Comic Strips @lemmy.world The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world 2 wk. ago

Don't be afraid to color outside the lines [beetlemoses]

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The structure of this feels off, the punchline already happened in panel two and the text in panel three isn't adding anything. A panel 3 without text would be funnier imo because it would let the joke soak, I also think moving the punchline to panel 3 would have worked better.
- I think the punchline is him opening the vat so it can kill humanz and solve the climate crisis, without the third one it could just be him inventing random stuff/wasting money (I only got the joke on panel 3)
  
  I assumed this is the new form of the human race
  
  Why does he look sad and say "you can go"
  
  Instead of "Precisely! Spring Terror!" Or something like that?
  
  Oh I guess I missed the joke, then. I thought it was a bit of a non-sequitur. I think I still prefer my version
- Overanalyzing a comic. Why do I even bother reading lemmy comments?
  
  Yeah sounds like you're straining yourself
Maybe they could have described the assignment better. Like "Solve Climate change without killing the majority of the world population" or something.
- This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.
  
  I understood the paperclips reference! :D
  
  ChatGPT, how can we solve climate change?
  
  Okay! Climate change is the largely man-made phenomenon of the Earth's temperature gradually increasing, leading to more severe weather events and mass species extinctions. To solve climate change, here's what you should do: plan that only vaguely helps on the individual level assuming it's coherent at all
- Yeah. That's really on the oversight committee.
Maybe it eats plastic waste, absorbes three forests worth of carbon, and shits gold?
- Or maybe it eats people. Arguably way more effective.
  
  That's right. "Reduce" is the first priority on "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", after all.
- Only one of those features would help with the climate and marginally so.
I like it, he looks like the alien from Pitch Black
- I know Vin Diesel is a unique character but that's harsh.
Yup, no scientist ever has dedicated their lives to fighting climate change.

They're all fucking around doing things they weren't told to do by their obviously even keeled superiors.
- I think the joke is that he is solving climate change by releasing a monster to kill humanity.
  
  I interpreted it a bit differently. He made the sharkpeople so we can inhabit the rising oceans, in a way. Climate change isn't getting solved, so might as well force us to adapt.
- Yet we're still waiting for cat girls?
Basically, FEV.
Jawesome
This is literally the backstory of Blue Submarine No. 6
- I remember watching this when I was 9 years old and feeling vaguely traumatized.

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