Technically it’s work related
September 4, 2017
2:45 am
It was too hot for me to think of anything funny to draw, so I drew a swimming velociraptor instead. Hopefully extra cute makes up for lack of jokes.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
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Loopholes for the win!
No loophole here…What good is technology if you don’t *use* it? What’s the purpose for designing & building technology in the first place?
;)
Aw yea, I love it when the fam shows up :)
You should do a strip with Fattest Pigeon and the raptors sometime.
I was thinking that too. We’ve gotta brainstorm reasons for Jared to interact with Rock’s family in the non-distinct space future.
1. Angel wants a babysitter for a night out, but Jet won’t let them out of sight without someone family vouches for.
2. Hey Jared you wanna expand your egg walking business?
Jared already has a laser fish for a pet, he can handle a few raptors
Yes, yes he can. Pet rearing skill is not the barrier here. The gulf of time between Jared and the chrome-future is.
No! we must have fattest pigeon riding the raptors! IT SHALT BE GLORIOUS!
Do the raptors know the ‘do not eat’ trick? Because otherwise it might not end well for the fattest pigeon…
It’s too fat to swallow.
They’d probably think he’s a baby raptor and adopt him.
And teach ‘im to ride a tiny motorcycle.
I’m not surprised that there’s an audience crossover with MGDMT and Kill Six Billion Demons…. :)
Tom and I are pretty good friends hahahaha
Awwww, super cute. I went to the fair this weekend and besides the usual fun things got to see all the fancy fat pigeons and chickens and look! Yet another wonderful fat bird. I love them.
I simply love any comic with fluffy raptors!
He’s using an expensive, high tech piece of military grade equipment to take pictures of his pets…
He’s literally just beaten a sword into a ploughshare. Yes, Rock would be VERY proud of him. :)
Indeed. Their bosses might have objections but Rock probably only cares about sticking those sorta rules if there is a mission.
Why wouldn’t he use his high-tech cyborg eye to take pictures? What else is that eye good for anyway?
I guess it’s a matter of what he’s taking photos of. They probably want tactically relevant things, all it’s full of are photos of the raptors, Angel watching TV on the couch in sweatpants, and himself shaving his facial hair into funny shapes.
And that is what is tactically relevant to him.
The ultimate in counter-intelligence. If someone hacks his eye’s storage, the confusion could be turned to their advantage. …that’s how I’d sell it.
“Have you done anything tactically-beneficial with your cyborg eye?”
“Have you done anything tactically-beneficial EVER??”
*Awkward staring*
…
*click*
Wait, why would Rock be proud/not-proud? Why would Rock have anything to do with this?
Rock loves it when they fuck with their superiors and use their tech to do anything but what it’s intended for. Rock’s entire identity is rebelling against their intent to make him a maladjusted loose cannon and opting instead to work a desk job and nurture children. He’d love Jet using the tactical cyborg eye they gave him to take cute photos of his raptor babies instead of anything useful or relevant.
O that is all kinds of Awesome
How dare you imply that cute photos of raptor babies isn’t useful! I mean, the whole point of the Navy TIALs or whatever is to market FREEDOM!!! or some bullshit like anyway, and what better way to defeat those filthy pinko Space-Commie scum than to prevent a Cute Raptor-Gap?
Wait does that mean that if their original intent would’ve been making him the superbly well-adjusted dad character, he would’ve torn the place down and possibly murdered half the staff?
Considering his personality, he might have actually gone along with that. Rock doesn’t oppose his superiors just for the sake of opposing them – he opposes them because they’re trying to turn soldiers into maladjusted jerkasses.
If they actually went “let’s encourage positivity in our soldiers and nurture emotional stability”, there’d be no reason to oppose them. :P
I’m also pretty sure if Rock had the eye, he’d use it for nothing except taking pictures of his kids.
Well, that was my bad. I honestly read that as Sarcasm. I kind of read everything she says as sarcastic.
