Like Falling Off A Log
it's easy to fall off a log
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I would be a terrible influence on Yay. All this nonsense about 'don't spy' hell no, dish the dirt!
To be fair, listening in on OPEN channels isn't that big a deal. Anyone who deals with radio and similar comms knows to watch what they say when you're on a party line because anyone could be listening.
Is Yay all of them, or just the part of them interacting with the rest of the cast?
I was just wondering the very same thing...
honestly, the fact that Yay is annoyed with themselves once they realised that they had fallen into old habits is actually a nice sign of growth. they've clearly taken things on board after spending time with everyone and decided they wanted to make a change.
Shipping Aurelia with Yay is still possible! 🤘🤤🤘
Aurelia/Yay/Roko polycule even better :) especially as Aurelia clearly knows her way around a baking oven Edited to add: I've just realised that a scene entitled "Eliot teaches Aurelia to bake sourdough while Roko and Yay watch" now technically counts as erotica for QC readers. We Know Too Much.
I was just looking at panel 4 and realised that Yay has the same jawline as the Augustus family and now I need them to get adopted. Yes, I realise that functionally speaking they already have been :) also they can't marry into the family because they need to marry Roko ... QC is so complicated these days :)
Similar nose shape as well
In this case, the log is also the wagon.
Do *NOT* make Elliot sad
Panel three mom vibes!
In fairness they did specify open comms channels.
(They)
…and then: aww Hercules
I prefer my metaphors well-mixed.. 'Like falling off a bicycle.'
Like falling off a rocket surgeon?
Yay is totally uncomfortable with Aurelia's disapproving Mom vibes in panel 3.
For the longest time, I've heard Yay's voice a certain way in my head, never been able to place it. Today it hit me: https://tinyurl.com/5n8nswuw
Explain?
"Oh yes, I know Clinton. He's the meatbag whose arrival precipitates extra Hercules time."
Exactly, nothing earth shatteringly intense "just" Hercules time supplier.
RIP, Clinton.
I agree with Yay.
I'm 90% certain Clinton would think Yay was just messing with them. He's too much of a know-it-all to believe that there's a hitherto unknown AI orders of magnitude more advanced than Station and the other top-tier AIs he studies just casually hanging out with his mom.
And it'd be in Yay's best interest to leave him with that assessment. Unfortunately, this is one of those areas in which they're weak.
Clinton's head explodes and then all of a sudden Jeph is writing a reboot of <i>Scanners</i>.
Not to be confused with the reboot entitled “A Scanner Dorkly”.
Yay needs to be either less unbearably hot or more three dimensional so I can make out with them 🥺
Yes! 🤞🤤🤘
To be fair, Yay has restricted themselves to the OPEN channels. That's progress!
That was my thought. It doesn't count as as snooping. What's the problem?
Oh my God. Clinton meeting and being friends with Yay... the implications of that idea is beyond terrifying.
I suspect Yay would need to take... Steps. (*Hannelore, RELEASE THE VIRUS!)
Marten knows his (for all practical purposes) brother-in-law well.
Back before I got married, the term I used was 'future brother-in-law'. Though that term really only makes sense if one is willing to commit to that stuff and doing so doesn't freak out ones partner.
Is it me, or does Cubetown kind of need Yay?
No, because Yay will Point And Laugh, rather than fix anything
Clinton's head wouldn't explode. He has an outlet.
I feel this should be a Bloodtrocuted reference #metalocalypse
Claire is going to be the only competent being on the staff. She’s either going to thrive or die.
At least for a bit. Maybe. I expect with her on the staff, things will change: - She's going to hire some other competent library and IT staff. - She's going to provide some training that will... reduce the least competent impulses in some of the rest of the staff. That having been said, what about the janitor?
Open comms channels are open
"And this is our Administration AI GLaDOS..."
THE CAKE IS A LIE! ABORT! THE CAKE IS A LIE!
eh. Let them eat cake.
Have your kayak and heat it.
Very good Claireface, panel 2. I dub it "Doubtful Claireface".
Hopefully the "cake" won't be uranium cake
or even a urinal cake D=
There are safety brochures about the “public facilities”? ie the restrooms?
If the place is run by AIs but they're hiring organics, they should advertise all the amenities and safety features we squishy meatsacks will need!
When Claire arrives at Cubetown, the place is a blazing ruin. In the centre of the wreckage is a sponge cake, with 'WELCOME CLIARE' written on top in wobbly icing.
The icing is made from Moray’s goo. Yay hacks in and corrects the fact that they essentially misspelled “AI” (but not before laughing uncontrollably).
Hey, "open comms channels" is not snooping! Now "encrypted comms channels", or "we've installed intelligent autonomous agents in their security systems"...
better than unintelligent autonomous agents.
As soon as I saw the title I knew Yay was going to be spying on someone!!
Don't make Elliot cry. I forbid it.
This is awesome. That’s it. Just had to say it. Also, Marten is soooo accurate.
"There is talk of baking a cake" may lead to reassessing "don't worry about Cubetown collapsing"? Did they borrow Melon's secret "cake" recipe?
Yay said "risk assessment" without specifying just what risks. I read it as referring to the edibility of said alleged confection. It may indeed contain leaking carbon zinc D cell flashlight batteries, the kind Arthur fixes for Melon. (For you younger folk who have never had the sublime experience, a leaking alkaline battery is but a mere shadow of the equipment destroying capabilities of spent carbon zinc cells.)