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Modem Noises

🕑 Added 2021-06-28 01:10:08 +0000 UTC

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Diana

I've never identified with Claire more than this moment.... (and I'm a trans girl who only found this comic because of her.)

Aaron Schulz

The futurama episode with the werecar has a good joke about it, bender being terrified because he saw so many 1s and 0s, and even a 2. Makes me laugh about robot dreams.

Matt Grayson

I’ve read all of them but that one. I particularly like the late transitional Memory, Komarr, and Civil Campaign, but everyone is different.

Dimitar Bounov

Curious. Was it a good book? I have read only 1-2 books in the Vorkosigan Saga

Mark

One of my favourite series contains a novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_of_Athos whose ending implies that the title planet will be full of telepaths in a few hundred years, but the author pretty much forgot about it.

Gaz

in five years we're gonna have psychics in the comic, and i personally, can't wait

Miranda E. O. Wilde

Pintsize's AGAB is assigned goblin at boot

Seidmadr

Times like this are when you can see Claire and Clint really being related!

Drew McGhie

Come on, they'd use ESP-8601

Bagge

I love that Beeps and Faye were kinda semi serious. They were this close to get a new room mate.

William Cole

Telepathy with humans is like trying to watch adult movies on a scrambled cable channel.

Adrian Bartoli

because telepathy with humans is not like calling a fax line apparently

Andrew Mitchell

I initially read Claire's comment in the final panel as "Considering how many faulty assumptions you have to make to believe in PHYSICS" and I was suddenly incredibly disappointed in Claire and felt she had let me down.... Then it was all reversed and my faith in her was restored when I realised my mistake.

Uniquitous

A fair point, but I still feel that a Pintsize who is not a chaos goblin is no Pintsize at all.

Czarzhan

Pintsize has, on occasion, shown unexpected wisdom and insight about his position as a human companion. I think this storyline is the beginning of him becoming relevant in the comic again (really, QC has grown so much in quality and maturity of the stories, Pintsize's purpose was in danger of becoming vestigial and forgotten if he didn't experience some growth himself).

Uniquitous

If Pintsize ceases to be a horrible goblin, what's even left?

Brooks Moses

On the other hand, about 15 years ago when fiber-to-the-apartment-building internet was a thing, and they were trying to get customers by offering everything down to and including "just a VoIP phone connection and no other internet", and I was a cheapskate student with a free dialup connection at the university, I got a just-plain-VoIP-phone connection and used it for my dialup modem for a couple of years. It was one of the most stable modem connections I've had.

Matthew Van Gangelen

Don’t be a wet blanket Claire!

OldGoat

There are a few possibilities, a couple are horrifying. :(

Tudza

Well, I can verify that fax over VoIP doesn't always work. Had to get the company a land line. Next company we let a service do the landline and email us PDFs of the faxes.

Agnes

GOD I call fax lines at work SO MANY TIMES BY ACCIDENT and it sucks

Drazi

Google "the internet is expanding" on YouTube, if you haven't seen it 😇

"Family reports receiving 16 calls from missing grandparents' landline in collapsed Florida condo" Not kidding, google it.

Anthony Gaglianese

And now all I can hear is a dial-up modem.😑

Max Kaehn

There is probably a genre of spooky AI stories. "On nights of the full moon, a mysterious shared object library can appear on empty mass storage, and if you link it, BAD THINGS HAPPEN!"

BobC

Beeps and Pintsize are totally different. Beeps is a moving target. Pintsize is mobile artillery.

Valraven

Yeah, I don't entirely like the way Claire responded to that, but I suppose there's a difference between "belief" and "open to the existence of." I can get on board with belief requiring faulty assumptions, whereas simply being open requires one to, well, be open to the idea that there is not *yet* a mechanism of action we know of

Douglas E. Smith

They (Roko and Pintsize) already tried a date and I believe Pintsize threw toast at her? Neither were impressed.

M. R.

This is really clever hehe

Sammitch

Just leaking packets

Miyaa

So let’s say Pintsize returns, talks to Beeps. Beeps reintroduces Pintsize to Roko. They share a bond from feeling out of place in their new bodies. It gets romantic-ish. Oh no. Oh no no no. I’m going to need some brain bleach!