Comic #5773: bored-2
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Panel 1:
- Person 1: “I wouldn’t want to live forever. You’d get bored.”
- Person 2: “That’s stupid.”
Panel 2:
- Person 1: “The ‘get bored’ argument was true back when the most addictive form of amusement was drinking and reading Dickens.”
Panel 3:
- Person 2: “In the last decade, video game companies have worked out how to turn all the little gears left by evolution, whose rotation makes you feel progress, which you then mistake for happiness.”
Panel 4:
- Person 1: “Because you feel forward motion while running in place, you can go for eternity, like a hamster on a wheel that believes it’s exploring an infinite universe!”
Panel 5:
- Person 1: “And because you live forever, you’d never feel any guilt about wasted time!”
- Person 2: “Like being a ghost that doesn’t realize it’s dead.”
Panel 6:
- Person 1: “This is the most realistic heaven possible for apes!”