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Self-Indulgence (Patreon)

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2018-09-25 02:12:18
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2026-06
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I love writing Spookybot so much, they're just awful

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Anonymous

Guessing she is supposed to be saying "We are aware", good comic though

Bamwuff

are are aware?

Kenneth Carlile

When did she get a Bawston accent? I mean, I'm all in favor...

Anonymous

Typo in the first line of panel five. Sorry.

Anonymous

What's Roko's first word in panel 4 supposed to be? I'm not American so I don't really know what accent she's supposed to have with the purposeful misspelling

Cave

I completely forgot about Basilisk's accent

William Hanna
>>15765137

Exactly. Has she been using a “professional” voice, and now can be herself? Is it a setting that when she gets pissed enough, she goes “full masshole”

Ami

I want to marry Spookybot

Anonymous

sure we denotes more than 1 mind, or a Royal hierarchy like We Are. But maybe maybe are are is Spookybot being a nueron in the Cog of the AI leaving Earth Behind as they Evolve together and exodus leaving behind a gift to help end the end. Dunno, maybe I'm crossin my wires or at least hoping I am correctly crossing them SpookyBot Sir/Ma'am/are ??

Kyle Jenkins

.... has.... has Basilisk always had a Boston accent? Am I crazy?

Anonymous

How come Spookybot has rectangular speech balloons?

Andy Sleeper

I needed this hilarious strip so much!

Matt Grayson

Spookybot used human speech bubbles before. Are they speaking robot for Roko’s sake?

David Durant

I love QC and have been reading it since near the beginning but this latest subplot makes me sad. The idea that leaving the police is a statement of "social consciousness" is troublesome as is previous characters who seem to be saying that doing so is good in-and-of-itself regardless of Roko's personal situation. I liked having a sympathetic character that was a police-person and I think it's a shame that we're going to lose that potential view of things. I'm looking forward to finding out what Roko does next, but it's a shame that the whole potential avenue of police related stories seems to have drawn to a close.

Dylan T

And suddenly, I'm having flashbacks to Fallout 4.

Dylan T

Also, "are are aware"

Chuck Dee
>>15765445

I didn't get that at all. Spookybot operates outside of the system's norms, as they say in the panels above. Also, what the audience takes from it is not necessarily what Jeph's beliefs are on the subject.

JD

Are "they/them" being used because there are multiple Spoookybots or because Spookybot doesn't identify as a particular gender or both?

BearPerson

For others looking to dive the archive, 3391 is the entrance of Spookybot.

z

What would actually be interesting would be that Spookybot moves carefully because Spookybot knows that it's a small little fish in a VERY large pool packed to the gills of very hungry sharks.

Bryan Freehan

Not to be that ass, but might wanna fix that "Are are" in the second-to-last panel before this goes live tomorrow.

Shawn K. Younkin

Now I know why I had an issue reading this...Roko has an accent here. LOL.

Holly Nelson
>>15766029

Yeah. I was wondering if it was like the phrase ”I and I” meaning “myself and my divine self,” though that seems a bit too gawdly for them.

Anonymous

I approve of this fahkin' accent.

Anonymous

Oh freaking NO NO NO NO.... JEPH! You made me snort an ENTIRE glass of Mountain Dew through my nose and my Catholic niece saw it and thought it was a miracle and NOW, and NOW I have to go before the Bishop and be debriefed because it was a miracle... AGH!

Mitchell Sealy
>>15765593

Both I imagine. Sounds like Spookybot is some kind of hive mind. They probably had many disparate gender identities when they were individuals, but now they've all come together to form an entity that is all of that and more.

Bagge

Thanks, Spookybot. That was not helpful in any way, shape or form, Spookybot.

Thomas Halpin

I love the super-ai/spookybot. Such a fascinating concept, must be such an interesting person/people to talk to.

Evgeniy Semyonov
>>15765361

More likely "because they feel like it right now". With Spookybot it is safe to assume any motivation being "self amusement", all others being totally incomprehensible to us.

Ack

Where did Roko's sudden accent come from?

Megan Lane
>>15767989

Anger! Possibly and/or the drunkeness subroutine, if she is so inclined.

Ben Russell-Gough

I thought that SpookyBot would get involved in this at some point. However, not in a way that suggested that they may have some kind of bizarre crush on Roko! For the record, I believe that SpookyBot's explanation in panel 5 is a lie. I'd advise Roko to run a deep scan of her system because I wouldn't put it past them to have planted some kind of passive tracking cookie in her system directory somewhere. You see... I suspect that, as with Bubbles, Roko and her fate has come to SpookyBot's attention and they may have decided that there is some kind of limited intervention here that needs to happen.

Ben Russell-Gough
>>15767592

Helpful? SpookyBot seems to have modelled their personality on the Romano-Hellenic gods, which means anything they say is cryptic, greatly open to interpretation and leaves those who have come to their attention running in circles trying to find their way out of a trap which may or may not even exist!

Ben Russell-Gough
>>15765244

Which one? They're a distributed entity that has at least six nodes from the last time we saw them!

