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Talk:2625: Field Topology

2022-05-27T13:37:17Z

172.69.69.170: mezimm

First [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.64|172.70.86.64]] 12:50, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Why is football on the two-hole field? Where are the holes? I don't think the goal posts in American football introduce any since they're not closed. Maybe it's soccer? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.88|172.69.68.88]] 12:58, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

:Well, you might still be able to call them holes. They would be if they were fully rectangles. --[[User:BlackBeret|BlackBeret]] ([[User talk:BlackBeret|talk]]) 12:59, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

: Gridiron football's field contains two areas (the endzones) that can be thought of as not being part of the "normal" field of play, for lack of a better way of saying that pre-coffee. Association football likewise has the areas within the nets. [[User:Noëlle|Noëlle]] ([[User talk:Noëlle|talk]]) 13:05, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

: My immediate thoughts were also that football (soccer) and football (gridiron) are the same, or indeed the other way round. In both cases the closed hole (assuming not a Y-like vertical holder, but H-like as per rugby football) plays no more or less topological part. Threading through the hole from behind has no relevence in either, and in fact defining it as a region that is 'a special enclosed gap with meaning' (which doesn't really matter in the topology sense, just like golf would be a topologically hole-less surface and as a coffee-cup's inside 'dimple' doesn't count, just its handle-hole that makes it equivalent to a doughnut) actually counts for something in association football. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.155|172.70.162.155]] 13:32, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

:: It's not the space bounded by the goal that is the 'hole' - it's the goal post itself (or in the case of the high jump, it's the bar, not the space under it). The reason soccer doesn't have 'holes' where the goals are is that they're positioned on the edge of the playable area - you can't play around the bars, because as soon as you cross the goal line you're out of play. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.80|172.70.91.80]] 13:36, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Tetherball, in many variants, does contain an obstruction -- the pole, which you're not allowed to touch. The Topology Department is getting tired of having to switch out the fields. [[User:Noëlle|Noëlle]] ([[User talk:Noëlle|talk]]) 13:05, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
:But you can surely jump over it, so it's topologically the same as a zero-height pole... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.155|172.70.162.155]] 13:32, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Croquet has six hoops and a peg. How does that make for nine holes? Is it including the opponents' two balls as holes? And if so, why aren't opposing players counted as holes in the other sports? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.80|172.70.91.80]] 13:26, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

American football goals are Y-shaped. Rugby goals are H-shaped. Did... did Randall get those confused? Also, I fail to see how basketball and American football get two, croquet gets a bunch, but soccer gets zero. Aren't soccer goals (in-game at least) basically the same shape as croquet wickets, just waaaay bigger? Granted, I don't know anything about topology and I came to this wiki specifically cuz I'm dumb, so I'd love if someone could splain this all for me ;) --mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 13:37, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Talk:2622: Angular Diameter Turnaround

2022-05-24T23:57:49Z

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Slightly creepy, NGL[[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.10|172.69.34.10]]
: Warning, horrible content: The universe was created by the severed bloody hands of google employees convincing phone manufacturers to ditch the previous phone backends and explode the google play store throughout reality in a mess of intergalactic gore. Our planet developed from an angrybirds download, nourished by the decaying corpse of the owner who played it all their life. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.209|172.70.110.209]] 20:37, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

So apparently this is a real thing, which I never knew [[wikipedia:Angular_diameter_distance#Turnover_Point]] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.81|108.162.221.81]] 20:46, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Could be related to comic 1422, what with both containing expanding phones analogous to some cosmic structure. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.105|172.70.130.105]] 21:46, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
:[[1422]] has been crapped. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.221|172.70.126.221]] 21:50, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

So confusing…I thought that 13 billion years ago they had flip phones. [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 22:32, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Before this explanation is marked “complete” it had better mention that “sinking into dilute blood” is a terrible (one could even say ignorant or stupid) description of red shift, completely missing the fundamental cause and completely distorting the effect. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.159|108.162.216.159]] 23:23, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
:Pretty sure that was just a description of its appearance? --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.125|172.70.210.125]] 10:18, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
::Randall implies this was an analogy among people who knew the physical underpinnings well. But I agree that it, and the concept of mobile phones, are neither pleasant nor appropriate at all for the outer reaches of our universe. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.230.63|172.70.230.63]] 15:28, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
::I’m wondering if Randall read this and the next one, Goofs, is a subtle jab at commenters here who don’t understand similes. He doesn’t say it works like that. He says it LOOKS like that. There’s nothing unpleasant about blood. I find my own to be dear to me. And to claim it’s “inappropriate”, well, let’s just say I’m not gonna gatekeep but if you think a simile someone else shared with Randall, possibly and likely someone with the credentials to back it up, is “inappropriate” because you think blood is icky, perhaps you would consider showing yourself out?
:::It's also delicious in a black pudding. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.211|172.70.90.211]] 09:03, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
::Either way, whoever is on about “ as if the void beyond were hell” should remove that. Randall doesn’t imply anything about a void beyond (there isn’t one), nor hell (my body is full of blood but i lack any hell inside me).[[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.198|162.158.107.198]] 20:41, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

;Congratulations, you won a brand new galaxy!
Your new galaxy will be delivered in only 3 billion years, to a drop-off point only 1 million light years from your home planet. With this cutting-edge protogalaxy, which will be mature upon delivery, you will find incredible features such as:
* supermassive black hole
* exotic space-faring lifeforms
* intriguing dense matter that does not emit radiation; you'll never have enough
* unique and enthralling galactic formations, each with ancient magical myths told in history by the space-faring lifeforms
* and the ability to grow brand new stars of your very own!
[[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.247|172.70.114.247]] 00:07, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

I assumed the reference was that very old cell phones (1990s etc.) were enormous - think carphones; technology allowed them to shrink (giving, say, the Nokia 8850 I owned in 1999 and the original smallish iPhone), and then recent phones have (on average) grown again as the benefits of a larger screen area have been seen to outweigh the convenience of a smaller device. Also older phones tended to have batteries that lasted longer, mostly because neither the screen nor the processor were pulling much power. It's not just that the original iPhone was smaller than current ones (nor, for some of us, does the original iPhone count as an "early cellphone"). Am I alone in this interpretation? The description (at time of writing) didn't seem to cover that.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.121|162.158.159.121]] 10:15, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
: Yes, early cell phones were huge, like the size of a suitcase (hence they were usually kept in a car and called a "carphone.") At first much of this was having a larger battery before they had the modern sort of rechargeable electronics, and then it took time to gradually be able to shrink the other required electronics, but then they kept making them smaller, to the point where people would joke about how small they would be in the future (like in the movie Zoolander he had a phone that was like an inch in size). However once smartphones came along that had a large screen and were used for a lot of things other than actual phone calls (and text messaging), people wanted larger screens, so they started increasing in size again, just to be able to make the screen larger, and also the increased functionality increased the battery drain and they thus needed more space for a bigger battery. However, all the phones pictured in the comic are modern design smartphones with the whole phone surface being a touchscreen, so it's questionable to apply that idea to the comic.--
:: On second thought, the prevous comic before this one mentioned Zoolander, so that was likely on Randall's mind....--[[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 23:57, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.88|172.69.68.88]] 23:55, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

The phone model shown doesn't look that much like a Samsung Galaxy. More like an iPhone. Oh, well. [[User:Nutster|Nutster]] ([[User talk:Nutster|talk]]) 15:50, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

I hope we'll be able to procure a charger for our galaxy before it runs out. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.249|141.101.105.249]] 15:52, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
:If it is sinking into a hellscape, it'll presumably require one of those cursed connecters. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.211|172.70.90.211]] 09:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Isn't it just wonderful when your favorite comic strip teaches you something fundamental, important, and which you had no idea of prior to reading it. This is definitely one of XKCD's crowning glories (although, admittedly, not all that funny!). [[User:SteveBaker|SteveBaker]] ([[User talk:SteveBaker|talk]]) 15:18, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

;Hooray!
Something good is happening!!!!!! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.215|172.70.126.215]] 21:22, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
: No. It just means you can't get a date tonight. Again. (I presume you're the "crap"per, right? Eager to fill your own worthless life by making ''everybody else'' actually feel useful... How ironic.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.36|172.70.91.36]] 00:08, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
:: I thought it was just a visitor I worried I had badly depressed with my story of severed google hands, wanting to add positivity. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.112|162.158.79.112]] 00:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
: the "crap"er is a bot called "Explain xkcd server admin". -> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User:Explain_xkcd_server_admin/common.js [[User:Firestar233|Firestar233]] ([[User talk:Firestar233|talk]]) 00:11, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
:: Yes, same (style) as the umpteen previous times. No imagination and rather boring.
:: Now I'm limited in what I can do (still, been reverting pages left right and centre, to hold my bit up) but the "Hooray!" commenter (as, I suspect, the one who 'wished the crap would happen again' the other day, or words to that effect) seems to be very much like someone's idea of taunting us, thus proving that he (if you'll excuse that assumption) can't get laid and for some reason they haven't discovered the more solo method of getting their rocks off, so he's rubbing up against us and trying to generate the satisfying feeling of friction in his groin.
:: (You know when your dog has a favourite stuffed toy? Like that.)
:: Pretty boring, really, for us. But small things amuse small minds. And maybe that's the reason why. Also having small... 'feet'. Too shy to show his 'feet' to girls. Can't earn enough to get 'feet' enlargement surgery. No personality either. Pity. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.211|172.70.85.211]] 02:43, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

;F0N3Z!!!
WH3R3 C4N 1 G37 7H15 M4NY F0N3Z? (jk, 1 41r34dy h4v3 4b0u7 31gh7 0f 7h3m) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.115|172.70.178.115]] 02:59, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

;The crap is spreading...
[https://esolangs.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges The Esolang wiki is being crapped.] We aren't the only ones... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.105|172.70.130.105]] 18:11, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
:I imagine there'll be a esolong ''called'' "crap" becore too long (if there isn't already) with which a decrappifier can be written. Knowing the people who used to be in that field, anyway. Sort of whitespace/brainf*ck-inspired thing, probably.
:(Too late now, but I hope it's not because we kept archive copies of our scripts around for others to pick up, independently of the original idiot.)
:But this goes both ways. If they come up with a better answer to the problem, maybe we can get it working here too. I leave it to those in the know to perhaps keep half an eye on that, though. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.207|162.158.34.207]] 10:13, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
::Their solution seems to be "have an admin always monitoring the wiki." I got blocked pretty quickly. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.105|172.70.130.105]] 15:45, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

;Arab Soyjak and other site vandalism
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.124|162.158.107.124]] is repeatedly changing the comic title to "Arab Soyjak" and the image to a picture of Osama bin Laden, and being awfully rude in the edit summaries; also has a history of vandalism along with various associated IP addresses - however also having made actual contributions to the wiki, etc etc, I haven't checked other IP addresses that are associated; [[416: Zealous Autoconfig]] is one of the pages that are currently vandalised </ramble> [[User:Bubblegum|bubblegum]]-[[User_talk:Bubblegum|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Bubblegum|contribs]] 02:56, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
:I have blocked the IP address. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:30, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
::Please don't block IP addresses here. Unlike most wikis, the reverse proxy on this one basically randomizes them, so the blocks don't necessarily stop the vandal and often do affect non-vandals. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.105|172.70.130.105]] 17:04, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

; Red shifted objects...
...would not necessarily look red to the human eye. A light source that peaks in the ultraviolet or x-rays would turn blue when that objects light gets lowered into the visible spectrum. The real meaning of "red shift" is what happens to spectral lines. [[User:Algr|Algr]] ([[User talk:Algr|talk]]) 15:44, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm very confused as to why one would use the iPhone 1 as an example of a very old, but very memorable phone, rather than the Nokia 1100
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.23.82|162.158.23.82]] 15:54, 23 May 2022 (UTC) Tomas

;Date of comic
The day before this comic was released, NASA released a [https://newatlas.com/space/hubble-constant-most-precise-universe-expansion/ huge new report] that astronomers are calling Hubble’s magnum opus. Analyzing 30 years of data from the famous space telescope, the new study makes the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding. [[User:WhiteDragon|WhiteDragon]] ([[User talk:WhiteDragon|talk]]) 18:42, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

2621: Mainly Known For

2022-05-21T23:14:02Z

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{{comic
| number = 2621
| date = May 18, 2022
| title = Mainly Known For
| image = mainly_known_for.png
| titletext = Oh sure, I know Keira Knightly, from the first movie in that series by The Land Before Time producer. You know, the franchise with the guy from Jurassic Park and Ghostwriter, and script work by Billie Lourd's mom?
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by that guy from NASA, what was his name? Something Munroe - Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
[[Megan]] points out an uncanny resemblance between someone's dad and {{w|Steve Jobs}}. However, she is uncertain that Steve's last name is Jobs, so she refers to Jobs as "the Pixar guy", asking Cueball if Jobs is the correct name. Jobs is ''mainly known for'' (hence the comic's title) being the co-founder and CEO of {{w|Apple Inc.}}, but in the late 1980s and early 1990s (between his stints at Apple), he was the chairman of {{w|Pixar Animation Studios}}, which is what Megan knows him for.

Frequently, when people can't remember a celebrity's name, they will point out other works they are known for in hopes someone else will recognize them from that and remind them of the name. The comic, for its demographic of nerds, is joking on how it can come across to have lived a life separate from popular culture, where one learns things for different reasons than most people do.

[[Cueball]] points out that Megan's tendency to avoid the "main" association and instead go with a much more secondary one is weird, which confuses her. To demonstrate how weird her associations are, Cueball asks her, "Who is {{w|John Lennon}}?" Lennon is a famous songwriter who played and wrote for {{w|The Beatles}} before they broke up, and later continued on a solo music career. Megan recognizes Lennon as a musical artist, but is unable to remember the name of The Beatles. She instead asks about the band he was in with {{w|Ringo Starr}}. Ringo, however, is not mainly memorable to her for his role in The Beatles, but rather as Mr. Conductor from the first season of the 1989 children's television show ''{{w|Shining Time Station}}''. The Beatles' fame seems to have escaped Megan, which vexes Cueball. Also Ringo may be considered as the least known of The Beatles, unless that would be {{w|George Harrison|'the quiet one'}}. Definitely less well-known than {{w|Paul McCartney}}, who was often as prominent a writer-performer as Lennon at the time and has continued to prominently perform individually (or headlining collaborations) across all the intervening decades since that era.

Furthering the joke, ''Shining Time Station'' was rather minor among Ringo's acting roles, only voicing one season, and most would remember him for his longer role as narrator of ''Thomas the Tank Engine.''

Hoping to show that she really does know Lennon and that her associations aren't weird, she points out that she remembers John doing a song with {{w|David Bowie}}. But she cannot remember that it was called "{{w|Fame (David Bowie song)|Fame}}". The song is from 1975 and Lennon co-wrote it with Bowie and performed backing vocals and guitar on it. Also she cannot remember Bowie's name, recognizing him instead for his acting role in ''{{w|Labyrinth (1986 film)|Labyrinth}}''. When Cueball states Bowie's name and adds, presumably sarcastically, that he think he is famous for other stuff than those two things Megan mentions, she also remember another movie with Bowie, ''{{w|Zoolander}}'', rather than his more famous musical career (such as his smash hits "{{w|Space Oddity}}" or "{{w|Let's Dance (David Bowie song)|Let's Dance}}").

Sensing Cueball's annoyance, but failing to understand it, she attempts to excuse herself for not remembering ''Zoolander'' to begin with, because it came out a long time ago, during the {{w|Presidency of George W. Bush}}. ''Zoolander'' was indeed released in 2001. Apparently unable, again, to remember the president's name, she identifies him as "{{w|Jenna Bush}}'s dad". Jenna Bush is a TV personality and much less widely known than her father.

While the kind of associations people make like Megan in this comic, are often prone to the {{w|Mandela effect}}, Megan's information about all the celebrities is, in fact, correct, but apparently they are never what those people are best known for. This is what makes Cueball sigh and facepalm in the final panel, when she mentions Jenna instead of George Bush. He likely also does this because, even though he just demonstrated her weird tendency to remember people for their lesser known works, he is unable to reach her and let her understand that she is weird.

