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Experience

Original: Experience on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Man with glasses and dark skin: Would you ever get in an experience machine? Live a life of pleasure that was fake?
Man with red hair (red shirt): Nah.

Panel 2:
Man with glasses (leaning in, eyes wide): I mean, what would you even do in there that you don't do in real life?

Panel 3:
Man with glasses (close-up, calm): The experience machine has incognito mode.

Panel 4:
Man with glasses (gripping the red-haired man's head, both looking alarmed): Step away from the entrance.

Votey:
Caption: 4 seconds after exiting the experience machine
Man (sweating, distressed, tears): I can never look at myself in the mirror again.

Alt text

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A man with glasses and dark skin asks a red-haired man in a red shirt, "Would you ever get in an experience machine? Live a life of pleasure that was fake?" The red-haired man replies, "Nah." Panel 2: The man with glasses leans in close, eyes wide, asking, "I mean, what would you even do in there that you don't do in real life?" Panel 3: Close-up of the man with glasses, calm and serious: "The experience machine has incognito mode." Panel 4: The man with glasses, now wide-eyed and intense, grabs the alarmed red-haired man by the head and warns, "Step away from the entrance." The joke: he's revealing he uses the simulation for private/shameful pleasures and aggressively wants the door avoided. Votey (aftercomic): A caption reads "4 seconds after exiting the experience machine." A man, sweating with tears running down his face, says, "I can never look at myself in the mirror again"—implying deep shame over whatever he did inside.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.