Bubbles didn't want it permanently deleted. I imagine it's easier to do regular computer stuff like deleting a file compared to more complex actions.
Bill Silvia
2025-01-15 09:57:12 +0000 UTC
I was thinking an assistant for Veronica
Bill Silvia
2025-01-15 09:55:58 +0000 UTC
I think she realized the Firemen were probably sweaty and needed a break.
Bill Silvia
2025-01-15 09:54:44 +0000 UTC
I loved their interaction 💖
SilverbackRon
2025-01-15 07:46:25 +0000 UTC
I.... fuck, that *was* thirty years ago.
Am Queue
2025-01-15 02:41:33 +0000 UTC
@Maxwell: I got that reference
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-14 03:26:37 +0000 UTC
There’s nothing more miserable than a job working with your own family.
Miyaa
2025-01-13 22:25:00 +0000 UTC
The firemen are currently working overtime in LA... D:
Leak
2025-01-13 20:01:50 +0000 UTC
Iris already has a full-time job worshiping Willow :)
PsychOut
2025-01-13 19:55:06 +0000 UTC
I was miserable with a job, too, but at least I knew I'd be able to pay my bills.
Matt Pedone
2025-01-13 19:07:02 +0000 UTC
I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows I'm miserable now
Maxwell Black
2025-01-13 18:38:20 +0000 UTC
Well, once Smaug did a leveraged buyout....
Captain Button
2025-01-13 16:59:20 +0000 UTC
At the optometrist, perhaps?
BobC
2025-01-13 16:45:44 +0000 UTC
I seem to recall Hanners had moved from Firemen to Cowboys at some point ?
Ísabel Pirsic
2025-01-13 15:53:33 +0000 UTC
The urge to respond to friends complaining about their jobs with, "At least you have a job" can be overwhelming at times, but I usually just keep it to myself, be supportive, and wallow in the misery of my failure on my own time.
Matt Pedone
2025-01-13 15:03:24 +0000 UTC
That seems like a really harsh policy for a clothing company. I had no idea Old Navy was so draconian.
BookBeard
2025-01-13 14:58:27 +0000 UTC
Actually as I recall it wasn't even one of the options they were offered, but after getting his memory wiped there was an accident or something and they lost track of him. He was programmed for community service so he ended up joining the order of monks. The episode was called "Passing Through Gethsemane".
BookBeard
2025-01-13 14:51:34 +0000 UTC
Sounds like the old Navy saying: "Liberty will be restricted until morale improves."
allanfranta
2025-01-13 14:18:30 +0000 UTC
One usually hears that in a delivery room, same context?
allanfranta
2025-01-13 14:14:13 +0000 UTC
I'm guessing that's as far as she could get Ayo to dial it back from "Super Ultra Mega Triple-Infinity Best Friend"
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5131
BookBeard
2025-01-13 14:07:18 +0000 UTC
If Iris ever moves out on her own (or Willow flakes on her), she could start collecting those old demotivational posters from like thirty years ago (remember those?), "ironically".
Amelia Lewis
2025-01-13 13:36:50 +0000 UTC
That was an episode of Babylon 5. Only they weren't forced to be a monk, it was one of the few things that people with erased personalities could do.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-13 10:49:07 +0000 UTC
I think Iris doesn't know humans can't edit our subconscious, that's why they're SUB consciousness.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-13 10:33:31 +0000 UTC
Motivational speaker Iris: "Go and achieve your dreams. I will be right behind you. I have a knife. I have many knives. Go fast enough, far enough, maybe I won't catch up with you."
Stephen Wells
2025-01-13 10:26:33 +0000 UTC
That's how Iris covers her share of the rent.
David Paul
2025-01-13 09:22:21 +0000 UTC
Liz has a PhD in being annoying
Bagge
2025-01-13 08:53:09 +0000 UTC
Reminds me of the consistent lore in the Dragon Age game series where if you could not pass the mage test you could essentially lose your personality but keep your spells.
Miyaa
2025-01-13 08:49:35 +0000 UTC
She DOES get results!
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-13 07:48:23 +0000 UTC
It was done to Bubbles accidentally by Corpse Witch, so it is possible for one AI to do it to another (without needing to be at Yay's level), but I expect it would be very hard to do on yourself. (After all, Bubbles had to resort to asking Corpse Witch to partition her memories - she didn't want to delete them, but that suggests she couldn't do anything with them on her own). Also, it's probably reaaally inadvisable to fuck around inside another AI's memory like that.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-13 07:47:25 +0000 UTC
Oh yeah, the taco place closed because of the blood.
