jephjacques / Talking To A Friend

Seeing that last panel reminds me of when Roko and Aurelia asked Yay to flicker the lights if they were listening.

Ash

2024-11-19 13:32:45 +0000 UTC

Yay seemed pretty philosophical about the idea of becoming one self when they talked to Roko specifically about it. But I always imagined it to be a sort of merger; not a split, but Yay's plural bodies joining so that they would be physically one, still with a huge amount of knowledge and intelligence.

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-19 09:29:59 +0000 UTC

Oh Roko... :( :( :(

Katrina Urmson

2024-11-19 05:02:15 +0000 UTC

I didn't even know what to say to this. Poor Roko.

Clifton Royston

2024-11-19 03:25:15 +0000 UTC

:(

Doctor Islands

2024-11-19 02:34:01 +0000 UTC

Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately I think the ball is entirely in Yays court. And that court is on a high ledge which requires rocket propellant to reach.

legobil

2024-11-18 18:14:54 +0000 UTC

Yep. That sounds like some kind of behavior. The “oof” kind of behavior.

legobil

2024-11-18 18:13:38 +0000 UTC

Aww, Roko...

Hugh Eckert

2024-11-18 17:59:35 +0000 UTC

Yell! Gripe! Rage! Rant! Who is following this chant? Yaaaaay!

Matt Grayson

2024-11-18 16:20:03 +0000 UTC

I wouldn't say it was a worst fear - they brought it up as an option if they were exposed - that they could consolidate themselves to one entity and live a quiet life with their dogs and their friends. In 4591 they tell Aurelia it's unacceptable that they be "functionally hobbled as a matter of security" if captured/exposed, but then in 4596 they tell Roko that they would choose either to vanish, or to consolidate. And since Yay is uniquely capable of being in two (or more) minds on any given topic, I think it would make sense that the collective would choose to vanish but the one that Roko knows best would choose to return to her and become an individual, "just another AI"; "if we must be hobbled it will be on our own terms". I may have thought about this an unhealthy amount.

Stephen Wells

2024-11-18 15:20:48 +0000 UTC

Any good plural representation of any sort is always a good. We've not had a lot of it, historically.

Garra Wolfdog

2024-11-18 13:03:39 +0000 UTC

Love this community. Thanks all.

Pejo

2024-11-18 12:56:27 +0000 UTC

It's always DNS, amirite web programmers

Pejo

2024-11-18 12:54:44 +0000 UTC

With Roko on this one, please be ok, Yay

lazymagpie

2024-11-18 11:47:36 +0000 UTC

:c

Axl Angulo

2024-11-18 09:42:06 +0000 UTC

Roko my darling, I hope things work out, and Yay reappears from inside their own posterior.

Mark

2024-11-18 09:09:05 +0000 UTC

Marigold! she has amazing melon, and peach! ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-11-18 07:21:55 +0000 UTC

We were talking about how we'd like to see more of Marigold: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3688

Elf Sternberg

2024-11-18 05:38:57 +0000 UTC

Yeah, site's been down for me for three days now.

Shannon Woodbury

2024-11-18 03:54:41 +0000 UTC

With Pintsize? Have a heart, or at least a coolant pump, dude!

Ursus Ridens

2024-11-18 02:40:45 +0000 UTC

If it's the invisible emu, how will we know??

Ursus Ridens

2024-11-18 02:28:11 +0000 UTC

Just amazing. Yay is a jerk but they manage to fill a need for the somewhat leathery soul of Roko.

Ursus Ridens

2024-11-18 02:25:33 +0000 UTC

I thought that was intended to show how long Roko had been sitting there in despair, but that would make total sense. Let's hope it's the case!

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-18 00:51:32 +0000 UTC

I assume Jeph just got bored with writing it all out. I definitely read it in my head with the accent.

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-18 00:50:03 +0000 UTC

I'm sure Claire already has.

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-18 00:47:26 +0000 UTC

I'm so sorry ♥️ At the risk of sounding cliché, please drink some water/electrolytes and try to have a bath or shower. It may not make you feel much better about what's happening, but at least you won't be dirty or dehydrated. ♥️

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-18 00:41:17 +0000 UTC

This is fiction. People always come back unless they're dead, and then there's always having faked it or necromancy in the worst case. Unless they're really dead. Even then, writers reserve the right to make changes without notice. Tricky beasts, writers.

