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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic shows [[Cueball]]'s attempts to adjust a | + | {{incomplete|Created by an EDITOR WITH TOO MANY DEGREES OF FREEDOM. Needs review. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
− | + | This comic shows [[Cueball]]'s attempts to adjust a swivelling chair. As many people have experienced, these chairs can be quite difficult to raise, lower, or manoeuvre if one does not know how. Typically the chairs have multiple knobs and levers underneath the seat. One typically needs to experiment with them in a new chair to understand how to work the chair, and it appears Cueball is experimenting with them. This comically culminates in a massive chair with a big central seat and several other chairs branching off of it as Cueball continues learning how to to adjust it. The chair also apparently has so many controls it takes two hours to discover them all (although Cueball may have shown off his newly-discovered abilities in the mean time, so it might not take two hours of continuous experimentation). | |
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Each step gets farther away from what real-life office chairs could do. In sequence, Cueball finds his chair doing more and more surprising things: | Each step gets farther away from what real-life office chairs could do. In sequence, Cueball finds his chair doing more and more surprising things: | ||
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! Step|| Sound || Chair's Ability | ! Step|| Sound || Chair's Ability | ||
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− | | 1 || Clunk || Being able to recline the seat back. Many | + | | 1 || Clunk || Being able to recline the seat back. Many chairs do have this ability, which one can use for sitting comfort or perhaps to take a nap. |
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− | | 2 || Hiss || Being able to raise or lower the seat. Most | + | | 2 || Hiss || Being able to raise or lower the seat. Most chairs have this ability, but the comic departs from real chairs in two ways. First, it's much higher than any real chair. Second, he can raise the height while sitting on it; under normal design, pressing the raise/lower lever while sitting on the chair is how one ''lowers'' the seat, using one's own weight to depress the spring or hydraulic piston (which is what's used here, as indicated by the sound). However, it's not uncommon to find a chair that has worn out or been improperly calibrated, so that it does rise even when sat on (especially with lighter people), or does not lower even when not sat upon with the lever active. |
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− | | 3 || Poof || Being able to have the seat inflate | + | | 3 || Poof || Being able to have the seat inflate. Although this could be useful (e.g. to help people who need to use extra seat cushions because of hemorrhoids or coccyx injury), it is not a typical office chair capability. However, in addition to simply inflating, Cueball's chair appears to actually make the seat longer and wider. This doesn't seem to have a lot of useful application in office chairs. |
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− | | 4 || | + | | 4 || Unknown || Putting out branches and growing extra seats, wheels and backs. Chairs definitely cannot do this in real life{{Citation needed}} and use cases are doubtful. |
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− | The title text refers to a common claim on such chairs, that the chair offers 360 degrees rotation and several degrees of freedom. This is a double entendre | + | The title text refers to a common claim on such chairs, that the chair offers 360 degrees rotation and several degrees of freedom. This is a double entendre depending on if "360 degrees" or "degrees of freedom" is interpreted as an object. However, here it means there are 360 {{w|Degrees of freedom (mechanics)|mechanical degrees of freedom}}, which is the number of independent parameters that define the configuration of an object; in other words, the chair has 360 different levers and options, far more than a standard chair{{Citation needed}}. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball is shown adjusting a chair by pressing a button on the bottom of the chair. There is a caption in a frame over the | + | :[Cueball is shown adjusting a chair by pressing a button on the bottom of the chair. There is a caption in a frame over the tope of the panel:] |
:Adjusting a chair: | :Adjusting a chair: | ||
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:Chair: ''Poof'' | :Chair: ''Poof'' | ||
− | :[The chair is now a massive contraption. It has 5 bases, each with wheels as the original chair. The | + | :[The chair is now a massive contraption. It has 5 bases, each with wheels as the original chair. The mains seat is in the middle of the contraption with a single trunk going up from the five bases connecting them and the large cushion of the seat. Two entire chairs are branching out from underneath this central seat, they are each hanging in a thin wire more or less upside down to each side of the main trunk. Two poles are coming up from the central seat, each with a new seat and two back-to-back seat backs. Yet another seat is supported by a thin rod connecting the two top seats, looking almost like a table between the two chairs. Cueball, is still on the main seats cushion. He is holding on to one of the poles above him as he leans down and attempts to press yet another button beneath the seat. There is a caption in a frame over the tope of the panel:] |
:Two hours later... | :Two hours later... | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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