Stephen Wells
2025-01-13 07:44:00 +0000 UTC
Iris could probably make bank on OnlyFans (or the QC equivalent, but we've established the QC universe does have Patreon), and she wouldn't even have to show skin. She could just record herself criticising people.
Can you believe Iris' friends and housemates get access to that for free, ALL the time??
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-13 07:43:17 +0000 UTC
I think Pintsize would still take 1st prize, but Liz would be second x3
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-13 07:34:46 +0000 UTC
There might be something wrong with me, but as an ex-child prodigy (I didn't start as high as Liz but I didn't fall so far either) I found this SMBC strip strangely comforting. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/point
Mark
2025-01-13 07:18:15 +0000 UTC
Nice.
Mark
2025-01-13 06:49:31 +0000 UTC
Probably not Sven. She's demonstrably immune to his charms/”come hither” look.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1078
Mark
2025-01-13 06:43:24 +0000 UTC
Hannelore allows 'bestie' :-)
Bagge
2025-01-13 06:09:12 +0000 UTC
I would ABSOLUTELY pay to have Iris scold and insult me
We need to ditch the fake AI chat bots and get the real thing so Iris can be real and hate me 🥺
Fart Captor
2025-01-13 05:44:38 +0000 UTC
Also Tony Shalhoub, Harrison Ford and of course Mr. Clean.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=634
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=723
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1141
BookBeard
2025-01-13 05:31:02 +0000 UTC
Some of the firemen might look suspiciously like Sven.
Jax
2025-01-13 05:10:54 +0000 UTC
It's at least 50% firemen.
Jax
2025-01-13 05:10:25 +0000 UTC
"In 1953 the pressure the become the first to climb to the summit of Mount Everest was huge. Somebody already did that. Two guys. That means you can't be the first up there and neither can I. Your expectations and reality need to see eye to eye, or close enough for a good shouting match. Failure to make that adjustment doesn't make you motivated or goal oriented, it just makes you a jerk who wastes a lot of time and energy." *It was at this point the speaker remembered that there was no lighter in any pocket because smoking was not allowed in the hotel convention center. Time to huff summer tea and think about that paycheck.*
Thomas Halpin
2025-01-13 04:54:36 +0000 UTC
I greatly appreciate seeing a Van down by the river joke 🤣
Zak Reichle
2025-01-13 04:14:44 +0000 UTC
I can't imagine how clean Hennelore's subconscious is.
Yelling Bird
2025-01-13 04:11:26 +0000 UTC
Iris is fully dilated...
BobC
2025-01-13 03:39:10 +0000 UTC
She remains the big, cranky blueberry of my dreams. (Sorry, Iris, but my subconscious is protected by fair use.)
William Cole
2025-01-13 02:59:54 +0000 UTC
I think we all know who took 1st prize.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5267
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5309
BookBeard
2025-01-13 02:37:08 +0000 UTC
Ilana: Possibly "Babylon 5" where it was called "Death Of Personality."
In print SF, the idea comes up in "The Second Trip" by Robert Silverberg and "Downbelow Station" by CJ Cherryh. And doubtless other places, I am sure.
Captain Button
2025-01-13 02:35:10 +0000 UTC
I mean, it really takes a lot of the pressure off.
Andrew Denton
2025-01-13 02:34:05 +0000 UTC
Not easily. If AI could simply delete stuff from their own heads, Bubbles would never have gone to Corpse Witch for "help".
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3376
BookBeard
2025-01-13 02:28:57 +0000 UTC
There was some movie or tv show where the punishment for like murder is that you get your memory erased and forced to live like as a monk doing community service. Can't remember what it was
Ilana
2025-01-13 02:28:56 +0000 UTC
Nomadic vanlife would be an amazing fit for her! But then she's not be able to see Willow or Ayo easily, and that would be sad
Grace Kieser
2025-01-13 02:27:59 +0000 UTC
I doubt it— if they could, why would Bubbles have gone to Corpsewitch?
Dr. Otter
2025-01-13 02:27:09 +0000 UTC
Iris speaking from her own experiences, I'm sure.
voyager-ngc5195
2025-01-13 02:24:52 +0000 UTC
I think since they don't understand how AI consciousness really works, just that it does, that's probably not possible. Multiple characters have said that AI and organic brains think essentially the same way
Grace Kieser
2025-01-13 02:24:04 +0000 UTC
You jest, but her unorthodox motivational technique did wonders for Liz.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5315
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5316
BookBeard
2025-01-13 02:22:12 +0000 UTC
Her motivation style suits people with a degredation kink
Grace Kieser
2025-01-13 02:21:06 +0000 UTC
Her qualifications: 3rd prize in being annoying
Euan Troup
2025-01-13 02:18:48 +0000 UTC
Ayo came to kick ass and pull shots.
