the-demon
Original: the-demon on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A bald, bearded man (left) shouts at a smiling, long-haired bearded man (right):
Bald bearded man: "HEY! NO NERDS ALLOWED IN THIS CLUB!"
Long-haired bearded man: "BUT IF YOU SELECTIVELY PERMIT ONLY COOL PEOPLE, EVENTUALLY THE INTERIOR WILL BE ENTIRELY COOL AND THE EXTERIOR WILL... MY GOD."
Caption below panel: "Shortly before the proposal of Maxwell's Demon."
Votey:
A hand-drawn diagram in a sketchbook style.
Label: "Fig. 12"
Title: "The Resentment Battery"
An open book / hinged box drawn below, divided into two halves. Left half labeled "US", right half labeled "Them".
A bald, bearded man (left) shouts at a smiling, long-haired bearded man (right):
Bald bearded man: "HEY! NO NERDS ALLOWED IN THIS CLUB!"
Long-haired bearded man: "BUT IF YOU SELECTIVELY PERMIT ONLY COOL PEOPLE, EVENTUALLY THE INTERIOR WILL BE ENTIRELY COOL AND THE EXTERIOR WILL... MY GOD."
Caption below panel: "Shortly before the proposal of Maxwell's Demon."
Votey:
A hand-drawn diagram in a sketchbook style.
Label: "Fig. 12"
Title: "The Resentment Battery"
An open book / hinged box drawn below, divided into two halves. Left half labeled "US", right half labeled "Them".
Alt text
A single-panel comic. On the left, a bald, bearded man angrily shouts, "HEY! NO NERDS ALLOWED IN THIS CLUB!" On the right, a smiling long-haired bearded man replies, "BUT IF YOU SELECTIVELY PERMIT ONLY COOL PEOPLE, EVENTUALLY THE INTERIOR WILL BE ENTIRELY COOL AND THE EXTERIOR WILL... MY GOD." His expression shifts to dawning realization. A caption below reads, "Shortly before the proposal of Maxwell's Demon" — the joke being that a bouncer sorting cool people from uncool ones is a comedic stand-in for Maxwell's Demon, the thought experiment about a being that sorts fast and slow molecules. Votey: a simple hand-drawn diagram labeled "Fig. 12, 'The Resentment Battery.'" It shows an open book or hinged container split into two halves, the left labeled "US" and the right labeled "Them," implying resentment is stored like energy across the divide.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.