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Chapter: Prince of Dappled ShadeCharacters: Colin Hannah Miranda Phoebe The Cabal Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: broken Disney Disney World hall of presidents obama robot
THE GREAT NOUN ADVENTURE RETURNS!
Every June, patrons on Patreon suggest nouns and I combine them in unique ways. See the results!
VOTE FOR FLORAL!!!
In other news...
First, this comic is brought to you by THREE top supporter! The Lurker and Jeremy have been joined by Hyena Beans, who are all Mayors of Pucksburg. Maybe you're generous enough to join them! CHECK OUT THE PATREON!!!
As for this comic...
Did this comic really need to happen? Not really. It was just a fun little bit that came to me and I had to go with it. If you're wondering, my comic writing is about 40% pre-planned and 60% completely spontaneous. So I usually kinda know the direction I'm going, but things can take a weird left turn ... as long as said left turn is funny.
Eh, no worries. The cops arrive, step out of their patrol cars, the raccoons assault them, Phoebe says “Officers, two choices. One, you found nothing, saw nothing, left. Two, explain raccoons taking your car keys, handcuffs, badges, cars. Decide.”
True. You scheme with the best of them!
Well you have to admire Phoebe for thinking out of the box like that.
She is unique in her thinking. That’s for sure.
If you are ever confronted, blame Disney.
That is.. 0-ROM-A.
I like it.
I like how we have the two reactions to the cops, from both a white girl and a black guy.
Vague social commentary or mere happenstance? You decide!
This is fair. I would not want to get on his mother’s bad side, though, no matter the institutional backup. I don’t know if Satan Himself could handle her. Not that they know he’s her kid. >.>
Satan’s the mayor. They know who she is.
But do they know who Tyler is? Or care?
Leave it to Phoebe to finally give some decent relevance to TEMU.
Hey, when you order an Obama but it comes out wrong. But it was only five bucks!
GECKO! GECKO. The vote incentive just used Puck’s pic as the bot filter. The names to choose from are/were Puck, Dima, and Maya Santos Comedic Assassin.
Yep. Puck is one of the icons available.
I know. I was just commenting on the pie chance that it was Puck for the answer to your vote incentive.
i don´t see the problem – why would perfectly harmless people just taking a late night stroll know a thing about that dead/broken robot? just continue walking folks, because getting caught at the possible crime scene isn´t helping whatever story you´ll try to sell
From the size of the WEEEEOOOs, it might be a little too late to try that.
Keep walking! Brilliant!
All they have to do is each and every one of them whip out their phones, and chortle that this will blow up their feed. Then scatter before the cops decide which one to grab. (This happens to them several times a day.)
Except Hannah. She turns to them deadpan, “I didn’t see anything.”
Dammit, @Robert Nowall got there first. nvm
What if the cops are robots, too?
The police in Canada don’t have that kind of budget.
Yes Phoebe, totally plausible.
She’s not the most practical of thinkers.
A jibe at two American icons? Ohhhhhh Canada!
(Loved it!)
Not a jab as much as a loving reference. With love.
Cops always suspect. And I don’t blame them, that’s part of their job. I guess it’s best to tell them the truth, except for Haddaway. Phoebe had a point, one can’t be “dead” if one was never alive. A robot is never alive, just functioning or broken.
Cops have a rough job. I don’t envy them. You deal with people at their worst. And that’s your job. There’s no rosy side to it.
Phoebe is reverting to Phoebe again.
Meanwhile, Hannah decides if she just stands perfectly straight and keeps still, its likely no one will notice that she is there. Hiding in plain sight, so to speak?
The sobering influence of Haddaway has departed. And Hannah can always say she didn’t see anything.
I see nothing, NOTHING
TV Geek buh dum ching.
Well, hard to really figure what to do when there’s chaos and you’re blind.
I don’t know, Officer. I was was just here, and I parked illegally, I’m sorry, but the baby needed to get some fresh air and she fusses less like this. Anyway, we were giving the baby some air and ran across this. What, why all together? Well, her mother is out for the evening, and we took this as an excuse to all play with the baby. We were watching an MST3K episode when we decided on the walk. The grafiti? No, we don’t know anything about that. I’m sorry. Can I knit you a cozy?
A sound strategy!
Too detailed. Needs to be vaguer. A classic mistake in lying is too much detail. You may need to know if if they ask, but volunteering it is a dead giveaway.
In the vote incentive, how is it, that the X-rays penetrate her flesh, and not her underwear? Is it made of lead? It penetrates her dress!
You answered it. Lead underwear.
You need to upgrade your Patreon level for thexray specs.
Ehhh, Phoebe?
These were robots with personality, self-awareness… dare I say it, something like personhood?
Yes, they were evil as *bleep* and they needed to go. But I’m not sure you should just blow off their destruction like it’s nothing.
(Yes, I know they’re a metaphor for LLMs. But they seem to surpass that hateable garbage … albeit through being garbage beings.)
Well, I’m not sure Phoebe comprehends the whole picture.
She is right, though, on one level. That which is dead is dead forever.
That which is broken … can be fixed.
Not always. I lost a laptop and desktop like that.
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Hmm, it would appear that the Cthulhu mythos is strangely applicable to LLMs/AI.
(looks at the average plod, looks back at robot) Actually, this is a very valid plan. Not saying they are dense, but Singularities avoid the plod because they are so dense.
See? Wisdom here.
Has Phoebe confused being nearsighted with being smart again? I’m not saying she can’t pull this off, but I came up with this line and rather liked it.
She has made this mistake before.
I know! That’s part of why I like the line.
Y’know, they could rip off some more of the skin and pass the robot off as another President. You’ve got a height range from five foot four to six foot four.
Now THAT is clever.
Would’a sorted by weight, but couldn’t find a chart on Wikipedia. The heaviest is over four hundred pounds, but I don’t know who was the skinniest.
Well, we know that Trump weighs in at 224 pounds. And we all believe that highly credible number.
Since when is it a crime to disassemble one of daddy’s robots?
Exactly. I see no problems.