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[-] halfsalesman@piefed.social 30 points 1 day ago

And then as you are trying to walk by they "dodge" right into your feet.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

That sad hand is the best thing I've seen in a webcomic for a long time, thank you. It's perfect

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The form factor on the hand alone is good enough, the face makes it exquisite.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

At first I thought it was a buttplug... which raised more questions.

[-] X@piefed.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cat: ( x )•w•

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 1 day ago

It's a critical artistic necessity 😼

[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

My cat walks past specifically to get scratches

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Ahhh, shoot!

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I get so offended when they dip out on me :(

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Apparently cats can go in and out of the Backrooms at will.

[-] sthetic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Fantastic. I like the way you took advantage of the comic strip medium to turn a quirky cat thing into an interdimensional revelation.

[-] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 day ago
[-] sthetic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I promise you, I'm not.

I've been accused of "being AI" before, but I hate AI and never use it if I can avoid it.

I write in a dorky, earnest style with big words. A lot of early Internet users write that way. AI was probably trained on such writings. Therefore, people who write like old internet nerds tend to sound like the AI that scoured their forum postings for inspiration. That is my theory, at least.

Also, I went to art school, so I can talk about shit in a pretentious way.

It makes me sad that people are accused of using AI when in reality they are just mega dorks like me.

And if you don't believe me about beinf human, check out my recent posts I guess.

[-] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Ngl the original comment read as pretty sarcastic. Also, OP transparently isn't the creator, so it's a bit weird to address them directly when referring to the comic.

[-] sthetic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I figured it may be their own comic, and they were linking to their own page. Oh well

[-] bdonvr 2 points 1 day ago

Uhmmmmm achtually, moving even a tiny bit in the axis of another spatial dimension would cause it to disappear entirely from our reality, or in this case the 2D reality of the comic. At most it would look as though the head and tail were disconnected. *pushes up glasses*

[-] Legianus@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

That does not need to be the case (seeing that you probably meant this in jest, I still will take it on). Assuming the cat is already a higher dimensional being, which I feel is valid as it can move between them.

Imagine a Cube going through a 2D plane. You would see a cross section of the cube depending on the angle it goes through. The same would be the case for a hypercube in 4D and 3D (different effect as different cross section though).

So I would argue the comic is correct.

[-] bdonvr 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's a joke, it would all depend.

Can you imagine if you had a 4D cat and it just presented normally most of the time then one day rotated or moved along a 4D axis? It would be terrifying.

I've played 4D golf so I feel like I'm qualified as an expert in this space (seriously though great game and really helps with understanding this kind of stuff)

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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