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Concerning the so called compromise of vandalising this page to make the vandal satisfied: That’s not a compromise but letting ourselves be exhorted by and obeying the vandal. That’s absolutely the worst we could do and would fuel the vandal enormously.
 
Concerning the so called compromise of vandalising this page to make the vandal satisfied: That’s not a compromise but letting ourselves be exhorted by and obeying the vandal. That’s absolutely the worst we could do and would fuel the vandal enormously.
 
[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 05:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 
[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 05:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
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::I agree with this. It ruins the article. Can't they just ban him? Or lock the article like wikipedia? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.161|172.70.130.161]] 05:48, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
  
 
== holave ==
 
== holave ==

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Anyone else want to play this (and the other bad map projections) as maps in a 4X/Grand Strategy game? Mazz0 (talk) 18:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Clicking on the original comic brings up the actual projection used, it looks like.

I'm on an old machine here (because it usually doesn't matter), and clicked on the image on the xkcd site to get the image, to be told that Your browser does not support WebGL :'( by the URL https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#-4.64274,55.45253 - I will have to check from a less 'primitive' device, but it looks like it's got a special click-through, which might be worth mentioning in the Explanation. I can check myself in a few minutes, but noting here first in case I get delay. 141.101.98.11 19:38, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

I have added the click. It opens an website app showing a Mercator with the North Pole set to wherever you want, with this one in particular set Mahé just as Randall said. Mapron01 (talk) 19:40, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Added a table, based upon some rapid pixel-analysis I did. No, I didn't include Indonesia, etc, and the "Africa size probably includes Madagascar" sort of thing could need sorting, but I mentioned that below so nobody is under misapprehension. 162.158.34.221 22:04, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

I think having the official size also be a percent of the world (or at least another column like that) would make it easier to see how the distortion affects the size. And/or distortion from a normal Mercator projection 172.70.230.143 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
That was my initial intention, or at least a percentage-of-reality column alongside (plus adding sorting to the columns), and maybe a differential between the two percentages just for fun. But I wanted to take time to make sure I was correctly counting how much area was (say) Eurasia but without Japan, etc. Maybe I'll actually get around to that shortly. There are other (formatting) tweaks I wasn't overly happy with in my original. 141.101.98.11 19:00, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Okey dokey. New table. Sortable, extra columns and 'real world' figures improved on. (e.g. "North America" is land-areas of Canada through to Panama minus all significant islands (though some of the Canadian archipelago might have been drawn in as contiguous, etc, etc, and I think I only included Alaska in my sums just the once). Which took a lot more effort than I'd have prefered, like including Peninsula Malaysia and not the offshore bits. I wish I could say I spent as much time on the initial image-analysis (at least include NZ N+S Islands as an entry, right?) and the raw data is now archived elsewhere.
I also augmented with footnote references, but not sure if I've done it right. Readable (defined in first instance, where used multiple times) in the source if anyone thinks there's any better ways of doing it (had my heart set on dagger/double-dagger/etc, but never mind). But there you are.
Enjoy! 172.70.90.63 23:11, 30 April 2022 (UTC)


Hopefully the vandal won't bother this one. 172.70.211.18 17:23, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Looks like they did, but they seem to be done because someone gave them the emoticon. --172.70.126.87 22:36, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
A mistake. We already know it's likely they'll be back at a later date with some other stunt to stroke their supremely fragile ego. (Whether or not things like this comment provokes them, I definitely consider my conscience clear in this regard.) But what happens, happens. 172.69.79.223 22:43, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Is it any surprise they're already back? The emoticon was a cheap excuse for the infantile, childish behaviour of someone without a life that gets their  shits and giggles out of being nothing more than a pest.Mapron01 (talk) 23:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

this page is kinda sussy tbh 172.70.214.81 18:11, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

[spam]

I have looked at the Wikipedia pages, and there is _no_ reference to Among Us on any map-related pages (and vice versa). What is your problem? 172.70.242.195 18:43, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

