Another XKCD classic

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:57 pm

How to go to space

XKCD videos? News to me.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 2:02 am

Kraken wrote:How to go to space

XKCD videos? News to me.

It's not entirely without precedent (original here).

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:12 am

Hoverboard game

Make sure you stay in the play area.

Bakhtosh · Post by **Bakhtosh** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:07 pm

Finally got all the coins. Had to use the distance & direction console hack for the last 2 I missed in the star destroyer.

Image of my win screen - I left it on overnight and finished this morning.

Spoiler:

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:15 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Hoverboard game

Make sure you stay in the play area.

Does the area to the right ever end?

edit: yes it does.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:12 pm

Thought I was doing pretty good until I was suddenly inside a field and couldn't move.

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:51 pm

Wow, this is insanacrazium.

Bakhtosh · Post by **Bakhtosh** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:01 pm

If you get to where you can't move, try reversing direction while tapping "up". Worked for me getting out of the Lair.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:02 pm

145 in 3300+ seconds. I think. It flashed off the screen pretty fast.

Seriously crazy. Wow. I got a lot of the references, but there seemed a bunch that I wasn't sure. Maybe they weren't references. Hard to know.

I did find some areas of black that actually had differing degrees. If I got really close to the screen, I could actually see that there were areas within the black where you could move. I only noticed one area in the star destroyer. There were a couple in the volcano.

No. I'm not going back to get the 24 I missed.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:08 pm

"Sure, it may not meet science fair standards, but I want credit for getting my baking soda and vinegar mountain added to the Decade Volcanoes list."

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:16 pm

Conspiracy theory: There's no such thing as corn. Those fields you see are just the stalks of a fungus that's controlling our brains to make us want to spread it.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 9:34 pm

(1) That shopping cart is full of AirHeads, and (2) I died at 41 from what the AirHeads company spokesperson called 'probably natural causes.'

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Fri May 13, 2016 10:16 am

Bakhtosh · Post by **Bakhtosh** » Thu May 19, 2016 10:14 am

"If a wild bun is sighted, a nice gesture of respect is to send a 'BUN ALERT' message to friends and family, with photographs documenting the bun's location and rank. If no photographs are possible, emoji may be substituted."

Okay, someone is going to have to help me with this one. The only thing I could find was a little bit about man-buns (the hairdo).

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu May 19, 2016 10:21 am

Clearly he is referring to this guy.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Thu May 19, 2016 10:53 am

I couldn't find a satisfactory answer at Explain XKCD.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu May 19, 2016 11:14 am

I think it's a simple reference to peoples' tendency to point out bunnies to their friends and family when they see them. And spring is when you see lots of baby bunnies come out of their warrens. Baby bunnies are "special" and draw the most oohs and aahs from those who see them.

Baby bunnies are the "Kings" because they elicit the most attention and excitement from people who manage to glimpse them. Babies also grow really, really fast so they are only tiny and cute for a short period of time, making them "rare", I guess.

I live in suburbia and have let my backyard grow wild. I often have more than 1 bunny in my backyard, and you can often see bunnies on peoples' front laws at dusk. I almost always point out the ones I see to my family as we drive or walk along. It's basically reflex at this point.

I have no idea if my explanation is correct or not, but that's how I read the comic.

The punchline is that anyone not affected by the bunny magic would find this behaviour weird and alien. Hence the head scratching and questioning by the one dude.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu May 19, 2016 11:37 am

I am irrationally pleased that searching for "bun alert" already returns xkcd as the top hit. Well played, Randall, well played indeed.

Based on the image results, I guess it would be hair fashion related but there doesn't seem to be a specific bias for gender. I'm kind of disappointed on that front, because my initial impulse was to guess that it had something to do with booty pics (although the "smaller is higher ranking" aspect doesn't work in that context, barring specific carnal preferences).

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri May 27, 2016 10:47 am

'How long are you going to keep this up?' 'Statistically, only four or five more decades.'

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri May 27, 2016 10:50 am

I think I said this elsewhere, but there are also US soldiers in Afghanistan too young to remember 9/11.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri May 27, 2016 11:01 am

Daily Mail

For Air Force Captain David 'Swoop' Welsh, flying the legendary B-52 bomber is a family tradition.

The 28-year-old pilot is the third generation to fly the half-century-old aircraft; his father, retired Lt. Col. Don Welch, was trained to drop nuclear bombs from the B-52 during the Cold War, and his grandfather, retired Col. Don Sprague, flew B-52 combat missions in Vietnam.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri May 27, 2016 10:57 pm

Holman wrote:I think I said this elsewhere, but there are also US soldiers in Afghanistan too young to remember 9/11.

And you also pointed out that we're only a few years away from soldiers who weren't born before 9/11. Blew Wife's mind with those two tidbits today.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:33 am

I hate how the media only ever uses the first part of this quote, stripping it of its important context.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:34 am

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:54 am

Crimea disputed line on the extreme right side.

Bakhtosh · Post by **Bakhtosh** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:05 pm

Love the "Can you see familiar continents" part in the middle.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:06 am

It's like you tried to define a formal grammar based on fragments of a raw database dump from the QuickBooks file of a company that's about to collapse in an accounting scandal.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:25 am

I'm pretty sure I worked with the off-screen codemonkey (engineers who "taught themselves" to code made me... sad).

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 12:28 pm

Max Peck wrote:I'm pretty sure I worked with the off-screen codemonkey (engineers who "taught themselves" to code made me... sad).

How do you think I feel? That's the only kind of code I ever see.

Pretty hilarious xkcd though.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:17 am

Invisitext wrote:President Andrew Johnson once said, "If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:40 pm

Disclaimer: This may only be notable if you're the sort of person who still has their own personal hardcopy of Unicode 1.0 over there on the bookshelf.

I'm excited about the proposal to add a "brontosaurus" emoji codepoint because it has the potential to bring together a half-dozen different groups of pedantic people into a single glorious internet argument.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:13 pm

Spoiler:

Spoiler because it is very large.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 1:15 pm

[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 1:41 pm

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:19 am

Remind me to order another pack of coffee filters from Dyson. Man, these things are EXPENSIVE.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 9:37 am

The 78-rpm era was closer to the Civil War than to today.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:05 am

The Beatles were closer to WWI than to today.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:18 pm

hepcat, you should really stop forwarding your bucket list to Randall Munroe:

I got to check off 'Make something called xkcd' early.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Dec 05, 2016 11:20 am

Today, it's the LordMortis version:

Of course, "Number of times I've gotten to make a decision twice to know for sure how it would have turned out" is still at 0.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:32 am

Grammar is evil.

Hover: It me, your father.