You heard the cookie.

If I try to play bullet, I could probably find out for you.

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

It was for brevity and clarity. People are very familiar with hearing “OCD” used casually, but “NPD” would have sounded too specific and clinical compared to “narcissistic” as a character trait.

The joke is leaning more on the OCD/narcissistic characteristics of Patrick Bateman than the murdery part. Like, having a ridiculously tedious self-care routine due to vanity (or self-consciousness, take your pick).

But oh boy! the day they appear!

I will have forgotten the move order.

I thought there was no way!

That’s so cool. I bet you feel a real connection to that house.

I was skeptical, but it’s real.

That is correct.

I did some searching and I’m seeing 1937 and 1938, so yeah, that’s probably about right.

It looks real, and the follow-up gets weirder.

A quick search found the following panels here, if anyone is interested:

Very interesting! Editing it now to correct it as the day it hit the iceberg, because someone else mentioned that it didn’t sink until the next day.

Gotcha, sorry. I’ll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.

It’s real, but it went viral and they got a ton of backlash online for it a few years ago.

Just did some digging, and it’s legit and from a 1994 book called “The Internet Guide for New Users” by Daniel P. Dern.

Mildly interesting side-note, I found someone’s blog about posting this image and book to a (now non-existent) fediverse server. https://doughnut.neocities.org/blag/15

Good question. I assume that all of current falls under historic, but that could not be the case.

I’d like to hear more about this collection…