[2695] GGT #6: VR

[madjack]

The reviews were mixed to negative.

[TBeholder]

Brütal.

[Igniz]

It's funny, though at the same time, the player being Mort, well...
But hey, at least VR is better than nothing!

[imaginaryfriend]

I hear there's a ton of cultured mods but they make the last part unstable.

[mochakimono]

I laughed, then I felt bad for laughing.

I can't judge Mort here though, not with all the hours I've spent in The Sims and Stardew Valley.

[artezzatrigger]

Wasn't expecting a gut punch this morning.

[rafk]

Ohhhhh after a bunch of sillies, this was the sneaky sucker punch I did not see coming.

[pyradonis]

MORT FUN TIME!

[jasmijn]

Not cool Tom, not cool. 😭

[guntherkrieg]

It's funny because he was robbed of a large amount of his tomorrows.

[maxptc]

Fifty-five years. Not bad, Mort. You kinda wasted your thirties though with that whole birdwatching phase.

[ctso74]

I'm not laugh-crying. You're laugh-crying.

[artemis]

DARK! But now I want the comics this week to rapidly devolve into dark and weird to kind of break the gamer comics genre a bit.

Although I suppose it wouldn’t be the first gamer comic to start as gag-a-day and then turn serious (i.e. Cerebus Syndrome).

[fia]

At first I was like, "Yay a Mort comic!"

And then, immediately... right in the feels. :,(

[alevice]

Oct 24, 2022 13:37:43 GMT maxptc said:

Fifty-five years. Not bad, Mort. You kinda wasted your thirties though with that whole birdwatching phase.

makes me think if there i s a subtly reference to rick and morty there

[atteSmythe]

The game box art has a giant butt on it. You’re welcome.

[crater]

This is actually a weird moral dilemma. Mort could have just waited 1000 years until VR was sufficiently advanced enough to simulate a real life. It becomes a literal ghost in a shell type scenario. And it also takes all the bite out of dying. Why not just kill yourself when you are 12 or whatever and save yourself all the trouble of having to eat and breath and stuff, and just wait until VR reality. What if thats what is already happening

I think this strip is quite kind....

[maxptc]

Oct 25, 2022 13:53:07 GMT crater said:

This is actually a weird moral dilemma. Mort could have just waited 1000 years until VR was sufficiently advanced enough to simulate a real life. It becomes a literal ghost in a shell type scenario. And it also takes all the bite out of dying. Why not just kill yourself when you are 12 or whatever and save yourself all the trouble of having to eat and breath and stuff, and just wait until VR reality. What if thats what is already happening

I think this strip is quite kind....

Mort wouldn't have needed VR if he wanted/was allowed to simulate life. He was a shape-shifting ghost, he could have given himself a human body, aged as he wanted and adopted kids. You could even be direct about it in a place like the court, ghosts aren't that outside the norm. It's just Mort had a super important job to do, so no fabricated normal life for him.


This has bothered me since the claim the ROT made about giving the unjustly dead a chance to do something. Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to have that somthing be a basicly normal life with the power they have.

[King Mir]

Oct 26, 2022 0:16:42 GMT maxptc said:

Oct 25, 2022 13:53:07 GMT crater said:

This is actually a weird moral dilemma. Mort could have just waited 1000 years until VR was sufficiently advanced enough to simulate a real life. It becomes a literal ghost in a shell type scenario. And it also takes all the bite out of dying. Why not just kill yourself when you are 12 or whatever and save yourself all the trouble of having to eat and breath and stuff, and just wait until VR reality. What if thats what is already happening

I think this strip is quite kind....

Mort wouldn't have needed VR if he wanted/was allowed to simulate life. He was a shape-shifting ghost, he could have given himself a human body, aged as he wanted and adopted kids. You could even be direct about it in a place like the court, ghosts aren't that outside the norm. It's just Mort had a super important job to do, so no fabricated normal life for him.


This has bothered me since the claim the ROT made about giving the unjustly dead a chance to do something. Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to have that somthing be a basicly normal life with the power they have.

It's not clear that ROT or Mort had the power to make Mort grow up. He died a child, with the mind of a child. He could have new experiences, but he didn't seem to mentally develop.

VR of course would not help. No amount of playing the Sims would give you the experience of raising a child.

Relevant page: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1333

[maxptc]

Oct 26, 2022 1:07:40 GMT King Mir said:

Oct 26, 2022 0:16:42 GMT maxptc said:

Mort wouldn't have needed VR if he wanted/was allowed to simulate life. He was a shape-shifting ghost, he could have given himself a human body, aged as he wanted and adopted kids. You could even be direct about it in a place like the court, ghosts aren't that outside the norm. It's just Mort had a super important job to do, so no fabricated normal life for him.


This has bothered me since the claim the ROT made about giving the unjustly dead a chance to do something. Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to have that somthing be a basicly normal life with the power they have.

It's not clear that ROT or Mort had the power to make Mort grow up. He died a child, with the mind of a child. He could have new experiences, but he didn't seem to mentally develop.

VR of course would not help. No amount of playing the Sims would give you the experience of raising a child.

Relevant page: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1333

Seems like he was mostly left alone till Annie found him. I dunno, maybe his brain couldn't develop, but I still think the entire situation is ridiculously bad mismanagement on the part of ROTD equal to that of an average American business.