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** Note that the video was released within ''hours'' of the comic. Say what you will about XKCD's fandom, but ''damn.''
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** The TitleText for "[[https://xkcd.com/1187/ Aspect Ratio]]" mentions Randall mistaking "Anamorphic widescreen" for a widescreen ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' movie.
** The TitleText in "[[https://xkcd.com/1360/ Old Files]]" mentions him finding a file named ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF (presumably a fanfic), and quietly deleting it in shame.
** The TitleText in "[[https://xkcd.com/1360/ Old Files]]" mentions him finding a file named ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF (presumably a fanfic), and quietly deleting it in shame.
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** The TitleText AltText for "[[https://xkcd.com/1187/ Aspect Ratio]]" mentions Randall mistaking "Anamorphic widescreen" for a widescreen ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' movie.
** TheTitleText AltText in "[[https://xkcd.com/1360/ Old Files]]" mentions him finding a file named ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF (presumably a fanfic), and quietly deleting it in shame.
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* TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: [[https://xkcd.com/2874 This strip]] posits that UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} was designed by a committee that was trying to satisfy everyone.
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* ApopheniaPlot: In [[https://xkcd.com/2869/ "Puzzles",]] a bunch of child adventurers are looking for their aunt's hidden amulet. One of them notes that the aunt's name (Gertrude) starts with G, as does "ground", and thus concludes that the amulet is buried. Obviously, it makes no sense for Aunt Gertrude to bury her stuff just because she goes by a name that starts with the letter G.
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* AppealToWorseProblems: Demonstrated in [[https://xkcd.com/2368/ herBigger Probleme]], as an excuse for not helping to fix [[TropeName <problem>]]. Naturally, when [[ExcuseBoomerang called on it]], they don't want to help with <bigger problem> either.
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* AppealToWorseProblems: Demonstrated in [[https://xkcd.com/2368/ herBigger Probleme]], Bigger Problem]], as an excuse for not helping to fix [[TropeName <problem>]]. Naturally, when [[ExcuseBoomerang called on it]], they don't want to help with <bigger problem> either.
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* MyNewGiftIsLame: [[https://xkcd.com/2859/ "Oceanography Gift"]] has Cueball prepare "these water molecules" as a birthday gift. The upside is that sending the gift to someone who lives on the coast is as trivial as pouring water into an ocean 10 years in advance; the downside is that giving someone the most common molecule on Earth is extremely lame, and the recipient is not even going to get all those molecules since they're going to be spread out over the entire ocean. For an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of this trope, Megan seems absolutely touched by the molecules Cueball gave her.
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* DescriptionCut: Surely Creator/NathanFillion has [[http://www.xkcd.com/578/ better things to do these days]] than pretend to be [[Series/{{Firefly}} Mal Reynolds]]. Meanwhile, wearing a brown coat, "Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am." *ahem* "Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am." Made ''[[HilariousInHindsight even funnier]]'' by a certain [[ShoutOut episode]] [[Series/{{Firefly}} of]] ''Series/{{Castle}}''
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* DescriptionCut: Surely Creator/NathanFillion has [[http://www.xkcd.com/578/ better things to do these days]] than pretend to be [[Series/{{Firefly}} Mal Reynolds]]. Meanwhile, wearing a brown coat, "Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am." *ahem* "Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am." Made ''[[HilariousInHindsight even funnier]]'' by a certain [[ShoutOut episode]] [[Series/{{Firefly}} of]] ''Series/{{Castle}}''''Series/{{Castle|2009}}''
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: [[http://xkcd.com/1172/ In-universe example.]]
* ThinkingTheSameThought: "[[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/610:_Sheeple Sheeple]]" has several people each imagining that they're the only person capable of thought.
* ThinkingTheSameThought: "[[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/610:_Sheeple Sheeple]]" has several people each imagining that they're the only person capable of thought.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: In [[http://xkcd.com/1172/ In-universe example.]]
Workflow]], after the spacebar was fixed to no longer overheat the CPU, someone, who wanted their computer to interpret a rise in temperature as a control key, claims to have their workflow broken.
