Comic #5224: paperclip

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Here’s the transcription of the comic text:

Panel 1: "Hahaha! Your time is at an end, humans! I have created a paperclip maximizer!"

Panel 2: "It is programmed to maximize the number of paperclips… at any cost."

Panel 3: "You, your children, all your art, your cities, everything! All will be paperclips as the nanobots spread."

Panel 4: "Not so fast, Mechanotron!"

Panel 5: "What the—"

Panel 6: "They call me Temp-o! I’m the most bored office temp in the world! More bored at work than scientists thought possible!"

Panel 7: "Every time a paperclip is formed, I locate it and mess with it until it breaks."

Panel 8: "Your nanobots will have no choice but to constantly fix the office supplies around which I’ve created small mental health rituals!"

Panel 9: "I will counteract your powers of boredom, Temp-o!"

Panel 10: "Impossible! My job is both well-surveilled and pointless!"

Panel 11: "Behold this attractive and mildly flirtatious delivery girl!"

Panel 12: "Just dropping off the new copier. Your tie looks nice."

Panel 13: "Noooooo!"

This captures the text from each panel accurately.