There may also be some overlap with the {{w|Streisand effect}}, named after a woman widely known for owning an overly lavish mansion on the coast of a state north of Mexico.

In the title text, Megan refers to "{{w|Keira Knightley|Keira Knightly}}" [''sic'' -- her surname is spelled Knightley], who is probably best known for her roles in the {{w|Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)|''Pirates of the Caribbean'' films}} and the {{w|Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)|2005 ''Pride and Prejudice'' film}}, by referencing her small role in ''{{w|Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace}}'' (as Sabé, who funnily enough is a handmaiden and ''decoy'' for Queen Padmé Amidala, a main character played by Natalie Portman).

Megan continues her unusual references by identifying the film as the "first movie" (it was the first in the plotline, but the fourth one made) in "that series by ''The Land Before Time'' producer" ({{w|George Lucas}}, creator of {{w|Star Wars}}, was also one of the executive producers of the 1988 animated film ''{{w|The Land Before Time (film)|The Land Before Time}}'').

Seeming to think that identifying George Lucas doesn't narrow it down at all, she identifies another actor in the ''Star Wars'' series, {{w|Samuel L. Jackson}}, by his roles in ''{{w|Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park}} ''(an extremely successful film, but one in which Jackson had a relatively small role) and the PBS children's series ''{{w|Ghostwriter (1992 TV series)|Ghostwriter}}'' (in which Jackson appeared in only a few episodes). In addition, Megan mentions that the ''Star Wars'' series had "script work by {{w|Billie Lourd}}'s mom", referring to {{w|Carrie Fisher}}, who [https://www.slashfilm.com/548436/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/ contributed uncredited script-doctoring work] to the ''Star Wars'' franchise. However, Fisher is more closely associated with ''Star Wars'' for having played the major role of {{w|Princess Leia Organa}} in six films in the series.

''Ghostwriter'' was previously featured in [[130: Julia Stiles]], which described a scene from the show as "the best thing ever to appear on TV".

==Transcript==
:[Megan holds her hand palm up towards Cueball.]
:Megan: ...And her dad looks ''exactly'' like the Pixar guy. Steve what's-his-name? Jobs?
:Cueball: "Pixar guy"?
:Cueball: You always know famous people for such weird reasons.

:[Megan puts her hand down.]
:Megan: What do you mean?
:Cueball: Who is John Lennon?
:Megan: Wasn't he in a band? With Ringo from ''Shining Time Station''.
:Cueball: How is '''''that''''' your main association?

:[In a frameless panel Megan holds a finger up in front of Cueball.]
:Megan: I also know he once did a song with the guy from Labyrinth!
:Cueball: You mean David Bowie? I think he's famous for some other stuff, too.

:[Megan puts her hand down while Cueball facepalms. The line connecting his is curved.]
:Megan: Oh yeah, he was also in Zoolander!
:Megan: I forgot that movie, it came out back when Jenna Bush's dad was president.
:Cueball: ''*Sigh*''

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676: Abstraction

2022-05-11T18:38:19Z

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{{comic
| number = 676
| date = December 16, 2009
| title = Abstraction
| image = abstraction.png
| titletext = If I'm such a god, why isn't Maru *my* cat?
}}

==Explanation==
The comics points out the large number of levels of abstraction working together at any given time in today's computers.

Programs on current computers do not run "directly on hardware". Instead, the hardware (in this case, a {{w|Central processing unit|processor}} of the {{w|x86-64}} architecture) is controlled by the {{w|operating system}} {{w|Kernel (computing)|kernel}} (in this specific case, {{w|XNU}} is the kernel used in Apple-branded devices). Many operating systems offer a standardized {{w|Interface (computing)|interface}} called {{w|POSIX}}, which wraps the services offered by the different operating systems so that applications do not need to cope with the differences between the operating systems. {{w|Darwin (operating system)|Darwin}} is the name of the core set of components on which the Apple's {{w|OS X}} operating system runs. And using this operating system, the user runs the {{w|Firefox}} web browser. However, the browser itself contains further abstraction layers: {{w|Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko}} is the engine handling the display of web pages on the screen, but in this case, it only allows a separate software, {{w|Adobe Flash Player}}, to render a video requested by the user.

And all of this work is, in this case, done only because the user wanted to watch a funny cat Flash video on the Internet; which makes the user feel like he is a god.

The title text refers to {{w|Maru (cat)|Maru the cat}}, a cat who became very popular on YouTube for, among other things, jumping into a box. Cueball questions his god-like capabilities by wondering why can't he own Maru.

[[2405: Flash Gatsby| Flash was discontinued at the very beginning of 2021]]. Flash was a video player that was used to make videos play without having a dedicated website for it. It was used in games and videos, as demonstrated by Cueball watching a Flash video of a cat jumping into a box.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is sitting at a computer.]
:An x64 processor is screaming along at billions of cycles per second to run the XNU kernel, which is frantically working through all the POSIX-specified abstraction to create the Darwin system underlying OS X, which in turn is straining itself to run Firefox and its Gecko renderer, which creates a Flash object which renders dozens of video frames every second

:because I wanted to see a cat jump into a box and fall over.

:I am a god.

{{comic discussion}}
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1978: Congressional Testimony

2022-05-11T18:34:34Z

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{{comic
| number = 1978
| date = April 9, 2018
| title = Congressional Testimony
| image = congressional_testimony.png
| titletext = James Cameron's Terminator 3 was the REALLY prophetic one. That's why Skynet sent a robot back to the 1990s to prevent him from ever making it, ultimately handing the franchise over to other directors.
}}

==Explanation==
[[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are discussing {{w|Facebook}} CEO {{w|Mark Zuckerberg|Mark Zuckerberg's}} upcoming {{w|United States congressional hearing|testimony before Congress}}. The prepared testimony was released on the day this comic was released--see ''[https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/09/congress-released-mark-zuckerbergs-prepared-testimony-ahead-of-wednesdays-hearing.html Congress releases Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony ahead of Wednesday's hearing]''. Facebook is facing questions on the {{w|Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal}} involving the collection of personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users by the political targeting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Megan then starts talking about re-watching ''{{w|The Terminator}}'', a movie about a killer robot called "the Terminator" sent back in time by {{w|Skynet (Terminator)|Skynet}}, a computer system that became self-aware (AI) and tried to kill off humans. The Terminator, played by {{w|Arnold Schwarzenegger}}, was sent back to try to kill the mother of the leader of the resistance before he was born. In the movie, the Terminator looked up the mother's name, Sarah Connor, in the {{w|phone book}} of a {{w|phone booth}} to find her address.

Megan notices how strangely things have turned out in the real world. In the movie it was a nuclear launch system that turned on humans, building humanoid robots to hunt humans down; today, despite the fact that we have computer-controlled nuclear launch systems as well as humanoid robots, it was rather the modern version of said phone book that became our version of Skynet (Facebook). The computer program that tracks our information in a manner similar to a phone book was responsible for doing harm to its users by selling their information (and now it could be said to harm the people who created it, as well, since Zuckerberg is on trial). Cueball can only agree with her how funny things always turn out in retrospect.

The title text makes the claim that {{w|James Cameron}}, who directed the first two films, was planning to make a third movie in the 1990s, which would have been the really prophetic one (i.e. the one that would have mirrored our present day most closely). Therefore, Skynet, having seen the result of this movie, wished to prevent the movie from ever being made, sending yet another robot back in time to prevent Cameron from directing it. Instead, ''{{w|Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines}}'' was released in 2003 and directed by {{w|Jonathan Mostow}}. Although Cameron is credited for writing it, he only created the characters. Since then three other movies have been made, all with different directors.

==Transcript==
:[Megan and Cueball sitting against a leafless tree; they are on opposite sides.]
:Megan: Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before Congress this week.
:Cueball: Should be interesting.

:[Beat panel.]

:Megan: I recently re-watched ''Terminator''.
:Cueball: Yeah?

:Megan: It's weird that the thing that evolved into Skynet wasn't our nuclear launch systems '''''or''''' our humanoid robots.
:Megan: It was the phone book where the Terminator looked up Sarah Connor's address.
:Cueball: Funny how things turn out.

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1902: State Borders

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{{comic
| number = 1902
| date = October 13, 2017
| title = State Borders
| image = state_borders.png
| titletext = A schism between the pro-panhandle and anti-panhandle factions eventually led to war, but both sides spent too much time working on their flag designs to actually do much fighting.
}}

==Explanation==

In this comic, graphic designers take control of the United States, but the only thing they do is to change the state and national borders, using primarily aesthetic criteria. State and national borders have generally emerged from some combination of political decisions, natural boundaries, control of natural resources, and, to some degree, from chance. As the comic implies, some borders originally resulted from surveying errors, but became encoded by law and tradition, and thus were never changed.

Despite the caption's rather blasé reaction to the graphic designers' master plan, the changes they propose could be rather tumultuous. Political boundaries are difficult to change because rewriting them places entire populations in different states or even different countries. Even within the US, changing a population from one state to another has serious implications. A different state means different laws, tax obligations, public benefits, business regulations, infrastructure support, etc. It would also mean that control of some very substantial natural resources would be transferred from one state to another. More significantly, the suggestion to cede portions of the US to Canada and Mexico would be a much bigger deal, forcing residents of those areas to either leave their homes, businesses, and communities or surrender their current nationality and apply for citizenship in another country. The joke behind the comic is that graphic designers would tend to ignore these practical concerns and pay more attention to a map looking orderly.

This comic hints at the fact that it is indeed Randall who wants to see these changes made.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Proposed change !! Explanation
|-
| Give to Canada || {{w|Minnesota}} has a small northern exclave (the {{w|Northwest Angle}}) which is sparsely populated (with only about 120 residents), and is accessible from the rest of the US only via water (the {{w| Lake of the Woods}}) or by travelling through Canada. This land being part of the US is the result of a geographic error during the original negotiations over the border, and its irregularity would naturally bother someone concerned with clean and logical boundaries. The new borders suggest giving this territory to Canada to simplify the state and national border. In fact, during the Covid pandemic that hit the US in 2020, the US/Canada border was closed to nonessential travel, and so many of the Angle’s residents struggled to make ends meet, as the cross-border tourism that typically supported them largely disappeared.
|-
| This should be {{w|Wisconsin}} || {{w|Michigan}} is divided into two parts by {{w|Lake Michigan}}. The graphic designers suggest eliminating a boundary line by assigning the upper peninsula of Michigan to Wisconsin. The upper peninsula of Michigan was given to Michigan as part of a compromise to end the {{w|Toledo War}}.
|-
| Move Long Island to NJ or CT, or make it its own state || {{w|Connecticut}} and {{w|New Jersey}} are very close to each other but don't actually border, separated only a few miles by {{w|New York State}}. {{w|Long Island}} is part of New York State, which visibly juts out into the Atlantic (extending so far to the east that it gives New York a maritime border with Rhode Island) and apparently drives graphic designers crazy who see an association with New Jersey or Connecticut or even becoming its own state more logical than being a part of New York State. This would have some issues, not least of which is that Long Island contains two of {{w|New York City}}'s five boroughs ({{w|Brooklyn}} and {{w|Queens}}) and more than half the city's population.
|-
| Unlabelled cleanup at the eastern border of New York, northern border of Massachusetts, and northern border of Connnecticut || Straighten the eastern border of New York from New York City to the southern tip of Lake Champlain, straighten the northern border of Massachusetts, and straighten the northern border of Connecticut.
|-
|-
| Align to Grid || Most of the Western states are variations on "large box", but there's something a bit irregular about them. Never fear, the Design Team has fixed it! In the process, they've also changed the border between Idaho and Montana from a natural boundary following the Continental Divide into an arbitrary squiggle.
|-
| Clean Up (Maryland/Ohio/Pennsylvania/Virginia/West Virginia) || Maryland's western panhandle and both of West Virginia's to the east and north would be smoothed out to have nice, straight, shorter lines. The Mason-Dixon Line that forms the current border between Maryland and Pennsylvania would also be extended east to the border between Pennsylvania and Delaware, which the latter in real life cuts into Pennsylvania a little bit via the {{w|Twelve Mile Circle}}.
|-
|Enlarge Rhode Island & Delaware || {{w|Rhode Island}} and {{w|Delaware}}, the two {{w|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area#Area_by_state.2Fterritory|smallest U.S. states by area}}, are often difficult to make out on a map of the United States.
Expanding Delaware to occupy the entire {{w|Delmarva_Peninsula|Delmarva peninsula}} eliminates some boundary lines the designers apparently consider excessively fiddly, as well as solving another "Michigan" problem, as the "VA" of "Delmarva" refers to its {{w|Eastern Shore of Virginia|Eastern Shore}}, which is separated from the rest of Virginia by the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The two parts of Virginia are connected by the {{w|Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel}}, while Maryland's two bay shores are connected by U.S. Route 50. Rhode Island is not indeed entirely an island, and the mainland portions are the focus of the graphic designers.

Expanding Rhode Island eastward would make it easier to see on a map. Giving the former {{w|Plymouth Colony}} to Rhode Island would have the additional advantage of making Massachusetts a more neatly rectangular state.
|-
| If we're going to have a panhandle, why not commit to it? || {{w|Oklahoma}} has a "panhandle" to its west, which is a kind of {{w|Salient (geography)|Salient}}. The obvious fix would be to give it to Texas. In a twist, the graphic designers suggest extending it even further, across the northern parts of {{w|Arizona}} and {{w|New Mexico}}. This would make the {{w|Four Corners Monument}} obsolete, since Arizona and New Mexico would no longer border {{w|Utah}} and {{w|Colorado}} respectively, let alone all four states sharing a corner.
|-
| Fix this thing || The border of {{w|Missouri}} cuts into {{w|Arkansas}}, in the so-called {{w|Missouri Bootheel}}. The Design Team has awarded that piece to {{w|Arkansas}}, straightening the border.
|-
| Unlabelled cleanup at the junction of {{w|Kentucky}}/{{w|Virginia}} || Virginia's western border is shifted east to align it with the borders to the north and south, forming a continuous line along the {{w|Appalachian_Mountains|Appalachians}}.
|-
| Unlabelled cleanup at the junction of {{w|Nevada}}/{{w|Arizona}} || Continue the line of Utah's western border and Arizona's far northwestern border south (replacing part of the {{w|Colorado River}} boundary), transferring part of Arizona's {{w|Mohave_County,_Arizona|Mohave county}} to Nevada.
|-
| Unlabelled cleanup at the junction of {{w|Texas}}/{{w|Oklahoma}}/{{w|Arkansas}}/{{w|Louisiana}} || Square off {{w|Southwest Arkansas}}, and move {{w|Lousiana's}} northwest border to meet up, presumably because square corners are better.
|-
| Clean up (Arizona/New Mexico/Texas) || One of {{w|New Mexico}}'s borders should be extended into a single line. This results in ceding some land to Mexico, having {{w|El Paso}} split across New Mexico and Texas, and Highway 62 alternating between two states.
|-
| Straighten to fix survey errors (Tennessee) || {{w|Tennessee}}'s southern border is supposed to be the 35th parallel north, but due to surveying errors made in the 19th Century the marked border is one mile south of that line. At many times since, Georgia has sought to fix this by various means (at least partly because doing so would net them some rights to the water from the Tennessee River) including bringing its case to the US Supreme Court - with the Design Team in charge, they wouldn't need those lawyers any more. Farther westward, Tennessee's actual southern border suddenly juts south at the Tennessee River between Alabama and Mississippi - again, the Design Team would rather see it smoothed out. Tennessee's northern border with Kentucky has similar hitches that prevent it from being a straight line that the Design Team wants to address.
|-
| Good Curve! Keep. (Florida/Georgia/South Carolina) || The only thing the design team likes already about the shape of the US is the shape of the Atlantic coast in northern {{w|Florida}}, Georgia, and {{w|South Carolina}}, as it seems to bend into the US smoothly. Unfortunately for them, the curve is coastline; whether or not we get to keep it is up to the whims of Mother Nature {{Citation needed}}. Fortunately for them, they like it as is, so it doesn't matter that they can't change it.
|-
| Let's be honest, this should be Canada too || {{w|Southeast Alaska}} should be given to {{w|Canada}}, presumably because it more neatly fits with {{w|British Columbia}}. This is slightly problematic, as the current state capital, {{w|Juneau}}, is within this section. Presumably, the state capital would be moved to Alaska's most populous city, {{w|Anchorage}}.
|-
| Why should Florida get Alabama's coastline? It has plenty. ||
The {{w|Florida Panhandle}} borders southern {{w|Alabama}} denying the state all but a sliver of coastline. Given that Florida already has an abundance of coast, the Graphic Designers consider the present arrangement unfair. Ceding the Florida counties west of the {{w|Apalachicola River}} has actually been {{w|Florida_Panhandle#Alabama_annexation_proposals|raised since the 19th century}}. This change would have the additional benefit of more neatly aligning Florida's western border with that of neighboring {{w|Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia}}. As a sidenote, this would have significant political implications, as Florida is a closely divided "swing state" whose votes can easily determine the outcome of US Presidential elections. Ceding the largely rural and conservative population of the panhandle would likely tilt the rest of the state in favor of the Democratic candidate in future elections. Such an upset of the power balance is one reason why these kinds of changes would be aggressively opposed.
|}

