Self-Evaluation
she's not wrong
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That's a good idea, but already did it so many times it is indelibly memorized 🤣
I wish I could erase my memory of QC so I could go back and binge it all for the first time again.
There's an amazing scene in Red Dwarf where Holly the supercomputer is bored because they've read every book in existence, so they ask Lister to help: LISTER: I've done it. HOLLY: Done what? LISTER: Erased Agatha Christie. HOLLY: Who's she, then? LISTER: Holly, you just asked me to erase all Agatha Christie novels from your memory. HOLLY: Why should I do that? I've never heard of her. LISTER: You've never heard of her because I've just erased her from your smegging memory. HOLLY: What'd you do that for? LISTER: You asked me to! HOLLY: When? LISTER: Just now! HOLLY: I don't remember this.
If she's made out of gloop / And she needs to regroup / That's a Moray! Reabsorption or no / She'll mature and she'll grow / That's a Moray! If she joined the main cast / Surely it'd be a blast / That's a Moray! So, Jeph, don't hesitate / Please, come on, seal our fate! / Give us Moray! ✨
That's beautiful! LOL
I'll bet she'll pull an amazing espresso in Coffee of Doom 2.0 !
Great. Now I have the image of Moray using her gelatin-body as an espresso machine, with all the rule 34 fanart that includes. Some days, my brain...
On one hand, I think Moray is autonomous but on the other (they/she) was spun off a supremely intelligent AI. If they have failings, wouldn't that point back at the director?
Just means the director needs to reabsorb her, integrate her experiences, and issue a new, better Moray.
And a position opens for a chill guy you can come to with your problems?
Liz's face in Panel 5 - priceless.
Perhaps Moray will find a new job as Steve’s cereal milk.
That’s what I think #5000 will be. But, with Pizza Girl as his special breakfast guest!
Damn. I’ve been reading this comic for literal years now. Back before Dora and Thai even got together, back before bubbles or may were characters. So much has happened in that time. Here’s to 5000 more if that’s what you want Jeff!
QC 5000: Steve eats cereal
🙏 Jeph plz make this happen
Nooo! please don’t go Moray!
Moray 🤝 Beeps "I am peppy and adorable but clearly unsuited for this role"
Thing is - that's also a very accurate description of Claire going into her new job...
Nobel Peace Prize incoming for Goblin Girl <3
The impending strip 5000 is just around the corner..
At least an Orca hasn't eaten her...yet.
Is this the part where the Director has figured out that the Peter Principle apparently applies to AI as well? They have risen beyond their capability to administrate the system they now find themselves in charge of -- and, not having any kind of emotional BS to process in light of that knowledge, are now seeking to *correct* those oversights.
Namely, by hiring Claire, fully recognizing the nested power of Aurelia's MASTER-LEVEL MOM VIBES, and their potential for good within the TOWN OF CUBES!
Absorption murder in 3, 2, 1…
I guess if she's *forced* to be reabsorbed into the parent mind that would be murder.
Good workplaces definitely support the mental health of their employees and notice when they’re not ok. Even though she is smol, Liz is an adult and I’m placing some(much) of the responsibility for maintaining her own mental health on her. Employers aren’t entirely second parents. But noticing and suggesting help could have happened earlier.
But.. She's not an adult. She is a genius kid. I don't know if I missed something but in my mind she's like 14-16?
Hmm. Methinks - the Director will spit out a young adult Moray to learn from the Goblin. This has to be HR Moray’s next step in growth.
I'm very sad to say that this is a strike against the principle of running a workplace exclusively through slimegirls
A lot of folks are saying "Let Moray live!" Well, yeah. But it's different for creatures like her. When she is reabsorbed there will be memory, improvement, evolution, and continuity, just not an identical ego. The next Moray will be Moray with the benefit of experience.
Except we know Moray doesn't wish to be reabsorbed, she's just preparing to accept that as an expected punishment. It's a gain for the director, but it's still the end of her individuality.
I can almost GUARENTEE that Moray will start working at Marten's coffee shop.
This would be a completely perfect outcome.
I've just met Moray, but if anything happens to them I shall reformat everyone in the room and then myself.
Moray has been sentenced to POOLG for Job Crimes.
Moray will work at Marten's shop, Coffee of Chill
I 100% buy into this headcanon
I wonder if Moray can be a barista...
TIUQ I EM ERIF T’NAC UOY
Moray will take full responsibility, and apologize to Lord Vad- uh, The Director.
Apology (poolg) accepted.
