Comic #2017: 2010-11-21

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Here is the transcription of the comic:

Panel 1:

• Character 1: "I’ve always been a bit of a geek."
• Character 2: "No you haven’t!"

Panel 2:

• Character 1: "… Hey."
• Character 1: "What are you reading these days?"
• Character 2: "Nothing. I’m mostly playing video games and trying to be cool."

Panel 3:

• Character 1: "That’s not me! It’s a lie!"
• Character 2: "The lie is your notion of self! In another ten years I could summon the you of today, and you’d hate him!"

Panel 4:

• Character 2: "You’re a distant echo of your former self with a false sense of importance derived from an incorrect belief in an unbroken stream of consciousness."

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "Wow. Dad was right."

Panel 6:

• Character 3: "Son, never date a philosopher with a time machine."