Editing Talk:929: Speculation

I love the comics like this that work on multiple levels. They really lend to the legitimacy of xkcd as a thinking man's webcomic, and they're great comics to link to when I'm trying to make a point. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|purple|David}}<font color=green size=3px>y</font></u><font color=indigo size=4px>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:24, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 
It's a bolt. Longbows fire arrows, crossbows fire bolts. 'K?
:That bolt looks maighte like an arrow to me... but let's not quarrel about this. --[[User:Qwach|Qwach]] ([[User talk:Qwach|talk]]) 23:35, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
::Crossbows do fire bolts, so the only reason you wouldn't want to quarrel about it is because you would be wrong.
::However, the word "arrow" comes from the official transcript, so YOU don't want to quarrel about it either, 'K?  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 07:19, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

::Quarrel? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarrel]--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.9|141.101.99.9]] 12:57, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
::: Please check your adds on the preview before committing it here. Everything you do save here is viewable to everyone; that's just annoying. I just want to see your primary intention, because THAT'S IMPORTANT, if that doesn't work fix it at PREVIEW before we get a mess here. I'm just happy if I can understand what you are talking about. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 00:27, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

The explanation states that it is Black Hat speaking in the title text.  It makes much more sense if it is Randall speaking, but just demonstrating a slightly black-hat tendency.  In my opinion.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 17:58, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:Yeah, but in the original comic's title text, it uses the single-quotes--that wasn't just added by explainxkcd as a formatting thing. When Randall is supposed to be the one speaking, there are no quotation marks in the title text... that implies this one is a quote from Black Hat. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.171|108.162.216.171]] 04:27, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

There's another joke not mentioned in the explanation. Cueball said "You're not really the '''catch''' type, are you." since Black Hat shot the basketball instead of '''catching''' it. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.246|108.162.219.246]] 21:32, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

There is a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. I switched which Cueball is called Cueball in the transcript so now the one named Cueball has all the interesting comments of this comic and also he is the one shooting at the hoop and passing to Black-Hat. Also made a note that the other guy also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 08:23, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Where'd Black Hat get that crossbow? [[User:Benjaminikuta|Benjaminikuta]] ([[User talk:Benjaminikuta|talk]]) 08:58, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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 Where'd Black Hat get that crossbow? [[User:Benjaminikuta|Benjaminikuta]] ([[User talk:Benjaminikuta|talk]]) 08:58, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
-:From the all-you-can-eat crossbow store. We're regular customers. [[User:Danish|Danish]] ([[User talk:Danish|talk]]) 00:06, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
-::Psst— answering six-year-old comments ain't cool. [[User:BlackHat|BlackHat]] ([[User talk:BlackHat|talk]] 20:44, 25 April 2021 (UTC
-:::How else could I have answered? (And that was a month-old comment...) [[User:Danish|Danish]] ([[User talk:Danish|talk]])) 15:27, 26 April 2021 (UTC))
-:::Why the fuck not? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.88|162.158.155.88]] 17:35, 31 May 2023 (UTC) (please sign your comments with four ~s)
-::::Sarah, regarding [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:929:_Speculation&diff=prev&oldid=344243 your edits], just letting you know that:
-::::*You can use {{template|unsigned ip}} (or {{template|unsigned}}, for named accounts).
-::::**Simply enter <code><nowiki>{{unsigned ip|<the ip>|<the timestamp>}}</nowiki></code> - the timestamp is optional, but useful.
-::::**In this case, <code><nowiki>{{unsigned ip|162.158.155.88|17:35, 31 May 2023}}</nowiki></code> would have been Ok (I don't usually add the UTC bit, from the bare timestamp that I tend to copy).
-::::*To quote something markup-like such as "<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>", literally, you need the <code><nowiki><nowiki></nowiki></code> tag. Plus the <code></nowiki></code> closer, naturally. But the above template does that for you.
-::::FYI. On the offchance you'll read this reply, as you don't have a Talk page yet. <!-- If one gets created, I wouldn't object to this being cut out of here and pasted into it, as appropriate. --> [[Special:Contributions/172.69.195.124|172.69.195.124]] 20:24, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
-But as OF NEARLY 2023, I can say with certainty that Facebook’s “meta” project has failed miserably. [[User:SilverTheTerribleMathematician|SilverTheTerribleMathematician]] ([[User talk:SilverTheTerribleMathematician|talk]]) 11:02, 10 December 2022 (UTC)