53: Hobby

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Hobby
The only one of these games I really played was Area 51
Title text: The only one of these games I really played was Area 51

Explanation

There is a genre of "shooter" arcade games which use fake guns as controllers and leads the player through a series of combat situations shooting "bad guys". Often times the games include "innocents" or "good guys" in the game which the player lose points or health for hitting. This comic claims that [[Cueball]'s hobby is going to drug busts (where police are acting in a manner similar to the players in the shooter games) and jumping out, drawing fire and making the police lose points.

Doing this in real life would be a really bad idea.

Area 51 was a popular shooter arcade game from 1995 which had this mechanic.

Transcript

My hobby:

When the police bust drug hideouts, I sneak in and hide. Then I jump out and startle them into shooting me so they lose points.

[A dead body on the ground in a pool of blood, with "-100" over it]

Trivia

  • The original title on livejournal was "My Hobby"
  • This is the fifty-first comic posted to livejournal. The previous comic was xkcd 52, the next is xkcd 55.


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Discussion

There was a later comic that referenced this one, and it should be mentioned in the Trivia. I don't know which one it was. 108.162.237.64 20:05, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Found it. It was #188. I'll let Wiki Magic take it from here. 108.162.237.64 20:08, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Done. --Alex (talk) 12:28, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
Something similar is in comic #347. 172.69.23.34[stalk the blue seas]UTSc


Explanation: are you sure it was the police who lost 100 points ?