babies-are-weird
Original: babies-are-weird on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Babies are so weird.
Panel 2:
Man (with reddish hair): They'll cry and cry, like it's the end of the world. Then, you find out they want a certain toy and give it to them, and they're IMMEDIATELY happy, like nothing happened.
Panel 3:
Woman: What would you do different?
Panel 4:
Man: If I got upset because I wanted something then suddenly got it?
Panel 5:
Man: I think I'd feel really good but I'd pretend to still be sad in order to not appear shallow.
Panel 6:
Man: I'd change my apparent emotional state slowly, so people wouldn't think I was faking it earlier.
Panel 7:
Man: And then I'd act particularly stoical during my subsequent social interactions to make up for the display of weakness that was necessary to secure my goal.
Panel 8:
Woman: You shouldn't have told me that. I won't take your future emotional outbursts seriously.
Man: WAAAAAH!
Votey:
A man with a distressed face has a speech bubble (in handwritten lettering): I want a more stimulating job, and a cookie.
Woman: Babies are so weird.
Panel 2:
Man (with reddish hair): They'll cry and cry, like it's the end of the world. Then, you find out they want a certain toy and give it to them, and they're IMMEDIATELY happy, like nothing happened.
Panel 3:
Woman: What would you do different?
Panel 4:
Man: If I got upset because I wanted something then suddenly got it?
Panel 5:
Man: I think I'd feel really good but I'd pretend to still be sad in order to not appear shallow.
Panel 6:
Man: I'd change my apparent emotional state slowly, so people wouldn't think I was faking it earlier.
Panel 7:
Man: And then I'd act particularly stoical during my subsequent social interactions to make up for the display of weakness that was necessary to secure my goal.
Panel 8:
Woman: You shouldn't have told me that. I won't take your future emotional outbursts seriously.
Man: WAAAAAH!
Votey:
A man with a distressed face has a speech bubble (in handwritten lettering): I want a more stimulating job, and a cookie.
Alt text
An eight-panel comic. A woman and a man (with reddish hair) talk. She says babies are weird: they cry like it's the end of the world, then get a toy and are immediately happy as if nothing happened. She asks what he'd do differently. He explains an elaborate scheme: if he got something he was upset about wanting, he'd feel good but pretend to still be sad so he wouldn't appear shallow, then change his apparent emotional state slowly so people wouldn't think he'd been faking, and then act especially stoic in later interactions to make up for the weakness he showed to get his goal. She replies that he shouldn't have told her that, because now she won't take his future emotional outbursts seriously. He immediately bursts into tears, crying 'WAAAAAH!' just like the baby he was describing. Votey: a hand-lettered speech bubble from a glum-faced man reads 'I want a more stimulating job, and a cookie.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.