Talk:248: Hypotheticals - Revision history

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	I just realized the guy could take the knife and break entirely out of any hypotheticalicisms...and take the knife AND ice cream with him into the real world. In theory, ice cream could be replaced by any object, including a perpetual motion machine, a gold block...Suddenly I really, really, REALLY badly wish hypotheticals ACTUALLY worked like this. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.106\|162.158.78.106]] 06:50, 27 August 2017 (UTC)		I just realized the guy could take the knife and break entirely out of any hypotheticalicisms...and take the knife AND ice cream with him into the real world. In theory, ice cream could be replaced by any object, including a perpetual motion machine, a gold block...Suddenly I really, really, REALLY badly wish hypotheticals ACTUALLY worked like this. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.106\|162.158.78.106]] 06:50, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
	:It's easy. Just imagine a hypothetical situation where hypotheticals worked like that...		:It's easy. Just imagine a hypothetical situation where hypotheticals worked like that...
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		+	Hypothetical lunch: If we had some ham we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs. [[Special:Contributions/98.22.184.160\|98.22.184.160]] 12:57, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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	I just realized the guy could take the knife and break entirely out of any hypotheticalicisms...and take the knife AND ice cream with him into the real world. In theory, ice cream could be replaced by any object, including a perpetual motion machine, a gold block...Suddenly I really, really, REALLY badly wish hypotheticals ACTUALLY worked like this. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.106\|162.158.78.106]] 06:50, 27 August 2017 (UTC)		I just realized the guy could take the knife and break entirely out of any hypotheticalicisms...and take the knife AND ice cream with him into the real world. In theory, ice cream could be replaced by any object, including a perpetual motion machine, a gold block...Suddenly I really, really, REALLY badly wish hypotheticals ACTUALLY worked like this. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.106\|162.158.78.106]] 06:50, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
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	Imagining a hypothetical situation is irony? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.205\|108.162.210.205]] 17:29, 28 September 2015 (UTC)		Imagining a hypothetical situation is irony? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.205\|108.162.210.205]] 17:29, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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		+	I just realized the guy could take the knife and break entirely out of any hypotheticalicisms...and take the knife AND ice cream with him into the real world. In theory, ice cream could be replaced by any object, including a perpetual motion machine, a gold block...Suddenly I really, really, REALLY badly wish hypotheticals ACTUALLY worked like this. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.106\|162.158.78.106]] 06:50, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

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	Even Deadpool would have a hard time on this.[[User:Gonemad79\|Gonemad79]] ([[User talk:Gonemad79\|talk]]) 20:13, 17 September 2015 (UTC)		Even Deadpool would have a hard time on this.[[User:Gonemad79\|Gonemad79]] ([[User talk:Gonemad79\|talk]]) 20:13, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
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		+	Imagining a hypothetical situation is irony? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.205\|108.162.210.205]] 17:29, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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 The reason for marking this page incomplete is itself incomprehensible, while the explanation itself seems perfectly fine. Can we just mark this as complete? [[User:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter|ImVeryAngryItsNotButter]] ([[User talk:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter|talk]]) 03:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 :My former comment was "Layout, language, that TV topes are missing, more...". Please do not remove that tag until it's solved. And right now we have some more issues here.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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 :I disagree - that would be to break into your room. Look at what happens to beret guy who eats ice with a "friend" who breaks out of the situation beret created! Beret would be stunned and then probably cease to exist :-) [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 I think the explanation is on-target except that a stronger case can be made for this referring to Douglas Hofstadter’s ''Godel, Escher, Bach'' than to a comedy trope. I have seen explicit and implicit influences of ''Godel, Escher Bach'' in XKCD (24, 88, 468, 555, 688, 917, 1153…). This comic is highly reminiscent of the dialog ''Little Harmonic Labyrinth'' (on page 103) and of the discussion of Escher's ''Dragon'' (page 524). Randall is playing with the weirdness of mixing levels (what Hofstatdter calls strange loops).[[User:Fewmet|Fewmet]] ([[User talk:Fewmet|talk]]) 16:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

