Rachel and Scipio may be seemingly unflappable in their cheeriness and mildly disdainful disinterest, but at least E-Merl is a worthwhile target when Frigg needs to troll somebody to take the focus off her own discomfort.

Three years in, even Phil was starting to feel a little distanced from the 4chan-circa-2010-style dialogue that had inspired Frigg in the earlier chapters. I don’t think she ever came off as honestly homophobic, but even so, E-Merl in panel 2 probably speaks for us.

As I gear up to deal with some problems with my older sites, I’ve rarely identified more with HR staring at the epic fantasy world that is purely theoretically under his complete control. I’ve forgotten way too much of the little I learned about PHP…