Comic #6247: punching-bags

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Description

Panel 1:

• Character on the left (with long hair and beard) says: "Welcome to heaven, Dave! Here are your four punching bags!"
• Another character, shorter with a beard, stands nearby.

Panel 2:

• A character asks: "What do they do?"
• The first character responds: "There are lots of things that matter to humans in earthly life. In heaven, you get them all by performing repetitive physical labor."

Panel 3:

• The first character continues: "This is your high status bag. This is the morality bag. This is the love bag. And, this is the sense of meaning bag. The more you punch each of them, the more you get."
• The bags are depicted hanging in rows.

Panel 4:

• The character explains: "Everything is measured with perfect precision and you can look up growth on a chart. Your total amount increases in each category with the precise exponential function required to make each day seem new and interesting."

Panel 5:

• A character says: "So… weird… yet so compelling."

Panel 6:

• The first character replies: "We basically stole it from video games."