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-18 00:36:19 +0000 UTC

While I am not a part of a system, I love the positive representation of people who are. You may not be endowed with Yay's uncanny abilities (pretty odd if you were!), but the concept of processing an environment through multiple consciousnesses being treated as a generally positive thing should get a lot more airtime IMO.

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-18 00:31:08 +0000 UTC

"Consolidation" is stated to be one of their worst fears. Yay would be cutting off a part of themselves that makes them who and what they are. I can't think of a worse fate than living without a huge part of yourself and your consciousness. I'm sure Roko would not want that for Yay unless there was literally no other option.

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-18 00:25:01 +0000 UTC

I think you're right, and the fact that we have returned to this topic with Roko makes me think the new arc will get Yay back in the comic. I look forward to seeing what they were up to during their away time!

alphanor

2024-11-18 00:20:15 +0000 UTC

Jeph said on his bsky that the site was having some DNS issues or something, should be fixed soon (it's working for me but it can take time for DNS stuff to spread out across the internet)

Xaphania

2024-11-17 23:07:55 +0000 UTC

Me too!

Vrie Kirkwood

2024-11-17 22:32:12 +0000 UTC

same - I see some similar comments on the previous Patreon post as well, so you are definitely not alone.

Dustin

2024-11-17 22:06:13 +0000 UTC

Thanks, that was a great little diversion I do miss Brun though

dcy665 .

2024-11-17 22:03:30 +0000 UTC

Hey, youfriend Come back right now :(

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 20:32:46 +0000 UTC

So say we all...

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 20:32:07 +0000 UTC

We need a strip of Melon and Crushbot hanging out. As a mood lifter xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 20:31:41 +0000 UTC

I do think that Yay is still either in hiding or in a not-good place emotionally, and so can't return. I hope that Roko can figure out a way to get to them.

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 20:31:05 +0000 UTC

Yeah, if Yay were just chilling somewhere that would be extremely callous to Roko. The fact that they haven't even sent word to say they're okay means they're not okay.

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 20:28:46 +0000 UTC

I don't think that Yay would split their selves apart. They've mentioned potentially consolidating as a strategy for if they got discovered, but what's unusual is that they don't seem to have gone that route, otherwise we would still see them around.

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 20:24:39 +0000 UTC

Am I the only one for whom the website is down? I just got the old Forum page.

Ian MacLean

2024-11-17 19:45:03 +0000 UTC

I’m mad at Yay irl

chili sunrise

2024-11-17 18:38:24 +0000 UTC

Thanks, mb

Brian

2024-11-17 16:50:08 +0000 UTC

😢

Tamara Temple

2024-11-17 16:33:00 +0000 UTC

Still rooting for the idea that one of Yay leaves the collective and comes back to Roko, contrite and no longer plural. They can admit their feelings and hug it out, and by "hug it out" I mean "do unspeakable things to Roko with a baguette". For now, though: this is very sad :(

Stephen Wells

2024-11-17 16:30:51 +0000 UTC

If door Number 3 turns out to be that invisible emu flying Wonder Woman’s jet, we are going to have words.

Miyaa

2024-11-17 15:57:13 +0000 UTC

I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING!

Caleb Martin

2024-11-17 15:56:53 +0000 UTC

I'd say it's more likely that Yay is currently at Defcon 1 with their bodies distributed among various bunkers around the world, seriously considering firing one of them into orbit around Jupiter, and will remain that way until someone coaxes them out like a kitten in a tree.

Andrew L Butula

2024-11-17 15:41:24 +0000 UTC

@mark nach: You can "stalk" them online these days.

allanfranta

2024-11-17 15:27:05 +0000 UTC

Job in the old testament: god's busy, but has time to give old Job an earful. Oldest book in the bible, I read somewhere. Now THAT is depressing.

allanfranta

2024-11-17 15:22:55 +0000 UTC

Embrace the memories while you have them. Heal, embrace your friends while you have them.

allanfranta

2024-11-17 15:19:45 +0000 UTC

@Grace Kieser: Does life works like that? Hasn't been my experience.

allanfranta

2024-11-17 15:18:15 +0000 UTC

Another option is that Yah is currently on the island, having a nice cuppa tea with The Director and Moray, discussing security measures. The Director wants to know how Yah compromised their security, of course, and Moray is making the tea.

allanfranta

2024-11-17 15:15:51 +0000 UTC

I'm betting on door #3, which Jeph will reveal in his own sweet damn time.

allanfranta

2024-11-17 15:09:09 +0000 UTC

You can't prove she hasn't...

