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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a BORED SCREAMING RESIDENT OF COLORADO (YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO COLORADO). Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | Many electronic devices have settings to | + | Many electronic devices have display settings that allow them to control the color and intensity of white, black, and other colors. After research that blue hues of light can keep people awake, among other things, it has become common to offer a "night shift" mode that makes the screen appear less blue and more red when one might want to sleep. This mode also engages various EM radiation projectors to alter one's neurochemistry while one sleeps, and make one more complacent. This comic imagines such a mode as influencing the messages received from friends to encourage sleepiness—or, at least, to dampen [https://xkcd.com/386/ the emotional response that might keep someone up too late at night]. |
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− | + | In the title text, the reverse has occurred. By setting his {{w|Color balance|white balance}} incorrectly (perhaps more blue and less red), the opinions that Randall is reading are more intense, even about "simple" things as having visited Colorado or not. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[ | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
− | + | :[What looks to be comments with peoples profile pictures in front of them] | |
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− | : | + | :The Atlantic Ocean is big |
− | :: | + | ::The Pacific is even bigger |
− | :: | + | ::They're both very big |
− | : | + | :A lot of people have TVs |
− | :: | + | ::Some people don't |
+ | ::Yeah, that's true | ||
− | : | + | :24 isn't a prime number |
− | + | ::Neither is 25 | |
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− | :[Caption below the | + | :Have you ever been to Colorado? |
− | :My phone has a night shift mode to help me sleep, but instead of reducing the intensity of blue light, it reduces the intensity of opinions | + | ::No |
+ | ::No | ||
+ | ::Yeah | ||
+ | ::No | ||
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+ | :[Caption below the panels:] | ||
+ | :My phone has a night shift mode to help me sleep, but instead of reducing the intensity of blue light, it reduces the intensity of opinions | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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