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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | The comic is about [[Cueball]] confronting [[Ponytail]] | + | The comic is about [[Cueball]] confronting [[Ponytail]] about her recent behavior and emotional state, which has lasted a few months. It's implied that she (and thus also [[Randall]]) is sad following last years {{w|United States presidential election, 2016|election}}, though the actual reasons for Ponytail's frustrations and depression aren't dwelt on and the focus is on her retreat into video games and the damage it's doing to her work projects. |
− | + | Of course such sadness could come from many causes, so this comic would also work for someone who has a heartache from breaking up, or has lost some other important object of affection in their life (alive or dead or just their own abilities for instance in an accident). And people could choose to view it like this, if it suits some personnel experience. However, that this comic is political is not only supported by the fact check in the second panel (see more below regarding PolitiFact). | |
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− | + | <!--AS THE INFORMATION IN THE NEXT SECTIONS ARE ALSO RELEVANT FOR OTHER COMICS LINKING TO THE TRIVIA BELOW PLEASE LEAVE IT BOTH HERE AND BELOW EVEN THOUGH IT IS A REPETITION--> | |
+ | This was also only the second comic released after {{w|Donald Trump}}'s {{w|Inauguration of Donald Trump|inauguration}} the Friday before this comic's release, and it is clearly a reference to the sadness that has affected many Americans (as well as foreigners) after Hillary lost the election, and it fits with ''the past few months'' cited by Cueball in the first panel. And it seems to be worse for women making it obvious that it is Ponytail that are sad in this comic. | ||
− | + | Although it could be said that Trump first took office Monday (before this Wednesday comic) he already began signing {{w|Decree|decrees}} (or {{w|Executive order|executive orders}}) on Friday {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Immediate_regulatory_freeze_pending_review|within a few hours}} after becoming president. {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Policy|Most of these}} would make it even worse for those already sad about him becoming president, because they would now see that he really meant all the things he promised/threatened to do depending on your political stance. (Actually fulfilling all political promises made during an election campaign is most often not the case!) | |
− | + | Up to the day this comic was released (January 25th) it would already be drastic things like the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Mexican_border_wall|Mexican border wall}} (on the day of the comics release), the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Withdrawal_of_Affordable_Care_Act|withdrawal of Affordable Care Act}}, the approval of the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Dakota_Access_and_the_Keystone_XL_pipelines|Dakota Access and the Keystone XL pipelines}} (which would be troublesome for an [[:Category:Climate change|environmentalist]] as Randall as {{w|Dakota_Access_Pipeline#Environmental_concerns|both}} {{w|Pipeline_transport#Oil_and_natural_gas|oil pipes}} {{w|Keystone_Pipeline#Environmental_issues|have}} environmental issues) and the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Mexico_City_Policy|Mexico City Policy}} regarding stopping any help to poor women abroad with regards to information or any other way helping with {{w|abortion}}. This latter point could be especially troublesome for women like Ponytail (in one of Randall's comics) as it is against {{w|Women's_rights#Abortion|Women's right}}, which should only be expected from {{w|Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations|Donald Trumps sexual harassment of women}} in general and especially to his ''grab them by the pussy'' {{w|Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording|comment}}. | |
− | '' | + | See much more abut these issues and the several other recently released '''[[#Sad comics|sad comics]]''' in the trivia. The first of these sad comics was [[1761: Blame]] in which Cueball begins by stating that: ''I feel sad!'' a clear relation to this comic! |
− | + | Ponytail seems unwilling to acknowledge that anything she is doing is wrong, offering absurd justifications for her behavior. When Cueball mentions that her projects have stagnated, she retorts that her virtual farm in the video game ''{{w|Stardew Valley}}'' is in great shape. | |
