Once In A Lifetime

They're actually playing President because none of them knows how to play poker. The chips are just for show!

onitake

Also my first reaction! <3

Morgan McCauley

There's no pot on the table. What game are they playing?

GORDON!!!!!!!!

I'm sure Pintsize said that on purpose, until it changes and he didn't.

William Burns

Yay melon

SheepFace2000

"Expistence?"

His name is Gordon.

awgiedawgie

I don't think Bubbles would inflict REPAIRABLE chassis damage :)

David Howe

I thought she was licking her fingers, in a not so subtle way to show some androids have tongues.. probably useful for something else happening somewhere

karl Manners

Spider dude!

jeff fearnow

Pintsize took one look at how those two walked in and knew it was time for him to GTFO or risk severe Chassis Damage. Which then would be repaired at a massively inflated price.

Joshua Roberts

He will wallpaper a room with assholes, though ...

Peter Jensen

Pintsize stands for us: horrible little permanently juvenile voyeuristic creatures who would dearly like to see hot girl on robot action but whom are going to be restrained from doing so by some combination of better impulses and main force. This strip reminds me of this old Wally Wood Galaxy cover: <a href="https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1959-04" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1959-04</a>

She just hasn't placed a single bet all night.

drij

Melon is a shark?!?! Look at all her chips!

Well, lets look at what MIGHT have touched him... Bubbles, looming over him. Like Martin loomed, only BIGGER... <a href="http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2896" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2896</a>

Am I the *only* one who takes Pintsize's claim at face value? If this blossoming of love between Bubbles and Faye touches us so deeply, isn't it fitting that it would touch him like nothing else has?

Ol' Firebones

expistence

Robot Poker Night is in Steve’s basement (courtesy of the tunnel).

Brendan Jones

We've seen Melon eat a cereal box before, now she's eating cards. Is eating pasteboard a previously unknown robo-fetish? Oh, Melon... You kinky girl.

Umm... how much drama could one grumpy Linux nerd create in our world? Plus, unless these relations would require some heavily copyrighted proprietary algorithms/appliances he would be totally cool with it - Bubbles is as free in her expressions as any other AI. And, on the side note, any real intention of harm towards Bubbles could trigger all sorts of some... spooky consequences.

Evgeniy Semyonov

Tomorrow: Steve enters with the bowl of cereal in his hands. - Huh, so this is where the tunnel leads. Deal me in.

Evgeniy Semyonov

Decorum my ass, this is basic survival skills.

Thomas Boys

WHERE IS THE STEVE EATING CEREAL THAT WE WERE PROMISED

Todd Whitesel

If he had not exercised basic decorum, I think Pintsize would have been dismantled into his component atoms.

David Paul

I'm pretty sure that May would have paid him in advance to get the photos.

Ben Russell-Gough

"Actually, I'm here because one of my humans has a new sex-buddy and they wanted me out so I didn't disturb them with my commentary!" FWIW, I'm wondering if Jeph is setting up the next drama. PT410X doesn't like humans very much and is a pretty radical AI liberation campaigner. He's the sort of synthetic who'll see Bubbles as betraying her kind by sleeping with a human.

Ben Russell-Gough

"Come on, ask me, ask me1"

Bagge

Well, the two with their backs to us are unidentified, but clockwise from left: Arthur (lives with Melon), Pintsize, PT410x, Melon, and Gordon. The girl with the purple hair might be a member of the AI support group (see Comic #3576).

awgiedawgie

She's not actually eating the cards. She's saving them up for a 12-card flush.

The chassis is military. But it's not his original chassis, so... hmm...

awgiedawgie

At least one of Pintsize's bodies couldn't digest stuff but could at least pass it?

Diptych

Hey. if we give him the credit for one act of decorum, he might be incentivised to follow it up with others.

Diptych

Pintsize explained he doesn't want a humanoid body in a pretty recent strip.

Charlotte Grubbs

Melon, please don't eat the cards. But seriously... Jeph, a thousand thanks for Melon!

awgiedawgie

I think Pintsize could border depression, he has never succeeded in pursuing a human, he hasn’t a humanoid body either.

giacomo vaghi

I wanna to know whether Melon's chassis actually has a system which allows her to digest stuff, or if all the weird stuff she eats just ends up clogging her up

Fart Captor

I'm not sure it's so much basic decorum, but self preservation.

Brent Catherman

Could be something for the next Kickstarter.

Brent Catherman

Maybe those aren't actually her winnings but how much she put down to play with.

Dahlia Rose Israel

Now I imagine that in the QQC universe there is a series of velvet paintings of bots playing poker...

Hugh Eckert

I love the implication that Melon is accidentally amazing at poker. Like, by all rights she should be losing her ass (not like the time she literally lost her ass) and is even eating cards. Yet has a massive pile of winnings.