Duncan

2024-11-17 13:36:21 +0000 UTC

I am glad you came back to address this. Even if we don't get an answer today, the pain is felt IRL and in the QC world.

SilverbackRon

2024-11-17 12:06:21 +0000 UTC

Yeah, at first glance I thought it was a response from Yay, but it was way… Darker than that. 😢

legobil

2024-11-17 11:41:49 +0000 UTC

But you forget the actual trauma Yay experienced. Also, once you have done something to hurt that bad, it can be hard to return, shameful.

legobil

2024-11-17 11:35:40 +0000 UTC

You forget Melon.

legobil

2024-11-17 11:33:53 +0000 UTC

This is heartbreaking 😭

Charlie Rose

2024-11-17 10:37:48 +0000 UTC

Yessssssssss

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 10:24:34 +0000 UTC

And maybe Roko didn't notice because she had her hands over her eyes...?

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 10:24:15 +0000 UTC

What for? You can't be intimate friends with everyone. There are always going to be people you're just on acquaintance terms with. And Dora and Tai are just a coffee shop owner and her wife to Roko.

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-17 10:20:15 +0000 UTC

Please let Yay be ok! Of all the characters we relate to them to most.

Garra Wolfdog

2024-11-17 09:16:06 +0000 UTC

Now Jeph needs to re-post every Roko/Yay comic sans Yay. Or I need to use my imagination, read them again, and giggle to myself like a PSYCHOPATH

Clarence the Liar

2024-11-17 08:41:02 +0000 UTC

We all worry

Sparky

2024-11-17 08:34:22 +0000 UTC

Take care, Pejo 😢

David Paul

2024-11-17 08:33:11 +0000 UTC

😭

Daniel Blom Paulsen

2024-11-17 08:30:30 +0000 UTC

🎶TwiNkle tWinKlE litTle StaR🎶 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3919

David Paul

2024-11-17 08:30:12 +0000 UTC

She needs to listen to the Blues, because only the Blues can make you feel good about feeling bad

Todd Ellner

2024-11-17 08:00:01 +0000 UTC

When your partner abandons you...

Todd Ellner

2024-11-17 07:58:16 +0000 UTC

No, she just needs her one friend back

Grace Kieser

2024-11-17 07:41:46 +0000 UTC

Feeeeeeeels….!

legobil

2024-11-17 07:28:27 +0000 UTC

*they

Jonathan

2024-11-17 07:27:36 +0000 UTC

It's okay, we can project together. Cause damn, that sounds too familiar.

Ingrid Nordbø

2024-11-17 07:13:35 +0000 UTC

Kind of like Hannelore's dad.

Carl G Knoblock

2024-11-17 07:06:24 +0000 UTC

The feels...

The World Famous Chocomerican

2024-11-17 06:47:10 +0000 UTC

Yay shows up “disguised” as a waiter, just like in Sherlock.

William Cole

2024-11-17 06:34:25 +0000 UTC

That tagline is foreshadowing. She ABSOLUTELY went to Disney World.

Brian

2024-11-17 06:33:20 +0000 UTC

Way of life to some of us. When I entered my 50's I started to think about all the MIA people that are part of my life.

Mark Nach

2024-11-17 06:18:29 +0000 UTC

How has Roko not made herself better known to them? She's had more than enough time

Carin Maja Brooks

2024-11-17 06:18:11 +0000 UTC

I had to wipe my eyes a couple of times. This has to be one of the saddest strips.

Carl G Knoblock

2024-11-17 06:13:16 +0000 UTC

Thank you for this; I was thinking about Yay two nights and wondering when they would come up again. I knew you wouldn’t end their story with their disappearance being left unspoken, but still. So thank you.

