I'm trying to figure out why Calvin is even used, and all I can get is the lame almost-ryhme in the title. Calvin could be anyone or no one, all the character does is stand there and say "What's the punchline, Mr. Jobs?"
Well he uses Moe, which is another character from Calvin and Hobbes in the strip. Overall it's mostly Jobs though. Also, Jobs doesn't take on any of the characteristics of Hobbes, who is usually the voice of reason, which I think would have been clever.
(First off, let's be clear that I'm using "real" and "imaginary" in the context of the fictional world of the comic strip).
The portion of Hobbes that is real is just an inanimate stuffed toy tiger. Hobbes as a motile, living, thinking being exists entirely as a figment in Calvin's mind, projected into the object of the toy tiger. So Hobbes the toy is real, while Hobbes the being is imaginary.
Oh, I'm glad the master of humor decided to chime in here, thanks for setting everything straight.
/me shrugs off bs
Your insulting comment doesn't have a thing to do with why it was killed off in the first place.
I'm also fairly surprised you aren't railing on about how nickb's post is pulling hackernews down into the terrible dredges of fark! We wouldn't want to minimalize our up mods now would we?
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 60.3 ms ] thread(Hell, Hobbes minus Calvin would be trippy enough, since Hobbes is the imaginary friend...)
The portion of Hobbes that is real is just an inanimate stuffed toy tiger. Hobbes as a motile, living, thinking being exists entirely as a figment in Calvin's mind, projected into the object of the toy tiger. So Hobbes the toy is real, while Hobbes the being is imaginary.
Nevertheless, Calvin and Jobs, utterly hilarious!
/me shrugs off bs
Your insulting comment doesn't have a thing to do with why it was killed off in the first place.
I'm also fairly surprised you aren't railing on about how nickb's post is pulling hackernews down into the terrible dredges of fark! We wouldn't want to minimalize our up mods now would we?