The Next Best Thing
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I'm hoping to someday see the first AI to be able to eat things.
Well, Pintsize CAN. He just SHOULDN'T.
Roko is a fellow southpaw? One of us...one of us.
Hmm. Roko slicing into bread, in front of Yay. Hmm... Is that ship going to sail?
Can we talk about how Basilisk is _cutting bread_ *with Yay*? Even the little blush while she does it? That seems... significant? :)
But she's not inhaling.
Yay (and apparently a lot of others) clearly don't understand baseball, though the major-league version of the product is clearly hard to enjoy these days: too expensive, over-analyzed.. But imagine that you're an ordinary worker in a country without television or air-conditioning -- in that situation, the local team, amateur or pro, provides you a sort of entertainment/ritual at which you can sit outside in the evening and have a few beers or some cheap food. And the game they play is one that you can and probably have played, whether well or not.
Minor league baseball RULES. I had so much fun getting $5 tickets and $3 hot dogs as a kid.
Any organization where management are Red Sox fans is inherently hostile.
To be fair, this IS set in Massachusetts...
Why does Roko pulling out the bread here make me ship her with Yay EVEN MORE.
I am a self described nerd. I play music, I read books for leisure, I have been reading this comic since pretty much the start. that being said, I love baseball! lol
Is Yay getting more hippy?
I think the word you're looking for is "sexy" And the answer is yes.
Love that slight blush on Roko’s face in panel 2 😍 The feeling of bread……..
Love how she's comfortable handling bread in front of Yay
Honestly, I'm with Yay here. Fuck baseball.
I have watched Fuck Baseball before…not as entertaining as one would think.
Baseball tickets can certainly be a legitimate business expense. Red Sox tickets, however? Certainly not a wise business expense. (Unless they're playing some team worth watching, like say the Yankees.)
Yes, I know exactly how much s### I'm stirring up here. I am, at times, an evil person.
And here I didn’t think I could love Yay any more. Screw baseball.
Booooooo
Hereafter the examination of a freshly cut loaf shall be known as Breadging.
I really, really love the dynamic between these two and also how pretty they are
Love the tiny blush as she's cutting the bread ...
the crumbs are the best 😋
Unhh, that 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘣…
The range of Roko's expressions in today's comic is fantastic 👌 Especially that cheeky smile on Panel 2 haha
Roko, my darling, I'll slather myself in olive oil and roll in yeast for you.
I forgot Roko had a thing for bread until panel 2.
It was the author's note that reminded me.
The li'l blush when the serrations bite into the crust, I'm dead Roku+bread is the only ship I'm here for
Saaaame, those two little marks totally sell it. 😍
do these pants make my butt look big? MMMM MMMM MMM
"you damn right!"
Roko just exploring her kink while in a casual, unrelated conversation with Yay, yep
A helpful friend once used my hight-quality BREAD knife to trim the branches off of our senile Christmas tree. I couldn't figure out why the knife smelled like pine sap.
Almost no one knew how a bread knife could be lodged in the tree and the tree fall over in such a deadly way
Mmmmm bread
It's so soft and pliable and the mysterious fluffy grains and textures inside! Almost fractal in nature. I wonder if it smells good to AIs with good olfactory sensors like it does for humans. Also what if Roko briefly mistakes your name as Baguette?
The bread blush 🥰
Yay’s hips don’t lie
They don't even NEED a security clearance!
Isn't Roko cutting the bread in front of Yay like that basically kinda kinky for her, given her feelings towards bread? She's kinda trying out a new sex toy in front of her friend.
same question
New Yay gender presentation. Interesting. How many body-styles do they have, I ask myself.
All of them.
I love Roko in panel 2. The thrill of a new knife meeting a new loaf.
Shouldn't it be 'The Next Bread-st Thing?'
Has Yay always had hips to die for, or is this a different body than we've been seeing, or have we just rarely seen them below the waist?!
I would say "rarely seen them below the waist" or maybe "different body," because I feel like I would've noticed otherwise.
You DO know that knife is the equivalent of a golden spoon for crack addicts, right?
I got a new set of Wasabi knives a few years back - the bread knife is *sublime*.
I like how comfy roko is preparing her horny bread in front of yay 😂
Lots of likes. I wonder if we'd be as comfortable if it was a different character doing something equivalent (although I'm struggling to find an example)...
agree 100% with Yay. Baseball folks are suspicious.
Interesting bread knife design and perhaps more easily sharpened. I like
Roko is making a metaphor of her plan to solve this AI rights issue properly and cleanly, like a quality bread knife through a fresh loaf from the secret bakery.
(At least that’s what the PhD candidates will be claiming when QC is studied as classic literature in a few hundred years.)
I cannot wait to see how Roko shoos out Yay once all the bread stuff is ready.
The power move is just to get down to it and let Yay cope.
So much baseball hostility here :( I promise that we're not all red sox fan-types
I like red socks…they make my calves look good.
Hey no piling on baseball. They have enough of their own problems right now.
Based!
The little blush in panel 2 absolutely KILLS me
Awwwww.... Roko's little blushes in panel 2 are adorable!!!!
As a manager in corporate america who loves baseball i feel personally attacked
Roko's blush in panel two... She is loving that knife cutting through the bread. And then panel three - that look of inspection... Did it cut *cleanly* enough? It sounded sexy, but *was it really*?
Even a bad bread knife will sound good cutting through a crusty sourdough
Gotta inspect that crumb!
I agree with Yay. If we were talking Blaseball, however, that would be much different.
Roko is really paying attention to the sliced surface of her loaf, isn't she. And Yay, as usual, makes a very cogent point.
I think we need a collection of Yay's on point hair styles.
That bread is cut extremely evenly. How lewd.
Which is more lewd? A cleanly sliced loaf of bread, or one that been ever so gently ripped in two?
Aww, baseball isn't THAT bad!
“I have Red Sox tickets for Friday” was a legitimate reason for a personal day when I worked for management that loved baseball.
I'm with Yay here.
Honestly, it's nearly as bad as quidditch.