This reminds me of the Ghost in the Shell anime episode where one of the characters Togusa was browsing pictures he had been sent which he thought had been taken by his friend at seemingly random until he realized something was off.
In one of the pictures his friend was shaving himself using both hands while the photo had been taken through a mirror and it suddenly hit him that there was no camera visible in the mirror. The photo had been taken through the cyborg eye by an hacker.
Still cold here in the southern hemisphere, good weather for working. maybe Coelasquid should crank up the a/c a bit, we might get more panels.
I spent the day breaking rocks, managed to work up a bit of a sweat.
My house only has ac in one room.
My house only has AC in the attic.
Unplugged.
Where we store them.
T_T
My house has AC in one room.
Where it decided to die.
So we used points to get a free night at a hotel that has AC in all the rooms.
Until I was 45 I never lived in a house with AC, now I couldn’t imagine living without it. It isn’t just global warming, people are getting softer.
Always happy to see fluffy raptors <3
Look at that plump ass raptor! Why aren’t you a real plushy and/or pillow?!
Oh my god, Squishable needs to get on this ASAP.
Yes please take my money in exchange for raptor and Fattest Pigeon (TM) huge fluffy plushes!!
I humbly request MGDMT Squishy Raptor Merch.
(Squishables takes design submissions, but it doesn’t look like the artists get anything but validation and maybe a plushie of their own …)
Extra Credits makes their Game plush through Squishables, so they apparently have a creator contract type dealy going on.
Hey Coela I thought you were Canadian, did I misremember or something?
She is Canadian, but she lives in California now – LA I think?
But what else are you supposed to do with a multimillion dollar cyborg eye?
Espionage, mostly. He’s supposed to be an advance scout and tactician, IIRC, so the pictures are supposed to be to show his team relevant intelligence or to send info back to command, not teaching your pets tricks.
Do the other raptors know how to swim, too?
that’s adorable. I wish she could come hang out with my chickens
You mean that’s not what it’s for? I WISH I had an eye like that to take pictures of memories because you can just never grab a camera fast enough.
Now, to be fair, by the time the chrometastic nonspecific space future rolls around, inflation could have easily rendered the term “multi-million dollar” a whole lot less biting than it is now.
A hundred years (VERY ROUGHLY) results in about a 20x reduction in the value of a dollar. If those rates remained the same, abusing $2m+ of military hardware is less like spinning donuts in an Armored Humvee and more like cooking with C4.
They’ll probably switch to new currency by the time they get to millions. I think my own country did that after we kicked communism out.
Yep. They use Space Future Cash now.
As a side note, it is really neat to look at the older comics now. Coela’s style in the newer ones seems a bit cleaner now. The early style was nice, but I do really like how she’s changed it over time. I like the recent comics’ coloring style especially.
Somewhat misleading, here “dollar” is the colloquial term for All-American Space Bux (AASB), which are approximately worth 100,000 2017 USD each.
Why *wouldnt* you?? I’d be snapping pix with that thing all day long.
Adorable fatbird baby raptors are ALWAYS an acceptable substitute, Coela. There is no situation in which I DON’T want more of them.
Fatbaby raptors are precious to me.
It always amuses me when I read MGDMT and think, “Heh! Funny.”, and then scroll down to see Coelasquid all like “AUGH SORRY THERE ARE NO JOKES BECAUSE LIFE HAPPENED.” In what universe is a futuristic supersoldier reminiscing over velociraptor baby pool pictures he took with his bionic eye NOT funny? <3
I don’t know, but I don’t want to live in that universe. xD
A camera in the glass eye? He obviously used his iCamera.
Also, high temperatures with insufficient cooling are awful. My brother was recently inflicted with a few days of triple-digit temperatures and wasn’t too thrilled, and everyone feels it in certain rooms at my workplace (the one with the toys and the ball pit became unbearable without a couple of fans…). Not that overly-low temperatures are preferable, but the 50-80 range usually feels better.
