Wallace & Gromit
Added 2025-02-03 00:57:41 +0000 UTCHi Evan
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Schrödinger's coffee shop
Noodz
2025-02-04 12:53:03 +0000 UTCI... I never actually realised the robot's name spells "CEREAL" 🙈
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-04 10:14:06 +0000 UTCOh, I see it now at the $10 level. "Monthly Q&A". Well, I'm at the lowest pledge level so it's possible they are happening around me 😆 (Or at the very least there'd be a backlog to read through).
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-04 10:10:31 +0000 UTCWhat has it got in its pocketses, preciouss?
prettydragoon
2025-02-04 07:47:51 +0000 UTCHi Jeph
Evan Fenner
2025-02-04 03:18:08 +0000 UTCChecklists are useless unless the first entry is "Actually check everything on this checklist". Ask me how I know.
Rich Holmes
2025-02-04 03:10:43 +0000 UTCI need to know what's in the damned pockets!
Obliviontoad
2025-02-04 02:53:03 +0000 UTCAnd then Emily and Melon visit, and are confused by the lack of cats
Frank Wales
2025-02-04 02:38:02 +0000 UTCNow I'm expecting La Famille Roomba (or by now, probably Clan Roomba) to show up in Cubetown. Maybe they could have a concession to carry whatever hard-copy mail there is. Y'know -- sort of Owl Post for robots.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-04 00:16:08 +0000 UTCI was thinking more of wearing it as a Fashion Statement.
Doc Gumby
2025-02-04 00:14:59 +0000 UTCThat’s definitely valid
Maximum Turtle
2025-02-03 21:26:22 +0000 UTC"If this door is locked, we're closed. If it's unlocked, we're open. Until you try the knob, we're in both quantum states."
Mad Marie
2025-02-03 21:23:04 +0000 UTCPedo Mellon A Minno
Hugh Eckert
2025-02-03 21:07:29 +0000 UTCEffervescent Incendiarydevice
Sammitch
2025-02-03 21:07:23 +0000 UTCI think your best bet might be to send him a polite email. While he does occasionally respond to comments here, I wouldn't necessarily expect him to be sifting through our collective nonsense for genuine concerns.
Sammitch
2025-02-03 21:05:54 +0000 UTCHey, that's Bumbershoot Cabbagepatch.
ValdVin
2025-02-03 20:31:30 +0000 UTCCubetown develops the fusion-powered, artificially-intelligent, empathic, on-command-electromagnetically-impervious Worry Hat! With Eliza-range therapy. Comes in a range of comforting and fashionable colors. Dispenses Girl Scout cookies, but only in early February.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-03 19:56:47 +0000 UTCWonderful idea, Claudia, they already have that in multiple forms, and it's been illegal for several decades for being too much fun. (But, ah, that deep understanding I had with a cat and a phonograph one night in '68!)
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-03 19:49:03 +0000 UTCAll of those names (and others) are correct. On an irregularly rotating basis.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-03 19:39:53 +0000 UTCTinfoil hats all around! It's worked for me for years. No tigers around _this_ house.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-03 19:39:07 +0000 UTCCorrect patient? Which kidney? Does this guy really need his liver? (We're running a special today on multiples of things ending in "-ectomy".)
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-03 19:37:36 +0000 UTCJeph does reply -- at irregular intervals -- to comments in this forum.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-03 19:35:49 +0000 UTC@Mark I think the smallest humanoid AI we've seen was C.E.R.E.A.L (although original Momo was pretty close). But we've also seen sentient toasters and baby roombas and suchlike that might technically be smaller depending on how you measure it. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2743
BookBeard
2025-02-03 19:24:33 +0000 UTCOops we did fanfic in the comments. Again :)
Stephen Wells
2025-02-03 17:58:30 +0000 UTCBut then he'd forget to flip the switch...
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 17:53:51 +0000 UTCI suspect that Marten has already realised it's not a good idea to bait the scientists unless he wants to get drawn into a debate (and possibly wind up the co-author of a research paper).
