Comic #4357: smalltalk

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Panel 1: Person 1: "I want you to know I'm bad at small talk."

Panel 2: Person 2: "I'm just not interested in trivialities. I wish people could go straight to more meaningful topics, but society obligates us to discuss the weather and traffic and so forth."

Panel 3: Person 1: "So, all of your behavior is oriented around profundities? But your online profile said you like binging on bad TV and playing old video games all night long."

Panel 4: Person 2: "That's different… I… it's…"

Panel 5: Person 1: "I think you're trying to reframe a basic character flaw as an interesting quirk, as a way to avoid the difficulty of self-improvement."

Panel 6: Person 2: "Boy, it sure has been rainy this week, hasn't it?"

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