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What's Bugging Aurelia
🕑 Added 2024-09-08 01:07:28 +0000 UTChouse centipedes are our friends. our creepy, disturbing little friends.
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John Pallister
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Jennifer De Lurio
They ARE cute!
Aerin Moriarty
I was main tank healer, I wasn't moving for shit til raid leader told me I could lol
Joshua
Or squishy. If it has more than 4 legs, it’s a bug, especially those nasty underwater big handed cockroaches people eat
Joshua
Might also have been a silverfish, they look vaguely similar and like bathrooms.
Joshua
Nah, it happened during WoW, you’re not allowed to stop that for anything short of fire, flood, or booty call.
Joshua
We have an agreement. They stay out of my way, and they get to live. Same for spiders, but if they web anywhere I walk, they’re getting evicted.
Clifton Royston
I don't know if the Australian centipedes are deadly venomous, but if it's the same kind that's endemic in Hawaii, Southern Polynesia, and Southeast Asia, the bite is excruciatingly painful, and the bites tend to get nasty infections too.
Rachel Maeroff
Exactly
Opus the Poet
Yes!
Opus the Poet
When we lived in Hawaii the centipedes could kill cats and small dogs, and were reputed to have killed a toddler.
Nicole Sweetmercy
Next, find a video of them moving. That's the thing that sends me into "k!ll mode"
KiTA
... she's hiding in the basement, isn't she?
Mark
One of the earliest naturalists on Australian TV was notorious for grabbing all sorts of dangerous wildlife and hauling them up in front of the camera, but in one episode he filmed a centipede bustling past and said something to the effect of "OK, we'll just leave him alone" and I wondered what kind of killing machine that must have been that even this maniac didn't want to touch it.
Doc Gumby
No, too convenient...
Melissa Wilson
Yay is probably already in it, right?
Sean Kinlin
Anything is better than cockroaches. *shudder*
Sean Kinlin
So Yay is George Bailey?
David Paul
Still prefer centipedes over cockroaches, any day.
David Paul
There'll probably be a Linux patch to support them, though.
Jim
I've got 2 spiders living in webs on my front door glass. They've caught heaps of bugs.
Bagge
That house centipede is a coworker to Melon, thank you very much
legobil
Huh, in Swedish we just say “half wings” about Hemiptera, but then we don’t really use the word bugs like English do. Maybe “insekter”/insects or the slang “kryp” (translates to crawlers or creeps) is mostly used similar to the term bug.
legobil
Maybe they didnt delete the codes, but hopefully changed them…? 😬
legobil
Wonder if Yay is in there. One or maybe some of their units…?
Graydon Armstrong
Are we talking about the centipedes, or Yay?
Graydon Armstrong
“I like the way Dneirfwen thinks!”
Chas Simmons
I implore any parents out there: teach your kids NOT to have the attitude towards nature's creatures displayed by the characters here.
Mandy Hoskins
I'll take house centipedes over ticks all day every day.
Clifton Royston
I just claim "It's a feature."
ArtemisFolly
If you have a basement boiler room or an attic, toss them there and you'll likely never see them again (they prefer temps around 100°F and humidity near 100%)
Maurice Kessler
I've had to deal with roaches. I'd much rather have had centipedes.
Fay Roberts
So I just Googled house centipedes, because we don't really have them here in the UK and you're right: they're SO CUTE! Have you seen their widdle faces?! Aww... Also: they eat things I detest, so that's a big bonus.
Larry
Meh, they're fine. Whatever
BobC
Oh, geez, BookBeard. Great reference. That directly led to Bubbles getting out of her armor. One of my favorite QC arcs. Though there was some dresser portage between the two.
Professor Harmless
No Yay, skynet is not a good role model!
Kristina
Okay I saw a house centipede last week and it absolutely was on-sight. And then I googled them, and they're great pest repellent, so next time it gets thrown out the door far far far far far away from an entry 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Clifton Royston
I was wondering that too. "I've been looking *everywhere* for you!" "I've been hiding here waiting for you!" (Tears, hugs, kisses, fade to black)
Charles Hirst
As long as it wasn't Prefabricated Hovels Inc.
Clifton Royston
House centipedes are fine, kinda cute almost. But I might have that opinion from too much experience with the *big* centipede varieties that are big, creepy, big, and also bitey. And big.
