Talk:1358: NRO - Revision history

82.132.213.24 at 20:42, 1 October 2025

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82.132.213.24 at 20:38, 1 October 2025

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72.138.52.174: wheres page

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wheres page

Elvenivle: Comment; characters not kids to me.

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Comment; characters not kids to me.

The Cat Lady at 11:51, 25 October 2021

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108.162.237.218 at 09:42, 7 May 2014

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Dgbrt at 20:53, 23 April 2014

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Dgbrt at 20:45, 23 April 2014

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173.245.63.174 at 18:59, 23 April 2014

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108.162.238.223: Added comment.

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 Would the description of the NRO's location map to any sort of actual Wheres Waldo image? [[Special:Contributions/72.138.52.174|72.138.52.174]] 17:58, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
-:I presume you're asking if "Left edge, two inches down" is a valid solution to any actual Where's Waldo(/Wally) illustration that Randall has 'cribbed' from, rather than just making up a location out of thin air?
+:I presume you're asking if "Left edge, two inches down" is a valid solution to any actual Where's Waldo(/Wally) illustration that Randall has 'cribbed' from, rather than just making up a location out of thin air? (The first few times I read it, I went down a grammatical Garden Path with "location map" as a compound noun, and then the rest of the question didn't make sense!)
-:Going by the typical size of the books (I found quoted roughly 6"x7.5" or 10"x12", closed book, and I think most scenes are double-page spreads) any given scene has perhaps between 96-ish) and 240 possible 'inch squares'. ("Left edge" is maybe between the left margin and the 1"-from-left vertical, though it could be 0-0.5", and all non-zero N-inches would be N±0.5"... So adjust your grid-counts accordingly. And you would likely change to a count from the right/bottom for any location not in the top-left quadrant. Possible even counting either side from the central-fold for "more middling" locations. But there'd be roughly the same ''number'' of inch-squares.)
+:Going by the typical size of the books (I found quoted roughly 6"x7.5" or 10"x12", closed book, and I think most scenes are double-page spreads) any given scene has perhaps between 96(-ish) and 240 possible 'inch squares'. ("Left edge" is maybe between the left margin and the 1"-from-left vertical, though it could be 0-0.5", and all non-zero N-inches would be N±0.5"... So adjust your grid-counts accordingly. And you would likely change to a count from the right/bottom for any location not in the top-left quadrant. Possible even counting either side from the central-fold for "more middling" locations. But there'd be roughly the same ''number'' of inch-squares.)
 :Apart from any tendency to have Wally/Waldo/Wenda/Whoever not ''right'' at the edge of the page (I don't see why not, it might be the last place you'd look, as much as the first place, if the 'reader' is trying to be methodical ...and probably more likely to be set as the 'solution' than exact dead-centre), that's not so many possible locations that the number of puzzle-book versions multiplied by their puzzle-page counts might never have this particular position represented by ''at least'' one page-spread.
 :I leave it to someone else to count up the possible number of images (to calculate the exact chances), or an actual ''collector'' to go through their bookshelves and give the chapter-and-verse (or book-and-page-number) of any actual match(es). I'm only susceptible to a certain degree of nerd-sniping. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.213.24|82.132.213.24]] 20:38, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

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	Would the description of the NRO's location map to any sort of actual Wheres Waldo image? [[Special:Contributions/72.138.52.174\|72.138.52.174]] 17:58, 1 October 2025 (UTC)		Would the description of the NRO's location map to any sort of actual Wheres Waldo image? [[Special:Contributions/72.138.52.174\|72.138.52.174]] 17:58, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
		+	:I presume you're asking if "Left edge, two inches down" is a valid solution to any actual Where's Waldo(/Wally) illustration that Randall has 'cribbed' from, rather than just making up a location out of thin air?
		+	:Going by the typical size of the books (I found quoted roughly 6"x7.5" or 10"x12", closed book, and I think most scenes are double-page spreads) any given scene has perhaps between 96-ish) and 240 possible 'inch squares'. ("Left edge" is maybe between the left margin and the 1"-from-left vertical, though it could be 0-0.5", and all non-zero N-inches would be N±0.5"... So adjust your grid-counts accordingly. And you would likely change to a count from the right/bottom for any location not in the top-left quadrant. Possible even counting either side from the central-fold for "more middling" locations. But there'd be roughly the same ''number'' of inch-squares.)
		+	:Apart from any tendency to have Wally/Waldo/Wenda/Whoever not ''right'' at the edge of the page (I don't see why not, it might be the last place you'd look, as much as the first place, if the 'reader' is trying to be methodical ...and probably more likely to be set as the 'solution' than exact dead-centre), that's not so many possible locations that the number of puzzle-book versions multiplied by their puzzle-page counts might never have this particular position represented by ''at least'' one page-spread.
		+	:I leave it to someone else to count up the possible number of images (to calculate the exact chances), or an actual ''collector'' to go through their bookshelves and give the chapter-and-verse (or book-and-page-number) of any actual match(es). I'm only susceptible to a certain degree of nerd-sniping. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.213.24\|82.132.213.24]] 20:38, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

