Synthetic Synthesis

Knowing May's luck she will get fired for failure to up sale during the rest of her shift.

Wait wait wait - do robot's lips move to make sound? Or do they have smiles as words come out of their mouths? Is this like a speaker, or like vocal cords?

Union Robotics can fix her, but the chassis is obsolete. They can swap in a voice box from a similar model, but it lisps.

There’s always interpretive dance.

So the current plan for getting May a new body is slowly having Faye and Bubbles replace all the parts of her old one, like that old thing with the broom?

Robot frog?

ah, the universe found an indignity it had yet not heaped on May

She can communicate via PDFs going forward

This is actually legit somewhat disturbing. This would be a hideous thing to have happen to you.

Perhaps we should try . . . the paperclip!

I was hoping she'd curse so hard she melted somebody's earwax, not so hard she melted her voicebox. I demand to speak to a supervisor.

In my head, some person with common sense (Nelson?) will suggest just using a Bluetooth speaker. So May's voice emanates from this speaker off to the side ... and May realizes it's actually BT mic as well, and uses it to spy on people.

I don't know which I like better. May's ANGRY face, or the shape of her breaking-down dialogue box!

I mean, that's not even a lot of swearing, for May. And far less creative than her usual, which I take as further indication she's a bit overwhelmed by the situation.

Maybe munched on too many chips and is experiencing a Snack Overflow?

And if May learns Sign Language, she'll curse her fingers off...

heckin nothin goin right for may. hope she can get stuff sorted.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. And some have greatness fucking thrust onto them.

around the world around the wooorld

Poor frog :(

Is this a reference to Schlock Mercenary, or are they both referencing something else?

We need a Go Fund May

Can we just get Hannelore to hire May as a bodyguard plx

probably a furball made of Sven's pubes

It wasn't a frog that was in her throat. It was a Sven.

I'm gonna be honest, I totally expect this to be damage from filling her mouth with lube and/or letting Sven go to town (see #3304)

She's got a fuck caught in her throat, more likely

Those politicians are obviously smeeeeeeee heeeeeees. They're smeeeeeee heeeeeees.

Swear TOO much?

Or she's just getting the electro- mechanical equivalent of getting choked up?

Somebody call Faye and Bubbles. STAT!

The morality filter for ex-cons kicking in.

Missed opportunity to say "a frag in her throat" sorry I'll see myself out

It overclocked her vocal coding protocols.

I understand that things like joints can seize up, but a voice box (or speaker) shouldn't have this problem. Is May having a system breakdown? I hope not.

May sounds basically like my teenage years in theatre.

She's now the penguin from toy story

Oh no! Poor May! I hope she’ll recover!

oh, and here I was thinking she was starting to cry, but it's tech issues. Can a robot body cry? Does it have the capability?

i imagine she suddenly sounds like a daft punk album a cat leapt onto