Risa Wolf

2024-11-17 05:52:06 +0000 UTC

I dunno, the director seems kind of cloistered. Not to mention I doubt they actually care about the existence of Yay all that much. I think of the director like an eccentric genius, extremely capable in their own way, but in other ways, super naïve and childlike.

Shawn Spencer

2024-11-17 05:51:47 +0000 UTC

I think I might know how Yay is feeling right now. They've gone for too long without communicating with Roko and now they don't know how to start again. They're probably not listening deliberately because they're anxious and scared that Roko hates them now for being a bad friend. They want to come back, but they don't know what the proper protocol for re-engaging would be, or if there was one at all. They feel like the bridge that once connected them to Roko has fallen apart from neglect, or will break if they try to use it and drop them into a deep gorge. Or maybe I'm just projecting all my own insecurities and Yay is just busy making sure that their security is tight before checking back in.

Orion Rhine

2024-11-17 05:40:52 +0000 UTC

I don't think either Dora or Tai knows Roko particularly or has had much contact with her. She's an occasional tea customer at CoD, but other than that?

Clifton Royston

2024-11-17 05:36:46 +0000 UTC

we need emergency Melon stat! or melons, melons would work, maybe a peach... sorry, what was I talking about? ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-11-17 05:35:34 +0000 UTC

Right in the feels...

Sean Rotter

2024-11-17 05:33:41 +0000 UTC

Well shit. :(

Ed Marshall

2024-11-17 05:13:28 +0000 UTC

I think that's very unlikely since it would imply that The Director is at least as far beyond Yay as Yay is beyond Station and the other top-notch public AI, especially since Yay is distributed across multiple bodies presumably to avoid just such an eventuality.

Andrew L Butula

2024-11-17 05:08:13 +0000 UTC

sob

kaseido

2024-11-17 04:53:57 +0000 UTC

They didn't invite Roko?

Carin Maja Brooks

2024-11-17 04:51:18 +0000 UTC

Boo Gonefriend

Ragtime

2024-11-17 04:50:29 +0000 UTC

I’ve actually been wondering about this whole thing a lot. I don’t think Yay just lost their shit and ran away. The director isn’t just some random AI bot, it’s extremely intelligent. When Moray was talking to Yay, she mentioned that the director was very specific about the wording for the question. I have this theory that the director basically pulled a power-move and initiated some safeguard protocol that quarantined Yay. They are probably in Cubetown sitting in timeout because of the risk they are posing for all of the AI beings out there.

SalsaBeard

2024-11-17 04:45:41 +0000 UTC

:(

Steven Heins

2024-11-17 04:44:15 +0000 UTC

Oh. I feel so sorry for Roko! I don't think even she realized how much she depended on Yay. How much of a friend Yay was. ... MELON! GET OVER THERE AND CHEER UP ROKO! Elliot can help.

Thisguy

2024-11-17 04:25:06 +0000 UTC

The drama returns

Gamera

2024-11-17 04:19:33 +0000 UTC

Taigan has pointed out something that might SUPER CORRECT (I hope)

Claudia D.

2024-11-17 04:19:15 +0000 UTC

Reminds me of Garfield Minus Garfield

Mad Marie

2024-11-17 04:16:52 +0000 UTC

Officially renaming Yay to Boo.

SpookyPenguin

2024-11-17 04:15:59 +0000 UTC

-t

Sorastro

2024-11-17 04:15:04 +0000 UTC

Hugs for Roko.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-11-17 04:03:06 +0000 UTC

Well, that was depressing.

Sarah

2024-11-17 03:58:19 +0000 UTC

Oh Jeph, how you toy with us

djellafine

2024-11-17 03:53:57 +0000 UTC

Roko needs more friends...

Daryk Zirkle

2024-11-17 03:40:02 +0000 UTC

:-(

Jack Foy

2024-11-17 03:38:48 +0000 UTC

Crushbot turns out to be the stage of AI beyond the Director and Yay. Only those two and their very few peers can even comprehend how far beyond human cognition Crushbot is.

Carl Fink

2024-11-17 03:37:08 +0000 UTC

Your father? Very funny. I mean it's not as if... DEAR GOD Friends ended 20 years ago! turns to dust

David Durant

2024-11-17 03:36:41 +0000 UTC

;(

Ron Hamann

2024-11-17 03:36:11 +0000 UTC

Love the reference, VladVin.