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 17:53:02 +0000 UTCThat would be SO FUNNY. All the more so if it's implied Liz has no more idea what's going on than we do 😂
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 17:50:18 +0000 UTCIt’s listed in his $5 supporter description I think. I’d really like to reach out to this guy, but it feels like he’s super hard to get to respond to you on any media
Maximum Turtle
2025-02-03 17:50:13 +0000 UTCI wasn't aware Jeph had done Q&A before actually. I think he did one for 5,000 strips but that's the only one I'm aware of since becoming a supporter in 2022...
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 17:48:49 +0000 UTCI'll have to look it up!
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 17:45:43 +0000 UTCIf this fascinates/horrifies you, Atul Gawande's book "The Checklist Manifesto" is worth a look.
Mark Eichin
2025-02-03 17:42:54 +0000 UTCOr he could really bait the scientists in with "We are a superposition of both open and closed until you open the door and collapse the wave function."
BookBeard
2025-02-03 17:30:34 +0000 UTCImmediate time skip to three weeks later, Moray is wearing Beeps' pink tuxedo and saying "I now pronounce you... Gremlin and Power Loader."
BookBeard
2025-02-03 17:11:11 +0000 UTCI became a supporter because I wanted to join in on a QnA but I can’t find any semblance of one having been done recently. Does he still do them? I have questions I’ve wanted to ask for years
Maximum Turtle
2025-02-03 17:08:12 +0000 UTCGiven that one for your head alone would perforce have an opening the diameter of your neck, I'm not sure how well it would work. (Pro tip, k8iddies: Tinfoil hats probably wouldn't do what their wearer think they do.)
Philip Masters
2025-02-03 16:38:03 +0000 UTCIt took hundreds of years before surgeons were (recently!) persuaded to have a checklist of things like "Correct leg?" rather than winging it. Checklists are less common than they should be :)
Stephen Wells
2025-02-03 15:42:17 +0000 UTC...Jeph could win maximum troll points by having this exchange end with Evan saying "Anyway! Just dropped by to pick up my fiancee" and leaving with Liz :) No further exposition will be provided.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-03 15:41:04 +0000 UTCI got an email with a link from Jeph rather than Patreon after I found this post. I got emails about the above comments from Patreon. As my son would say "Go figure!"
Charles Hirst
2025-02-03 13:52:22 +0000 UTCIt’s Evangelion, and she’s dating a mecha, much to Liz’s chagrin.
Miyaa
2025-02-03 13:07:20 +0000 UTCI still receive mails. Have you double-checked your spam folder and patreon settings? Websites behave oddly sometimes.
Atashkada
2025-02-03 12:35:22 +0000 UTCDo I mean the containment on Evan's embonpoint or the containment on Liz? Yes.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-03 10:30:49 +0000 UTCI did also.
Captain Button
2025-02-03 09:47:45 +0000 UTCSign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
Captain Button
2025-02-03 09:47:18 +0000 UTC🤔 I mean, there's no reason why AI *couldn't* have retracting boobs...
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:33:48 +0000 UTCVeronica is DELIGHTED to consult on the design. She also gets to visit her son in the process.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:33:00 +0000 UTC+1
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:30:15 +0000 UTC"If you can see the goblin eyes, you're already too close."
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:29:47 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure Evan's already a Mood Coffee regular
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:27:28 +0000 UTCI did get a push notification for this one...
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:26:58 +0000 UTC3 weeks in, Claire consigns Marten to the couch for tripling her workload 😅
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:26:32 +0000 UTCYou would think Marten would have a shop opening checklist as it is...
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-03 09:26:02 +0000 UTCThere could be a sign that says "Perhaps we're open, why not find out?" Or "We're always open, and sometimes here". Or even just no sign at all, and let people/robots/cyborg pals enjoy the pleasure of figuring it out for themselves while deprived of tea vapours or caffeine. That should be fine, right?
Frank Wales
2025-02-03 08:52:37 +0000 UTCWhen we learned that Marten had forgotten to flip the sign, my first thought was that he should source an automatic sign-flipping machine. I'm not sure I like what that says about me...
Dean Reilly
2025-02-03 08:45:08 +0000 UTCalternatively: tinfoil-hats for everyone!
Andreas_B
2025-02-03 08:24:55 +0000 UTCDon't be silly, there's no way he forgot a name like Evenhanded Interlocutor. Wait, no... Eventful Invigilator. Evangelist Insinuator?
