Smellovision
This week I got myself a 12-pack of coconut flavored La Croix. It was utterly vile. I still drank all of it.
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Welp I guess Im going to have to add Elliott to the list of fictional characters I have a crush on.
LaCroix could literally make a flavor called "Weird Dumpster Goo" and people would still drink it.
Coconut lacroix is what allows me to sympathize with Brun and her absinthe/ouzo/things that nobody else will want to take from you. A friend keeps a case of it in stock for me at his place. I get what y’all mean; coconut without sugar is pretty rough, but it’s all mine 😑
Ugh coconut is definitely the one that tastes most like hair spray. I recommend tangerine flavor for a far better experience.
I'd say suntan lotion myself
Reminds me of SNL: Bad Decision Family https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bad-decision-family/2868100
Moxie is okay, just so long as you once acclimated yourself to Tab way back when. Also, whatever you do, for Ceiling Cat's sake, stay away from Bubly. #BleahHateIt
I have little experience with La Croix drinks, but I can say with certainty that Moxie is a crime against sapients.
I've seen it once in a store in San Antonio and I regret not getting a bottle to try it. I know it would be a war crime against taste but I wanted it for the experience.
Hanson's sugar-free, lemonade flavored energy drink. As soon as I spit it out my mind blanked the sensory memory of how horrible it was, so I tried it again...a couple of times. It did not get any better but I still wonder, how bad could it have been?
I do that thing with finishing the awful drinks, but I trace it to having a dad who grew up during the dust bowl in Oklahoma and so I was trained to waste nothing. Mix with anxiety and serve.
But...but Beeps has no nose...
Okay, I'll do it. "How does she smell?"
I've been wondering for a while whether the AIs without noses can still smell. Apparently they can. Surface mounted olfactory sensors perhaps?
This comic is great, but honestly I had to heart it this time because of Jeph's comment.
Oddly enough, trash compactors smell worse when they come back from being emptied.
Yeah. There's just rancid surfaces exposed to the air, nothing in the way, nothing trapping anything.
"It's more of a practice than a process" Claire Augustus, August 19-20th 2020
Reminds me of this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5l26Fs0LI
Yes
I want to make an "Americans and bleach" joke but I don't have the will :c but also, I love coconut La Croix. It is the one flavor that makes me contemplate paying for water.
You comment feels weird to me because where I live, La Croix is a brand of bleach. THE brand of bleach, really.
Like Jif is a brand of peanut butter in the USA, lemon juice in the UK, and cleaning products in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jif
Red eyes, bends other people to her will, uses artificial body, thinks in absolutes... Roko is a Sith confirmed!
lemon is surprisingly competent, i love her
Sometimes it takes a doofus to treat a doofus
Over the course of reading the comments, I realised I'd missed a 'Jacques comment'. Also Lemon is so good! She's citruspectacular.
I feel like Beeps's last statement can also be applied to dating.
I have to wonder whether the AIs can control their olfactory sensitivity, or whether there's something like Discord audio clipping where sensitivity reduces in the presence of overwhelming stimulus?
Coconut lacroix + country time lemonade mix
Oh, now I want to buy some to try it… and I bet I'm not the only one. If they see any sales bump this month they should pay you royalties.
It's disturbing how much certain cheeses smell like that stuff that forms under toenails and we still eat it. The cheese, not the toejam.
Now I feel like eating some stinky blue cheese. :)
Beeps is sure into her physical sensations
If there's anything that will make you feel like you are in your body, a smell bad enough to make you want to rip your nose off is probably it.
LaCroix tastes like water canned in a factory with a picture of a strawberry on the sign outside.
don't forget the flavours they have that are sparkling water made in a factory that a truck with a banana in the front seat passed one day last summer. Or the flavour of sparkling water made in a place where the water was transported through a county that has an apple orchard in it, but not on the road the water took during transport.
Not sure if there’s an AI equivalent to EMDR but that would be an interesting thing to show just since it feels as though for a lot of trauma that type of therapy isn’t shown often in stories
With Roko's level of bodily integration, I bet EMDR would work really well for her.
We had some kale flavored soda. Not bad, but we still didn't finish the 6-pack.
