Hum Is My Favorite Band
hmmmmmmm
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Hum is a great band, but I have a strong personal connection to Matt Talbot's other band, Centaur! In Streams is an absolutely brilliant album. ❤️❤️❤️
Wouldn't making it tea to smell be more appropriate when you don't know what else to serve an android?
Well, better latte than never....
Yer grounded 'til Sunday for that, Howe.
Hmm
They should contact Roko or Elliot. One of them could contact Yay Newfriend, who could come by and say, "knock it off, Dave."
What if the slab is just Yay messing with folks?
Love the confused-but-trying-to-be-supportive vibe in the third panel.
I'm shipping Slabbie and Pintsize. They'll make a cute couple.
slize? pintabbie? slabsize? stabby?
Try prime numbers
Not gonna lie, if I lived in the sort of world where artificial consciousness was accidental and poorly understood, I'd be nervous about a lot of things, not just floating slabs. Edit: Oh, wait, duh. It's not a drone, it's sitting on the back of an invisible ostrich that's playing a prank on them.
It likes robins, too.
Honestly I never thought the question of what is personhood could be handled in very funny but still deep way before hitting Questionable Content.
"We found it later, out back counting stars."
Praise be to the Slab!
After seeing Komi can't Communicate, I totally see this just as social anxiety ngl.
I’m kind of surprised they aren’t using they/them pronouns.
Oh yeah, good catch. I guess because they're not sure if the slab is sapient?
In a disastrous twist, it turns out that Hovering Hum Slab is lactose-intolerant.
Countercyclical SciFi Movie Mash Ups for the win. Everybody and his dog is doing Dune but Jeph does 2001. The troll game is going strong
Can't help but think Yay might be very useful right now.
It's probably within Yay's nearly limitless capabilities to be useful in this situation. I see no reason to expect Yay to actually be useful
It's probably just some fancy casemodded PC that got upgraded to Windows 11 without meeting the requirements, and now it's hung in a boot loop - with the fans running at full tilt, hence the hovering and humming...
I wonder if it knows Shame Orb...
Whatever floats your brick, I'm not judging.
"Oh my god, it's full of stars"
"Oh my god, it's full of caffeine."
Just get it some tea to sniff
It's there for the "be kind to a robot" day, it just needs a little loving ♡
Or piggyback riding
Perhaps it's simply forgotten the lyrics to the Philip Glass / Paul Simon song, "Changing Opinion" Gradually / We became aware / Of a hum in the room / An electrical hum in the room / It went mmmmmm
Also since no one else has made the joke: Maybe the slab missed the train to mars?
Hum is fuckin great. I got to see them at Slims in SF and it was a fantastic show.
Results inconclusive
Dora walks in, "Hey, when did we get a new sign outside?"
"That's our newest employee." "How are they performing?" "Ho hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..."
Just DON’T give it Assam!
Or… do. For science.
Maybe this is the AI that brought about the QC technological singularity.
Shouldn't she be making them a tea?
Make it tea, not a latte!
I'm thinking they need a bot to talk to it.
I bet they’re a bot to try that
Better safe than soya
I know its other places but looks like a Monol from Monster Rancher
“Then Clairennalore waited, marshaling their thoughts and brooding over their still untested powers. For though they were master of the world, they were not quite sure what to do next. But they would think of something.”
Given the strong preferences of the other sentient robotic denizens, I'd suggest a lovely tea instead
Oh goodness…how many weeks in our time is 54 minutes of qc time?!
it depends how interesting they are. There are lots of 54-minute spans that happen between comics, even! Dozens of them!
SEELE 06 SOUND ONLY
Could be a odd bit of E-C tech. Have theg tried ordering pizza?
Maybe it’s looking for a job as a grinder, but posted on grindr by mistake.
Jeph, does Hum play slabstep music?
They should get Emily to help!
Ask not for whom the slab hums.
Better latte than never.
You’ve normalized sentient robotic life in the QC universe. And now we have a clipart monolith in town. Is this the harbinger to an invasion? Has the apocalypse come?
This took an odd turn...
Wait, it's a blank slate just like the blackboard. Maybe they should try writing to it on the board and see if that instigates a response.
I hope this is Internet Jerry
Man, deep fan lore. I mean it could easily be Gary but we'll never likely know...
It's probably just a bug. Try reloading from a previous save.
I'm gonna hazard a guess that this is somehow Emily's fault.
I could see that. Or another random thing Hanners Father sent her with no explanation.
Probably escaped from the same lab as the invisible emu...
It does seem to establish antigravity technology in the QC universe. Since this is AFAIK the first time we've seen that, I suspect it's a prototype. It should be interesting once Yay wanders in...
I'd bet the hum is fans pulling air in the top and blowing it out the bottom. Until I see the slab and Pintsize in the same room at the same time, I'm thinking we know who's in there...
Time to call in Yay.
Yay Hover?
If it starts rattling, at least we know it likes U2...?
This is why you should never take your sentient Xbox One anywhere.
Maybe they're just a big fan of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies?
Maybe both?
Let me get my microwave, it might understand that.