jephjacques - Cubetown

Going through 500 comics is enough to get me to forget what I'm looking for. Jeph has how many comics to go through? How could one hope to keep focused on what they were looking for that long?

Some Ed

2022-12-18 05:03:31 +0000 UTC

I've just come back and discovered the MANNYY hats that our Moray wears. No surprise Claire ends up as she does...!

Duncan

2022-08-29 01:28:23 +0000 UTC

This isn't a SPAM, then? Because I would have totally deleted it as SPAM.

Ruth Merriam

2022-08-10 21:36:32 +0000 UTC

Sam and Emmett, do you mean? (No matter how I spell it it looks wrong, and my phone won't keep context enough for me to look it up...)

Am Queue

2022-08-10 09:23:25 +0000 UTC

I am RIDICULOUSLY excited about Cubetown

Katherine Prewitt

2022-08-10 05:19:55 +0000 UTC

Oh, by the way, I get a really weird mental picture of Cubetown by, as it were, extrapolating from Spaceball City.

Ursus Ridens

2022-08-10 01:05:36 +0000 UTC

I have long suspected that QC would move from an alternate Northampton to an alternate Nova Scotia...or maybe an alternate somewhere-off-the-coast-of-NS. (But golly, isn't the North Atlantic a pretty rough neighborhood?)

Ursus Ridens

2022-08-10 01:03:33 +0000 UTC

Newfoundland is faaaaar. Geographically, yes, but psychologically...

Ursus Ridens

2022-08-10 01:01:05 +0000 UTC

That pesky lack of a weekend Jacques body double. 😊

William Burns

2022-08-09 23:10:54 +0000 UTC

We're not one strip ahead over the weekend, though.

Bill Silvia

2022-08-09 22:52:17 +0000 UTC

It’s appropriate for Steve eating cereal comics tho :)

Andrew

2022-08-09 22:40:32 +0000 UTC

It's because the newest one isn't up on Patreon yet, I think. Master Jacques is loyal to his paying patrons, and makes sure that we always are one strip ahead.

Rob McBobson

2022-08-09 20:30:35 +0000 UTC

Is anyone else concerned that it's Tuesday and this hasn't been posted yet?

Ian MacLean

2022-08-09 20:04:51 +0000 UTC

Does anyone else notice that Claire seems a lot more womanly after the timeskip? I think her transition is going amazingly. Suck it, transphobes.

Andrea Andrew

2022-08-09 17:24:05 +0000 UTC

Or worrying about Dora moving to....whatever that town across the bridge is called.

Daryl Sawyer

2022-08-09 17:15:29 +0000 UTC

See, 2-3 hours makes sense. In my experience, for southern NH/eastern Mass, 2-3 hours is the boundary for a day trip. Western Mass (Northampton) might be a bit longer, but they'd still balk at 11 hours being called "nothing".

Matt Pedone

2022-08-09 17:08:30 +0000 UTC

Canada :) Specifically Ottawa, and road trips of 2-3 hours to visit family around Montreal were totes normal growing up.

Nicolas Demers

2022-08-09 16:36:13 +0000 UTC

I have a theory that what people consider a "long" drive depends on where they live/grew up. I know people in Minnesota who think nothing of 4-hour drives, while people in Rhode Island think anything over 15 minutes is "long". Seeing so many people here claiming 11 hours is "nothing", I have to ask, where are you all from??

Matt Pedone

2022-08-09 15:54:02 +0000 UTC

You haven't read the version where Marten never meets Faye?

William Burns

2022-08-09 15:21:50 +0000 UTC

Can I just say LOL at Claire freaking out about moving to Nova Scotia from Northampton? Halifax is not a long trip - heck, even Newfoundland isn't that far, and Nova Scotia way closer. This is only slightly more ridiculous than worrying about a job in Maine!

Sean Morgan

2022-08-09 14:14:59 +0000 UTC

At this point I don't know whether to be more concerned that Claire, a recent graduate with no post-graduation experience, is being headhunted by the AI Supremacy or whether the time-jump means we might have missed Sam and Elliot's first kiss...

