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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 3147<br />
| date = September 26, 2025<br />
| title = Hiking<br />
| image = hiking_2x.png<br />
| imagesize = 740x456px<br />
| noexpand = true<br />
| titletext = Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|This page was created by AN ON-DEMAND COMIC DELIVERY SERVICE. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}<br />
On-demand delivery is a type of service where you can order a product and it will be delivered to you within hours or even minutes. The most well-known of these are food delivery services like {{w|DoorDash}} and {{w|GrubHub}}, but there are also similar services for larger goods.<br />
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In the comic there's a vendor of {{w|waterslides}} that provides on-demand delivery using {{w|drones}} that fly the waterslide to a location you specify in the order, apparently complete with a water supply tank. While hiking through a terrain with lots of hills, [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] order one whenever they're on their way up a hill, so that it will be delivered to the downhill side and they can have fun sliding down.<br />
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This is obviously impractical, but if drone technology improves, this is plausible, although kind of useless.{{Citation needed}}<br />
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This comic may be a reference to how people tend to go downhill much faster{{Citation needed}} than uphill when hiking. <br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[This scene is in a mountain with many bumps. Everything is in one panel.]<br />
:[Cueball and Megan are both facing right, facing a hill.]<br />
:Cueball: Okay, we're nearing the next downhill segment. I'll put in the order.<br />
:Cueball: ...confirming start and end points...<br />
:Cueball: Submitted!<br />
:[A waterslide with drones attached to it, flying down and to the right. Megan and Cueball are standing together. Megan is pointing at the waterslide.]<br />
:Megan: Look, here it comes!<br />
:[The slide is on the downhill slope, with drones above it. Megan and Cueball are sliding down.]<br />
:Cueball and Megan: Wheeeee<br />
:[The slide now is flying up and to the right with drones.]<br />
:[Cueball and Megan are walking.]<br />
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:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:On-demand waterslide delivery has really improved the whole hiking experience.<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
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