1085: ContextBot - Revision history

FaviFake: Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Meganz

2026-05-09T15:14:19Z

Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Meganz

172.71.214.232 at 07:28, 27 March 2025

2025-03-27T07:28:56Z

CalibansCreations: /* Explanation */

2025-03-20T12:08:33Z

‎Explanation

42.book.addict at 17:17, 3 December 2024

2024-12-03T17:17:02Z

CalibansCreations: /* Explanation */

2024-11-14T11:13:00Z

‎Explanation

1234231587678: teehee.

2024-09-08T19:53:37Z

teehee.

Maplestrip at 09:22, 30 July 2024

2024-07-30T09:22:29Z

Maplestrip: Removing the detailed explanation of how other items can be stacked to different amounts. This is about diamonds.

2024-07-30T09:16:44Z

Removing the detailed explanation of how other items can be stacked to different amounts. This is about diamonds.

Maplestrip: No need to go into detail about Netherite here; it's beyond the scope of this explanation and it didn't even exist yet at the time. We're talking specifically about diamonds here, not all other items.

2024-07-30T09:14:05Z

No need to go into detail about Netherite here; it's beyond the scope of this explanation and it didn't even exist yet at the time. We're talking specifically about diamonds here, not all other items.

172.70.243.159: netherite didn’t exist in Minecraft back then

2024-07-11T19:23:24Z

netherite didn’t exist in Minecraft back then

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 :Cueball and Megan holding each other: You'd think by now I'd have learned never to trust anyone.
 :ContextBot: (She downloaded a torrent that turned out to be an encrypted .rar and a link to a survey.)
-:Blondie: I officially give up.
+:Miss Lenhart: I officially give up.
 :ContextBot: (She hit alt-tab to hide Minecraft at work and accidentally dropped a stack of diamond into lava.)
 :Hairy: Sighhhh
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 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Blondie]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
 [[Category:Minecraft]]
 [[Category:Google]]
 [[Category:Food]]

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 Google has been criticized more than a few times for keeping rather extensive data records on its users, who by this point constitute most of the internet, enough to cause serious damage if Google wasn't historically altruistic (as altruistic as a for-profit company can be). In the comic, ContextBot is a fictitious Google invention which puts context for these statuses, presumably based on all that personal data which Google has collected:
-*The first response is pretty self-explanatory: the original poster wants to use the Internet while on the toilet, but can't get a {{w|wi-fi}} signal there.
+*The first response is pretty self-explanatory: the original poster wants to use the Internet while on the toilet, but can't get a {{w|Wi-Fi}} signal there.
-*The second response is about a bad {{w|torrent file}} the original poster downloaded. A ''torrent'' is a way to download files from a lot of different sources at the same time, thereby speeding up the process; it is typically used for large downloads such as movies, games, or Linux software distributions. Fake torrents exist, which usually contain an encrypted {{w|.rar}} file which requires a password to open. To get the password, you usually need to go through a survey via the link supplied in the torrent; in some situations, you even need to pay in order to get the password. Even after that, it's quite likely that the .rar file just contains trash files, instead of the download you wanted.
+*The second response is about a bad {{w|torrent file}} the original poster downloaded. A ''torrent'' is a way to download files from a lot of different sources at the same time, thereby speeding up the process; it is typically used for large downloads such as movies, games, or Linux software distributions. Fake torrents exist, which usually contain an encrypted {{w|RAR (file format)|.rar}} file which requires a password to open. To get the password, you usually need to go through a survey via the link supplied in the torrent; in some situations, you even need to pay in order to get the password. Even after that, it's quite likely that the .rar file just contains trash files, instead of the download you wanted.
-*The third response is about the video game ''{{w|Minecraft}}'', which has been [[:Category:Minecraft|referenced multiple times]] in xkcd comics. Diamonds are a very valuable resource in the game, and lava destroys items dropped into it. A "stack" of diamond are 64 individual diamonds, because diamonds can be stacked to a maximum of 64 per inventory slot. The 64 diamonds would likely represent the fruit of several hours (or days) mining. Alt-Tab is the default keybind on most operating systems to switch to a different program, while the default keybind to drop an item in Minecraft is the Q key, which is adjacent to the Tab key on QWERTY-style keyboards. Thus, it would be easy to accidentally drop an item while meaning to switch windows using the keyboard. By default, Alt-Q would only drop a single diamond, but the keybind Ctrl-Q would drop an entire stack at once. Lastly, if this player failed to Alt-Tab out of the game, they were likely caught by their colleague or boss.
+*The third response is about the video game ''{{w|Minecraft}}'', which has been [[:Category:Minecraft|referenced multiple times]] in xkcd comics. [https://minecraft.wiki/w/Diamond Diamonds] are a very valuable resource in the game, and lava destroys items dropped into it. A "stack" of diamond are 64 individual diamonds, because diamonds can be stacked to a maximum of 64 per inventory slot. The 64 diamonds would likely represent the fruit of several hours (or days) mining. Alt-Tab is the default keybind on most operating systems to switch to a different program, while the default keybind to drop an item in Minecraft is the Q key, which is adjacent to the Tab key on QWERTY-style keyboards. Thus, it would be easy to accidentally drop an item while meaning to switch windows using the keyboard. By default, Alt-Q would only drop a single diamond, but the keybind Ctrl-Q would drop an entire stack at once. Lastly, if this player failed to Alt-Tab out of the game, they were likely caught by their colleague or boss.
 *The fourth response is about how the original poster mistook the grapes as being seedless. Grape seeds taste really bitter and are uncomfortable when swallowed; this is even more annoying when the seeds are unexpected.{{cn}}

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 :ContextBot: (He thought these grapes were seedless.)
-:[Caption below the panel]
+:[Caption below the panel:]
 :Everyone stopped complaining about Google's data-gathering when they launched ContextBot, a system which replies to vague, enigmatic social network posts with context from the poster's life.

