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Connect Four

🕑 Added 2020-08-03 00:40:04 +0000 UTC

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Ardent Slacker

Well, they still... are the all-powerful Spookybot. Just, yanno, learning to have a little chill.

Tim Keating

Wait... is the beetle still there?

Ísabel Pirsic

you erroneously suppose they’re playing by vanilla rules 🙃

Yonatan Zunger

I would be totally down for stories about Tabitha Carapace. That's one of those names that pretty much requires a story.

Erin Moriarty

Tabby should be the next yelling bird.

Alex Borders

Skimming back through the archives, Yay has had a neck-seam; same as Roku. Methinks its absence was a goof.

I'm betting that Yay made a 5x donation match...

David Pipes

You need to write a children's book about Tabitha Carapace's Big Day Out, Jeph.

Piogre

Melon has a win in 6 or 9 moves, depending on whose turn it is https://connect4.gamesolver.org/en/?pos=121242257747677553 https://connect4.gamesolver.org/en/?pos=213456277122547577

Called it. Melon totally donated half of May's new body fund lol

Mark

Roko seems to have become used to arriving home and finding Yay and Melon there, as opposed to resenting it the previous time https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4108 . She might even find it comforting now.

Jonathan

Has Yay informed Melon that Connect Four is a "solved game", meaning they can always win if they go first?

Melon literally just told you how to get one.

Populuxe

Really liking the growth in Yay as a character. They are so much more interesting now than when they were the seemingly all-powerful Spookybot.

It scares me a bit that the first thing I thought when I read this is: will, or did?

Marc Pengryffyn

I want a pet beetle now...

William Cole

N-dimensional Connect 4!

BobC

What was Melon smellin'?

Bagge

Melon is the gift that just keep giving

Rob Vary

Regardless of how AIs normally play it, I feel like a game with Melon would have its own special rules.

Summer Sudbrink

I wonder if you could make dual-layer connect 4.

Michael Boettger

It just occurred to me that QC is in an alternate universe. Hanners will release it in ours.

Michael Boettger

That was before all this transpired. The release is in an alternate universe.

Simon Green

How do two AIs play Connect Four anyway? Wouldn't the first player to move put their piece down, they both stare at the rack for a moment, and then declare a winner? Or is "human level cognition only" one of the rules, like playing Counter Strike with knives?

Captain Button

But somehow, someday, it leads to Hannelore ordering the release of The Virus.

Captain Button

Well the Creator <i>is</i> inordinately fond of beetles...

Yonatan Zunger

Roko, you triggered a major but likely slow-moving institutional reform, with Hanners cat-herding it to keep it functional, and got together a fund-raising drive that's going to take care of May, not institutionally but by embedding her more deeply in her own community, one which clearly cares about her. Your goal wasn't to solve the problem some particular way, it was to solve the problem. And you made massive progress on both the short- and long-term aspects of it in a single day. You are seriously good at your new job.

Abhayakara

Nope. You have to follow the sandhi rules. The r is only elided when no open vowel follows it. So, cah, cahs, ceah (care), carapace.

Denizen Blue

I feel like what Yay considers a "modest" contribution might be a bit startling for May.

Pete Hanson

Is that pronounce Cah-a-PACH-ee?

Twist: melon is incredibly wealthy, 90% of the money came from her

Solomon Garland

I like how Yay started out going by Spookybot and wearing suits and now they just show up in, apparently, boxer shorts and a big t-shirt, to play board games on Roko's couch.

Andrew Mitchell

Poor Roko, she's way too hard on herself. ☹️ I empathise... And well done Yay for making sure Roko understands what she's achieved.

Joseph Houk

They are legion. They are plural.

Joseph Houk

Yes, but we'll never know how much they pitched in.

Leaflemming

Now tops my list of future Patreon strips I want to see.

Matt Grayson

The whole cast makes me happy!

jimbo

so, what gender is Yay Newfriend aka spookybot? They're initial appearance in suit/ tie I thought effeminate male, then while friending Roko more ambiguously female.. I'm at a loss.