Their True Nature
I am very proud of this metaphor
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The body they keep in this building may be closer to a "consumer" model to avoid too much attention. In appearance at least.
Spookybot's neck seam seems to come and go https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4374
Wait -- is Yay wearing a tshirt, or has she suddenly sprouted a neck seam?
This one looks like a T shirt to me, with the crease lines under the neckline, and in panel 3 it's shaded a slightly tone.
Silly question that maybe I missed an answer to; shouldn't Yay have square text bubbles? I looked back on various comics and they never have. Is it because they are way more advanced than any other AI (even Station?)
Yay doesn't have square text bubbles because their voice isn't 'robot' like the other AIs. Any AI can sound fully human but don't for some reason (to stop mistakes being made, perhaps). Yay, being who they are, doesn't see any reason to abide by this rule.
Yay is the shiniest egg and would grow into the shiniest wasp. Also, I love how they just followed Elliot in to his bedroom and sat on his bed...
Yay is a good egg. A Kinder egg, with a surprise inside that will choke you if you aren’t careful.
shiny!!
Elliot, I don't want to make your problems worse but you're doing a better job at flirting with Yay than you ever have with Clinton.
God I love Elliot
Also, he might be the least intimidated by Yay of them all.
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I've heard the reproductive cycle of the jewel wasp described as proof of the non-existence of a loving God.
And yet, back in the day, it was used as proof of a benevolent Creator. As the sufis say "When you pray for safety in the wilderness remember that God must feed His lions."
I said yesterday that I was unsure if I wanted to date Yay, or BE Yay. I stand by my statement. 🖤
I love that Yay actually looks a bit flustered in the last panel. Big scary ai doesn't take compliments well
Elliot has no idea who Yay actually is, does he? Does he even know about Yay's previous interactions with Bubbles?
I may be misremembering, but I recall an Iain M. Banks novel from his Culture series in which a superpowerful AI Mind suggests that beings such as itself are as unlikely to wantonly kill humans for similar reasons as those for which we’re unlikely to glibly kill butterflies, both because we’re curiosities and because we’re nearly beneath their notice. Trying to figure out a grand unified theory of AI-human-insectoid metaphors.
Interesting... would you recommend the Culture series as a good sci-fi reading?
I was expecting a deviled egg joke and was caught unprepared for the punchline, which is awesome!
That 3rd panel look
You should be exceedingly proud. It’s a good metaphor. ^_^
I feel this comic is super dark.... if you’re a caterpillar. Or if you can emphasize with a caterpillar.
I had a caterpillar once. I was three. It did NOT survive. :(
I personally think Elliot is more right than Yay wants to admit.
Ooooh, is this a different Yay body? I feel like the previous one I remember didn't have a seam for the neck
I saw it as a white shirt under their black one.
Is it weird that I can only hear Brent Spiner's voice when I read Yay's lines?
fair
Yay tries, and that's all we can ask of them.
It is what we ask of all of us
Since we're on this metaphor.. I say if we had to choose a specific kind of parasitic wasp, Yay is DEFINITELY a tarantula hawk wasp IMHO. They're pretty -- and if they sting you, you're in for a *world* of pain. :)
Camping. A tarantula wasp decided to buzz our campsite. We decided to let it have it and all hid in the tent.
So um whats going on with Yay's arm in the first panel? Eta I just realized that they were leaning back. Lmao
The pants line up with the bed pillow, so it almost looks like part of her arm. I had to zoom in because it was a little confusing.
By coincidence, the scenario Yay describes in the last panel is the beginning of the "The Very Hungry Caterpilar" fanfiction that I wrote at the age of 10.
I'd read that
That's actually a pretty good metaphor. Disturbing as hell, but good.
That's a scary statement, knowing what Yay is and that we are the caterpillar.
You are an embodied AI, too? Cool! I do wish I’d been apportioned a better body, though. This one is not ideal. :-/
D'awww
Hey hey hey I thought we all agreed he was a cinnamon bun!
A marshmallow iced cinnamon bun. Available with an insulin shot as a side.
I’m shipping Hercules and Yay. Fight me.
I approve.
I can’t believe we’re doing an Eliot’s wardrobe mini arc and we haven’t seen him shirtless yet
Actually we have. Remember when Renee had him take his shirt off to see if she was attracted to him? (Not so much, no)