I can just imagine Jet awkwardly scrolling through pictures of adorable raptor shenanigans he somehow accidentally included in a powerpoint presentation for a bunch of stuffy old generals.
awkwardly? I can see him absolutely leaning into it. And there’d be like one or two ppl who were into it. and one of them is, like, an emiratus general, and the stuffiest old guy wants to get back on track but to shut it down would be to imply disrespect to emiratus who’s pretty much retired but nonetheless has seniority.
That’s a pretty good script there. It fits very well with the overall themes of MGDMT.
There you go, C — when you can’t think of a joke, just call carmen.
Well, if you think the Higher-Ups(c) have a marketing division for adowwwable fluffy boids, then yes, that is considered work related.
It’s not misuse of expensive government property.
It’s stress-testing valuable government assets. Verifying proper function. Operational parameters. Etc.
OMG the cute <3
Not remotely disappointed to see a fat raptor swimming. A+ would “awww” at again
You do realize if you did nothing but draw fat budgie Raptors all the time we would still be happy. because we LOVE THEM.
D’aww. Hopefully we eventually get to see Tank with an adorable cyborg dog as well.
I hope it’s Rush from Mega Man.
In fairness, the “fancy raptors” are themselves a military/government program. So using military/government tech to monitor said program should be perfectly acceptable and justifiable. ;)
And this will be his argument when they eventually get mad at him for doing this.
wok wok wooo
What I want to know is if he has any pics of his baby’s learning to ride bikes. He taught them to do that for the survival game thing he and his siblings hold IIRC. Although I’m pretty sure they were quickly converted from a biker gang into wait staff for a fancy hotel. They were still pretty cool/cute looking.
That’s Princess, right? Such a great swimmer!
I canot think of a single better use for said eye
This. Is. So. Goddamn. Cute!!!!
I know it’s unrelated to this strip, but… Where can one get Commander’s rad-looking boots?
When playing a cybered up character in Shadowrun pen and paper I view this as the primary benefit of cybereyes. I mean who here hasn’t at least once wanted the ability to take screenies of their current view or record video.
Just don’t do anything embarrassing in front of your friendly street samurai or it’ll be on all the trid feeds.
Hey. Coelasquid, you remember that money supermarket commercial about skeletor? Theres a continuation. https://vimeo.com/232020873
The first one was hilarious, but this one just feels awkward and weird.
It would have worked so much better with a more upbeat song, and less of the slow dancing and more of the line dancing.
Exactly this. It needed something quirkier and way more catchy
I mean, what ELSE would you use it for
I can always accept more chubby raptors instead of an actual joke.
i want to buy a bunch of cuddly sweet plush pink raptors and maybe let dante have one.
I need those raptors on a t-shirt.
If I could get a photo-snapping cyborg eye instead of a simple glass orb, I sure as hell would get it.
Heck, the only reason I wouldnt do it right now is fear of battery leak inside my head with today’s technology…
It’s tooooo friggin’ hot! It’s just too friggin’ hot! You try real hard, but you can’t be funny, when the thermometer’s exploded, and the cat is begging you to shave him! (Shave him!)
Too friggin’ hot, by Paul and Storm, if anyone wants a quick minute and a half song to laugh at.
wait, but wouldn’t rock be proud of him using his multi-million dollar robot eye to take baby pictures *of his multi-million dollar genetically engineered raptor babies?
(last I checked raptor babies are not easy to make)
And now all they need to do is have spider use her multi-million dollar robot body to print out physical copies of those photos, and have (I can not for the life of me remember the james-bond siblings name dang it) use his multi-million dollar spy training to sneak the photos onto the directors desk.
Angel’s line kinda reads sarcastic but I feel like the Commander absolutely would be proud – cute parenting and sticking it to the government jerks all in one.
It wasn’t sarcastic.
That Fat Raptor grin, tho… XD