![[0031] Cloud Vs. Reality](/comics/2009-02-05-[0031]-cloud-vs.-reality.png "[0031] Cloud Vs. Reality")
The current story arc started with this strip: Naypyidaw Sector 1.
- Sandra: Hey Cloud, making any progress in saving the world?
- Cloud: You bet! Today, I wrote a letter to our senator asking him to stand up for a new UN resolution on human rights in Burma!
- Sandra: Way to go!
- Cloud: Bleh… reality sucks!
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um…okay, why not make fantasy a reality and change the… wait, no. he’s just spout off some video game nonsense and the message will be lost.
I know that feeling…
Oh, I see. He thinks reality sucks because writing a letter to a senator is a far cry from the romanticized heroism of, say, beating the junta in hand-to-hand combat.
@ Tom Flapwell: Yep.
I like this comic. Found it just today “Feb 8, 2009”, read it all, and cant wait for the next episde. ^_^
Poor Cloud- because we all want to gather an army of heroes and take on all the injustices of the world. I too certainly can identify with this feeling…
Cute, but what is an “unresolution”?
moopy: It’s not “unresolution”, it’s “UN resolution”. UN stands for United Nations.
Ah, few things sting like the eternal desire to fly through the air, blasting villanous overlords with the Gigaflare spell.
I am in agreement with that punchline.
Huh. Way behind, but as I’m just now going through the archives for the first time, my initial impression was that Cloud was disappointed because he realized the ultimate futility of asking your average congressperson to do… well, much of anything.
Meh, Democrative or Republican, it doesn’t really matter anymore. For in the end, both parties are just full of hot air…
Poor little guy. The truth can hurt so badly sometimes. 🙁
Fail way of trying to be awsome in the real world.
seriously there are so many other ways it blows my mind.
Before telling a senator to free burma here are the list of things to do…
1. free Leonard Peltier (he’s been in jail for fighting for native american rights)
They say to free Aung San but they haven’t free Leonard Peltier (hypocrisy)!
P.S- I am from Burma but living in US because I won the Visa Lottery!
AIN’T IT THE TRUTH!!!
He should’ve blown up a reactor instead 😀
I have to agree with him there. Reality sucks very much. : /
@ Tom Flapwell:
More likely it’s dawned on him that he’s asking a CONGRESSMAN– a do-nothing-right politician— to ask the UN— a plain old bunch of do-nothings— to do something.
@ Tom Flapwell:
Or maybe it’s that he doubts it will actually make a difference?
@Klobb Exactly.
Try telling your cat to perform the Hula dance. It doesn’t work.
Try telling your Congressman to vote Y/N on anything. Most likely? Same results.
Bush: Sum’ crazy dicator has nucular power in Iran!? Send the Marines!!!
Obama: Let’s wait 6 weeks for a UN sanction…any minute now…any second now………
The Assyrians were enraged.
I agree.
Sorry, I meant @ RHJunior.
This is why I prefer fantasy. It’s much more fun.
I must agree with cloud. Reality would be awesome if magic and talking animals / anthropomorphs existed.
Now we have a senile republican senator that support us (Hint: He’s from Arizona and has a broken arms).
Too true for some people, Cloud, too true for some people…reality always sucks.
I like the idea of one of your characters being a human rights person. The world could really use more real people like that.
He didn’t realise how futile it is expecting current senator’s to do something like helping oppressed citizen’s of another nation when they barely do that for their own constituents?
Note: You know what? Forget Leonard Peltier, I was a foolish to know that he did nasty things (killing an off duty officer, two federal agents who were to arrest him, and jail break that killed his mate) , according to cracked.com.
Now, I am telling you that Burma’s a democracy now. But there’s still problems to be solved; like corruption, ethnic tension between Muslims and Buddhists, and traffic law. We have Derek Mitchell as Ambassador.
…..Not as good as defeating Sephiroth or Kefka is it?
Yup. I wish I could carve up “bad” people with a blade and get away with it too.
T.Chicken wrote:
Leonard Peltiers wiki article doesn’t mention anything about a jailbreak, and lists numerous examples of FBI malpractice, many of which would be consistent with a frame job. I’d never heard of him before today, but a ten minute reading of wiki (admittedly not the best source of information) would seem to suggest that he’s the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice at the hands of the FBI.
Not quite like taking on Sephiroth, is it Cloud?
@ Roboute Guillman:
“For in the end, both parties are just full of hot air”
Better Late Than Never Brigade here.
Respectfully, this is not only untrue, it is both demonstrably and dangerously untrue.
Do you really believe that an Al Gore administration would have (a) given ruinous, counterproductive tax cuts to the top 1%, or (b) invaded Iraq under false pretenses, killing tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and displacing hundreds of thousands (not to mention losing several thousand of the very finest young Americans, squandering trillions of $, and giving rise to ISIS/Daesh), or (c) allowing the deregulated financial sector to trash the world economy?
Do you seriously want to pretend that the Democrats could ever have nominated an obviously deranged narcissist who hasn’t a clue how our government or the economy works, or what the constitution requires and permits?
False Equivalence is false.
Hopefully, you’ve figured this out yourself by now, and registered to vote — as a Democrat, if you’re in a state that does party registration (as most do).
If not, and if Mein Trumpf beats the 9-to-1 odds and actually wins this fall, I’ll be coming to visit, and you and I will have a few words.
I hope we get a tiger president someday.