2198: Throw/Screen-shots

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  • Here are images from the dynamic comic 2198: Throw of individual throws and setting, including pictures of earlier versions, and different positions of the comics windows etc. These will be used in the main explanation by linking either to a section on this page with certain types of images or by linking directly to pictures that can be uploaded on this page. To help facilitate a detailed explanation.

Entire xkcd page with promotion

  • At the same time that the promotion comic was released the xkcd Header text changed to promote the release of the How To book. So for three days (from Tuesday to Thursday) the front page of xkcd looked like this with both header promotion and promotion comic on the front page:

2198 Throw - Front page promotion.PNG

  • This was, however, not the original text under the happy release day. That also changed during the first day.

Changes

  • At the time the comic came out the You option was not on the two lists. So the original image used on this page was also without "you". This was how it looked most of the first day it was out:

2198 Throw - Original without you.PNG

Errors

  • In the beginning when the comic had just been released. There an error in the text above describing the throw. So it said How far could George Washington throw George Washington? instead of How far could George Washington throw a Microwave oven?.
    • This was the case no matter what object was chosen together with George, except for the silver coins, and then when it was himself.
    • Here are three examples with George from that time.

2198 Throw - Original error George George.PNG
2198 Throw - Original error George Silver.PNG
2198 Throw - Original error George Himself.PNG

  • This was the same for all throwers, but only those which could throw themselves had the extra option, and for all the two coins worked. Here are similar examples with Pikachu, and three others below that with other persons. The squirrel could find another squirrel, so it doesn't and didn't have the third options that George and Pikachu has. One could argue that there are more than one Pikachu as well as more than one Squirrel (but only one ex president George Washington), but Pikachu gets a different treatment than the squirrel.

2198 Throw - Original error Pikachu Pikachu.PNG
2198 Throw - Original error Pikachu Silver.PNG
2198 Throw - Original error Pikachu Itself.PNG
2198 Throw - Original error Thor Thor.PNG
2198 Throw - Original error Chris Chris.PNG
2198 Throw - Original error Carly Carly.PNG

Functionality

Custom thrower

  • When the You option was added to the two lists, selecting the You thrower opened a new window, Custom thrower, over the comic where the name could be changed, and the height and weight could be adjusted and the Atleticism of You can be selected. This is a picture showing how that looks:

2198 Throw - Custom thrower.PNG

Throwers and Objects

  • Her are examples showing the 4 rows of throwers with the four first rows of objects, and then four more images showing random throwers with the last four rows of objects, as they can be displayed using the scroll bar. This is to show how it looks, as this cannot be shown in the comics page here.

2198 Throw - Thrower-item row 1.PNG
2198 Throw - Thrower-item row 2.PNG
2198 Throw - Thrower-item row 3.PNG
2198 Throw - Thrower-item row 4.PNG
2198 Throw - Item row 5.PNG
2198 Throw - Item row 6.PNG
2198 Throw - Item row 7.PNG
2198 Throw - Item row 8.PNG

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