In my day you were lucky if you got one

modern flight club=UFC

One? Luxury!

doesn’t mean things aren’t that bad in the present

I never said that, my point is that everything is relative.

Sure things are pretty awful right now but things have also been objectively worse for the ordinary person throughout pretty much all of history and are certain to be a lot lot worse in the short-medium term future so people today don't have a monopoly on suffering.

No one said they had a monopoly on suffering. There is no reason to say that "the past was worse, so today isn't that bad" except in an effort to downplay the severity of how bad things in the present are.

It's a pointless statement that doesn't say anything.

It doesn't matter that the past was worse when we know that things could still be better.

Ah yes "men" because they are a unified block of people.

I am tired of sexism. Can we stop, please?

Again, you have missed my point, which was in response to a comment essentially saying Gen X had nothing to feel angst over. At no point have I even suggested that life today isn't awful because, in case you haven't noticed, I also happen to be alive today.

It was a film targeted towards men and was specifically about toxic masculinity. So in this case, yes I absolutely meant men. Have you seen it?

MMA predates Fight Club, in case you weren't aware. In fact, if UFC predates Fight Club, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest.

The guy in falling down got laid off. He went crazy because he didn't have a job anymore.

I'm just quoting office space.

Any of you seeing the text too small and distorted?

try harder.

You don't actually want to see that spelling. Small and distorted is much better.

To by shit I don't need?

AI in most movies: Evil killing robot.

AI in reality: Evil robot that convinces others to kill, also makes bad "art" en masse that it hurts artists' visibility, also makes subpar code en masse that it hurts open source projects' visibility, not to mention it melts your brain.

(When will the first slasher movie come out, that features a troubled person getting addicted to a chatbot, which turns them into a serial killer?)

Your comment wasn't about the target audience of the movie but about who misunderstood it.

It is a bit crazy to complain about toxic masculinity (a consequence of sexism) by making sexist comments.

OP comic is much closer to what movie is about. It is a broad anarchist theme. Focusing on the men's group organization is an extremely narrow view.

I love this comic because in the "make it or make it perfect" debate, I'd rather 100 flawed comics asking people to think then 1 perfect comic that does the same. Hell yeah to typos and imperfect art!

2 out of the 3 movies pictured involve job loss: one spree kicked off by losing the job, and one story about the tension of the "will they or won't they fire me" and the arbitrariness and unfairness of it all.

So no, only one of these involves unrest amidst a stable career. The others are about unstable careers.

I would put the main point of Fight Club to be about how universal the feelings are, of loneliness and isolation in complex social/economic systems that they don't actually control, despite the system continually relying on them for that control. The warning is that lonely men will crave agency, and might seek it out in destructive ways, even paradoxically turning over their agency to another, like a charismatic cult leader, if it means they can take part in another plan that they are no more actually in control of.

If I draft a screenplay about it and credit you will you come to my premier of "CHATBOT KILLER: ALGORITHM OF EVIL"

Absolutely, but the way that it is broadly known to be misunderstood is in its commentary about toxic masculinity.

People come away thinking "I should start a fight club" and those people, as the movie, are not generally women. Because (precisely the point of the movie) men are not taught how to deal with emotions in a healthy way in our society.

This is an ongoing issue of society, its what's led to the male loneliness epidemic, and to point that out is not sexist. we need to address it and correct it.

Obviously the issue is now beyond the point of making a super cool satirical movie about it and its connections to consumerism and the broad failures of our capitalist hellscape.

...the whole point of Fight Club was the narrator realizing he was a terrible person...

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to say a character is a flawed human being without writing them off entirely like this? Narrator is stunted, broken, looking for fulfillment in all the wrong places. He's isolated, he's disconnected, there is no one in his life for him to care for, or who cares for him. How good a person should anyone expect him to be?

...the film starts with him exploiting dying people so they will listen to him. Not recognizing that the only people open to listen are those dying, and he’s exploiting their openness to lie to them and get the “crying” he needs.

Narrator angrily explains pretty much exactly this to Marla. Refers to himself a "faker." I think he recognizes.

He does explain "When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you," but he could very well be referring to himself as the listener. He isn't depicted speaking at the meetings he crashes. "If I didn't say anything, people always assumed the worst."

“When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you,”

My main takeaway is always going to be that the people who are actually suffering are the only ones really willing to listen to others who are suffering. He thinks this, but he's proof of otherwise, he isn't really listening to any of them.

Ask me how I know after three years of cancer proving to me people could give fuck all about listening. Sorry, just grinds my gears, because the people "really, really listening to you" are the people who are fucking dying.

i don't want to spoil this
angry coworker casting summon bigger fish noises

and office space is just a romance. where's your flair?

yeah i forget did camus have much to say about prometheus?

by which I mean that if your supervisors like you, you can get away with a lot more

shush that's my secret. bribe them with spring rolls.

yeah i hate addind text to paint dot net for that precise reason

If I used dating apps, I would mention I like fight club, starship troopers, and V for vendetta in bio. Just keep people guessing.

Is there any credit to artist?

Something that fight club didn't mention pertaining to this working generation is that even if you work hard and get promotions, you're likely to just keep up to the cost of living. I started with when a beer was $1 a bottle at the grocery store. 10 years later, I can be making double from 3 or so promotions and beer is now $2 a bottle. Working harder for the same purchasing power. It feels so hopeless and yet, I feel lucky to be in this position considering I have so many friends who are much worse off.

I don't think you could. Fight Club is about a few different things but it rests on a societal shape that doesn't really exist anymore. No one looks at modern society as stable on any level unless they are older and living the memory of the society of their childhood. The inability to afford the stuff from the pottery barn catalog means many people can't afford identifying with their stuff. The young people born this century have so little they can rely on epistemically they can end up latching onto really weird things. 'I want to join the military because it seems like it pays okay, I can meet the requirements if I live at the gym, it'll make my dad like me despite his toxic masculinity, but I don't like the idea of murdering people, so I'm going to become a medical spec ops guy so I only have to kill defensively and will be dedicating my life to saving lives.' - paraphrased from a real conversation

You're telling me there's symbolism in the scene where he cries in the bosom of a man with big boobs? Get atta here

I think he did

Source is this post by Reddit user ProfessionalOrder667. The user posts in the comments about being the original artist.

EDIT: See replies, OP is the original artist!

were the same person in fact i posted this comic here before reddit click on my profile and it says fermi comics as the name i dont now how to change the user.

Thank you!

im the artist. this is my first comic.

Based. It's a little hard to read the text tho

The real problem is avocado toast.

Oh awesome! Glad you're here.

For future reference, if you put [OC] in the post title that's a good way to indicate that you're posting Original Content.

The top panel is 'Office Space', what about the other panels?

Imagine the matrix came out today. A movie where people have become nothing more than disposable interchangeable sources of energy for a society run by machines. With an endless supply of media/simulated reality used to placate the human livestock and keep them from rising up. Oh and the pinnacle of human history is the 1990s. That all checks out way too much, there's no way this movie would be allowed to be made today.

props! 🥳🖌