David Durant

2022-08-09 13:56:36 +0000 UTC

Is MT still going? I gave up years ago - is it worth getting back into it?

David Durant

2022-08-09 13:52:26 +0000 UTC

Clinton is making me snort my milk out of my nose. Shouldn’t be eating cereal when I read QC.

Hawkeye

2022-08-09 12:58:17 +0000 UTC

I love, love love the underlaying fundament of vimsical in everything the ais do in this universe

Bagge

2022-08-09 06:33:24 +0000 UTC

Big cube

Jeph Jacques

2022-08-09 05:44:33 +0000 UTC

it sounds like a live in position that would be for one person. i worry she would not be allowed to bring a partner.

Ashley Thomas

2022-08-09 04:46:02 +0000 UTC

Hate that I laughed at this

gatherer818

2022-08-09 04:04:27 +0000 UTC

"I helped talk him through some personal conflicts, and, since then, he's been a lot less of a danger to society!" (a sudden whirring sound indicative of several AIs having an intense private conversation)

Diptych

2022-08-09 03:31:59 +0000 UTC

Yet another step in the inevitable transition from QC to Alice Grove.

Lightsabr2

2022-08-09 03:27:26 +0000 UTC

Steve, I think? 🤔

Pejo

2022-08-09 03:14:41 +0000 UTC

Only an 11 hour drive. That's nothing.

ljdbjlasfbjk

2022-08-09 02:41:44 +0000 UTC

I’m happy for Claire, but also hope we don’t see her leave the comic. Oh, and her boyfriend, what’s his name.

Andrea Andrew

2022-08-09 02:41:33 +0000 UTC

So THAT'S what that thing in Bedford Basin is...

Krista Elliott

2022-08-09 02:25:08 +0000 UTC

It’s parked off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Mad Marie

2022-08-09 02:19:09 +0000 UTC

edit-nevermind, found it in the comments above. Wow, the art style has _changed_

Kenneth Carlile

2022-08-09 01:41:12 +0000 UTC

UH OH

æ

2022-08-09 01:17:00 +0000 UTC

Oh, Nova Scotia? That's practically next door to Northampton! Marten will barely know the difference

Nicolas Demers

2022-08-09 01:12:41 +0000 UTC

Yarr.... that be an interview that you want to take, matey.

Wild Card

2022-08-09 00:57:28 +0000 UTC

Moray 21-X out here asking the important questions!

Brianna Hinricher

2022-08-09 00:33:36 +0000 UTC

I think based on jeph assuring that the comic isnt ending that Marten is def going to be moving.

Aaron Schulz

2022-08-08 23:29:09 +0000 UTC

I'm calling it! Claire interviews, gets an offer, and accepts, but no one has to move because they just cracked teleportation and Station is already arranging a local teleporter hub so Hannelore can visit more often.

Orion Rhine

2022-08-08 23:21:36 +0000 UTC

Already looking forward to Clinton doing the classic evil thing: Petting a lap-sitting Hercules while in a desk chair. It will take some explaining to his boyfriend, though.

ValdVin

2022-08-08 23:20:06 +0000 UTC

Ah, the interview. According to recent information we've received, you are acquainted with an AI referred to as "Pintsize"? Could you please elaborate on that?

Michael Boettger

2022-08-08 23:13:59 +0000 UTC

I'VE BEEN LITERALLY WONDERING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS

Alan

2022-08-08 23:05:54 +0000 UTC

Not comic sans

Nicole Hands

2022-08-08 22:49:04 +0000 UTC

See comic 3055; it's linked elsewhere in the comments. Basically a one-line reference to "that thing the robots are building in Halifax."

Brooks Moses

2022-08-08 22:47:32 +0000 UTC

Halifax, according to the reference in comic 3055 that it's a callback to.

