Survivability

I liked the skinny tie / hot pants combo ... although I guess pintsize is t really a “tie” guy for every day.

Sue N

i keep coming back to look at pintsize in panel 3. what an absolute cutie.

Kurt Lewis

75% Gilbert Gottfried, 25% Starscream.

Jax

I always thought Pintsize would sound like Claptrap from Borderlands...but now I’m not so sure...what would Pintsize voice sound like?

Mr. Ifrit

Pintsize in panel three is SO CUTE 😍

Allison Mages

"Rated up to .4 Fayes"

Randall Norman Pick

Its a complex calibration system. The fact that main battle tanks wouldn't survive an enraged bubbles makes the high end a bit flat though.

David Howe

Ooh, and part-time librarian for the nonprofit center that Roko & Beeps works at! (Every nonprofit needs a researcher, trust me.)

Miyaa

It's been mentioned that some AIs rent out processor time for income. (It was mentioned specifically in contrast with May, who, as a felon, is barred from doing this.)

William Cole

so Claire's new job will not be as a librarian, nor replacing May at the Stop&Shop, but AI Counselor

Tim Williams

I like the implication that one can calibrate to a partially enraged Faye.

Stephen Wells

His body looks a bit *different*. My head cannon atm has Faybles having built his body out of spare parts lying around...

Marc Tabor

LOL! Excellent point.

The character development is great (although I've no idea how he afforded his new body). That said, Pintsize has gone several strips now without mentioning any kind of revolting porn so how can we be sure it's even the same person? :-p

David Durant

And what's so great is that he opens up to Claire, rather than being the "chaos goblin" he is to everyone else. I love that about her, and I wonder if she's missing a calling....

Tom wilson

https://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/Pintsize

Mark

Wait so somewhere in QC world there an army of Pintsize's old chassis somewhere out there? I should do another re-read from the beginning, also bc I don't remember the origin story for Pintsize, if there is any.

KapsLocked

This is a slice of life comic. The character development IS the plot.

Better than plot.. much-needed character development...

Came here to say 'this is sweet as pie!'

Plot yet? No? Okay then.

Ben Russell-Gough

In the QC universe, I think such a thing has never been acknowledged to be possible. AI is somewhat limited, possibly by the designs of the Dolphin AI. It has neither been confirmed as part of that or disconfirmed.

Forrest Taylor

Andrew, I agree. Very well said. I loved the earlier strips, but this is a much more mature work and I am just enjoying it far too much.

Joseph Bonnar

Something I don't remember being addressed in the QC-verse is how the AI mind is stored. I know the rise of AI isn't fully understood, but is there some AI self-created positronic brain that can not be duplicated? The reason I ask is that so far we've only seen AI minds transferred from old body to new, leveling up their physical abilities in the process. But if AI is just bits on a block device, could it not be copied? It sounds like a very Pintsize thing to do to keep a copy of oneself in the military grade chassis as a mischievous sidekick, sharing the robo-endorphins over Wi-Fi to compensate for digit-envy, waltzing around town singing "Me and my shadow." Dr. Evil kind of did it already, but this seems like it has more potential for storytelling.

Arto Rantala

Common sense? FROM PINTSIZE? What horror is THIS?

Joseph Bonnar

Yeah, except that, uhhh sucks. I get enough of that in daily life and in other fiction. I don't need it in my gay robots comic that I read to enjoy and have fun and maybe some light drama with.

Jackson Mccreery

I feel like the Artilect class super AIs know this kind of thing happens all the time and is why they encourage AIs symbiotically living and growing up with humanity instead of just pulling the whole old AI-dom into space on some sort of arcship and leaving. That’s probably their final contingency for things going really south with humanity as a last resort, but optimistic outcomes include this mutually beneficial synergy.

Shane Wegner

Maybe from squeaky to a high tenor? Or something like Iago from Aladdin.

Shane Wegner

As awful as it would be, I kind of want to see some toxic level, self-righteous anti-AI types. I feel like there would be some crossover between “fuck no I won’t wear a mask” and “AIs are soulless mannequins that can move. You can’t murder them them because they’re not alive, it’s like scrapping a toaster or uninstalling Siri, duh. Plus they’re stealing our Jaerbs and buying up stocks that should rightfully belong to humans. Humans First!” Hateful, racist behavior that thinks it’s being honest and right adds believability and pepper to any fiction.

Shane Wegner

You laugh but a friend of mine once went away for 7-10 years after being charged with assault with a battery.

Simon Green

The slightly mechanical, slightly high-pitched internal voice I used for Pintsize is gone. Not sure what voice I’m hearing now.

Populuxe

I love this comic So. Much. <3 <3

Julie Chan

This was exactly what he feared with switching to a larger body

Bagge

May’s Spicy Pigeons!

Andrew

I love seeing Pintsize be so vulnerable. Of course, he's only vulnerable to a Faye-splosion, but still...

BobC

Claire is probably the only person Pintsize would’ve opened up to. I wouldn’t be surprised if he continues being a (toned-down) chaos goblin to everyone else to keep up appearances.

chili sunrise

Everyone *immediately* duck'n'covers when they see the little robot man chassis. Even Bubbles.