Todd Ellner
Each other. Bits of dead skin.
Ursus Ridens
Suggestion: Skip the Wikipedia article on centipedes. Especially the photo of centipedes-on-a-stick.
Drazi
I think I would prefer a PC filled with house centipedes to one filled with cockroachs. I don't know. I've only seen the second. I'm really not interested in seeing the first.
BobC
TIL this. I've lost way too many thinly sliced trees to silverfish. But what do house centipedes eat once the silverfish are gone?
ValdVin
Claire: Honey, you know Dora's famous Spidercoffee? I just got the coolest idea for your cafe in Cubetown.
BobC
AKA "EFKAY", the Entity Formerly Known As Yay.
BobC
PT410X could get neckbeard house centipedes! Methinks it would fit the ethos. Because bugs, amirite?
Green
Aerin, you are a very strong and brave person.
Ursus Ridens
Ah. Thanks. I am now going to put off repairing any more computers until, oh, after the 235th Congress meets.
Ursus Ridens
An AI to freak out our friend Gary?
Sarah Valentine
So *that's* where Cosmo came from. Yay playing the long game by secretly letting a borzoi loose in the city to find a home, so that they could replace it in a worst-case-scenario situation. Devilishly clever!
Sarah Valentine
Yeah nah, I get that some people find them cute, and that they're technically helpful (thus "paying rent" as I like to say in response to people who say they don't let spiders hang around because they "don't pay rent") in that they eat other bugs like earwigs and boxelders (both are rather common at this time of year where I live, especially this year) but goddamn they're creepy to me, I can't stand them. This year is the first time I've run into them firsthand, and I was *not* fond of the first time it happened, or the fact that they're so much faster than the other house bugs I usually have to get rid of...
Am Queue
To get away from you!
Am Queue
We know this from Winslow.
Aerin Moriarty
I really need to make time for another total re-read of QC
Captain Button
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1842
William Cole
NOPE!
William Cole
NOPE!
William Cole
Is that Welsh?
Todd Ellner
And vice versa
William Cole
Cantilever! CANTILEVER!
Captain Button
One of those blue light versions from Faro Automated Solutions.
Aerin Moriarty
My old apartment had house centipedes. They'd crawl over my toes while I was raiding in WoW at 3am and I'm shocked I never had a literal heart attack cause it was always a bad experience
Jennifer Pylko
i annoy all my friends by asking "is it in hemiptera?" any time they call something a bug
Pete
They're arthropods, myriapods, chilopods, not "true bugs" (hemiptera), but they are called bugs casually, as is pretty much any arthropod, and they can certainly be bugging Aurelia. Sorry if this bugs you :)
Bradley Richard
Gross bug but luckily harmless
Captain Button
Doesn't Melon's job involve that?
Ashley Thomas
centipedes are top on my nope list. they seriously freak me out. guess I'm getting vaporized.
Andrea Andrew
Semi aquatic?! Perry the Platypus!
BookBeard
It's okay, I'm sure the house centipedes would just get eaten by the scorpions. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4050
Fart Captor
Technically most things we call bugs aren't bugs cuz they're not semi aquatic beetle-like insects and yet anything crunchy with too many legs is still a bug
BookBeard
The Vault-Tec Corporation, presumably.
Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson
Hey, spiders are our friends but as much as I love what they do, I can't be around them either. They're hard working little guys that I need to stay far away from me.
AlexKorobeiniki
MUCH more likely to replace us as the next apex species. They’ve done it before and desire our throne *narrows eyes*
BookBeard
A house centipede? Commence orbital bombardment. Kinetic, EMP, warheads. Full target suite. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4640
Daryl Sawyer
House centipedes also eat spiders.
Daryl Sawyer
Or Melon.
Green
Oh so THAT's what I saw in my bathroom last week. Had to drop a goddamn textbook on it.
Brendan Luster
wait, who built the fallout shelter?
BookBeard
Don't worry, I'm sure you won't need the fallout shelter. Surely the military wouldn't be so careless as to allow the nuclear codes to fall into the hands of a civilian AI.... right? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1997
BookBeard
Yay Dneirfwen
BookBeard
It happened to Bubbles once. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3463
Green
No one tell Winslow.