BookBeard
2025-02-03 07:16:24 +0000 UTCOr just a basic electric sign.....
Onyx
2025-02-03 07:07:54 +0000 UTCLiz didn't yell "Titties" when Evan came in, so we know the containment is holding. For now.
Stephen Wells
2025-02-03 07:06:07 +0000 UTCOoof, you Aced that of Base! 🤣
Maurice Post
2025-02-03 06:51:04 +0000 UTCNo Patreon emails? I had to use an old link and then find "recent posts".
Charles Hirst
2025-02-03 05:53:58 +0000 UTC[Flintstones voice] It's a living
Veronica Jane
2025-02-03 05:35:32 +0000 UTCPlot twis: A faraday cage built by people in Cube town would act as an amplifier.
legobil
2025-02-03 05:31:38 +0000 UTCEvan's tactical snack pockets: Cherry, Vanilla, and Blueberry.
Sammitch
2025-02-03 05:20:16 +0000 UTCSomething tells me Marten doesn't remember Evan's name.
Pete Hanson
2025-02-03 05:19:49 +0000 UTCI miss the Worry Hat! 🤣
SilverbackRon
2025-02-03 05:18:58 +0000 UTCEvan’s uniform is doing work.
Hawkeye
2025-02-03 05:10:16 +0000 UTCIn Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Randall Flagg has a hoodie that blocks telepathy when the hood is up. For most telepaths, anyway...
Halloween Jack
2025-02-03 05:05:28 +0000 UTCHave we seen any AIs smaller than pintsize? It probably wouldn't be a *popular* job, but I could see someone who's Had Enough and Just Needs A Break signing up for a year as a self-flipping sign...
Mark Eichin
2025-02-03 04:28:36 +0000 UTCsmaller population → smaller market → dominant quasi-monopolies emerged relatively early. (Also means that, even by US standards, the service quality has always been pretty low...)
Mark Eichin
2025-02-03 04:23:13 +0000 UTCSee we solved it already! You could totally have it linked to your main switch or control scene and then other switches for off hours
Ilana
2025-02-03 04:18:58 +0000 UTCPeople use (incomplete) Faraday cages for their heads -- it's called a tin foil hat. I'm amazed to see people here taking that idea seriously.
Chas Simmons
2025-02-03 04:14:59 +0000 UTCScheduled means if you're late (or early) to work, the sign won't agree with the actual opening time. Maybe hook it up to the main light switch, and use a lower light setting for your setup and teardown period.
jonesnori
2025-02-03 04:05:30 +0000 UTCWe'll see 'em when we need to see 'em.
Maurice Kessler
2025-02-03 03:46:36 +0000 UTCI see what you did there, and I do not disapprove.
Maurice Kessler
2025-02-03 03:44:16 +0000 UTCDifferent energy bars, granola, and fruit leather.
Opus the Poet
2025-02-03 03:43:26 +0000 UTCEvan’s emergency snacks say trans rights.
Gary Walker
2025-02-03 03:41:00 +0000 UTCEven accounting for the exchange rate?
Opus the Poet
2025-02-03 03:39:47 +0000 UTCI have slept in a Faraday cage and it was pretty good. But I'm not dependent on being connected electronically.
Opus the Poet
2025-02-03 03:33:59 +0000 UTCI've had my head in a Faraday cage. Well, my whole body, TBH (exciting nerd story deleted). It's not a bad place to be! Except the cellular and WiFi reception sucks.
BobC
2025-02-03 03:19:20 +0000 UTCLiz and/or Pintsize as a Greek Chorus is actually perfect
schmod
2025-02-03 03:14:13 +0000 UTCOMG I so want to be a test subject as soon as those wonderful vision tazers become a thing in real life!
Melissa Wilson
2025-02-03 03:13:36 +0000 UTCExcellent! I love me a sans serif siege engine.
Melissa Wilson
2025-02-03 03:10:21 +0000 UTC"I suppose you're wondering how they got in this situation..."
Captain Button
2025-02-03 03:10:09 +0000 UTCWait… that’s Liz? I thought it was Alan Brady!
