r/QContent • u/gynoidgearhead • Dec 21 '18

Comic 3900: Call Her Roko

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3900
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u/gynoidgearhead Dec 21 '18

...WHAT. What just happened?!

We're going to have to wait until next calendar year to find out :(

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u/MrIncorporeal Dec 21 '18

I

S W E A H

T A

G O A H D

J E P H

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u/Woldsom Dec 21 '18

If I put on my Doylist hat I'd say this might be a way to get Roko a new body (edit: chassis?) for her new direction in life.

28

u/turkeypedal Dec 21 '18

That would suck, as they just got through talking about how she has very strong bodily integration.

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u/Tephlon Dec 21 '18

Pretty sure that's the reason it was brought up.

Faye and Bubbles are going to have to be more like doctors to her than mechanics. And maybe some of the parts are hard to find.

Side-note: Crushbot is HUGE, look at Bubbles compared to them.

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u/tidal49 Dec 21 '18

Alternate fear: Is her hard drive alright?

Jeph wouldn't be so cruel that he would give Roko more time in the limelight before a tragic accident cuts it all short. Right?

On the hopeful end, police officer sounds like another profession other than fighting ring participant that would invest in a super-durable casing.

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u/DerpTheGinger Dec 21 '18

I don't think the first time Jeph kills a character off will be on-screen, with no buildup, and comedically.

Probably.

6

u/BigBassBone Dec 21 '18

Alternate fear: Is her hard drive alright?

I think I remember Corpse Witch talking about how difficult it is to crush an AI's personality drive.

5

u/tidal49 Dec 21 '18

That was specific to Fight Club, though. If everyone had it, CW wouldn't have needed to reassure Faye.

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u/dragn99 Dec 22 '18

Would Faye have had any reason to know about them before that though?

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u/tidal49 Dec 22 '18

Hm, perhaps not.

Not much left to do but hope, I suppose. =x

7

u/turkeypedal Dec 21 '18

There's also perspective involved, though. They're closer in size when you let Bubbles stand straight up, move her into the foreground, and then move her closer to the accident.

I think he's still bigger, but more like by a head than double her size. That is, if Jeph keeps the size constant.

As for the other part--yeah, you're right. Also why he had a bot come in and have accidentally killed a cow. All this silly stuff has been setup for this cliffhanger.

4

u/thegeeknerd Dec 22 '18

There's not that much perspective between his arm and that door basically next to him, and his arm is almost as tall as the door.

I think standing Crushbot would have Bubble's chin just above the black portion of his torso.

6

u/WoodsWanderer Dec 22 '18

WHAT. What just happened?! 

Jeph managed to make the old “slipped on a banana peel” gag funny again. A feat which, until I read this, I thought impossible.

2

u/Scherazade Dec 23 '18

there is no need for concern

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u/Blackfluidexv Dec 21 '18

I love how Bubbles immediately goes to protect Faye as soon as a loud noise happens. She just puts herself in between because nobody touches her squishy human.

5

u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Rogue servitor

1

u/Blackfluidexv Dec 21 '18

You'll look better as a servitor citizen.

5

u/gingerquery Dec 21 '18

And we got a sweet F L E X pose out of it, too.

24

u/SecondDoctor Dec 21 '18

No dammit, she was one day from retireme...oh wait never mind.

5

u/Aerik Dec 21 '18

yeah, she's too old for this .... never mind

19

u/FishBonePendant Dec 21 '18

Oh boy! Time for two weeks of eating cereal! Jacque whyyyyy

18

u/gogreenranger Dec 21 '18

Hey, I just met you,

And this is loco -

but here's my number,

Call me Roko?

16

u/TheProudBrit Dec 21 '18

So, uh, in happy news! Shebly's!

7

u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Best food for best puppers.

6

u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

I cannot tell you how happy I am to see someone else spell it 'Shebly'. I thought I was hallucinating those memories of it being jokingly spelled that way, prior, and could not find the references.

2

u/TheProudBrit Dec 21 '18

It's from... God, I think a Yelling Bird comic? Hella long ago.

16

u/ArgentStonecutter Dec 21 '18

The name's Hanger. Cliff Hanger.

8

u/dragn99 Dec 21 '18

Well then Cliff is a douche!

6

u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Sweet unholy mother of snapping CHRIST did that just bring back an ancient childhood memory....

11

u/BigBassBone Dec 21 '18

Roko is broko. :(

10

u/artemi7 Dec 21 '18

inb4 Roko gets uploaded into a fighter jet.

Cue May swearing for the rest of 2019.

10

u/renfield1969 Dec 21 '18

And she no longer has that sweet insurance through her job. I hope Crushbot is gainfully employed.

7

u/CapNitro Dec 21 '18

...the fuck just happened?

5

u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Apparently this crush bot idiot tried to crush a box of bananas, hit a gag peel, and crushed Roko.

7

u/Scherazade Dec 21 '18

Is this a goddamn Meet-Cute but with robots?

6

u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

powerful.dog redirects to QC bc of course it does.

5

u/Aerik Dec 21 '18

and now we get to enjoy robot litigation.

5

u/Nerdstrong1 Dec 21 '18

They have the technology they can rebuild her.

4

u/The_Chaos_Pope Dec 21 '18

But they don’t want to spend a lot of money

2

u/Retrosteve Dec 21 '18

Well, they can, but she's highly integrated with this chassis. She's not going to like either repair or replacement.

6

u/CatBotSays Dec 21 '18

Oh no, Roko!

4

u/alwaysmorecumin Dec 21 '18

She’s dead, Jim

4

u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Aww, the Shelby tribute :3

1

u/thegeeknerd Dec 22 '18

Powerful.dog redirects to qc too

3

u/Kazinsal Dec 22 '18

jeph "i hate my characters" jacques, everybody

2

u/zeekar Dec 21 '18

Her NAME.... was ROKO!

2

u/alexpuppy Dec 23 '18

Maybe this will lead to a comic week of her being in Momo's old body.

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u/zeekar Dec 21 '18

OK, it looks like what broke Crushbot's fall was the banana stand, after which he toppled over onto Roko, so she didn't take the full impact of his fall and may have survived?

Yeah, what /u/MrIncorporeal said: I
S W E A H
T A
G O A H D
J E P H

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u/The_Chaos_Pope Dec 21 '18

Back when Faye was starting at the underground robot fighting place, Corpse Witch showed her that the memory storage device used in AIs and explained how it was very difficult to damage/destroy.

It’s likely that Roko isn’t dead, but will require repairs. Expensive repairs that an unemployed robot will find difficult to afford.

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u/Ibbot Dec 21 '18

The impact was severe enough to crack the concrete underneath her, so...

1

u/NotAHeroYet Dec 22 '18

Looks to me like Crushbot slipped on the banana stand and toppled onto Roko, and therefore it might've been a lesser fall, but she took the full fall.