Brooks Moses

2022-08-08 22:44:53 +0000 UTC

I am sure looking forward to the unannounced collab with Fred and the plotline of AI's generating video games, as they secretly love them https://megatokyo.com/strip/125 . Claire is gonna have a blast....

MikeT

2022-08-08 22:37:22 +0000 UTC

Maybe that will be revealed in a bonus post.

Sean Kinlin

2022-08-08 22:32:53 +0000 UTC

What font did she use for her application?

Adam Abbott

2022-08-08 22:08:39 +0000 UTC

Mine already makes tenured topologists cry

David Durant

2022-08-08 22:06:21 +0000 UTC

"But I digress" :)

David Wright

2022-08-08 22:04:57 +0000 UTC

He is helping

MikeT

2022-08-08 22:04:24 +0000 UTC

The Moray-21 Is Director of Outreach And also of Resources And the Keeper of the Bucket For the Sponge The Sponge The Bucket for the Sponge Keeps the Bucket for the Sponge

Sean Kinlin

2022-08-08 22:01:24 +0000 UTC

I came to the comments for a morsel of context for the callback. But I’m gonna cut us some slack since there’s so many details and offhand comments to remember - it’s a vast body of work. (I’ve been reading QC damn near religiously from 2006 when I was introduced to it… and immediately binge-read from the beginning to catch up 😅 would be much more time consuming now but worth it)

Noelle Brockhoff

2022-08-08 21:59:18 +0000 UTC

It was so much of a callback I had already decided my brain was stupid when I got to the end of the comic and found out, no, just being my brain (again).

Gary Walker

2022-08-08 21:55:27 +0000 UTC

Depending on the experiments, it might not be bad. "Let's see what humans do if they don't need to work for a living."

Some Ed

2022-08-08 21:55:23 +0000 UTC

Elliot: "Honey... why do you have a hook for a hand?" Augustus: "IT'S A FAMILY THING"

Salodni Ikkis

2022-08-08 21:54:39 +0000 UTC

Well, it depends. Maybe the director of public outreach simply likes recepting and janitoring. That said, I could imagine that maybe they're just interested in Claire's barista skills - specifically how good she is at figuring out what tea various AIs might be interested in.

Some Ed

2022-08-08 21:51:04 +0000 UTC

I feel bad I have no idea what the callback is about.

Martin Zarate

2022-08-08 21:35:51 +0000 UTC

I certainly hope you're the one who parked the cubetown.science domain, Jeph!

DA

2022-08-08 21:30:31 +0000 UTC

No, it's OoooOoo, deep AI lore is coming back!

Ted Van Roekel

2022-08-08 21:30:09 +0000 UTC

What food you need to live and if you have a fear of drowning. Uh-oh. Sentient Research = let's experiment on humans.

Wafer99

2022-08-08 21:26:44 +0000 UTC

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3055

Jeremy J Nickurak

2022-08-08 21:24:40 +0000 UTC

And Pintsize doesn't have his military chassis to help that way, he might have to actually do the robot thing and calculate primes instead

Aussiewan

2022-08-08 21:17:45 +0000 UTC

🎶If a Sentient Resource wants verbal intercourse, that's a Moray.🎶

kaitou

2022-08-08 21:17:14 +0000 UTC

You beat me to it! But they seem very polite, so their catchphrase would be more like "resistance is highly inconvenient"

Aussiewan

2022-08-08 21:14:58 +0000 UTC

I know there was some movie "The Cube" or something, about a 3D grid of villainous deathtraps or something. Did not actually see it. I have a bad feeling about this...

Captain Button

2022-08-08 21:12:24 +0000 UTC

omg it's 'that thing the robots are building up in Halifax'

Rosemary

2022-08-08 21:11:07 +0000 UTC

MorayAmore? A reference to the famous song parody?

