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− | [[ | + | The comic is very simple: [[Randall]] apparently has a realization about the time in which he lives (at the time, anyway), given that he grew up in a time where the 2000s seemed very far away, but he now exists in that timeframe with the rest of society. This mind-blowing thought occurs to him every few months, if he is to believed. |
− | The title text states that "the future" was reached in 2004 | + | The title text states that "the future" was reached in 2004 (three years before the comic was published). This is possibly a joke on how time works, meaning that, while 'the future' is always, was always, and will always be ahead of the time you're at, that because it's the 21st century, that either the technology has becomes so futuristic that it's, in a loose sense, 'the future', or that, to the perspective of many people, that the current year is after the time they recognize as the present. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball sits silently | + | :[Cueball sits silently front of his computer.] |
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:I <u>still</u> do this every few months. | :I <u>still</u> do this every few months. | ||