Modem Noises
spooky modem ghosts
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I've never identified with Claire more than this moment.... (and I'm a trans girl who only found this comic because of her.)
Curious. Was it a good book? I have read only 1-2 books in the Vorkosigan Saga
I’ve read all of them but that one. I particularly like the late transitional Memory, Komarr, and Civil Campaign, but everyone is different.
in five years we're gonna have psychics in the comic, and i personally, can't wait
One of my favourite series contains a novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_of_Athos whose ending implies that the title planet will be full of telepaths in a few hundred years, but the author pretty much forgot about it.
Pintsize's AGAB is assigned goblin at boot
Times like this are when you can see Claire and Clint really being related!
Come on, they'd use ESP-8601
I love that Beeps and Faye were kinda semi serious. They were this close to get a new room mate.
because telepathy with humans is not like calling a fax line apparently
Telepathy with humans is like trying to watch adult movies on a scrambled cable channel.
I initially read Claire's comment in the final panel as "Considering how many faulty assumptions you have to make to believe in PHYSICS" and I was suddenly incredibly disappointed in Claire and felt she had let me down.... Then it was all reversed and my faith in her was restored when I realised my mistake.
A fair point, but I still feel that a Pintsize who is not a chaos goblin is no Pintsize at all.
If Pintsize ceases to be a horrible goblin, what's even left?
Pintsize has, on occasion, shown unexpected wisdom and insight about his position as a human companion. I think this storyline is the beginning of him becoming relevant in the comic again (really, QC has grown so much in quality and maturity of the stories, Pintsize's purpose was in danger of becoming vestigial and forgotten if he didn't experience some growth himself).
Don’t be a wet blanket Claire!
Well, I can verify that fax over VoIP doesn't always work. Had to get the company a land line. Next company we let a service do the landline and email us PDFs of the faxes.
On the other hand, about 15 years ago when fiber-to-the-apartment-building internet was a thing, and they were trying to get customers by offering everything down to and including "just a VoIP phone connection and no other internet", and I was a cheapskate student with a free dialup connection at the university, I got a just-plain-VoIP-phone connection and used it for my dialup modem for a couple of years. It was one of the most stable modem connections I've had.
GOD I call fax lines at work SO MANY TIMES BY ACCIDENT and it sucks
"Family reports receiving 16 calls from missing grandparents' landline in collapsed Florida condo" Not kidding, google it.
There are a few possibilities, a couple are horrifying. :(
And now all I can hear is a dial-up modem.😑
Google "the internet is expanding" on YouTube, if you haven't seen it 😇
There is probably a genre of spooky AI stories. "On nights of the full moon, a mysterious shared object library can appear on empty mass storage, and if you link it, BAD THINGS HAPPEN!"
The futurama episode with the werecar has a good joke about it, bender being terrified because he saw so many 1s and 0s, and even a 2. Makes me laugh about robot dreams.
Beeps and Pintsize are totally different. Beeps is a moving target. Pintsize is mobile artillery.
This is really clever hehe
So let’s say Pintsize returns, talks to Beeps. Beeps reintroduces Pintsize to Roko. They share a bond from feeling out of place in their new bodies. It gets romantic-ish. Oh no. Oh no no no. I’m going to need some brain bleach!
They (Roko and Pintsize) already tried a date and I believe Pintsize threw toast at her? Neither were impressed.
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Claire is not onboard with this conversation train!
I feel like psychics would not be out of place in a world with superheroes and eldritch horror AIs
I foresee a future argument between Claire and Willow about this stuff.
I knew she was going to say that!
Could be UDP nothing is confirmed but data is just screamed I to the void.
Just leaking packets
Salty unemployed librarian
As in "Ghost in the machine"?
Fax machine: "418"
Ooh, the scary ghost facsimile that haunts eastern Québec who was also… a MIME!