Maybe he can switch bodies now that he has both of them at his disposal. Go back to military goblinoid when he wants to survive a ruckus, the new human body for otherwise living between those moments.

JPMK! {verb}

+1 Quartsize

William Cole

Explains his long term survival

Nobilis Reed (personal)

Oh, no, less chaos goblin? --N

Nobilis Reed (personal)

Pintsize's old body was *military grade*!? I have so many questions.

Vic or Vyxter

Probably ended up in whatever place Sara went off to. Which is to say, probably eaten by an allosaurus

Ian Dunbar

Nah. He's still pretty small.

awgiedawgie

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if HE had plans for it.

awgiedawgie

Whatever happened to his buddy, the open source one with the heatsink neckbeard?

Verteiron

Of course, there is much more room for pigeons and birdseed in that chassis. Or perhaps a family of tiny eagles.

Frank Wales

I think that if Roko and Pintsize (quartsize?) run into each other at the AI Dysphoria Support Group, there's going to be lubricant spilled.

Sleepy John

Panel 4: Claire says what I have been thinking since this arc started. Claire is wise.

Hugh Eckert

Interesting to think that by choosing to inhabit a human-shaped container, Pintsize might also force himself to act more humane.

Thomas Halpin

Hmmmn. Will he change his name?

Darnel D Cooper

Hero loses chaos invulnerability!

Matt

Wow. End of an era. Looking forward to seeing what new adventures are in store!

David Beaumier

HUNDRED BUCKS TO WHOEVER GETS ME HIS OLD BODY! I HAVE 'PLANS' FOR IT!

Yelling Bird

Pintsize taking off his necktie symbolizes the artist's hatred of neckties

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

I think Bubbles & Crushbot could, but little else. :D

Pejo

“Durable to 1 on the enraged-faye scale” is a good selling point!

Andrew

💖💜💓💕❤️❣️ Yay personal growth for Pintsize!

Carrie

"We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be." I think it's clear Pintsize is still Pintsize, just less of a chaotic jerk than he was. He won't forget who he was.

Pejo

There was a whole arc about his mil-grade chassis

Ting

no, he surrendered the military grade weapon (a laser) in his chassis. i don't think military engineers just slap a gun to a civ chassis and call it a day, the rest of it was probably built up to spec for whatever tolerances they decided were necessary.

Hakurei06

True. She does regularly face a fully aroused Faye.

Bruce Steinberg

I'm sorry, military grade?!?!?! The hell, Pint-size! Actually given the shenanigans he was up too I would imagine he needed the body like that. How long till he upgrades this current one with blastproof casings or what ever?

I am the captian now

I'm going to miss the old pintsize. He was so outrageous.

Ash359

Oh, Pintsize. Nothing could survive a FULLY enraged Faye.

Adam Friedlander

This is incredibly wholesome.

Will Weaver

So that's why Faye and Bubbles work together so well, Bubbles has a military grade body.

Orion Rhine

"I'm <i>pretty sure</i> I'm just an asshole who enjoys transgressing boundaries. But what if? Could I have suppressed my own fear of vulnerability so thoroughly that I'm no longer even aware of it?"

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

Seems like this is turning out to be a redesign of Pintsize, both concerning characterization and look. Basically, he's becoming a new character from before.

Rob McBobson

I &lt;3 panel 4. Marshall McLuhan would totally understand, I think.

Pintsize somehow got cuter.

Ali

In this context it probably means durable :)

Daniel Rydberg

I'm not going to mourn for the chaos goblin we've lost, but instead I'll celebrate the fun that was pintsize in the early days of QC.... Don't get me wrong: that fun got old eventually and I don't want it back.

Andrew Mitchell

Pint-size is getting..... character development.....my brain....

He had a laser near the beginning of the comic, but the military came and took it I believe

jeremiahb89

But they can't stash him in the freezer anymore.

Captain Button

Marigold said that they could make good money if they sold his military body.

JD

I agree, but I would argue that turn began a very long time ago, and the comic is merely making it official

Quinn

AAAAAA

Tamara Macadam

And Claire is damm wonderful in this arc. She's bringing her own life experiences to help Pintsize, and I. Feeling a little choked up.

Michael Boettger

Didn't he hock the military grade chassis?

Omnithea

If I were Pintsize I'd want to keep the milspec hardware. But that's just me.

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

He. Is. SO CUTE in his new body. I wanna snuggle this chaotic cinnamon roll.

Vilinda

Military grade means built to the lowest cost that meets whatever standards the military wanted. Definitely not necessarily heavy duty/tough!

Richard Laxton

Its always good to understand your limits.

Absentia

the mention of the military grade previous body reminded me of when pint size got a laser? Or am I remembering something that didn't happen.

red sands

Faye may literally tear nu-pintsize a new one. Bubbles would merely express her disappointment. Which might be worse.

Michael Boettger

Awe lil pintsize is growing up 🥰

Not at all opposed to this development, but it does feel like some kind of turning point in the comic. Like the end of the chaos-Pintsize era.

Plus I don't think they can just stick him in a corner at night to recharge anymore. ...ok, they CAN but they probably shouldn't.

Peter McDevitt

I knew this last panel was coming

Katherine Prewitt

This is so friggin' sweet I can't take it 😭

Fart Captor