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A pathway in Switzerland (ctto) - Author: Living-Plastic-1884

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An Air Force base in Texas was incapacitated by a major flu outbreak. Over 200 became seriously ill, some were hospitalized, and at least one died.

This happened after drunk rapist Kegbreath ended the flu vaccine mandate because it was “woke.”

During Trump’s first term an entire aircraft carrier with a crew of thousands was put out of action because Trump didn’t want to wear a mask during Covid.

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Was about to fall asleep and apropos of nothing was struck out of nowhere by a horrible future vision of a brightly-lit and saccharine 3D-AI Calvin and Hobbes movie with Scarlet Johanssen voicing the mom and Chris Pratt voicing Hobbes and experienced an emotional haptic jerk so chilling I feel like I just foresaw my own death

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(Drenched in a cold sweat, visibly shaking) We Need To Warn Bill Watterson

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No, we don't.

He knows.

He has always known.

Actual quote:

"I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminished. 'Calvin and Hobbes' was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to"

This was in the 1990's, pre-AI, pre- Chris Pratt, pre- Cinematic Universes, and if he was opposed to it then, he sure as hell wouldn't be okay with it now.

I think he probably experienced the same nightmare dystopian vision of the future you saw, but fortunately he had it like 40 years earlier.

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oh thank heavens

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For anyone who's curious about the source of the above quote, it's from the beginning section of the Tenth Anniversary book.

It's not only a fascinating look into the creative process, but also details just how hard Watterson fought for the freedom to do more within the limitations of newspaper layouts, why the earlier Sunday strips had to have throwaway jokes on the top line, how he kept pushing to change that, and the way some of those fights ended up being mirrored in the strips themselves sometimes out of frustration. Just a really great read.