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FaviFake at 17:01, 28 January 2025

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FaviFake at 17:00, 28 January 2025

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2023-06-06T19:20:15Z

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FaviFake: Split the page (and moved all its contents) into 3 pages to clean up and organize. For the "what if?" blog, what if? (blog). For the first book, What If? (book). For the second book, What If? 2. I've already fixed all redirects in every page.

2023-05-22T14:32:51Z

Split the page (and moved all its contents) into 3 pages to clean up and organize. For the "what if?" blog, what if? (blog). For the first book, What If? (book). For the second book, What If? 2. I've already fixed all redirects in every page.

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FaviFake: /* The book */ Updated article to accomodate for the bigger cover image

2023-05-21T13:58:17Z

‎The book: Updated article to accomodate for the bigger cover image

FaviFake: /* The book */ Moved up the original cover

2023-05-21T08:19:30Z

‎The book: Moved up the original cover

FaviFake: /* The book */ Removed useless small image, the covers are enough

2023-05-21T08:17:31Z

‎The book: Removed useless small image, the covers are enough

FaviFake: /* The book */ added new cover

2023-05-11T14:11:57Z

‎The book: added new cover

172.71.242.141: ...presumably what the prior editor intended to do...

2023-01-11T02:47:56Z

...presumably what the prior editor intended to do...

172.71.151.39 at 02:01, 11 January 2023

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−	{{notice\|Hello, I'm mostly known here for creating the huge table of [[2765: Escape Speed#Celestial_Bodies_and_Collectable_Items\|2765: Escape Speed]] -- Signature: [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 14:32, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
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−	I've organed the "What If?" pages on explainxkcd better, so we don't have a single page for three '''very''' different things. At the start of this wiki, this one page was only about the "what if?" blog, since Randall hadn't released any book. But then, after he published "What If?", we kept using this page for both the book and the blog, which meant that explanations of the book and the blog were randomly scattered across the page. This became even worse in 2022, since we kept using this ONE page for a web blog, and 2014 book and a 2022 book. All very different things that deserve their own, dedicated page.
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−	~~So, I've fixed all of that! All the contents of this page have been split into three pages to clean up and organize the previous mess. Here they are:~~
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−	* [[what if? (blog)\|'''''what if?'' (blog)''']], for Randall's web blog
−	* [[What If? (book)\|'''''What If?'' (book)''']], for the original book released in 2014
−	* '''''[[What If? 2]]''''', for the second book, released in 2022
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−	~~Before you ask, yes, I've taken all the necessary steps, such as updating internal links in 150 comic pages and adding redirects to the right pages. Thank you.}}~~

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 ==The book==
-[[Image:What_If?.jpeg|300px|right|thumb|The original cover of the book]]
+[[Image:What_If?.jpeg|260px|right|thumb|The original cover of the book]]
 [[Image:New_What_If?_cover.jpeg|260px|thumb|right|The new cover of the book]]
 [[Image:whatifcover.jpg|260px|right|thumb|The alternate cover of the book]]

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 ==The book==
 [[Image:New_What_If?_cover.jpeg|260px|thumb|right|The new cover of the book]]
 [[Image:whatifcover.jpg|260px|right|thumb|The alternate cover of the book]]
 Randall announced his ''what if?'' book on 12 March 2014 in [http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/03/12/what-if-i-wrote-a-book/ the blag]. It was published on September 2, 2014, and the UK edition of the book was published on September 4, 2014. It is the 2nd book published by Randall.

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 The questions Randall tackles range from realistic possibilities (e.g. the probability of achieving a {{what if|2|perfect SAT score by guessing}}) to completely fictional questions (e.g. {{what if|3|How much Force power}} can {{w|Yoda}} output?). In his explanations, Randall, often uses diagrams in an ''xkcd'' style. Regardless of the context, Randall tends to take the questions extremely literally and responds seriously to them, even if they are whimsical (such as the Yoda question). This is clear from his response to the question of what would happen if everybody on Earth stood together and {{what if|8|jumped at the same time}}. After acknowledging that the question has been answered elsewhere, he recaps the result, but then focuses more intently on the unasked resulting issue of the aftermath of everyone on Earth being magically transported to one location as they all try to return home.
-This site is''' '''not under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License] like [[xkcd]] is.
+This site is '''not''' under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License] like [[xkcd]] is.
 ==The book==