Around The Water Cooler
what if QC was Dilbert
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I dunno, man, when the Singularity comes Jeph definitely has a career as a robot stylist. Yay is rockin' that hair and dress.
I mean, who hasn't wanted to bite off the head of Dave from Accounting?
Dave from Human Affairs.
Nat 20 on the comedy.
Ok, this was just delightful on many levels.
Bzzk!
😂😹🥳
Happy place!
I'm still laughing at this - this is one of my favorite strips yet!
The craze will hit peak cringe when they start doing Beanie Baby NFT's...
When they make a YB Beanie Baby, that’ll truly put the ‘fungi’ in ‘fungible’!
I am loving the headless Dave in panel one and three!
“Quick: get this spreadsheet to Dave in accounting!” “Wait, do you mean Tall Dave, Coffee-Breath Dave, Headless Dave, or Malibu Dave?”
I love this. That is all.
Ayo
I want this as a bonus comic. All who agree say aye.
Aye!
Also, how isn't Yay, technically kind of a blockchain already, most likely? Like, a decentralized personality. Like Decentralized Finance, but for people! You could call it.. DeP! Wait. Um, nevermind.
Blockchains are append-only, don't scale well, and thoroughly lack the storage and bandwidth required to be awesome. Yay is a distributed process with a peer-to-peer network. So... SETI@home
I'm having some very complicated feelings about Business Suit Yay, Nonbinary Tech Support Murderhobo.
It raises some very complicated questions. Did she devour the head? Why is there so little splatter? How is Yay’s jaws built? I imagine like some kind of snake but faster.
It's very telling that Clinton wants to roleplay as a person with social observation skills, while Eliot wants to roleplay as a large quiet helpful thing :) Huge props to Roko for rolling with her new "guess I'm a DM now" role.
I guess Roko's already done the "guess I'm in charge" bit at work, so what's one more task to organise people?
I'm glad it's now canon that the nigh-omniscient AI has determined that, obviously, crypto is an idiotic technological grift.
The underlying technology will be useful in the future, but the current way it is utilized, yes.
Photocopier go brrrrrr!
This is a realistic portrayal of 21st century office life.
Melon, no.
I wonder who's going to ask Elliot if they can sit on his face and copy their butt.
Melon
If Fay can literally bite off heads, I think Elliot should be able to eat butt photocopiers
He's actually a photocopier mimic, but Roko hasn't told the rest of the party.
This is my new favourite QC of all time. 😺
I'm so happy they're doing this, it's cute as hell
Did he roll to see how many people photocopied their butts that week?
Too real Melon, omfg
OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING AND I AM HERE FOR THIS!
I started laughing with the first panel and THIS IS AMAZING (*^#$(*&#!!
Grinning from the first panel with a YES THIS IS HAPPENING
The only thing I'm gonna say about Blockchain is that Yay's opinion of it is incredibly based. Though were this the real world, their DC to convince the CEO of that would be astronomically high unfortunately.
They're not working at Ubisoft, everyone else seems able to go "oh... oh no. NOPE."
YAY!!!!!!
I feel you, Elliot. I once role-played a sentient bush. (Gamma World. And obviously, I named her Barbara.)
I don't know what I love most - the fact that they actually made it a game, how happy yay is to threaten Clinton's character, how happy Eliot is to be the copier or Melon's Character's dress sense. I'll go with - all of the above
Melon. Always Melon. The other things are cool too, but I will never not upvote Melon.
Oh my god, they *literally* but Dave's head off
I feel if QC were Dilbert, Clinton's tie would stick up a lot more.
Bless you for this, what is arguably my favorite QC of all time
You can't have my special stapler.
Questionable Currency i'm sorry i couldn't resist
Yay: "Blockchain works by the Greater Fool theory, which means that you have to find a Greater Fool than yourself to sell your blockchain to." Melon: "I can do that!" Yay: "You can't sell it TO YOURSELF."
Pyramid scheme?
Can the "printer" character be mobile AND make toast?!
Paper jam on toast! Yum!
Nice to see Yay back in the spookysuit even if briefly
Melon as CEO is somehow endearing (even if she's pushing block chain).
"Melon is endearing" is sufficient.
Y'know, I misread that at first and thought Melon was saying "Cybersecurity is now the realm of CHAOS" and was wondering how that was any sort of change from the current situation.
Ah, "Water Coolers and Cubicles."
I feel SOMEONE is going to eventually try to photocopy his ass. Also, can Yay digest heads, or is that going to throw off their equivalent of GI for the rest of the day?