Melissa Wilson
2025-02-03 03:07:22 +0000 UTCI assumed it would be a normal plug in sign with some sort of sensor so it turns on when Marten opens the door in the morning. And...some sort of other sensor to stop it turning on and off every time a customer comes in. I dunno, I'm not a Cubetown engineer
Veronica Jane
2025-02-03 03:05:14 +0000 UTCSilly Marten, you already have a hat that repels sadness and anxiety. I'm sure with a few minor tweaks it could also block out Cubetown's overthinking field. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1203 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1806
BookBeard
2025-02-03 02:58:14 +0000 UTCIf that’s intentional, I greatly appreciate it. 🏳️⚧️💪
Taigan
2025-02-03 02:58:06 +0000 UTCfaraday cages only work if they completely enclose something. what Marten needs is not a tin foil hat but a tin foil gimp mask
LH
2025-02-03 02:55:22 +0000 UTCOh my god, it's like Cubetown is just one big XY problem.
Graydon Armstrong
2025-02-03 02:48:28 +0000 UTC🎵Jeph can't hide, those goblin eyes...
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-03 02:38:00 +0000 UTC🎵Did not flip the sign It must have slipped his mind, to flip the sign Can't be opening, without clear messaging So, flip the sign, and you'll open up on time, just flip the sign! 🎵
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-03 02:37:03 +0000 UTCDo you have the slightest idea of how little that narrows it down?
Nulgar
2025-02-03 02:34:59 +0000 UTCEh, upvoted, but when I hear that goblin voice I want those goblin eyes!
ValdVin
2025-02-03 02:34:07 +0000 UTCOr a rotating black hole to pull the sign down.
Captain Button
2025-02-03 02:32:06 +0000 UTCIt seems like a chunk of recent strips involve Liz as an off-panel voice. I wonder if that will be a regular thing; in some scenes we won't know Liz is even there until there's suddenly incoming snark.
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-03 02:31:32 +0000 UTCMy personal head canon is that that's a message from Jeph to readers/[mp]atrons who have been having a _really fucking bad_ couple of weeks.
Amelia Lewis
2025-02-03 02:26:15 +0000 UTCThat's just what they want you to think.
BookBeard
2025-02-03 02:23:57 +0000 UTCThey did a study, turns out, tin foil hats actually increase the signal going into the brain rather than blocking it. Don't tell the conspiracy theorists.
Tom B
2025-02-03 02:22:38 +0000 UTCEvan robotrans confirmed
Fart Captor
2025-02-03 02:21:07 +0000 UTCYes they COULD just be smooshed in there but retracting into her body would be more comfy
Fart Captor
2025-02-03 02:20:12 +0000 UTCOooh, in Moscow, in the perogie shop? Good times, good times.
Holly Nelson
2025-02-03 02:12:53 +0000 UTCThree Nintendo Switch systems with different-colored Joy-Cons.
Richard
2025-02-03 02:12:22 +0000 UTC"The gravity of the situation" is a clue to Appleboom's solution to the problem, and will involve a tiny trebuchet.
Maurice Kessler
2025-02-03 02:04:54 +0000 UTCIt's a push-up vest.
Maurice Kessler
2025-02-03 02:02:42 +0000 UTCI know someone who's been complaining about Rogers for years.
Maurice Kessler
2025-02-03 02:01:21 +0000 UTCTell me when they invent one of those
Cozy
2025-02-03 01:57:13 +0000 UTCYeah, me too. But I understand the Wallace Vs Grommet problem solving methods…
Thisguy
2025-02-03 01:52:22 +0000 UTCPamphlets: "So, you decided to commit a felony..."
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2025-02-03 01:46:34 +0000 UTCMan, now I want a Faraday cage for MY head!
Doc Gumby
2025-02-03 01:44:01 +0000 UTCThat’s called a tin foil hat, Marten. The local crackpot can help
KingAtticus
2025-02-03 01:40:56 +0000 UTCStrawberry, mint, and plain chocolate Kit Kats. She was trained by Nosh.
Rich Holmes
2025-02-03 01:40:42 +0000 UTCMaybe they just induce instantaneous and paralyzingly wonderful visions. Person is just frozen on the spot in wonder. No harm, no pursuit needed.
Claudia D.
