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Context Clues

🕑 Added 2021-07-22 01:09:48 +0000 UTC

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Melody Lu

omg Yay is such an evil lizard I love them

Lucas Werkmeister

I know Roko is probably technically younger than Elliot and Clinton but it still feels fitting for her to say something like "settle down, boys" to them ^^

I can’t remember…has Hannalore met yay yet?

Michael Chui

A thumbprint is a kind of password. It's just the kind of password that's really hard to guess and also relatively hard to steal without your noticing. But whatever Christopher is using to identify himself to social media sites, Yay can probably spoof without much effort. They definitely have the raw processing power, somehow, which is the usual defense that cryptography uses to prevent people from doing this. Also, I'd guess that AIs like Christopher probably choose to use human-style passwords.

gatherer818

I forgot about that! I hope she does!

gatherer818

Clinton being swallowed by one of Elliot's shirts is somehow adorable and hot at the same time. Like, to the point that I'm no longer as disappointed that the NSFW comic didn't include Clinton. I think I'd actually RATHER see him being dwarfed by that shirt than nude :P

Drakoo Dreamer

do AI's need passwords? Can't they just like digital thumbprint?

Nash Wolfe

Yeah. Why do people think it's perfectly fine to include you in a photo without consent then share that photo on 17 types of social media - with 17 different lacks of consent?

Fart Captor

Hush

Kuragari

Or he'd become their apprentice. LOL

Kuragari

ItsAboutFamily111!

I feel like it would be a bad idea for Yay and Clinton to meet…

Stephen Smoogen

Christopher's passwords were probably 123456VinDiesel anyway..

Panic on the streets of Northampton

ElliottEmo

Oh god they are the cutest and I’m living for them 😭😭😭🌈🌈🌈💚💚💚

Am Queue

Seconded!

Matt Pedone

I kind of want an "outtake" panel of the boys grabbing the wrong shirts. Or maybe it's just Clinton wearing the "Bee Nice" shirt in a sexy pose... I'm thinking too much about this. Let's just go with the comical "shirts that don't fit" panel. :o

Douglas E. Smith

Hmmm, have Elliot or Clinton ever seen representations of the Booty Dance? I'm thinking not, otherwise they would have had an appropriate non-verbal expression of their current status

I propose the ship nickname "Anxiety Boyfriends"

Jeffrey Anderson

How sweet!!!

Streb

As someone who dislikes surprise photos I uh... empathize with Yay a bit here. The power to mysteriously vanish surprise selfies you're suddenly involved in? Yes please.

That smirk of Roko's in the first panel! Your facial expressions are so so good!

Amazing Stace

At first I was like "Photo didn't save? Is the cloud down? IS THIS POWERCUT THE END OF THE WORLD?" Then I realised it was probably just Yay refusing to be observed.

Mark

I love Roko!

Mark

He's lucky that that's all that went wrong!

Jeffrey Henley

MacGyver it! (If MacGyver were slightly, but not a whole bunch, eviler)

Ack

"That's weird, photo didn't save ..." heh

Andrew

Quick, set off a mini EMP using the battery to wipe short term memory and try this conversation again!

Andrew

Yeah, they all felt the seismic vibrations!

William Cole

whynotboth.gif

Jacob Swider

I want what they have. The love, not the battery.

He's seen to have a thumb camera two strips ago, which is how he took the photo with Yay. So he's looking at his thumb as one might a malfunctioning camera or phone.

Callisto

Is the phone missing from his hand in panel 1? That thumb gesture seems odd otherwise.

Thisguy

One does not just take a digital photo of a digital eldritch abomination.

Chloë Salzenberg

This is the moment when Yelling Bird follows the example of Pintsize with Faybles.

Thomas A. Dennis

that's what HE said

Nicolas Demers

two strips ago :)

midwestmutt

I don't remember Christopher. When did he first show up?

Grace Kieser

Bi panic is more accurate

Yelling Bird

YES! WHIP 'EM OUT AND BLOW EACH OTHER IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY!

Drazi

I like the tagline. He deserves it.

Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson

"We're blowing it in front of everybody!" I'm dying! 😂

Absentia

Or... Yay forcibly deleted the photo before it could save. This is Yay we're talking about. They can do that.

Sleepy John

BTW. Elliot: No one asked.

Absentia

I wonder if she recognizes him...

Spoogle McGee

I like Christopher. I've always felt this series needed a villain.

Kyle Major

That is very close to what I thought Yay would do XD.

Sleepy John

Nouns are hard.

SpookyPenguin

hat and cane routine "boyfriendssss we're boyfriendsss we had a little nookie and we're boyfriendsssss"

Nicolas Demers

Only a matter of time, really. I did think they were both suspiciously chill last strip

Robert

"...sssssss" Yep. He's lucky all that happened is that the image failed to save.

Miyaa

Honking pelicans? Do I even want to know?

Runhildr Zaetl

Aaaaa, Jeph. I love your comic so much. Everything about this one in particular is *chef’s kiss*.

Michael Voorhis

Is someone keeping count of the remaining singles? A decreasing number.

Miyaa

GDI you cinnamon rolls!

Matt Grayson

First sex with a guy is one thing. Meeting new AI’s is MUCH more stressful.

Thomas Halpin

I could preventing or deleting the image as an important method of self defense. If Yay did change his passwords, those should be easy enough for him to recover and reset, but it would keep him busy long enough to forget about the pale AI that he didn't get to Selfie with.

Andrew Mitchell

OMG, these two are HILARIOUS together. Can't wait for more from the latest QC couple. ❤

Matt Grayson

The subtext is not always to be taken literally. I think deleting the photo was the limit of their interference.

Fart Captor

They're already so friggin' cute. I might literally die if they smooched

David Jackson

THESE 👏TWO 👏IDIOTS 👏

Chas Simmons

The subtext says: "Yay just changed all of Christopher's passwords." If you say so, but it doesn't fit my take on their personality, or ethics. They have enormous power, but don't use it much. Sure, they "eavesdrop", but that may be a lot like hearing to them, not so easy to shut out. All kinds of bad things go on around them, but they keep their hands off. Perhaps wisely. On the other hand, maybe they are "human" enough to be petty and vengeful.

Fart Captor

They're all so goddamn cute and gay 😍

Noise

I'm surprised he still has that hand.

Tamara Macadam

awwww

Sero

I mean I HOPE you boys are a couple now, there will be some unhappy shippers if you aren't. 8(

Dylan T

Someone please give these two like some chamomile tea or something

The World Famous Chocomerican

Bruh just say friend and figure it out later.

I love these two so much.

Maria E.

Every time I think they've reached peak adorkability, they prove me wrong.

Ali

Somehow they became more adorkable.

Julie Chan

and now Clinton is back to no chill

Lana Del Prey

Omg say the word boyfriend I want it so much

Jackie Horn

Poor Elliott is really going through it

Chas Simmons

There were several here who predicted what would happen to the photograph files.

Todd Ellner

Elliott: "OMG! Has anyone guessed we're doing the thing that makes Baby Republican Jesus cry?". Everyone else: "We heard you breaking furniture and screaming 'Make me honk like a pelican!' So yes."

Michael Boettger

And Roko is like, yeah, duh, could you two be more obvious?

Brooks Moses

Oh dear, Clinton's chill from the last few comics seems to have evaporated. Perhaps it needs electricity?

Matt Grayson

Oh thank God. I was afraid that Yay were losing their ineffable charm. I want to see the slow motion replay of the light from the flash creeping towards them as we see bits flipping in Christopher’s accounts. 10^11 frames/sec should do it.