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Sharing Power

🕑 Added 2021-07-19 01:11:18 +0000 UTC

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onitake

I always wonder where those other bodies are wandering around.

Jeremy Jorgensen

Roko's hand framed by the picture in the background made me think she was holding a gun at first. "There's a blackout!" *cocks gun* "Let's keep the streets safe!"

Yelling Bird

WHEN I FIRST READ THE NAME OF THE STRIP I THOUGHT IT SAID "SHARTING POWER!" GOD-DAMN WAS I DISAPPOINTED!

Todd Ellner

And getting risky highs from unfiltered AC

David Howe

Bubbles has been seen to charge though. It's possible Bubbles is hybrid - primarily battery, but with a fuel cell backup to extend her battery time and provide "grab and go" fueling in the field.

Todd Ellner

Bubbles must be warm because her military grade body is powered by a small reactor. Can't have the troops powering down in the field.

Gary Walker

Roko should have been an ambulance driver. She has the requisite sense of civic responsibility.

Mad Marie

Yay is trying to be all Qui Gon when the red force fields go up, but she’s really more of a Maul.

Mad Marie

Perhaps “safe” is simply the conservation of power.

Where I live in US it is currently 2am with a current temperature of 101 Fahrenheit (38.33 Celsius). During the day it's even more hot and with everyone's AC units running at full power it's not uncommon for a transformer to explode every so often. Our substation "exploded" about a month ago. Took nearly the entire day for the electric service workers to bring it back online.

David Durant

I'm going to ask the same question as yesterday - is part of the electricity infrastructure blowing up just a thing that happens in Canada / the US? The idea of an electricity substation blowing up here in the UK is unthinkable.

Absentia

with Elliot and Clinton no longer taking up space inside, i'm sure its much roomier.

TV4Fun

AND THEN THEY ALL FUCK!

Bollthorn

And here was me wondering about the implications of Roko and Yay going into the closet together...

Fart Captor

I love Roko so much

Darnel D Cooper

Times like this I wonder if all AI strength and speed is adjustable based on power use?

Andrew L Butula

That seemed to be as much about getting caught by Dale as it was about running out of juice. Seems like the smart move would be to put oneself into the lowest power mode possible and plug in behind a surge protector. Maybe set the equivalent of an alarm to wake you once you drop below a certain threshold or when morning rolls around.

e.a.rowe

Smacking myself for not realizing the implications of a power outage when I read yesterday's strip. Like, "ah well, guess it'll be dark for a while", as opposed to, "oh hell, which of our neighbours weren't at full charge?" I mean, May ran out of power at Sven's place and got revived, but clearly that was really distressing. And we don't know if any systems deteriorate when charge gets too low for too long, and and and I'm not overthinking this, you're overthinking this

Peter Lewerin

Cue AIs doing "battery stands" on the sidewalk.

Thomas Halpin

Roko is a good person

Yelling Bird

DO THE PALE ONE NAKED NEXT!

That Blair Guy

One item crossing my mind... Is this event part of the backstory of Alice Grove?

That Blair Guy

"Yay interacting with other AIs" has some interesting story potential

Matt Grayson

Maybe appearing in crowds?

Alex Borders

I don't know about Yay, but it took me about 1/2 of a pandemic to go through all of Netflix.

Carl Fink

I like the attention to detail. The transformer explosion knocked the background picture off kilter.

I think it's interesting that Yay worries about safety. I wonder what Yay regards as "unsafe."

Matt Grayson

If I had to guess (and I do), I'd say that this body is their "interact publicly" body so they put on the AI "accent" and avoid a valley uncanny from both sides.

Nutjob

I think I like Roko even more now. Community disaster and her first thought is sharing resources with people nearby.

Pejo

How presumptuous Yay is to just stay in someone's apt w/o asking when they leave. Also, was their switch to square speech bubbles ever addressed? Or does that remain part of the social contract?

That looks like Pintsize's old body!

Niskara

That is pure, undiluted evil and I'm all for it

Matt Grayson

Battery Party! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Brian Brewer

I didn't even realize that was how the last strip ended.

Elberik

1) nice to share battery 2) Don't bring that out for an hour or so. Wait until people are desperate because their phone is at 11%. And then charge them $50 per phone.