Talk:1757: November 2016 - Revision history

162.158.33.131 at 23:44, 25 February 2024

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42.book.addict at 22:40, 25 February 2024

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162.158.178.42 at 21:19, 2 November 2023

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172.71.242.191 at 05:09, 11 May 2023

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Nitpicking: Philosophy!

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Philosophy!

172.70.142.239 at 08:13, 6 September 2021

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141.101.98.112 at 15:52, 3 April 2020

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Whoop whoop pull up at 18:04, 4 January 2018

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Ke4roh: Feeling old

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Feeling old

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 ::::Almost three million, as it turned out; the margin in the popular vote was greater than the entire population of Chicago. [[User:Whoop whoop pull up|Whoop whoop pull up]] ([[User talk:Whoop whoop pull up|talk]]) 18:04, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 ::::shush shush troll, nobody wants to hear your toxic lies [[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict|talk]]) 22:40, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 I don't understand how this is supposed to work. If I wanted to make someone feel old, I would pick an event that they think is fairly ancient and tell them: "do you realize you're *more* than twice as old as this?" Here, Randall does the opposite, he says: "did you know you're *less* than twice as old as this", so what? E.g. "Twitter has been around for a majority of your life" is true of anyone who is 0 to 20, so how is it supposed to make a 20-year-old feel old? Did Randall get his comic backwards or am I missing something?

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 ::: Actually, we Americans chose Clinton, probably by a margin of >1M votes once CA and OR finish counting.  [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 22:40, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 ::::Almost three million, as it turned out; the margin in the popular vote was greater than the entire population of Chicago. [[User:Whoop whoop pull up|Whoop whoop pull up]] ([[User talk:Whoop whoop pull up|talk]]) 18:04, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 I don't understand how this is supposed to work. If I wanted to make someone feel old, I would pick an event that they think is fairly ancient and tell them: "do you realize you're *more* than twice as old as this?" Here, Randall does the opposite, he says: "did you know you're *less* than twice as old as this", so what? E.g. "Twitter has been around for a majority of your life" is true of anyone who is 0 to 20, so how is it supposed to make a 20-year-old feel old? Did Randall get his comic backwards or am I missing something?

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	Today is May 11th, the day of Deep Blue's victory. I guess it's the time for humans to fight back. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.229\|172.71.154.229]] NaN:NaN, NaN undefined NaN (UTC)		Today is May 11th, the day of Deep Blue's victory. I guess it's the time for humans to fight back. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.229\|172.71.154.229]] NaN:NaN, NaN undefined NaN (UTC)
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		+	GTA IV: Just because people who were 8 years old at the time of its release '''shouldn't''' have played it doesn't mean that they didn't. The regulation of video game classification & restriction of mature content that the Hot Coffee debacle caused was established enough that it was getting flouted by anti-authoritarians, and some kids could manipulate older adults into buying it for them. As well the game's impact on pop culture was inestimable, now-dated though it may seem today (it held the Guinness World Record for the single highest-earning piece of media on launch day until Avatar came out the following year, and it retained that record for the video-game sector until its sequel dethroned it). Kids would have obviously gone to any length to play it or at least watch their friends do so. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.42\|162.158.178.42]] 21:19, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

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 ::Jurassic Park, Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Hood Men In Tights [[Special:Contributions/162.158.69.100|162.158.69.100]] 13:21, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 :::He has previously stopped at a given age and stated that anyone older should feel old already --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:43, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 But if I look in x years, then the entry at current age + x will have been there for (current age +x)/2 + x years, so if I look at it again after my age has doubled, the thing has been there for my entire life.

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	By philosophical, I mean this: a lot of the material I removed changed the purpose of this wiki (as I perceive it). It's ''Explain'' xkcd, not ''rate'' xkcd. A great deal of what I removed was the past editor saying how good he/she thought each age-reminder was, not explaining the meaning of it. I don't think I completely fixed the article, but I do think I ameliorated that. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 01:56, 3 March 2022 (UTC)		By philosophical, I mean this: a lot of the material I removed changed the purpose of this wiki (as I perceive it). It's ''Explain'' xkcd, not ''rate'' xkcd. A great deal of what I removed was the past editor saying how good he/she thought each age-reminder was, not explaining the meaning of it. I don't think I completely fixed the article, but I do think I ameliorated that. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 01:56, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
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		+	Today is May 11th, the day of Deep Blue's victory. I guess it's the time for humans to fight back. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.229\|172.71.154.229]] NaN:NaN, NaN undefined NaN (UTC)

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	It set the record for highest first-day earnings across all media types until The Dark Knight was released that summer.		It set the record for highest first-day earnings across all media types until The Dark Knight was released that summer.
	Fun fact: The Dark Knight was added to the National Film Registry last year (2020), along with Shrek. As of that year, there are six 2000s theatrically-released movies on the registry (Memento, Shrek, Real Women Have Curves, Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight, and The Hurt Locker).		Fun fact: The Dark Knight was added to the National Film Registry last year (2020), along with Shrek. As of that year, there are six 2000s theatrically-released movies on the registry (Memento, Shrek, Real Women Have Curves, Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight, and The Hurt Locker).
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		+	Just thought I'd mention: the huge edit I did a few days ago was a mixture of fixing incorrect usage (e. g. verb-subject agreement), oddly formal language (was a previous editor perhaps a non-native speaker?), and mostly philosophical.
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		+	By philosophical, I mean this: a lot of the material I removed changed the purpose of this wiki (as I perceive it). It's ''Explain'' xkcd, not ''rate'' xkcd. A great deal of what I removed was the past editor saying how good he/she thought each age-reminder was, not explaining the meaning of it. I don't think I completely fixed the article, but I do think I ameliorated that. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 01:56, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

