Editing Talk:635: Locke and Demosthenes

...may someone explain FiveThirtyEight? [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 15:34, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

:[http://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight FiveThirtyEight] {{Wiktionary|AFAIK}} is the Twitter handle (and the name of his blog, which is now a part of the [http://fivethirtyeight.com NY Times]) of statistician Nate Silver. He may have chosen to use that handle as it is the number of votes in the Electoral College. And now that I've done all that research, I might copy this into the explanation. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])  17:13, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
:This is important and should be part of the explanation. I might add it, if I can find a way to work it into the current explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:21, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I didn't add this  because it might be wrong, but I'm fairly sure that Ender and Valentine aren't going to the formic homeworld, since that was destroyed by the M. D. Device, and I think that in Ender in Exile, Ender is shown to have gone to a mere colony of the formics. {{unsigned ip|Athang}}

:I agree with your interpretation, but the book does not come out and say such. For this reason, I changed the wording from "the former Bugger homeworld" to "a planet formerly inhabitted by Buggers". [[User:Smperron|Smperron]] ([[User talk:Smperron|talk]]) 04:55, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Someone may want to change the transcript about the squirrel vomiting. It's far more likely Peter is holding food in panel 1 and has dropped it on the ground for the squirrel to eat in panel 2...[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.212|108.162.250.212]] 05:02, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
:The official transcript states the former, so that was most likely Randall's intention when drawing it. [[User:Zowayix|Zowayix]] ([[User talk:Zowayix|talk]]) 18:55, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
::True to both. I have added that it doesn't look like it is vomiting, but added the link to the official transcript and noted both that it does vomit, and that it looks like it eats from the ground. The transcript here should describe the comic. Not copy the transcript from xkcd. But use it for clarifications. For instance the names are also not given in the comic, at least not for Valentine, whereas they are given in the official transcript. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:21, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
:::It makes sense that the squirrel is vomiting. Peter Wiggin, in the books, was a psychopath and an animal abuser, so what he fed the squirrel might have been poisonous. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.123.159|172.71.123.159]] 18:49, 5 November 2023 (UTC)