I suppose the original was untranslatable.

Utterly. I tried to still keep the topic of "so many applied fields in comp sci" though.

Interesting that people notice. You made my day a little brighter here :)

Maybe the anti-chatbot-chatbot just screams "REPRESENTATIVE" repeatedly? Nobody said it had to be smart.

The fact that there are jokes based on formal logic that are simply horribly tragic implies the existence of jokes based on againstmal illogic that are complexly delightfully pleasant.

Am I doing this right?

Seems that it worked pretty well regardless if that's what you did :)

"Yeah? Then why are your arms the diameter of a toothpick?"

Guess you should also always carry that box of flowers around, for additional effect.

Yeah, but you can only fit so much text into four panels, especially if there's supposed to be at least a bit of a punchline. If people get curious as to what that number is and look it up or discuss it here, it's already everything I could have hoped for.

I'm not sure if it was ever said that you couldn't be your own friend, so maybe that kind of gives you something to start with.

That said, you'd of course have to kind of get along with yourself first. Dunno if I could, tbh.

Ha, that's actually awesome :D. Dang, maybe I even heard about that years ago, forgot about them and now thought I'd just have had a nice comic idea. Oh well, however the synapses fire, I guess ¯(ツ)/¯

Guess with your link I won't do him any favour if I take this down as unoriginal, so I'll just leave it up and consider it free advertisement for him.

/edit Also, I don't think he came up with the idea of showing Frozen and Die Hard in the same cinema so you can enjoy a theater with your kid while avoiding Let It Go, so at least that part's an original idea ;). Yeah, that'd require headphones.

I'll just consider that a happy end.

Maybe we're just soulmates?

Hope there's a happy end to that story... Like, you saw their state, had a beer with them and fixed their relationship and finances?

Me and my imaginative girlfriend

Is that supposed to mean "imaginary" or does she just have a vivid imagination because there is, in fact, no app at all?

Those are glasses ;)

Oh, this was by no means meant to degrade the idea of picking up something from pop culture. It was meant to capture that weird situation or feeling when seemingly the whole world connects something you like to some particular item from popular culture that you don't know about. That's not supposed to say that those people are wrong in any way, but it does make it kind of hard or annoying to discuss that topic. Should you then dump your hobby to play the recorder instead? I mean, maybe, if you live in a four-panel-world that needs a punchline ;). Playing OOT would of course have been a solution as well, especially since Zelda games are time well spent, but wouldn't have been as funny.

Also leaving this here. https://youtu.be/79Y6Q47qjlw

I love it.

Wow, TIL!

Hey, you're one of today's lucky 10,000!

I still wish there was a real instrument that sounds as cool as that app

a real instrument

Like... An ocarina?