https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=NGLNexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-20T15:22:09ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1466:_Phone_Checking&diff=81709Talk:1466: Phone Checking2014-12-29T14:38:19Z<p>NGLN: </p>
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I'll keep refreshing. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.217.125|108.162.217.125]] 06:40, 29 December 2014 (UTC)BK201<br />
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What's a 'webite'? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.178|199.27.128.178]] 08:51, 29 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:I think it's a term related to the [[148: Mispronouncing|"wobsite"]]. --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 09:41, 29 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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He first refreshed the web(s)ite and thén woke up? [[User:NGLN|NGLN]] ([[User talk:NGLN|talk]]) 14:38, 29 December 2014 (UTC)</div>NGLNhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=83:_Katamari&diff=7048983: Katamari2014-06-27T15:35:44Z<p>NGLN: /* Explanation */ Added reference to comic 161 which mentions the game too</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 83<br />
| date = March 31, 2006<br />
| title = Katamari<br />
| image = katamari.jpg<br />
| titletext = As the King of All Cosmos remarked, 'Is it that it's fun, or that it lets you forget yourself?'<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Katamari Damacy}} is a Japanese game in which the player must roll around an infinitely sticky katamari ball, cottoning up objects and terrain to increase the ball's size. In this comic, [[Cueball]] uses the katamari as an analogy for his love for [[Megan]], pushing it to such embarrassing extremes that Megan feels the need to remark whether he could "possibly get any gayer." At this point, Cueball wins the level he is playing and is transported by a "Royal Rainbow," an in-game occurrence at the completion of each level. The rainbow is a symbol of gay pride, in addition to being just a generally happy and "gay" idea.<br />
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Cueball also only takes up such a stand after Megan requests that he help her. This possibly a criticism of male selfishness (perhaps Randall's self-criticism), in that males do not discuss romantic ideas, except as a way out.<br />
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The ''King of All Cosmos'', mentioned in the title text, is an instructive character in all of the Katamari games. The title text points out that perhaps we like video games not because they are fun, but because they let us forget what is on our mind and become engrossed with the task.<br />
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The game is also subject of [[161: Accident]].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Megan stands on the left. Cueball is sitting on the floor with a game controller in his hand. He is looking at a TV on the floor connected to a game console, also on the floor.]<br />
:Megan: Can you pause for a moment and help me with something?<br />
:Cueball: You know, our love is like a katamari. We travel along, rolling up more and more of the world into our shared experience, taking it and making it our own.<br />
:Megan: I, you... wow. Geekiness aside, that was actually incredibly sweet.<br />
:Cueball: The clutter of everyday life, with a simple core to tie it together, eventually becomes something grand as the world itself.<br />
:[A rainbow extends outward from the TV, with "ROYAL RAINBOW!" above it.]<br />
:Megan: Okay, also sweet, but now I'm wondering if you could possibly get any gayer.<br />
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[[Category:Romance]]</div>NGLNhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=139:_I_Have_Owned_Two_Electric_Skateboards&diff=70450139: I Have Owned Two Electric Skateboards2014-06-26T21:05:06Z<p>NGLN: fixed 3 typo's</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 139<br />
| date = August 9, 2006<br />
| title = I Have Owned Two Electric Skateboards<br />
| image = electric_skateboards.png<br />
| titletext = Both the skateboards I owned were pretty cheap and broke from heavy use; I'm gonna get a really nice one if I move to the city.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Randall Munroe|Randall}} likes {{w|electric skateboard|electric skateboards}} and this comic is just showing a simple move where [[Cueball]] drives one from A to B. It's not very artistic but the "chicks" are cheering. This does refer to a song by {{w|Chris Cagle}}, not known by most people outside of US, called {{w|Chicks Dig It}} from 2003. In the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB16klLODYk video] to this song guys are trying to impress young females, or just "chicks", by doing various stunts.<br />
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In the title text Randall tells us that both of his two electric skateboards were cheap and have been worn down by heavy use. If he ever moves to a (the) city he will buy a real nice skateboard. If it is to be able to get around over the shorter distances of the city or if it is just because there are many more "chicks" to impress is left up to the readers imagination.<br />
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Electric skateboards have been the subject of several other comics like [[409: Electric Skateboard (Double Comic)]], a panel in [[442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel]] and the entire [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:The_Race The Race] five part comic series.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:How Electric Skateboards Work:<br />
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:[Cueball is standing on a skateboard, next to a sign that says "Point A" and pushes a button.]<br />
:''click''<br />
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:[He skates.]<br />
:''whirrr''<br />
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:[He stops, with a sign saying "Point B" to his right and a group of chicks (labeled "chicks") to his left.]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
A nice video on electric skateboards is here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlab8wI8hwY electric skateboards].<br />
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