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 *The third response is about the video game ''{{w|Minecraft}}'', which has been [[:Category:Minecraft|referenced multiple times]] in xkcd comics. Diamonds are a very valuable resource in the game, and lava destroys items dropped into it. A "stack" of diamond are 64 individual diamonds, because diamonds can be stacked to a maximum of 64 per inventory slot. The 64 diamonds would likely represent the fruit of several hours (or days) mining. Alt-Tab is the default keybind on most operating systems to switch to a different program, while the default keybind to drop an item in Minecraft is the Q key, which is adjacent to the Tab key on QWERTY-style keyboards. Thus, it would be easy to accidentally drop an item while meaning to switch windows using the keyboard. By default, Alt-Q would only drop a single diamond, but the keybind Ctrl-Q would drop an entire stack at once. Lastly, if this player failed to Alt-Tab out of the game, they were likely caught by their colleague or boss.
-*The fourth response is about how the original poster mistook the grapes as being seedless. Grape seeds taste really bitter and are uncomfortable when swallowed; this is even more annoying when the seeds are unexpected.{{citation needed}}
+*The fourth response is about how the original poster mistook the grapes as being seedless. Grape seeds taste really bitter and are uncomfortable when swallowed; this is even more annoying when the seeds are unexpected.{{cn}}
 As noted by the subtitle, ContextBot is considered a great good by everyone who was sick of vaguebooking. This also redeems Google's practice of all those data records in the public's eye.
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 In the ContextBot's avatar image, three people can be seen together hanging out. But the image is about to be cropped, leaving out the third person and therefore giving the impression that the two people in the cropped image are there without that person. This demonstrates how ''context'' is important to understanding a situation.
-The title text refers to the cryptic ways in which someone with sensitive information must communicate. While most vaguebooking or vaguetweeting is about things of little importance, the title text implies that the things not mentioned impact national/global security. This implies that many tweets may actually be related to high-clearance military and or national security information, but must be vague in order to keep it secret, and if you take that as the context, then the internet suddenly becomes much more exciting.{{citation needed}}
+The title text refers to the cryptic ways in which someone with sensitive information must communicate. While most vaguebooking or vaguetweeting is about things of little importance, the title text implies that the things not mentioned impact national/global security. This implies that many tweets may actually be related to high-clearance military and or national security information, but must be vague in order to keep it secret, and if you take that as the context, then the internet suddenly becomes much more exciting.{{cn}}
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 *The second response is about a bad {{w|torrent file}} the original poster downloaded. A ''torrent'' is a way to download files from a lot of different sources at the same time, thereby speeding up the process; it is typically used for large downloads such as movies, games, or Linux software distributions. Fake torrents exist, which usually contain an encrypted {{w|.rar}} file which requires a password to open. To get the password, you usually need to go through a survey via the link supplied in the torrent; in some situations, you even need to pay in order to get the password. Even after that, it's quite likely that the .rar file just contains trash files, instead of the download you wanted.
-*The third response is about the video game ''{{w|Minecraft}}'', which has been [[:Category:Minecraft|referenced multiple times]] in xkcd comics. Diamonds are a very valuable resource in the game, and lava destroys items dropped into it. A "stack" of diamond are 64 individual diamonds, because diamonds can be stacked to a maximum of 64 per inventory slot. The 64 diamonds would likely represent the fruit of several hours (or days) mining. Alt+Tab is the default keybind on most OSes to switch to a different program, while the default keybind to drop an item in Minecraft is the Q key, which is immediately next to the Tab key on QWERTY-style keyboards. Thus, it would be easy to accidentally drop an item while meaning to switch windows using the keyboard. Not only would pressing alt-Q drop a diamond, like pressing a single Q, ctrl-Q is the default keybind to drop an entire stack of items. If they pressed ctrl-Q instead of alt-tab, they would also likely be caught, adding insult to injury.
+*The third response is about the video game ''{{w|Minecraft}}'', which has been [[:Category:Minecraft|referenced multiple times]] in xkcd comics. Diamonds are a very valuable resource in the game, and lava destroys items dropped into it. A "stack" of diamond are 64 individual diamonds, because diamonds can be stacked to a maximum of 64 per inventory slot. The 64 diamonds would likely represent the fruit of several hours (or days) mining. Alt+Tab is the default keybind on most operating systems to switch to a different program, while the default keybind to drop an item in Minecraft is the Q key, which is adjacent to the Tab key on QWERTY-style keyboards. Thus, it would be easy to accidentally drop an item while meaning to switch windows using the keyboard. By default, Alt-Q would only drop a single diamond, but the keybind Ctrl-Q would drop an entire stack at once. Lastly, if this player failed to alt-tab out of the game, they were likely caught by their colleague or boss.
 *The fourth response is about how the original poster mistook the grapes as being seedless. Grape seeds taste really bitter and are uncomfortable when swallowed; this is even more annoying when the seeds are unexpected.