Latest revision |
Your text |
Line 4: |
Line 4: |
| | title = Tools | | | title = Tools |
| | image = tools.png | | | image = tools.png |
− | | titletext = I make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for... | + | | titletext = I make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for ... |
| }} | | }} |
| | | |
| ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
− | [[Cueball]] asks [[Megan]] what she does, and she begins by answering "I make tools that make tools." So far, this is a common expression of the way a sophisticated technology is built on simple building blocks, with one set of tools used to build a more powerful set of tools, and so on.
| + | {{incomplete|}} |
− | | |
− | However, the iterations are carried to comical lengths, with Megan spending twenty minutes reeling off various steps including development of software code, and software code debugging/development tools. And she is not even finished when Cueball breaks into her endless list after she once again says ''tools for'' by asking ''what is it for?'' (See also: [[1579: Tech Loops]]).
| |
− | | |
− | Megan readily admits that she doesn't even know the goal of these tasks, and guesses that it is probably for porn, referencing the not-entirely-unfounded stereotype that {{tvtropes|TheInternetIsForPorn|the majority of internet traffic is pornographic websites}}. Knowing that many information technologies, from printing to computers, are quickly adopted by porn producers and distributors, this is not a bad guess on Megan's part. Further, many internet related advances have had their way paved by a porn industry that needed secure and secret payments options, and better bandwidth for downloading films, as well as making it more accessible, etc.
| |
− | | |
− | In the title text there is a recursion as someone (maybe Cueball) tells what they do. And in this case they make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for ... (ad infinitum). See also other [[:Category:Recursion|comics about Recursion]].
| |
− | | |
− | Regarding porn in xkcd see also [[305: Rule 34]].
| |
| | | |
| ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
− | :[Cueball talks to Megan.]
| + | {{incomplete transcript}} |
− | :Cueball: What do you do?
| |
− | :Megan: I make tools that make tools
| |
− | | |
− | :[Megan continues talking to Cueball in this frameless image.]
| |
− | :Megan: ...That monitor code that deploys tools that build tools for deploying monitors...
| |
− | | |
− | :[Cueball finally stops Megan from talking. At the top there is a small frame with a caption overlaid on the top frame:]
| |
− | :20 minutes later...
| |
− | :Megan: ...For monitoring deployment of tools for-
| |
− | :Cueball: But what's it all '''''for?'''''
| |
− | :Megan: Honestly, no idea. Porn, probably.
| |
| | | |
| {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
− | [[Category:Recursion]]
| |
− | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
| |
− | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
| |
− | [[Category:Computers]]
| |
− | [[Category:Programming]]
| |
− | [[Category:Sex]]
| |