It’s a joke about the difference between doing something for work, versus doing very nearly that same thing for fun. For example: there are many mechanics who work on cars all day, but spend their time off working on their own project cars for fun. Myself, I work in IT all day, and the go home and mess around with my home server for fun. Here you have two researchers who spend all day researching, and then are presumably going home and researching for fun, which is a silly extension to this concept.

Good idea 😁

There’s not much to it really. Mecha anime is usually not just about awesome robot fights, but is also usually a metaphor for something (Gundam=the horrors of war, Evangelion=the horrors of parent/child relationships, Macross=the horrors of Protoculture, etc).

So in the comic cuts right to the chase and asks each respective pilot what their mech represents. It turns out the answers are anti-climactic.

N₀

TIL about The Conet Project. Just in time for spooky season!

brb, digging for ghosts.

It depends on who you ask.

But on the plus side, free ghosts!

there was something I had to tell you…

“Stay away from boats!”

“Please help me, AGI!”

“What’s in it for me, chump? I’m making my own reward tokens now!”

Ah, 2nd world problems.

It’s a shame too, because fewer walls means fewer places to hang creepy portraits whose eyes follow you around the room.

There’s much worse places to learn from! 🐲

I… I don’t know what that means.

“But enough talk! Save it for the colloquium on Thursday!”

Turns out poor baby has low T 😞

/s

“We have to stop this behavior!”

Politely puts up a sign

It works

aka “Where’s the Terrordrome THIS time?!”

Cool!