vidjagames
Original: vidjagames on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption: ME AS A KID):
Kid (a young person with flame-colored hair, sitting at an old computer whose screen reads "FIRST PERSON MURDER SPREE III"): Video games don't make people violent! We can tell real from virtual! We have brains! Back off!
Panel 2 (caption: ME AS AN ADULT):
Narration: So with artificial intelligence, every young person will have a sexy digital assistant that sounds like a flirtatious barista who they can interrupt or ignore at any time for any reason.
Adult (the same person, now grown, hunched at a laptop, thinking): Must. Not. Become. Enemy. Of. Teenage. Self. Must. Not. Become. Enemy. Of. Teenage. Self.
Votey:
The grown man (bearded, eyes closed): Of course, as a grown man I will not be warped by an ultra-submissive perpetual robotic servant.
Kid (a young person with flame-colored hair, sitting at an old computer whose screen reads "FIRST PERSON MURDER SPREE III"): Video games don't make people violent! We can tell real from virtual! We have brains! Back off!
Panel 2 (caption: ME AS AN ADULT):
Narration: So with artificial intelligence, every young person will have a sexy digital assistant that sounds like a flirtatious barista who they can interrupt or ignore at any time for any reason.
Adult (the same person, now grown, hunched at a laptop, thinking): Must. Not. Become. Enemy. Of. Teenage. Self. Must. Not. Become. Enemy. Of. Teenage. Self.
Votey:
The grown man (bearded, eyes closed): Of course, as a grown man I will not be warped by an ultra-submissive perpetual robotic servant.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about hypocrisy across a lifetime. Panel 1, captioned 'ME AS A KID,' shows a red-haired kid at an old CRT computer whose screen reads 'FIRST PERSON MURDER SPREE III,' indignantly shouting, 'Video games don't make people violent! We can tell real from virtual! We have brains! Back off!' Panel 2, captioned 'ME AS AN ADULT,' shows the same person grown up, hunched over a laptop. Narration reads: 'So with artificial intelligence, every young person will have a sexy digital assistant that sounds like a flirtatious barista who they can interrupt or ignore at any time for any reason.' The adult thinks, repeating like a mantra: 'Must. Not. Become. Enemy. Of. Teenage. Self.' The joke is that the now-grown defender of video games has become exactly the kind of worried adult he once mocked, but about AI assistants instead of games. In the votey (bonus panel), a close-up of the bearded grown man with eyes closed declares, 'Of course, as a grown man I will not be warped by an ultra-submissive perpetual robotic servant.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.