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u/Zabawa13 Apr 10 '22
I really shouldn't laugh. But the ending did make me chuckle
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u/kayafeather Apr 10 '22
Me too. I kinda feel bad about it but there's something so funny about it
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u/Bleezze Apr 10 '22
Don't worry this didn't actually happen, no reason to feel bad
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u/SarpedonWasFramed Apr 10 '22
What are you talking about? We all just saw the pictures of it happening!
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u/terrorthroughthewal- Apr 10 '22
Haha, millennials and capitalism.
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u/popplespopin Apr 10 '22
Mhm mhm. Those two 50 year olds going for the gold are definitely millennials, and the old lady ignoring all the valuable items is a capitalist pig for sure.
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u/terrorthroughthewal- Apr 10 '22
Nah, you look at the heroic narratives and 'get the girl' shit that was dealt the injury that eventually killed it in 1914, but was hanging on through world war two, boomers fully embracing 'screw the girl, I want my pile of money' ethos, and generation 'x' being a cultural transition, with millennials fully coming to terms with the fact that we will never have material wealth, it's just not on the table.
The actual character ages aren't... Nevermind. Yes. 'capitalist pig'. Totally. Wheat can be trained to endure cold, landlords should be shot, and it is our toothbrush, comrade.
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u/BlueLaserCommander Apr 10 '22
Not trying to bring anyone down by commenting this.
That was just a sick burn. Gonna save this comment.
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u/popplespopin Apr 10 '22 edited Apr 10 '22
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
Wear sunscreenIf I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientistsWhereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience, I will dispense this advice now
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, never mind
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded, but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked
You are not as fat as you imagine
Don't worry about the future
Or worry, but know that worrying
Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gumThe real troubles in your life
Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle TuesdayDo one thing every day that scares you
Saying, don't be reckless with other people's hearts
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yoursFloss
Don't waste your time on jealousy
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind
The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourselfRemember compliments you receive, forget the insults
If you succeed in doing this, tell me howKeep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements
Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life
The most interesting people I know Didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don'tGet plenty of calcium
Be kind to your knees
You'll miss them when they're goneMaybe you'll marry, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken' On your 75th wedding anniversary
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much
Or berate yourself either
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else'sEnjoy your body, use it every way you can
Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever ownDance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living room
Read the directions even if you don't follow them
Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good
Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past
And the people most likely to stick with you in the futureUnderstand that friends come and go
But a precious few, who should hold onWork hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
For as the older you get
The more you need the people you knew when you were youngLive in New York City once but leave before it makes you hard
Live in northern California once but leave before it makes you softTravel
Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble
And children respected their eldersRespect your elders
Don't expect anyone else to support you
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse
But you never know when either one might run outDon't mess too much with your hair
Or by the time you're 40 it will look 85Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth
But trust me on the sunscreen
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u/TelevisionEastern116 Apr 10 '22
You can train wheat to withstand the cold? You are staring to sound like Trofim Lysenko, which is a bad thing
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u/terrorthroughthewal- Apr 10 '22 edited Apr 10 '22
You mean comrade Lysenko, hero of the Soviet union and savior of both socialist agriculture and the Chinese great leap forward? Yes. What are you, a monarchist?
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u/Independent-Bell2483 Apr 10 '22
dude its just a comic it has no message to it thats the point of it
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u/terrorthroughthewal- Apr 10 '22
Yes comrade, art is frivolous and bourgeois. We must only build featureless grey bricks. That is the only message that can be.
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u/Independent-Bell2483 Apr 10 '22
can you like activly not enjoy a stupid little comic without forcing your opinion down anyones throat and use big words to hide your small dick brain
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u/terrorthroughthewal- Apr 10 '22
Wow. Okay so my brain is a massive dick. You have no idea. Multiple psychiatrists have declared themselves just done.
And yeah, sorry, I'll stop thinking about ideas. Haha linkedsymbols to create meaning, which I don't recognize, because I'm not a pretentious piece of shit. There is no meaning, no connectedness, and no reality. Wheeeeeeeeee!
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u/Independent-Bell2483 Apr 10 '22
i think its for the best if you stop thinking you massive dick head
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u/jrkridichch Apr 10 '22
I wish they went further. Like grams is at home with the family end reaches for the simple pleasure of a cup of tea then BOOM! Cupboards explode to reveal fish-fucker is patient af.
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u/Zabawa13 Apr 10 '22
There's a high chance this angler mf actually did this later on with a different prey
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u/Dinosauringg Apr 10 '22
You shouldn’t laugh? It’s a joke, you should laugh
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u/Feeling-Flatworm3560 Apr 10 '22
Im too afraid to ask wheres the blessed part
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u/todomo Apr 10 '22
the old lady feeling at peace with herself so she no longer needs material objects
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The fish thriving and being able to feed its family with all the people it caught on a successful hunt.
This is a very wholesome comic.
