Critical Miss: Doubleplusungood

[Tom Phoenix]

Orwell has been turning in his grave ever since TV studios made a mockery of his work with Big Brother...

 

[nagi]

Well, at least we now have free power in the form of an orwell-powered turbine power plant!

 

[Dogstile]

It took me a second to get the last panel because I was trying to see the Skateboarder but now I realise how dumb that was.

OT: Wasn't the exact same plot of a game a while back but you were a rollerskating graffiti artist or some similar bullshit?

Jet set radio future. Awesome game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J3bmKLw5hw

 

[Blind0bserver]

What made me laugh the hardest was the brilliantly timed "Oh Yes" in the second panel, as if it was a response to my oh-so-warranted exclamation of disbelief.

 

[Seneschal]

I've just realized how much I like the artwork in this series.

And the last panel is pure gold.

 

[Ipsen]

No seriously. You have to fight against the evils of the 'Ministry' which has outlawed fun and emotion. To do this you do rad tricks and sell Baconators.

I wish I was making that up.

Ah, seeing how your comic made my night, this quote should suffice for tomorrow.

 

[TraderJimmy]

I tried reading 1984 again, to see why I loved it so much.

And now i remember.

Because it fucking scared me to death. Nights have gone by sleeplessly, because I feared an other big Brother might take over.

God, it has made me shit my pants more than most horror stories.

I'll do you one better [http://www.turingbirds.com/misc/orwell.vs.huxley.jpeg]

Strangely that doesn't scare me. I am in full control of what I want, and what i don't want. very little I am forced. what did scare me were in 1984 were the newspeak, the deleting of means to express oneself. I believe that is still firmly intact.

Funnily enough, I saw 1984 as a parody of totalitarianism and Brave New World as a vision of things to come.
Being forced to give up expression and thought is much better than chosing to by your own will.

As a utilitarian myself, I saw Brave New World as a stark warning about the dangers of that course.

If you have to forcibly change what people enjoy to make more people happy, it's false and hollow. It makes the idea of 'preference' at the heart of Preference Utilitarianism meaningless.

I think Brave New World is a much more likely dystopia than 1984, and it worries me a lot more.

 

[z3rostr1fe]

"*****! Fuck Your Arteries!"

Nuff said.

 

[Nick Angelici]

Seems like the worst rip off of Jet Set Radio ever, and I thought Air Gear was bad

 

[DTWolfwood]

ROFLMAO! XD

oh priceless!!

 

[tetron]

I wish horrible games weren't so easy to make fun of because in the end that's all people remember. This did make me want to play Jet Set Radio though.

 

[Wandrecanada]

Best punchline panel ever. Critical Miss never fails to score.

 

[Kelethor]

Poor Georgy.