2025-02-03 01:38:54 +0000 UTCGenius 🤣
Zig Justice
2025-02-03 01:34:22 +0000 UTCYeah, but 💗Oh! Canada!💗
Claudia D.
2025-02-03 01:34:12 +0000 UTCIt's like Radiohead, but the reception keeps getting blocked for some reason...
Diptych
2025-02-03 01:33:52 +0000 UTCCracking cheese, Evan!
uwu
2025-02-03 01:30:49 +0000 UTCWay more expensive, fwiw.
Ryan
2025-02-03 01:25:50 +0000 UTCAnd incorporating a surplus cuckoo clock and a miniature railway. Ob-Cuckoo Clock reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PGK7a2IFo (Bathtime in Clerkenwell, for those of you suspicious of random links.)
Clifton Royston
2025-02-03 01:23:25 +0000 UTCWonder how awful are the mobile phones subscriptions are in Canada compared to the USA?
Miyaa
2025-02-03 01:22:13 +0000 UTCAw man I was expected something more Wallace and Gromit. What a let down! Also you could just plug your lighted sign into a scheduled outlet (or I'm sure they make an app lol)
Ilana
2025-02-03 01:20:03 +0000 UTCI contacted their service dept. Turns out, yeah, due to expected tariffs, they won't ship them.
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-03 01:18:17 +0000 UTCtasers? that's pretty dark, given her previous statements to Marten
alphanor
2025-02-03 01:16:54 +0000 UTCNah, it's her trans pride granola bar assortment! (If AIs can adopt human genders, they can also decide to change them when they want to.)
Clifton Royston
2025-02-03 01:16:35 +0000 UTCI see Jeph added some smoosh lines to her shirt to represent the complex folding going on beneath.
Diptych
2025-02-03 01:15:34 +0000 UTCeither different fruit leather flavors or trail mix packets or granola bars, take your pick
alphanor
2025-02-03 01:14:46 +0000 UTCLooks a bit like the trans flag colours, but I could be wrong - not sure on Evans background :-)
Kurist Zero
2025-02-03 01:14:45 +0000 UTCAt best, it has a wireless charging receptor. At worst it has a built in RTG (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator) good for 100,000 years.
Captain Button
2025-02-03 01:11:25 +0000 UTCFrom left to right: - Human nerd taser - A.I. nerd taser - Appleboom taser
Fart Captor
2025-02-03 01:07:09 +0000 UTCOnly if it has a clock in it, otherwise it would just be a regular sign that needs power
Grace Kieser
2025-02-03 01:06:25 +0000 UTCOf course they won't ship to Canada.
Rich Holmes
2025-02-03 01:05:34 +0000 UTCIt's called a tin foil hat, Marten. I'm sure you can find them for sale online.
Rich Holmes
2025-02-03 01:04:24 +0000 UTCDifferent type of flavors for her Pez dispenser.
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-03 01:04:16 +0000 UTCDifferent fruit leather flavors, I think.
ValdVin
2025-02-03 01:04:15 +0000 UTCI was assuming those were reactive armor.
Captain Button
2025-02-03 01:03:34 +0000 UTCI'm choosing to believe Evan's massive yabbos retract back into her chest cavity like one of those "transforming" action figure's from the 90s when she's got that vest on
Fart Captor
2025-02-03 01:03:21 +0000 UTCWhat are the different colors in her mag pouches for?
Morgan Byrd
2025-02-03 01:03:03 +0000 UTCEvan’s snack pockets seem to be trans pride themed today.
Taigan
2025-02-03 01:02:42 +0000 UTCWouldn't an automated sign be...an LED sign?
Veronica Jane
2025-02-03 01:01:53 +0000 UTC"Thingy"? Evan, the solution is obviously a pair of automated sign-flipping trousers.
ValdVin
2025-02-03 01:01:44 +0000 UTCFaraday Head. New band name?
Zig Justice
2025-02-03 01:01:19 +0000 UTCEvan!
A Dark Planet, Lit By No Sun
2025-02-03 01:00:39 +0000 UTCLike looking at the weather forecast site instead of looking out the window, but turned up to 11.
Captain Button
2025-02-03 01:00:38 +0000 UTCthey should try coffee...
Brendan Luster
2025-02-03 01:00:13 +0000 UTC
