[a foot race is setup in a stadium, in which a confused green character has to start 100m away from the finish line, while a smug orange character starts 10m away from the finish line]
[orange easily finishes first, and smugly proclaims] Another easy win! I am better than everyone!
[green, on all fours, visibly tired and sweating] Well that was unfair…
[orange, covered in medals and holding a trophy, points at green angrily and scolds them] Get a grip What a sore loser You just hate success!
[yellow watches the race on TV, and rants about it from their sofa] If green wanted to win, he should have worked harder Some people are just allergic to effort Entitled… (?) (?)… millenials Always looking for excuses People need to be taught discipline Immigr… (?) Typical green behavior Should seize opportunities Bootstraps Quitter behavior Green people want to be poor
The visual flow for dialog is bad. Especially on panel 3. The way the eyes move from panel 2 to 3 has you read the dialog from orange on panel 2 directly to the orange dialog on panel 3. Especially since orange’s dialog is higher in the panel.
Convention is to read the highest text first. So it reads as though orange is just unprompted berating green, to which then green is responding to that (that the berating is unfair, not that the race was unfair). When you realize that’s the wrong order, and you’re supposed to read the lower text first, then it makes sense that green is stating the fault initially and then orange is attacking green for that.
Only if you play by their rules
So much this.
"- I hate the fact that my landlord gets half the money I make without doing anything to earn it!
-If you think it’s so easy why don’t you buy yourself a flat and rent it?"
Well because I don’t fucking want to become a bloodsucking leech myself, is that so hard to understand?
Because to buy one I’d need a mortgage and no bank is going to give me one because I didn’t have the chance to build up a good credit rating.
You’re paying 800 a month, so you cant afford to build up enough savings to get a mortgage to convince the bank you can afford 500 a month.
Green shouldn’t just be behind. They should be in some kind of pit and with one leg.
Playing in the arcade made me realise the role of luck no matter how much I try, which influenced my worldview. I’ve never really felt bitter about life as a result.
Then as I grew older, I learned that arcades are rigged to make you spend more money to buy more tokens and keep playing but keep losing and the cycle repeats. It’s when you become adult you realise that life is rigged. And like with the arcade where you hit the machine or shake it to get your money back out of frustration, you have to shake the rigged system that we are in as well.
I like the “born on third base; think they hit a home run” analogy, too.
These guys look like they’re crawling at first glance. Took me a second to realize they were in a crouch position getting ready to sprint.
Also every time he loses he goes twice farther from goalpost
Honestly, I get it, some dipshits starts way ahead and you started in the gutter.
Most people however legitimately start in the gutter and don’t even try, embrace anti-intellectualism, and see people climbing their way out of the gutter as traitors. And I fucking hate those people more than the douche with a silver spoon up his ass.
I hate it when the success stories are used as ammunition. Because a tiny minority made it super successful its possible for anyone to do it, and if its possible for anyone then its realistic for everyone, so anyone who didn’t is fundamentally bad. They may be stupid, lazy, crooked, unambitious, but fundamentally bad in some way.