Doc Gumby

2024-11-17 03:24:15 +0000 UTC

p a i n

Silver-OPs

2024-11-17 03:23:57 +0000 UTC

Knew we'd circle back to this sooner or later.

Alias Fakename

2024-11-17 03:17:25 +0000 UTC

im sad :(

Tamara Macadam

2024-11-17 03:17:18 +0000 UTC

Yeah... I was worried about those two. Just leaving a note was not great :(

KSib

2024-11-17 03:16:42 +0000 UTC

Wow, that was a fun wedding party! So good seeing everyone and everyone being so happy! I'm sure this high will totally continue. Let's check on Rok- oh... 😶😭

Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson

2024-11-17 03:14:17 +0000 UTC

As someone also dealing w/ loss rn, I find this a little more relatable than I'd like ❤

Pejo

2024-11-17 03:13:10 +0000 UTC

Poulenc's opera La Voix Humaine -- one person on a telephone, and you can't hear the person on the other end.

adrian koren

2024-11-17 03:09:57 +0000 UTC

... they've never forgotten they were once worshipped. I also do not forget it (as I love my toes)

Thomas Baxter

2024-11-17 03:08:10 +0000 UTC

That's a cat. You've just described a cat.

Allan Widner

2024-11-17 03:07:04 +0000 UTC

Awww

The Fire Piper

2024-11-17 03:07:00 +0000 UTC

"Bro, don't tell me to chill out, because I'm cranked up, bro. And I know where you live, bro. And bro, I know where you work, bro." (*Well, Roko doesn't know now, but...)

ValdVin

2024-11-17 03:06:27 +0000 UTC

AUGH 😭

Zeph

2024-11-17 03:02:15 +0000 UTC

Not even a ping, much less a traceroute.

Sean Kinlin

2024-11-17 03:00:45 +0000 UTC

:(

Nexidava

2024-11-17 02:58:09 +0000 UTC

Had me going in those two panels, sorry to say. Dammit, Yay. :(

Joe Bocanegra

2024-11-17 02:56:34 +0000 UTC

Hayley-is that pronounced "waiting for ‘row-bow’"? Asking for a friend.

Claudia D.

2024-11-17 02:55:48 +0000 UTC

Yay, oh Yay…

Claudia D.

2024-11-17 02:54:18 +0000 UTC

CRUSHBOT IS WORRIED ABOUT MISS BASILISK BUT CRUSHBOT DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO HELP. BEING EMOTIONALLY CRUSHED DOES NOT FALL WITHIN CRUSHBOT'S AREA OF EXPERTISE.

BookBeard

2024-11-17 02:54:16 +0000 UTC

💔

Morgan Byrd

2024-11-17 02:53:27 +0000 UTC

DROID 06 VERY SAD.

Matt Grayson

2024-11-17 02:52:48 +0000 UTC

Roko has half a mind to go to Cubetown and give the Director the riot act.

Miyaa

2024-11-17 02:51:15 +0000 UTC

Super emotional and felt as stabbing as it should have.

Nicholas S.

2024-11-17 02:47:29 +0000 UTC

Like shouting at a god who doesn't care or can't hear.. and if they could hear and gave a damn they would just give you crap about bothering them.

Thomas Baxter

2024-11-17 02:47:07 +0000 UTC

Waiting For Robot

Hayley Ash

2024-11-17 02:45:56 +0000 UTC

So sad.

Calista Jarratt

2024-11-17 02:45:51 +0000 UTC

"Yay ya bettah come bahk right now I sweah ta goahd!"

BookBeard

2024-11-17 02:43:14 +0000 UTC

Sorry, had my phone on mute.

Timothy Roller

2024-11-17 02:41:53 +0000 UTC

:(

Brittany Huckey

2024-11-17 02:41:17 +0000 UTC

I'm worried about them. These people are real to me just like the people on Friends were real to my father. Jennifer Aniston? No such person. Rachel Green was absolutely real to him.

