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| titletext = After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished--and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected. | | titletext = After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished--and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | The title text is a serious solution to a procrastination problem that we see in the comic. | |
− | The first two frames in this comic are the set-up | + | The first two frames in this comic are the set-up. Both contain the websites {{w|CNN}} and {{w|Reddit}} and thoughts over the top of them. In the third frame, it starts to look a little different as the screen is not a computer but is in fact the targeting computer from {{w|Luke Skywalker|Luke Skywalker's}} {{w|X-wing}}. But, before shutting down, he considers checking {{w|Facebook}}. |
− | In the | + | In the fourth frame, we finally get the movie reference from {{w|Star Wars}} as {{w|Princess Leia}} and one of the Rebel Alliance's generals are gathered around the holographic table that allows them to follow the battle. In the movie, Luke turns off his targeting computer because he uses the ''Force'' to fire the torpedoes at the right time. But in this comic, Luke turns off the computer because he keeps getting distracted by Reddit and CNN. |
− | + | The headlines on CNN read 'Bees?', 'Where is Oman' (the map which depicts the Indian Ocean is completely wrong because Oman is situated on the Persian Gulf), and iReport (we mean you, that is.). | |
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− | The headlines on CNN read 'Bees?', 'Where is | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Reddit page | + | :[Reddit page] |
:Luke (thinking): I shouldn't be looking at Reddit. Why can't I stop? | :Luke (thinking): I shouldn't be looking at Reddit. Why can't I stop? | ||
− | :[CNN page | + | :[CNN page] |
:Luke (thinking): Refreshing CNN again. Do news stories so affect my life that I benefit from checking them more than once a day? | :Luke (thinking): Refreshing CNN again. Do news stories so affect my life that I benefit from checking them more than once a day? | ||
− | :[Shutdown screen | + | :[Shutdown screen] |
− | :Luke (thinking): I should at least check Faceb... no. Screw it. I can't do my job when I'm distracting myself every five minutes like this. | + | :Luke (thinking): I should at least check Faceb... no. Screw it. I can't do my job when I'm distracting myself every five minutes like this. |
− | :[ | + | :[Two people before a battlefield screen] |
:Cueball: His computer's off. Luke - You've switched off your targeting computer. What's wrong? | :Cueball: His computer's off. Luke - You've switched off your targeting computer. What's wrong? | ||
:Luke: Nothing. I'm all right. | :Luke: Nothing. I'm all right. | ||
− | {{comic discussion}} | + | {{comic discussion}} |
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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