Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 14, 2024

Actually, It’s either / or. You can either have more content, or you can faster release

Doubles for commenters and online graphic novel artists.

…. B u f f e r i n g … Upgrade to high speed …

Attention spans were already shrinking back then. At least everyone didn’t walk around looking down at a rock.

Way ahead of their time, so far ahead.

Marathon running was invented as a way to boost download speed.

This is a serial. Go outside and play with the sabretooth cats and there’ll be another picture tomorrow.

It was really difficult to binge watch cave paintings.

Streaming as in he’s on the verge of telling the kid to p*ss off.

The kids have a point, he has been working on that for a while.

Couldn’t have been worse than using a dial up modem.

(yes, I am that old)

Nowadays, the “free” streaming content is quickly disappearing – if you want to watch something even slightly acceptable, there’ll be an additional charge. You can rent or buy “OPPENHEIMER” for only $12.95! But you must have an increasingly-costly subscription to see even the “free” content. And then put up with ever-increasing commercials, which is why many of us left broadcast TV for streaming in the first place. Yeah, I knew it would come to this, but it doesn’t make it palatable . . .

Gee, d’ya think the streamers are in cahoots?

He’s ‘streaming’ on an iStone™.

“Shaddup, kid, can’cha see I’m workin’ onnit?”

Reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Homer was providing the voice of Poochie the dog for the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon show.

He asks the voice actress : “Is this episode going on the air live?”

And she responds: “No, Homer. Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It’s a terrible strain on the animators’ wrists.”

And subtitles. Don’t forget the subtitles.

Fast, cheap, good – pick two.

Go lower resolution. You’ll still be better than the pixelated images in the ’80s.

Sounds like it could be time to “ring that bell”.

The 300 baud modem could still outrun my ASR33.

Streaming seems to make a lot of space for thinkers and idiots. Unfortunately it appears the latter far outnumber the former.

30 frames per second. What was Walt thinking when they drew “Steamboat Willie”?

Saw a documentary where France built a clone of the Lascaux caverns to prevent further damage to the real one from tourists. It is an exact duplicate, amazing.

Kids demanding service. Age old.

1st Millennium, Millennials, invent the demand for instant gratification.

Does he know that once you post it on your “wall”, it will be out there forever?

He can watch the real thing outside. Of course, he is already older than the average life expectancy of that time.

You had to be there to get the whole story. Neander Bob Ross would throw some herbs & mushrooms in the fire then start dancing, singing & painting. It really came alive.

He’s still on draw-up.

“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re after 35 is against the natural order of things.” —Douglas Adams

Too bad the Renaissance came along later and they took years to make a single piece of art. Think how far advanced we would have been without it

Nothing else out there to draw, until they invent forest fires

Back then, streaming was how you washed your tunic and naughty bits.

A voice control remote is pretty advanced, though.

Wiley kids – love ‘em; but didn’t humans tame horses to ride around 5,000 years ago, not 500,000? Someone’s also riding a mammoth – perhaps just a figment of the artist’s imagination. The beginnings of Poetic Licence, or just hyperbole.

He needs some moderators for the chat.

Very nice drawings, Wiley. More elegant than your own usual style.

The Kids have been reading the same thing all week.