2nd Jan 2014 : Reality bites while I wasn’t looking
Reality bites while I wasn’t looking
January 2nd, 2014

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.

^ 2 Comments...

  1. avatar Munzly

    Reality is what you get when somebody sends you their schedule and then does something completely different.

  2. avatar robogeek

    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.

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