Talk:2824: Abstract Pickup
Revision as of 22:33, 9 September 2023 by 162.158.74.58 (talk) (Undo revision 323563 by 172.71.102.115 (talk) I'd sign this for them, but doesn't seem a validvcoment anyway.)
... nobody has anything to say? -- Dtgriscom (talk) 02:34, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
- self explanatory 172.69.22.144 02:54, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
- we just dont like pickup artists, not much more to say - Vaedez (talk) 03:01, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
- I do: I think it is weird it is White Hat who performs the pickup-artistry on the abstract painting. Given the character traits, shouldn't we expect Black Hat? --172.64.238.101 12:52, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
- I get the impression that, while Black Hat has terrifying and misanthropic tendencies, mere pickup artistry is beneath him. He is, after all, a classhole. I think White Hat (also rarely a sympathetic character) is being used because the casual jerkiness and disrespect (even in a slightly surreal scenario) would cheapen Black Hat's brand.Dextrous Fred (talk) 15:03, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
- (Got an Edit Conflict with Fred, above, who seems to have said much of what I do, below but snappier..! But resubmitting mine anyway.) I can't see Black Hat trying to neg a painting. And though BH's SO is notably familiar with and skillful in negging, I don't see it as being BH's MO. Even to make people's life a misery (and it seems a different kind of misery-making thing to nerdsniping or otherwise messing with everyone's heads... somewhat too personal, at least when not already personally provoked by the target of his actions).
- I'm less clear in my head about whether it's actually a White Hat thing, as I don't relate so much to him in any clear way (even as a counter-example), but I think it's his kind of equivalent to White Beret's misunderstanding of the 'sciences' (the whole gamut of soft-to-hard, from how to conduct a businesses to quantum effects), but in the field of the 'arts' or otherwise performance-related fields. (I really must check WH's profile/prior comics, to refresh my opinion on him, see if I'm remembering his general role in xkcd correctly enough.)
- In short, though the negging might be thought to deserve to 'dark-shade' the hat of the character, a little, it's actually a victimless aggression (against an abstract target, in more ways than one, which cannot suffer ill effects from any of this verbal psychdrama) and overwhelmingly it's a basic misunderstanding incarnated into an odd (but not 'impossible') behaviour. In neither BH nor WB 'territories' of wrongness. But I could perhaps imagine seeing a generic Cueball doing it, however, or even Rob in his odder moments... 172.70.85.2 15:13, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
- Sounds like we need a grey hat character...172.69.70.151 16:26, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
- I suspect the US holiday on Monday had a large portion of editors busy with festivities. Editing will likely pickup today! (See what I did there?) Ianrbibtitlht (talk) 12:54, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Should we add a "pickup artist" category? 108.162.241.217 15:57, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
I too aspire to be a cute dizzying swarm PotatoGod (talk) 23:00, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
- I already imagined you as a dizzyingly cute swarm! (But not a swarming cute-dizzy...) 172.70.162.34 23:13, 6 September 2023 (UTC)