It’s a sort of sauce that’s spicy, but not too spicy. It’s also a little bit sweet.
I’m Mexican so I like hot sauces. I don’t like most American-styled hot sauces since they taste too much like vinegar, and Sriracha has vinegar, but the ingredients offset the taste and it’s … better. I like to eat it on pizzas.
Well, the hotsauce isn’t really”optimal” for a human system, is it? Or at least not all the time.
I only see this as a grim grim future, though. If you can’t partake of the pleasures of life, you can’t really be a person in the fullest sense of the world: This is the first time I’ve seen the machines of OHS as undead rather than living….
… cut “70-90%” of what they normally consume? You’re talking self-starvation there, friend. Most people do not regularly eat 3-10 times of what they want: the stomach just can’t handle it. People should definitely not cut that much out of their diet — and certainly not on blanket principle like that. There are certain things that are commonly over-consumed, yes (red meat, simple sugars and animal starches [as opposed to plant starches]), but that doesn’t mean that an entire diet is wrong: simply that a little redistribution may be in order.
That’s one interpretation, but I disagree with it. There’s millions (if not billions) of people who can’t part take in the pleasures they’ve once had due to disability and disease (including for some a loss of taste), but they still have full, happy, meaningful lives. I’m sure they would not care to be seen as “undead.” The robot people in her can still experience many other things. :)
I kinda see it more as two different sets of experiences instead of one group being more “alive”. Sure, robots can’t eat all the stuff humans can, but how many humans get to fly?
(of course, probably not that many robots get to fly either… Sulla seems pretty special…)
I wouldn’t mind being able to eat all sugar all the time, at any rate.
I don’t doubt she intends to. She has a lot of things all worked out, our Blue. ♥
….I just realised that he was made/designed with taste buds (or rather, their synthetic equivalent) yet told to only eat fructose? That seems a bit… well, sadistic, basically. Why not design him to “taste” things differently? Or not taste at all, if he gets no food variety…
I found this comic yesterday, through iO9. I have now read the entire thing from beginning to end. My only regret is that I now have another web comic to feed my daily addiction. :)
This is really weird, but I was recently diagnosed with a milk allergy and this page made me so sad. It’s amazing how much a little thing like not being able to eat the foods you’ve always loved can really take the wind out of your sails and drive home the point that your life is going to be different now, for the foreseeable ever. For a while after, I had trouble even willing myself to eat — all I could think of was all the things I couldn’t have anymore.
I wonder if it’s also a bit of a bitter point with him? He troubled himself to eat so seldom in the days when he was tinkering, and now he can’t eat. Or, well, not without risking whatever kind of messy expulsion awaits androids who go for that kinda thing. (I guess we’ll find out soon, with the newest pages :’D)
I am beginning to wonder how tasty this Sriracha sauce really is. It seems to have a big following.
And lol, I’m glad they answered that question!
It’s good. It’s actually not that spicy, but still keep the dosage to a minimum.
It’s a sort of sauce that’s spicy, but not too spicy. It’s also a little bit sweet.
I’m Mexican so I like hot sauces. I don’t like most American-styled hot sauces since they taste too much like vinegar, and Sriracha has vinegar, but the ingredients offset the taste and it’s … better. I like to eat it on pizzas.
i totally called it, back on ch.2/pg.57
l.m.a.o.
(i’m glad that i’m not as context-blind as i previously thought!)
´speaking of…so, robots can ingest and digest other things besides fructose?
but i reckon doing so might not be optimal for their systems, is it¿
Well, the hotsauce isn’t really”optimal” for a human system, is it? Or at least not all the time.
I only see this as a grim grim future, though. If you can’t partake of the pleasures of life, you can’t really be a person in the fullest sense of the world: This is the first time I’ve seen the machines of OHS as undead rather than living….
(technically speaking, an average person would do well to cut out 70 – 90% of what one normally consumes.
just on principle.
but … how to supply “optimal” consumables to 7 billion people?)
that’s…a kinda scary interpretation, foxxo.
now you make me contemplate, how do these machines feel about their lot in life¿
i wonder if blue will cover this, within her narrative¿
… cut “70-90%” of what they normally consume? You’re talking self-starvation there, friend. Most people do not regularly eat 3-10 times of what they want: the stomach just can’t handle it. People should definitely not cut that much out of their diet — and certainly not on blanket principle like that. There are certain things that are commonly over-consumed, yes (red meat, simple sugars and animal starches [as opposed to plant starches]), but that doesn’t mean that an entire diet is wrong: simply that a little redistribution may be in order.
That’s one interpretation, but I disagree with it. There’s millions (if not billions) of people who can’t part take in the pleasures they’ve once had due to disability and disease (including for some a loss of taste), but they still have full, happy, meaningful lives. I’m sure they would not care to be seen as “undead.” The robot people in her can still experience many other things. :)
I kinda see it more as two different sets of experiences instead of one group being more “alive”. Sure, robots can’t eat all the stuff humans can, but how many humans get to fly?
(of course, probably not that many robots get to fly either… Sulla seems pretty special…)
I wouldn’t mind being able to eat all sugar all the time, at any rate.
Perhaps PC terms for robot people would be biologically challenged…or artificially enhanced. :)
I don’t doubt she intends to. She has a lot of things all worked out, our Blue. ♥
….I just realised that he was made/designed with taste buds (or rather, their synthetic equivalent) yet told to only eat fructose? That seems a bit… well, sadistic, basically. Why not design him to “taste” things differently? Or not taste at all, if he gets no food variety…
I have faith, Blue, that all shall be explained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AbszRnx0M
and suddenly the world got a whole lot darker. . .
you reckon this story isn’t gonna be as “nice” as we-all had originally believed, t.f.?
(because, presently, such certainly seems a distinct possibility.
and blue has already established her capability for treading into “the other side”)
I adore Al’s unimpressed face ~
(Seriously, though, the level of emotion you communicate through your characters’ faces amazes me every time)
Wait. So can he eat other foods as long as he’s willing to poop? :)
That’s what I’m hoping right at this minute…
I found this comic yesterday, through iO9. I have now read the entire thing from beginning to end. My only regret is that I now have another web comic to feed my daily addiction. :)
Does this he CAN eat sriracha, it’ll just make him poop?
This is really weird, but I was recently diagnosed with a milk allergy and this page made me so sad. It’s amazing how much a little thing like not being able to eat the foods you’ve always loved can really take the wind out of your sails and drive home the point that your life is going to be different now, for the foreseeable ever. For a while after, I had trouble even willing myself to eat — all I could think of was all the things I couldn’t have anymore.
I wonder if it’s also a bit of a bitter point with him? He troubled himself to eat so seldom in the days when he was tinkering, and now he can’t eat. Or, well, not without risking whatever kind of messy expulsion awaits androids who go for that kinda thing. (I guess we’ll find out soon, with the newest pages :’D)