In the title text, the graphic designers have a civil war between the ones that favor "panhandles" in the borders, such as the Oklahoma one which is enlarged in the map, the Florida one which is removed in the map, and maybe others such as the Texas region known as the "Texas panhandle". However, as graphic designers, they get too caught up in making the flag designs for their faction to actually fight. Randall has shown interest for vexillology (the study of flags) in the past.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[An outline map of the United States is shown, including state boundaries. The following edit marks are shown in red text:]
:[Minnesota's Northwest Angle is circled] Give to Canada
:[Border between Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula is crossed out] This should be Wisconsin
:[New York's Long Island is circled, with arrows and question marks pointing to New Jersey and Connecticut] Move Long Island to NJ or CT or make it its own state
:[New York's eastern border has been straightened]
:[Wyoming's western border is moved to align with that of Colorado. The Montana/Idaho and Idaho/Utah borders are extended to reach the new border. Similarly, Colorado's eastern border is moved to align with that of Wyoming, and the Nebraska/Kansas border has been extended] Align to grid
:[West Virginia's northern panhandle has been given to Ohio and part of its eastern panhandle has been given to Maryland. In return, Western Maryland has been given to West Virginia. The altogether effect is that West Virginia and Maryland have more compact shapes] Clean Up
:[Rhode Island has been enlarged to encompass southeastern Massachusetts, and Delaware now takes up the entire Delmarva Peninsula] Enlarge Rhode Island & Delaware
:[The Oklahoma Panhandle has been extended west until it reaches Nevada, taking the northernmost parts of Arizona and New Mexico with it] If we're going to have a panhandle, why not commit to it?
:[The Missouri Bootheel has been given to Arkansas] Fix this thing
:[The part of Virginia west of the Appalachian Mountains has been given to Kentucky]
:[The southwestern and eastern borders of Nevada have been extended into Arizona until they meet a point. A part of California is slightly extended to reach the revised border]
:[Parts of Arizona and New Mexico have been ceded to Mexico, and part of Texas has been given to New Mexico, so that the southern borders of Arizona and New Mexico and the northern border of the Trans-Pecos area of Texas collectively form a straight line] Clean Up
:[Parts of northeastern Texas have been given to Arkansas and Louisiana]
:[The northern and southern borders of Tennessee have been straightened] Straighten to fix survey errors
:[A line has been traced along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida] Good curve! Keep.
:[Alaska's southeastern panhandle has been circled] Let's be honest - this should be Canada, too.
:[The Alabama/Florida border has been erased, and Alabama's eastern border has been extended south until it meets the Gulf of Mexico] Why should Florida get Alabama's coastline? It has plenty.

:[Caption below the panel:]
:It was scary when graphic designers seized control of the country, but it turned out they just wanted to fix some things about the state borders that had always bothered them. 

==Trivia==
*Here's how the outline map of the United States (excluding Hawaii) will look like if the suggested border changes are done:
[[File:1902-border-changed.png|600px]]

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics with color]]
[[Category:US maps]]

2246: Christmas Presents

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{{comic
| number = 2246
| date = December 25, 2019
| title = Christmas Presents
| image = christmas_presents.png
| titletext = "The parasitism might be mediated by a fungus!" exclaimed the biologist who was trying to ruin Christmas again.
}}

==Explanation==
This is the second comic in a row about presents, this one in particular calls them {{w|Christmas gift|Christmas presents}}, and it was also released on {{w|Christmas}} Day. This is the second [[:Category:Christmas|Christmas comic]] in a row after [[2245: Edible Arrangements]].

A {{w|Christmas tree}} cut down from the woods will typically be placed in a living-room soon after being cut down, and left standing there through the holiday season. On {{w|Christmas Eve}} or {{w|Christmas Day}}, or even earlier, presents are typically put beneath the tree under the lower branches. Once the tree is cut down, it will eventually start turning brown and/or losing its needles as it no longer receives any nutrients from its roots.{{Citation needed}}

Based on this observation (on Christmas Day) some biologist (or [[Randall]]) concludes that the presents are a type of {{w|parasitic plant}}—that is, a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirement from another living plant. Since such a plant can use the sugars produced by the parasitised tree it does not necessarily have to perform photosynthesis by itself (although some parasitic plants such as mistletoe are photosynthetically active). If the parasitic plant is not doing photosynthesis it can live in the shade beneath a tree that it parasitizes as it has no need for light, and since it does not need chlorophyll either, it may not be green (e.g. {{w|Orobanche}}).

With presents often being wrapped in bright white and red colored paper, Randall concludes that this indicates a lack of chlorophyll, thus fitting with the idea of a parasitic plant. With the presents being in the shade of the tree and the tree's health suffering, the evidence can only lead to the conclusion that Christmas presents are parasitic plants.

In the title text a biologist says that "The parasitism might be mediated by a fungus!" While many parasitic plants attach themselves directly to the plant they are parasitising (e.g. {{w|mistletoe}}, a parasitic plant which is often used to symbolize romance at Christmas) this is obviously not the case with the Christmas presents which are not growing out of the Christmas tree - which appears to rule out a parasitic relationship. However, the biologist has an answer for that: Some parasitic plants (such as {{w|sarcodes|snow flowers}}) do not attack the tree directly but instead form a connection to mycorhizal {{w|Fungus|fungi}}. These fungi are receiving sugars from the trees and in turn provide it with mineral nutrients. By parasitising these fungi the snow flower can steal the sugars of the tree indirectly, one says that the fungi is mediating the parasitism.

Randall dismisses these words as coming from a biologist who is "trying to ruin Christmas again", which could have several meanings. It could be that the biologist really is just trying to ruin Christmas, and is trying to be more successful than in previous years by tying Christmas presents to fungus in people's minds. One might say that the biologist is not a "fun guy" for doing this. {{Citation needed}}

It could instead be the case that the biologist is quite earnest in his belief that Christmas presents are harmful plant parasites and is attempting to spray the presents with a {{w|fungicide}}, which would probably be toxic and potentially contaminate not only the wrapping paper but also the presents inside their boxes.

Finally, it could be that the biologist is right, and Christmas presents are hosts to or otherwise associated with a parasitic fungus (and Randall's dismissal is a sign of his infection). There are some parasitic fungi that hijack the brains of host animals and alter their behavior. The most famous of these is probably ''{{w|Ophiocordyceps unilateralis}}'', the so-called "zombie ant fungus", which causes its hosts to perch on a high plant to maximize the distance traveled by the fungus's spores. Ants have in turn developed strategies for detecting and removing infected members from the colony's territory. None of these fungi are known to infect humans, but they did inspire the zombie fungus in ''{{w|The Last of Us}}''.

==Transcript==
:[A Christmas tree decorated with 16 balls and a star at the top with a high trunk with space for several presents beneath. About 13 presents with different patterns of paper and some with strings around. Three arrows with text at the blunt end points towards different areas. To the left one points to a present, beneath this one points to the area beneath the tree (the bottom of one present) and to the right one points to the tree.]
:Bright white and red colors indicate a lack of Chlorophyll
:Flourishing in the shade
:Tree health suffering

:[Caption beneath the panel:]
:The evidence is clear: Christmas presents are parasitic plants.

{{comic discussion}}



[[Category:Christmas]]
[[Category:Biology]]

1451: Background Screens

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{{comic
| number = 1451
| date = November 24, 2014
| title = Background Screens
| image = background_screens.png
| titletext = No way, we gotta rewind and cross-reference this map with the list of coordinates we saw on the other screen. This Greenland thing could be big.
}}

==Explanation==
Plot and characters are generally the parts a movie that most people presumably pay attention to, as the story, the emotional connection, and character development are generally the things most people find enjoyable about particular films{{Citation needed}}.

On the other hand, [[Cueball]], likely representing [[Randall]], pays particular attention to what's on the computer screens shown briefly in the background. Generally speaking, these screens are shown to the audience for a short period of time, and at a low-level of detail, just to dress a set and make a scene feel more realistic or high-tech. They may contain endless columns of gibberish or miscellaneous data flashing by in an eye-blink (only visible by freeze-framing), or cross-hairs zipping across maps.

Often the contents of the computer screens are so unimportant or hard-to-read that the filmmakers do not bother to spend much time (if any at all) ensuring that what is shown on the screen is accurate or even relevant to the film. They may be designed by artists not fully aware of the details of the plot, and as a result, their content (where it is intelligible, such as in a map) can have little to no connection to the dialog or other story events going on in front of them. They sometimes even contain jokes. It is rare, if ever, that important information would be communicated to the viewer through background computer screens. Hence, Cueball's spending most of his time watching the screens seems counter-intuitive to understanding and enjoying the film.

{{w|Greenland}}, a large island east of Canada, is 80% covered in ice up to several kilometers in depth, and has a population of fewer than 100,000 people. Depending on the aliens' priorities (and the plot of the movie) there are myriad reasons both for and against wanting to land in such a remote area. In the title text, Cueball suggests investigating how a list of coordinates from another background screen relates to the location of the alien craft in Greenland, suggesting that Cueball thinks the filmmakers may have intended the viewers to record the information early in the film and analyze the data to learn relevant plot information - something that is very unlikely (and in the rare instance it is true, is intended to be superfluous). Most of the time, filmmakers take efforts to ensure the audience can easily follow plot points by making them more obvious than they might be in reality.

==Transcript==
:What I pay attention to in movies:
:[A pie chart with a small piece (5%) in the upper right part labeled:]
:Plot, characters
:[The rest of the chart (95%) is labeled:]
:Computer screens shown briefly in the background

:[Below the chart Cueball, sitting on the floor, and Hairy, sitting in an armchair, are watching a movie on the TV. Cueball points the remote at the TV.]
:Cueball: Hang on– That blurry map behind the general shows one of the alien ships is in ''Greenland''! Why '''''Greenland?!'''''
:Hairy [quietly]: Can we ''please'' just watch the movie?

==Trivia==
*There are a number of websites which specialize in documenting computer screens as seen in movies, including: (partial list - please expand/improve)
**[http://www.reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem Reddit] - It's a Unix System I know This!
**[http://waxy.org/2013/07/screens_on_screen/ Waxy.Org] - Screens on Screen.
**[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/jan/10/computer-code-in-film-movie-terminator-girl-dragon-tattoo The Guardian] - Computer Code in Films.
**[http://moviecode.tumblr.com Moviecode tumblr]

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
[[Category:Pie charts]]

1608: Hoverboard/Images of individual scenes

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*Here are images from the dynamic comic [[1608: Hoverboard]] of individual scenes (with coins) and some overviews (some without coins). These will be used in the [[1608: Hoverboard#List of details and references|List of details and references]] section for the detailed explanation.
**The images covers almost all scenes with any kind of details and coins in full size (100% zoom).
**Every detail in the entire image is covered in the images below, including showing black that can be passed (secret passages) by substituting it with red color.
*The images will use 1608 and then the coordinates of the most central image in their names (either in the center of the combined image or the individual image with the most interesting parts of that particular theme). Except for large overviews where this is not generally used.
**For instance the starting image would have the name:
***1608 1000x1074y The Play Area
**But there could also be a zoomed out version, that would then focus on the central image and could be called
***1608 1000x1075y Entire Play Area Zoom out
**Also there are images where the fact that a black part that looks solid is not solid, and can be passed through with the hoverboard. These will be shown twice, one in normal mode, and then one where these passable black areas are drawn in red. These images will be called the same but with a '''_red''' added to the name (and the description):
***1608 1000x1074y The Play Area_red

==Left part of the image==
*Overviews:
*1608 Everything Left of play area:
[[File:1608 Everything Left of play area.png]]
*1608 Everything Left of play area_red:
[[File:1608 Everything Left of play area_red.png]]
*1608 Entire Volcano plateau zoom out extra:
[[File:1608 Entire Volcano plateau zoom out extra.png]]
*1608 Entire Volcano plateau zoom out extra_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Volcano plateau zoom out extra_red.png]]
*1608 Left of play area to Kite:
[[File:1608 Left of play area to Kite.png]]
*1608 Left of play area to Kite_red:
[[File:1608 Left of play area to Kite_red.png]]

===Volcano===
*Overviews:
*1608 Entire Volcano zoom out:
[[File:Entire Volcano zoom out.png]]
*1608 Entire Volcano zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Volcano zoom out_red.png]]

====Left of the volcano crater====
*1608 0928x1082y At the end of all things:
[[File:1608 0928x1082y At the end of all things.png]]
*1608 0933x1083y Coin and boulders:
[[File:1608 0933x1083y Coin and boulders.png]]
*1608 0936x1084y Basketball on the volcano:
[[File:1608 0936x1084y Basketball on the volcano.png]]
*1608 0937x1085y Old man walking up the volcano:
[[File:1608 0937x1085y Old man walking up the volcano.png]]
*1608 0940x1087y Duck at the left crater top:
[[File:1608 0940x1087y Duck at the left crater top.png]]

====Inside volcano crater====
=====Overviews=====
1608 0943x1087y Left Volcano Top zoom out
*1608 0943x1087y Left Volcano Top zoom out:
[[File:1608 0943x1087y Left Volcano Top zoom out.png]]
*1608 0945x1077y Lava lake whole zoom out:
[[File:1608 0945x1077y Lava lake whole zoom out.png]]
*1608 0945x1077y Lava lake whole zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0945x1077y Lava lake whole zoom out_red.png]]
*1608 0946x1083y Entire Lava lake zoom out:
[[File:1608 0946x1083y Entire Lava lake zoom out.png]]
*1608 0946x1083y Entire Lava lake zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0946x1083y Entire Lava lake zoom out_red.png]]
*1608 0953x1087y Right Volcano Top zoom out extra:
[[File:1608 0953x1087y Right Volcano Top zoom out extra.png]]
*1608 0953x1087y Right Volcano Top zoom out extra_red:
[[File:1608 0953x1087y Right Volcano Top zoom out extra_red.png]]
*1608 0953x1087y Right Volcano Top zoom out:
[[File:1608 0953x1087y Right Volcano Top zoom out.png]]

=====Items=====
*1608 0941x1084y Megans treassure hoarde:
[[File:1608 0941x1084y Megans treassure hoarde.png]]
*1608 0944x1083y Rock with Gandalf in Lava lake:
[[File:1608 0944x1083y Rock with Gandalf in Lava lake.png]]
*1608 0944x1083y Rock with Gandalf in Lava lake_red:
[[File:1608 0944x1083y Rock with Gandalf in Lava lake_red.png]]
*1608 0950x1084y Quadcopters over lava lake right:
[[File:1608 0950x1084y Quadcopters over lava lake right.png]]
*1608 0950x1084y Quadcopters over lava lake right_red:
[[File:1608 0950x1084y Quadcopters over lava lake right_red.png]]

