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I Am Bread.

A video game in the vein of Goat Simulator, except that you are a slice of bread in a house. Now imagine all the places in your house you wouldn't want bread to go.

Well, no. Not exactly in the vein of Goat Simulator. Mostly because I Am Bread actually has a goal; become toast.

Oh, and Scott recommended Freedom Planet in the accompanying news post. God knows that game needs the attention.

Close enough. :/

Topical is meh.

I really think Scott should just stick to making cute, heartwarming stories. The last one, 'I am Gross' was okay, mainly because it really makes good use of the 'Leo is weird' angle but in this case it's just cute animals being horrible people. I can see how it might be funny to see a cute character turn out to be an awful racist but it's really not executed well.

One way to make it better is if Isabelle was in Shrunk's audience and was the only one who laughed at that terrible 'joke', with everyone else being clearly uncomfortable.

However, going back to the title for this comic... what's so 'topical' about this one? A comedian made a racist joke? That's Older Than Print

First thought for me was the Michael Richards video from awhile back.

Addition: What's the game in the comic?

edited 18th Jan '15 7:01:17 AM by GethKnight

I think he was being sarcastic with that title. But I do agree, the punchline could have been executed better.

Animal Crossing.

edited 18th Jan '15 7:05:41 AM by Enderspy

What is this topicaling about?

A new twist on an old classic.

What the hell is that thing?

Arceus, one of like 4 or 5 Pokemon that's considered a creator god in in-universe mythology.

4 or 5? Its quite literally the creator pokemon <_<

Also, really weird seeing something equine having it front hooves in that kind of position, equine body shape just doesn't really bend well :p

Well, you can kind of take your pick of worldly origin stories. There's the one about a single Pokemon from whom all others known to science (including Arceus) descended, there's the one about a trio of titans who created the land and seas, (either followed or opposed by the one about a titan who towed the continents into place) there's the one that says a single creator called forth the ones who made space and started time, alongside a trio who created emotion, logic, and will...

And then everyone died when the planet was incinerated by a lava-snail who is hotter than the sun.

These are all pretty reconcilable if you except the basic premise that a creator god must have existed before creation. Arceus descended from Mew, who existed wherever Arceus existed before Arceus created the universe. Arceus created the universe. Pokémon like Groudon and Kyogre shaped Arceus's creation.

It's basic polytheism.

I don't think Arceus has to really be descended from Mew. You can probably just read Mew's description as saying it's the last common ancestor for every common or known pokemon. Arceus may not be well known or believed to actually exist.

You could but when there's two possible explanations for something and one fits everything together 100% and the other requires some justifications to make it work, Occam's Razor demands the perfect answer is correct.

Nothing prevents Mew from being Arceus's ancestor, so rationalizing reasons for why Mew isn't Arceus's ancestor is unnecessary.

edited 4th Feb '15 8:31:51 AM by TobiasDrake

It's the simpler solution to say that Mew is a dimension hopper than to say the Pokedex is slightly inaccurate?

Yes. Because we've already accepted the premise that Arceus exists. By definition, Arceus must have come from somewhere. There must have been a somewhere for Arceus to come from before the universe was created or Arceus cannot exist and no universe can be created.

If you accept the premise that Arceus exists, then there is no contradiction in Mew having also existed at the time when Arceus existed. Arceus, by existing prior to the universe, proves the possibility of Mew's existence pre-dating the universe.

That there were Pokémon before there was a universe is irrefutable fact.

edited 4th Feb '15 8:55:37 AM by TobiasDrake

Okay, I'm going to try to distance this a little from religion by saying that this is a fictional universe where the laws of causality do not necessarily apply the way they may or may not in the real world. Ahem.

As such, what evidence do you have that Arceus didn't just spontaneously poof into existence or has not always existed? You assume it must have come from somewhere, but even if you accept that then that just raises the question of where Mew came from. Did it spontaneously poof into existence instead? Besides, Mew can't be the ancestor of absolutely every single pokemon out there because more than a few were simply created, like the lake spirits or Porygon. There's your precedent for the pokedex being wrong. Plus Klink apparently didn't exist more than a hundred years ago, so it seems to have just started existing in its current form all by itself as well.

Wasn't it stated that in pokedex Arceus' egg came from chaos/nothingess? And if you are claim pokedex is wrong in that case, then why its right for Mew?

Its simple guys. There was nothing ==> Egg ==> Arceus ==> Arceus made Dialga and Palkia and the universe and life and other things ==> Mew was the first "normal Pokemon" ==> All actual normal Pokemon and non-deific/precursor legendaries can be traced back to Mew.

Geeze guys. Its like you've never been to church.

The Pokedex doesn't say the egg was created from nothingness. It says it emerged from an Egg in a place where there was nothing, and then shaped the world.

Nothing has ever been stated as to where Arceus's egg came from, other than it was born in a place where there was nothing.

Porygon being a man-made Pokémon comprised of computer code doesn't hinder Mew being its ancestor either. We know nothing of how it was made, and Mewtwo is also a man-made Pokémon. Additionally, every Pokémon is capable of being stored in a PC and digitally transferred, so Porygon being comprised of computer code isn't that special.

Meanwhile, Klink coming into existence recently only proves that Pokémon are still - ahem - evolving. Pokémon containing Mew's DNA include the ghosts of humans, various aliens, intelligent rocks and chunks of metal without an ounce of organic material in them, gods that transcend time and space, etc. No reason the creator of the universe can't be in that list too.

There's nothing contradictory here. It's bizarre, but no less so than Pokémon have always been. Deliberately ignoring evidence to manufacture an explanation that is easier to wrap your head around is not the same as "the simplest answer", and Sherlock Holmes would be very cross with you for believing so.

edited 4th Feb '15 9:38:54 AM by TobiasDrake

But if egg came in the place where Mew was, then its not place where was nothing

The same could be said of the egg. How can there exist an egg in a place where there is nothing? It doesn't say the egg emerged in the place where there was nothing, but that Arceus emerged from the egg where there was nothing.

Short version: it's the Origin Paradox. It's not supposed to make sense.

edited 4th Feb '15 10:31:20 AM by TobiasDrake