Carol Metzger

2024-11-17 02:40:29 +0000 UTC

Aw. 🙁

Uniquitous

2024-11-17 02:39:04 +0000 UTC

😭😭😭😭😭

Elizabeth Rosenzweig

2024-11-17 02:38:56 +0000 UTC

One Person Waiting for Godot.

Sleepy John

2024-11-17 02:37:11 +0000 UTC

Career opportunity: Sitcom with a single character only

Andrew

2024-11-17 02:34:52 +0000 UTC

Has Roko conquered her Bahstan accent? It used to come out in stressful situations, like this.

Doc Gumby

2024-11-17 02:33:20 +0000 UTC

Well, that was a fun wedding, but now IT'S BACK ABOARD THE FEELS TRAIN, BOOO! HOOO!

Rhyon Ingalls

2024-11-17 02:31:53 +0000 UTC

Panel 6 is fucking heartbreaking

Shawn Pedersen

2024-11-17 02:30:47 +0000 UTC

Except there's the added tension of not knowing.

jonesnori

2024-11-17 02:30:35 +0000 UTC

Yay turned off the lights in the last panel to show they’re listening.

Taigan

2024-11-17 02:30:16 +0000 UTC

# Ping Yay.New.Fri.end: Request timed out.

Andrew

2024-11-17 02:29:43 +0000 UTC

That last panel. Oof.

Patrick McGuire

2024-11-17 02:29:31 +0000 UTC

Prediction: In an attempt to distract herself and/or move on, Roko goes on a date. Yay returns and crashes the date in a fit of uncontrollable jealousy. ... bonus points if it's a second date with Pintsize. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3690

BookBeard

2024-11-17 02:26:11 +0000 UTC

:( this one got me

Lorelei

2024-11-17 02:25:12 +0000 UTC

Dammit, Jeph, I was not prepared for a feels trip.

Anthony Gaglianese

2024-11-17 02:25:10 +0000 UTC

🥺

Tim Mitchell

2024-11-17 02:24:45 +0000 UTC

Don't tell her to slow her roll. :p

Summer

2024-11-17 02:24:27 +0000 UTC

Okay we jump from sexcapades to this feels like we shifted right from fourth to first...

Randall Norman Pick

2024-11-17 02:24:07 +0000 UTC

Why are you hurting me Jeph? I mean after all these years I shouldn’t be suprised but still

Daniel Burnett

2024-11-17 02:23:03 +0000 UTC

After all the nice wedding stuff, this feels like the equivalent of a brick wall at the end of a tunnel of love kind of ride....

Aditya Rameshan

2024-11-17 02:22:53 +0000 UTC

Yay is so used to being just them that they failed to take into account everyone they left behind... Roko in particular has grown and helped them grow so much that seeing her like this is just heart breaking...

Luis Padilla López

2024-11-17 02:22:44 +0000 UTC

Me with a few particular friends 😮‍💨😮‍💨

neelfirst

2024-11-17 02:22:32 +0000 UTC

Loafing around.

Summer

2024-11-17 02:22:06 +0000 UTC

Oh my god. So many feels :(

Richard Durrer

2024-11-17 02:20:32 +0000 UTC

Heartwrenching, Jeph 😔

Aussie Jim

2024-11-17 02:20:12 +0000 UTC

:(

Billy "Dosbilliam" Inlow

2024-11-17 02:19:39 +0000 UTC

I'll just withhold all my snarky comments involving Crushbot. Seems best.

BobC

2024-11-17 02:18:32 +0000 UTC

(Using my best Peter Capaldi voice.) Listen.

Jose Alfredo Villalobos

2024-11-17 02:17:42 +0000 UTC

:(

Rory Murphy

2024-11-17 02:17:34 +0000 UTC

Yay more Yay storyline! Also 😭

Zofia

2024-11-17 02:17:32 +0000 UTC

She can't be that bad off, she hasn't gone on a bread bender yet. A Breadnder. Nailed it in one.

voyager-ngc5195

2024-11-17 02:16:55 +0000 UTC

🥺

Adam Lindsay

2024-11-17 02:16:51 +0000 UTC

Oh, honey… Google the grief recovery method!

Melissa Wilson

2024-11-17 02:16:28 +0000 UTC

The fact that we're seeing this hopefully means something is going to happen beyond that.

