backstory
Original: backstory on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Game (text emanating from the computer screen): THAT GIANT RAT WAS LOOKING FOR VEGETABLES. HIS FAMILY ARE WAITING BY THE HOLE OF THE BURROW. SO HUNGRY, SO COLD.
Caption (below panel): Thanks to AI, everything you kill in a game can now have a rich backstory.
Votey:
(No text. A close-up of a brown surface with a dark hole/indentation — the rat's burrow.)
Game (text emanating from the computer screen): THAT GIANT RAT WAS LOOKING FOR VEGETABLES. HIS FAMILY ARE WAITING BY THE HOLE OF THE BURROW. SO HUNGRY, SO COLD.
Caption (below panel): Thanks to AI, everything you kill in a game can now have a rich backstory.
Votey:
(No text. A close-up of a brown surface with a dark hole/indentation — the rat's burrow.)
Alt text
A man sits in a chair holding a game controller, facing a large computer monitor. A jagged speech/sound balloon from the screen reads: "THAT GIANT RAT WAS LOOKING FOR VEGETABLES. HIS FAMILY ARE WAITING BY THE HOLE OF THE BURROW. SO HUNGRY, SO COLD." A caption below reads: "Thanks to AI, everything you kill in a game can now have a rich backstory." The joke: an AI-generated game gives a poignant, tragic life story to the random rat the player is about to kill. Votey (aftercomic): a wordless close-up of a brown earthen surface with a dark hole in it — the burrow where the rat's hungry, cold family waits.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.