Captain Button

2022-08-08 21:10:27 +0000 UTC

♫ I'll interview with Cubetown Strange as that might be Up by Nova Scotia That's where I would be Amid the waves, the waves And that's where I would be Would Marten want to come along with me? ♫ (adapted from "Cowtown" by TMBG)

Wayne Farmer

2022-08-08 21:07:13 +0000 UTC

Is this where QC splits into multiple alternate universes

Shey

2022-08-08 21:00:03 +0000 UTC

Only because they spend hours trying to decode the steganographic message before figuring out there isn't one

Rich Holmes

2022-08-08 20:58:34 +0000 UTC

And thus begins the story arc that explains the true origins of The Borg.

Mad Marie

2022-08-08 20:56:28 +0000 UTC

Clinton wants Claire to go after this opportunity, so his nemesis plan would be counterproductive. The hook brings her back, after all.

Sean Kinlin

2022-08-08 20:53:53 +0000 UTC

No one ever likes my font choices of Papyrus and Comic Sans randomly mixed together. :(

Chris Waldrip

2022-08-08 20:52:57 +0000 UTC

Uh... hate to be the buzzkill here, but if your director of public outreach is also your receptionist is also a janitor... Well, Claire's trained in Librarianism and Barista, what other duties would she be expected to pick up?

AlexKorobeiniki

2022-08-08 20:52:56 +0000 UTC

HR and Janitorial staff? That just shows how different the AI's think about things. It looks like they almost treat cleaning the space as a league game. Gamification to the extreme.

Damian Paradis

2022-08-08 20:50:01 +0000 UTC

CUBETOWN LET'S GOOOOOO

Chris Cook

2022-08-08 20:47:56 +0000 UTC

I'd wonder what level of augmentation is needed, and if remote work is OK.

BobC

2022-08-08 20:47:47 +0000 UTC

I can't wait to see what cubetown looks like

dvsDave

2022-08-08 20:42:39 +0000 UTC

Excellent profile pic for this comment

Brittany Huckey

2022-08-08 20:42:20 +0000 UTC

man door hand hook car door

enchantedsleeper

2022-08-08 20:39:50 +0000 UTC

That's my home province. What part of Nova Scotia are they hanging out around?

Nutjob

2022-08-08 20:39:47 +0000 UTC

So, what font did she use?

Hugh Eckert

2022-08-08 20:39:46 +0000 UTC

I hope Marten can join them and become Cubetown’s human representative when they stop at Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. (Humans want French food; AIs want to wear berets.)

Miyaa

2022-08-08 20:38:23 +0000 UTC

Why do the drawings look so much better?

Richard Stuart

2022-08-08 20:38:12 +0000 UTC

That sounds amazing, except I definitely have a fear of drowning!

Vic or Vyxter

2022-08-08 20:37:21 +0000 UTC

Hmm, boiling down necessary exposition to a single panel of character driven saucy sibling sarcasm? Well played.

Shane Wegner

2022-08-08 20:36:24 +0000 UTC

Now, all of a sudden, I want Clinton as my evil nemesis.

Joseph Bonnar

2022-08-08 20:35:23 +0000 UTC

What no umbrella and cork screw functions? Can the hand unwrap a baby bell in one continuous motion?

Miyaa

2022-08-08 20:34:50 +0000 UTC

It's driven by a sentient non-artificial intelligence

sjlxndr

2022-08-08 20:34:31 +0000 UTC

I feel like a simple “Yes” or “No” would be a little off. More like “as a respirating being, I’m respectfully aware of the risks drowning presents on a waterborne research complex. But I mitigate my worry by reminding myself that adherence to safety protocols and general diligence can reduce that risk to acceptable levels.”

Shane Wegner

2022-08-08 20:34:07 +0000 UTC

As do I, but really, that's up to Jeph.

Joseph Bonnar

2022-08-08 20:34:00 +0000 UTC

There was a throwaway line about the offshore project, I think during one of the AI rights stories

Alan Wiggs

2022-08-08 20:33:37 +0000 UTC

Evil nemesis Is a very serious threat.