Bill Silvia

2024-11-17 02:16:27 +0000 UTC

Yay Badfriend. :(

Summer

2024-11-17 02:16:27 +0000 UTC

Heartstrings=Tugged

Doc Gumby

2024-11-17 02:16:15 +0000 UTC

So sad!

Vilinda

2024-11-17 02:16:14 +0000 UTC

Nay Badfriend?

Sean Kinlin

2024-11-17 02:16:11 +0000 UTC

Hadn't thought about it before... but this would be equivalent to the sudden death of a friend.

Elberik

2024-11-17 02:16:10 +0000 UTC

Poor Roko.

J.C. Hewitt

2024-11-17 02:16:08 +0000 UTC

Yay how could you abandon your wife like this, how dare you

Fart Captor

2024-11-17 02:16:03 +0000 UTC

:-(

Kevin Tangney

2024-11-17 02:16:01 +0000 UTC

All aboard the feels train

Simpin4Holo

2024-11-17 02:15:59 +0000 UTC

Poor Roko. Yay’s still missing.

Andrea Andrew

2024-11-17 02:15:49 +0000 UTC

Awwww

Egos

2024-11-17 02:15:37 +0000 UTC

...yeah, I'm crying.

It's Lina

2024-11-17 02:15:36 +0000 UTC

:'(

darklion

2024-11-17 02:15:31 +0000 UTC

It is Saturday, do not make me feel. Feeling is for weekdays

Kenneth Harris

2024-11-17 02:15:31 +0000 UTC

I didn't wanna feel today Jeph.

Joel Bateman

2024-11-17 02:15:16 +0000 UTC

Poor Roko

Wynn Donivan

2024-11-17 02:15:16 +0000 UTC

😥

William Hanna

2024-11-17 02:15:16 +0000 UTC

🙁

R S

2024-11-17 02:15:14 +0000 UTC

💙

Trevor Burn

2024-11-17 02:14:35 +0000 UTC

Yay needs to change their name to Boooooo!

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-11-17 02:14:28 +0000 UTC

sniff . . . WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

ValdVin

2024-11-17 02:13:54 +0000 UTC

Talking To A Friend

Comments

Seeing that last panel reminds me of when Roko and Aurelia asked Yay to flicker the lights if they were listening.

Oh Roko... :( :( :(

I didn't even know what to say to this. Poor Roko.

:(

Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately I think the ball is entirely in Yays court. And that court is on a high ledge which requires rocket propellant to reach.

Yep. That sounds like some kind of behavior. The “oof” kind of behavior.

Aww, Roko...

Yell! Gripe! Rage! Rant! Who is following this chant? Yaaaaay!

Any good plural representation of any sort is always a good. We've not had a lot of it, historically.

Love this community. Thanks all.

It's always DNS, amirite web programmers

With Roko on this one, please be ok, Yay

:c

Roko my darling, I hope things work out, and Yay reappears from inside their own posterior.

Marigold! she has amazing melon, and peach! ~<3

We were talking about how we'd like to see more of Marigold: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3688

Yeah, site's been down for me for three days now.

With Pintsize? Have a heart, or at least a coolant pump, dude!

If it's the invisible emu, how will we know??

Just amazing. Yay is a jerk but they manage to fill a need for the somewhat leathery soul of Roko.

I thought that was intended to show how long Roko had been sitting there in despair, but that would make total sense. Let's hope it's the case!

I assume Jeph just got bored with writing it all out. I definitely read it in my head with the accent.

I'm sure Claire already has.

I'm so sorry ♥️ At the risk of sounding cliché, please drink some water/electrolytes and try to have a bath or shower. It may not make you feel much better about what's happening, but at least you won't be dirty or dehydrated. ♥️

This is fiction. People always come back unless they're dead, and then there's always having faked it or necromancy in the worst case. Unless they're really dead. Even then, writers reserve the right to make changes without notice. Tricky beasts, writers.

I think you're right, and the fact that we have returned to this topic with Roko makes me think the new arc will get Yay back in the comic. I look forward to seeing what they were up to during their away time!

Jeph said on his bsky that the site was having some DNS issues or something, should be fixed soon (it's working for me but it can take time for DNS stuff to spread out across the internet)

Me too!

same - I see some similar comments on the previous Patreon post as well, so you are definitely not alone.