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	The right one would be: such-and-such has been around for less than 50% of your life.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.112\|141.101.98.112]] 15:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)		The right one would be: such-and-such has been around for less than 50% of your life.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.112\|141.101.98.112]] 15:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Grand Theft Auto IV was merely "popular"?
		+	It set the record for highest first-day earnings across all media types until The Dark Knight was released that summer.
		+	Fun fact: The Dark Knight was added to the National Film Registry last year (2020), along with Shrek. As of that year, there are six 2000s theatrically-released movies on the registry (Memento, Shrek, Real Women Have Curves, Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight, and The Hurt Locker).

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	::Auch I feel old now, that I could make such a mistake. Thanks for correcting it. But at least I'm not 54 yet, but I do remember the day very well. Just happy Randall raised the bar since his movie ages, so my age is still on the list and so I'm not just in the "rest above 41 group" ;-) --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 15:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)		::Auch I feel old now, that I could make such a mistake. Thanks for correcting it. But at least I'm not 54 yet, but I do remember the day very well. Just happy Randall raised the bar since his movie ages, so my age is still on the list and so I'm not just in the "rest above 41 group" ;-) --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 15:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
	::: It happened to me. Twice now, thanks to this comic. The first time was in grad school, when I was a student over the traditional age, Another student put out a survey which asked age at the end, offering various check boxes where I had to check the last one. I howled, "The next box is a pine box!" [[User:Ke4roh\|Ke4roh]] ([[User talk:Ke4roh\|talk]]) 18:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)		::: It happened to me. Twice now, thanks to this comic. The first time was in grad school, when I was a student over the traditional age, Another student put out a survey which asked age at the end, offering various check boxes where I had to check the last one. I howled, "The next box is a pine box!" [[User:Ke4roh\|Ke4roh]] ([[User talk:Ke4roh\|talk]]) 18:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
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		+	Randall seems to be confused. If you think Twitter is young, then finding out that it's existed for a majority of your life would make you feel young. If you think Twitter is old, then of course it's been around for a majority of your life, it's old.
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		+	The right one would be: such-and-such has been around for less than 50% of your life.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.112\|141.101.98.112]] 15:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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 ::Sorry, but we Americans disagree with you.  Too bad, so sad. {{unsigned ip|172.68.55.83}}
 ::: Actually, we Americans chose Clinton, probably by a margin of >1M votes once CA and OR finish counting.  [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 22:40, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 I don't understand how this is supposed to work. If I wanted to make someone feel old, I would pick an event that they think is fairly ancient and tell them: "do you realize you're *more* than twice as old as this?" Here, Randall does the opposite, he says: "did you know you're *less* than twice as old as this", so what? E.g. "Twitter has been around for a majority of your life" is true of anyone who is 0 to 20, so how is it supposed to make a 20-year-old feel old? Did Randall get his comic backwards or am I missing something?
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 : If you want to feel really old, just remember that The Hoff sang "Looking for Freedom" in front of the Berlin Wall. ;) [[Special:Contributions/198.41.242.242|198.41.242.242]] 11:01, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 : Correction, 1989 is 27 years ago, half the life of a 54 year-old [[User:Rtanenbaum|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum|talk]]) 15:02, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 ::Auch I feel old now, that I could make such a mistake. Thanks for correcting it. But at least I'm not 54 yet, but I do remember the day very well. Just happy Randall raised the bar since his movie ages, so my age is still on the list and so I'm not just in the "rest above 41 group" ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 ::: It happened to me.  Twice now, thanks to this comic.  The first time was in grad school, when I was a student over the traditional age, Another student put out a survey which asked age at the end, offering various check boxes where I had to check the last one.  I howled, "The next box is a pine box!" [[User:Ke4roh|Ke4roh]] ([[User talk:Ke4roh|talk]]) 18:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

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	: Correction, 1989 is 27 years ago, half the life of a 54 year-old [[User:Rtanenbaum\|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum\|talk]]) 15:02, 10 November 2016 (UTC)		: Correction, 1989 is 27 years ago, half the life of a 54 year-old [[User:Rtanenbaum\|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum\|talk]]) 15:02, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
	::Auch I feel old now, that I could make such a mistake. Thanks for correcting it. But at least I'm not 54 yet, but I do remember the day very well. Just happy Randall raised the bar since his movie ages, so my age is still on the list and so I'm not just in the "rest above 41 group" ;-) --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 15:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)		::Auch I feel old now, that I could make such a mistake. Thanks for correcting it. But at least I'm not 54 yet, but I do remember the day very well. Just happy Randall raised the bar since his movie ages, so my age is still on the list and so I'm not just in the "rest above 41 group" ;-) --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 15:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
		+	::: It happened to me. Twice now, thanks to this comic. The first time was in grad school, when I was a student over the traditional age, Another student put out a survey which asked age at the end, offering various check boxes where I had to check the last one. I howled, "The next box is a pine box!" [[User:Ke4roh\|Ke4roh]] ([[User talk:Ke4roh\|talk]]) 18:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)