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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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This comic is poking fun at the [[927: Standards|proliferation]] of apps and internet services such as for [https://builtin.com/consumer-tech/food-delivery-companies food delivery] and [https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/best-ways-to-send-money money transfer]. The characters are discussing which to use during an evening of tabletop gaming. The group has a running competition to see who can mention fake apps or services without being called out. The idea being that, since there are so many, it is difficult to identify which are real.
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[[Cueball]] mentions three food delivery services, {{w|Grubhub}}, {{w|DoorDash}}, and Food.net, and [[Ponytail]] asks him to reimburse her using {{w|Venmo}}, {{w|PayPal}}, or Yahoo Cash. Cueball expresses skepticism about Yahoo Cash, after which Ponytail admits it's a fake service (it's a spoof of {{w|Google Pay}}) and is thus obligated to pay for Cueball's meal. (Incidentally, Yahoo does provide a money transfer service to facilitate private party gambling on {{w|fantasy sports}}, called [https://sports.yahoo.com/wallet/dailyfantasy/referafriend/ Yahoo Fantasy Wallet], but it uses PayPal.) Food.net, which Cueball mentioned without being called out, is not a real service; https://food.net exists, however, it is not related to food delivery.
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The comic is poking fun at the proliferation of apps and Internet services, including online food delivery services and money transfer services, and the characters are discussing which ones to use. The caption says that the group has a running competition to see who can mention the most fake apps and services without being called out.
  
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Based on Ponytail's offer, if someone is correctly called out, they must pay for the player who caught them. If a player isn't caught like when Cueball mentions Food.net nothing happens. Ponytail is too afraid to call him out on this, and decides to order from a service that she knows exists, Grubhub. And then tries to bluff the others using strange payment methods.  
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Cueball mentions three food delivery services, {{w|Grubhub}}, {{w|DoorDash}}, and Food.net, and Ponytail asks him to reimburse her using {{w|Venmo}}, {{w|PayPal}}, or Yahoo Cash. Cueball expresses skepticism about Yahoo Cash, after which Ponytail admits it's a fake service and is thus obligated to pay for Cueball's meal. Food.net, which Cueball mentions, is not a real service; there is a website at https://food.net/ but its home page describes the site as "not available for use," and it does not appear to have ever been a food delivery service; hence, he was able to get one fake service past the other players.
  
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It is not explained in the comic, but probably you also have to pay for the other person's food, if you call a bluff and it turns out the service did indeed exist. So if [[Megan]] had said to Cueball, "Grubhub? That must be fake," and he then proved that it exists (by ordering there), then Megan would most likely be obliged to pay for Cueball's food.  
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Based on Ponytail's last line, if someone is caught they have to pay the share of the player who called them out. It's not clear what one wins if they're not caught (like Cueball and Food.net); maybe their share is split among all the other players.
  
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The title text offers a tip for winning the competition next week after being called out for mentioning a fake service: building a working version and then mentioning it again the next week. While it could be possible to prototype a user interface and possibly use it to perform food deliveries with a very limited number of drivers in a small area, or provide a front-end interface to an existing money transfer service with strong API support, building a full-fledged viable service for either in a week is humorously beyond the reach of typical gamers. Also, as in Ponytail's case, it could cause trademark issues with brand names.
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The title text offers a tip for winning the competition after being called for mentioning a fake service: building a working version of the fake service and mentioning it again the next week.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail are sitting at a table to order food. Cueball is on his phone, and Ponytail, sitting opposite, is on her laptop.]
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:[Cueball, Megan, and Ponytail are sitting at a table to order food. Cueball is on his phone, and Ponytail, sitting opposite, on her laptop.]
 
:Cueball: What should we use to order? Grubhub? DoorDash? Food.net?
 
:Cueball: What should we use to order? Grubhub? DoorDash? Food.net?
 
:Ponytail: I'll do Grubhub; you can send me money. Do you do Venmo? Paypal? Yahoo Cash?
 
:Ponytail: I'll do Grubhub; you can send me money. Do you do Venmo? Paypal? Yahoo Cash?
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:Cueball: Yahoo Cash ''has'' to be fake.
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:Cueball: Yahoo Cash HAS to be fake.
 
:Ponytail: Yes. Dang. I'll get your share.
 
:Ponytail: Yes. Dang. I'll get your share.
 
:[Caption below the panel:]
 
:[Caption below the panel:]
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{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
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[[Category:Food]]
 
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[[Category:Games]]
 

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