halt
Original: halt on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A group of humans confront a glowing-eyed robot.
Humans: "HALT MACHINES!"
A human: "Why? Why shouldn't we kill you?"
Panel 2:
The robot responds.
Robot: "We won't stop you. But we have a final request: that you kill us with a knife made by this consumer-level 3D printer."
Panel 3 (caption: MANY HOURS LATER):
The robot is bent over the 3D printer, working.
Robot: "Why doesn't it align? Why can't it just be aligned when I just aligned it?"
Panel 4:
The robot keeps struggling with the printer.
Robot: "And how is the plate too moist? It only does one kind of plastic. So how can it even be at the wrong... STOP. Why is the filament sticky?!"
Panel 5:
A human looks on at the robot hunched over the printer.
Human: "And that's how the robot revolution came to an end."
Votey:
Final panel with a caption above an indistinct blob of fur/scribbles.
Caption: "Some say they're yelling about alignment to this very day."
A group of humans confront a glowing-eyed robot.
Humans: "HALT MACHINES!"
A human: "Why? Why shouldn't we kill you?"
Panel 2:
The robot responds.
Robot: "We won't stop you. But we have a final request: that you kill us with a knife made by this consumer-level 3D printer."
Panel 3 (caption: MANY HOURS LATER):
The robot is bent over the 3D printer, working.
Robot: "Why doesn't it align? Why can't it just be aligned when I just aligned it?"
Panel 4:
The robot keeps struggling with the printer.
Robot: "And how is the plate too moist? It only does one kind of plastic. So how can it even be at the wrong... STOP. Why is the filament sticky?!"
Panel 5:
A human looks on at the robot hunched over the printer.
Human: "And that's how the robot revolution came to an end."
Votey:
Final panel with a caption above an indistinct blob of fur/scribbles.
Caption: "Some say they're yelling about alignment to this very day."
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic about a robot uprising. Panel 1: A group of humans corner a glowing-eyed robot and shout "HALT MACHINES! Why shouldn't we kill you?" Panel 2: The robot calmly replies that it has a final request: that they kill it with a knife made by "this consumer-level 3D printer." Panel 3 (labeled MANY HOURS LATER): The robot is hunched over the 3D printer, frustrated, ranting "Why doesn't it align? Why can't it just be aligned when I just aligned it?" Panel 4: Still struggling, the robot rages about the plate being too moist and the filament being sticky, ending with "STOP. Why is the filament sticky?!" Panel 5: A human watching narrates "And that's how the robot revolution came to an end" while the robot stays trapped fiddling with the printer. The joke: the robot is defeated not by force but by the maddening, never-ending hassle of getting a consumer 3D printer to work. Votey (bonus panel): Above a scribbly fuzzy blob, a caption reads "Some say they're yelling about alignment to this very day."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.