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[–] halvar@lemy.lol 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I only see these comics ever so often and always wonder if they have some coherent linear lore or if they just exist as fragments of some wider untold story.

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 2 weeks ago
[–] polderprutser@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right?? Every time I see one of these comics I get that "hmmm yes, quite the art piece my fellow smart people" vibe like I'm staring at some famous painting in a gallery that everybody else seems to get but me, having a minor existential crisis about it.

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago
[–] urda@lebowski.social 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s why you should keep your rifle rooted.

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

That's right, Dude!

[–] idealotus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Metacity for Matacorp. I bet it has some deals.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

In not too distant future, in a universe not too dissimilar to ours, the world is barren. Vast sprawls of arid deserts and inhospitable jungles cover the face of the planet, while the majority of its denizens persist in gigantic walled-off Metacities, governed by the omni present gov-corporations. These cities are home to many beings living under the tyranical regimes of their watchful overlords. This is the age of technocrats, transhumanists and digisophers, all slaves to meticulously crafted closed hardware, deceptive software and cyber practices designed to enthrall all who wish to persist on this new frontier of the future.

https://analognowhere.com/wiki/analognowhere/

As you probably know, this is considered a very plausible future. (cite, pg 34, "Barbarization")