Andrew Herrera

2022-08-08 20:33:31 +0000 UTC

Plot twist: Claire wrote the email and sent it to herself in a twisted attempt to make Clinton jealous

el_zilcho

2022-08-08 20:33:29 +0000 UTC

Oh shit deep AI lore coming back

Alan Wiggs

2022-08-08 20:31:54 +0000 UTC

Maybe even "ferry havoc?" Ufufu.

Wynn Donivan

2022-08-08 20:31:46 +0000 UTC

Really hoping we get a good supportive response out of Martin here.

Sarah

2022-08-08 20:31:06 +0000 UTC

I’m sorry, I have to say it, because it bugs me sooo much: Jeph, if you build a fake email to screenshot and paste into the comic, puh-leeease get rid of the red dotted lines that are a dead giveaway that whoever took the screenshot is the _sender_ of the text and not the recipient 😱 Also, there’s a cursor in it? Okay, maybe Claire is just spellchecking her incoming mail, what do I know ;) Update: Jeph fixed it! Thank you <3

Tim Weber

2022-08-08 20:29:38 +0000 UTC

Okay, so the coolest real life library I know & have been in is the Linda Hall Library just off the university of Missouri-Kansas City campus. It’s a 1920’s style library which was originally a mansion. It specializes in science, engineering, & technology information. I can see Cubetown being the futuristic Canadian version of this library, the kind you get a choice to live at on a tiktok stream. The stylist green chairs are very comfy and down the hill is a Chinese restaurant that went upscale after Whole Foods built a store across the street. Very good Chinese restaurant, though I miss when it was just a hole in the wall rice place.

Miyaa

2022-08-08 20:27:25 +0000 UTC

What's the callback?

MultiKoopa

2022-08-08 20:27:11 +0000 UTC

Hmmmmmmmmmmm...

Nikki

2022-08-08 20:26:13 +0000 UTC

This must play merry havoc with the ferries.

Wednesday

2022-08-08 20:25:45 +0000 UTC

"Do you have a fear of drowning?" might be one of the more ominous interview questions I've heard.

Anton

2022-08-08 20:25:07 +0000 UTC

Alleged where?

Matt Grayson

2022-08-08 20:24:25 +0000 UTC

Clinton has absolute dedication.

R L

2022-08-08 20:24:12 +0000 UTC

I'm with Clinton on this one- Don't fuck this up Claire, or "Captain Clintook" will get you!!!

Shawn K. Younkin

2022-08-08 20:24:08 +0000 UTC

Evil villain whose hand keeps acting up because crud gets into the joints and DOESN'T have a hook for a hand 😤

Fart Captor

2022-08-08 20:24:03 +0000 UTC

Have we met a denizen of Cubetown and did it emit a mysterious hum

Leaflemming

2022-08-08 20:23:41 +0000 UTC

Cubetown. Birthplace of Yay. Allegedly.

Drazi

2022-08-08 20:23:36 +0000 UTC

Watch out for those beings in SR!

Matt Grayson

2022-08-08 20:23:30 +0000 UTC

Okay, I guess my memory is bad. What’s the callback?

Certified Nerd

2022-08-08 20:23:26 +0000 UTC

Wait a minute, wasn't there a reference to "that thing the AIs are building up in Nova Scotia" like a billion episodes ago?

Roombot

2022-08-08 20:23:22 +0000 UTC

The queer robot polycule on that island is probably already much to complex to map in two dimensions 😍

Fart Captor

2022-08-08 20:23:17 +0000 UTC

"What kind of food you require to live" AIs <3

Randall Norman Pick

2022-08-08 20:23:05 +0000 UTC

Is Clinton's hand driven by a nonsentient AI?

A Dark Planet, Lit By No Sun

2022-08-08 20:23:00 +0000 UTC

Clinton hook!

Todd Chaikin

2022-08-08 20:22:37 +0000 UTC

Or a hand that can turn into a hand, a hook, and a ginzu knife

Joel Bateman

2022-08-08 20:22:31 +0000 UTC

Oh no not an EVIL NEMESIS 😢

Ali

2022-08-08 20:22:08 +0000 UTC

Just remove the dermal layer, that evil villain enough man

Michael

2022-08-08 20:21:50 +0000 UTC

EVIL NEMESIS!!

