2011-05-17
Original: 2011-05-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top banner): YOU ARE LIVING IN A BRIEF GOLDEN AGE.
The comic is a single line graph. The y-axis is labeled "FUN OF HAND-BASED GAMES." The x-axis is a timeline with four labeled points marked by arrows:
- DISCOVERY OF ROCK
- DISCOVERY OF PAPER
- DISCOVERY OF SCISSORS
- DISCOVERY OF MIND READING
The plotted line stays flat at zero across "discovery of rock" and "discovery of paper," then spikes sharply to a very high level between "discovery of scissors" and "discovery of mind reading," and immediately drops back down to zero at "discovery of mind reading."
Votey:
BEFORE YOU EMAIL ME: NO, MASTURBATION DOESN'T COUNT. IT'S NOT A GAME. IT'S A SPORT.
The comic is a single line graph. The y-axis is labeled "FUN OF HAND-BASED GAMES." The x-axis is a timeline with four labeled points marked by arrows:
- DISCOVERY OF ROCK
- DISCOVERY OF PAPER
- DISCOVERY OF SCISSORS
- DISCOVERY OF MIND READING
The plotted line stays flat at zero across "discovery of rock" and "discovery of paper," then spikes sharply to a very high level between "discovery of scissors" and "discovery of mind reading," and immediately drops back down to zero at "discovery of mind reading."
Votey:
BEFORE YOU EMAIL ME: NO, MASTURBATION DOESN'T COUNT. IT'S NOT A GAME. IT'S A SPORT.
Alt text
A single-panel comic shaped like a line graph. A red banner at the top reads "YOU ARE LIVING IN A BRIEF GOLDEN AGE." The vertical axis is labeled "FUN OF HAND-BASED GAMES" and the horizontal axis is a timeline with four points, each marked by an arrow: "DISCOVERY OF ROCK," "DISCOVERY OF PAPER," "DISCOVERY OF SCISSORS," and "DISCOVERY OF MIND READING." The line stays flat at zero through the discovery of rock and paper, then spikes to a tall peak once scissors is discovered (so all three elements of rock-paper-scissors exist), and crashes back to zero the moment mind reading is discovered, since you could then always predict your opponent. The joke is that the playable era of rock-paper-scissors is the narrow golden age between those two discoveries. Votey aftercomic: a hand-drawn caption box reading "BEFORE YOU EMAIL ME: NO, MASTURBATION DOESN'T COUNT. IT'S NOT A GAME. IT'S A SPORT," pre-empting pedantic readers about other hand-based activities.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.