Andrea Andrew
Technically, centipedes aren’t bugs. They’re arthropods.
Tannerbot
But Mellon is batshit, even by Yay's standards.
Benzy
Yay consolidating into a Borzoi. ENDLESS AURELIA PETS.
BookBeard
Opinions seem to vary on that subject. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4561 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4790
16 Crows In A Trench Coat
wow i hadn't thought about it before but to AI an EMP device is like a serious existential threat
Zig Justice
Since I moved to Japan I haven't actually seen any house centipedes, but if I find them in my dwelling I will containerize them and relocate them outside. (I've stopped doing that with the jumping spiders because they're cute and I want them to eat any mosquitoes that get inside.)
BobC
"Hi, I'm Millie! Millie Pede. Do you like my robot body?"
Magic Chopstick Games
I have a chilly detente with house centipedes. They eat the nasty bugses and stay out of our living spaces and I don’t AAH SMASH IT SMASH IT SMASH IT AAAH
William Burns
But then there's Melon's job.
Captain Button
A new identity? Like "Netram Deer, international financier and ostrich racer?"
Darth Hypno
Oh God, that's horrible. What everyone seems to be forgetting is that house centipedes like heat.That's why they go into the house. What is hotter and more accessible than the CPU inside an AI's casing.
Todd Ellner
House centipedes eat silverfish. Silverfish eat books. Hurray for house centipedes
Michael Phillips
Aurelia hous centipedes are friends. They eat these scary bugs like the cockroaches and the earwigs that eat your books
enchantedsleeper
So they *didn't* have each other's number before (which takes down my messaging/group chat pals theory xD). Aurelia really is just good at rolling with random AIs showing up at her house.
Magic Chopstick Games
The kicker is that “they’re more afraid of you than you are of them” is absolutely TRUE, but that just means that now you have a house centipede scrambling for dear life across your neck and chest 🙃
voyager-ngc5195
If Fallout's taught me anything, it's that the rads make bugs angry and people-sized.
Zig Justice
I don't begrudge HOUSE centipedes their right to exist. Regular centipedes? Yeah, no, those I exterminate on sight (fortunately for the both of us, I rarely see them and it's been like almost 2 decades since my last encounter). Millipedes, on the other hand, I find absolutely adorable.
William Cole
It would be if Yay realized it, but I'm not sure they do.
Miyaa
Fallout 4 is based in Boston.
William Cole
With you on this. I don't begrudge centis their right to exist, as long as I don't have to perceive them and their far too many legs.
Katrina Urmson
Umm. What if… what if Yay just had a moment of not thinking and went to answer the Director In Person? Y!
Rachel Maeroff
But why do they have to move SO FREAKING FAST?!
JoeTheCynic
Which one?
OldGoat
Centipedes squick Roko out? She's becoming more and more human. (Does she read William Seward Burroughs? He bloody HATED centipedes.)
Andrew
And THEN nuke it, to be sure to be sure
Andrew
It’s where she streams playing fallout
Darren Franzen
Nightmare fuel…gonna keep watching Army of the Dead to erase those thoughts
Darren Franzen
Yay has so many friends that are worried about them…that’s kind of a great sign, right?
JoeTheCynic
Aurelia would have a Fallout Shelter, wouldn't she?
Orion Rhine
I'm with Roko on this. Not that an EMP would do much to me aside from making me upset that my phone stopped working moments before I was vaporized.
Zig Justice
I know that house centipedes eat other insects and are beneficial, but they squick me out something fierce. Jumping spiders are the cute ones what eat other insects in the house.
Miyaa
Just ask Spaceship & Tilly to laser it out of existence. It’s the only way to be sure.
Bill Silvia
What if Yay is huddled in Roko's bedroom while Roko is here being all logical?
Tannerbot
Of course AIs wouldn't like bugs. Both the software kind, and the ones that would gum up their insides.
Magic Chopstick Games
I’ve had house centipedes fall on my torso and head no fewer than three times in my adult life, they are the worst
Doc Gumby
Of course she has a fallout shelter, why wouldn't she?
Chas Simmons
[Edit: Ha! I wrote the following before I saw the comment under the comic:] Centipedes are our friends. They eat insects, and are actually rather cute looking when they run.
