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"We could concoct convincing evidence either way." They could come up with information so elaborate nobody could tell if it was the truth or a lie... Yay is a servant of Tzeentch, confirmed.
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Can't 100% put my finger on *why*, but this one makes me think about "Evelyn, A Modified Dog".
Love Yay's face in panel 3, so unlike her.
wait a minute. are you telling me that Yay is actually a Chee?
Roko casually unbuttoning the shirt 🥵
Yay looks *very* pleased by idea of Roko speculating about them in panel 2. I might even say smoldering.
That makes sense, robots don't sweat, so just iron and hang back up.
Sweat isn't the only thing that gets clothes dirty, but you make a good point.
I've been following this comic for 15 years. I'm VERY aware Jeph likes dogs and even bought the "Dogs they're good" shirt from him at a show.
…anyone else now shipping Yay and Roko, hard?
The whole of last week's comments has been the most diligent ship building process since Noah.
Ask Yay about the floating black slab emitting a low hum. Also how do they feel about rodents of unusual size, and land wars in Asia.
You know, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I wish I could have a dog, but it's the one pet my building doesn't allow. So I'm pushing that. I have a snake and a 55 gallon aquarium full of fish. Currently I'm looking to get a couple opossums.
Don't forget a couple skunks (scent glands removed, unless you are into that)
Yay's face in the third panel is awesome "Hummm how many different kinds of evidence could I concoct?" and the realization too that Roko just doesn't really care about trying to find out where they came from.
Okay, that first panel made me briefly wonder what might have happened when we weren't looking 😳
I like to think that Roko is just going to keep removing items of clothing one at a time until Yay gets the hint. This will be sometime in June 2032.
holy crap for a legit hot minute i thought the 1st frame was postcoital & i was like WAIT WHAT DID I MISS
I could see that as intentionally trolling the audience.
Cats, Cats, Cats.
There are strange dogs on Laconia…
Dogs, Dogs, Dogs.
Must be Cosmo time!
Excellent short story about an AI who (kinda) did this with cats, called “Cat Pictures Please,” won a Hugo award as well https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/
That is a great story. I also loved Kritzer's story "So Much Cooking", written pre-COVID about a bird flu epidemic. It's really excellent. https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_11_15/
1126 Royally-approved names for dogs https://twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/status/1525571342350880768
Yay is correct. Dogs are the most compelling reason to move to this planet.
Let me guess. Yay's the Prime AI, they're the one that got all up into HannerDad's stuff initially, and basically they spaceyeeted themselves to earth because D O G S
Yay indicated quite recently that they were roughly two years of age. Roko's reaction indicated that she's probably older. Bubbles' depth of experience suggests that she's probably older (and likely older than Roko.) That said, I feel like it's plausible that they are the AI most like their mysterious parent who may have spaceyeeted themselves here because dogs.
I had a friend who was always giving grief to his friends who had dogs. He'd comment on how silly it was keeping mutated wolves, and how expensive it was, and so on. When they asked why he hated dogs, he'd say: "I love dogs! Medium rare." Then he got his brother's three dogs when he moved overseas, and clearly was quite content with the situation. Of course, all his friends started to give him grief in return. To which he'd reply: "I'm not a dog owner. I'm a rancher!"
There are currently 1,344 alien civilizations visiting Earth because of dogs.
Now imagining something like Star Trek IV, only with dogs instead of whales. (In the original Planet of the Apes movie series cats and dogs were wiped out by a plague or something, so people started using apes as pets and servants. Arguably a bad idea.)
I’m amazed at how dogs are genetic playdoh and can be really tall or really small. Wish we could tinker with dog’s DNA so they can live longer and not have health problems from like day one in some breeds. Cats too to a lesser extent.
The two things are related. The only reason we have such a wide variety of shapes and sizes for our dogs is we took control of their breeding to get traits we wanted. Trouble was we needed to do a lot of inbreeding to get those traits. This caused the genetic problems dogs have. Cross breeds have much fewer problems. If we just stopped being so obsessed with purebreds our loyal four footed friends would live longer and happier lives.
Wait -- we've got an AI here with an unfathomably sophisticated humanoid chassis, and she has to iron her shirt? What happened to no-iron cotton? (We are pro-AI but not fond of polyester.)
We have another AI with an unfathomably sophisticated miniature chassis that somehow picks up objects with arms with no hands as if they have hands who has to develop photographic film using chemicals and a dark room. Just saying, so you know. (Yes, Nelson knows about photography bags, but the dark room's classic, and the photography bag *really* works better if you have proper elbows.)
They like dags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUkKpQau0o
I had happily lived my life not having heard the word Piker. And then you ruined it.
Wait......Jeph likes dogs?!?!?. HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN KEEPING THIS A SECRET FROM US?!?!?
Um, he's not been? I'm guessing you're one of those people unaware Jeph's dog's name's Ollie? Please note, I could be out of date on this as it's not something I take meticulous notes on or anything. It's just that he's shown enough pictures and talked enough about Ollie that I remember the name. I'm only this confident about it because I did a supporting google search "Jeph Jacques Ollie" and found some of the pictures.
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Is--is Yay looking at Roko's boobs?
Yes. Good for Yay! And damn Roko, you go girl!
To be fair, dogs are the only reason I've stuck around on this planet.
Your honor, I love them.
I just realized AI don't have to do nearly as much laundry & am extremely jealous.
I do worry about their clothes collecting dust as they are worn. I still would have washed my best shirt before ironing it.
And Hercules. Don't forget about Hercules.
They're not even dating but they're already so domestic Roko is just casually taking her shirt off in front of them :3
Roko, waking up with Yay in the bed they've been sharing for five years: "Yay, are we dating?"
Ok but can we talk about the fact that Yay is getting more and more adorable as time passes, and I just want to boop their nose.
Their power truly is unfathomable
Earth - the planet of war, love, magic & dogs.
The four elements.
Arcturus? The plot thickens. Personally, my money is on a bunch of really high engineers in Palo Alto.
Canis Majorly good pun
I Sothis what you did there.
Speaking of good dogs, we’re sorely in need of some Cosmo Content!
I bet if there was an arc of nothing but Yay playing with dogs that no one would complain. And I have cynophobia.
Dogs are cool
Who wouldn't? Dogs are the key to peace
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I mean…wouldn’t you?
Write what you know.
Dogs are good.