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		+	Even Deadpool would have a hard time on this.[[User:Gonemad79\|Gonemad79]] ([[User talk:Gonemad79\|talk]]) 20:13, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
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	The reason for marking this page incomplete is itself incomprehensible, while the explanation itself seems perfectly fine. Can we just mark this as complete? [[User:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter\|ImVeryAngryItsNotButter]] ([[User talk:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter\|talk]]) 03:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC)		The reason for marking this page incomplete is itself incomprehensible, while the explanation itself seems perfectly fine. Can we just mark this as complete? [[User:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter\|ImVeryAngryItsNotButter]] ([[User talk:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter\|talk]]) 03:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
	:My former comment was "Layout, language, that TV topes are missing, more...". Please do not remove that tag until it's solved. And right now we have some more issues here.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 23:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)		:My former comment was "Layout, language, that TV topes are missing, more...". Please do not remove that tag until it's solved. And right now we have some more issues here.--[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 23:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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	I agree. The title-text is attempting to cause a hypothetical person to actually break into your room by making you imagine somebody breaking out of the hypothetical situation you are imagining about somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation. [[User:LogicalOxymoron\|LogicalOxymoron]] ([[User talk:LogicalOxymoron\|talk]]) 05:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)		I agree. The title-text is attempting to cause a hypothetical person to actually break into your room by making you imagine somebody breaking out of the hypothetical situation you are imagining about somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation. [[User:LogicalOxymoron\|LogicalOxymoron]] ([[User talk:LogicalOxymoron\|talk]]) 05:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
	:I disagree - that would be to break into your room. Look at what happens to beret guy who eats ice with a "friend" who breaks out of the situation beret created! Beret would be stunned and then probably cease to exist :-) [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 20:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)		:I disagree - that would be to break into your room. Look at what happens to beret guy who eats ice with a "friend" who breaks out of the situation beret created! Beret would be stunned and then probably cease to exist :-) [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 20:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
		+	I think the explanation is on-target except that a stronger case can be made for this referring to Douglas Hofstadter’s ''Godel, Escher, Bach'' than to a comedy trope. I have seen explicit and implicit influences of ''Godel, Escher Bach'' in XKCD (24, 88, 468, 555, 688, 917, 1153…). This comic is highly reminiscent of the dialog ''Little Harmonic Labyrinth'' (on page 103) and of the discussion of Escher's ''Dragon'' (page 524). Randall is playing with the weirdness of mixing levels (what Hofstatdter calls strange loops).[[User:Fewmet\|Fewmet]] ([[User talk:Fewmet\|talk]]) 16:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

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 ::Can you elaborate? I don't see anything wrong with the explanation... [[User:LogicalOxymoron|LogicalOxymoron]] ([[User talk:LogicalOxymoron|talk]]) 05:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 :::I did not say that something is wrong, I just did say something is missing. Most important is to explain "TV tropes". Most people don't know about this and so it has to be explained.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:37, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 I think the interpretation that someone appears in your room is the one intended.  The assumption is that the reader is alone, at their computer and Randall is asking them to consider the possibility of somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation next to them.  However I think the iterative nature of a hypothetical situation about hypothetical situations is the important part of the title text. [[User:Seanybabes|Seanybabes]] ([[User talk:Seanybabes|talk]]) 06:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 I agree. The title-text is attempting to cause a hypothetical person to *actually* break into your room by making you imagine somebody breaking out of the hypothetical situation you are imagining about somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation. [[User:LogicalOxymoron|LogicalOxymoron]] ([[User talk:LogicalOxymoron|talk]]) 05:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 :I disagree - that would be to break into your room. Look at what happens to beret guy who eats ice with a "friend" who breaks out of the situation beret created! Beret would be stunned and then probably cease to exist :-) [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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	I think the interpretation that someone appears in your room is the one intended. The assumption is that the reader is alone, at their computer and Randall is asking them to consider the possibility of somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation next to them. However I think the iterative nature of a hypothetical situation about hypothetical situations is the important part of the title text. [[User:Seanybabes\|Seanybabes]] ([[User talk:Seanybabes\|talk]]) 06:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC)		I think the interpretation that someone appears in your room is the one intended. The assumption is that the reader is alone, at their computer and Randall is asking them to consider the possibility of somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation next to them. However I think the iterative nature of a hypothetical situation about hypothetical situations is the important part of the title text. [[User:Seanybabes\|Seanybabes]] ([[User talk:Seanybabes\|talk]]) 06:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
	I agree. The title-text is attempting to cause a hypothetical person to actually break into your room by making you imagine somebody breaking out of the hypothetical situation you are imagining about somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation. [[User:LogicalOxymoron\|LogicalOxymoron]] ([[User talk:LogicalOxymoron\|talk]]) 05:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)		I agree. The title-text is attempting to cause a hypothetical person to actually break into your room by making you imagine somebody breaking out of the hypothetical situation you are imagining about somebody breaking out of a hypothetical situation. [[User:LogicalOxymoron\|LogicalOxymoron]] ([[User talk:LogicalOxymoron\|talk]]) 05:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
		+	:I disagree - that would be to break into your room. Look at what happens to beret guy who eats ice with a "friend" who breaks out of the situation beret created! Beret would be stunned and then probably cease to exist :-) [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 20:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)