Smellovision

Welp I guess Im going to have to add Elliott to the list of fictional characters I have a crush on.

Tim Keating

LaCroix could literally make a flavor called "Weird Dumpster Goo" and people would still drink it.

Alex Kosnett

Coconut lacroix is what allows me to sympathize with Brun and her absinthe/ouzo/things that nobody else will want to take from you. A friend keeps a case of it in stock for me at his place. I get what y’all mean; coconut without sugar is pretty rough, but it’s all mine 😑

Grumpy Bird

I'd say suntan lotion myself

KapsLocked

Ugh coconut is definitely the one that tastes most like hair spray. I recommend tangerine flavor for a far better experience.

Larry

Reminds me of SNL: Bad Decision Family https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bad-decision-family/2868100

Ardent Slacker

Yeah. There's just rancid surfaces exposed to the air, nothing in the way, nothing trapping anything.

I am the captian now

I've seen it once in a store in San Antonio and I regret not getting a bottle to try it. I know it would be a war crime against taste but I wanted it for the experience.

Moxie is okay, just so long as you once acclimated yourself to Tab way back when. Also, whatever you do, for Ceiling Cat's sake, stay away from Bubly. #BleahHateIt

Douglas E. Smith

I have little experience with La Croix drinks, but I can say with certainty that Moxie is a crime against sapients.

Tim

Yes

Hanson's sugar-free, lemonade flavored energy drink. As soon as I spit it out my mind blanked the sensory memory of how horrible it was, so I tried it again...a couple of times. It did not get any better but I still wonder, how bad could it have been?

R. Francis Smith

I do that thing with finishing the awful drinks, but I trace it to having a dad who grew up during the dust bowl in Oklahoma and so I was trained to waste nothing. Mix with anxiety and serve.

R. Francis Smith

Okay, I'll do it. "How does she smell?"

Mark

Like Jif is a brand of peanut butter in the USA, lemon juice in the UK, and cleaning products in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jif

Creepy Cat Lady

As someone who does generally like La Croix (yes, even coconut), I can 1000% attest to the truth of this.

But...but Beeps has no nose...

I've been wondering for a while whether the AIs without noses can still smell. Apparently they can. Surface mounted olfactory sensors perhaps?

Pearl

This comic is great, but honestly I had to heart it this time because of Jeph's comment.

Jax

Oddly enough, trash compactors smell worse when they come back from being emptied.

Huw Morgan

"It's more of a practice than a process" Claire Augustus, August 19-20th 2020

darklion

Reminds me of this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5l26Fs0LI

Melody Lu

I want to make an "Americans and bleach" joke but I don't have the will :c but also, I love coconut La Croix. It is the one flavor that makes me contemplate paying for water.

Frédéric B.

You comment feels weird to me because where I live, La Croix is a brand of bleach. THE brand of bleach, really.

Evgeniy Semyonov

Red eyes, bends other people to her will, uses artificial body, thinks in absolutes... Roko is a Sith confirmed!

Bagge

Sometimes it takes a doofus to treat a doofus

Steve Red

lemon is surprisingly competent, i love her

Duncan

Over the course of reading the comments, I realised I'd missed a 'Jacques comment'. Also Lemon is so good! She's citruspectacular.

Nulgar

I feel like Beeps's last statement can also be applied to dating.

Andrew Mitchell

Now I feel like eating some stinky blue cheese. :)

Andrew Mitchell

Yes. And a lemon is also a fruit.

I have to wonder whether the AIs can control their olfactory sensitivity, or whether there's something like Discord audio clipping where sensitivity reduces in the presence of overwhelming stimulus?

Emmu Lah

Coconut lacroix + country time lemonade mix

Clarence the Liar

Don't you foist your cloying, bubbly, Federation tastes on me, hew-mon! I've got my eye on you.

Clarence the Liar

With Roko's level of bodily integration, I bet EMDR would work really well for her.

I see such divide over coconut La Croix in these comments. It's so different from something where the objectively correct response is enjoyment.. like root beer

"Green curry flavor ramen" is a great example of taking words that are pretty great separately and combining them into something ghastly

tim1724

Oh, now I want to buy some to try it… and I bet I'm not the only one. If they see any sales bump this month they should pay you royalties.

OldGoat

It's disturbing how much certain cheeses smell like that stuff that forms under toenails and we still eat it. The cheese, not the toejam.

Bagge

Beeps is sure into her physical sensations

don't forget the flavours they have that are sparkling water made in a factory that a truck with a banana in the front seat passed one day last summer. Or the flavour of sparkling water made in a place where the water was transported through a county that has an apple orchard in it, but not on the road the water took during transport.

Daniel Rydberg

You know, someone once said “maybe it won’t be as bad this time” so... No wait, that was Beeps...

Sleepy John

If there's anything that will make you feel like you are in your body, a smell bad enough to make you want to rip your nose off is probably it.

Sleepy John

Goats are proof that 'domesticated' is not the same as 'well-behaved.'

Sleepy John

LaCroix tastes like water canned in a factory with a picture of a strawberry on the sign outside.

