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Boy that sure was a storm! We still don't have power and I'm not sure when it will be back. Hopefully not too long. Thank god for cellphone data tethering. And rechargeable backup power banks.
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This might be silly but there are these lovely little movement lines in panels 5 & 6 and I just love how they're both subtle and effective
We have noticed the following: Hurricane hits Nova Scotia, and JEPH COMES THROUGH. Well done, Jeph! but I think we'll understand if you have to take time to deal with the wreckage. (Wait -- what? Hurricane + Nova Scotia? This is not an association of words which we want to see any more of.)
Yay square speech bubbles?
She doesn't bother to emulate human speechforms when she's with Roko.
I don't know why but I really like the simple single motion lines of Yay plopping down and sitting up suddenly. It adds to their drama!
I love how sincerely Yay seems to like Melon, despite their personalities being so wildly different. Best throuple
Oh, EVERYONE loves Melon. They just don't want to be near her when she's cooking, or making volcanoes, or otherwise indulging her harmless passions for acids and fires.
Wait, how long has Yay had square speech bubbles? I swear they used to have the rounded human ones?
I'm not sure if Yay has square speech bubbles when the mood suits them, if it's dependent on which particular instance of Yay is depicted, Jeph's whims, or something more complicated. But yes, sometimes they have rounded bubbles, other times they're square. I tend to imagine that Yay having rounded speech bubbles is when they're demonstrating that they really can produce a human-like voice. But if she's hanging out with Roko, she doesn't have to go to that effort, so she doesn't.
I was wondering how you weathered the storm. Thanks for the update and here's hoping for a speedy restoration of your power.
Weirdo, yes. Harmless? That's pushing it. I mean, Yay pretty much stomps all over Asimov's first law. Especially the "through inaction" clause. Given that they are essentially omnipotent, allowing anyone at all to come to harm violates the first law.
I think stuff's a lot more complicated than you seem to think it is. It's true that Yay has multiple bodies, but they do not appear to be literally everywhere. It would take more than just being everywhere to prevent anyone from coming to harm.
Yay: "ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND 𝔇𝔈𝔖𝔓𝔄ℑℜ but also don't look at me" (I got that fancy gothic font from a site called yaytext.com, which is far too appropriate 😂)
ITYM " ̸̖͂̈Ｄ̷̢̅ ̸͉̇̉Ξ̷̫̙̓̀ ̸̪͘ͅＳ̴͔͍̊Ｐ̸͚̇̐ ̶̱̲̆̇Λ̷͙͝ ̵̹̒Ｉ̷̠͂̌Ｒ̷͎͆̌"
Reminds me of that old SOE war time adage - "three people can keep a secret as well as one, as long as two of them are dead!" Hope you are safe and okay. It looks scary...
Originally a Ben Franklin quote, I believe.
Stay safe, Jeph!
Ah ha! So you AREN'T omniscient, Yay!
In my head, Roko has been knitting this whole time, and I could not figure out what the Game Boy reference was about. It took until about the third time to realize what she was doing. Have we seen Roko knitting in the past or is my brain making up nonsense?
You're brain is making up nonsense, bro.
I love Yay. They are the best.
I could teach Yay. They are to computing power what I am to weird.
Yay is a they, not a she.
Melons step 1: install explosives in your butt.
Come up with new and ingenious ways to set your head on fire.
Is Yay losing hairs in the last two panels?
I think it's motion lines, for flopping back in the seat, and then sitting forward.
...Wait... What if Melon's weirdness is all an act... What if Melon is an All Powerful Super AI pretending to be a weirdo!?
Oh no, the secret is out. Now it is up to Emily to save the world!
Perhaps Yay should become a mild-mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper.
Yay? Mild-mannered?
These two are so married I can barely take it
The Atlantic provinces are a friggin’ mess right now. Glad you’re okay and that at least the cone missed your area, Jeph.
Simple. Just explain that Yay was having an emotional crisis, Aurelia talked to her and helped (technically true), and Yay pledged loyalty to her and helped with security. Because many AIS are already weird like that.
Not just technically true, but 100% true. Best part is, people won't want to ask for details! They'll probably assume Yay is a Milkmaid or something. Uh, which may raise whole new concerns about them being a creepy superfan who found out MommyMilkers' real identity...
