Am I the only one who thinks that beginning a sentence with "Am I the only one..." just kinda sets everyone up for disappointment because anyone with earshot can just say "No. You're not."?
Anyway, am I the only one who thinks that jokes about entertainment not being 100% realistic are just... lame? Like, that's the point of most entertainment, to distract you from the horrors of reality by showing you alternate but safe realities to escape to for a few hours a day*.
Today's comic is actually excempt from the above semi-paragraph because it refers to trends rather than singular scenes, but damn if that wasn't a good semi-paragraph. You see the bit where it says "the horrors of reality"? That originally read "the fact that everything you do will eventually be forgotten", but it made the sentence hard to read so I went back and changed it like a fuckin PRO.
Today's comic also has the usual graph joke issue where the same exact concept could be translated into an actual comic without a lot of effort on Randy's part. If Randall Munroe's medium of choice was stained glass, then I would be inclined to forgive him for wanting to minimalize his workload, but that's not the universe we live in. Randy gets by with minimalist black and white stick figures, and there's no reason he can't make those few extra panels.
*For me and my fellow rejects, "a few" here means "all avaliable".
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