Archie McFee in Seattle has kale flavored candy canes. Among others
FWIW As a side note, sometimes spending time in triggering locations is part of a successful therapy technique for PTSD https://youtu.be/iOH1dYGU_iI **Although that is something one should do with guidance from a professional.** In this case I don't think Roko has PTSD/ that kind of PTSD. IF they had developed claustrophobia because they were worried that things falling from heights then it would apply. Anyway too much armchair psych. Um, lemon is hilarious and surprisingly effective bedside manor.
Reminder for anyone reading this: that kind of exposure is a small part of a much larger integrated process! While many of us with PTSD will find ourselves drawn towards triggers - in what's often a subconscious attempt at mastering our own trauma - the main thing that achieves is re-traumatization. Please do not simply head for things likely to traumatize or trigger you; it's exactly as bad an idea as it initially sounds. Also, watch out for coconut LaCroix. That stuff is gross.
Well done for finishing that 12 pack. If you make a huge mistake that involves bile chemical agents that should be banned by the Geneva Convention, the proper response is the equivalent of shoving the dogs nose in the wet spot on the floor. I don't approve of doing that with the dog, but the analogy still stands.
We used to have a ram called Bruce. He loved to eat vegetable scraps. Green apple cores were his favourite. One day I threw him a bunch of scraps which included a piece of raw ginger. He snaffled it up ... then threw his head back and jumped backwards three times screwing his nose up and shaking his head furiously. Then he went and ate more scraps.
Goats are proof that 'domesticated' is not the same as 'well-behaved.'
La Croix sucks, your art is great... go Roko!
I take perverse pleasure in consuming drinks I hate. Diet Coke. Campari. I have not tried them together....
Disrespect my beloved child Campari again, and I will end you. Campari and Diet Coke sounds like an abomination though.
Lemon proving that eccentricity does not preclude competence.
Why on Earth did you buy a 12-pack of an untested consumable? That's like begging Murphy to make it terrible.
You know, sometimes there's just a really good sale.
Reminds me a friend got me some "green curry flavor" ramen. It was disgusting, ate all 4 packs, thinking it couldn't be as bad as I thought I should give it another try.
It seems it will probably successfully keep Roko grounded, regardless of who is holding – and smelling – it.
Lemon is a gem
Yes. And a lemon is also a fruit.
My cat does this- she reacts comically to a smell then comes back with a "wait maybe ...?" then backs away sharply. But she has to smell *everything*.
If you think that was vile, don't ever try the key lime pie flavor. I threw it out.
As someone who does generally like La Croix (yes, even coconut), I can 1000% attest to the truth of this.
I did this with a can of mint basil cider, honestly have no idea why i bought it in the first place
I'm so, so glad that Lemon was able to help Roko so quickly.
Glad I don’t have to face Thursday with that anxiety.
I think dating Beeps would be interesting, but watching her date someone else could be downright hilarious. Does anyone else think of Georgia Engel when they think of Beeps?
And again, Lemon displays her expertise and empathy.
Crap like coconut La Croix is why crap like Mio exists
Stop making me fall more in love with Beeps dangit
Waste not, want not taken to a painful extreme.
And... we are back to remembering why Roko took over as the boss.
Maybe it was just a bad batch, and like, a squirrel died in it, or something. You should buy another 12 pack just to be sure.
You know, someone once said “maybe it won’t be as bad this time” so... No wait, that was Beeps...
I got a free pack of la Croix once. Damn thing lasted 8 months before it got the leftovers were regifted to someone else.
I've been in Beep's shoes.
Smellovision at our house is when we open the windows (aka kitty TV) and the cats can sniff as well as watch.
That is exactly what I call it for my cats!!
The idea of "well, it's not going anywhere by NOT doing anything about it" continues to be strangely pervasive
Well... you can't let it go to waste... we are in a pandemic Jeph.
But what if you put the lime La Croix in the coconut La Croix and drink them both up?
Maybe add some rum, and you might be onto something.
After rising to the occasion at the shop, it's nice to see Beeps is back to her normal goofy self.
Coconut La Croix is my favorite. You monster.
Maybe this time it won't be so bad...
lol I like coconut La Croix.
La Croix is vile as a whole
Can't waste the La Croix, after all.
29th times the charm
The lime is pretty good, BTW.
Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. No.
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