Pictures for Sad Children was a great webcomic. Thank you for posting these.
It was one of my favorites when it was running.
Jesus Christ, this is toxic as fuck. You are not a bad person for enjoying life. You are not a bad person for being happy or seeking happiness. Excessive consumerism isn’t great but you are still not a bad person for owning things. You are definitely not a bad person for trying to improve your life or the life of people around you.
I have no idea why they decided to attack renewable energy, it’s undeniably better than the fossil fuel systems it’s to replace. They say they’re against alternative energy immediately after complaining that a third of the world has no electricity. This doesn’t even make sense! They don’t want you to make electricity available to people, they just want you to feel bad about it.
Inequality sucks, but you are still allowed to enjoy things.
What does make you a bad person is actively seeking to make other people’s lives worse. For instance, making a comic with the sole intention of shitting on people just living their lives.
I have no idea why they decided to attack renewable energy
Huh? The comic is complaining nerds are wasting adulthood on speedrunning and drawing comics instead of doing research that improves the world (like renewable energy).
It doesn’t read that way to me, but either way my point still stands. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing something you like, and calling that “wasting adulthood” is incredibly fucked up.
The last line is literally telling people they are terrible for enjoying themselves. There is no excuse for that.
If you are not producing or in another way being in service to society, can you claim any human worth or dignity? /S
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All these mental gymnastics to avoid saying capitalism and consumerism is the problem. The “nerds” buying hardware aren’t the issue when Intel and Nvidia have literally been confirmed to gimp chip releases when they have a grip on the market.
Ellipse head seems like someone who uses Twitter too much
What do you want, Mr. Ghost? Do you want us to stop making new technology and simply use what already exists, consuming more power and time than is necessary? Do you not want people to be free to buy what they want with their own money? The singularity people are stupid, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
We must all become speedrunners and cartoonists, the only ethical professions left.
Fuck you, I just wanna port DOOM onto this new chipset
I made it to the first black bar… Am I having a stroke? It doesn’t make sense to me
What’s the point of anything, anyway? Why is something made for entertainment or war intrinsically bad? This comic is making a lot of implicit value judgments.
What utter nonsense.
Rampant consumerism and tech saviourism are not solely the domain of “nerds”, nor are they true of all “nerds”. The group you are looking for is “people”.
Plenty of people you would never consider nerds will throw away their old phone just to get the newer model. They will assume they have no responsibilities to the world or to the community because government/science/jesus will sort the big problems out. They will live in their own tiny worlds never even considering the bigger problems at play.
Why do you think this is a problem that only affects nerds?
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Exactly who are you to tell me I’m “wasting my adulthood”? The same could be said about literally any pleasurable human pursuit.