− | {{w| | + | Cueball's comment about not being able to hide from everything is a common one to give to insecure people or to those trying to run away from their problems. Ponytail's reply is in the form of a {{w|PolitiFact.com|PolitiFact}} reply, claiming (possibly quite truly) that such assertions are ''mostly false'', one of the six options, but it is far from being the worst, thus acknowledging that you can't hide from everything, just mostly. See more about Politifact.com in the comic [[1712: Politifact]]. This is the only political answer she gives in this comic, but it is another clear indication (by Randall and Ponytail) that her trouble is with Trumps leniency with the truth in both election campaign and since, to the point where lies are now on a daily basis just called {{w|Alternative facts}} or {{w|Post-truth_politics#United_States|Post-truth}}. |
− | + | {{w|Comment (computer programming)|Comments}} are something a programmer adds to their code such to make a note for themselves or others, typically to explain a complicated piece of logic or explaining external dependencies of a piece of code. Instead, Ponytail has been writing unrelated notes filled with obscenities. Ponytail's reply is one of typical advice given to amateur fiction and non-fiction writers, that to "write what you know.", implying that all Ponytail knows right now is obscenities. | |
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+ | {{w|Subroutine|Functions}} are pieces of code which developers create to avoid repetition and make the code clearer (such as "calculate distance between points" or "process values"). A function which does nothing is almost useless (although sometimes programmers leave functions empty, when they create the skeleton of a program, but then they usually intends to fill them out later). It is expected that a function ''does'' something with a given parameter, but Ponytail’s function does nothing with the parameters except returning the parameter but with the comment ''No, '''you''' deal with this''. Thus she wishes that somebody/something else ''deals'' with any problem, probably what she would also wish for right now, where she is so sad that she even neglects her projects. | ||
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+ | Ponytail replies that she writes them like this in order to try to avoid {{w|Side effect (computer science)|side effects}} (i.e. unexpected, unintended, and typically unwanted effects upon calling a piece of code), in line with a {{w|functional programming}} paradigm. When Cueball points out that she avoids all effects, Ponytail [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/quotes?item=qt2959706 quotes] part of a famous quote from Ripley in {{w|Aliens (film)|Aliens}}: ''I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the '''only''' way to be sure'''. By replying that it's the "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q only way to be sure]" she is thus indirectly saying better safe than sorry, but in reality she just don't care about her programming anymore because of her sad state of mind. | ||
The title text is a pun, interpreting the phrase "side effect" literally. If you turn an object 90 degrees along the right axis you will place it on its side, so thus making it a effect of putting something on its side, or a "side effect." You can also turn 90 degrees (along another axis), facing what was previously your side. | The title text is a pun, interpreting the phrase "side effect" literally. If you turn an object 90 degrees along the right axis you will place it on its side, so thus making it a effect of putting something on its side, or a "side effect." You can also turn 90 degrees (along another axis), facing what was previously your side. | ||
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+ | The title "Sad" is a common interjection in Trump's tweets. The time-frame of "the past few months" from the first panel is consistent with this, as the election was on November 8, 2016, and the comic was posted on January 25, 2017 four days after Donald Trump's inauguration as 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017. The reference to fact-checking in the second panel is also reminiscent of the election and post-election coverage. This is not the first sad comic since Trump was elected. | ||
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:Cueball: You avoid '''''all''''' effects. | :Cueball: You avoid '''''all''''' effects. | ||
:Ponytail: Only way to be sure. | :Ponytail: Only way to be sure. | ||
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+ | ==Trivia== | ||
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+ | ===Sad comics=== | ||
+ | <!-- Please do not delete this trivia as it is referenced by other sad comics. If you dislike the phrasing then change it but keep the references to the sad comics here! --> | ||
+ | *This comic continues the clear trend that '''[[Randall]] has had sad thoughts''' the last few months before this comic coinciding with events, mostly related to the {{w|United States presidential election, 2016|election}} of {{w|Donald Trump}} as president of the united states in 2016. | ||
