Editing Talk:2221: Emulation

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This reminds me of Miii's "world.execute(me)" song.
[[Special:Contributions/172.68.10.172|172.68.10.172]] 05:06, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Does everyone else also see adds in the middle of the explanation now? It is extremely annoying. :-( Ahh yes, they do, there is a [[Talk:2220:_Imagine_Going_Back_in_Time#Google_ads|section in the previous comics discussion]]. Take further grievances there --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:40, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
:My first time seeing it: Right under your comment, LOL! I closed it, wish I could explain that it's because this is a really inappropriate place for an ad. They used to appear unobtrusively on the side, as they should be. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:56, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

I don't see any adds anywhere. ( I also don't see any ads in the middle ;^) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.160|162.158.78.160]] 11:34, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

:There's an ad (for me, on this device, just before I came in to edit ''((now gone - post-posting edit))'' ) directly between Kynde's contribution and 162.158.78.160's. Nothing in the wikicode, but I haven't looked at the HTML source yet to see what was inserted post-wikimarkup. But that wasn't what I came here to edit in.
:I was ''going'' to say that I've just bought a brand new mouse because my old wired optical mouse is flickering and failing, and I decided not to bother attacking it with a soldering iron (or at least seeing if I should). But I was disappointed to find no direct PS/2 replacement in any store, so this is USB instead. Going to try to dig up an inline USB-to-PS/2 dongle, though, and see if that works with this one's USB pinout, 'cos it's a total waste to put it through my actual USB hubstacks which are overoccupied with anything ''but'' HIDs, and asnlong as it passes the clicks and mickeys through I'd prefer my hardware to read it through that otherwise wasted venerable old port. (And if I can find a serial-to-PS/2 dongle, first, I think I have an even older device I can try, in the few days it'll take to get to the workshop where I know I'll find a proper replacement or three to try out..)  So, yeah, old hardware too, was my point, somewhere in tht ramble. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.127|162.158.158.127]] 16:42, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
::I note that this comment section ends with a wiki tag (i.e. inside two sets of curly brackets) that says the comic's name and "/Ads", I suspect that means "Ads are allowed here in this section". Probably ExplainXKCD trying to make more revenue. As for your thing, that's what I've always hated about USB mice and keyboards, especially when they first came out. There used to be a dedicated place to plug in the mouse and keyboard, without needlessly using up a far more versatile and useful USB (the U standing for Universal, after all), and it's not like either is really optional. Though my current motherboard has USBs in that location, so I guess I can treat them as dedicated, but it doesn't feel the same. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 05:05, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
:Ad blocker? :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 05:24, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

SNES9x is one of the main emulators of SNES hardware; since plenty of people running it are younger than an SNES would be, it seems appropriate to be the "created by". Thank you to people making emulators everywhere for helping prolong our shared childhood. (Also thanks to Vimms lair for unrelated reasons)

Actually, today's computers can take not just multiple floppy disks, but multiple CD-ROMs into RAM. Which itself is faster than it used to be. Talk about "near-instantaneously load" ... -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 19:26, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

[[Special:Contributions/172.68.63.5|172.68.63.5]] 20:18, 29 October 2019 (UTC) also related with these news https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/

Is the date on this comic accurate?  A Tuesday release? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.63.75|172.69.63.75]]

:Not officially (the archive says 2019-10-28), but it did come out awfully late. The bot created the page at 11:04 pm on the 28th<s>, but I don't which timezone.</s> UTC. --[[User:Ycthiognass|Ycthiognass]] ([[User talk:Ycthiognass|talk]]) 14:39, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
:I fixed the release date in the comic header to reflect the actual Monday release instead of Tuesday. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 14:53, 30 October 2019 (UTC)


I think the title text is just a feel-old joke and not a reference to science fiction or living in a simulation. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.42|108.162.216.42]] 05:56, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Did anyone notice that the explanation says "tying into the comic's theme of a lack of unawareness that something is being digitally duplicated.", which is a double negative, which means that it does know that something is being digitally copied? [[User:Sarah the Pie(yes, the food)|Sarah the Pie(yes, the food)]] ([[User talk:Sarah the Pie(yes, the food)|talk]]) 23:15, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

SCP-079 if the researchers just gave it more memory --[[User:Öbc|Öbc]] ([[User talk:Öbc|talk]]) 21:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

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