=====Lava lake=====
*1608 0942x1081y Lava lake left:
[[File:1608 0942x1081y Lava lake left.png]]
*1608 0942x1081y Lava lake left_red:
[[File:1608 0942x1081y Lava lake left_red.png]]
*1608 0943x1083y Left Lava lake zoom out:
[[File:1608 0943x1083y Left Lava lake zoom out.png]]
*1608 0943x1083y Left Lava lake zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0943x1083y Left Lava lake zoom out_red.png]]
*1608 0946x1080y Lava lake Upper shaft:
[[File:1608 0946x1080y Lava lake Upper shaft.png]]
*1608 0946x1080y Lava lake Upper shaft_red:
[[File:1608 0946x1080y Lava lake Upper shaft_red.png]]
*1608 0947x1081y Lava lake center:
[[File:1608 0947x1081y Lava lake center.png]]
*1608 0947x1081y Lava lake center_red:
[[File:1608 0947x1081y Lava lake center_red.png]]
*1608 0949x1083y Right Lava lake zoom out:
[[File:1608 0949x1083y Right Lava lake zoom out.png]]
*1608 0949x1083y Right Lava lake zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0949x1083y Right Lava lake zoom out_red.png]]

=====Volcanic Lair=====
*Overviews:
**1608 0944x1076y Lava lake very bottom of shaft and shaft in lair:
[[File:1608 0944x1076y Lava lake very bottom of shaft and shaft in lair.png]]
**1608 0944x1076y Lava lake very bottom of shaft and shaft in lair_red:
[[File:1608 0944x1076y Lava lake very bottom of shaft and shaft in lair_red.png]]
**1608 0946x1075y Entire Lava lair zoom out:
[[File:1608 0946x1075y Entire Lava lair zoom out.png]]
**1608 0946x1075y Entire Lava lair zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0946x1075y Entire Lava lair zoom out_red.png]]
*1608 0944x1079y Trending on twitter cave in lair and Lava lake bottom shaft:
[[File:1608 0944x1079y Trending on twitter cave in lair and Lava lake bottom shaft.png]]
*1608 0944x1079y Trending on twitter cave in lair and Lava lake bottom shaft_red:
[[File:1608 0944x1079y Trending on twitter cave in lair and Lava lake bottom shaft_red.png]]
*1608 0945x1074y Elon Musks cave in lair:
[[File:1608 0945x1074y Elon Musks cave in lair.png]]
*1608 0947x1073y Antenna cave in lair;
[[File:1608 0947x1073y Antenna cave in lair.png]]

====Right of the Volcano crater====
*1608 0952x1087y Ring of power and lave floor at the right crater top:
[[File:1608 0952x1087y Ring of power and lave floor at the right crater top.png]]
*1608 0956x1085y Megan sliding down slope on snow sleigh:
[[File:1608 0956x1085y Megan sliding down slope on snow sleigh.png]]
*1608 0956x1088y Eagles over right crater top:
[[File:1608 0956x1088y Eagles over right crater top.png]]
*1608 0958x1083y Ponytail racing down the steep slope on a bike:
[[File:1608 0958x1083y Ponytail racing down the steep slope on a bike.png]]
*1608 0960x1081y Tell my wife why you left me there:
[[File:1608 0960x1081y Tell my wife why you left me there.png]]
*1608 0962x1080y It becomes a V7 if the volcano erupts:
[[File:1608 0962x1080y It becomes a V7 if the volcano erupts.png]]
*1608 0964x1078y Megan reading for children about Saurons ring:
[[File:1608 0964x1078y Megan reading for children about Saurons ring.png]]

===Plateau before volcano===
*1608 0969x1077y Vaping Earth:
[[File:1608 0969x1077y Vaping Earth.png]]
*1608 0970x1077y Kite and weird bug:
[[File:1608 0970x1077y Kite and weird bug.png]]
*1608 0970x1077y Kite and weird bug_red:
[[File:1608 0970x1077y Kite and weird bug_red.png]]
*1608 0976x1079y Space capsule with parachutes:
[[File:1608 0976x1079y Space capsule with parachutes.png]]
*1608 0978x1077y Girl running to other girl and small forrest:
[[File:1608 0978x1077y Girl running to other girl and small forrest.png]]
*1608 0980x1075y Entire well zoom out:
[[File:1608 0980x1075y Entire well zoom out.png]]
*1608 0980x1075y Entire well zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0980x1075y Entire well zoom out_red.png]]
*1608 0980x1077y Well top:
[[File:1608 0980x1077y Well top.png]]
*1608 0980x1073y Well bottom:
[[File:1608 0980x1073y Well bottom.png]]
*1608 0980x1073y Well bottom_red:
[[File:1608 0980x1073y Well bottom_red.png]]
*1608 0982x1079y Gas station with birds above with coin on string:
[[File:1608 0982x1079y Gas station with birds above with coin on string.png]]
*1608 0982x1079y Gas station with birds above without coin on string:
[[File:1608 0982x1079y Gas station with birds above without coin on string.png]]
*1608 0982x1077y Gas station with x-wing:
[[File:1608 0982x1077y Gas station with x-wing.png]]
*1608 0982x1079y Birds with coin:
[[File:1608 0982x1079y Birds with coin.png]]
*1608 0982x1079y Birds without coin:
[[File:1608 0982x1079y Birds without coin.png]]
*1608 0986x1076y Our kingdom from a cliff:
[[File:1608 0986x1076y Our kingdom from a cliff.png]]
*1608 0987x1075y Hamsterball bowling:
[[File:1608 0987x1075y Hamsterball bowling.png]]
*1608 0990x1074y If loving you is wrong I dont want to:
[[File:1608 0990x1074y If loving you is wrong I dont want to.png]]

===Washington monument===
*1608 0995x1079y Entire Washington monument extra zoom out:
[[File:1608 0995x1079y Entire Washington monument extra zoom out.png]]
*1608 0995x1079y Entire Washington monument extra zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0995x1079y Entire Washington monument extra zoom out_red.png]]
*1608 0994x1074y Base of Washington monument:
[[File:1608 0994x1074y Base of Washington monument.png]]
*1608 0994x1074y Base of Washington monument_red:
[[File:1608 0994x1074y Base of Washington monument_red.png]]
*1608 0995x1077y Middle of Washington monument:
[[File:1608 0995x1077y Middle of Washington monument.png]]
*1608 0995x1077y Middle of Washington monument_red:
[[File:1608 0995x1077y Middle of Washington monument_red.png]]
*1608 0995x1077y Top of Middle of Washington monument:
[[File:1608 0995x1077y Top of Middle of Washington monument.png]]
*1608 0995x1077y Top of Middle of Washington monument_red:
[[File:1608 0995x1077y Top of Middle of Washington monument_red.png]]
*1608 0995x1078y Middle of Washington monument zoom out:
[[File:1608 0995x1078y Middle of Washington monument zoom out.png]]
*1608 0995x1078y Middle of Washington monument zoom out_red:
[[File:1608 0995x1078y Middle of Washington monument zoom out_red.png]]
*1608 0995x1083y Tip of Washington monument:
[[File:1608 0995x1083y Tip of Washington monument.png]]

===Floating rock island===
*1608 0994x1110y Entire floating rock island zoom out:
[[File:1608 0994x1110y Entire floating rock island zoom out.png]]
*1608 0990x1109y Bottom left of floating rock island:
[[File:1608 0990x1109y Bottom left of floating rock island.png]]
*1608 0989x1112y Top of floating rock island with coin:
[[File:1608 0989x1112y Top of floating rock island with coin.png]]
*1608 0993x1112y Top of floating rock island with base jumpers:
[[File:1608 0993x1112y Top of floating rock island with base jumpers.png]]
*1608 0993x1110y Bottom of floating rock island with coin:
[[File:1608 0993x1110y Bottom of floating rock island with coin.png]]
*1608 0992x1109y Bottom of floating rock island with coin:
[[File:1608 0992x1109y Bottom middle of floating rock island with coin.png]]

==Play Area==
*1608 1000x1074y The Play Area:
[[File:1608 1000x1074y The Play Area.png]]
*1608 1000x1074y The Play Area_red:
[[File:1608 1000x1074y The Play Area_red.png]]
*1608 1001x1074y Entire Play Area Zoom out:
[[File:1608 1001x1074y Entire Play Area Zoom out.png]]

==Right part of the image==
*Overviews:
*1608 Everything Right of washington monument:
[[File:1608 Everything Right of washington monument.png]]

===Ground level before pyramid===
*1608 1004x1074y Cueball outside play area:
[[File:1608 1004x1074y Cueball outside play area.png]]
*1608 1008x1074y Megan points at Runner after forest:
[[File:1608 1008x1074y Megan points at Runner after forest.png]]
*1608 1010x1073y Cliff with rock and cactus:
[[File:1608 1010x1073y Cliff with rock and cactus.png]]
*1608 1010x1073y Cliff with rock and cactus_red:
[[File:1608 1010x1073y Cliff with rock and cactus_red.png]]
*1608 1014x1076y Entire wires from ground to Runner:
[[File:1608 1014x1076y Entire wires from ground to Runner.png]]
*1608 1013x1073y Three wires and people holding on:
[[File:1608 1013x1073y Three wires and people holding on.png]]
*1608 1014x1075y Three wires going up:
[[File:1608 1014x1075y Three wires going up.png]]
*1608 1014x1078y Three wires and reaching up to anchors in Runner:
[[File:1608 1014x1078y Three wires and reaching up to anchors in Runner.png]]
*1608 1015x1076y Three wires and Megan hanging on:
[[File:1608 1015x1076y Three wires and Megan hanging on.png]]
*1608 1015x1073y Ponytail in the dunes zoom out:
[[File:1608 1015x1073y Ponytail in the dunes zoom out.png]]
*1608 1015x1073y Ponytail in the dunes:
[[File:1608 1015x1073y Ponytail in the dunes.png]]
*1608 1017x1073y The largest dune:
[[File:1608 1017x1073y The largest dune.png]]
*1608 1022x1073y Entire ocean:
[[File:1608 1022x1073y Entire ocean.png]]
*1608 1022x1073y Entire ocean_red:
[[File:1608 1022x1073y Entire ocean_red.png]]
*1608 1019x1073y Megan rates the Sea:
[[File:1608 1019x1073y Megan rates the Sea.png]]
*1608 1019x1073y Megan rates the Sea_red:
[[File:1608 1019x1073y Megan rates the Sea_red.png]]
*1608 1022x1073y Rouge wave:
[[File:1608 1022x1073y Rouge wave.png]]
*1608 1022x1073y Rouge wave_red:
[[File:1608 1022x1073y Rouge wave_red.png]]
*1608 1026x1073y Ruins with Cueball singing of Spiders and Panama:
[[File:1608 1026x1073y Ruins with Cueball singing of Spiders and Panama.png]]
*1608 1029x1073y Ponytail flying:
[[File:1608 1029x1073y Ponytail flying.png]]
*1608 1032x1074y Entire forest zoom out:
[[File:1608 1032x1074y Entire forest zoom out.png]]
*1608 1032x1074y Left part of forest:
[[File:1608 1032x1074y Left part of forest.png]]
*1608 1034x1073y Right part of forest:
[[File:1608 1034x1073y Right part of forest.png]]
*1608 1038x1073y Wedding and picnic:
[[File:1608 1038x1073y Wedding and picnic.png]]
*1608 1037x1073y Wedding:
[[File:1037x1073y Wedding.png]]
*1608 1042x1074y Cemetery:
[[File:1608 1042x1074y Cemetary.png]]
*1608 1046x1074y Huge foot:
[[File:1608 1046x1074y Huge foot.png]]
*1608 1050x1075y Pyramid Entire zoom out:
[[File:1608 1050x1075y Pyramid Entire zoom out.png]]
*1608 1048x1074y Pyramid protip:
[[File:1608 1048x1074y Pyramid protip.png]]
*1608 1050x1076y Pyramid tip:
[[File:1608 1050x1076y Pyramid tip.png]]
*1608 1053x1074y Pyramid Right bottom:
[[File:1608 1053x1074y Pyramid Right bottom.png]]

===Ground level from and after pyramid===
*1608 1056x1074y Flat and bare ground:
[[File:1608 1056x1074y Flat and bare ground.png]]
*1608 1059x1074y Flat grassy ground:
[[File:1608 1059x1074y Flat grassy ground.png]]
*1608 1063x1075y Small cliff or hill:
[[File:1608 1063x1075y Small cliff or hill.png]]
*1608 1066x1075y The three Ts:
[[File:1608 1066x1075y The three Ts.png]]
*1608 1071x1074y Coin over grass hole:
[[File:1608 1071x1074y Coin over grass hole.png]]
*1608 1071x1074y Coin over grass hole_red:
[[File:1608 1071x1074y Coin over grass hole_red.png]]
*1608 1073x1074y Ponytail and bird black hat on a stick and Cueball whistling :
[[File:1608 1073x1074y Ponytail and bird black hat on a stick and Cueball whistling.png]]
*1608 1078x1074y Small stone pile:
[[File:1608 1078x1074y Small stone pile.png]]
*1608 1081x1074y Two birds and coin above them:
[[File:1608 1081x1074y Two birds and coin above them.png]]
*1608 1086x1074y Pedestal:
[[File:1608 1086x1074y Pedestal.png]]
*1608 1088x1074y Medusa and floating earth:
[[File:1608 1088x1074y Medusa and floating earth.png]]
*1608 1093x1074y White Hat hiding in the grass:
[[File:1608 1093x1074y White Hat hiding in the grass.png]]
*1608 1095x1075y Lollipop plant and coin:
[[File:1608 1095x1075y Lollipop plant and coin.png]]
*1608 1098x1074y Drifting Cueball:
[[File:1608 1098x1074y Drifting Cueball.png]]
*1608 1103x1074y Just grass:
[[File:1608 1103x1074y Just grass.png]]
*1608 1107x1075y Storks nest at right end of the world with 10 coins:
[[File:1608 1107x1075y Storks nest at right end of the world with 10 coins.png]]

===Rebel Blockade Runner===
*1608 1015x1078y Entire Rebbel Blockade Runner zoom out to torpedoes and ground:
[[File:1608 1015x1078y Entire Rebbel Blockade Runner zoom out to torpedoes and ground.png]]
*1608 1015x1078y Entire Rebbel Blockade Runner and wires zoom out:
[[File:1608 1015x1078y Entire Rebbel Blockade Runner and wires zoom out.png]]
*1608 1015x1078y Entire Rebel Blockade Runner zoom out
[[File:1608 1015x1078y Entire Rebel Blockade Runner zoom out.png]]
*1608 1012x1078y Bridge on the Rebel Blockade Runner:
[[File:1608 1012x1078y Bridge on the Rebel Blockade Runner.png]]
*1608 1017x1078y Death Star Plans in the Rebel Blockade Runner:
[[File:1608 1017x1078y Death Star Plans in the Rebel Blockade Runner.png]]
*1608 1018x1079y Top rear end of the Rebel Blockade Runner:
[[File:1608 1018x1079y Top rear end of the Rebel Blockade Runner.png]]
*1608 1020x1078y Bottom rear end of the Rebel Blockade Runner:
[[File:1608 1020x1078y Bottom rear end of the Rebel Blockade Runner.png]]

===Torpedoes===
*1608 1023x1085y Entire torpedoes rain from Runner to Destroyer:
[[File:1608 1023x1085y Entire torpedoes rain from Runner to Destroyer.png]]
*1608 1019x1081y Torpedoes just above Runner with coin:
[[File:1608 1019x1081y Torpedoes just above Runner with coin.png]]
*1608 1020x1083y Torpedoes two steps above Runner with Beret Guy:
[[File:1608 1020x1083y Torpedoes two steps above Runner with Beret Guy.png]]
*1608 1023x1085y Torpedoes three steps above Runner:
[[File:1608 1023x1085y Torpedoes three steps above Runner.png]]
*1608 1025x1087y Torpedoes two steps below Destroyer with exploding torpedoes:
[[File:1608 1025x1087y Torpedoes two steps below Destroyer with exploding torpedoes.png]]
*1608 1029x1089y Torpedoes one step below Destroyer with coin:
[[File:1608 1029x1089y Torpedoes one step below Destroyer with coin.png]]
*1608 1034x1091y Torpedo canon below Destroyer:
[[File:1608 1034x1091y Torpedo canon below Destroyer.png]]

===Destroyer===
Overview
*1608 Entire Star Destroyer:
[[File:1608 Entire Star Destroyer.png]]

