Talk:24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey - Revision history

85.76.44.170 at 19:13, 8 December 2025

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42.book.addict at 16:54, 19 September 2025

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193.207.181.115 at 16:32, 4 September 2025

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174.160.86.105 at 09:29, 2 July 2025

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42.book.addict at 17:13, 10 October 2024

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162.158.158.51 at 07:20, 30 July 2023

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172.70.162.155: Hopefully inadvertent miskey?

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Hopefully inadvertent miskey?

Ikr: not fractal

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not fractal

Dgbrt at 21:55, 10 January 2018

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141.101.76.16 at 10:20, 5 January 2018

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 "did you know the first porn photo was bestial in nature?" can this claim be sourced? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.51|162.158.158.51]] 07:20, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 I miss when xkcd also tried to build a sense of atmosphere à la A Softer World --[[Special:Contributions/174.160.86.105|174.160.86.105]] 09:29, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
 And if those weren't bubbles but rocks and boulders falling and eventually submerging the two stickmen? I also tought that in the first panels they could be snowflakes, and as the story goes on, they transform in something else (as it appens in Methamorphose by Escher) --[[Special:Contributions/193.207.181.115|193.207.181.115]] 16:32, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

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 :::This layout isn't an invention by me. But I think that it's correct to show some remarks, but if it doesn't explain the comic it belongs to a special section at the bottom. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 This comic is on the "incomplete explanation of the day" like twice a week these days. Is everyone just like me and literally helpless? Because we didn't have this problem when the two Online Communities were undergoing rewrites [[Special:Contributions/199.27.130.204|199.27.130.204]] 18:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
-:I think it's sill to require a 'complete' explanation of a somewhat abstract comic. Any 'explanation' is only someone's interpretation. ~~Bob 14:34, 13 May 2014
+:I think it's sill to require a 'complete' explanation of a somewhat abstract comic. Any 'explanation' is only someone's interpretation. --Bob {{unsigned ip|108.162.249.231|06:36, 13 May 2014 (UTC)}}
 ::There are so many elements of this to be explained.  I hope there is some hope of recovering some lost details of the NSA lecture. What a masterpiece of using the medium for abstract expression. So, I'm so thankful for a loose interpretation for 'incomplete explanation of the day' that brought the strip back to my attention. [[User:Eternal golden booger|Eternal golden booger]] ([[User talk:Eternal golden booger|talk]]) 17:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

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		+	And if those weren't bubbles but rocks and boulders falling and eventually submerging the two stickmen? I also tought that in the first panels they could be snowflakes, and as the story goes on, they transform in something else (as it appens in Methamorphose by Escher) --[[Special:Contributions/193.207.181.115\|193.207.181.115]] 16:32, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

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-I have been told during editing comic [[287]] that the trivia should be below the transcript. But can see here that this is not always the case. As I have stated in the talk on that comic it would make so much more sense to have the interesting trivia above the (in most cases) uninteresting transcript. I only look into the last if I cannot easily read the text. But the trivia info is always interesting to me. And often the transcript is long enough that I would not notice a trivia entry below. I may now know better, but new users may overlook interesting bits of info. If there is a "rule" I would suggest it was changed to the format that this comic had when I wrote this entry. Trivia before transcript. (Written here only because it is todays [[explain xkcd:Incomplete Explanation of the Day |Incomplete Explanation of the Day]]). [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:07, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
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 :The trivia section doesn't belong to any explanation. Like other wikis do, it's at the bottom of the page. If there is important content belonging to the explain section it has to be moved. Trivia means triviality and contains only some sidesteps to some similar issues or even more. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:54, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 ::Agree but the trivia header makes that clear. The transcript is  not a normal part of wikis so could have been at the bottom. That is just my opinion. I will not move any trivia sections! And I can see you have corrected the error here so the trivia is now at the bottom.  [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

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	Would a perspective rendering of an infinite checkered plane be a fractal? I don't think so. Escher's tilings of the hyperbolic plane are not fractal either. —[[User:Ikr\|Ikr]] ([[User talk:Ikr\|talk]]) 18:41, 18 May 2022 (UTC)		Would a perspective rendering of an infinite checkered plane be a fractal? I don't think so. Escher's tilings of the hyperbolic plane are not fractal either. —[[User:Ikr\|Ikr]] ([[User talk:Ikr\|talk]]) 18:41, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
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 ::There are so many elements of this to be explained.  I hope there is some hope of recovering some lost details of the NSA lecture. What a masterpiece of using the medium for abstract expression. So, I'm so thankful for a loose interpretation for 'incomplete explanation of the day' that brought the strip back to my attention. [[User:Eternal golden booger|Eternal golden booger]] ([[User talk:Eternal golden booger|talk]]) 17:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
-I had a sudden and strong urge to s/Godel/Gödel/g when I loaded this page. Maybe I'll leave editing it to someone less tired than I am. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span titlef="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:31, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
+I had a sudden and strong urge to s/Godel/Gödel/g when I loaded this page. Maybe I'll leave editing it to someone less tired than I am. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:31, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 I think the zooming in section is a reference to Powers of Ten ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_%28film%29 ) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 09:23, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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		+	:Thanks. It's a comment but not an explanation.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 21:55, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

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 Removed this comment from the 'Interpretations' section - preserving it here:
 ''While I feel this article can't be improved with rational arguments, I believe a standalone section with different hypothesis is a great way to tackle the problem. If the goal here is not to go into subjective interpretations of the comic, then I think it's better tagged as closed, because you obviously can't go any further by ignoring the symbols. (You may want to edit meta-comments out, but I wanted to make my point first). Please add to or adapt my interpretation to whatever suits you or the community here. It would be very nice if we could have a subjective section for people to explain what they interpreted out of the strips. 14:47, 6 May 2014‎ 108.162.219.24''
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