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Lisa

Martin is referring to Pintsize, right? I love that he calls him his "roommate." It seems like a step up in respect. Many of the other AI characters have been treated as full humans for awhile now, but it seemed like Pintsize had some of the residual family-pet vibe that was established in strip #1. Being "Martin's roommate" instead of "Martin's companion AI" puts them at the same level, and I'm into it.

Anonymous

Are we SURE that Brant ISN'T Pintsize???

Bagge

Do they research wacky hijinks or do they do wacky hijinks while researching?

Anonymous

I want to see more of background robohorse :)

Chewbacca

Is the Wacky Hijinks Research Group accepting resumes?

Czarzhan

Brant beta-tests wacky hijinks and sends the results to Pintsize for real-world implementation.

Czarzhan

It's why he got that body model, but failed in his report to mention how the new shape would affect his behavior. This is testing types of delinquent behavior that works in this form.

Anonymous

Now I WANT them to meet

Anonymous

Now when I meet people and wonder if they are AI, I can't just go with hair color and skin tone, I have to look for the joint where the neck and torso meet. I mean, I wouldn't care, but what if my bidet was broken?

Anonymous

Rereading from the beginning and I'd forgotten that Pintsize was an "AnthroPC" and it's implied that he functioned as Martin's computer. It's kind of weird.

Daniel Rydberg

That Bronkt seems like an amuzing fellow.

Hugh Eckert

Although letting Brynt and Faye meet and connive together would probably also be a mistake.

wargrunt42

Is Marvin paranoid of androids?

Sean Kinlin

I sense that there is going to be some Cubetown robohorse fanfiction.

Ursus Ridens

Brant: beware the grey goose.

Anonymous

I can see the validity of the Wacky Hijinx group. In modern high reliability data centers we have a program called "Chaos Monkey" that randomly shuts off critical servers. The threat of it makes sure system designers build systems that are never vulnerable to single server outages and can automatically recover properly. Without that threat they commonly cut corners when nobody is looking and stuff fails more often. Brant could fill a similar role. Access security, prototype redundancy, proper rebuild documentation and useful margins on deadlines are all ensured to be good in the cube, espcially once word gets out on how the Graphene Team had to struggle so. My guess is when you compare prototypes, the replacement nanoscale dermal touch sensor prototype is even better than the original and that it's much better documented and thought through. So there is value to Hyjinx and improved research quality is an end result. You just know the Director can see that kind of connection, even if it's counterintuitive to mess up your own research.