888: Heaven

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Heaven

Title text: If you've never had sex, this is what it feels like. Complete with the brief feeling of satisfaction, followed by ennui, followed by getting bored and trying to make it happen again.

Explanation

This comic is a reference to the video game Tetris, in which you use different shaped pieces to fill in lines to score points. The more lines you fill at a time results in more points.

In this comic, Heaven is when you get the perfect piece in Tetris that fills out all the empty space you have on the board.

In the title text, ennui means a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest.

A fan even made a modified version of the classic Tetris game, where at a certain frequency, a 'heaven' perfectly fitting block comes along. The game can be found on. http://www.gudmagazine.com/games/heaven/.

Also see comic 724: Hell, which presents an opposing situation in which the game is impossible to play.

Transcript

[The display is a tetris game. A large oddly shaped piece is falling towards the board. The piece fits into the gaps exactly to complete multiple rows at once. The next piece is simply a very long brick.]

Top 0002187

Score 0002186

Level 5

(The above are within the game; the next line is outside the game.)

Heaven

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Discussion

I also think that the comic number '888' is a reference to the chinese belief that eight is a lucky number, and '888' even more 61.22.6.176 01:56, 3 February 2013 (UTC)