2009-01-10
Original: 2009-01-10 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
A family or group is gathered around a table playing a board game. From the foreground, the back of a person's head is visible as they address the others. A woman with red hair, a young child, and a man with light-brown hair sit around the table, all looking somewhat unimpressed. A colorful board game with a spinner sits on the table.
Foreground speaker (back of head, presumably the game's narrator/explainer): "YOU FLICK THE SPINNER, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE YOUR OWN ACTIONS HAVE VIRTUALLY NO EFFECT ON THE OUTCOME, WHICH IS VAST AND INSCRUTABLE."
Caption below the panel: "Existentialists make lousy boardgames."
Votey:
A simple black-and-white panel. The same foreground speaker (only the back of the head and shoulders visible) continues talking while a young person stands at right.
Speaker: "SO, YOU SEE, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CONSCIOUS CHOICE."
Young person (in a speech bubble): "CAN WE PLAY MONOPOLY?"
Speaker (in a speech bubble): "NOT UNTIL I'M DONE TALKING!"
A family or group is gathered around a table playing a board game. From the foreground, the back of a person's head is visible as they address the others. A woman with red hair, a young child, and a man with light-brown hair sit around the table, all looking somewhat unimpressed. A colorful board game with a spinner sits on the table.
Foreground speaker (back of head, presumably the game's narrator/explainer): "YOU FLICK THE SPINNER, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE YOUR OWN ACTIONS HAVE VIRTUALLY NO EFFECT ON THE OUTCOME, WHICH IS VAST AND INSCRUTABLE."
Caption below the panel: "Existentialists make lousy boardgames."
Votey:
A simple black-and-white panel. The same foreground speaker (only the back of the head and shoulders visible) continues talking while a young person stands at right.
Speaker: "SO, YOU SEE, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CONSCIOUS CHOICE."
Young person (in a speech bubble): "CAN WE PLAY MONOPOLY?"
Speaker (in a speech bubble): "NOT UNTIL I'M DONE TALKING!"
Alt text
A color comic with a single panel. A group sits around a table playing a colorful spinner board game: a red-haired woman, a young child, and a light-brown-haired man, all looking flat and unimpressed. In the foreground, the back of a person's head faces them as they explain the rules: "You flick the spinner, but it doesn't matter because your own actions have virtually no effect on the outcome, which is vast and inscrutable." Caption beneath: "Existentialists make lousy boardgames." Votey (a black-and-white follow-up panel): the same person keeps lecturing, "So, you see, there is no such thing as a conscious choice." A young person asks, "Can we play Monopoly?" and the lecturer snaps back, "Not until I'm done talking!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.