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	The USA murdering children from the sky is not a fit subject for humour. I find this comic repugnant. [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)		The USA murdering children from the sky is not a fit subject for humour. I find this comic repugnant. [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
	:Well...while there ''is'' an [https://www.nro.gov/NRO-Kids/ NRO Kids] section at the NRO's website, no child labor is mentioned in [https://xkcd.com/1358/info.0.json xkcd's official transcript]. This estimation is a bit blunt to me, considering that I've found Randall's humor to be fine and precise (I mean...it's why we have explainxkcd)...and it seems rather important to the joke to take these as adult employees of the org, with their expanded adult capabilities. [[User:Elvenivle\|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle\|talk]]) 00:22, 4 June 2023 (UTC)		:Well...while there ''is'' an [https://www.nro.gov/NRO-Kids/ NRO Kids] section at the NRO's website, no child labor is mentioned in [https://xkcd.com/1358/info.0.json xkcd's official transcript]. This estimation is a bit blunt to me, considering that I've found Randall's humor to be fine and precise (I mean...it's why we have explainxkcd)...and it seems rather important to the joke to take these as adult employees of the org, with their expanded adult capabilities. [[User:Elvenivle\|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle\|talk]]) 00:22, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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		+	Would the description of the NRO's location map to any sort of actual Wheres Waldo image? [[Special:Contributions/72.138.52.174\|72.138.52.174]] 17:58, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

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	The USA murdering children from the sky is not a fit subject for humour. I find this comic repugnant. [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)		The USA murdering children from the sky is not a fit subject for humour. I find this comic repugnant. [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
		+	:Well...while there ''is'' an [https://www.nro.gov/NRO-Kids/ NRO Kids] section at the NRO's website, no child labor is mentioned in [https://xkcd.com/1358/info.0.json xkcd's official transcript]. This estimation is a bit blunt to me, considering that I've found Randall's humor to be fine and precise (I mean...it's why we have explainxkcd)...and it seems rather important to the joke to take these as adult employees of the org, with their expanded adult capabilities. [[User:Elvenivle\|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle\|talk]]) 00:22, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

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	similar to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3222#comic but SMBC goes much deeper and darker. {{unsigned ip\|173.245.63.174}}		similar to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3222#comic but SMBC goes much deeper and darker. {{unsigned ip\|173.245.63.174}}
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		+	The USA murdering children from the sky is not a fit subject for humour. I find this comic repugnant. [[User:The Cat Lady\|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:51, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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 The sentence "He usually is quite hard to find, which makes it challenging." is really bothering me.  I'm not sure what to do with it.  I considered deleting it or shortening it, but none of those feel right.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.218|108.162.237.218]] 18:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 What was bothering you about it? It was a quick and dirty explanation at the time, so it doesn't matter. [[User:Fizzle|Fizzle]] ([[User talk:Fizzle|talk]]) 21:36, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 Would "Government Facial Recognition" work at all via satellite? Wouldn't they do better with Governments Scalp Recognition? {{unsigned ip|108.162.245.117}}

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	Possible reference to xkcd.com/970? -CyanLights [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.223\|108.162.238.223]] 17:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)		Possible reference to xkcd.com/970? -CyanLights [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.223\|108.162.238.223]] 17:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
		+	:I don't see that. [[970: The Important Field]] is about private guns, but this comic is about real military items. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 20:53, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

	similar to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3222#comic but SMBC goes much deeper and darker. {{unsigned ip\|173.245.63.174}}		similar to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3222#comic but SMBC goes much deeper and darker. {{unsigned ip\|173.245.63.174}}

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	Possible reference to xkcd.com/970? -CyanLights [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.223\|108.162.238.223]] 17:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)		Possible reference to xkcd.com/970? -CyanLights [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.223\|108.162.238.223]] 17:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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		+	similar to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3222#comic but SMBC goes much deeper and darker.

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	Would "Government Facial Recognition" work at all via satellite? Wouldn't they do better with Governments Scalp Recognition? {{unsigned ip\|108.162.245.117}}		Would "Government Facial Recognition" work at all via satellite? Wouldn't they do better with Governments Scalp Recognition? {{unsigned ip\|108.162.245.117}}
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		+	Possible reference to xkcd.com/970? -CyanLights [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.223\|108.162.238.223]] 17:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)