equation
Original: equation on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red hair (to a woman with blue hair wearing glasses): You scientists think you can just create an equation for happiness, but you can't compass the range of human feeling in your little symbols on a blackboard!
Panel 2:
The blue-haired scientist writes on a green blackboard:
maximize
f + s + m + p
Panel 3:
The red-haired man: What's that?
Panel 4:
The scientist (off-panel): Food + sex + money + perception that you have rightfully earned the first three.
The red-haired man (now visibly moved, hands on his chest): Why am I shaking? Why is it so beautiful?
Votey:
The red-haired man (smiling slightly): Wish my score were positive, though.
Man with red hair (to a woman with blue hair wearing glasses): You scientists think you can just create an equation for happiness, but you can't compass the range of human feeling in your little symbols on a blackboard!
Panel 2:
The blue-haired scientist writes on a green blackboard:
maximize
f + s + m + p
Panel 3:
The red-haired man: What's that?
Panel 4:
The scientist (off-panel): Food + sex + money + perception that you have rightfully earned the first three.
The red-haired man (now visibly moved, hands on his chest): Why am I shaking? Why is it so beautiful?
Votey:
The red-haired man (smiling slightly): Wish my score were positive, though.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A red-haired man in a green shirt points and shouts at a blue-haired scientist in glasses, saying scientists can't capture the range of human feeling with little symbols on a blackboard. Panel 2: The scientist calmly writes on a green chalkboard: 'maximize f + s + m + p.' Panel 3: The man asks, 'What's that?' Panel 4: The scientist explains the variables are 'Food + sex + money + perception that you have rightfully earned the first three.' The man, overcome with emotion and clutching his chest, says, 'Why am I shaking? Why is it so beautiful?' Votey (bonus panel): A loosely sketched close-up of the man's face as he adds, 'Wish my score were positive, though.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.