holes
Original: holes on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark wavy hair, wide eyes, and an orange sweater stands at a pool table flanked by three other people (a bearded man on the left, a person with red hair in a green shirt, and a man in a teal jacket on the right). She declares:
Woman: "THIS GAME SUCKS. THERE'S AN OBVIOUS DOMINANT STRATEGY OF 'PUT THE BALLS IN THE HOLES IN THE RIGHT ORDER.'"
Caption (below panel): Never invite a game theorist to play pool.
Votey:
The same woman (shown in close-up) continues talking:
Woman: "ALSO WHY DON'T SOCCER PLAYERS JUST PUT THE BALL IN THE GOAL? IT'S LITERALLY THE ONLY WINNING STRATEGY."
A woman with dark wavy hair, wide eyes, and an orange sweater stands at a pool table flanked by three other people (a bearded man on the left, a person with red hair in a green shirt, and a man in a teal jacket on the right). She declares:
Woman: "THIS GAME SUCKS. THERE'S AN OBVIOUS DOMINANT STRATEGY OF 'PUT THE BALLS IN THE HOLES IN THE RIGHT ORDER.'"
Caption (below panel): Never invite a game theorist to play pool.
Votey:
The same woman (shown in close-up) continues talking:
Woman: "ALSO WHY DON'T SOCCER PLAYERS JUST PUT THE BALL IN THE GOAL? IT'S LITERALLY THE ONLY WINNING STRATEGY."
Alt text
A comic. In the main panel, a wide-eyed woman with dark wavy hair and an orange sweater stands at a pool table, surrounded by three unimpressed-looking companions. She announces, 'THIS GAME SUCKS. THERE'S AN OBVIOUS DOMINANT STRATEGY OF "PUT THE BALLS IN THE HOLES IN THE RIGHT ORDER."' A caption below reads: 'Never invite a game theorist to play pool.' In the votey (aftercomic), a close-up of the same woman continues: 'ALSO WHY DON'T SOCCER PLAYERS JUST PUT THE BALL IN THE GOAL? IT'S LITERALLY THE ONLY WINNING STRATEGY.' The joke is that she reduces skill-based games to their trivially-stated objectives, ignoring the actual difficulty of execution.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.