====Front end====
*1608 Entire front end:
[[File:1608 Entire front end.png]]
*1608 Entire front end_red:
[[File:1608 Entire front end_red.png]]
*1608 Zoom out of the very front end:
[[File:1608 Zoom out of the very front end.png]]
*1608 1002x1094y Very front with Cueball looking out at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1002x1094y Very front with Cueball looking out at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1004x1095y Very front with playpen balls pit at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1004x1095y Very front with playpen balls pit at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1004x1095y Very front with playpen balls pit at top of hull_red:
[[File:1608 1004x1095y Very front with playpen balls pit at top of hull_red.png]]
*1608 1006x1095y Pinata and Cueball with lightsaber at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1006x1095y Pinata and Cueball with lightsaber at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1007x1094y Shaft and corridor at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1007x1094y Shaft and corridor at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1010x1094y Swimming pool with Ponytail jumping at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1010x1094y Swimming pool with Ponytail jumping at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1010x1094y Swimming pool with Ponytail jumping at bottom of hull_red:
[[File:1608 1010x1094y Swimming pool with Ponytail jumping at bottom of hull_red.png]]
*1608 1011x1096y Shaft and corridor with three coins at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1011x1096y Shaft and corridor with three coins at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1015x1093y Dead end shaft with rubbles at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1015x1093y Dead end shaft with rubbles at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1016x1095y Hairy looking down a shaft at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1016x1095y Hairy looking down a shaft at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1019x1095y Zoom out of shaft and corridors with Hairy looking down a shaft at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1019x1095y Zoom out of shaft and corridors with Hairy looking down a shaft at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1023x1095y Three coins room and shafts:
[[File:1608 1023x1095y Three coins room and shafts.png]]
*1608 1023x1097y Triple coins and a single coin on top of a shaft at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1023x1097y Triple coins and a single coin on top of a shaft at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1025x1092y Zoom out of shaft and corridors with ledge at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1025x1092y Zoom out of shaft and corridors with ledge at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1026x1093y Shall not not pass room and parachutes at one of two ledges at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1026x1093y Shall not not pass room and parachutes at one of two ledges at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1026x1095y Two coins room and shafts:
[[File:1608 1026x1095y Two coins room and shafts.png]]
*1608 1031x1095y Steven Universe family and ice cream prediction:
[[File:1608 1031x1095y Steven Universe family and ice cream prediction.png]]

====Rotary section====
*1608 Entire Rotary section:
[[File:1608 Entire Rotary section.png]]
*1608 Entire Rotary section_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Rotary section_red.png]]
*1608 Entire Rebel Blockade Runner swallowed by Destroyer:
[[File:1608 Entire Rebel Blockade Runner swallowed by Destroyer.png]]
*1608 1029x1097y Empty room and Cueball on corridor going to rotary at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1029x1097y Empty room and Cueball on corridor going to rotary at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1033x1095y The rotary:
[[File:1608 1033x1095y The rotary.png]]
*1608 1034x1091y Photon canon Tetris piece and mini robot at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1034x1091y Photon canon Tetris piece and mini robot at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1038x1092y Shaft corridor with coin and room with coin over ledge at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1038x1092y Shaft corridor with coin and room with coin over ledge at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1038x1094y Giant octopus in Destroyer:
[[File:1608 1038x1094y Giant octopus in Destroyer.png]]
*1608 1038x1095y Hamsterball and stilts room:
[[File:1608 1038x1095y Hamsterball and stilts room.png]]
*1608 1043x1093y Box with horns and coin room:
[[File:1608 1043x1093y Box with horns and coin room.png]]
*1608 1046x1094y Zoom out of three empty rooms near bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1046x1094y Zoom out of three empty rooms near bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1046x1097y Corridor with coin:
[[File:1608 1046x1097y Corridor with coin.png]]
*1608 1048x1095y Two hoverboards room:
[[File:1608 1048x1095y Two hoverboards room.png]]
*1608 1048x1099y Cueball on hood of car room and a giant step with coins at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1048x1099y Cueball on hood of car room and a giant step with coins at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1049x1090y Atmosphere worry and car room at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1049x1090y Atmosphere worry and car room at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1051x1097y Zoom out with dead end corridor car room and shaft at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1051x1097y Zoom out with dead end corridor car room and shaft at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1053x1091y Ponytail flying up a shaft towards a coin:
[[File:1608 1053x1091y Ponytail flying up a shaft towards a coin.png]]
*1608 1055x1090y Trap covered with leaves and flying Ponytail at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1055x1090y Trap covered with leaves and flying Ponytail at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1053x1094y Corridor and shaft with coin:
[[File:1608 1053x1094y Corridor and shaft with coin.png]]
*1608 Entire area around Corridor peristalsis and colon:
[[File:1608 Entire area around Corridor peristalsis and colon.png]]
*1608 Entire Corridor peristalsis and colon:
[[File:1608 Entire Corridor peristalsis and colon.png]]
*1608 1054x1099y Corridor peristalsis and two coin rooms at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1054x1099y Corridor peristalsis and two coin rooms at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1055x1099y Corridor peristalsis and colon:
[[File:1608 1055x1099y Corridor peristalsis and colon.png]]
*1608 1058x1100y Colon like structure with Ponytail and Cueball sliding down:
[[File:1608 1058x1100y Colon like structure with Ponytail and Cueball sliding down.png]]
*1608 1058x1102y Huge step and three room with coin and Cueball looking into shaft at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1058x1102y Huge step and three room with coin and Cueball looking into shaft at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1060x1099y Coin in corridor under Buffer stop room:
[[File:1608 1060x1099y Coin in corridor under Buffer stop room.png]]
*1608 1060x1103y Canon with coin on top of hull:
[[File:1608 1060x1103y Canon with coin on top of hull.png]]
*1608 Entire area around cotton trap:
[[File:1608 Entire area around cotton trap.png]]
*1608 Entire area around cotton trap_red:
[[File:1608 Entire area around cotton trap_red.png]]
*1608 Entire cotton trap and spark gap room:
[[File:1608 Entire cotton trap and spark gap room.png]]
*1608 Entire cotton trap and spark gap room_red:
[[File:1608 Entire cotton trap and spark gap room_red.png]]
*1608 1058x1090y Zoom out of spark gap room to bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1058x1090y Zoom out of spark gap room to bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1058x1094y Zoom out of Cotton trap room:
[[File:1608 1058x1094y Zoom out of Cotton trap room.png]]
*1608 1058x1094y Zoom out of Cotton trap room_red:
[[File:1608 1058x1094y Zoom out of Cotton trap room_red.png]]
*1608 1055x1095y Coins in two corridors towards cotton trap:
[[File:1608 1055x1095y Coins in two corridors towards cotton trap.png]]
*1608 1057x1092y Spark gap room with Cueball on the wall:
[[File:1608 1057x1092y Spark gap room with Cueball on the wall.png]]
*1608 1058x1090y Spark gap room only with Cueball on floor and coins at bottom of hull:
[[File:1608 1058x1090y Spark gap room only with Cueball on floor and coins at bottom of hull.png]]
*1608 1058x1092y Cotton trap room bottom:
[[File:1608 1058x1092y Cotton trap room bottom.png]]
*1608 1058x1092y Cotton trap room bottom_red:
[[File:1608 1058x1092y Cotton trap room bottom_red.png]]
*1608 1058x1094y Cotton trap room with Ponytail:
[[File:1608 1058x1094y Cotton trap room with Ponytail.png]]
*1608 1058x1094y Cotton trap room with Ponytail_red:
[[File:1608 1058x1094y Cotton trap room with Ponytail_red.png]]
*1608 1061x1093y Corridor with fire and hammer traps:
[[File:1608 1061x1093y Corridor with fire and hammer traps.png]]
*1608 1061x1093y Corridor with fire and hammer traps_red:
[[File:1608 1061x1093y Corridor with fire and hammer traps_red.png]]
*1608 1062x1094y Corridor to cave opening:
[[File:1608 1062x1094y Corridor to cave opening.png]]
*1608 1062x1101y Coin in corridor below mining company in dead end corridor:
[[File:1608 1062x1101y Coin in corridor below mining company in dead end corridor.png]]
*1608 1063x1091y Zoom out with spiral corridor at bottom of the hull:
[[File:1608 1063x1091y Zoom out with spiral corridor at bottom of the hull.png]]
*1608 1063x1102y Mining company in dead end corridor also coin on top of hull:
[[File:1608 1063x1102y Mining company in dead end corridor also coin on top of hull.png]]

====Cave section====
*1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end_red.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end top part:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end top part.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end top part_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end top part_red.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end bottom part:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end bottom part.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end bottom part_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave Bridge and rear end bottom part_red.png]]
*1608 Entire cave section:
[[File:1608 Entire cave section.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave and Glitch floor room:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave and Glitch floor room.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave and shaft above:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave and shaft above.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave:
[[File:1608 Entire Cave.png]]
*1608 Entire Cave With entire pyramid for scale
[[File:1608 Entire Cave With entire pyramid for scale.png]]
*1608 1053x1093y Lake with tree birds and puma on rock at exit in the bottom left side of the cave:
[[File:1608 1053x1093y Lake with tree birds and puma on rock at exit in the bottom left side of the cave.png]]
*1608 1053x1093y Lake with tree birds and puma on rock at exit in the bottom left side of the cave_red:
[[File:1608 1053x1093y Lake with tree birds and puma on rock at exit in the bottom left side of the cave_red.png]]
*1608 1063x1099y Corridor from shaft to the two coins in corridors:
[[File:1608 1063x1099y Corridor from shaft to the two coins in corridors.png]]
*1608 1065x1095y Three birds in the top left side of the cave:
[[File:1608 1065x1095y Three birds in the top left side of the cave.png]]
*1608 1067x1094y Gazebo puma deer Cueball with bow and talk of Palpatine in the middle of the cave:
[[File:1608 1067x1094y Gazebo puma deer Cueball with bow and talk of Palpatine in the middle of the cave.png]]
*1608 1067x1097y The broad shaft going into the top of the cave:
[[File:1608 1067x1097y The broad shaft going into the top of the cave.png]]
*1608 1067x1104y Two coins in corridors and four coin room above shaft to cave:
[[File:1608 1067x1104y Two coins in corridors and four coin room above shaft to cave.png]]
*1608 1069x1093y Deer and exit below lamp coin and Black Hat in the bottom right side of the cave:
[[File:1608 1069x1093y Deer and exit below lamp coin and Black Hat in the bottom right side of the cave.png]]
*1608 1069x1093y Deer and exit below lamp coin and Black Hat in the bottom right side of the cave_no coin:
[[File:1608 1069x1093y Deer and exit below lamp coin and Black Hat in the bottom right side of the cave_no coin.png]]
*1608 1070x1095y Lamp coin and Black Hat in the top right side of the cave:
[[File:1608 1070x1095y Lamp coin and Black Hat in the top right side of the cave.png]]
*1608 1070x1095y Lamp coin and Black Hat in the top right side of the cave_no coin:
[[File:1608 1070x1095y Lamp coin and Black Hat in the top right side of the cave_no coin.png]]
*1608 1070x1098y Chandelier room with two coins above cave:
[[File:1608 1070x1098y Chandelier room with two coins above cave.png]]
*1608 1068x1101y Zoom out with dance room and basketball and slinky stair at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1068x1101y Zoom out with dance room and basketball and slinky stair at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1065x1104y Basket ball on top of Destroyer_zoom out:
[[File:1608 1065x1104y Basket ball on top of Destroyer_zoom out.png]]
*1608 1063x1104y Coin close to basket ball on top of Destroyer:
[[File:1608 1063x1104y Coin close to basket ball on top of Destroyer.png]]
*1608 1067x1104y Basket ball on top of Destroyer:
[[File:1608 1067x1104y Basket ball on top of Destroyer.png]]
*1608 1069x1101y Dancing room with piano:
[[File:1608 1069x1101y Dancing room with piano.png]]
*1608 1069x1104y Slinky stair case at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1069x1104y Slinky stair case at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1073x1104y Upside down room and Giddyayup cowboy riding the ship at top of hull:
[[File:1608 1073x1104y Upside down room and Giddyayup cowboy riding the ship at top of hull.png]]
*1608 1073x1101y Corridor left of Prince of Persia maze:
[[File:1608 1073x1101y Corridor left of Prince of Persia maze.png]]
*1608 Entire area around Glitch floor room:
[[File:1608 Entire area around Glitch floor room.png]]
*1608 Entire area around Glitch floor room_red:
[[File:1608 Entire area around Glitch floor room_red.png]]
*1608 Entire Glitch floor room and two close rooms:
[[File:1608 Entire Glitch floor room and two close rooms.png]]
*1608 Entire Glitch floor room and two close rooms_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Glitch floor room and two close rooms_red.png]]
*1608 Entire Glitch floor room:
[[File:1608 Entire Glitch floor room.png]]
*1608 Entire Glitch floor room_red:
[[File:1608 Entire Glitch floor room_red.png]]
*1608 1067x1091y Top left of Glitch floor room:
[[File:1608 1067x1091y Top left of Glitch floor room.png]]
*1608 1070x1089y Bottom center of Glitch floor room with coin sign and Cueball:
[[File:1608 1070x1089y Bottom center of Glitch floor room with coin sign and Cueball.png]]
*1608 1070x1089y Bottom center of Glitch floor room with coin sign and Cueball_red:
[[File:1608 1070x1089y Bottom center of Glitch floor room with coin sign and Cueball_red.png]]
*1608 1072x1091y Top right of Glitch floor room:
[[File:1608 1072x1091y Top right of Glitch floor room.png]]
*1608 1074x1090y Two rooms with coins right of Glitch floor room:
[[File:1608 1074x1090y Two rooms with coins right of Glitch floor room.png]]
*1608 1075x1088y Canon protruding below the hull:
[[File:1608 1075x1088y Canon protruding below the hull.png]]
*1608 1075x1094y Corridor with alarm and trapped Cueball:
[[File:1608 1075x1094y Corridor with alarm and trapped Cueball.png]]

