Artiste Gullible

A number of people have expressed this well thought summation to yesterday’s comic; Huh?

A wise man once said, “if you really want to kill a joke, make sure it has inside elements that only you understand. If you want to drive a stake through the joke’s heart, to make sure it will never rise again … attempt to explain it.”

So here is what I was thinking concerning the Lindenium comic:

I invented Lindenium as a fictional element to explain how everyone on this world flies, floats, and teleports from place to place. Linden Labs created the virtual world Second Life. Although I do not mention Second life by name inside the panel, I allude to some of its major components as a basis for discovery on one of the worlds that Artiste visits. In a sense I am asking the question; what if virtual worlds were real?

Fatalism is a submissive attitude about the events that unfold around us in life. A belief that becasue it is out of your hands, or out of your control, certain things are inevitable. An avatar in real life is just an expression of the the person who created it. In the comic, the floating girl is expressing the fatalistic belief that her life is not her own and that certain things are inevitable or out of her control. The Hmmmm factor is “the devil made me do it” correlation; “I am my creator’s avatar.” What if we are the avatars or expressions of a greater power that controls our destiny?

Of course if this were true that would mean, that our creator has billions of alt accounts and half of the avatars he plays are female. Which upon reflection, makes perfect geeky sense. (Another inside joke for another day.)