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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | {{incomplete|Created, '''for the sake of simplicity''', by a SCHWARZSCHILD ORCHID - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
+ | [[Cueball]] appears to be explaining a gardening-related board game to [[Ponytail]] and [[White Hat]]. The game mechanics being employed are ridiculously overcomplicated for a game that seems to be about gardening, but Cueball insists that they have been chosen "for the sake of simplicity", and could have been ''even more'' complicated. | ||
− | Features of | + | Features of the game include: |
* Tokens to represent competing gardeners | * Tokens to represent competing gardeners | ||
* Plots for the players to garden, both home plots and secondary garden plots | * Plots for the players to garden, both home plots and secondary garden plots | ||
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* Gardener attributes, including height and cardio scores | * Gardener attributes, including height and cardio scores | ||
* Hereditary trees to determine gardener attributes according to the gardener's ancestry - {{w|matrilineally}} refers to inheritance from the mother's side | * Hereditary trees to determine gardener attributes according to the gardener's ancestry - {{w|matrilineally}} refers to inheritance from the mother's side | ||
− | * Euclidean and non-euclidean space, in accordance with the theory of {{w| | + | * Euclidean and non-euclidean space, in accordance with the theory of {{w|special relativity}}. |
* The presence of particular species of flora that can warp {{w|space-time}} | * The presence of particular species of flora that can warp {{w|space-time}} | ||
− | + | The title text mentions that the space is assumed to be {{w|Euclidean_Geometry|Euclidean}}, which is what most people would assume since it corresponds to our normal experience, so this is not something that normally needs to be explained. But then it says that this isn't true in the vicinity of a Schwarzchild Orchid. An {{w|orchid}} is a type of flowering plant, which is relevant to a gardening game, but Schwarzchild refers to {{w|Karl Schwarzchild}}, a physicist who solved equations related to {{w|general relativity}}; the {{w|Schwarzschild radius}} is the boundary of a {{w|black hole}}, and spacetime is severely warped in this vicinity, so Euclidean geometry and {{w|Newton's Laws}} don't describe motion here well. | |
− | + | When the comic was first published, the third paragraph said "stamina scores". This was later changed to "cardio scores". | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
+ | :[Cueball is standing beside Ponytail and White Hat, who are sitting at a table with a board game.] | ||
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:Cueball: You may assign each gardener's token to a secondary garden plot within a 30-minute walk from their home plot. | :Cueball: You may assign each gardener's token to a secondary garden plot within a 30-minute walk from their home plot. | ||
:Cueball: For the sake of simplicity, each gardener is assumed to have a constant walking speed proportional to their height and cardio score. | :Cueball: For the sake of simplicity, each gardener is assumed to have a constant walking speed proportional to their height and cardio score. | ||
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:[Caption below the panel:] | :[Caption below the panel:] | ||
:If you're worried that you're making something too complicated, just add "for the sake of simplicity" now and then as a reminder that it could always be worse. | :If you're worried that you're making something too complicated, just add "for the sake of simplicity" now and then as a reminder that it could always be worse. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] |