Yay is a whole mood
Stay safe, bud! Loving this arc!
Faye, upon finding out from Marten: how the balls did Spookybot meet your girlfriend's mom? Marten: Random chance, apparently. Faye: This fuckin' town, I swear...
Faye: how the balls did Spookybot meet your girlfriend's mom? Claire: CubeTown just endowed a professorial chair to investigate synchronicity related to ... um, to this friend group.
I'm totally stealing panel 6.
Did the CubeTown* dome work properly? *It's a working title
Preemptive “Hello Melon” (Socially Appropriate Greetings!)
I appreciate that my ISP installed a battery backup for my fiber install, but also...doesn't do me any good when everything else in the house, including the wifi router and any hardwired PCs, don't have power
This is why I have my modem and router on a battery backup. Power may go out, but the wi-fi? The wi-fi stays up.
I love the whiplash mood change from the thundering denouncement in panel 4 to the calm consideration of an previously unthinkable (due to silliness) plan.
I love how Yay is all villainous "You Dare?!" in panel 4 and Roko is totally unimpressed.
i was literally looking to buy an og game boy when this was posted, get out of my head jeph
If you want weirdness lessons, Pintsize is your boy.
Different weird, not more weird. I don't think it is fundamentally possible to be weirder than Melon is.
Are they living with Roko now?
No, they leave one of their bodies in a charging pod downstairs if I remember correctly.
This would make me love Yay even more than previously, if that were possible.
You take that back about Melon, she's not a weirdo, she PERFECT!!
Glad you folks are (mostly) all right! That's one of the nastiest hurricanes Canada has ever seen...
Jeph, I hope you have a well-charged OG Gameboy to occupy your time while you wait for power to be restored!
In that case, "well-charged" would mean "a box full of new batteries on-hand"
I am loving Yay's hair. It says "casual themsbian" so hard.
The person who monitors Clinton's sex life with a seismometer is worried about whether Claire knows they exist? If anything, this has been past due.
To be fair, Claire will have no idea that Yay is the AI in question unless Yay announces themself.
The interesting part will be when they invite Bubbles, and the reunion is just kind of like, "Oh."
More Yay please ❤️
Yay gets secret lessons from Melon on weirdness? Will this be a Cyrano de Bergerac type of thing?
Ask Melon how to be normal. The answers will be far more useful.
I'm not sure about that. I mean, I expect Melon will process the request: - Yay wants to know how to be weird. - Everybody's pretty weird compared to me. - Teach Yay how to be like everybody? But Melon's impression of what the normal people are like is going to be very off, so it'll still be a weird. It's just a different weird than Yay would get from asking Melon how to be normal.
okay so I was re-watching some star trek and it got me wondering something about the AI here. Can they breathe. I don't mean like, do they need to but can they manually stop and focus on their intake and output of air circulation for cooling? Can they stop and calm down with breathing techniques?
Depends on how integrated they are with their body, and how faithful they are to the human model. I suspect the answer is yes for Roko, no for Yay.
Yay, sweetie, you chose "Yay Newfriend" as your name. You really don't need help being weird!
But they did need Melons help with that!
Roko, Yay definitely needs help on the "harmless" part.
YAY! more yay.
it's pretty easy to believe. A young AI meets Aurelia and they bond over dogs. Said AI offers to run security. Simple.
Oh yeah you're in NS. Please stay safe.
Eh. I bet they just put up… The Dome. 😉
Panel one cuts off the finest of Yay badonk 😭
Technically all of the panels do.
Glad to hear you made it through the storm alright.
Melon would be so confused by any implication that she's a weirdo. . o O (I'm not sure she'd even understand the concept.)
Good luck with the power issues. I definitely want to see Melon giving Yay lessons on weird.
Just let the weird come naturally.
Anything that brings us more Melon is a good thing... especially the new Long Haired Melon.
And I just stumbled across today's strip. Neither Patreon or mail have it posted.
I got an e-mail 4 minutes ago.
Roko is so over Yay and their sense of self importance.
Their. Yay goes by gender neutral pronouns and is basically non-binary.