Yay's character probably has a Thorax of Holding.
This is how I will introduce QC to new readers :-D
Peak QC!
Sorry, but I've met you twice, and the probability of you going Sc-tt -d-ms approaches zero.
So you're saying Jeph won't be creating sockpuppet accounts to post in comment threads that he's a genius? (Yes, SA did that.)
This whole thing reminds me of Dresden Codak's Dungeons & Discourse
Bahahahahahaha. I fucking love this comic.
Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?
Because it requires paper jam for application when making file sandwiches. The jar slots in right next to the toner.
A+++ all of it
Hmm. Yay's character handles security, and is capable of sudden, violent killing. So Yay is playing a SecUnit.
I want to role-play as the paper-jammed printer.
PC Load Letter? what the *&#+s that mean?
GOD blockchain is the dumbest fucking shit
It’s fine.
Also, R.I.P. Dave from Accounting. May your next incarnation be less douchey.
As a former office peon, this tracks.
It’s a special strip when I just pass my iPad to my spouse and say, “I could explain this, but I won’t”.
This is great, and made me remember an old WoW machinima called World of Workcraft where a bunch of WoW characters tired of dragon slaying play an MMO office job game
I'd kill for something like this over regular Dilbert. Best we ever got was when Dilbert's mom killed a pair of federal agents who were persuing Dilbert
Yay made their billions scamming crypto scammers.
This is one of the most awesome QC strips in a long while. Okay, I mean most of QC is awesome by default, but this one sticks out, sorry. :) I'm not much of a roleplayer but this really made me want to join the group right now. Good job!
The copier's new job is to print NFTs.
oh no, i'm funging
Clinton, roll using your Technobabble skill to get the CEO to agree to a months-long study on it. Then get your resume up to date. Also, the Realm of Chains is part of PTerry's Dungeon Dimensions.
I would play the hell out of this game.
I could not have imagined this better, thanks.
Yay's jaw doesn't look that big nor their teeth that sharp. What's left of Dave looks like all it took was a single chomp.
I'm not telling the super intelligent multi-bodied AI what it can or cannot do.
I work for the company formerly known as Square. For some reason I feel called out...
You Blockhead!
Sic semper Daves.
This looks like such fun!
It's amazing how every time a Blockchain bro says they're gonna "fix the problems" all the ideas they have just essentially reinvent banks.
But it is hard as a bro to profit from an actual bank :( Block chain on the other hand……….
Yay is (are?) definitely my favorite multiply-embodied hyper-intelligence. Dabbing their mouth with a bloody handkerchief makes me so happy! And I'd love to see Yay just rattle off all the possible bitcoin numbers, make a hand dusting gesture, and walk off smiling.
You know, I was gonna comment and say that "is" would be accurate because they/them can function as a singular pronoun But considering Yay has multiple bodies, there's no guarantee they don't use they/them as plural pronouns. So... I guess either one can work...
This shit right here...this is why I love QC.
I can speak from experience that infosec people do occasionally feel the urge to bite people’s heads off
Yes. Very much so.
i was incredibly baffled for like. a minute
Jeph, when are you releasing the official QC Office Roleplaying player guide, Game master guide and the encyclopedia of office.. monsters?
Well, the biggest office monster was just slain. The Epic Tale of Yay, the Slayer of Dave by the Water Cooler.
Suddenly I need an entire spinoff series
The block... no. No. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! (Jumps through nearby glass door leaving a perfect outline and runs off screaming)
There's nothing inherently wrong with blockchain. Just 99.99% of the ways its been used.
I consider it fully canon that Yay can unhinge their jaw like a snake and bite a man's head clean off
Having worked at a major three letter manufacturer of mainframes, this is a chillingly realistic portrayal of CEOs.
International Bowel Movements? (Credit to an ex co-worker)
Of course Elliot is the copier.
This is PERFECT and I LOVE THIS CREW.
delightful
Elliot finding fulfillment in delivering toasty-warm sheaves to people is 100% in-character. No meta-gaming detected.
Elliot is wise.
Yay being nonplussed at Elliott is adorable.
PUBLISH THE SOURCEBOOKS
Brilliant pivot
I love all of this
CEOstache bringing the reals. . o O (CEOs suck.) Edit: To be clear though, Melon is great and has MAD roleplaying skillz
It's the long-awaited return of Olaf! (#3711)
Oh yeah it is.
RIP Dave. He died as he lived: in the office
God will be his coworker now.
God this is adorable