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-13 02:16:15 +0000 UTC
I would absolutely read "I can't do it and neither can you." 🤔
Zak Reichle
2025-01-13 02:16:10 +0000 UTC
More like a demotivational speaker.
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-13 02:15:22 +0000 UTC
Hey you! Smarten up that scruffy subconscious!
SpookyPenguin
2025-01-13 02:11:20 +0000 UTC
"I'm Iris and this is Overcoming Toxic Positivity."
ValdVin
2025-01-13 02:07:18 +0000 UTC
Iris is so cute ngl
Nicholas Lopez
2025-01-13 02:06:55 +0000 UTC
Shlubconscious!
Creeperkry
2025-01-13 02:05:32 +0000 UTC
I think Iris is directing that comment to Ayo.
SilverbackRon
2025-01-13 01:55:00 +0000 UTC
Butts Disease is never gone, it's only ever sleeping, waiting for that perfect moment to reemerge.
MoonieKitten
2025-01-13 01:51:56 +0000 UTC
Everybody's subconscious is disgusting.
Ben R
2025-01-13 01:50:19 +0000 UTC
she can bang pans together inches from my head to wake me up anytime
runrin
2025-01-13 01:38:30 +0000 UTC
i want to be bullied into being motivated by iris
runrin
2025-01-13 01:36:29 +0000 UTC
yes, the butts require much "research"
LH
2025-01-13 01:34:55 +0000 UTC
But there is hope, thorough research...
Captain Button
2025-01-13 01:32:50 +0000 UTC
Maybe Tilly* could recommend a personal assistant intern for Iris?
* Or Taffy
Captain Button
2025-01-13 01:32:10 +0000 UTC
"My speechmaking will continue until morale improves."
Michael Steamweed
2025-01-13 01:31:42 +0000 UTC
There are some potent potential hijinks in that! Add in Steve, and you've got some shenanigans a-comin'!
Michael Steamweed
2025-01-13 01:31:10 +0000 UTC
I’m surprised they didn’t do for May as part of her past sentence.
Miyaa
2025-01-13 01:20:29 +0000 UTC
Iris’s perfect job would be… being an assistant for Liz! And a spy for Hannelore van Swartzpunkt!
Miyaa
2025-01-13 01:18:39 +0000 UTC
Do AnthroPCs have the ability to delete things from their subconscious?
(Yay could do it, but won't.)
Captain Button
2025-01-13 01:17:59 +0000 UTC
Iris's motivational speaker platform: "If morale doesn't improve I'll be coming back to give you another speech. Do you want that? I didn't think so."
Captain Button
2025-01-13 01:16:52 +0000 UTC
She would motivate me to leave the room.
Doc Gumby
2025-01-13 01:15:41 +0000 UTC
It never went away.
Everett Bradshaw
2025-01-13 01:14:08 +0000 UTC
Iris' van by the river speech will be intensely personal.
Devin Gates
2025-01-13 01:12:50 +0000 UTC
Hooray for boooOOH-beeeeeeeees!
Melissa Wilson
2025-01-13 01:10:19 +0000 UTC
Butts, firefighters, policeman and Mr. Clean
Krestus
2025-01-13 01:10:10 +0000 UTC
Iris refuses to be in anyone’s dreams except Willow’s.
Taigan
2025-01-13 01:10:05 +0000 UTC
Iris is the living embodiment of the mortifying ordeal of being known
KingAtticus
2025-01-13 01:10:04 +0000 UTC
Is butts disease back?
Tabetha Rosenberg
2025-01-13 01:09:57 +0000 UTC
I love Iris.
Ashlyn Crowe
2025-01-13 01:09:43 +0000 UTC
Hey, I've been writing that book, too!
Brian Yaras
2025-01-13 01:09:36 +0000 UTC
Given what Ayo has confessed to, Iris is wise. She may want a shower.
Tannerbot
2025-01-13 01:09:21 +0000 UTC
Butts and boobies. Don’t forget the precious boobies!
JMK
2025-01-13 01:08:40 +0000 UTC
I guess with an ice pick she could probably do that.