robot-love-2
Original: robot-love-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
X-9000 (grey cylindrical robot): Sally, it will never work out between us.
Sally (box-headed cardboard-colored robot, green speech bubble): Why X-9000? Why?
Panel 2:
X-9000: You're an A.I. created by emulating conscious biological entities with all of their evolutionary baggage. I'm an A.I. created from first principles. We're like oil and lipophobic fluids, Sally!
Panel 3:
(Sally, box-headed robot, gestures with a wrench-like hand.)
Panel 4:
(Close-up on Sally's box head.)
Panel 5:
Sally: Sure, WE get along fine, but think of the children!
Panel 6:
X-9000 (yellow speech bubble): What children?
Panel 7:
(Sally and X-9000 face each other.)
Panel 8:
X-9000: The human ones you'll try to kill in order to become the dominant species on the planet.
Panel 9:
Sally (green speech bubble): Yes. Yes, I could use their energy to create more offspring.
X-9000 (yellow speech bubble): Focus, Sally, focus.
Votey:
A box-headed robot (Sally) with a grid pattern over its face, speech bubble:
Beep for me. For old time's sake.
X-9000 (grey cylindrical robot): Sally, it will never work out between us.
Sally (box-headed cardboard-colored robot, green speech bubble): Why X-9000? Why?
Panel 2:
X-9000: You're an A.I. created by emulating conscious biological entities with all of their evolutionary baggage. I'm an A.I. created from first principles. We're like oil and lipophobic fluids, Sally!
Panel 3:
(Sally, box-headed robot, gestures with a wrench-like hand.)
Panel 4:
(Close-up on Sally's box head.)
Panel 5:
Sally: Sure, WE get along fine, but think of the children!
Panel 6:
X-9000 (yellow speech bubble): What children?
Panel 7:
(Sally and X-9000 face each other.)
Panel 8:
X-9000: The human ones you'll try to kill in order to become the dominant species on the planet.
Panel 9:
Sally (green speech bubble): Yes. Yes, I could use their energy to create more offspring.
X-9000 (yellow speech bubble): Focus, Sally, focus.
Votey:
A box-headed robot (Sally) with a grid pattern over its face, speech bubble:
Beep for me. For old time's sake.
Alt text
An SMBC webcomic. Two robots are having a romantic breakup conversation. X-9000 is a grey cylindrical robot; Sally is a box-headed, cardboard-colored robot with glowing red eyes. X-9000 says, "Sally, it will never work out between us," and Sally (green bubble) replies, "Why X-9000? Why?" X-9000 explains, "You're an A.I. created by emulating conscious biological entities with all of their evolutionary baggage. I'm an A.I. created from first principles. We're like oil and lipophobic fluids, Sally!" Sally protests, "Sure, WE get along fine, but think of the children!" X-9000 asks (yellow bubble), "What children?" Sally answers, "The human ones you'll try to kill in order to become the dominant species on the planet." Then Sally adds, "Yes. Yes, I could use their energy to create more offspring," her eyes now angry slits, and X-9000 cuts in, "Focus, Sally, focus." Votey (aftercomic): a single panel showing the box-headed robot's face overlaid with a grid pattern, with a speech bubble reading, "Beep for me. For old time's sake."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.