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The title text horrifies '90s White Hat, as it not only refers to a pandemic serious enough to induce lockdowns, but mentions it casually, in reference to the existence of computer webcams. [[:Category:COVID-19|COVID-19]] is already a hugely impactful deadly disease, but by mentioning it without details, it leaves White Hat to guess as to the details. Cueball doesn't specify whether there have been one or more pandemics (the plural use of 'lockdowns' could be taken to imply that there were more than one), or how serious they were, how long-lasting or how many lives were lost to them.  In consequence, White Hat could easily be assuming a dystopian future even worse than what really happened.
 
The title text horrifies '90s White Hat, as it not only refers to a pandemic serious enough to induce lockdowns, but mentions it casually, in reference to the existence of computer webcams. [[:Category:COVID-19|COVID-19]] is already a hugely impactful deadly disease, but by mentioning it without details, it leaves White Hat to guess as to the details. Cueball doesn't specify whether there have been one or more pandemics (the plural use of 'lockdowns' could be taken to imply that there were more than one), or how serious they were, how long-lasting or how many lives were lost to them.  In consequence, White Hat could easily be assuming a dystopian future even worse than what really happened.
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==Trivia==
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On release, the title text was not actually included as such. It was instead included as the text of a "see also" link, which is often invisible to readers and is activated by clicking the comic. Such links have been used in the past for larger versions of the comic or for related information on other sites. Here, it linked back to the comic itself, and was evidently a mistake.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:White Hat: ...is it not the lasers?
 
:White Hat: ...is it not the lasers?
 
:Cueball: It is not the lasers.
 
:Cueball: It is not the lasers.
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==Trivia==
 
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On release, the title text was not actually included as such. It was instead included as the text of a "see also" link, which is often invisible to readers and is activated by clicking the comic. Such links have been used in the past for larger versions of the comic or for related information on other sites. Here, it linked back to the comic itself, and was evidently a mistake.
 
  
 
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