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A five-panel SMBC comic. A brown-haired woman and a dark-haired man argue about immortality. She says she wouldn't want to live forever because she'd get bored; he calls that stupid. He argues that the "you'd get bored" argument was only true back when the most addictive amusement was drawing and reading Dickens. He says video game companies have, in the last decade, worked out how to hijack all the little failures and successes that used to make people feel personally sad or happy and turn them into a feeling of happiness within a giant, infinite universe. He continues that because you feel forward motion while running in place, you could do this forever, like a moron on a wheel. The woman compares it to seeing a ghost that doesn't realize it's dead. In the final panel the man concludes, smiling, "This is the most realistic heaven possible for me." Votey: A crudely drawn panel. A large speech bubble descending from above says "The rapture is here, my son." A small speech bubble below replies, "Sorry, angry birds." — the joke being someone is too absorbed in a mobile game to notice the rapture.