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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by YOUR OTHER FRIEND WHO EDITS EXPLAINXKCD - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | + | [[Cueball]] is in contact with someone in a some typical text-chat context, who uses the nickname of "Surf King". His phone also knows of a person called John, which seems to be the real name of the same person, although Cueball appears to have been unaware or forgetful of that fact. | |
− | + | Some algorithm that manages the contact-list has been offering (or trying) to merge the contact details into a single entry, as having the same core details, which intruiges Cueball but without him understanding why. Instead he directs a comment about this to "@Surf King", who apparently did not deign to respond (leaving just a hanging ellipsis). | |
− | + | Cueball's follow-up comment is clearly prompted by the realisation that his 'two' contacts both share an interest in surfing, perhaps having been in separate group conversations with both John and Surf King personae in the interim, and he decides to revisit the issue. But from Surf King's response it looks like gap of time between the start of this 'conversation' and it being added to was on an order of several years. | |
− | + | Exactly how this happened depends a lot on the text-chat system in use, but it's not unknown for a persistive messaging system to keep a thread of contact 'open' to new posts perpetually. It might be expected to see a timestamp upon contributions (e.g. a time of day or how many seconds/minutes/hours ago, with perhaps "just now" or similar for the most recent and a day-/etc count or full datetime once old enough to make that more practical), or even an automated warning that the conversation has been idle for so many days when one tries to {{wiktionary|necro#Verb|'necro'}} such an historic channel of communication. Either Cueball's interface does not feature these things or we see it only as Cueball does, seemingly oblivious to the passage of time. | |
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+ | The title text implies that Cueball (still unaware of the reality of the sitution) has had second thoughts about the compatability of Surf King/John with himself, having picked up further cues from either or both of subsequent chats with him (outside of this particular channel) that reduce the perceived social compatability. This could be easily explained by John being far more (or differently) extrovert when interacting via his more sporty pseudonym, or else by having subtly changed attitudes and interests over time while not actually using one or other identity to update others' impressions of him. Either of these can be due to his perhaps having let the Surf King account of his youth go mostly idle, instead interacting prinarily by his given name to be taken more seriously in professional contexts. For Cueball, [[1674: Adult|being Cueball]], all the details of this (whatever they might ''actually'' be) probably continue to go completely over his head. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | + | [Cueball chatting in DMs] | |
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− | :[Caption below the panel:] | + | Cueball: @Surf_king Weird my phone keeps trying to merge your contact with John's |
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+ | Surf_king: ... | ||
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+ | Cueball: Hey you two should meet up-He's into surfing too | ||
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+ | Surf_king: Oh my God | ||
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+ | Surf_king: Are you serious | ||
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+ | Surf_king: You've been in this chat with me for '''four years!''' | ||
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+ | [Caption below the panel:] | ||
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+ | I wonder who holds the record for accidentally doing this the longest | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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