====Bridge and rear end section====
*1608 Entire Bridge and rear section:
[[File:1608 Entire Bridge and rear section.png]]
*1608 Entire area around the bridge:
[[File:1608 Entire area around the bridge.png]]
*1608 Entire Bridge and emperor:
[[File:1608 Entire Bridge and emperor.png]]
*1608 Entire Bridge and globe of death:
[[File:1608 Entire Bridge and globe of death.png]]
*1608 Actual Bridge with Vader and Tarkin:
[[File:1608 Actual Bridge with Vader and Tarkin.png]]
*1608 Vader twice and emperor on and near bridge:
[[File:1608 Vader twice and emperor on and near bridge.png]]
*1608 1077x1107y Ponytail with paper plane and coin below her on top hull:
[[File:1608 1077x1107y Ponytail with paper plane and coin below her on top hull.png]]
*1608 1077x1107y Tarkin on the bridge and Ponytail with paper plane:
[[File:1608 1077x1107y Tarkin on the bridge and Ponytail with paper plane.png]]
*1608 1077x1109y Darth Vaders talks about Steven Universe on the bridge Megan adjust antenna:
[[File:1608 1077x1109y Darth Vaders talks about Steven Universe on the bridge Megan adjust antenna.png]]
*1608 1078x1111y Globe of Death at the top of the Destroyer:
[[File:1608 1078x1111y Globe of Death at the top of the Destroyer.png]]
*1608 1080x1105y Fire system with pure oxygen and two coins room:
[[File:1608 1080x1105y Fire system with pure oxygen and two coins room.png]]
*1608 1080x1108y Darth Vaders gold bullion and Cueball and Ponytail in small room at the top of the hull:
[[File:1608 1080x1108y Darth Vaders gold bullion and Cueball and Ponytail in small room at the top of the hull.png]]
*1608 1081x1110y Large crocodile near globe of death at the top of the hull:
[[File:1608 1081x1110y Large crocodile near globe of death at the top of the hull.png]]
*1608 1083x1109y The Emperor Palpatine and his birds at the top of the hull:
[[File:1608 1083x1109y The Emperor Palpatine and his birds at the top of the hull.png]]
*1608 1087x1108y Coin behind the rear end at the top of the hull:
[[File:1608 1087x1108y Coin behind the rear end at the top of the hull.png]]
*1608 Entire Prince of Persia maze with both exits:
[[File:1608 Entire Prince of Persia maze with both exits.png]]
*1608 Entire Prince of Persia maze:
[[File:1608 Entire Prince of Persia maze.png]]
*1608 Comparing Prince of Persia maze with real level 1:
[[File:1608 Comparing Prince of Persia maze with real level 1.png]]
*1608 1076x1101y Left entrance to Prince of Persia maze:
[[File:1608 1076x1101y Left entrance to Prince of Persia maze.png]]
*1608 1079x1102y Left part of Prince of Persia maze:
[[File:1608 1079x1102y Left part of Prince of Persia maze.png]]
*1608 1082x1101y Right part and exit of Prince of Persia maze:
[[File:1608 1082x1101y Right part and exit of Prince of Persia maze.png]]
*1608 1084x1103y Right exit of Prince of Persia maze and shafts:
[[File:1608 1084x1103y Right exit of Prince of Persia maze and shafts.png]]
*1608 Ant Queen and alarm ante room:
[[File:1608 Ant Queen and alarm ante room.png]]
*1608 1078x1095y Ant Queen in Destroyer:
[[File:1608 1078x1095y Ant Queen in Destroyer.png]]
*1608 Entire shafts from top to bottom towards the rear end:
[[File:1608 Entire shafts from top to bottom towards the rear end.png]]
*1608 1084x1099y Coin in the longest shaft:
[[File:1608 1084x1099y Coin in the longest shaft.png]]
*1608 1084x1095y Cueball and Megan hanging on to each other in a shaft figuring this out:
[[File:1608 1084x1095y Cueball and Megan hanging on to each other in a shaft figuring this out.png]]
*1608 1084x1092y Zoom out on light bulb with corridor and other room:
[[File:1608 1084x1092y Zoom out on light bulb with corridor and other room.png]]
*1608 1084x1090y Giant light bulb room:
[[File:1608 1084x1090y Giant light bulb room.png]]
*1608 1086x1091y Hair Bun Girl proposition room and Cueball losing his sandwich at the rear end:
[[File:1608 1086x1091y Hair Bun Girl proposition room and Cueball losing his sandwich at the rear end.png]]
*1608 1086x1088y Coin bouncing out from a shaft below the hull:
[[File:1608 1086x1088y Coin bouncing out from a shaft below the hull.png]]
*1608 1082x1088y Megan hanging on below the bottom of the hull:
[[File:1608 1082x1088y Megan hanging on below the bottom of the hull.png]]
*1608 1088x1098y Zoom out on shaft and small dead end room at the rear end:
[[File:1608 1088x1098y Zoom out on shaft and small dead end room at the rear end.png]]
*1608 1088x1105y Zoom out on shafts and part of the rear end:
[[File:1608 1088x1105y Zoom out on shafts and part of the rear end.png]]
*1608 1090x1102y Coin in a small indentation corridor at the rear end:
[[File:1608 1090x1102y Coin in a small indentation corridor at the rear end.png]]
*1608 1090x1088y Megan want synesthesia at the rear end at bottom of the hull:
[[File:1608 1090x1088y Megan want synesthesia at the rear end at bottom of the hull.png]]

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746: Birth

2022-05-11T17:48:48Z

172.69.69.170: Undo revision 265695 by 👖🔥 (talk)

{{comic
| number = 746
| date = May 28, 2010
| title = Birth
| image = birth.png
| titletext = All those GTA marathons during the pregnancy were a bad idea.
}}

==Explanation==
[[Megan]] is in the process of giving birth. Instead of the normal birth we would expect, a baby's head and a gun emerge. The baby, who can already talk, attempts to rob the doctor saying, "Nobody move-this is a stick-up!" as is typical in movie robberies. It is not explained how the gun ended up in Megan's womb. (Maybe the gun grew there?)

The title text explains the comic by explaining that the baby learned this bad behavior because the mother played the video game {{w|Grand Theft Auto (series)|''Grand Theft Auto'' (GTA)}} too frequently, as some people believe that if children play too many violent video games they act like the video games in real life. ''Grand Theft Auto'' has been criticized and publicly blamed for its potential to encouraging violent behavior in children. Thus, this comic is a parody of the studies and news stories about the effects of video games, especially ''Grand Theft Auto'', on children; it hyperbolizes them by imagining what effects video games would have on an unborn baby.

This is one of the few comics that features Megan's name in the text.

==Violent Video Games & GTA==
In Grand Theft Auto III players gained the ability to pay the services of prostitutes to recover their health, and if they wished, kill them to get their money back. There is also criticism from the focus on illegal activities in comparison with traditional "heroic" roles that other games offer. The main character can commit a wide variety of crimes and violent acts while dealing with only temporary consequences, including the killing of policemen and military personnel.

Some people believe that if children play too many violent video games they act like the video games in real life. Most of the news stories are usually based on anecdotal evidence.

===News===
These stories were in the news or the public consciousness at the time of the comic:

On June 25 teens William and Josh Buckner opened fire on vehicles on a local Tennessee highway with a shotgun and killed a 45-year-old man. They later told police they were emulating Grand Theft Auto and they did not intend to hurt anyone.

Later in 2003 a 17 year old Devin Moore then grabbed a pistol from one of the police officers and shot and killed him along with another officer and dispatcher before fleeing in a police car. One of Moore's defense attorney, Jack Thompson, claimed it was Grand Theft Auto 's graphic nature—with his constant playing time—that caused Moore to commit the murders, and Moore's family agreed. In May 2005, Thompson appeared via satellite on the Glenn Beck program on CNN's Headline News. Thompson mentioned Devin Moore and said regarding Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City "There's no doubt in my mind [...] that but for Devin Moore's training on this cop killing simulator, he would not have been able to kill three cops in Fayette, Alabama who are now dead and in the ground."

In September 2006, Thompson brought another lawsuit, claiming that Cody Posey played the game obsessively before murdering his father Delbert Paul Posey, stepmother Tryone Schmid, and stepsister Marilea Schmid on a ranch in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

==Transcript==
:[Megan is giving birth. A doctor stands near the end of the table.]
:Doctor: Okay, the head is starting to crown.
:Doctor: Push!

:Doctor: Wait, that's... that's a tube.

:Doctor: It looks like the barrel of a...

:[A ''Click'' noise comes from Megan's vagina.]

:[A voice, that of the baby, comes from Megan's vagina.]
:Baby: Nobody move— This is a stick-up!
:Doctor: Oh, God! Stop pushing, Megan! Can you ... Pull?

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Video games]]
[[Category:Comics featuring babies]]
[[Category:Medicine]]

Talk:2614: 2

2022-05-03T18:10:43Z

172.69.69.170:

Hello people. Anyone got an explanation for this? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.229|172.70.114.229]] 22:59, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
:dog walker in the coments section omg (shodul we replace this with a smaller version because i think whiel it is legitimite discussion and not vandaelism this time it shoudl not be so fuck god damn large) --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.229|172.70.114.229]] 07:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
::friends romans countrymen lend me your ears previously this comment had a picture of doug walker attached to it and i was not aware it was vandalism and not a part of the comment which explains my preivous comment; thank you for reaidng --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.247|172.70.114.247]] 07:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

To the person who has requested a citation that two is a number... here you go: https://youtu.be/dBVoIUASFS0?t=82. Can someone who knows how to add citations add it? :D --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.209|172.70.110.209]] 23:09, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
:The [citation needed] thing is a running joke here thanks to [[285: Wikipedian Protester]]. It's used for obvious statements of fact on this wiki as a joke (basically the opposite of its Wikipedia use). [[User:KirbyDude25|KirbyDude25]] ([[User talk:KirbyDude25|talk]]) 00:43, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
::I'm sorry to inform you that you probably became another victim of Poe's law (or "r/whooosh", as kids say these days). I was just playing the [https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/game SMBC citation game]. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.209|172.70.110.209]] 02:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
:::And we try to limit the use to only very very funny situations{{citation needed}} or when there is actually need for a citation, so as to not ruin it by having it on every single explanation!!! ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 06:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hey all, the group theory thing reminds me a lot of cyclic groups or ideals generated by the value 2. Also equivalence classes (which come up in group theory) can be written with [brackets] but may be confused with <cyclic groups> or (ideals).

The 2;2 notation looks like the notation \mu; \nu that is used for covariant derivatives of tensors in physics. Also 2,2 looks like \mu, \nu that is used for partial derivatives of tensors. And as mentioned above, (2) could be a cyclic subgroup or ideal generated by two or a special case of cycle notation for elements of symmetry groups used to mean an element that keeps 2 fixed. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.120|162.158.62.120]] 23:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

I second the point about tensors. Maybe you could expand the summation notation slightly. It's common to use index sets or rules underneath large symbols for all sorts of things, like sums, products, direct sums, direct products, unions, intersections, integrals, and much, much more. So here, the large 2 in parentheses represents one of these symbols. Rather than adding or multiplying the elements or whatever, you are twoing them, whatever that means. You are twoing over all values of 2, apparently. It's sort of reminiscent of jokes with punchlines like "for sufficiently large values of 2." There are of course, different 2s out there. Like, there is the von Neumann ordinal 2, the integer 2, the rational number 2, the real number 2, the complex number 2, the residue class of 2 mod 3, etc. All of these may be represented by 2. Perhaps we are indexing over some collection of canonical representations of 2? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.161|172.70.130.161]] 00:02, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Explanation needs something about one of the 2s being cursed. Also, this should be added to the category for cursed stuff (I think it's cursed things, but did not look it up). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.72|172.70.211.72]] 01:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Superscript or subscripts before a thing can indicate tetration and pentation. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.66.63|172.68.66.63]] 03:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Did anyone else think there should have been a 2 after everything else (after the parentheses) with an arrow pointing to it labeled “sequels”?[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 06:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Damn there is (again?) some idiot that replaces the explanation with text :-/ Wish we could ban those persons! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 06:10, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
:What the vandal do those edit summaries mean? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.121|172.70.130.121]] 06:16, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
::What do those "et tu" edit summaries mean? (The ones on all the edits replacing the text with "Friends, Romans, Countrymen...") [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.142|162.158.107.142]] 17:22, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

doug walker! the guy keeps chaging the image to doug fucking walker! awhat the fuck is up wiht that !!! --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.229|172.70.114.229]] 07:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
:ok im'm pretty sure janny is soem transphobic slur (for reference the vandalism edit at 07:36's comment was "clean it up janny") did dog wlaker do a transphobic thing and now some altright pople who find it worth there time to change the Exain Xkcd page inage to Dog WAlker are nutting there balls dry???? --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.230.75|172.70.230.75]] 07:38, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
::I assumed it was calling us, the people who clear up their mess, "janitors", i.e. menial cleaners/fixer-upperers. But I honestly don't know what dialect/culture uses that (sounds a bit Australian, but not exclusively, and it's a typical and not necessarily derogative kind of word-shortenning that anybody might use) and if they ''do'' mean to call us janitors then... I'm happy to be a janitor. It's a worthwhile occupation, and I consider that an important job that I'll willingly do in the face of such a moron. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.44|172.70.86.44]] 09:49, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
This should probably be added to Category:Comics sharing name[[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.199|172.70.178.199]] 15:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

There should be a category: comics featuring cursed items

Who put a Ukrainian flag at the top of the page?
: i agree with whoever did that, but maybe a bit smaller or on the bottom so it doesn't interfere with normal usage of this? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 18:10, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Bumpf

Talk:2610: Assigning Numbers

2022-04-27T04:22:47Z

172.69.69.170: PLEASE

Does this imply that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem] isn't correct? And that it's method is bunk? Please help! -Seer [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.230|162.158.107.230]] 02:08, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
I believe the intention is that the theorem is not part of the set of bad data science, just that they share this one feature.

Isn't the Gödel number for a theorem calculated by multiplying the numbers of the components together, so complicated theorems would have larger numbers? If so, the current explanation that this isn't a good way to judge fields is wrong. I'm not too sure though. [[User:MrCandela|MrCandela]] ([[User talk:MrCandela|talk]]) 05:52, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

:I do not believe that the title suggests renumbering theorems with Gödel numbers, but averaging the existing theorem numbers. Or otherwise, MrCandela's suggestion would be the way to go: Complicated Theorems have larger numbers. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.133|172.68.110.133]] 08:10, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

:Yeah a quick look at some magazines like [https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-incompleteness-theorems-work-20200714/#jump2/ this one] and I think Randall has a point [[User:MrCandela|MrCandela]] ([[User talk:MrCandela|talk]]) 09:48, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

I wish I'd started the explanation off when I first saw it (somone posted the first Transcript whilst I was pondering, so I left off). I think there's some serious re-editing to be done, but basically it points to someone (Cueball, a dabbling armchair mathematician faced with some not directly mathematically-based problem) thinking that 'all' it takes is to encode the whatever-it-is, arbitrarily, and then with a few easy equations something useful cannbe derived. When, in reality, even if this is possible (ignoring the "takes the age of the universe to permute things to find the right answer" sort of sticking-block) it depends upon a ''good'' numerical encoding (enough attention to detail, but not too much, and in the right sort of way) and possibly quite a lot of data-demunging and filtration (again, just the right amount and in the correct manner) to pop out the "answer" being looked for. For some things, this can be easy, though there are always statistical pitfalls/etc. For others ("life, the universe and everything", say) the task is far more complex and the result ("42"?) might not seem to be a very useful result for various reasons. And, on top this, there's Gödel. But that's an additional punchline, not the whole scope of the original joke. ...Anyway, this long comment is why I held back from writing the original Explanation, but I might yet wrangle my thoughts into what's since been put there. While trying not to tread upon too many toes and alternate explanations. Which is the hardest bit, I think... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.64|172.70.86.64]] 15:48, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Just a comment about the technicalities of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem: The 'third' possibility presented [http://dstoner.net/Math_Science/godel.html here] misunderstands the term 'true but unprovable'. When mathematicians say 'true but unprovable' in the context of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, what they mean is 'true in the standard model but unprovable in the formal system'. The Gödel sentence is certainly true for the standard natural numbers, by contradiction: assume that the Gödel sentence is false for the standard naturals, which means that there exists a standard natural number which is the Gödel number for the proof of the Gödel sentence. Then we could decode the Gödel number into a proof (of the formal system) proving the Gödel sentence true; a contradiction. (Note that the preceding proof by contradiction can be formalised in ZFC, but not in the formal system under study.) The reason why the Gödel sentence is unprovable in the formal system is because, from the point of view of the formal system, there might be a non-standard natural number which is the Gödel number for the proof of the Gödel sentence (and non-standard numbers cannot be decoded into a proof); or there might not be. --[[User:Underbase|Underbase]] ([[User talk:Underbase|talk]]) 04:56, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

:Regarding this, I know that the policy on this site is to include every possible interpretation, but the page mentioned is an html page (and not a [https://xkcd.com/2304/ pdf]) that was not [https://xkcd.com/1847/ peer reviewed] (thus not recognized by the community), and as mentioned by the user above it fails understand the concepts it is talking about. I do not think this site should be spreading this kind of idea. I believe Randall Monroe himself would be against this.

::I also believe the current explanation is both incorrect about explaining the seeming paradox of the Gödel conjecture, & therefore somewhat incorrect about this joke. It is surely the transition from abstract to quantized - the act of applying limited formal numbering to potentially unbounded or otherwise non-standard terms - which incurs incompleteness? Within the constraints of a formal system of standard natural numbers, true≠provable, & therein lies the internal (but not total) contradiction. ''That's'' the contradiction, right? & the joke is that numbering theorems by their complexity, is not generally a productive approach for 'doing math' on them, in any sense but an abstract analytical one?
::[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 17:54, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

:I do not believe the Title Text calls for "calculating the average of all the fields' theorems' Gödel numbers". It asks for 'the lowest average theorem number'. The average of all, is not the average of each. The Title Text wants the average of ''each of'' the fields' theorems' Gödel numbers.
:[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 17:54, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Today's [https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/derivative Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal] is slightly related.

