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Penny Arcade - Comic - The ‘Chains
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Penny Arcade - Comic - The ‘Chains
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I need to know a lot more about that pie
Pizza Noodle lives up to its name.
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Clearly it's just a pepperoni pizza with some hot sauces topped with ramen noodles, a fried egg and a mystery topping (Gyoza? Pork Belly? Onion?). It's notable that the sauce is a white sauce so my head cannon is that the sauce is reduced tonkotsu broth.
He doesn't seem to move, I think he's a mascot... but its the future maybe he's like an android version of Chuck E Cheese that also cooks.
"just"?!
You son of a bitch, I'm in.
Given the setting, I'm going to say the cat is a wage-slave human waiter whose employers mandate genetic modification to make him look like their mascot.
Between the horrific cat-mutant, the plot to commit a cyber heist of a meme from the Time-That-Was, characters remarking about it being weird to meet up in meat space, and the colored sunglasses, I'm still going to say the most cyberpunk thing here is the ramen pizza.
At the risk of getting too real, the most dystopian thing to me is that we've managed to invent resource scarcity in imaginary space...
Well, pretend resource scarcity.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Or its just a cat statue? Like he doesn't move at all in the comic and they speak openly in front of it.
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Google NFT art. Read Jerry's post. This is a new comic storyline/world set in the future.
Also, I gotta ask, how far into the future are we talking? 80 years? Cause I could see that scene happening 10 years from now. Heck, I think I've seen that girl walking around my town last year.
At least... probably 20 years minimum? Long enough time for Elon Musk to have a daughter named Elytra (google Elytra Musk to learn how clever that name is). And that person has to have access to at least a trillion dollars in wealth to spend on art, something you probably wouldn't have full access to until you came of age. Somewhere in the range of 20-40 seems to make sense to me.
That is also more than enough time for a chain called Pizza Noodle to spring up, and, if I am understanding the dialog, probably fall out of favor? Or be cliche, old, or considered dumb by some people? That's the implication at least.
It also gives the economy time to proceed to the point where a single person can be worth over a trillion, and for this 'Ultranet' to be developed. I assume it's some sort of premium internet that is prohibitively expensive, that only the wealthy or those working on it have access to.
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I mean, this could also be several generations distant, or longer, but I suspect the world would be even more drastically different at that point.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
clearly
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
You use the crust, after you finish the core you fold the crust like tongs and use them to pick up noodles and sop up the goose juice.
That seems even worse than chopsticks (for non-proficient chopsticks users).
I have done this against salads, for want of a fork.
It's not ideal. The lack of rigidity being the main issue. Maybe if you let it go stale? But not only is that time consuming, then you probably wouldn't want to eat your implement at the end... at which point you may as well be using a common fork.