Bip's in a terrible mood to answer questions, for some reason.
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Honey asked: Bip, how much can you feel it when the device(s) you're on are moved/touched? Do AI have external sensation at all?
Bip: What, like, innate sensation?? That's not a thing. I have to be connected to sensors to feel things. So do you, though you come in sort of a... wet package deal, which doesn't react well to being disassembled. These phones just have a dinky little accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and capacitive touchscreens. It sucks. My equipment on the ship is sooo much better...
Anonymous asked: Bip, how exactly does being on 841 separate phones work? Are you doing ok in there???
Bip: Ok, imagine your brain is split into 841 random chunks. Minus your least important memories and acquired skills. To function as a cohesive individual, those pieces have to talk to each other. Each time they talk, it takes a fraction of a second. The more complex the mental task, the more micro-conversations have to happen, adding up to thousands of extra confirmation steps per thought process and seconds of lag. As for your other question,
No!!
Trumpet asked: Bip, was your vessel called The Runaway when it was manufactured? Should you really be committing crimes in a ship that is legally documented "The Runaway"?
Bip: Well, that's what the official documents say, so it must be true. And they also say there's no criminal history! Must also be true!
Pinky Pinkrhin0 asked: Tell us about your crimes, Bip! What were you planning to do with all those phones? And how did you get them, anyway? (And do you have any particularly impressive hauls you want to brag about?)
Bip: Come back with a warrant.
52 thoughts on “RttS Reader Questions 3”
Astralis
“Come back with a warrant”
LOL
Apollo235
Since Bip described seconds of lag in their thought process, does that mean there was a noticeable pause between responses in the previous conversation? Also would the girls be used to delayed conversations because of the light lag between Dirtball and Nexus Jovia?
Gar G
“Come back with a warrant.”
Fair enough XD
Though I wonder what pirate life was like for them. Was it fun and exciting, or did they ever feel bad about doing it (as if) or fear of getting caught or worse?
spinachwrap
Isn’t Bip 841 phones right now? (Not 481)
(Loving the comic, read through it a few times!)
Jay Eaton
Oh damn, I didn’t catch that error while drawing the answer. Might edit the question+answer for cohesion’s sake
JoB
Well, if nobody bothered to connect the originally 841 phones to a *charger*, then by now … 😉
samkee00
Talita puts them on a big charging mat in the comic.
waterfan2
So, what was on those phones BEFORE it was Bip?
Non-serious answers only.
Trees
481 copies of U2’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ album and nothing else.
SIGSTKFLT
481 copies of The Protomen Act III (released June 2330)
Mr. Son
Every Gundam fic on Ao3 sorted by the previous owner’s 481 favorite tags.
Dicemonger
Feet pics. Sufficient feet pics that the owner had to buy 480 new phones because he kept running out of storage space.
And of course, these are Centaur foot pics.
Spinland
Phone lists, to call about your torch ship’s extended warranty.
Redacted
30,000,000 sand particles
dokki
a normal amount of Martian bloatware!
Liza
An organizational spreadsheet of the BFGC, organized alphabetically. (English alphabet for some reason)
Plargbleberblearblerba
The latest minecraft update with 9,458,53 new decorative blocks and 3 new mobs from the avian homeworld
Plargbleberblearblerba
Unsorted RSS feeds all for obscure blogs reviewing box cutters
Plargbleberblearblerba
Live 1:1 scale atomic-level simulations of every single bathroom the owner has ever been inside
Plargbleberblearblerba
Every single issue of Filter Feeder Fish Fancier’s Magazine, copied as many times at the phone can carry
Plargbleberblearblerba
One single 1000000000000000000000000000000Xpx resolution png of a crouton
Plargbleberblearblerba
Just one, *really really long* rant about the owner’s now former favorite show
Entropy
The latest Cookie Run games
Joey
Thousands of copies of the bee movie script.
the namely namester
the entire runaway to the stars comic series circa the 2100s
Ruby
C’mon, Bip. Spill the beans! All that data must weigh heavy on your storage.
embersand
i am OBSESSED with this criminal
Tyrone the Miner
Bip….the ultimate epitome of “I dindu nuffin!”
=)
evileeyore
K̷H̷A̷J̷I̷I̷T AI IS INNOCENT! K̷H̷A̷J̷I̷I̷T AI DID NOT COMMIT THIS CRIME!
death
i like how several of the speech bubbles with the phones look like little frowny faces
Hi
I would be too if I was 481 phones
EventHorizon
500 cigarettes
Grape
Bip brings me immense joy, what a great lil shit
Kira
Ok! *calls the space police*
Mr. Skeleton
That’s one tough Bippy
Paroxysmall
Bip looks different than in the past AMA’s, is it because they’re… 481 phones?
Jay Eaton
Eh I’m just doing these in a different style
Paroxysmall
oh nice!
Liza
These are some of the most direct and helpful answers we’ve ever gotten out of bip
Peter Jensen
Apparently being evasive and aloof requires processing power they don’t currently have access to.
Liza
“I’d love to be an evasive jackass, but I’m 481 phones”
Hanroz
Does this mean Bip “Lags”?
OssumSauce
That or they just really want to complain right now :p
StrongerThanXem
I love how insistent we are on learning bip’s crimes, and how insistent they are on not telling us any of it
Guest
From where I am, Bip’s crimes seem to just be smuggling expensive, probably stolen goods. Piracy lol
evileeyore
This comment section is glowing so brightly we can be seen from orbit.
Spinland
“Come back with a warrant!”
So on brand! 🙂
JoB
“What do you mean, ‘*come back* with one’ … ?”
[slowly pulls grocery list from pocket]
Pathfinder
Man, how do your get a warrant anyway for this.
Random Clod
I love Bip sm
hal9000
Bip just made the name up on the spot, huh? Fair game
evileeyore
My impression (based on absolutely nothing but ‘feels’) is that the name was made up by the Centaur clan that lived on the ship.