in the QQC universe there is a series of velvet paintings of bots playing poker...
Could be something for the next Kickstarter.
I love the implication that Melon is accidentally amazing at poker. Like, by all rights she should be losing her ass (not like the time she literally lost her ass) and is even eating cards. Yet has a massive pile of winnings.
Maybe those aren't actually her winnings but how much she put down to play with.
Soooo Melon how do the cards taste?
And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife!
Then how did you get here?
I hope we get to meet the blue AnthroPC with the tiny hat (yeeessssssss)
Yes, apparently someone else shares Hanners/Marigold’s (temporary?) fetish.
Well, like Claire said, he may be a horrible little robot, but he's not an asshole!
He will wallpaper a room with assholes, though ...
Spider bot? I want one.
And here we start the Pintsize — Melon shipping.
How is Pintsize going to hold those cards anyway?
Absolutely. He's totally not here to avoid potential and likely completely imagined promises of a hasty and thorough disposal that were absolutely not made by everyone's favorite tank destroyer.
Hey is that the Antrho-PC who was complaining about his new paint job from back when pintsize had his lazer?
That one's appeared a few times. I think he's also the one that only responds to his serial number, rather than his name. He also has a neckbeard-CPU-cooler, as well.
Is Melon EATING cards, or PRINTING new ones? Might explain why she has all the chips. and Melon, sweety, you're supposed to EAT the CHIPS, not the CARDS.
WHERE'S THE SEX
Saying what we're all thinking tbh
Here we are, expecting Steve Eating Cereal (tm), and Jeph blindsides us again!
Neckbeard is back!
Wow, its been a while since we've seen PT410X
I see he's got a proper head back!
Is melon eating her cards?
I was about to ask the same thing.
You monster. Also its been a while since we've seen another AnthroPC so that makes me happy.
Yellow Guy is back! hooray!
That's Arthur
Love spider-bot. I hope we see her(?) again.
THAT is Gary, iirc
It's a trap ...
YES
FUCK
Melon is eating the cards. Never change, Melon.
Yet she has the most chips! Go figure..
oh wow, we haven't seen those anthropcs for years
I am screaming in anguish and totally unsurprised all at the same time.
Do NOT get me started on "Poke-her" wordplay!
I think Pintsize just decided that pissing off Bubbles AND Faye would be bad for his continued existence in a mobile body. Much safer to play poker.
At first I was a bit disappointed at the lack of Faybles in the strip but knowing Pintsize gave them some privacy makes up for it. Of course, knowing Pintsize, he's probably filming them or something.
I'm pretty sure that May would have paid him in advance to get the photos.
Pintsize was THROWN to Poker Night. He's gonna need a ride back.
This makes me ever more suspicious that this is a fantasy, and I'm trying not to worry. Don't do this to us, please!
That's cynicism talking. Don't listen. Rest assured, Bubs and Faye are fuckin'.
Many questions: Could it be that Faybles’ “scientific inquiry” managed to freak out even Pintsize? Is Melon eating her cards? Who are the AIs with their backs to us? I especially want know about the one in the bowler.
About Pintsize: I had a feeling that this relationship would touch even his orifice-obsessed heart, and I was right! :-D
May is cleaning up!
That's Melon, I think.
psst: "expistence"
With Pintsize, I honestly wasn't sure if Jeph meant for him to say that or not.
“They’re ROBOTS...and they’re playing POKER!” *laughs maniacally*
Aw! I was hoping for something like this from Pintsize!
Thank fucking god.