Previously on Lowered Techspectations, Darlington, a brave speech engineer, volunteered to test out Strategent’s new portal to another dimension. He disappeared without a trace, and the meeting went on without him. What happened to him!?

In the future, anytime you see the dark UI in a comic, that means it is taking place in the beta plane. Light UI = alpha plane. Capisce?

If you’re just joining us, Lowered Techspectations is a biweekly (once per sprint) newsletter made up of comics by Theora Kvitka and an advice column by Zen Paycheck, plus occasional guest contributions. If you’d like to catch up on what’s happened via a paper pulp user experience, there’s a zine version for purchase. The zine explains why the hell a tech company is operating in multiple dimensions.