+ | **Not since Randall's wife's [[:Category:Cancer|cancer diagnosis]] has there been so many sad/negative or depressing comics. | ||
+ | **Hopefully Randall is not so depressed for real as the comics below could suggest. | ||
+ | ***This comic is the fourth directly sad, negative or depressive comic since the election. | ||
+ | ***Note that none of the sad comics (up until Trumps took office) directly mentions him at all. And only the first listed here below is even directly related to the election in any way. | ||
+ | ***The connection is only in inferred from the mood and also the dates the comics where released which so far all have been close to some important day of the year or the election of Donald Trump or his subsequent actions. | ||
+ | ***If more related comics appears they can be listed here below. | ||
+ | ****Because since these comics are not easily collected under a specific category, thus this pages title is the perfect place to collect info regarding this sad state of Randall's thoughts! | ||
+ | *Here follows a list of comics related to this sad state of mind with mention of relations (if any) there are between the release day and the comics: | ||
+ | *[[1756: I'm With Her]] | ||
+ | **The day before the election: | ||
+ | ***It all began when Randall urged his American viewership to vote in the election the day after the comic was released. | ||
+ | ***Here he clearly showed his {{w|Political endorsement|endorsement}} for {{w|Hillary Clinton}}, the {{w|US Democratic Party|Democratic}} nominee in the election. | ||
+ | ***Although this is not directly sad, he included two weapon carrying defenders on either side of the comic. | ||
+ | ***One of these was [[Ponytail]] with a ray gun (the one she also wielded in [[322: Pix Plz]]). The gun is for melting computers of persons that make snide remarks at women, clearly a reference to {{w|Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations|Donald Trumps sexual harassment of women}} in general and especially to his ''grab them by the pussy'' {{w|Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording|comment}}. | ||
+ | ***Randall has often made comics against women harassment before (see for a great example in [[1027: Pickup Artist]]). | ||
+ | *[[1761: Blame]] | ||
+ | ** Ten days after the election. | ||
+ | ***This is the first really sad comic in which [[Cueball]] actually begins by stating that: ''I feel sad!'' a clear relation to [[1790: Sad]], this pages comic. | ||
+ | ***This is likely due to all the angry and scared comments of Cueball’s Facebook friends, and he thus decides to blame them rather than what they are angry about. | ||
+ | ***It took some days before Randall posted anything that could be said to have relation to the election, but the defeat of Hillary may have taken some time to digest. | ||
+ | ***Also the reactions to Trump’s victory on Facebook needed to build up over time before this comic. | ||
+ | ***Furthermore there was also some uncertainty to begin with if some states would call for a re-vote etc. | ||
+ | ***Still it was only the fifth comic after his campaign for Hillary failed. | ||
+ | *[[1773: Negativity]] | ||
+ | ** Three days before the {{w|U.S. Electoral College}} voted for {{w|Donald Trump}} to become the 45th president of the United States. | ||
+ | ***The first comic with a really negative title. (Like ''Sad'', although ''Blame'' is of course a negatively loaded word, the comic did not need to be so sad as it was). | ||
+ | *** This comic and ''Blame'' could be seen as a small series as Cueball blames his friends on Facebook in the first comic, and then goes outside to avoid all the negativity online in the second, probably worsened for him after he blamed his Facebook friends because: ''Bad thing are happening''. | ||
+ | ***Only it does not work because even the grass is after him. | ||
+ | ***At the time of the comics release there was still some rumors/hopes that the {{w|Faithless electors in the United States presidential election, 2016|some of the electors would not vote for Trump}}. (But only two changed away from Trump!) | ||
+ | * [[1779: 2017]] | ||
+ | **The [[:Category:New Year|New Year comic]] – a transition to the year when Donald Trump would become president. | ||
+ | *** Even the comic "celebrating" New Year was depressive and it was the first time that a New Year comic had such a depressive mood. | ||
+ | ***Cueball and [[Megan]] discuss if 2016 could end up as having been better than 2017 since all the bad thing happening in 2016 would first really take effect in 2017. | ||
+ | ***The biggest of these would be Trump becoming president, but also {{w|Brexit}} and a lot of {{w|2016#Deaths|dead famous people}} would be troublesome. None of these events (or any other specifically bad event of 2016 are cited in the comic). | ||
