difficult
Original: difficult on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man examines a small device (a knob or dial with a curled wire/toroidal-shaped object beside it).
Man: "It appears to change parameters based on the motion of my hands within a toroidal region near its base."
Graph (bottom of panel):
A line graph with a steeply downward-sloping line.
Y-axis label: "LIKELIHOOD OF ME BEING ABLE TO OPERATE ANY OBJECT IN MY ROOM"
X-axis label: "CLASSINESS OF THE HOTEL I'M STAYING IN"
Votey:
An extreme close-up of the man's face contorted in frustration or strain, with a sound effect.
Text: "GYAH"
A bearded man examines a small device (a knob or dial with a curled wire/toroidal-shaped object beside it).
Man: "It appears to change parameters based on the motion of my hands within a toroidal region near its base."
Graph (bottom of panel):
A line graph with a steeply downward-sloping line.
Y-axis label: "LIKELIHOOD OF ME BEING ABLE TO OPERATE ANY OBJECT IN MY ROOM"
X-axis label: "CLASSINESS OF THE HOTEL I'M STAYING IN"
Votey:
An extreme close-up of the man's face contorted in frustration or strain, with a sound effect.
Text: "GYAH"
Alt text
Main comic: A bearded man carefully studies a small unfamiliar device featuring a dial or knob with a curled wire, saying, "It appears to change parameters based on the motion of my hands within a toroidal region near its base." Below is a line graph that slopes steeply downward: the Y-axis reads "likelihood of me being able to operate any object in my room" and the X-axis reads "classiness of the hotel I'm staying in" — the joke being that fancier hotels have such gratuitously complicated fixtures that the guest can't figure out how to use anything. Votey: An extreme, scribbly close-up of the man's strained, frustrated face as he lets out a "GYAH" of exasperation.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.