Handshake Protocol

https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html Melon says ".. -. -.. . . -.. .-.-.- / .. - / .-- .- ... / ...- . .-. -.-- / --.- ..- .- .. -. - .-.-.- " which translates as "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." Yaaaaaaaay responds with the same.

aw c'mon. what's the morse code say?

Bill Robertson

I thought at first, "Dial up handshake and.. tone pack?"

Peabody

Spooky bot looks like it's producing part of a Magic Eye image to me.

Amber Lockridge

pretty sure there are some 60s kids who can recognize it too

Joe

Is this the first time Melon hasn't greeted Roko with "Socially Appropriate Greeting"?

Richard

That may have been me?

Alex Borders

Oh no I just realized how cute of a thrupple these three would make

Fart Captor

Melon has antennae....?

I am now almost positive Melon has a sister named Carrot with remarkably similar hair to this style....

anyone slightly disturbed by Yay speaking in Seismic Waves?

Jeff Gedney

Melon: INDEED STOP IT WAS VERY QUAINT STOP newFriend: INDEED STOP IT WAS VERY QUAINT STOP

gunks

I tried using an internal modem, but it hurt when I walked.

Mark

Could be worse.

Mark

The waveforms don't look like what I remember my modem doing. now I wonder what speed that wave is for. They were all different depending on what speed you were trying for. I was actually still using one in the early 2000's. I had 'acquired' an old external hardware modem. 33.6 until I called a number at US Robotics. Then it became a 56.6. Couldn't believe how much faster the computer was when I moved the modem from internal to external. Good times.

And then your mother screamed at you to get off the internet so she can make a call

Da Nargh!!

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum had the best noises when it was loading.

theaardvark

...Or was it the Mod-ems?

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

Oh yeah this is from that avant-garde music group, The Bauds....

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

same. ah, how nostalgia does change things!

Satan

Melon is friggin' adorable full stop.

Bagge

Or just flirting.

Bagge

Also, to answer Roko's questions: Yes, this is her life now

Bagge

bwoo-beepbeepbeepbeep-beep-beep-beepbeepbeep-woowOO-weeeeee-wooo-AHHH-scree-AHHHHH-EEEEEEEE-AHHHHH-ah-ee-ah-ee-fzsssssssht-boooowoooooooWEEMP-fzsssssshmph

Dolan

She's pretty much always smiling, except when she's at work, right?

Mitchell Sealy

Melon is so adorable when she smiles.

Erin Moriarty

Once at a mid-1990s computer club meeting (HAAUG), I was working behind the share/freeware disk purchase station. The club librarian mentioned, in passing, to a customer, the modem noise. Instantly about 5 of us started making the modem connect noise (yes, from our mouths). The slow turn and glare we received from her just made us bust out howling with laughter. Thank you for dredging up this treasured memory. :-D

Trigon Manthree

It's just... all the Clickwise, you know? It puts people off, Carl.

I like Melon's haircut. Super... melon

Bagge

When did Melon go all Wood Sprite?

BobC

QAM matrices?

RobertC

"Indeed. It was very quaint."

It looks a bit like the Aphex Twin waveform that produces his face...??? Can anyone confirm?

Munk33 Magic

Melon and Roko:

My hard drive before I run defrag.

Tim Keating

Is Spookybot doing the modem sound in her spectrum as well?

Boter Bug

I read the panel in the voice of the 90's phone scream.

Devin Forbes

I think it stopped being 'your' apartment the day Melon burned a portal in the ceiling.

Sleepy John

I remember when your computer shrieked at the telephone, and the telephone screamed back, and then you were ready to go on-line.

Sleepy John

Moose calls.

Abhayakara

Reread that pannel as both of them saying it at the same time

I was really hoping someone would translate this, thank you for your service to the patreon. :)

Creepy Cat Lady

Third panel makes sense. Isn't the fourth panel just visual graphs of audio signals?

Melon was acoustic modem dialing and handshaking. Yay's sending out something very high-bandwidth, from the image. Not the Bloop signal, though. SETI spectrogram?

Noise

This is my favourite.

Oh my god Melon's hair is friggin adorable

Fart Captor

A few weeks ago I actually heard someone use the modem screech as a ringtone.

Jim Feldman

I used to hate that modem startup sound, but if I heard it now, I'd come a-runnin', just to see who was kicking it oldskool.

Thomas A. Dennis

Why did they both say the same thing? I am so confused. Also, you guys have to use a web site to translate morse code? Poseurs. ;)

Abhayakara

Melon "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." Roko "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." Sigh....

Shawn K. Younkin

Melon is possibly and eccentric genius. Her processors are permanently overclocked, so she's trying to process everything at once, but instead it makes her...Melon.

Joel Bateman

I forget, did Yay say the thing about how Melon isn't stupid, she just thinks differently, in the comic itself, or was that somebody in the comment sections? Melon smashes all her dishes down to a fine powder or something, and Yay explained that Melon had been trying to store them or wash them or something, and this was technically the way to get the most dishes in the least amount of space? Ringing a bell for anybody? This would seem to be in line with that. Melon apparently is versed in a number of languages and communication channels, but many of them are dead or obsolete. The most eloquent woman in the room but nobody can understand her.

Mitchell Sealy

Dunno about the waveform, but both of them are saying "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." in Morse code.

David Wright

It's Melon. Do you need to ask how she functions? I don't even think Melon knows how she functions.

Joel Bateman

No one's going to ask the obvious question, is Melon a part of Yay's network?

Elf Sternberg

Melon is looking very All-Might with that hair.

Ryan

Melon: INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT.

spectria.limina

I'd of thought she'd be more of a PSK31 fan, but there's no school like the old school. I used to be able to whistle up 212A compatible modems or at least get them to start the handshake.

Jim Feldman

It would stand to reason that AIs would be multilingual.

Michael Boettger

Someone is bound to translate that. And also post that wave form.

Joel Bateman

Both Melon and Yay are saying "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." in the morse code. I assume the audio is dial-up, considering the commentary.

Tamara Macadam

Melon got a new hair don't!

Joseph Bonnar

(geddit DASHed)

Jono Hayward

Hands up who else immediately dashed over to a morse code translator website to read this?

Jono Hayward

Man, this comic is like a battle fleet without air support

Magic Chopstick Games

Are they...acoustically coupling?!?

z

I was about to ask that very question.

Michael Boettger

Is... is Melon using dial-up? Also who’s the nerd who’s gonna translate that Morse code?

Jackson Bockus

For all of us, yes please, please translate

Sean Crane

Aw hell... Now I gotta translate that....

Bitter Donald