Contemplative Marten
deep thoughts
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Marten's brain is broken.
Mom's got that apple booty
Marten off in his own little world
Clinton's mom has got it goin' on.
i'm imagining the chat when she tells her fans "hi today my kids told me about furries, it sure looks like fun :3c" and the mass meltdown
Do AI's put on like fat suits to pretend to be human? Pretending to be a fat american, 'eating' a cheeseburger, Murica!
Do you want an AI Buffalo Bill, because that's how you get an AI Buffalo Bill...
I love this little conversation Marten is having with himself
The cylons are among us
Not that Melon has a skin suit, but she does sort of try to approach a human lifestyle abstractly.
Was like oh Marten, no. Then Martin also realized oh Marten, no.
okay, had to google tubgirl. Urban Dictionary commented .."While the feat must be applauded for its impressive combination of acrobatics and imagination, it cannot be denied that it is one of the main contributors of the increase in America's dependency on antidepressants. "
strong suspicion that AIs with humansonas were briefly considered, and rightly rejected, for the strip. Good looking out Jeph
"sona" is the word for "knowledge" (and related concepts) in Toki Pona.
OK, but IF Aurelia tries to be a furry she would have such a GREAT costume
Marten are you high?
I wouldn't put it past Aurelia to put pot on the pizza...
Thanks for the reminder, Jeph.
But I do appreciate that Marten is channeling the audience on an important topic.
Tub girl. Man that takes me back....
Tune in next time when Jeph trolls us that "there ain't no AI party like a Lemon Party"...
OMG
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i like how the girls are just ignoring martin's tangent. also silence of the lambs is transphobic and bad.
It's true! It's kind of fascinating how it was -aware- it was being transphobic and bad, but didn't quite have the tools to understand how, or the courage to simply be about something else instead.
Very good “ack” face for Martin in panel 3.
I think we see the logical conclusion of AI's with skinsona's in the video game Kenshi with the Skin Bandits and their Peeler machines.
Now I have that Knack song in my head. Muh-muh-muh-muh-muh-muh-MY FURSONA!
Martin needs a pipe and dressing gown if he's going to drop deep and meaningful musings
> Skinsona sounds like something a serial killer would have. Or Pintsize.
I think he did that once in a guest strip.
Is it wrong that I want to see Claire’s mom get involved in a romantic relationship?
She's having fun with college boys, she may not be into a relationship at the time lol
Ironmouse coined the term Fleshtuber for IRL streamers in the past week
Fiorabunny has been using that for a while now to describe when he's not using the V-tuber sona.
Oh fair, that makes sense. Also, I WAS RIGHT.
And I love that her reaction is about the craftsmanship of the suit. She is just so cool.
Too late. I googled. TIL about tubgirl...
Sorry to hear that
Wouldn't an AI pretending to be human be assuming a persona?
You just made my geeky day!
Ok, did I miss something, or is my memory shite? Tubgirl incident? Do I want to know? Because I sense flavors of TwoGirlsOneCup....flavors...wrong word
DO NOT GOOGLE! It’s 2 girls one cup, only it’s one girl, no cup, in a tub getting the just right angle.
It boggles my mind that Marten didn't know what vtubers are. I used to think that he and I were similar, passive go-with-the-flow. But Martin doesn't explore the world to see new things.
Yeah it maybe requires some willful suspension of disbelief here.
Of course you can’t help making Aurelia’s butt cute.
I mean... PlaneSonas. (Don't go digging)
I really wish I could find it again (if only to prove to myself that it wasn't a fever dream) but I once found a bunch of screenshots about a techno-organic virus that turned machines like cars, planes, and tanks into living creatures. The details were actually quite clever like how a tanks turret could no longer turn 360 degrees due to the meat and nerves that grew into it and how armor plate gained pores. Then there were more disturbing details like "ports and probes" and half human half jet fighter children. I know I saved the screenshots, but I have no clue which of my hard drives I saved them to.
It's always funny seeing normies try to work through the furry fandom.
Not gonna lie, I have definitely gone onto tangents like Marten has.
What was Buffalo Bill's skinsona?
The young woman in the pit, IIRC.
Scary thought: Aurelia's Webcam is on. And now her fans think Claire is her. And Claire gets all. This. Unwanted. Attention.
Skinsona, flesh apparel, meat mask. Yeah no option sounds good.
We have such sights to show you…
I totally called it! Everyone who said Aurelia was trolling owes me a cookie. 🍪
I said she wasn't LOL
And then there's scalies (reptile and dragons), and pretty much any sort of term people latch on to. The thing that bothers me about furries isn't the animal personas, it's the poor research.
You have a wolf fursona? Fine, everyone has their own oddity, it makes the world more interesting. You are the "alpha" of your own pack and brutally punish your "betas"? Do you have any idea about how wolf social structures actually work? The whole alpha/beta/omega structure was debunked years ago. Wolves do have a social hierarchy, but it's actually quite loose and really only applies to organization while hunting. One of the worst arguments I ever had, mainly because he kept resorting to howling whenever he was proven wrong.
Do I want to know what tubgirl is?
no
I did not need “skinsona” in my mind! 👀
I suspect you can have a fursona of an exceptionally hairy dude (or woman, I suppose).
In the Kevin & Kell webcomic, where everyone is an anthropomorphic animal, there's a "human" fandom that's set up like furries. I forget if they're called Skinnies or what.
Lindisfarne and Fenton have a kid! (Yes, it's been a long while).
Skinsona sounds like an AI Hannibal Lector.
Buffalo Bill. Lector just ate people.
I see people on Facebook referring to their children as their “Skin Children” (as opposed to Fur Children, it’s in a pets group) and it never fails to creep me right the fuck out.
WTF is wrong with people!? Obvi those are furless babies as opposed to fur babies. Geez
Matin is just having his own conversation
He's having a conversation with the chair.
Around the house we sometimes joke about “thumbies” for situations like this. Thumbsona?
I believe Skinhorse (or Narbonic) used Thumbies to describe transgenic animals with human personas.