Best Behavior

Finally found the last strip where yay had round speech bubbles

The Shadow's Lair

Doug did you just admit you being a supervillain? If so, you have to tell us your plans.

Oh, man. You're just come up with the real truth about what Yay is doing there. They're getting the accoutrements needed to become the supervillain they have always wanted to be.

Joseph Bonnar

As someone with a long-haired white cat myself, I do have to point out that Hercules would make an *awesome* supervillain's cat.

Doug DeJulio

Don't you mean 'Yaaay!' ? ;)

Kajsa Anderson

They seem to wear frames following a theme, similar with small changes at hip and torso, all with dark hair and slitted eyes. I feel they only "play" at being "Spookybot" because it was easiest - and now they are learning how to be people. (I'm rooting for them.)

Darnel D Cooper

On a side note involving Yay: They are truly an untapped resource. They have access to immediate information on a lot of things that Roko, Clinton, even Pintsize would benefit from. (Trying to sidetrack myself from still wondering how many frames they have and how many do they operate at a time.) Speaking of frames, I know the end of times will come when Pintsize decides to "grow up" (Yes, for him it's a choice.) Sorry for the ramble.

Darnel D Cooper

... why does Yay have a robot neckline all of a sudden? In previous arcs, she didn't. Did something happen? Do some instances of her have necklines and some don't? I've suspected for some time now she's not actually a robot, but an upload (it would explain the lack of nicety that other robots have).

Harmony Petersen

For what it's worth, I've met a few cats who seem to prefer their legs to dangle. They actively seemed to encourage people picking them up, but if their legs were supported, they just used the being picked up as a spring board. Meanwhile, if their legs were left to dangle, they'd not only not squirm, but tended to remember who picked them up like that, and sought out them specifically. I don't understand, other than the general principles that different people are different and cats are people. I also acknowledge that, in the much more common case, you would absolutely be correct. But I don't know Hercules specifically.

Some Ed

Fun fact: there are 12 beer stains on the front and right side of that particular shirt that he hasn't been able to get out. Nobody else can tell, though, so he keeps wearing it. He's still pretty embarrassed by it. (I don't know how many are on the back or left side, since Jeph only showed front and right side shots so far. It's a different shirt than https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4376 as it's not the same color, and the beer stains are different. I'm not going back much earlier than that to see if we see this same shirt from another perspective.) Edit: at least 8 stains. Two of the stains on the front and three of the stains on the right side appear to continue back to the uncharted space. It is conceivable that the back and left side of the shirt are basically one giant beer stain.

Some Ed

Yay's version of nice_list.txt.

William Cole

"Things like" you say. But it's really just those two searches, minor variations of those two searches (like "How to hold hands with someone much much shorter than you" and "How to hold hands with someone much shorter than you without feeling awkward") plus stuff about bread. The most scandalous search in his history occurred the day after he learned that there were AIs with bread fetishes, but it was "Do some AIs actually have bread fetishes", rather than asking for details on how it worked. A detail did show up in the included text for the first link anyway, and so he immediately turned off the entire computer in response. (Anyone who isn't into bread more than the normal amount would've not recognized that detail as anything out of the ordinary, and he didn't, but he saw the words 'bread' and 'aroused', and given the search in question, that was too much detail for him.)

Some Ed

Still is. Yay was... surprisingly generous, considering, but then, Yay was just operating under a generalized dislike of their activities. Pretty sure the penalty for hurting someone Yay actually has an interest in the wellbeing of would be much more.. vigorous...

David Howe

Thank you, Yay

Bagge

Yay already knows Elliot's search history consists entirely of innocuous things like "How to hold hands with someone much shorter than you" (and that Elliot got embarrassed immediately and closed the tab), "cute photos of huge fluffy cats", and bread baking blogs. And they probably have a script set up to notify them if Elliot ever searches for anything not innocuous.

because he's going to work after the date. brown hides beer stains.

Jon Cary

But why the BROWN T-shirt. WHY????

BobC

My bestest friends are getting married next month. I'm the wedding photographer. I completely understand the degree of restraint required.

BobC

Yes, but they're not about to acquire any of those things, either. They're also not about to hack into any security cameras already installed in Clinton's house. I mean, they *did* that already. The job is done and sufficient. Why bother doing it again? It would just increase their exposure for no real point.

Some Ed

And more of them...

Aleeza Brown

I mean... Corpsewitch was a thing. Was.

Lightsabr2

Go Yay! (That they actually consider privacy as defined by her best friend with others, that they are being 100% transparent with the humans that openly offered Friendship, That I have a mild concern for anyone who intentionally hurts Yay's friends.)

Darnel D Cooper

"Jim's great, and not violent at all!" "...Wait, what do you mean? Jim's not violent!" "I know, that's what I said." "But.. if he's not violent then why would you say that?" "I think you've answered your own question there." - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme

Spoogle McGee

Yeeeaaaaaaaah!

Thomas Halpin

You might say that Yay’s level of restraint here is downright (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) Herculean.

Populuxe

umm. thanks??

Joe

DON'T DANGLE THE CAT'S FEET, YAY

Max Kaehn

AHA. They didn’t promise to not acquire satellites, drones, security cameras, spy bots, trained dolphins etc. etc. to snoop on his date did they? Loophole found.

Andrew

I thought Elliot's password is: C1int0nIsHot

Andrew Mitchell

It's harder than it looks. I'm writing a novel with a similarly genderless AI type, and I have to go back and specifically proofread for that one aspect, multiple times for each scene they're in.

Noise

Or that Yay hasn't done this already?

Rachel Maeroff

'We did it twenty minutes ago. Also, 'h3rcul3sxxx' is a terrible choice of password.'

Dean Reilly

I think so, yes.

Joseph Bonnar

Does Elliot realize there's not a damm thing he could do to stop Yay, should Yay choose to do so?

Michael Boettger

Hercules approves of Yay's restraint. Especially as that frees up more time (and hands) for cat-pampering.

Alex Borders

Hercules is a fur Pintsize and I love that for him

Boots McGoot

I know it’s not earth-shattering, but I love how unremarkable (in that it goes uncommented on in-world, not that it’s not remarkable to see) the appearance of nb characters and ungendered pronouns are in this series. And then I think about characters that are trans and bi and gay and lesbian and queer and… it’s all too much for my little heart to handle. Thank you, Jeph, for grokking how much representation matters. 😁

Chris Weigert

I really like how Yay has evolved as a character. Seeing them cuddle Hercules while talking about all the things they could do if they chose is just adorable but also a reminder that there's a heck of a lot more to them than meets the eye.

Celine Chamberlin

"my "I promise not to trawl your email, messages, social media posts, or general online presence in search of compromising material" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

Scout

Hercules professional Yay sitter. ;)

Shawn K. Younkin

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolute- Ooh! Kitty!

Lord Crusade

Yay has updated their privacy policy

Kriss Pang

As far as Elliot knows, Yay is just a regular AI, right?

JD

Oh no Yay.

Miyaa

Yay professional cat sitter

Michael

Hercules :3

Adam Friedlander