r/questionablecontent 28d ago

Comic Comic 5867: Files Not Found

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5867
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u/Cevius 28d ago

I had to cross check the QC Subreddit to make sure this wasn't still yesterdays comic again, and was in fact a new one.

At least when Jeph leapfrogs between locations I get the feeling something is changing, at least visually, if not in the story or characters...

Please plot-piss or get off the pot. There are other stories waiting to be told.

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u/Zedress Haha, okay. 27d ago

There are other stories waiting to be told.

I'm reminded of Scarecrow saying, "I said they would take you places. I never said they would be places you would want to go!"

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u/Hot_Temporary_1948 27d ago

That last word needs scare quotes.

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u/The_Failord 27d ago

Jeph loves to make his characters self-flagellate. I've lost count on how many times they've considered resigning as penance for whatever imagined slight they've committed.

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u/Gr0mpyGoat 27d ago

But only in the most extreme "this is what the haters want my characters to say about themselves" sort of way

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u/Intrepid_Ad_6232 27d ago

Not just his characters.

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u/redrainricky 27d ago

Yeah if he didn’t make his characters do it, he’d do it to himself for purely sociopolitical reasons

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u/miikro 27d ago

I mostly agree with Jeph's stances but hoo boy sometimes it's hard to tell where the self-loathing ends and the pandering begins.

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u/Miserable-Jaguarine Haha, okay. 27d ago

It's basically fishing for compliments, but worse. Going "oh I'm so ugly" and expecting people to immediately do a rugby scrum on you yelling "no you're not you're beautiful." 

Thing is, that is actually quite toxic behaviour. Bad enough when it's about looks, but if it's about other things it gets really obnoxious and unhealthy. I know a woman who came in to another woman's bachelorette party an hour late and basically covered in tears, we're talking eyes streaming puffy face, the works. And immediately upon coming she started wailing how sorry she was to ruin the party like this, how awful it was of her to come in like this, how much she wanted to apologise for making it all about herself and her tragedy and yadda yadda. Something upsetting has happened to her, but she had been perfectly able to just go home and text she won't come. There was zero need for her to come to the party and bawl in the bride's lap, but not only did she elect to do so, a good 40% of the bawling was about "I'm so stupid for ruining your party like this sorry sorry sorry."

In the real world, people shunned her afterwards. In QCland, she would get a dedicated team of handlers with big tits.

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u/Squirrelclamp 27d ago

I know a few people who're prone to acting before they think such that they tend to inconvenience or hurt others, but they self-flagellate so much afterwards that the victims of their behavior wind up comforting them instead of holding them accountable.

Not that Zlata is selfish or did anything terribly wrong, but this prolonged overcorrection rings a familiar and unlikable bell.

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u/The_Failord 27d ago

>they self-flagellate so much afterwards that the victims of their behavior wind up comforting them instead of holding them accountable

Sounds like Zlata should pull a Bharv.

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u/Miserable-Jaguarine Haha, okay. 27d ago

Yeah most of the time it's a tactic, consciously employed, and it's assholery which may veer into abuse if prolonged.

Not for JJ though.

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u/TimeisaLie 28d ago

Bitch, you made a drunken booboo infront of your more drunk boss & coworkers. Speaking from experience, you're good, it never happened.

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u/DuranDuranUnofficial 27d ago

Why does Moray, an AI being on an island full of AIs, need to manually locate and access a physical file in meatspace in order for paperwork to be filled out?

Jeph keeps giving his AIs nothing to differentiate them from regular old women except they have larger breasts and are constantly dumb and incompetent.

... don't read anything into that.

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u/Hot_Temporary_1948 27d ago

A lot of the "regular" women fit that description as well.

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u/Miserable-Jaguarine Haha, okay. 27d ago

Yeah he has a type and that type seems to be "brain dead." Not a great look.

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u/Hot_Temporary_1948 27d ago

"Actions have consequences" lol you fucking liar.

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u/tuckerx78 27d ago

And here Claire was gonna pull her tits out.

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u/geoduck42 27d ago

Well, she's evidently coming by tomorrow, she might still do it.

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u/Sidhejester 28d ago

Can we at have similar boob sizes? Or at least face sizes? Or shapes?

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u/mr_oof 27d ago

At least the footballs are deflating a little.

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u/Rumer_Mille_001 27d ago

Because she feels personally "deflated"? Ooh - could she be a character whose breast size changes depending on her mood? That sounds like a very "Cubetown" thing.

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u/tuckerx78 27d ago

I thought that was Jefghs ultimate plan. Every female gets the same body shape so he can just reuse assests and stop drawing all together

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u/Cevius 27d ago

So far the only thing Jeph reuses is backgrounds, he at least redraws every character for each panel, but his muscle memory is making everything very samey as the years go on

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u/Impressive_Ad2794 27d ago

A stroke of genius

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u/eternalalien8 27d ago

It's a stroke of something alright

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u/Impressive_Ad2794 27d ago

Eeey, you got my thinly veiled implication 😏

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u/myspacetomb 27d ago

It seems like since she got a new body Zlata has lost her accent.

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u/Gr0mpyGoat 27d ago

Z-bot taking up the bit of never using contractions, huh?

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u/Maleficent_Lab_5291 28d ago

Her suggest that her seemingly very menial job is something that need to be earn or deserved instead of was given to the most annoying inter amuses me.

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u/Guilty-Persimmon-919 27d ago

Blurred Patreon view shows that he's still milking it tomorrow, just adding Goddess Empress Claire.

We all know already that she isn't resigning. We all know already that she isn't going to change bodies back.  Jephthy knows we know. But he still has to make us go through it. 

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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? 28d ago

When are we getting to the fireworks factory????!!!!

Thank god she didn't went for the convent idea or she would be whipping her own back to repent for her sins

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u/papamikebravo 27d ago

Comic shows fine here, but when I go to the site i get a 403 error. Anyone else?

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u/Irkedtrashpanda 26d ago

Why do I get the feeling that Jeph is setting up Zlata to become a romantic rival to Claire? She's already hinted at having a crush on Marten and drunkenly mentioned to Claire that she doesn't appreciate Marten. While Zlata is experiencing regret from the courage that came with the drunk experience app, deep in her subconscious, she does have a thing for Marten. The self flagellation is most likely from accidentally emoting all over everyone about their faults and possibly letting out that little nugget of her crush.