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ghostcashewart:

panel 1 of a comic: text reads "Six episodes later, I felt the transport in the feed again, lurking. I ignored it, though it had to know I knew it was there." Secunit sits at a table watching a show while ART, much larger than Secunit, stares at it from the doorway behind it.ALT
Text reads "... Then it pinged me, like I somehow might not know it had been in my feed all this time, and sent me a request to go back to the new adventure show I had started to watch when it had interrupted me." Secunit says "Watch it yourself," while looking up at ART who has now moved to sit right behind it. ART taps Secunit's shoulder with a big finger.ALT
ART looks down, lowering its hand, and says "I tried. I can process the media more easily through your filter. When my crew plays media, I can't process the context. Human interactions and environments outside my hull are largely unfamiliar." Secunit stares ahead of itself considering the statement.ALT
Secunit looks up toward the viewer, now shown from ART's perspective. It says "It's not realistic. It's not supposed to be realistic. It's a story, not a documentary. If you complain about that, I'll stop watching." ART responds "I will refrain from complaint." and Secunit's narration says "(Imagine that in the most sarcastic tone you can, and you'll have some idea of how it sounded.) So we watched Worldhoppers."ALT
ART and Secunit sit at the table watching the show. ART narrows its eyes, big digital hands gripping the edge of the table tightly. Text says "It didn't complain about the lack of realism. After three episodes, it got agitated whenever a minor character was killed."ALT
Text reads "When a major character died in the twentieth episode, I had to pause seven minutes while it sat doing the bot equivalent of staring at a wall, pretending that it had to run diagnostics." Secunit sits up in its chair, looking over the back of it at ART, who has moved to sit in a corner hugging its knees and staring at a wall.ALT
Text reads "Then four episodes later the character came back to life and it was so relieved we had to watch that episode three times before it would go on." Secunit smiles slightly as ART watches the show happily, eyes now smiley with a tear beginning to fall. ART has its hands clasped with its arms wrapped around Secunit.ALT

guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition