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172.70.85.239: /* MMO Isle */ tyop. (And a few more words.)

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‎MMO Isle: tyop. (And a few more words.)

172.69.195.3: /* MMO Isle */ I still had some tinsel and stale halloween candy on me!

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‎MMO Isle: I still had some tinsel and stale halloween candy on me!

FaviFake at 18:13, 4 March 2025

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TomtheBuilder at 00:36, 4 March 2025

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 In the title text, [[Randall]] explains that, using his definition of "most activity per day", Farmville is actually the ''second'' most popular social-network farming game. The Chinese game "Happy Farm" was more popular at the time. This strikes many English-speaking xkcd readers as odd, because Farmville is much more famous, leading one to wonder how it could not be the most played. The phrase "browser-based social-networking–centered farming game" is an example of an {{tvtropes|OverlyNarrowSuperlative|overly narrow superlative}}.
 ===Facebook Region===
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 : A real-life island in the Indonesian archipelago. It also appears in 256: Online Communities.
 ===MMO Isle===
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 : Refers to "end bosses," the last — and usually hardest to defeat — "bad guy" in a game (or a section of a game).
 ===YouTube Region===
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 : A reference to Miss Teen USA 2007, in which Ms. Teen South Carolina, Lauren Katlin, said "I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as...the US should help the US and should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we are able to build up our future." The usage of "the Iraq" has became a meme.
 ===Twitter Region===
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 : Refers to the game where a user posts something under a particular hashtag and others respond with their own ideas, all tagged under the same phrase. This has been very popular for no clear reason, as Randall notes.
 ===Geotagged Bay===
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 : Refers to {{w|Google Latitude}}.
 ===Troll Bay and the Sea of Memes===
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 : A right-wing conservative activist forum.
 ===Skype Region===
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 : Refers to the ancestor of Internet-powered chatting. People would have connected to a server and spoke publicly. IRC is still in use (as of 2014), notably in getting help from other users. One of those isles is #xkcd which is an IRC community around [[xkcd]].
 ===Bay of Drama===
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 : A LiveJournal fork emphasizing its open-source nature.
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 * Miscellaneous Blogs
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 : A blog that talks about cooking meat.
 ===QQ Region===
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 : Refers to {{w|The Great Firewall of China}}, a pun on {{w|The Great Wall of China}}. Similar to how The Great Wall of China was meant to keep intruding nations out of the then-capital of the city, The Great Firewall of China is meant to keep visitors from visiting censored websites. Oddly other Chinese websites (Qzone, Renren etc.) are not enclosed in this zone. It also resembles the {{w|Nine-Dash Line}} commonly drawn on Chinese maps that indicates a vague territorial claim.
 ===Forums Islands===

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic shows a map of internet communities where the size of each region roughly corresponds to its size, and its proximity to other regions indicates similarities. This is the successor of [[256: Online Communities]]. It differs in that it is updated, and furthermore, instead of using the ''membership'' of whichever service to determine its size on the map, it uses its "daily social activity."
+This comic shows a map of internet communities where the size of each region roughly corresponds to its size, and its proximity to other regions indicates similarities. This is the successor of [[256: Online Communities]]. It differs in that it is updated, and furthermore, instead of using the ''membership'' of whichever service to determine its size on the map, it uses its "daily social activity".
 The map actually has two super−maps intended to show the relative usage of types of communication: the online community map is surrounded by the much larger "countries" of E−Mail, SMS ("Instant Messaging") and "Cell Phones," which in turn are surrounded by the even huger "Spoken Language."  It is unclear whether "Cell Phones" is intended to represent an independent region, or whether it is meant to be a sub-region of "Spoken Language."  The ambiguity is exacerbated by the fact that cell phones are the primary medium of SMS, and are also used to access email and online communities.  It's also unclear why other forms of communication, such as handwritten letters, are not included.
-At the title text [[Randall]] explains that, using his definition of "most activity per day," Farmville is actually the ''second'' most popular social-network farming game - the Chinese game Happy Farm was more popular at the time. This strikes many English-speaking xkcd readers as odd, because Farmville is much more famous, leading one to wonder how it could not be the most played. The phrase "browser-based social-networking-centered farming game" is an example of an [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyNarrowSuperlative overly-narrow superlative.]
+In the title text, [[Randall]] explains that, using his definition of "most activity per day", Farmville is actually the ''second'' most popular social-network farming game. The Chinese game "Happy Farm" was more popular at the time. This strikes many English-speaking xkcd readers as odd, because Farmville is much more famous, leading one to wonder how it could not be the most played. The phrase "browser-based social-networking–centered farming game" is an example of an {{tvtropes|OverlyNarrowSuperlative|overly narrow superlative}}.
 ===Facebook Region===

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 | title     = Online Communities 2
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-| titletext = Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
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 {{TOC}}A [https://xkcd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com].

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 *'''[http://secondlife.com/ Second Life]''' is similar to Habbo, albeit with a bigger suspension of disbelief (one example being that the player does not need to be a human) and in a 3D setting.
 *'''[http://www.nationstates.net/ NationStates]''' is a text-based political simulation game. Notably, some of its traffic comes not from the actual game (which is optional), but the extensive set of political, roleplaying, and general forums attached.
-*'''[http://www.urbandead.com/ Urban Dead]''' described itself as "A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse", which sums it up pretty well. It was finally closed down on 2025-03-14, [https://urbandead.com/stats.html reportedly] with 7893 characters still a tively playing, 6087 of them still standing (and 29 Christmas Trees).
+*'''[http://www.urbandead.com/ Urban Dead]''' described itself as "A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse", which sums it up pretty well. It was finally closed down on 2025-03-14, [https://urbandead.com/stats.html reportedly] with 7893 characters still actively playing until the end, 6087 of them still standing (and 29 Christmas Trees).
 *'''[http://www.kingdomofloathing.com KoL]''' (full: '''Kingdom of Loathing''') is a comedic browser-based MMO-ish RPG with minimalistic stick-figure art.
 *'''{{w|CDC Games}}''' is a Chinese company reputed to be the largest MMORPG distributor.

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 | titletext = Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
 }}
-A [http://xkcd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.
+{{TOC}}A [http://xkcd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com].
 ==Explanation==

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 ===QQ Region===
 *'''Baidu Baike''' (「百度百科」, "Baidu Encyclopedia") and '''Hudong''' (「互动百科」, "Interactive Encyclopedia" ) are two Chinese online encyclopedias. Baidu Baike is powered by the same company as Baidu, the search engine popular in China.
-* The '''Ma Le Ge Bi''' and the '''Grass Mud Horse Bay''' could refer to the {{w|Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures}}.
+* The '''Ma Le Ge Bi''' and the '''Grass Mud Horse Bay''' refer to the {{w|Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures}}.
 * The '''Location of Jia Junpeng''' refers to the Internet meme of {{w|Jia Junpeng}} in 2009 in China.
 *'''{{w|Tencent QQ}}''' is a Chinese instant messaging program.
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 **A synonym for "rage quit", in which a video game player quits the game out of sheer frustration. It originated in ''Warcraft II'' multiplayer, where pressing Ctrl+Q+Q would quit the game, and became more widely known in ''World of Warcraft''.
 **These definitions are commonly combined, usually to mock the "rage quitter".
-*The Gulf of China refers to how sites in the region are based in People's Republic of China ("Red China"). The '''Great Firewall''' refers to {{w|The Great Firewall of China}}, a pun on {{w|The Great Wall of China}}. Similar to how The Great Wall of China was meant to keep intruding nations out of the then-capital of the city, The Great Firewall of China is meant to keep visitors from visiting censored websites. Oddly other Chinese websites (Qzone, Renren etc.) are not enclosed in this zone.
+*'''River Crabs''' (「河蟹」) is a {{w|Euphemisms for Internet censorship in China|euphemism for internet censorship in China}}.
 ===Forums Islands===