Comic Archive

Setting: Next to a car parked at the edge of a public park.
Zhang is wearing the Truth Helmet.
Max: You're right, Heidi, dogs galore in this park.
Zhang: Here's someone within range playing fetch with a ball, I'm curious what the Truth Helmet will make of this…

We see Zhang's view through the helmet. The owner of the dog is trying to take the ball from the dog's mouth.
Dog owner: Come on.
Dog: Woof! Woof!
Subtitles: DOG: I want you to throw the ball BUT YOU CANNOT HAVE THE BALL!

Dog: Grrrrrr…
Subtitles: DOG: Take the ball. Don't take the ball! I'll bite! I won't bite.

Zhang: This is… terribly confusing.
Heidi: I can't tell whether the helmet is malfunctioning, or this is just how dogs really are.
Max: Definitely the latter.

Setting: Back in the workshop at the office.
Zhang: Here's my cat, ‘Xiaomao.’ I hope this yields a more useful result than with the dogs last Friday…
Heidi: She's cute!
Max: I'd like to wear the Truth Helmet this time.

We see Max' view through the helmet.
Zhang: Do you want something, Xiaomao?
Cat: Meow.
Subtitles: CAT: Feed me.

Zhang: Do you want to explore the office? Play with a rubber mousey?
Cat: Meow!
Subtitles: CAT: FEED ME.

Max: Heidi, you haven't trained this thing on a certain cartoon, have you?
Heidi: I used a public data set. Anything could be in it.
Zhang: Don't we have any lasagna here?

Setting: Alana's office.
Alana: So, the tests with pets weren't a great success either?
Zhang: Obviously it's too far-fetched to expect a normal conversation with a dog or cat.
Max: Unless said conversation revolves exclusively around offering food…

Alana: Well, I'm sure those Quantuple machines have more tricks up their sleeve.
Max: The coming weeks could be interesting. Especially if we can figure out who is behind that company…
Alana: I'll go check if Heidi has a response yet from her contact at PMD.

Zhang: Max, I did learn one useful thing through the Truth Helmet…
Max: Which is…?
Zhang: Heidi definitely is interested in you.
Max: Oh boy. Now if only I didn't have the social skills of a washing machine…

Max: You really want to try out the original Quake game, Adil?
Adil: Yes, I want to see what's the deal with the face busting and blanket parties that got me into trouble.
Max: That's only the exit prompts. Here you go.

Adil: So, I use the keys to move and the mouse to look around?
Max: Yes, like in most FPS games. Watch out!
SFX: Splotch OW OW OW AAARGH!

We see the start of the game with its 3 entrances.
Adil: What happened?
Max: You fell into the lava. Maybe you should try easy skill level first. Take the left entrance.
Adil: OK.

SFX: Splotch OW OW OW AAARGH!
Max: How did you even do that? There's no accessible lava in the episode selection zone!
Adil: Uhh… Dunno, it just happened!