Annotated 49-31
FB: “This is not a ‘God complex!’ MY BEING GOD IS VERY, VERY SIMPLE!!!”
This was more or less the point where Flo took the reins. As she did, she drowned out my “Whoa, Nelly” with a “HEEYA! GET ALONG, LITTLE DOGGIE!”
I was thinking that we’d said and done about all I wanted to say and do with the climax of Guilded Age, and I probably would’ve had HR die around page 33. As you can see, Flo had significantly more to add, pushing that death scene to page 47. Most of the added material strikes me as good or at least entertaining, so I’m generally okay with it…I would’ve felt bad if I hadn’t given Flo a chance to express herself, and her style, at this point.
My dialogue for HR here got a big rewrite, partly for lettering reasons. Using that typography, there just isn’t space on the page for a bit like “You are only tools I use to code my way to divinity! You are mere computer keys! You do not think! You do not speak, except to say ‘H’ and ‘R’ when I press on you to spell my name!” But also, Flo had some rawer stuff to say through HR’s voice…and the rawness helps convey that Carol, in panel 6, is getting a horrifying, unobstructed view of the monster within the man.
*Copies and pastes Fortnite.exe*
I CREATED AN ENTIRE AAA GAME!
Seriously though, HR is like, a decent modder at best. This “creator” thing he’s stuck on is overstating things.
Elon Musk : **Buys company**
Elon Musk : “I created this”
you forgot “burns out half the staff and fires anyone who objects”
An inevitable side-effect of getting bought by an apartheid inheritor with a penchant for insider trading, and delusions of competence.
Now Carol is seeing where she really stood!
HR should really mute his mic when he’s
There’s a reason I am strictly “push to talk” on mic when I am playing games with strangers.
You know, about six years ago I went on a rant with a friend IRL about my raid team. Found out, my mute button had borked.
Maybe HR’s button borked.
I’m curious what is coming across to Shanna and Xan here. Carol at least seems to receive HR’s message, but “ow god the noise” doesn’t strike me as something someone who is hearing painfully loud speech would say. And Xan has some really important Flappy Bird to play or something.
Xan was recording the whole thing with his phone, so…
By the way, 14 extra pages of THIS? It’d better be good.
(This from a reader who is not tickled by HR’s obsession with godhood.)
Sorry. Forgot the joke tags. I was trying (and failed) to comedically draw attention to Xan either not being bothered by the noise or being able to function despite it in a way Shanna isn’t.
Carol may have an easier time parsing the loud voice shaking through the room, given how familiar she is with its owner.
The beings that are supposed to get along are actually little DOGIES. That is, calves without a mother. Apparently this doesn’t come up in crosswords often? I mean, otherwise you’d have known! ;)
Ha, it does not! I think I’m heard that spoken a lot more than I’ve seen it written, so…
I only know this because of a character in Krazy Kat, the Doleful Dogie. I had to look that one up! With the result that a few other things fell into place as well. The lyrics to Rawhide, for example.
– https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/07/20/e-e-cummings-and-krazy-kat/
Thanks a lot! Now Rawhide does make a lot more sense!