+ | ***Randall tries to make a happy twist by saying that maybe some unexpected good would come in 2017 as most of the sad events (just mentioned) was not expected to happen. | ||
+ | ***But hopping for this in the face of what awaits is difficult to he retorts to just hoping ''they'' won’t cancel the {{w|Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017|2017 solar eclipse}}. | ||
+ | ***Fearing (for real) that astronomical events like this being canceled would call for you to be very depressed. Of course Randall doesn’t fear for this in real life, but it puts a perspective on the other parts of the comic. | ||
+ | ***Although the eclipse will certainly happen on August 21st 2017 Randall may still miss it, even if he is in the right place, as the weather could always be over cat and then ruin the experience. | ||
+ | ***So the worry that he will miss it is real and had also been mentioned three years earlier in [[1302: Year in Review]]. | ||
+ | *[[1790: Sad]] (This pages comic. The title of that the reason to put this trivia on this page!) | ||
+ | **Donald Trump’s {{w|Inauguration of Donald Trump|inauguration}}. | ||
+ | ***This was only the second comic released after the inauguration the Friday before this comics Wednesday release. | ||
+ | ***Although it could be said that Trump first took office Monday (before this Wednesday comic) he already began signing {{w|Decree|decrees}} (or {{w|Executive order|executive orders}}) on Friday {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Immediate_regulatory_freeze_pending_review|within a few hours}} after becoming president. <!--AS THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO RELEVANT FOR OTHER COMICS LINKING HERE PLEASE LEAVE IT BOTH HERE AND ABOVE EVEN THOUGH IT IS A REPETITION--> | ||
+ | ****{{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Policy|Most of these}} would make it even worse for those already sad about him becoming president, because they could now see that he really meant all the things he promised (which is not always the case in politics!) | ||
+ | ****Up to the day this comic was released (January 25th) it would already be drastic things like the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Mexican_border_wall|Mexican border wall}} (on the day of the comics release), the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Withdrawal_of_Affordable_Care_Act|withdrawal of Affordable Care Act}}, the approval of the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Dakota_Access_and_the_Keystone_XL_pipelines|Dakota Access and the Keystone XL pipelines}} (which would be troublesome for an [[:Category:Climate change|environmentalist]] as Randall as {{w|Dakota_Access_Pipeline#Environmental_concerns|both}} {{w|Pipeline_transport#Oil_and_natural_gas|oil pipes}} {{w|Keystone_Pipeline#Environmental_issues|have}} environmental issues) and the {{w|First_100_days_of_Donald_Trump's_presidency#Mexico_City_Policy|Mexico City Policy}} regarding stopping any help to poor women abroad with regards to information or any other way helping with {{w|abortion}}. | ||
+ | ****This latter point could be especially troublesome for women like Ponytail (in one of Randall's comics) as it is against {{w|Women's_rights#Abortion|Women's right}} | ||
+ | ***The actual reasons for Ponytail's frustrations and depression aren't dwelt on and the focus is on her retreat into video games and the damage it's doing to her work projects. | ||
+ | ****However the reference to {{w|PolitiFact.com|PolitiFact}} makes it clear that she is thinking on politics, and the fact checking of most of Trumps claims which often turns out to be ''Pants on fire'' on the PolitiFact scale. | ||
+ | ****See more on Politifact.com the earlier comic [[1712: Politifact]] from during the election campaign | ||
+ | ****The quote from Ponytail is another indication that her trouble is with Trumps leniency with the truth in both election campaign and after, to the point where lies are now on a daily basis just called {{w|alternative facts}} or {{w|Post-truth_politics#United_States|post-truth}}. | ||
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+ | *****By the way apart from the ''Politifact'' comic and ''I’m with Her'' then the only other direct reference to the election during the {{w|United_States_presidential_election,_2016#General_election_campaign|election campaign}} was in [[1748: Future Archaeology]], where Randall expressed interest in knowing the result of the election in advance. | ||
+ | ***Seeing that this comic is about Ponytail being sad, the woman who in the first comic on this list was standing with a weapon to defend herself against condescending men (like Trump) and that one of the first decrees Trump signed, was regarding removal of support for women’s right to abortion abroad, she can see that she still have good reason (especially as a woman) to being sad these past three months. | ||
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