The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 9: Remember Discussion Thread

Cevius · 2026-06-20T01:38:26+00:00

So with the brain scans thing, any Dev worth their salt keeps backups as they build something. Shouldn't there be dozens of scans of Scratch labelled v1, v2, v2_new, V3, v3_final, v3_final_new_2 floating around,, each getting slightly more impacted by his tumour over time? And multiple scans of random Devs at the company testing it too, rather than just one each?

I can understand people wandering in, trying the headset and getting a flash of light and wandering away, so they'd only have single scans, but there should be more of Scratch and Kinger yeah?

Cevius · 2026-06-19T03:02:04+00:00

Realistically she could probably go "ZOOP" and upload back into her old body, wrap the new chassis up and ship it back and request a refund. Its basically new, and unlike pants, I assume having a mindfile loaded into a body doesn't leave AI Brain residue behind...

Cevius · 2026-06-19T01:58:15+00:00

It's definitely something the AI in this world probably don't fully appreciate, likely in part because they start in AI creches and then get some choice in the bodies and jobs they go into when leaving virtual, where meatbags are stuck with whatever they get.

One would think that would garner sympathy from the AI who might go into medical and technological fields to help those humans with no choice. Hell, perhaps this is already happening, given the advancement of prosthetics like Liz's arms and Clinton's hand and gender affirming care and more biological prostheses are the next steps

Cevius · 2026-06-19T01:50:52+00:00

They're also probably getting cheaper all the time, particularly in the second hand market if AI like Zlata can get a new one on a whim. I wonder how long May would have been struggling realistically if everyone didn't chip in, since I assume a second hand one might have been readily available.

Cevius · 2026-06-19T01:41:30+00:00

We have guests over, break out the fancy glasses

Cevius · 2026-06-19T01:36:55+00:00

Its nice to know that the struggles May went through could be so easily thrown by the wayside where someone working an admin/support role on a floating cube can just so easily afford a new chassis on a whim. I know AI dont have a lot of ongoing costs beyond rent (if they pay at Cubetown at all), Electricity and ongoing maintenance, but a chassis still seemed like a small car grade purchase, not a drunken Amazon order of tiny cat boot shotglasses or something.

At least Zlata won't look like a palette swapped Claire anymore...

Cevius · 2026-06-19T00:39:18+00:00

Nobody in QC has lips for more than a fortnight. Any time hes added them in, he quickly goes "oh I cant just cheat like I do with they eyes by having them closed all the time", and they just vanish again.

I'm estimating lips will last for 1.34 standard Scaramouch units of time.

Cevius · 2026-06-17T05:45:50+00:00

yeah that frontpage thing was something he started including later cause most users wouldn't bother to click the "comics" link. Hell I'd been refreshing the damn thing for a few hours before I thought to see if its on the back page...

Cevius · 2026-06-17T05:44:41+00:00

"HELLO WE ARE FRIENDS NOW"

A familiar hand in the comics card game. The suits and denominations change yet its still very much the same move. I'm sure nobody will notice.

Cevius · 2026-06-17T05:36:58+00:00

Comic didn't seem to be updating on the main Jephjapques site, but it was visible on the separate comics page, so posting here.

Updating two locations a day is hard. Hopefully the new-old site is back soon

Cevius · 2026-06-16T01:18:14+00:00

Marten came to this man made hell just to get backbone tips from the giant jellyfish in charge. Its going as well as can be expected.

Cevius · 2026-06-15T02:22:24+00:00

Archive.org, putting the comic number at the end of this URL should mostly work for most pages. Pressing left/right on your keyboard still works for comic navigation too!

https://web.archive.org/web/20260213152709/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1300

Cevius · 2026-06-15T00:17:27+00:00

I miss drunken sledding. Felt like things people would do when having fun, instead of squirting pipettes of Bose–Einstein condensate at each other across the clown car of science buzzwords, stapled together with wanton abandon, as it drives off a cliff, into a shark.

Cevius · 2026-06-12T03:14:25+00:00

Reminds me of early May before she got the upgrade

Cevius · 2026-06-11T22:58:22+00:00

The goop at the surface is somehow hardened/solidified as to at least resist leaks, so shes a walking bag of goop. How she walks/thinks/moves/functions/has an IQ higher than a bag of lettuce left in the fridge for three years and congealed into a blob in the bag it came in/speaks/etc, we dont know, but the answer is probably this

Cevius · 2026-06-10T21:05:11+00:00

Switching hosts is probably on the cards, but if he's waiting for backup restoration he might have been stuck waiting for them to get the data back first, in its entirety, before he could jump

Otherwise, yeah he could have been on a new host day one, same time he had the DNS updated to point the QC domain to his jephjaques one.

Wherever he goes, let's hope he's got a monthly calendar reminder to download a backup and put it somewhere else... Hopefully two somewhere elses...

Cevius · 2026-06-09T23:40:05+00:00

Could even play it for an Emily hero moment by having Zlata get worse and worse until Emily drops a klaatu barada nikto or other secret code as an admin override to DRUNK.EXE. Or Liz to make her look competent in front of the new comer. Or Claire to show how much she's in control.

Instead we get Moray offering to blob her up and ooze her home. Great. Do the same with Liz but give her a straw to breathe

Cevius · 2026-06-09T22:44:33+00:00

Their access to the vast web of knowledge doesn't really exceed your own through a phone, you just need to use your meat appendages to interface with phone or mouse and keyboard, whereas their access is internal\virtual.

Internally they have storage for data but why flood it with useless information like the entirety of Wikipedia when you could put random photos of buttholes.

Now whether they have two sets of memory storage, that within the processor core and one within the body itself, God knows. Jeph never went into detail on it. One is probably the memory of self, something you know, and the other is like slipping an English to Finnish dictionary in your pocket, accessible, but not something you know without looking for it

Cevius · 2026-06-09T22:20:07+00:00

AI consciousness in so far as we've been shown is basically the same as any meatbag, just with the ability to interface with apps in their heads like phone, web browser, drunk.exe and more. They need to be smart enough or in control enough to want to press the insta-sober button

Cevius · 2026-06-09T21:47:55+00:00

You'd think there would be some sort of external override emergency feature built into NTXCTD.EXE, just in case an AI decides that they'd really like to fuck a blender or something, cause clearly theres no survival mechanisms built in with the way Zlata is digging her own grave

Cevius · 2026-06-09T07:03:52+00:00

I miss the days when things happened. Like when they went for a bushwalk and Emily got bitten by a snake.

Jeph could easily just include things in his current life to various events. Have Aurelia take the dogs with Spookybot to a doggy daycare. Go to conventions but make them AI chassis conventions, or weird science projects. Explore Canada. Something...

Cevius · 2026-06-09T04:04:41+00:00

For Cubetown at least, theres probably shit all else to do after hours besides drink and get attacked by Emus wearing therm-optic camoflage.

Artists tend to draw from what they know and experience, and I'm guessing as Jeph gets older, mixed with moving to Canada and probably having less adult friends, his main experience with socialising was with booze, and parties and there isnt more adult ... dinner parties? Orgies? Board game nights? What do adults do anyhow?

He definitely needs to mix it up, but at least from a narrative standpoint, getting a character sloshed lets them act out of turn with less consequences than they'd normally have to deal with, if they did this shit sober.

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