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xkcd 1 (As Far As I Can Tell): Wow, That's a Really Cool Baby!
This thread is for discussing the webcomic xkcd by Randall Munroe, the self-described "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Also for discussing the related series "what if?", giving "serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions", also by Randall Munroe. I'm surprised there isn't a thread for this already. If there's some rule against it, or if there's already a thread for it I somehow missed, please tell me.
The current comic as of this writing is xkcd 1651: Robotic Garage. Ah ha ha, classic Black Hat.
The previous webcomic is xkcd 1650: Baby. I need to say "Wow, that's a really cool baby!" in real life now.
Important links to be added later, my post count is too low to post links right now.
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2016-03-04, 03:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd 1 (As Far As I Can Tell): Wow, That's a Really Cool Baby!
This isn't the first xkcd thread. Every so often, Munroe posts something that sparks a bunch of discussion (Hoverboard, Time, Click and Drag), and a thread starts up, and then after a while the discussion dies down and the thread falls off the front page never to be seen again.
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2016-03-04, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-04, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd 1 (As Far As I Can Tell): Wow, That's a Really Cool Baby!
I'm a Prestige Class! Thanks Zaydos!
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2016-03-04, 06:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd 1 (As Far As I Can Tell): Wow, That's a Really Cool Baby!
It's not serial. Same reason I figure SMBC has no thread.
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2016-03-05, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-05, 12:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah. There's really not that much to say about most XKCD. I can only type "Hah, that's funny" or "I don't get this programming joke" so often.
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2016-03-05, 03:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd 1 (As Far As I Can Tell): Wow, That's a Really Cool Baby!
In general a comic that falls below a certain critical mass of update speed, ambiguity, and plot movement tends not to be able to power a discussion. I think the cutoff point is about twenty panels a week times about two weeks til certainty divided by six weeks per plot scene.
The other obstacle is when the comic treads on forum-inappropriate material. Considering how often xkcd goes political, it shouldn't be surprising that it's thread dies frequently.
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2016-03-05, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-05, 06:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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I was literally just throwing numbers and units at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Alternatively, XKCD typically has a strip length of 4 panels. One strip comes out 3 times a week. Plots are normally one strip long (with a couple exceptions). Thus XKCD has 12 panels per week and a plot length of 1/3 weeks. So it has a value of 36A, where A is the ambiguity or "huh, how did that work" factor. I haven't measured A for anything yet.
Either the plot length should be in the numerator or we have a system where only a certain range of values works.
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2016-03-06, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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How do you factor in strips like the XKCD 2008 Christmas Special?
It has 32 panels, but only 11 of them were "produced" due to budget shortages
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2016-03-06, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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I don't know how many kilograms Rockphed threw at the wall, but he might be too busy spackling it to worry about factoring anything now.
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2016-03-06, 07:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd 1 (As Far As I Can Tell): Wow, That's a Really Cool Baby!
Yep, Gunnerkrigg Court updates three times a week (with six or eight panels per page), has a continuity, and Mr. Siddell loves to drop plotpoints and then ignore them until way later (or at least after spending a few pages on a funny conversation), so it'd pretty much the prime example of something that generates a lot of discussion.
Last edited by Hiro Protagonest; 2016-03-06 at 07:58 PM.
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2016-03-06, 10:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-07, 12:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-09, 01:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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If anyone wants to try themselves on today's hovertext challenge...
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2016-03-09, 06:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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I recognize Texas, Florida and what I'm pretty sure is California. Then I'm done. That said, I still beat 90% of you at Swiss Canton outlines, so there's that.
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2016-03-09, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-09, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Eldan; 2016-03-09 at 11:03 AM.
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2016-03-10, 11:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ok, how do you convert radians into celsius?
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2016-03-10, 11:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-12, 06:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, what does an imaginary degree look lilke?
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2016-03-12, 07:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2016-03-12, 06:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-03-14, 01:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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So, as a group of GitP forumites, are there are questions we should submit to What If? Are there any blazing, unanswered questions in OOTS that could be answered by physics?
Like, could the Mechane stay up even with a magical source of power for her lifting fans?