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- Sandy South: You’re making a big mistake! Because I’m actually… a goddess! Yes, a goddess!
- Sandy South: Just have a look at this magic box I brought from my home in Elysium!
- Sentinelese: Samsung Galaxy A5?
- Sandy South: Yes, that’s the name of the… blacksmith!
- Sentinelese: HA HA HA HA HA HA
- Sandy South: Huh, what’s so funny?
- Sentinelese: iPhone 12 Pro Max!
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They’re apple customers… Disgusting.
(And now the necessary “I’m just kidding” disclaimer…)
Um, if they all have cell phones, does that mean they have service? If so, Google Maps Anyone?
Had you pulled out a flip phone it might have worked.
@ Drake:
Don’t break the script 🙂 . It’s like when, in 2020, the FBI has to keep the serial killer on the phone for at least 30 seconds so they can trace the call, and the killer, who knows that, hangs on second 29.
@ Grijan:
You would have thought that, after the 10th time that happened, they would have looked into the feasibility of getting it down to 28 seconds…
@ Grijan:
When the truth is, the FBI knew (or could know if they wanted to,) not only the serial killer’s exact location down to a few centimeters, as well as the direction he’s facing, the direction he’s moving, whether he’s right-handed or left, (or ambidextrous,) what his pulse is, his body temperature, whether he slept last night and how well, which party he voted for, (and which party he SAID he voted for to his group of friends on Bookface, and his legion of followers on Titter,) as well as how likely he is to click on a link mentioning “one weird trick discovered by a mom,” what he had for breakfast and for dinner last night, how well he’s digesting it, and all of that BEFORE he even picks up the phone that he’s going to hang up on the 29th second.
(Bunch of unrelated text deleted by author prior to posting… you’re welcome. Seriously, it was several paragraphs of what even to me looked like increasingly unhinged, paranoid rantings, and *** I WROTE IT***. So yeah. Never mind all that, just enjoy the comic.)
Very funny with the ‘uncontacted,’ and ‘savage’ tribe of ‘natives’ has iPhones. Good one. SO… will this arc end up being non-canon, OR are we going to explain this group away somehow? Like… are they all ‘native’ ‘tribe’ cosplayers? Each year, perhpas, they get together and dress up like this to tease and taunt some poor, dumb “adventurer” who wants to find an “uncontacted” “tribe” of “natives”?
Also, shouldn’t Sandy South have been suspicious of the fact that they know which sounds go with the symbols “Samsung Galaxy A5” in the first place?
And after this technological intermission… HUNT RESUMES! (or not, we’re not savages here)
NC wrote:
“Who this “we” person, Kemosabe?” 😉
@ J. Craig:
Well, they have an airport, know about New York, produce maps, and have signage in English
@ J. Craig:
I thought the “Sandy South and Qoo” comics all took place in a parallel continuity to the main comics.
hey! thats my phone!
‘Yes that all well and good, but which of you have the whitest smile from the i phone 12 pro max plus that has the oral b partnership to ultrasonically remove plaque by holding the phone against your teeth?’
https://xkcd.com/2377/
The worst thing is that’s pretty much accurate. A couple years ago, I was visiting Thailand and we went to see a Kayan tribe (elongated neck with rings). in grass and mud huts in the middle of nowhere, and they would all have the latest cellphones. They would hide them when the tourist came, of course, but still …..
I remember doing a double take when an old beggar in India pulled out a cell phone in the middle of asking me for money… Though that was almost ten years ago.
Someone one day said,
” Strike me down with all your credit card, and your journey towards the splurge side will be complete!”
Wait, don’t you know you can’t give iPhones to bad guys?
SANDRA’S WALLPAPER THO
@ Drake:
Drake wrote:
They have an Iphone 12 pro max, Why they need service?
You are crazy, someone can think that people have and ultimate mobile model for use instead of the importance of have an ultimate model.
For many less people go to jail, pal. 😉
@ Nicolas:
Depends on what you consider as the worst. They maintain the tradition, because it brings the tourists and their money in. There is nothing inherently bad with wanting to live a more comfortable life with modern conveniences. Smartphones as computers allow for the access to all the information you will ever need. Perfectly reasonable to want one. It may or may not be also connected to trying to give the younger generation a choice in what kind of life they want to live.
Hmmm an untouched tribe, knowing where the Airport is and having the latest Iphones? Something is not adding up here.
omg, yep, them pulling out iPhones confirms they are backwater barbarians without understanding of technology. but hey, those are the prime target of apple marketing :p
Also, your lens is dirty, but we have the equipment to clean it for you.
Nicolas wrote:
Some years ago I remember seeing a picture of a Masai warrior carrying his spear and wearing a red blanket checking the cattle futures market on his cell phone. Of such is globalization.
No wonder they’re beating her up for every last cent! They’re up to their eyeballs in debt for their fruit toys!
Galaxy A5 eh? Why you gotta call me out like this?
Does your tribe still count as “uncontacted” if you don’t tell people where you’re from?
@ Chronocidal:
Also, by now, bomb makers should have learnt to make the bomb explode when you cut the blue cable.
Iphones… as expected from a savage and uneducated tribe.
@ argentlupus:
From Wikipedia:
While sporadic contact may occur and products from outside might be acquired, uncontacted peoples sustain communities living in isolation either unintendedly, actively out of need, or voluntarily.
Can’t say I’m a fan of this story arc, seems really half-baked and lazy. Also, a group of African tribesman chasing after a little white girl … I mean, not trying to be a SJW here, but that kinda makes me feel a little icky.
Oh no, it’s worse than I thought… they’re Apple fanatics.
Nicolas wrote:
What, you think they should first tear down their perfectly good houses to earn the right to get themselves a cellphone? Why on earth would they do that?
If Sandy have Mobile phone, She got Google maps too!
That story might have flown in Vanuatu last century (the native experience of American servicemen setting up an airbase which formed the basis of the so-called Cargo Cults), but these guys are on the ball.