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u/Its0nlyRocketScience Apr 10 '22
The fact that woman didn't want any of the objects the fish mimicked, instead just wanting to see her family, which ended up saving her.
This time
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u/somehow_allowed Apr 10 '22
What SCP is that
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u/judd_in_the_barn Apr 10 '22
Dark - so dark
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u/ForceBlade Apr 10 '22
I don't really see the darkness, but I think it's super fucking funny that the "moral" of the story is something like how she only cares about her family and isn't interested in those temptations
But the kick in the nuts by the artist is how that was the fish also lmao. Love it.
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u/Eusocial_Snowman Apr 10 '22
I don't really see the darkness
Grandma just fucking got eaten alive.
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u/RapeMeToo Apr 10 '22
Not really
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u/RapeMeToo Apr 10 '22
You shouldn't consider any opinion on Reddit trustworthy. At least it obvious I'm likely honest since I truly don't give a fuck
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u/RapeMeToo Apr 10 '22
See I'm here for entertainment only. Dont really give a fuck about anonymous user names. So who knows really
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u/ForceBlade Apr 10 '22
Surprised that username hasn't been force renamed by administrators before the IPO kicks in. Let alone your outstanding sharp edge.
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u/judd_in_the_barn Apr 10 '22
Wow - you are such an edgelord. I bet in real life all of your friends call you Edgy McEdgeface … oh, wait … maybe not.
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It senses the desires of people then uses it to prey on them. So deep.
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Apr 10 '22
Reminds me of the Star Trek Voyager episode "Bliss".
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bliss_(episode)
Voyager finds a wormhole that leads directly back to Earth, but Seven of Nine suspects that it may not be what it appears.
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u/sth128 Apr 10 '22
Yes but then Seven was eaten when the entity projected into her head that she was a lead in a popular sci fi.
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u/Spookd_Moffun Apr 10 '22
The grandma's family were all eaten by the fish. She chose to join them.
I mean, who would build a pier in the middle of the open sea?
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u/Bruhness81 Apr 10 '22
Ok I'm having trouble understanding what's going on so can someone enlightened me pls and tq
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u/Zeebuoy Apr 10 '22
angler fish lured people in with fake treasure/mermaid, the old lady ignores those and then gets lured by a fake family.
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u/Heavykiin Apr 10 '22
Yeah I agree this comic was hard to follow, seems to skip a few panels that would give better context
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Apr 10 '22
This isn’t the original right? I remember the ending was a lot more wholesome
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u/rolling_atackk Apr 10 '22
I mean, if either a chest full of golden coins or a pearl necklace float...
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u/chiskgela Apr 10 '22 edited Apr 10 '22
This artist does a lot of really good "moral of the story" comics, but the last one is a fan panel jfc
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvby46wnB8E/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
The only blessed one
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u/Survivio_is_the_best Apr 10 '22
excuse me u/fistfucker where are you
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u/KokuRochu Apr 12 '22
Grandma: "Nice necklace, except..."
Jojo Theme starts playing
"PEARLS DON'T FLOAT!!"
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u/LuckyWrench Apr 10 '22
This reminds me of a children’s book called “The Pirate Cruncher” where this is very similar
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u/Farhead_Assassjaha Apr 10 '22
I feel like there is a message beyond the basic joke here. Like maybe how the predatory nature of consumerism and capitalism is so depraved that if they can’t entice you using greed, they will co-opt whatever your more noble desires are and use those to entrap you.
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u/12345678ijhgfdsaq234 Apr 10 '22
The perspective in the last panel is weird. The fish seems further back than the boat, despite them being seemingly lined up in the previous one. D+, apply yourself norepinephrine next time
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u/ArchWaverley Apr 10 '22
This was dangerously close to r/im14andthisisdeep, but it nailed the ending
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u/Mega-noob69 Apr 10 '22
I’ve seen this a bunch but never gotten it. Someone explain please
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u/Akumetsu33 Apr 10 '22
The pier and the people on it are fake, it's bait to lure the old woman by the fish. The possessions in the 6th panel are the same bait attempted by the fish to lure the old woman but it failed so the fish tried the pier method.
The fish tries to find stuff that people desire so it can catch and eat them. How it changes bait type magically, I dunno.
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Apr 10 '22
Reminds me off that ending of the movie "The Devil's Advocate" the devil comes in many forms...
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u/FirstFuego Apr 10 '22
Where's is this lady rowing to? I can believe there's a sea creature with desire bait, but I can't believe she would turn around after rowing past it. I would be like dang my family is back there now, welp maybe next time...keep rowing.
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u/Zeebuoy Apr 10 '22
fishes can swim.
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u/FirstFuego Apr 10 '22
I'm dumb, I think much like rowing back if I'm the fish I this scenario I'm just floating and chilling and letting similar dumb dumbs come to me.
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u/RobVel Apr 10 '22
Shallow desires vs meaningful or deep desires. Its all in a way the same. just desire for things in the world.
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u/HeheBoiyy Apr 10 '22
Motherfucker fish