Talk:2758: My Favorite Things
Still no April Fools' comic? 😞 ~ Megan she/her talk/contribs 23:31, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Sadly --Purah126 (talk) 02:42, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
- guess there won't be one for this year youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 03:04, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
- Anyone have any news?172.70.131.182 23:32, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Frankly, I'm worried about burnout. Liv2splain (talk) 10:52, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Naw, I think there's life in explainxkcders yet...
- If you mean Randall, however:
- Complexity of necessary explanation doesn't necessarily tally with the quality of the comic (some might even say that the best comic is something real smart and yet perfectly understandable without much actual blather required by/from us),
- There'll be more natural and immediate zeroing in on the 'ideal' explanation length with each emerging comics, whilst it becomes a conscious decision by someone to decide to revist an early comic and completely rewrite (solo, rather than as part of a crowd) to the 'latest' standards of verbosity/succinctity.
- As xkcd lore grows, there's more back-referencing and expansion possible (c.f. "So... What's this boy in a barrel about?" vs the now established behaviour of any particular '<Colour> <Headwear>' character.
- Everyone likes some types of comic and dislikes others.. If a new Map Of The Internet came out, some would enjoy it (and then maybe rail against a boring Cursed Thing comic, afterwards), and some others might think it derivative (yeah, they got a good Cursed thing joke, straight after, but the Map just sticks in their mind as a bad decision).
- ...so I say enjoy or don't enjoy. There's a whole world of webcomics out there, and yet none of them is capable of being "every one a winner", by whatever aesthetic, metric or tally you might decide works for you. I'm probably missing some other rising (or risen, and favourably plateaued) star, by being right here, right now, but I feel happy enough to lurk here (and everywhere else I hang around). You do and think as you will. 172.71.178.187 13:20, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Table?
I'd like to add this table, but I'm not completely certain about it; it may be redundant to the transcript and comic itself, and just including the original lyrics would suffice.
| Original line | Cueball's version |
|---|---|
| Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens | Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens |
| Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens | Bright copper kettles leave... flakes on my mittens!? |
| Brown paper packages tied up with strings | Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer! |
| These are a few of my favorite things! | I've been bamboozled by Ea-nāṣir! |
Thoughts? Plus a version for the title text, most likely. --Jack (t|c) 15:11, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