== Paradoxicality argument ==

I think that revision [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2610:_Assigning_Numbers&oldid=231000 231000] should be removed. My explanation of what's wrong with the linked site is as follows:

Up until the section "Gödel's String", nothing is incorrect. Furthermore, the first wrong line is numbered (49), and says that Gödel's statement is equivalent to "This statement is not a theorem (of any formal system)." This is where he goes wrong, for writing down a formula for "n proves m" requires inclusion of the formal system in which this proof happens. As such, the correct translation of Gödel's statement is "This statement is not a theorem of [system]", which it indeed is not. Then he says that "We have decided that Gödel's string cannot be a theorem and neither can its negation" (true, after Rosser's trick) and therefore that this gives us "~<G∨~G>" (which is false). He has commited the sin of confusing truth and provability here.

His discussion of the Epimenides string ("This statement is not true") is accurate, except for the claim that the truth predicate is "as valid an extension to [PA] as [the provability and quining] extensions were". This is false. The provability and quining predicates can be constructed in PA and thus are not "extensions" so much as "shorthand"; this was Gödel's contribution: to see that PA can talk about provability of statements in any fixed formal system. The truth predicate is not definable in PA, as he quite ably proves (suppose it was definable, then you could write down the Epimenides sentence in PA, and thereby prove false).

The section "Gödel's Error" is just plain silly.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.147|172.70.114.147]] 19:28, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

What if we just change it to say something along the lines of "Certain logical systems allow values to be 'not false' without being necessarily 'true'; Godel's theorem is based on an axiomatic assumption that every statement is either true or false."?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.163|108.162.221.163]] 06:06, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Is it just me, or is the given argument gibberish? Replacing the terms with more graspable ones, it seems to be saying: "1. Assume that bananas can be grown from banana-trees (why is this a reasonable assumption? Is it also a reasonable assumption to make about pear trees?). 2. Banana-trees exist. 3. Therefore, the statement that bananas cannot be grown from the trees is true (HOW is this a reasonable conclusion to leap to from the preceding points? By what bizarre leap of elided logic?). 4. This is a contradiction, therefore our initial assumption must be wrong (No, clearly the conclusion in 3 is wrong). Therefore, the statement is true (which statement are you even talking about here?)." Any chance someone could clarify that passage by including the missing steps in the logic? --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.159|172.69.70.159]] 19:02, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

:It's not missing any steps. The argument really is that simple. Maybe I didn't write it clearly enough... Anyway to address your specific points, I would first recommend you read {{w|Reductio ad absurdum}}, but if you don't have time (Because let's be real, nobody has enough time for reading Wikipedia articles), I'll break it down. 1. Assume the opposite of the statement (This is not a reasonable assumption almost by definition; the whole point is to disprove it, after all) using the Law of Assumption, which states that we can assume absolutely anything we want in a logical proof, so long as we keep track of what's been derived from it. 2 Assume anything else relevant 3. Follow the assumptions through to their conclusions, and find that the valid reasoning has led to an unsound result, such as a statement directly contradicting the assumption in 1. 4. One of the assumptions must be wrong in order to maintain consistency. Choose the assumption which was made for the purpose of disproving it to be the one we deem untrue, which means its opposite is true. Unfortunately these sorts of arguments don't really lend themselves to analogies with 'more graspable' statements.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.193|108.162.221.193]] 02:30, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello,
1) Why couldn't Gödel's string be paradoxical? It is certainly A) self-referencing and B) Self-negating. Even "This Statement is True" causes trouble.
2) Where did Gödel even consider paradox to be a possibility? If he didn't, his argument is "incomplete" (just like its conclusion implies it might very well be anyway).
3) Has anyone here bothered to prove that his string is not actually paradoxical?
- Don Stoner (nobody in particular -- just a senile wimpy old nerd)

Hi again,
Here's a fun one:
"This statement is paradoxical"
1) It certainly is paradoxical (provably so)
2) It even says it's paradoxical (echoing Gödel)
3) Therefore, it must be "true" (echoing Gödel)
4) But (this time) this means it's simply "false"
5) Etc.
- Don (nobody in particular)

:The short answer to your questions is that Godel's method was rigorous. Godel numbering is much more precise than natural language ever could be. The longer answer is that there's a reason Godel's theorem is considered a work of genius; though the overall concept is fairly easy to grasp intuitively, making it into an actual theorem takes a lot of work and cleverness. There are multiple long Wikipedia pages about it just outlining the generals. The proof itself is rock solid, but far beyond the scope of this page. And the pithy answer is "Do you really think you're the first person to think of that? Mathematicians spent decades analyzing the theorems with uncharitable eyes."[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.119|108.162.221.119]] 04:12, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm going to remove the section stating that Godel's theorem is self-negating (it's not) and that his methodology was incomplete. And before anyone re-adds it, I simply ask that you please please PLEASE actually read up on the subject (and I don't mean from random html pages). Mathematicians have been actively trying to find a flaw in Godel's proof since before it was published; I promise you that whatever clever paradoxicality argument you've come up with has already been considered and eliminated by the professionals.

Talk:2602: Linguistics Degree

2022-04-25T01:41:51Z

172.69.69.170:

I think i messed up with the file upload- i was trying to help, sorry guys! [[User:Mushrooms|Mushrooms]] ([[User talk:Mushrooms|talk]]) 07:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:I think I fixed it. We use the small version of the file, not the x2. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:47, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Not to be too nit-picky, but the legendary animal is a combination of jackrabbit and antelope, no jackal in it, therefore it’s jackelope. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 07:18, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
: Uh, no. It's "jackalope": Google is your friend. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 09:51, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::Yes, I saw the wiki article. Either the person who coined the word was an idiot who thought it was spelled “antalope” or didn’t know how to make a portmanteau. Either way, it is NOT a portmanteau of jackrabbit and antelope, because that would be jackralope or jackelope. At best, you can call it a portmanteau of jackrabbit and a _misspelling_ of antelope.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.87|172.70.126.87]] 17:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::: Excuse me? Are you in charge of "Jackalope" or Ponytail? ;) [[User:Lexi|Lexi]] ([[User talk:Lexi|talk]]) 20:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC) JACKrabbit + AnteLOPE = JACKALOPE . . . . (Was that so hard?) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 10:57, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:::: Definitely jackalope in Texas, their native territory. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 01:41, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

My immediate reaction to this was to see where ///bassoon.jackalope.slurp (What3words) took me. Nowhere - but suggested ///passion.jackpot.slurps is near Chausserais, 100 km ESE of Nantes in central France.[[User:Jmbryant|Jmbryant]] ([[User talk:Jmbryant|talk]]) 10:22, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:That's nearer {{w|Dahu}}-country, though! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.64|172.70.86.64]] 10:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC) (P.S. Not that this is even a valid example why, but I rather think What3words is a bad development that will do more harm than good in serious navigation/geolocating purposes. Just sayin' in passing.)

:In some languages, a bassoon is called ''fagotto'' i.e. faggot, which in English is an offensive word addressing a male homosexual person (Note: I'm describing the word, not discriminating against any people). The word ''jack'' also means a male person, and an antelope is '''horny'''. With ''slurp'', these three words happen to be kind of '''inappropriate''' or '''graphic''', if seen this way. Maybe? Thoughts? [[User:Yosei|Yosei]] ([[User talk:Yosei|talk]]) 05:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
::Long leap. Or easy leap, as pretty much every word of significance has been (mis)appropriated, and has variable connotations anyway (someone mentions Slurp's variable offensiveness, below). "Faggot" is as likely to be a kind of sausage (an actual sausage, though of course "sausage" has its own innuendo!) or an actual bundle of sticks, round these parts, though we probably do recognise it as (US movie?) slang, if spoken in the more obviously offensive context.
::Linking the woodwind ("erection-fart?") directly to ludeness is so easy. Perhaps also through onomatopeia? Or else "bassoons" is reminiscent of "bossoms". "Jack" might be "-the-lad", but no more sign of sexual-male than many other names (There's ''a'' John, naturally. Or the naming-of-parts via John-Thomas/Dick/Peter/”Hugh Jampton", etc?). And you missed in the jack''rabbit'' that rabbits themselves have a certain reputation, beyond munching on carrots. Or, the question is, did your 'uncle and antelope'? And, like many ungulents, I believe they like pronking!
::Low-hanging fruit (testicles?), I'd say. Not wishing to blow my own trumpet. (Well, I m not really supple enough to try!) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.125|162.158.159.125]] 09:09, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

::This use of '''faggot''' is American (and possibly other dialects). In the UK a faggot is a type of liver dumpling, or a wooden branch or a bundle of wooden branches - often intended as firewood.[[User:Jmbryant|Jmbryant]] ([[User talk:Jmbryant|talk]]) 08:50, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Could the random student in Ohio be a cousin of the random programmer in Nebraska? --[[User:Quazgar|Quazgar]] ([[User talk:Quazgar|talk]]) 11:53, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

There's a Linguistics Society of America, maybe they could coordinate the assignment of words to graduates. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 13:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:In the US, yes. In most of the rest of the world follows ISO 1806. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 16:43, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::ISO 1806 Determination of mesh breaking force of netting? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:55, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::I'm sure it was a typo for ISO 24612 [[User:Philhower|Philhower]] ([[User talk:Philhower|talk]]) 12:44, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Cueball's objection to "slurp" is not explained; what's wrong with "slurp"? I think it's great word! (I wonder if trades are allowed...) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.146.81|172.68.146.81]] 21:31, 5 April 2022 (UTC) Corin
:You're right. The word ''slurp'' is just a word, value-neutral. What this word means can be seen variously, though. In some countries, slurping (e.g. noodle) is not only culturally acceptable but possibly seen positively, implying what they're eating is delicious. In some other countries, slurping may be a no-no, seen negatively. Some webmasters may not like the Yahoo Slurp bot, as it might misbehave. [[User:Yosei|Yosei]] ([[User talk:Yosei|talk]]) 05:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

I wonder if those who graduated with honors are entrusted with more difficult words, like irregular verbs or ones with tricky homophones. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.41|172.70.38.41]] 01:21, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:[https://imgflip.com/i/16xi7j Or both..]? ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.177|172.70.85.177]] 02:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

My sister was wondering if the assignment is specific to English, or whether you own the word in every language where it's a, well, word. Like if you got "eleven", are you merely in charge of "the integer between ten and twelve [English]", or are you also the administrator of "lively, alive [Hungarian]"? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.41|172.70.38.41]] 18:25, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:Oh, no... I believe that the only way to get responsibility for the English word "eleven" is to do a ''mathematics'' degree, via the responsible governing body for assigning integers, fractions (vulgar or decimal*, including irrational) and various trans-finite notations. Although, only an infinitesimal number of numbers have been so assigned, so practically no-one else has noticed. Practically zero. Including the person who was actually assigned 'Zero' but was still suffering from a celebratory hangover at their graduation ceremony and apparently never realised.
:(* - For historical reasons, however, all your ''other'' base belong to Sega.)
:Due to an oversight, though, yes the person given "Eleven" has precedence over the Hungarian Linguist (who also has not realised... again due to a hangover). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.43|162.158.159.43]] 21:17, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:My graduation was bi-lingual (English/Welsh) so, although I got "moron", I've never been quite sure if it was in the sense of "idiot" or "carrots". And actually, come to think of it, the Pro Vice Chancellor did inexplicably say "dirigible" at one point, so maybe it was neither and he just thought I was a moron. Or he fancied some carrots.
:Better start researching airships... [[User:Yorkshire Pudding|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding|talk]]) 14:26, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
:: Or pannas/parsnips (see Welsh Duolingo and FB Owen a'i pannas) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 01:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

== Explanation Tag ==
"Created by a JACKALOPE SLURPING UP A BASSOON, GRADUATED BACHELOR OF SCIENCE WITH A GUARDIANSHIP OF 'EXPLAIN'" This seems wrong, as the stewardships of words are gifted to recipients of Linguistics degrees, not Science degrees. --[[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 00:30, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Talk:2602: Linguistics Degree

2022-04-25T01:41:21Z

172.69.69.170:

I think i messed up with the file upload- i was trying to help, sorry guys! [[User:Mushrooms|Mushrooms]] ([[User talk:Mushrooms|talk]]) 07:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:I think I fixed it. We use the small version of the file, not the x2. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:47, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Not to be too nit-picky, but the legendary animal is a combination of jackrabbit and antelope, no jackal in it, therefore it’s jackelope. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 07:18, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
: Uh, no. It's "jackalope": Google is your friend. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 09:51, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::Yes, I saw the wiki article. Either the person who coined the word was an idiot who thought it was spelled “antalope” or didn’t know how to make a portmanteau. Either way, it is NOT a portmanteau of jackrabbit and antelope, because that would be jackralope or jackelope. At best, you can call it a portmanteau of jackrabbit and a _misspelling_ of antelope.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.87|172.70.126.87]] 17:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::: Excuse me? Are you in charge of "Jackalope" or Ponytail? ;) [[User:Lexi|Lexi]] ([[User talk:Lexi|talk]]) 20:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC) JACKrabbit + AnteLOPE = JACKALOPE . . . . (Was that so hard?) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 10:57, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:::: Definitely jackalope in Texxas, their native territory. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 01:41, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

My immediate reaction to this was to see where ///bassoon.jackalope.slurp (What3words) took me. Nowhere - but suggested ///passion.jackpot.slurps is near Chausserais, 100 km ESE of Nantes in central France.[[User:Jmbryant|Jmbryant]] ([[User talk:Jmbryant|talk]]) 10:22, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:That's nearer {{w|Dahu}}-country, though! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.64|172.70.86.64]] 10:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC) (P.S. Not that this is even a valid example why, but I rather think What3words is a bad development that will do more harm than good in serious navigation/geolocating purposes. Just sayin' in passing.)

:In some languages, a bassoon is called ''fagotto'' i.e. faggot, which in English is an offensive word addressing a male homosexual person (Note: I'm describing the word, not discriminating against any people). The word ''jack'' also means a male person, and an antelope is '''horny'''. With ''slurp'', these three words happen to be kind of '''inappropriate''' or '''graphic''', if seen this way. Maybe? Thoughts? [[User:Yosei|Yosei]] ([[User talk:Yosei|talk]]) 05:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
::Long leap. Or easy leap, as pretty much every word of significance has been (mis)appropriated, and has variable connotations anyway (someone mentions Slurp's variable offensiveness, below). "Faggot" is as likely to be a kind of sausage (an actual sausage, though of course "sausage" has its own innuendo!) or an actual bundle of sticks, round these parts, though we probably do recognise it as (US movie?) slang, if spoken in the more obviously offensive context.
::Linking the woodwind ("erection-fart?") directly to ludeness is so easy. Perhaps also through onomatopeia? Or else "bassoons" is reminiscent of "bossoms". "Jack" might be "-the-lad", but no more sign of sexual-male than many other names (There's ''a'' John, naturally. Or the naming-of-parts via John-Thomas/Dick/Peter/”Hugh Jampton", etc?). And you missed in the jack''rabbit'' that rabbits themselves have a certain reputation, beyond munching on carrots. Or, the question is, did your 'uncle and antelope'? And, like many ungulents, I believe they like pronking!
::Low-hanging fruit (testicles?), I'd say. Not wishing to blow my own trumpet. (Well, I m not really supple enough to try!) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.125|162.158.159.125]] 09:09, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

::This use of '''faggot''' is American (and possibly other dialects). In the UK a faggot is a type of liver dumpling, or a wooden branch or a bundle of wooden branches - often intended as firewood.[[User:Jmbryant|Jmbryant]] ([[User talk:Jmbryant|talk]]) 08:50, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Could the random student in Ohio be a cousin of the random programmer in Nebraska? --[[User:Quazgar|Quazgar]] ([[User talk:Quazgar|talk]]) 11:53, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

There's a Linguistics Society of America, maybe they could coordinate the assignment of words to graduates. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 13:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:In the US, yes. In most of the rest of the world follows ISO 1806. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 16:43, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::ISO 1806 Determination of mesh breaking force of netting? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:55, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::I'm sure it was a typo for ISO 24612 [[User:Philhower|Philhower]] ([[User talk:Philhower|talk]]) 12:44, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Cueball's objection to "slurp" is not explained; what's wrong with "slurp"? I think it's great word! (I wonder if trades are allowed...) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.146.81|172.68.146.81]] 21:31, 5 April 2022 (UTC) Corin
:You're right. The word ''slurp'' is just a word, value-neutral. What this word means can be seen variously, though. In some countries, slurping (e.g. noodle) is not only culturally acceptable but possibly seen positively, implying what they're eating is delicious. In some other countries, slurping may be a no-no, seen negatively. Some webmasters may not like the Yahoo Slurp bot, as it might misbehave. [[User:Yosei|Yosei]] ([[User talk:Yosei|talk]]) 05:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