Lyman Green

2022-08-08 20:21:43 +0000 UTC

Cubetown

Comments

Going through 500 comics is enough to get me to forget what I'm looking for. Jeph has how many comics to go through? How could one hope to keep focused on what they were looking for that long?

I've just come back and discovered the MANNYY hats that our Moray wears. No surprise Claire ends up as she does...!

This isn't a SPAM, then? Because I would have totally deleted it as SPAM.

Sam and Emmett, do you mean? (No matter how I spell it it looks wrong, and my phone won't keep context enough for me to look it up...)

I am RIDICULOUSLY excited about Cubetown

Oh, by the way, I get a really weird mental picture of Cubetown by, as it were, extrapolating from Spaceball City.

I have long suspected that QC would move from an alternate Northampton to an alternate Nova Scotia...or maybe an alternate somewhere-off-the-coast-of-NS. (But golly, isn't the North Atlantic a pretty rough neighborhood?)

Newfoundland is faaaaar. Geographically, yes, but psychologically...

That pesky lack of a weekend Jacques body double. 😊

We're not one strip ahead over the weekend, though.

It’s appropriate for Steve eating cereal comics tho :)

It's because the newest one isn't up on Patreon yet, I think. Master Jacques is loyal to his paying patrons, and makes sure that we always are one strip ahead.

Is anyone else concerned that it's Tuesday and this hasn't been posted yet?

Does anyone else notice that Claire seems a lot more womanly after the timeskip? I think her transition is going amazingly. Suck it, transphobes.

Or worrying about Dora moving to....whatever that town across the bridge is called.

See, 2-3 hours makes sense. In my experience, for southern NH/eastern Mass, 2-3 hours is the boundary for a day trip. Western Mass (Northampton) might be a bit longer, but they'd still balk at 11 hours being called "nothing".

Canada :) Specifically Ottawa, and road trips of 2-3 hours to visit family around Montreal were totes normal growing up.

You haven't read the version where Marten never meets Faye?

Can I just say LOL at Claire freaking out about moving to Nova Scotia from Northampton? Halifax is *not* a long trip - heck, even Newfoundland isn't that far, and Nova Scotia way closer. This is only slightly more ridiculous than worrying about a job in Maine!

At this point I don't know whether to be more concerned that Claire, a recent graduate with no post-graduation experience, is being headhunted by the AI Supremacy or whether the time-jump means we might have missed Sam and Elliot's first kiss...

Is MT still going? I gave up years ago - is it worth getting back into it?

Clinton is making me snort my milk out of my nose. Shouldn’t be eating cereal when I read QC.

I love, love love the underlaying fundament of vimsical in everything the ais do in this universe

Big cube

it sounds like a live in position that would be for one person. i worry she would not be allowed to bring a partner.

Hate that I laughed at this

"I helped talk him through some personal conflicts, and, since then, he's been a lot less of a danger to society!" (a sudden whirring sound indicative of several AIs having an intense private conversation)

Yet another step in the inevitable transition from QC to Alice Grove.

Steve, I think? 🤔

Only an 11 hour drive. That's nothing.

I’m happy for Claire, but also hope we don’t see her leave the comic. Oh, and her boyfriend, what’s his name.

So THAT'S what that thing in Bedford Basin is...

It’s parked off the coast of Nova Scotia.

edit-nevermind, found it in the comments above. Wow, the art style has _changed_

UH OH

Oh, Nova Scotia? That's practically next door to Northampton! Marten will barely know the difference

Yarr.... that be an interview that you want to take, matey.

Moray 21-X out here asking the important questions!

I think based on jeph assuring that the comic isnt ending that Marten is def going to be moving.

I'm calling it! Claire interviews, gets an offer, and accepts, but no one has to move because they just cracked teleportation and Station is already arranging a local teleporter hub so Hannelore can visit more often.