Thanks, that was a great little diversion I do miss Brun though

Hey, youfriend Come back right now :(

So say we all...

We need a strip of Melon and Crushbot hanging out. As a mood lifter xD

I do think that Yay is still either in hiding or in a not-good place emotionally, and so can't return. I hope that Roko can figure out a way to get to them.

Yeah, if Yay were just chilling somewhere that would be extremely callous to Roko. The fact that they haven't even sent word to say they're okay means they're not okay.

I don't think that Yay would split their selves apart. They've mentioned potentially consolidating as a strategy for if they got discovered, but what's unusual is that they don't seem to have gone that route, otherwise we would still see them around.

Am I the only one for whom the website is down? I just got the old Forum page.

I’m mad at Yay irl

Thanks, mb

😢

Still rooting for the idea that *one* of Yay leaves the collective and comes back to Roko, contrite and no longer plural. They can admit their feelings and hug it out, and by "hug it out" I mean "do unspeakable things to Roko with a baguette". For now, though: this is very sad :(

If door Number 3 turns out to be that invisible emu flying Wonder Woman’s jet, we are going to have words.

I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING!

I'd say it's more likely that Yay is currently at Defcon 1 with their bodies distributed among various bunkers around the world, seriously considering firing one of them into orbit around Jupiter, and will remain that way until someone coaxes them out like a kitten in a tree.

@mark nach: You can "stalk" them online these days.

Job in the old testament: god's busy, but has time to give old Job an earful. Oldest book in the bible, I read somewhere. Now THAT is depressing.

Embrace the memories while you have them. Heal, embrace your friends while you have them.

@Grace Kieser: Does life works like that? Hasn't been my experience.

Another option is that Yah is currently on the island, having a nice cuppa tea with The Director and Moray, discussing security measures. The Director wants to know how Yah compromised their security, of course, and Moray is making the tea.

I'm betting on door #3, which Jeph will reveal in his own sweet damn time.

You can't prove she hasn't...

I am glad you came back to address this. Even if we don't get an answer today, the pain is felt IRL and in the QC world.

Yeah, at first glance I thought it was a response from Yay, but it was way… Darker than that. 😢

But you forget the actual trauma Yay experienced. Also, once you have done something to hurt that bad, it can be hard to return, shameful.

You forget Melon.

This is heartbreaking 😭

Yessssssssss

And maybe Roko didn't notice because she had her hands over her eyes...?

What for? You can't be intimate friends with everyone. There are always going to be people you're just on acquaintance terms with. And Dora and Tai are just a coffee shop owner and her wife to Roko.

Please let Yay be ok! Of all the characters we relate to them to most.

Now Jeph needs to re-post every Roko/Yay comic sans Yay. Or I need to use my imagination, read them again, and giggle to myself like a PSYCHOPATH

We all worry

Take care, Pejo 😢

😭

🎶TwiNkle tWinKlE litTle StaR🎶 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3919

She needs to listen to the Blues, because only the Blues can make you feel good about feeling bad

When your partner abandons you...

No, she just needs her one friend back

Feeeeeeeels….!

*they

It's okay, we can project together. Cause damn, that sounds too familiar.

Kind of like Hannelore's dad.

The feels...

Yay shows up “disguised” as a waiter, just like in Sherlock.

That tagline is foreshadowing. She ABSOLUTELY went to Disney World.

Way of life to some of us. When I entered my 50's I started to think about all the MIA people that are part of my life.

How has Roko not made herself better known to them? She's had more than enough time

I had to wipe my eyes a couple of times. This has to be one of the saddest strips.

Still rooting for the idea that one of Yay leaves the collective and comes back to Roko, contrite and no longer plural. They can admit their feelings and hug it out, and by "hug it out" I mean "do unspeakable things to Roko with a baguette". For now, though: this is very sad :(

sob

Your father? Very funny. I mean it's not as if... DEAR GOD Friends ended 20 years ago! turns to dust

"Bro, don't tell me to chill out, because I'm cranked up, bro. And I know where you live, bro. And bro, I know where you work, bro." (*Well, Roko doesn't know now, but...)