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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | Motivation to do your assigned task or job can be hard.{{Citation needed}} As Ponytail is feeling unmotivated to do her job, she decides to procrastinate by playing a video game on her laptop instead, with the hope that she will eventually be more motivated to do her assigned task. Cueball seems to understand her sentiment, and admits to being in the same situation in the past. | |
− | The punch line for this comic comes when Ponytail admits that her actual job is a {{w|Game testing|video game playtester}}, someone whose job is to test and play video games. So it seems that Ponytail is avoiding doing her task to test video game X by playing video game Y | + | The punch line for this comic comes when Ponytail admits that her actual job is a {{w|Game testing|video game playtester}}, someone whose job is to test and play video games. So it seems that Ponytail is avoiding doing her task to test video game X by playing video game Y. Though being a game tester can be seen as glamorous and fun to people who enjoy playing video games ("I get to play video games all day at work"), it is [https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/03/29/the-tough-life-of-a-games-tester less rewarding][https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-video-game-tester-2015-6 than it may seem]. |
− | The title text continues Ponytail's admission, adding that she had originally been assigned to play video game Y in the first place, and was previously procrastinating by playing video game X. Her company may have caught on to her procrastination, as they then changed her assignment to work on video game X that she was already playing to procrastinate. To further procrastinate herself, Ponytail changed to play video game Y, the original video game that she was assigned. | + | The title text continues Ponytail's admission, adding that she had originally been assigned to play video game Y in the first place, and was previously procrastinating by playing video game X. Her company may have caught on to her procrastination, as they then changed her assignment to work on video game X that she was already playing to procrastinate. To further procrastinate herself, Ponytail changed to play video game Y, the original video game that she was assigned. This would serve to have her work on her original task to test video game Y. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | :[Cueball and Ponytail sitting at a desk, working on their laptops | + | :[Cueball and Ponytail sitting at a desk, working on their laptops] |
:Cueball: What are you working on? | :Cueball: What are you working on? | ||
:Ponytail: Playing a game that involves exactly as much planning, problem-solving and boring drudgework as the actual job I'm avoiding. | :Ponytail: Playing a game that involves exactly as much planning, problem-solving and boring drudgework as the actual job I'm avoiding. | ||
− | :[Zoom in on Cueball | + | :[Zoom in on Cueball] |
− | + | :Haha, yeah, I've definitely been there. | |
− | :[Zoom back out to Cueball and Ponytail sitting at a desk, working on their laptops | + | :[Zoom back out to Cueball and Ponytail sitting at a desk, working on their laptops] |
:Cueball: What's your job these days, anyway? | :Cueball: What's your job these days, anyway? | ||
:Ponytail: Video game playtester. | :Ponytail: Video game playtester. |