Already looking forward to Clinton doing the classic evil thing: Petting a lap-sitting Hercules while in a desk chair. It will take some explaining to his boyfriend, though.

Ah, the interview. According to recent information we've received, you are acquainted with an AI referred to as "Pintsize"? Could you please elaborate on that?

I'VE BEEN LITERALLY WONDERING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS

Not comic sans

See comic 3055; it's linked elsewhere in the comments. Basically a one-line reference to "that thing the robots are building in Halifax."

Halifax, according to the reference in comic 3055 that it's a callback to.

I am sure looking forward to the unannounced collab with Fred and the plotline of AI's generating video games, as they secretly love them https://megatokyo.com/strip/125 . Claire is gonna have a *blast*....

Maybe that will be revealed in a bonus post.

What font did she use for her application?

Mine already makes tenured topologists cry

"But I digress" :)

He is helping

The Moray-21 Is Director of Outreach And also of Resources And the Keeper of the Bucket For the Sponge The Sponge The Bucket for the Sponge Keeps the Bucket for the Sponge

It was so much of a callback I had already decided my brain was stupid when I got to the end of the comic and found out, no, just being my brain (again).

Depending on the experiments, it might not be bad. "Let's see what humans do if they don't need to work for a living."

Elliot: "Honey... why do you have a hook for a hand?" Augustus: "IT'S A FAMILY THING"

Well, it depends. Maybe the director of public outreach simply likes recepting and janitoring. That said, I could imagine that maybe they're just interested in Claire's barista skills - specifically how good she is at figuring out what tea various AIs might be interested in.

I feel bad I have no idea what the callback is about.

I certainly hope you're the one who parked the cubetown.science domain, Jeph!

No, it's OoooOoo, deep AI lore is coming back!

What food you need to live and if you have a fear of drowning. Uh-oh. Sentient Research = let's experiment on humans.

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3055

And Pintsize doesn't have his military chassis to help that way, he might have to actually do the robot thing and calculate primes instead

🎶If a Sentient Resource wants verbal intercourse, that's a Moray.🎶

You beat me to it! But they seem very polite, so their catchphrase would be more like "resistance is highly inconvenient"

I know there was some movie "The Cube" or something, about a 3D grid of villainous deathtraps or something. Did not actually see it. I have a bad feeling about this...

omg it's 'that thing the robots are building up in Halifax'

MorayAmore? A reference to the famous song parody?

♫ I'll interview with Cubetown Strange as that might be Up by Nova Scotia That's where I would be Amid the waves, the waves And that's where I would be Would Marten want to come along with me? ♫ (adapted from "Cowtown" by TMBG)

Is this where QC splits into multiple alternate universes

Only because they spend hours trying to decode the steganographic message before figuring out there isn't one

And thus begins the story arc that explains the true origins of The Borg.

Clinton wants Claire to go after this opportunity, so his nemesis plan would be counterproductive. The hook brings her back, after all.

No one ever likes my font choices of Papyrus and Comic Sans randomly mixed together. :(

Uh... hate to be the buzzkill here, but if your director of public outreach is also your receptionist is also a janitor... Well, Claire's trained in Librarianism and Barista, what other duties would she be expected to pick up?

HR and Janitorial staff? That just shows how different the AI's think about things. It looks like they almost treat cleaning the space as a league game. Gamification to the extreme.

CUBETOWN LET'S GOOOOOO

I'd wonder what level of augmentation is needed, and if remote work is OK.

Can I just say LOL at Claire freaking out about moving to Nova Scotia from Northampton? Halifax is not a long trip - heck, even Newfoundland isn't that far, and Nova Scotia way closer. This is only slightly more ridiculous than worrying about a job in Maine!

I am sure looking forward to the unannounced collab with Fred and the plotline of AI's generating video games, as they secretly love them https://megatokyo.com/strip/125 . Claire is gonna have a blast....