Tim Eldred

Soooo Melon how do the cards taste?

Kyle Major

Then how did you get here?

A. J. Alfieri-Crispin

Yes, apparently someone else shares Hanners/Marigold’s (temporary?) fetish.

William Cole

And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife!

darklion

I hope we get to meet the blue AnthroPC with the tiny hat (yeeessssssss)

David Hall

I need a program. Or a seating chart or something.

Summer Sudbrink

Well, like Claire said, he may be a horrible little robot, but he's not an asshole!

Mandy Hoskins

That one's appeared a few times. I think he's also the one that only responds to his serial number, rather than his name. He also has a neckbeard-CPU-cooler, as well.

Jonathan V

That's cynicism talking. Don't listen. Rest assured, Bubs and Faye are fuckin'.

Populuxe

You know, something just struck me... I wonder if Pintsize was originally an experiment created by a much younger and less experienced Spookybot... An attempt to create a superior being. An attempt that went horribly, horribly wrong. Yes, I know the claim is made that he's military hardware. That could be... The coverup.

God knows. Seriously. Jeph might know, but he hasn't explained it yet. <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3015" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3015</a>

Also, "expistence?"

Gary Walker

NOOOO! Pintsize+Droid 06. Melon seems to be in a relationship with Arthur, I believe. (He even COOKS for her.) 6 Pint forever! <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3644" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3644</a>

Spider bot? I want one.

Andrew Bazhaw

And here we start the Pintsize — Melon shipping.

Miyaa

How is Pintsize going to hold those cards anyway?

Absolutely. He's totally not here to avoid potential and likely completely imagined promises of a hasty and thorough disposal that were absolutely not made by everyone's favorite tank destroyer.

Kinda Squirrely

Hey is that the Antrho-PC who was complaining about his new paint job from back when pintsize had his lazer?

Sally Fields

Saying what we're all thinking tbh

Origamigryphon

Is Melon EATING cards, or PRINTING new ones? Might explain why she has all the chips. and Melon, sweety, you're supposed to EAT the CHIPS, not the CARDS.

Buck Caldwell

I see he's got a proper head back!

Chris Hewson

I was about to ask the same thing.

Everett Bradshaw

It's not a neckbeard, it's a heatsink.

Gary Walker

It's proof that Pintsize does have a sense of self-preservation. Nicely played, Jeph. Also, I like that Melon is eating her cards and also has the clear chip lead.

Gary Walker

WHERE'S THE SEX

A sheep

Here we are, expecting Steve Eating Cereal (tm), and Jeph blindsides us again!

Andrew

Neckbeard is back!

Akashimo Hakubi

Wow, its been a while since we've seen PT410X

THAT is Gary, iirc

Fart Captor

Is melon eating her cards?

JD

You monster. Also its been a while since we've seen another AnthroPC so that makes me happy.

RaptorShadow

That's Arthur

Fart Captor

Yellow Guy is back! hooray!

Matt

Yet she has the most chips! Go figure..

Andrew Mitchell

Love spider-bot. I hope we see her(?) again.

Andrew Mitchell

It's a trap ...

Nicki Faulk

YES

Dilemma01

FUCK

Dilemma01

Melon is eating the cards. Never change, Melon.

Origamigryphon

oh wow, we haven't seen those anthropcs for years

Kenneth Carlile

I am screaming in anguish and totally unsurprised all at the same time.

Jason Rock

With Pintsize, I honestly wasn't sure if Jeph meant for him to say that or not.

Czarzhan

Do NOT get me started on "Poke-her" wordplay!

BobC

I think Pintsize just decided that pissing off Bubbles AND Faye would be bad for his continued existence in a mobile body. Much safer to play poker.

Tom B

At first I was a bit disappointed at the lack of Faybles in the strip but knowing Pintsize gave them some privacy makes up for it. Of course, knowing Pintsize, he's probably filming them or something.

Celine Chamberlin

Pintsize was THROWN to Poker Night. He's gonna need a ride back.

About Pintsize: I had a feeling that this relationship would touch even his orifice-obsessed heart, and I was right! :-D

Ol' Firebones

This makes me ever more suspicious that this is a fantasy, and I'm trying not to worry. Don't do this to us, please!

Fay Roberts

Many questions: Could it be that Faybles’ “scientific inquiry” managed to freak out even Pintsize? Is Melon eating her cards? Who are the AIs with their backs to us? I especially want know about the one in the bowler.

William Cole

That's Melon, I think.

Pavel Curtis

May is cleaning up!

Mark P.

psst: "expistence"

LH

“They’re ROBOTS...and they’re playing POKER!” *laughs maniacally*

Will Weaver

Aw! I was hoping for something like this from Pintsize!

Ol' Firebones

Thank fucking god.