[spam]

I take it you're the vandal... Something (talk) 19:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

ID does imply they are the vandal, they were adding the lyricis earlier today...Mapron01 (talk) 19:23, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

I fixed the redirect they made of Danish going to the main page. I think some other pages got redirected into a redirect loop that should now be fixed. Flumnble (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Concerning the so called compromise of vandalising this page to make the vandal satisfied: That’s not a compromise but letting ourselves be exhorted by and obeying the vandal. That’s absolutely the worst we could do and would fuel the vandal enormously. While False (talk) 05:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

I agree with this. It ruins the article. Can't they just ban him? Or lock the article like wikipedia? 172.70.130.161 05:48, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

holave

exclamacioneve holave inefe eguntapre omoce uedope ayudareve ave esteve itiose inefe 108.162.245.43 02:53, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Does anyone know what language this is written in? I have no idea what this person is saying (asking?) and Google Translate wasn't much help. 108.162.246.178 03:09, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
eclaracionde oye one hablove ingleseve erope oye ieroque ayudareve esteve ikiwe inefe 108.162.216.143 04:01, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
My first thought was esperanto (or ido or interlingua, given lack of accents), certainly a latinesque-based language or conlang, but given the edits put onto this effort, it's possibly even sabotaged, or was written by someone for whom it most definitely not was their first language. (I even thought it was "Pig-esperanto"... This is that idiot who changed entire Explanations to Pig-Latin, I'm sure.)
I've got no real affinity to languages but I can recognise the possible roots of a lot of that. Some use of "...speak(ing) English..." is obvious in the latter post, for example, at an educated guess.
But I would say this is a prelude to some "I want you to wear bunny-ears when you revert stuff" thing, which I for one won't try to solve this puzzle for. (I'll just revert and revert and revert, if I'm around, and ignore the "trying to be clever" stuff. Nearly deleted this, actually, but restrained myself.) Otherwise, I leave it to those who know their conlangs better than me. Once it strays too far beyond technical English and its classical roots, I'm not really a linguistics person as I said, so it's useless to me whether it's an international message of friendship or extortion instructions. "Holave", whoever you are, but no thanks. 172.70.162.155 10:10, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

How will they shut down all their ports?

Yeah, it definitely looks like a conlang based on a Latinesque language, probably Spanish. "exclamacioneve" is probably "exclamacion" = "exclamation" (not sure why a sentence would begin with "exclamation"), holave=hola=hello, ayudareve=ayudar=help, hablove=hablo="I speak" (could actually be a different conjugation, but this is the most likely), and ingleseve=ingles=English. They seem to be saying "I speak English" (or "I don't speak English" if "one" means "no"). 172.70.130.5 14:11, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
"I don't speak English" seems more likely, so it's probably a good guess that "one" does mean "no." 172.70.178.199 14:15, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
It seems to be some sort of pig-Spanish, with punctuation written out. Decoded, it's “exclamacion hola fine pregunta como puedo ayudar a este sitio fine” and “declaracion yo no hablo ingles pero yo quiero ayudar este wiki fine”, meaning “exclamation hi end question how can i help on this site end” and “statement i dont speak english but i want to help this wiki end”. Kapostamas (talk) 15:15, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

How will they shut down all their ports?

(Somehow the thread got duplicated; I merged the threads) That makes sense. It seems like if someone wanted to help, they would at least use a real language. Do you think this is the vandal? 172.70.178.33 15:31, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Definitely the vandal. These were some of the vandal edit summaries on the last comic: "Orpe avorfe one andalizarve esteve aginape" "ise eviertere estove eve incluyeve unve emojive ede a'rbolve ede avidadne enve use esumenre ede edicio'nve, one ole olvere've ave acerehve" "one incluyesteve uneve emojive ede a'rboleve ede avidadene" @Kapostamas can you understand those? 172.70.178.33 15:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
“Por favor no vandalizar este pagina”; “Si revierte esto e incluye un emoji de árbol de navidad ne su resumen de edición, no lo volveré a hacere”; “No incluyeste un emoji de árbol de navidad”.
That is, “Please do not vandalize this page”; “If you revert this and include a Christmas tree emoji in the edit summary, I will not do it again”; “You haven't included a Christmas tree emoji”. Must be some earlier version of this “dialect”, since there is punctuation and diacritics are marked by apostrophes, making it somewhat easier to recognize as mangled Spanish. Kapostamas (talk) 16:08, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


