XKCD: It's more than a comic

Yet according to research the most common response, by far, to having one's message ignored for a time would be to reciprocate, that is to say, having one's own messages ignored for a time, so trying to manipulate someone by carefully crafting response times is likely to backfire.

Temperature Preferences

Looks like I'm already in the right place. I dislike heat, tolerate cold, and live in Vancouver.

But do you live in Vancouver because of that, or do you like those temperatures because you live in Vancouver?

Acclimatization is a thing. I boggle at the amount of effort Randall puts into comics like these.

This is what brilliance with OCD looks like. :D

Santiago seems just about right for me! Could do with a bit more rain though.

Your kind of screwed if you love them both.

You want more rain? Now there's an unusual preference for anyone who's not a farmer.

The layout for the chart is weird. The white part in the middle seems to be the cities with roughly comfortable temperatures, but the circles are what draws the eye.

Anyone who's recommending Addis Ababa and Bogota for people who hate heat has very different temperature preferences from me. They're both in the tropics! My preference is the Vancouver-London-Pars-Geneva-Portland section in the middle part of the left side.

Interesting to note that about half the cities in the far bottom-right circle (aka "hell") are in or near China, and most of the other half are in the US. Makes me happy I picked October to visit Beijing; it's pretty much the only decent month. But my current location (central-eastern Canada) isn't much better, ranging from roughly -25C to +35C if you ignore outliers.

edited 16th Nov '17 3:03:59 AM by Galadriel

What I like are distinct seasons, which are hard to pick out on these tables.

We got those here! Summer's summer, Winter's winter, and all that. But yeah, as temperate as it is it's still pretty dry on the whole. Nothing compared to the South where it can rain any day even in the middle of the summer (or the Austral region where it will rain any day). I like rain, maybe because it's relatively scarce (I'm born and raised Santiago).

Of course, then there's some parts of the North, where it doesn't rain, ever. If that's more your speed.

Addis Ababa and Bogotá are also both at high elevation, which makes them cooler than you'd expect from the latitude.

How to make friends

Reminds me of my attempts at dating.

"I want to be friends at you!"

I've known people like that. It feels very awkward.

I've had the overeager variant, where someone I had literally just met 5 seconds ago was WAY too chummy.

Nexus.

Uh, wasn't the bad guy in Ferngully named Hexxus?

Thats the joke.

The alt-text includes hating "vegetable-based shortening" (Crisco) and "Brak's brother" (Sisto) as reasons to boycott Cisco.

I mixed up Cisco with Crisco, so I read the ending of that joke differently at first.

I had to use explainxkcd for... all the references.

I had to do it for everything but Crisco and Kuzco. i bet most people had to search most of those.

I had Sisko (Deep Space Nine) and Kuzco (took me a while). It helps that I have been doing the DS9 joke for some time.
I don't even know the other references.

edited 21st Nov '17 10:59:16 AM by C105

Interstellar Asteroid.

That asteroid made me think of Rama (though I have not read the book).

I also liked the jab at the number of data points in the comic.