Reality bites while I wasn’t looking
Nothing like an obscure computer-related pun to get the giggle juices flowing!
This line of thought came about when I complained that work was getting in the way of me uploading The-Talented-One’s latest comic offering and offering my homespun philosophical commentary. That work-related blockage was in the form of customers complaining that code-bugs were somehow important and that I really should spend a little time in fixing them. The cheek!
Anyway, there is more to the strip than mere quibbling coding-errors. Not least of which is our perennial theme of long-lost gaming gold. This time in the form of Space Invaders. While this was not my first foray into computer games, I do still remember paying to play it in a cocktail-cabinet version in a pub (which I was too young to be in).
Another is the whole “what is reality?” theme which seems to be permeating our last few strips. Maybe reality is just our minds constructing a universe from sensory data that has its origins, not in a physical reality (whatever that is) but in a simulation running on a vast computer somewhere in Harrow with a pint of beer and an orange juice sitting on it.
January 4th, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Reality is what you get when somebody sends you their schedule and then does something completely different.
January 28th, 2014 at 5:27 pm
I just read-back my post here and I realise how obscure my jokes really are. There is a joke in that last passage, but it is buried so deep that you would have missed it without the aid of the Caudrilla Surveying Team.