When a girl made of slime/screws up time after time/that's a Moray
If she's bouncy and fun/but the job don't get done/that's a Moray
I don't think Moray will be permanently reabsorbed into The Director. My thoughts are: 'The Director deliberately let Moray live independently for an extended period so it could observe her interactions with others without effectively micromanaging her actions, in the name of science'. I'll even go so far as to suppose she was instantiated with personality traits that push her towards being more outgoing in order to encourage those interactions. Either that, or Yay made a bet with the Director at some point regarding human/AI interaction and Moray is the 'coin flip'.
There are definitely pieces of this I find appealing. One would hope that some portion of the director's displeasure is directed inwards at determining how to prevent recurrences of this. And perhaps some evaluation of Cubetown's other inhabitants with an eye towards, "Are these people being treated properly?" (e.g. I'm remembering that janitor in the background during Claire's phone interview.)
When you look like a blob, and you’re bad at your job that’s a Moray
If you do take a leak When excitement's at peak that's a Moray
But she is squishably soft...
Omg. There really is an angst solstice happening right now.
Wait. CAN Moray quit? The implications from what we know about Moray are.... unsettling.
She would be re-absorbed back into the collective consciousness of the giant jellysquid... I'm sure it's not like dying, more like having your mind expanded. I suspect that part of the reason the jellysquid can't really communicate well with Humans is because there are a thousand minds in there, all competing for CPU space.
I think that the real problem is that Moray was one person (AI) doing the job that should require an entire team to effectively accomplish. Keeping track of everyone's mental health is simply not a one person job.
This ☝️ Also, I don't think she has... any qualifications at all...
Moray: Professional Scapegoat
Is it possible to fail at being a scapegoat?
Is Moray going to be use as the scapegoat for all of Cubetown's issues? What was her job title again? At this point it feels like the Director is an unelected dictator with total power over Cubetown and no responsibility whatsoever. If Moray leaves her job we just have Claire in the same position for the next big thing that goes wrong.
Moray's Director of Sentient Resources. That does mean she's ultimately responsible for issues with employees' conditions.
She has a positive attitude & likes to make new friends. Unfortunately she's terrible at actual HR & team management.
And who's fault is that right? Her actual creator is also her employer, and she's literaly Mrs. Meeseeks
Everyone's like, "wah, wah, don't reabsorb Moray, mean director squid," because they want to keep Moray around. Honestly, we ought to be exhorting the director to keep themself uncontaminated! Moray is clearly defective; send her to Massachusetts where she belongs.
I -like- the way you think, Kyle.
I'm thinking that Moray might be the director's sole interface with the world. And she simply in a near constant state of overwhelmed. The director needs more Morays that can interface with the director and other Moray models.
I think they can run in parallel. The discussion earlier strongly implied that this Moray has overlapped with multiple other, much more short-lived Morays who met various terrible fates (smooshed by heavy crate, eaten by orca, recruited by Twitter).
I've had several jobs I was all-around bad at. The trick is, while being bad, to still manage to be the best available option. That was a lot easier to pull off when I lived in West Virginia...
Being allowed to be bad at your job sounds like almost heaven.
Moray quitting and then another Moray is generated....the infinite employee?
I wonder if the Director would want to reabsorb Moray to learn from her experiences before glooping out a more qualified one. And if so, could old Moray be re-glooped again? :)
Is Moray going to be assistant manager at Coffee of Chill?
omg that would be a disaster. i definitely want to see this
On the one hand I love Moray, but on the other, if she resigns it would then be possible for her to ethically make out with Gremlizabeth… 🤔
I think she’s at least 20 so go for it?
We have to keep Moray! Do not let her get sucked back into the director!
Well, if she *bad* at all aspects of her job, maybe the Director won't want to reabsorb her. At least, not just yet. Maybe she can go explore areas beyond Cubetown. Like Northampton. :)
Plz director do not reabsorb Moray I am begging you
Please. I want her to live. I like her.
Please let Moray live.
It's not *that* bad, it's not like she works for *Twitter*...
Oh no. I sense a shipping arise between goblin girl (lizard girl? I have a cousin named Elizabeth, but the whole family calls her lizard or the dancing lizard since she’s a professional ballet dancer and instructor now) and Morey.
God damnit no, let her be a child at least in some tiny portion of her life for a while.
#4999 baby! Looking forward to tomorrow!
And then on to #42069
Oh Moray...
That's a Moraaayyyyy!
Yeah, Morray should not have been in that position for as long as she has.
Yeah. Aaaand... who's responsible for that?
Aw
Recognizing one's strengths and owning them. "I'm bad at EVERYTHING!"
Well, Moray does throw a mean curve, and has that enveloping hug.