Comic #6558: engaged

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Panel 1: Person 1: “Would you ever leave behind reality to enter a pleasure box?” Person 2: “What I would get into is an engagement box.”

Panel 2: Person 2: “You mean like with love and sunsets and so forth? Nah.”

Panel 3: Person 2: “I already spend 4 hours a day on this app. It feeds me an infinite quantity of short videos. I spend an average of 4 seconds on each, like or dislike, share or don’t share, then move on.”

Panel 4: Person 2: “Eventually I run out of internet. But it won’t be long until I can generate content designed to surgically pull apart every bit of my attention span until all that remains is 150 pounds of warm flesh existing only to minimally service its bodily functions while looking at the next video.”

Panel 5: Person 1: “Do I like it? I don’t know.”

Panel 6: Person 1: “Huh.”

Panel 7: Person 2: “And you’d enjoy that?” Person 1: “Whoa, whoa, you said ‘would you’ not ‘should you.’”

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