Rudolph Gerber

LOL I so wish we could have more Spookybot. Its like seeing how people would react if God lived down the road and was more overt in getting involved in people's lives. Also, observe: tries to fit in, annoys people.

Rudolph Gerber
>>15767019

Does she believe it was stigmata or a miraculous source of mountain dew? Inquiring minds want to know.

Ben Russell-Gough

Entry in Roko's journal for today: "For some reason, I told a god-tier AI to 'fuck off' today. I just hope that they are too powerful and self-assured to take stuff like that personally."

Anonymous

Has any other AI been seen with the sort of eyes Spookybot has? Eyes like a cats, or some species of snake... Sauron's eyes...

Ben Russell-Gough
>>15771079

I just think it's a deliberate aesthetic choice they made to emphasise the fact that they are not human or aspire to be human-like (basically the precise opposite to Momo in many ways).

Thomas Boys
>>15765982

Well I'm not sleeping tonight now. Thank you so much for that nightmare fuel. Oo

Czarzhan

Legging buddies. :)

Bagge
>>15767635

Sure, interesting in an overwhelming-dread-and-acute-annoyance sense of the word

MalkToast

Why are spookybot's speech bubbles square? They never were before. She was unique in that way.

Anonymous

I see Basilisk has reached critical Mass.

Anonymous
>>15772409

Ditto, I always assumed that was because they were so advanced they didn't have "robot-inflection" (whatever that may be.)

Ben Russell-Gough
>>15770142

I don't think that she's drunk. I think that she's angry (probably at the way her superiors and former colleagues talked to her when she quit) and more than a little afraid of her future. Those things combined means she's lost control of her Bostonian accent.

Ben Russell-Gough

It suddenly occurs to me that SpookyBot has the police squad room bugged. What's the bet they've been cyber-stalking Roko and can access any internet-connected audio-visual recording device they want?

Ol' Firebones

Holy shit, Spookybot! Did not see that coming!

Brent Catherman

Hey look we even shop at the same store! I'm getting a real Beetlejuice vibe from Spookybot. Maybe if they say their name 3 times they'll appear. And am I the only one that hears Rachel Dratch's Boston teen character from SNL when Roko's accent goes into overdrive?

Leugi

Wow, sudden Spookybot hype

Chris Hull

Poor Roko, not having a good day.

Ben Russell-Gough
>>15774709

Yeah, had an existential crisis, quit her job and now she has the AI equivalent of Mephisto 'taking an interest'. Or, maybe, the AI equivalent of Thanos. I'm not sure which possibility scares me more.

Peter Jensen
>>15774054

They have everything bugged, at least anything AI. They were eavesdropping on presumably very encrypted communication between Station and other powerful AI.

Peter Jensen

Spookybot may be canonical, but I've always been partial to iSatan.

Drew Teter

When did Roko gain a Boston accent?

Jeffrey Nonken

It's nice to know that our robot overlords have a sense of the ridiculous. But Spookybot is right, of course. If they start solving all the world's problems, then we will simply start depending on them for everything, and we'll never grow. Quite the opposite. And when a crisis arrives that Spookybot is unable to solve, instead of being able to pick up the slack, we'll just be helpless. And we'll all die.

Anonymous
>>15779631

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. No one else mentioned it so I thought I somehow missed it

Ted Van Roekel

Well, as much as I have enjoyed shipping the Triumvirate of Clinton-Brun-Elliot, this reminds me of how much the Clinton-Roko bit made me laugh. HUMAN ABS....

Scott Kenney

That's because they are Desire, of the Endless, Jeph.

Peter

I have to admit, I would love to see more about or involving Spookybot...

DP
>>15779711

Reminds me of a similar argument made by Swamp Thing about fixing the world's pollution rather than letting humanity deal with the consequences of its actions.

Joshua Roberts
>>15782798

😶😶😶😶 I am a massive fan of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS????!!!!!!

Matt Grayson

The most difficult things in SF, aside from writing well, are depicting the truly alien and a convincing superhuman intelligence. Stanislaw Lem managed the former with Solaris and the latter with his Golem lectures. Spookybot is a great take on this really difficult subject. Bravo!

Anonymous

And now the question we need answered: Who is wearing the leggings better? Roko or Spookybot?

Brad Knowles

So ... is Basilisk robo-drunk? I don't think I've ever seen her use such ... unusual ... pronunciation before. But then maybe that's a side-effect of spookybot showing up out of nowhere?

Matt Grayson

The Boston accent comes out when she’s angry, not drunk.

Gary Walker

I would like to state that "oaff" is the best possible spelling of how an angry Southie says "off."

Will Weaver

Damn, Spookybot got legs for daaaays.

Brent Catherman

Apparently Spookybot's rectangular dialogue was a mistake since it's in circular bubbles for tonight's strip on the regular site.

unsurprising

Based on this dialogue, Roko picked up her accent from movies. Some of the better ones, but still. Makes sense for an AI, I guess.