(Written before 172.70.178.33 got posted, just above.) I'd stake my bottom dollar/peso/euro/whatever on it. Still, marginally entertaining, but not in the intended way (which is good).
As for the "Exclamation" start, two basic theories:
  • It's word-literal of "¡Some punctuation!" (partnered eith "inefe"=>"end), because the encoding system doesn't have punctuation, it reads it out (maybe literally, e.g. via screen-reader) and it's like a telegram convention "HAVE REACHED NORTH POLE STOP PLEASE ADVISE WHICH DIRECTION NOW STOP" (i.e. full-stop/period in word form).
  • It's a start that says "I exclaim (that)...", and the other "I declare (that)..." in a sort of grammatical necessity for this particular lingo. Similar to "Statement: I am a computer. Question: Are you a computer?" in (deliberately-?)bad scifi dialogue.
Possibly a mix of both, and also some tertiary ideas I have. And the word-for-word translations make a sort of sense in either/both/all these contexts. Not that I'd respond to them, but I'll gladly talk about them and actually do something intellectually interesting with the mess. Silk purse from sow's ear, etc. 172.70.90.63 15:55, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
What's the rule for "translating" into this "dialect"? It seems like it is very similar to pig Latin, but with a few changes? 108.162.216.17 16:27, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
As far as I know:
  1. Write your message in Spanish.
  2. Enclose each of your sentences between declaración/exclamación/pregunta at the front (according to closing punctuation – ./!/? respectively) and fine at the end. Remove original punctuation. Probably do something about commas as well.
  3. Remove diacritics.
  4. For each word, move the initial consonant cluster to the end. If there is no initial consonant (or if it's silent, like H), instead add a V to the end of the word. Then append a final E to each word.
Kapostamas (talk) 17:29, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Okay, that makes sense, thank you! It also looks like if the word ends in a consonant, you add an e to the end both before and after the moved/new consonant (group), because otherwise exclamación would become "exclamacionve" when it is actually "exclamacioneve." It also looks like we've been successfully 356ed by the vandal. 172.70.126.65 17:50, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
That supposes that they always applied their own rules perfectly. There are many places where this rule seems to be in effect and many where it doesn't; sometimes even the same word is transcribed in two different ways. Since my Spanish is rudimentary at best, I've simply included some of these E's in the transcription without noticing them. Kapostamas (talk) 19:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
It looks like they added the e-between-consonants rule in later messages. 172.70.131.106 19:40, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
That explains many of them, but there's still “eclaracionde” in the second message. Kapostamas (talk) 20:54, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
eclaracionede esaseve eglasere eque ese esele ocurrieroneve onese orrectasece inefe eclaracionede itace eclaracionde inefe uefe uneve erroreve ipograficote yve eberiade erese itace eclaracionede inefe inefe 172.70.126.65 21:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Hmm, more pig-Spanish.
After undoing the word changes, but leaving the grammar as-is, it says: "declaracion esas reglas que se les ocurrieron son correctas fine declaracion cita declaracion fine fue un error tipografico y deberia ser cita declaracion fine fine"
The first sentence appears to mean "Those rules that (either "they" or plural "you") came up with are correct."
The rest of it doesn't make much sense; there are even two "fine"s in a row. @Kapostamas do you know what this message means? 172.70.130.161 02:57, 2 May 2022 (UTC)