I wonder if those who graduated with honors are entrusted with more difficult words, like irregular verbs or ones with tricky homophones. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.41|172.70.38.41]] 01:21, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:[https://imgflip.com/i/16xi7j Or both..]? ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.177|172.70.85.177]] 02:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

My sister was wondering if the assignment is specific to English, or whether you own the word in every language where it's a, well, word. Like if you got "eleven", are you merely in charge of "the integer between ten and twelve [English]", or are you also the administrator of "lively, alive [Hungarian]"? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.41|172.70.38.41]] 18:25, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:Oh, no... I believe that the only way to get responsibility for the English word "eleven" is to do a ''mathematics'' degree, via the responsible governing body for assigning integers, fractions (vulgar or decimal*, including irrational) and various trans-finite notations. Although, only an infinitesimal number of numbers have been so assigned, so practically no-one else has noticed. Practically zero. Including the person who was actually assigned 'Zero' but was still suffering from a celebratory hangover at their graduation ceremony and apparently never realised.
:(* - For historical reasons, however, all your ''other'' base belong to Sega.)
:Due to an oversight, though, yes the person given "Eleven" has precedence over the Hungarian Linguist (who also has not realised... again due to a hangover). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.43|162.158.159.43]] 21:17, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:My graduation was bi-lingual (English/Welsh) so, although I got "moron", I've never been quite sure if it was in the sense of "idiot" or "carrots". And actually, come to think of it, the Pro Vice Chancellor did inexplicably say "dirigible" at one point, so maybe it was neither and he just thought I was a moron. Or he fancied some carrots.
:Better start researching airships... [[User:Yorkshire Pudding|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding|talk]]) 14:26, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
:: Or pannas/parsnips (see Welsh Duolingo and FB Owen a'i pannas) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 01:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

== Explanation Tag ==
"Created by a JACKALOPE SLURPING UP A BASSOON, GRADUATED BACHELOR OF SCIENCE WITH A GUARDIANSHIP OF 'EXPLAIN'" This seems wrong, as the stewardships of words are gifted to recipients of Linguistics degrees, not Science degrees. --[[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 00:30, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Talk:2602: Linguistics Degree

2022-04-25T01:38:44Z

172.69.69.170:

I think i messed up with the file upload- i was trying to help, sorry guys! [[User:Mushrooms|Mushrooms]] ([[User talk:Mushrooms|talk]]) 07:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:I think I fixed it. We use the small version of the file, not the x2. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:47, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Not to be too nit-picky, but the legendary animal is a combination of jackrabbit and antelope, no jackal in it, therefore it’s jackelope. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 07:18, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
: Uh, no. It's "jackalope": Google is your friend. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 09:51, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::Yes, I saw the wiki article. Either the person who coined the word was an idiot who thought it was spelled “antalope” or didn’t know how to make a portmanteau. Either way, it is NOT a portmanteau of jackrabbit and antelope, because that would be jackralope or jackelope. At best, you can call it a portmanteau of jackrabbit and a _misspelling_ of antelope.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.87|172.70.126.87]] 17:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::: Excuse me? Are you in charge of "Jackalope" or Ponytail? ;) [[User:Lexi|Lexi]] ([[User talk:Lexi|talk]]) 20:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC) JACKrabbit + AnteLOPE = JACKALOPE . . . . (Was that so hard?) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 10:57, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

My immediate reaction to this was to see where ///bassoon.jackalope.slurp (What3words) took me. Nowhere - but suggested ///passion.jackpot.slurps is near Chausserais, 100 km ESE of Nantes in central France.[[User:Jmbryant|Jmbryant]] ([[User talk:Jmbryant|talk]]) 10:22, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:That's nearer {{w|Dahu}}-country, though! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.64|172.70.86.64]] 10:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC) (P.S. Not that this is even a valid example why, but I rather think What3words is a bad development that will do more harm than good in serious navigation/geolocating purposes. Just sayin' in passing.)

:In some languages, a bassoon is called ''fagotto'' i.e. faggot, which in English is an offensive word addressing a male homosexual person (Note: I'm describing the word, not discriminating against any people). The word ''jack'' also means a male person, and an antelope is '''horny'''. With ''slurp'', these three words happen to be kind of '''inappropriate''' or '''graphic''', if seen this way. Maybe? Thoughts? [[User:Yosei|Yosei]] ([[User talk:Yosei|talk]]) 05:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
::Long leap. Or easy leap, as pretty much every word of significance has been (mis)appropriated, and has variable connotations anyway (someone mentions Slurp's variable offensiveness, below). "Faggot" is as likely to be a kind of sausage (an actual sausage, though of course "sausage" has its own innuendo!) or an actual bundle of sticks, round these parts, though we probably do recognise it as (US movie?) slang, if spoken in the more obviously offensive context.
::Linking the woodwind ("erection-fart?") directly to ludeness is so easy. Perhaps also through onomatopeia? Or else "bassoons" is reminiscent of "bossoms". "Jack" might be "-the-lad", but no more sign of sexual-male than many other names (There's ''a'' John, naturally. Or the naming-of-parts via John-Thomas/Dick/Peter/”Hugh Jampton", etc?). And you missed in the jack''rabbit'' that rabbits themselves have a certain reputation, beyond munching on carrots. Or, the question is, did your 'uncle and antelope'? And, like many ungulents, I believe they like pronking!
::Low-hanging fruit (testicles?), I'd say. Not wishing to blow my own trumpet. (Well, I m not really supple enough to try!) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.125|162.158.159.125]] 09:09, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

::This use of '''faggot''' is American (and possibly other dialects). In the UK a faggot is a type of liver dumpling, or a wooden branch or a bundle of wooden branches - often intended as firewood.[[User:Jmbryant|Jmbryant]] ([[User talk:Jmbryant|talk]]) 08:50, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Could the random student in Ohio be a cousin of the random programmer in Nebraska? --[[User:Quazgar|Quazgar]] ([[User talk:Quazgar|talk]]) 11:53, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

There's a Linguistics Society of America, maybe they could coordinate the assignment of words to graduates. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 13:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
:In the US, yes. In most of the rest of the world follows ISO 1806. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.153|172.70.130.153]] 16:43, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::ISO 1806 Determination of mesh breaking force of netting? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:55, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
::I'm sure it was a typo for ISO 24612 [[User:Philhower|Philhower]] ([[User talk:Philhower|talk]]) 12:44, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Cueball's objection to "slurp" is not explained; what's wrong with "slurp"? I think it's great word! (I wonder if trades are allowed...) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.146.81|172.68.146.81]] 21:31, 5 April 2022 (UTC) Corin
:You're right. The word ''slurp'' is just a word, value-neutral. What this word means can be seen variously, though. In some countries, slurping (e.g. noodle) is not only culturally acceptable but possibly seen positively, implying what they're eating is delicious. In some other countries, slurping may be a no-no, seen negatively. Some webmasters may not like the Yahoo Slurp bot, as it might misbehave. [[User:Yosei|Yosei]] ([[User talk:Yosei|talk]]) 05:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

I wonder if those who graduated with honors are entrusted with more difficult words, like irregular verbs or ones with tricky homophones. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.41|172.70.38.41]] 01:21, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:[https://imgflip.com/i/16xi7j Or both..]? ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.177|172.70.85.177]] 02:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

My sister was wondering if the assignment is specific to English, or whether you own the word in every language where it's a, well, word. Like if you got "eleven", are you merely in charge of "the integer between ten and twelve [English]", or are you also the administrator of "lively, alive [Hungarian]"? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.41|172.70.38.41]] 18:25, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:Oh, no... I believe that the only way to get responsibility for the English word "eleven" is to do a ''mathematics'' degree, via the responsible governing body for assigning integers, fractions (vulgar or decimal*, including irrational) and various trans-finite notations. Although, only an infinitesimal number of numbers have been so assigned, so practically no-one else has noticed. Practically zero. Including the person who was actually assigned 'Zero' but was still suffering from a celebratory hangover at their graduation ceremony and apparently never realised.
:(* - For historical reasons, however, all your ''other'' base belong to Sega.)
:Due to an oversight, though, yes the person given "Eleven" has precedence over the Hungarian Linguist (who also has not realised... again due to a hangover). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.43|162.158.159.43]] 21:17, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
:My graduation was bi-lingual (English/Welsh) so, although I got "moron", I've never been quite sure if it was in the sense of "idiot" or "carrots". And actually, come to think of it, the Pro Vice Chancellor did inexplicably say "dirigible" at one point, so maybe it was neither and he just thought I was a moron. Or he fancied some carrots.
:Better start researching airships... [[User:Yorkshire Pudding|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding|talk]]) 14:26, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
:: Or pannas/parsnips (see Welsh Duolingo and FB Owen a'i pannas) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.170|172.69.69.170]] 01:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

== Explanation Tag ==
"Created by a JACKALOPE SLURPING UP A BASSOON, GRADUATED BACHELOR OF SCIENCE WITH A GUARDIANSHIP OF 'EXPLAIN'" This seems wrong, as the stewardships of words are gifted to recipients of Linguistics degrees, not Science degrees. --[[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 00:30, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

2517: Rover Replies

2021-09-20T05:18:25Z

172.69.69.170: /* Transcript */ categories

{{comic
| number = 2517
| date = September 17, 2021
| title = Rover Replies
| image = rover_replies.png
| titletext = I'm so glad NASA let you take your phone to Mars!
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a PERSEVERANCE'S VACCINATION - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

There is a [https://twitter.com/nasapersevere?lang=en Twitter account for NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover], which recently collected samples. The Twitter account tweets in the first person like in the comic. Likely a human on earth is playing the role of the rover. While the exact post shown does not exist, it has posted a [https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1433334279937789954 similar tweet.]

The first four replies (in order of top-to-bottom) are likely just general compliments to the rover, demonstrating that the replies are indeed wholesome. Reply three in particular references rocks, as the main purpose of most Mars rovers is to perform Martian geology.

Reply five is a mashup of conspiracy theories, including about {{w|5G}} communications, {{w|Vaccine hesitancy|vaccines}}, and others. [[Ponytail]] then replies "Quiet, we're not doing that here", implying either that she doesn't want it in the replies to this, that she thinks that the rude reply should be posted somewhere else, or that she's a NASA employee stating that NASA does not have a 5G vaccine-microchip factory.

The next reply references people saying where they're from, then clarifying where that is in brackets, e.g. Wingerworth (England). This commenter expands that to clarify that they are from Earth, joking that the planet may be ambiguous as Mars rovers are not on Earth{{Citation needed}}. In reality, this ambiguity does not exist as humans only live on Earth{{Citation needed}}, thus contributing to the humour.

The second-to-last reply is likely a misunderstanding, with the commenter believing that the rover is digging to perform archaeology, not geology. The commenter could, however, believe that there is/was complex life on Mars, thus allowing the possibility that there are Martian skeletons for the rover to find.

The final reply is a reference to [https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/ Ingenuity,] a small helicopter which Perseverance took to Mars as a technology demonstrator. It has been very successful and completed many flights, [https://mars.nasa.gov/images/mepjpl/PIA24797-Flight12.jpg often taking it quite far from Perseverance.]

The title text is in the form of another reply. The character posting that reply believes that the rover has taken its phone to Mars, and has used that to take the pictures. This is likely because most photos on social media are taken on phones, and social media sites are often designed for phones. In reality, Mars rovers don't have phones,{{Citation needed}} and Perserverance is taking photos with an equipped camera.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[A post of a rocky landscape and a close-up of a rock is next to a profile picture of the camera of a Mars rover.]
:Just collected a sample!
:[Comments below:]
:These pictures are great!
:I'm so proud of you
:Wow you know a lot about rocks
:Go go go go go!
:More propaganda from NASA's 5G vaccine microchip factory
::Quiet, we're not doing that here
:Hello from Missouri (Earth)!
:Did you find any skeletons yet
:I hope your helicopter comes back!
:[Caption below frame:]
:The most unexpectedly wholesome place on the internet is the replies to NASA's rovers on social media.
{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Mars rovers]]
[[Category:Social networking]]

2517: Rover Replies

2021-09-20T05:17:25Z

172.69.69.170: /* Explanation */ ce; remove

Talk:1388: Subduction License

2021-09-17T20:39:49Z

172.69.69.170:

"In the end, much to Cueball's consternation, these mountains turn his desk and chair over. Cueball actually falls out of the frame in the final panel, where Beret Guy is already halfway down beneath the floor. This would not be possible in real life. [citation needed]"
...Hoping this is a joke...
:Citation needed is a recurring joke on ExplainXKCD.{{Citation needed}} [[User:PoolloverNathan|PoolloverNathan]] ([[User talk:PoolloverNathan|talk]]) 18:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm assuming "subduction license" is being comically reinterpreted here from some other meaning. What is a subduction license, normally speaking? [[User:Jevicci|Jevicci]] ([[User talk:Jevicci|talk]]) 15:20, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
:play on words with "production license".

Um, you're making it too easy to make me normal and rub away very fast {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.9}}

I'm thinking the closest real term to "subduction license" is probably "Subversion License" - Subversion being a popular source code repository system. (Edit: Created a new account) [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] ([[User talk:KieferSkunk|talk]]) 21:02, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

:Nah, that's not it ... there's got to be some pun on ''license'', or perhaps a term that sounds like ''-uction license''. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.159|173.245.54.159]] 23:14, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
::Could be the ''seduction license'' he should have applied for instead. He wishes to seduce his roommate, and has applied for a license for this. However he misunderstood the word and has applied for the other license, and has also read about it on Wikipedia ;-) [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:31, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
::: Given Beret Guy's past and future expressions of unusual or impossible power, it's probably best to assume that it is literally a license that allows him to perform subduction. That it. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 05:59, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Google supplies http://www.cafepress.ca/+subduction+license-plate-frames which offers "Subduction License Plate Frames", which I believe is an accidental verbal conjunction. I believe it's in the context of the web site selling a range of images and designs printed on various objects. In this case the object is a license plate frame, and the image is a diagram of subduction. Since the centre is cut out of the image in order to display the license plate, the combination is pretty useless. But, here it is, a subduction license plate frame, in which to place your subduction license. So why is that funny? Well, maybe it was the web site's special offer of the day, or, it was a Googlewhack. But now, a few days later, the Internet is awash with people asking "Why is 'subduction license' funny?" rja.carnegie@excite.com [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.192|141.101.99.192]] 08:45, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

My second theory: by the time he sobered up and realised it wasn't funny after all, there wasn't time to draw a new comic. Although I could draw one of these in five minutes (lettering takes longer), so that doesn't work. Maybe he's ill, badly ill. rja.carnegie@excite.com [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.192|141.101.99.192]] 08:45, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

My third theory: did someone make earthquakes illegal? Or make them legal with a license? It's in the news that scientists are satisfied with the evidence that licensed fracking is causing earthquakes in Oklahoma, but it seems to be pretty easy to get a license or permit to do fracking. But the news story appeared after this comic was published - if you get your geology news from regular newspapers. And obviously the question had been asked earlier. So, the comic may be based on that. rja.carnegie@excite.com [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.192|141.101.99.192]] 08:45, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Alternate explanation for the title text: A fault is a break between two blocks of the lithosphere (or the crust if you want to be more vernacular). The two blocks move in one of three ways: laterally side-by-side (making it a transform fault), away from each other (a normal fault) or toward each other (a reverse fault, which is the kind involved in subduction). If Beret Guy were normal, he'd have to be moving away from Cueball. [[User:Fewmet|Fewmet]] ([[User talk:Fewmet|talk]]) 15:15, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Also, "AUGH!" reminds me of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts Peanuts]: [[File:https://fenetreovale.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/charliebrownlucy-rugby.png]] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.232|108.162.229.232]] 19:02, 14 February 2017 (UTC)Mandel

Why does the mini mountain range have snow on the peaks? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.138|172.68.65.138]] 15:45, 26 April 2017 (UTC)