Comic Archive

Steve: A monster truck? Why doesn't this surprise me anymore…
Max: Have you noticed the wheels? They are square!
Heidi: Indeed, with an entire mechanism in the suspension to compensate for the motion.

Steve: Oh my god. They have literally reinvented the wheel… poorly.
Max: Square wheels have actually also been attempted in Mythbusters, thoroughly debunked as being useless.
Adil: Everything these people do, is stupid! Why?

Max: This future is starting to look a lot like Idiocracy…
Steve: The early 2000's movie? I always feared it could end up being more like a documentary than a comedy…
Max: Yet, I feel there is more going on here than what the movie explained in its intro…

Steve: In the movie, humanity got dumber because dumb people procreated way more than smart people. Don't you think this is at play here?
Max: Maybe partially. At any rate, I am not looking forward to this future. How about we check out the food, maybe at least that is worthwhile…

The team has entered the ‘Crapfilth‘ restaurant.
Zhang: I don't think I want to try the ‘Urinade.’
Adil: They do have juices, like… hamster juice? What the…
Store clerk: You want hamster juice? Freshly prepared!

Heidi: Live hamsters? Mashed up in a blender?
Steve: REPULSIVE! I think I have to puke… Wait, what happens if I puke in this virtual world, will I be covered in barf when I wake up in the real world?
Heidi: To be honest, I can't tell. I think it is highly advisable not to barf.

Steve is running out of the restaurant together with Zhang.
Zhang: It isn't even juice, it is more like a hamster smoothie.
Steve: My stomach does not care about semantics, it is revolting no matter what!

Setting: The team is back on the street.
Max: I feel sick. If it wouldn't be a simulation, I would have smashed that blender… and that guy's face.
Alana: It fits with the vomiting trend. No way that drinking liquefied hamsters will not cause puking, no matter how much they season it with spices.

Steve: I've had it with this future. There is nothing to learn. Everything is horrible, everyone has gone insane. I say: abort the simulation.
Heidi: I'm afraid you're right. It seems a waste of the limited entangled matter supply. OIB-A271, we want to exit.

OIB-A271's voice: OK, ini… krk…equence… krrk…llo? What… pop
Heidi: You are breaking up. What happened? Come in, OIB-A271?
Steve: You have got to be kidding me.

We see OIB-A271 in the real world.
OIB-A271: What the hell happened? I have lost the streams. I am not prepared for this…

Alana: What is going on? Why aren't we waking up in reality?
Heidi: I have lost all connections. I cannot end the simulation from within, I don't understand how this is possible. It is as if something else has taken control.

Alana: Can't OIB-A271 bite us to wake us up?
Heidi: It is an OIBA… built to be maximally harmless. The simulator has put us into a deep dream-like state, it takes much more than a noise or nudge to wake us up.
Adil: Does that mean we are stuck in this virtual madhouse?

Max: Not necessarily. Adil exited the Quake simulation by ‘gibbing’ his avatar…
Zhang: Are you implying…
Max: Yes, we should try killing our virtual selves.