2012-05-04
Original: 2012-05-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An older man in a dark suit with a red tie (a senator) is being interviewed by a woman with brown hair holding a notepad.
Senator: "There are limits to free speech. Video games cause violence. It's been shown that when you play a video game you experience heightened aggression. The connection is obvious, so yes, they should be censored."
Panel 2: The interviewer leans in.
Interviewer: "And how'd you find this out?"
Panel 3: The senator answers.
Senator: "I read several news articles about it."
Panel 4: The interviewer.
Interviewer: "And did the article make you mad?"
Panel 5: The senator.
Senator: "Of course. Furious. Why?"
Panel 6: The interviewer.
Interviewer: "No reason."
Panel 7 (banner): "LATER..."
Panel 8: A news broadcast graphic.
NewsNet headline: "SENATOR IMPLIES ANTI-VIDEO GAME ARTICLES SHOULD BE CENSORED"
(Below the headline, the senator's face appears in a small video box.)
Votey:
A man with long flowing flame-/wing-like hair and a beard speaks in a single panel.
Man: "The point is that discrete empirical observations are not sufficient to determine social policy."
Senator: "There are limits to free speech. Video games cause violence. It's been shown that when you play a video game you experience heightened aggression. The connection is obvious, so yes, they should be censored."
Panel 2: The interviewer leans in.
Interviewer: "And how'd you find this out?"
Panel 3: The senator answers.
Senator: "I read several news articles about it."
Panel 4: The interviewer.
Interviewer: "And did the article make you mad?"
Panel 5: The senator.
Senator: "Of course. Furious. Why?"
Panel 6: The interviewer.
Interviewer: "No reason."
Panel 7 (banner): "LATER..."
Panel 8: A news broadcast graphic.
NewsNet headline: "SENATOR IMPLIES ANTI-VIDEO GAME ARTICLES SHOULD BE CENSORED"
(Below the headline, the senator's face appears in a small video box.)
Votey:
A man with long flowing flame-/wing-like hair and a beard speaks in a single panel.
Man: "The point is that discrete empirical observations are not sufficient to determine social policy."
Alt text
A multi-panel SMBC comic. A senator in a suit is interviewed by a woman with a notepad. He declares there are limits to free speech, says video games cause violence because playing them produces heightened aggression, and concludes they should be censored. The interviewer asks how he found this out; he says he read several news articles about it. She asks if the article made him mad; he says "Of course. Furious. Why?" She replies, "No reason." A "LATER..." banner leads to a NewsNet broadcast headline reading "SENATOR IMPLIES ANTI-VIDEO GAME ARTICLES SHOULD BE CENSORED" — turning his own logic (something that makes you angry should be censored) back on the news articles themselves. Votey: A man with long flowing hair and a beard states, "The point is that discrete empirical observations are not sufficient to determine social policy."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.