The audiences showed up for the almost-guaranteed deaths.
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1·1 day agoI remember that game!
My friends were all saying how the tiger and cow always turned out evil, and I didn’t dare tell them about my fluffy white tiger…
It showed up in my news feed late evening last night.
And here I am online checking for replies.
This shit is harder than it sounds.
That one stayed in my head for a while when it came out.
Mine current ear worm is The Fields Of Athenry
God’s phone doesn’t have sleep mode?
2·2 days agoOP ate the Not The Onion?
1·3 days agoJust paste Xi Jinping’s head over Johnson’s.
But the toxoplasmosis will make you think they’re cute.
This strip most likely refers to a popular song Full Moon And Empty Arms, which in turn was based on Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
The most well known rendition of this song was by Frank Sinatra from 1945.
“Why did they make so many of these things all over the globe?”
4·4 days ago“Stars!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!
A 4X game for Win 3.11 that was set up for multi-player by email and ftp turbo.
Fantastically ergonomic use of early GUI features.
You could design your own alien race and ships, the default races were well balanced, but all played very differently.
This strip refers to the then-popular American broadcast TV show “The Love Boat” that was set on an ocean cruise liner. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075529/
The in-show boat was based on a real life cruise ship named the “Pacific Princess” not the “Love Boat” so the cartoon is inaccurate with regards to the ship’s name.
The show was filmed on sets and cruise liners other than the Pacific Princess.
The opening theme is classic 70s….
Blowing bubbles doesn’t seem like much of a punishment.
But the symbolism in the song of bubbles representing doomed hopes is torture.
It all depends on how much the symbolism mattered to the person blowing bubbles in the comic.
If you’ve never heard of the song, or it doesn’t mean much to you personally, then the devils would probably find something else for you.
This strip references a song from 1918, I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles.
It has depressing lyrics about crushed hopes and missed opportunities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Forever_Blowing_Bubbles#Lyrics
1919 recording of the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvpvbla3rWg
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Mvpvbla3rWg
edit: Today, it’s best known as the team anthem of English football team West Ham United FC.
How many young people have actually seen a real record album cover?
Those things were like the advertising poster and marketing image for each LP record released, so recognizable and iconic design was very important.
Also, “Public Enemy No. 1” seems to be a weird off-brand version of then-popular rap group Public Enemy. Probably used to dodge copyright problems.
This strip is obviously done for laughs, but it is based on some serious questions.
Never mind language, timescale, or even being able to be in the same room without poisoning each other:
How would we communicate with intelligent alien life if their emotions and expressions are completely different than ours?
Some people were telling me about this event at some larger scifi conventions to simulate encounters:
One group would go off by themselves and invent an alien race, and the other group would be the human team to figure out how to communicate with the invented aliens.