Michael Boettger

Archie McFee in Seattle has kale flavored candy canes. Among others

KingAtticus

Not sure if there’s an AI equivalent to EMDR but that would be an interesting thing to show just since it feels as though for a lot of trauma that type of therapy isn’t shown often in stories

Yonatan Zunger

Reminder for anyone reading this: that kind of exposure is a small part of a much larger integrated process! While many of us with PTSD will find ourselves drawn towards triggers - in what's often a subconscious attempt at mastering our own trauma - the main thing that achieves is re-traumatization. Please do not simply head for things likely to traumatize or trigger you; it's exactly as bad an idea as it initially sounds. Also, watch out for coconut LaCroix. That stuff is gross.

Yonatan Zunger

Is that a euphemism for "I left a mug of tea out for a few months by accident, and got curious what was in it?"

doorbender

Glad I don’t have to face Thursday with that anxiety.

Larry

We had some kale flavored soda. Not bad, but we still didn't finish the 6-pack.

FWIW As a side note, sometimes spending time in triggering locations is part of a successful therapy technique for PTSD https://youtu.be/iOH1dYGU_iI **Although that is something one should do with guidance from a professional.** In this case I don't think Roko has PTSD/ that kind of PTSD. IF they had developed claustrophobia because they were worried that things falling from heights then it would apply. Anyway too much armchair psych. Um, lemon is hilarious and surprisingly effective bedside manor.

William Cole

Disrespect my beloved child Campari again, and I will end you. Campari and Diet Coke sounds like an abomination though.

Well done for finishing that 12 pack. If you make a huge mistake that involves bile chemical agents that should be banned by the Geneva Convention, the proper response is the equivalent of shoving the dogs nose in the wet spot on the floor. I don't approve of doing that with the dog, but the analogy still stands.

Simon Green

We used to have a ram called Bruce. He loved to eat vegetable scraps. Green apple cores were his favourite. One day I threw him a bunch of scraps which included a piece of raw ginger. He snaffled it up ... then threw his head back and jumped backwards three times screwing his nose up and shaking his head furiously. Then he went and ate more scraps.

Rob Vary

You know, sometimes there's just a really good sale.

Marty BlackEagle

La Croix sucks, your art is great... go Roko!

I take perverse pleasure in consuming drinks I hate. Diet Coke. Campari. I have not tried them together....

Ted Van Roekel

Lemon proving that eccentricity does not preclude competence.

Ian Wolfe

Why on Earth did you buy a 12-pack of an untested consumable? That's like begging Murphy to make it terrible.

Slashplane

Reminds me a friend got me some "green curry flavor" ramen. It was disgusting, ate all 4 packs, thinking it couldn't be as bad as I thought I should give it another try.

awgiedawgie

It seems it will probably successfully keep Roko grounded, regardless of who is holding – and smelling – it.

Caleb Hill

Lemon is a gem

My cat does this- she reacts comically to a smell then comes back with a "wait maybe ...?" then backs away sharply. But she has to smell *everything*.

Gary Walker

It's basically my experience with homebrew kombucha.

If you think that was vile, don't ever try the key lime pie flavor. I threw it out.

Shawn K. Younkin

That is exactly what I call it for my cats!!

I did this with a can of mint basil cider, honestly have no idea why i bought it in the first place

Andrew Mitchell

I'm so, so glad that Lemon was able to help Roko so quickly.

Noise

I think dating Beeps would be interesting, but watching her date someone else could be downright hilarious. Does anyone else think of Georgia Engel when they think of Beeps?

Michael Boettger

And again, Lemon displays her expertise and empathy.

Crap like coconut La Croix is why crap like Mio exists

Joel Bateman

Stop making me fall more in love with Beeps dangit

Douglas E. Smith

Waste not, want not taken to a painful extreme.

Shawn K. Younkin

And... we are back to remembering why Roko took over as the boss.

Michael Boettger

Maybe add some rum, and you might be onto something.

Somebody Else

Maybe it was just a bad batch, and like, a squirrel died in it, or something. You should buy another 12 pack just to be sure.

Barry Callahan

I've been in Beep's shoes.

Chase the Dragon

I got a free pack of la Croix once. Damn thing lasted 8 months before it got the leftovers were regifted to someone else.

Kajsa Anderson

Smellovision at our house is when we open the windows (aka kitty TV) and the cats can sniff as well as watch.

Onedavewreckingcrew

The idea of "well, it's not going anywhere by NOT doing anything about it" continues to be strangely pervasive

Shawn K. Younkin

Well... you can't let it go to waste... we are in a pandemic Jeph.

Wynn Donivan

But what if you put the lime La Croix in the coconut La Croix and drink them both up?

Celine Chamberlin

Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. No.

JD

After rising to the occasion at the shop, it's nice to see Beeps is back to her normal goofy self.

Sydney Schreckengost

Coconut La Croix is my favorite. You monster.

Max D S

Maybe this time it won't be so bad...

Creepy Cat Lady

lol I like coconut La Croix.

PlasticArmyMan

La Croix is vile as a whole

Michael

29th times the charm

fluffy

Can't waste the La Croix, after all.

Michael Boettger

The lime is pretty good, BTW.

doorbender

80085