Don't Fight The Feeling
Yay has no chance
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Yay has many frames. I've said it before - I wonder if they have a heavy combat, an honest stealth, a generic fem or male, and maybe an animal synth? (The animal would be an early attempt to come down to their pet's level of play?) Jeph needs a ghostwriter and a series of books of different facets of his world. (No,... I am not volunteering!)
Combat really doesn't seem their style. They can hack into almost any system they please (but don't, otherwise Roko will be pissed), have a gigantic fortune they can piss away just for funsies (plus the means to build another one eventually), hack into robots' sensoriums just with physical contact (e.g. Corpse Witch), paralyse humans ditto... Really, what more do they need?
Oh no! What about Yay's cool?
When we're not exterminated by the AI, it will be because of people like Aurelia.
Yay is going to end up with an animal avatar during a stream, aren't they?
Yes. Also, their animal avatar will open the door to going online, since it doesn't look like them, and they're confident in their ability to take enough steps to anonymize their involvement to continue doing it. This will fairly quickly lead to them having a following and being amazed at just how many human people *like* them.
I do predict doggie playdates for Cosmo, Azathoth, and Mr. Smooches so that Yay and Aurelia can hang out...
Yay! Aurelia! This is great.
Yesssss the ideal combination of characters XD
yay analyzing- gravity magnetism strong force weak force-no, no, not right—mom force??!
I think Yay hesitated before giving their name because they fully realise it's a stupid joke name, and FOR THE FIRST TIME they want to have a real name to give... but don't have one.
That’s deep.
Now I really want to see Yay's teascape. Also this is one of the best hurt/comfort stories I've seen lately.
Highly abstract and destructive to the neurology of single those consciousnesses
we all need an Aurelia in our lives
I wonder if Aurelia's tea will bring all the Yays to the porch?
She might have to get a lot more tea.
Aw man, I wish Aurelia was my mom. (Although now we're about the same age so that wouldn't work lol. Best friend maybe.)
I suspect that I am old enough to be Aurelia's father, which is a bit disturbing. What's the formula again, (your age/2)+7, is that it?
Aww, I love Aurelia. I wish she could be my friend in real life.
In a surprising turn of events, Aurelia is now my favorite.
Whoops now I'm shipping them
What's wrong with being warm and supportive without romance or lust?
YAY MEETS AURELIA WHAT WILL HAP... oh right, she'll adopt them.
CLAIRE BEAR STARE!
As a hive mind they must be able to experience many states simultaneously but I would think that the state being experienced first hand would dominate for any particular member of the hive.
I was suddenly struck by how Claire-like Aurelia looks in the last panel. The sideways/backward glance coupled with the slight grin seems like a classic Claire expression.
Mom and the two siblings look so much alike it's unreal. If I didn't know Claire was older than Clinton, I would totally have pegged them as identical twins
Does the entire host of Yays experience the same thing at the same time? What if one of the host is simultaneously experiencing an opposite "feeling?" Is there an hierarchy or a mediation mechanism or is the whole problem solved by a quantum superposition -like mechanism where they can be in different states at the same time?
In Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series, smaller distributed AI had the same sensation all at the same time, but big ones had enough latency to have two or more different responses. I am really curious to see how Jeph handles this with Yay. It's such a cool concept
OH NO THEY ARE DOOMED
Aurelia is now my number 1 favorite. I need a friend with mom vibes.
Omnipotent AI encounters irresistible force, they are confused.
Your super ultra mega firewalls do nothing against the power of LOVE, Yay!
Omg they're weak to mom powers. I'm shooketh.
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
What you say!!
I want to see Yay show up on Aurelia's stream. She left the milkmaids hanging. I predict many more followers for MommyMilkers420 soon, courtesy of mom vibes.
Yay's social-media subroutine already tracks MommyMilkers420 as a strange outlier in gamer society, but never bothered to hack into her identity. The upcoming moment of revelation is gonna be awesome.
THIS WHOLESOMENESS IS KILLING MY BONER!
Aw, c'mon! I thought violating the innocent and wholesome was your kink
The trembly lip. Their sardonicism is no defence against MOM VIBES.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Yay has never had a mom, have they?
AIs don't reproduce that way
Everyone; The God AI.
Aurelia used MOM VIBES! It's SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Yay is about to experience a Grinch like heart expansion.
I wanted to pet the dog, but then I got hiiiiiiigh
Do we want to see Yay high?
Mom vibes operate at a lower carrier frequency and can cause harmonics. Very hard for AIs to shield against.
Yep - Yay's utility functions aren't hardened against Empathic Mom Presence
This is so great. I have to imagine no one has ever treated Yay with this kind of kindness, they look like they’re absolutely floored with wonder.
In fairness, we've never seen Yay in need of kindness, and never seen a human in a position to offer it. Their affection for dogs (and cats too, it would appear) is the chink in their armor that brought them to a position of vulnerability. Aurelia was through that gap in an instant without even being aware of it. Had she thought about it, Yay might have been able to block her. But, it's too late for that now.
Oh God! Yay will bring the other nodes over soon, won't they? And then Clinton shows up.
(Howard Cosell adjusts his mic) Yeah, Yay lost that one before the round started. We will see what goes down when they play the tape back.
(Tape is mysteriously erased)
It's like that "AI vision" that Neo had in the machine city, but in reverse
That's why it's called a 'tea pot'
As a red headed gamer mom, Aurelia is everything I aspire to be. 🥰
Oh my goodness. Behold the power of Mom Vibes!
Omnipresent all powerful AI laid low by superior MommyMilkers420. News at 11.
This should be very interesting. Yay looks,.... conflicted. Personally,.... I think AI's want to be "people" in Jephs world. They want acceptance on their terms and I feel that includes an occasional pat on the head, (Like you see in Anime, where the junior is affectionately praised.), and a seat at the table. Yes yes,.. I'm once again guilty of taking the concepts seriously. I hope the tea is a good experience, I don't think anyone has offered Yay any.
don't feel guilty, the concepts are a little bit serious
No one can resist Mom Vibes.
This is too stinkin cute
Aurelia is the best
Yay is absolutely going to be in the proverbial doghouse when they are caught "creeping on Clinton's Mom."
Omg this is so cute. Yay is getting mom'ed
Cue music: REO Speedwagon, “Can’t fight this feelin’”
"Don't stop... Believing"
That’s adorable
Hmm, is that a bit of sketch layer accidentally left in or something else?
Where?
Yay just got adopted. They're now family. Shenanigans are bound to happen
I have just realized what I love most about this series. My family makes friends(sucks in new people) without remorse or caring what they think is happening.
Ah yes the patented mom method, flawless execution
considering what she was doing before, i hope there's no milk in that tea...
Anyway, Yay isn't going to drink it. Probably. I wonder if Aurelia will try to get Yay on her live stream, not knowing how Yay reacted to an attempted photograph earlier.
Yup, Yay had met *their* match in Aurelia. Imagine what'll happen when Clinton drops by in the morning.
*their*
This makes me several kinds of happy.
Ah yes, the Iroh method.
Except instead of tea, she uses pot
Aurelia is fast becoming one of my favourite characters.
Rekt
This is the opposite of that