Connect Four

Well, they still... are the all-powerful Spookybot. Just, yanno, learning to have a little chill.

Ardent Slacker

Wait... is the beetle still there?

Tim Keating

you erroneously suppose they’re playing by vanilla rules 🙃

Ísabel Pirsic

I would be totally down for stories about Tabitha Carapace. That's one of those names that pretty much requires a story.

Yonatan Zunger

Tabby should be the next yelling bird.

Erin Moriarty

Skimming back through the archives, Yay has had a neck-seam; same as Roku. Methinks its absence was a goof.

Alex Borders

I'm betting that Yay made a 5x donation match...

You need to write a children's book about Tabitha Carapace's Big Day Out, Jeph.

David Pipes

Melon has a win in 6 or 9 moves, depending on whose turn it is https://connect4.gamesolver.org/en/?pos=121242257747677553 https://connect4.gamesolver.org/en/?pos=213456277122547577

Piogre

Called it. Melon totally donated half of May's new body fund lol

Roko seems to have become used to arriving home and finding Yay and Melon there, as opposed to resenting it the previous time https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4108 . She might even find it comforting now.

Mark

Has Yay informed Melon that Connect Four is a "solved game", meaning they can always win if they go first?

Jonathan

Melon literally just told you how to get one.

Really liking the growth in Yay as a character. They are so much more interesting now than when they were the seemingly all-powerful Spookybot.

Populuxe

It scares me a bit that the first thing I thought when I read this is: will, or did?

I want a pet beetle now...

Marc Pengryffyn

N-dimensional Connect 4!

William Cole

What was Melon smellin'?

BobC

Melon is the gift that just keep giving

Bagge

Regardless of how AIs normally play it, I feel like a game with Melon would have its own special rules.

Rob Vary

I wonder if you could make dual-layer connect 4.

Summer Sudbrink

It just occurred to me that QC is in an alternate universe. Hanners will release it in ours.

Michael Boettger

That was before all this transpired. The release is in an alternate universe.

Michael Boettger

How do two AIs play Connect Four anyway? Wouldn't the first player to move put their piece down, they both stare at the rack for a moment, and then declare a winner? Or is "human level cognition only" one of the rules, like playing Counter Strike with knives?

Simon Green

But somehow, someday, it leads to Hannelore ordering the release of The Virus.

Captain Button

Well the Creator <i>is</i> inordinately fond of beetles...

Captain Button

Roko, you triggered a major but likely slow-moving institutional reform, with Hanners cat-herding it to keep it functional, and got together a fund-raising drive that's going to take care of May, not institutionally but by embedding her more deeply in her own community, one which clearly cares about her. Your goal wasn't to solve the problem some particular way, it was to solve the problem. And you made massive progress on both the short- and long-term aspects of it in a single day. You are seriously good at your new job.

Yonatan Zunger

Nope. You have to follow the sandhi rules. The r is only elided when no open vowel follows it. So, cah, cahs, ceah (care), carapace.

Abhayakara

I feel like what Yay considers a "modest" contribution might be a bit startling for May.

Denizen Blue

Is that pronounce Cah-a-PACH-ee?

Pete Hanson

Twist: melon is incredibly wealthy, 90% of the money came from her

I like how Yay started out going by Spookybot and wearing suits and now they just show up in, apparently, boxer shorts and a big t-shirt, to play board games on Roko's couch.

Solomon Garland

Poor Roko, she's way too hard on herself. ☹️ I empathise... And well done Yay for making sure Roko understands what she's achieved.

Andrew Mitchell

They are legion. They are plural.

Joseph Houk

Yes, but we'll never know how much they pitched in.

Joseph Houk

Now tops my list of future Patreon strips I want to see.

Leaflemming

The whole cast makes me happy!

Matt Grayson

so, what gender is Yay Newfriend aka spookybot? They're initial appearance in suit/ tie I thought effeminate male, then while friending Roko more ambiguously female.. I'm at a loss.

jimbo

Anyone else had a feeling Yay was gonna pitch in? They do seem like the type to do that, mostly to help their friend, Roko.

Joel Bateman

Okay, I'll allow it. And Claire would embrace it.

Michael Boettger

I both love and hate Tabby.

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

We NEED a strip about Tabitha Carapace now.

Joseph Bonnar

It’s the tabletop seen through an empty space

Charlie Sutton

I love the subtle implications of the body seams. Roko's expensive chassis has very few compared to Melon, and Yay has none at all.

e.a.rowe

Melon is excellent at naming things

Fart Captor

I love how Yay's pieces are neatly stacked while Melon's are just a mess on the table. Why are there two yellow/brown spaces in the board?

Cleo Schmitz

Wow, Melon's the only one close to winning!

Devin Gates

Now we need a Tabitha Carapace children's book!

Devin Gates

May is a regular Rosa Parts.

Paracog Steadham

I knew Roko and Yay would show up soon. And Yay for Yay! And kudos to Melon.

Michael Boettger

You poked Daddy AI successfully, Roko. Take the damn win.

R L

Tabitha Hairpiece?

Max D S