21st December 2006, 6:36 PM
It's not ACTUALLY a game, he LIED to trick the guy into trying to "play" it! Now do you get it?
You see frame one sets up the premise, that you can "use it to destroy a life". So, character 1 tells character 2 it's an awesome game (when clearly it isn't). Character 2 then tries to "play" it but is losing his grip on reality because he doesn't understand how anything he does (spin the planet around and change the way the weather stats are viewed) affects anything. "Why do the numbers change?", and then to really drive him off the deep end, panel 3 has character 1 asking how he is "doing", and he responds that it's raining somewhere, and pretending that he must have "done something" to make it happen, he's like "that's bad" and character 2 is losing his mind trying to figure out what he did and how to fix it.
THAT is what is funny. It's not ACTUALLY a game even in the comic.
You see frame one sets up the premise, that you can "use it to destroy a life". So, character 1 tells character 2 it's an awesome game (when clearly it isn't). Character 2 then tries to "play" it but is losing his grip on reality because he doesn't understand how anything he does (spin the planet around and change the way the weather stats are viewed) affects anything. "Why do the numbers change?", and then to really drive him off the deep end, panel 3 has character 1 asking how he is "doing", and he responds that it's raining somewhere, and pretending that he must have "done something" to make it happen, he's like "that's bad" and character 2 is losing his mind trying to figure out what he did and how to fix it.
THAT is what is funny. It's not ACTUALLY a game even in the comic.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)