* ThinkingTheSameThought:"[[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/610:_Sheeple "[[http://xkcd.com/610/ Sheeple]]" has several people each imagining that they're the only person capable of thought.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[http://xkcd.com/1255/ One man]] tells the story of how UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus sailed across the ocean to prove the world was round, and a woman butts in to change the story so he ends up in [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Valinor]]. When he tells her to stop making stuff up, she responds that ''he'' needs to stop making stuff up.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: For an InUniverse example, [[http://xkcd.com/1255/ One man]] tells "Columbus"]] has White Hat tell the story of how UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus sailed across the ocean to prove the world was round, and round. Of course, people of the time already knew the world was round -- they objected to Columbus' voyage not because they thought the world was flat, but because Columbus would surely die at sea because he misunderestimated how long it'd take to get to Japan from Europe. As a woman result, Megan butts in to change into the story so he ends up in story, directing Columbus off to [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Valinor]]. When he tells her to stop making stuff up, she responds that ''he'' needs to stop making stuff up.
* BackAlleyDoctor: In [[https://xkcd.com/2850/ "Doctor's Office",]] Beret Guy provides some woefully inept medical practice to Cueball, giving him the Monday newspaper crossword instead of medical documentation, giving him pills to get colder, and apparently thinking that doctors are "like librarians, but for your bones and blood". All this is just because he was able to change his house's location type to be a doctor's office on Google Maps, but that doesn't explain how he apparently gets an MRI machine to install there.
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* {{Calvinball}}: [[http://xkcd.com/1507/ Metaball]] combines a football (or soccer ball) with a basketball hoop and baseball zone rules. The AltText further adds golf and ice hockey into the mix.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/1507/ Metaball]] combines a football (or soccer ball) with a basketball hoop and baseball zone rules. The AltText further adds golf and ice hockey into the mix.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2852/ Parameterball]] appears to be largely based on UsefulNotes/{{Tennis}}, with a twist: the court's size, the height of the net, and the size and density of the ball are randomized throughout the course of one game. One minute, Megan and Cueball are playing Parameterball the size of a table tennis match; the next, Cueball's struggling to get the ball over the net, both of which are taller than he is.
** [[http://xkcd.com/1507/ Metaball]] combines a football (or soccer ball) with a basketball hoop and baseball zone rules. The AltText further adds golf and ice hockey into the mix.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2852/ Parameterball]] appears to be largely based on UsefulNotes/{{Tennis}}, with a twist: the court's size, the height of the net, and the size and density of the ball are randomized throughout the course of one game. One minute, Megan and Cueball are playing Parameterball the size of a table tennis match; the next, Cueball's struggling to get the ball over the net, both of which are taller than he is.
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* CentipedesDilemma: [[http://xkcd.com/972/ "Did you know November is Tongue Awareness Month?"]]
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* CentipedesDilemma: [[http://xkcd.com/972/ "Did you know November is Tongue Awareness Month?"]]Month?"]] By being reminded that he has a tongue, Cueball realizes that it's in his mouth, and he doesn't like that.
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* NostalgiaFilter: A younger person assumes that journalism before the Internet was less damaging to her brain, and that newspapers had much better and more thoughtful opinions; an older woman agrees on the condition that they not go look at old newspapers to verify it.
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* NostalgiaFilter: A In [[https://www.xkcd.com/1996/ Morning News]], a younger person assumes that journalism before the Internet was less damaging to her brain, and that newspapers had much better and more thoughtful opinions; an older woman agrees on the condition that they not go look at old newspapers to verify it.
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** [[https://xkcd.com/1527/ "Humans"]] and [[https://xkcd.com/2090/ "Feathered Dinosaur Venn Diagram"]] both take a jab at the people who [[GoofyFeatheredDinosaur refuse to accept modern theories about dinosaurs]].
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* KidnappedForExperimentation: Implied in [[https://www.xkcd.com/1999/ Selection Effect]].
->'''Ponytail:''' Our research shows that compared to the overall population, people who agree to participate in scientific studies are significantly less likely to call the police to rescue them from our lab.
->'''AltText:''' fMRI testing showed that subjects who don't agree to participate are much more likely to escape from the machine mid-scan.
->'''Ponytail:''' Our research shows that compared to the overall population, people who agree to participate in scientific studies are significantly less likely to call the police to rescue them from our lab.
->'''AltText:''' fMRI testing showed that subjects who don't agree to participate are much more likely to escape from the machine mid-scan.
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* There also seems to be a recurring main character with a distinct personality ([[AuthorAvatar most likely the author's own]]), but since he looks exactly the same as all the other stick figures without hair or hats, it could be argued that he's just a stock character. He has picked up the [[FanNickname nickname]] Cueball.
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* GoldenMeanFallacy: Played for laughs [[http://xkcd.com/690/ here.]] The AltText explicitly states: "I believe the truth always lies halfway between the most extreme claims."
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** Played for laughs [[http://xkcd.com/690/here.]] here,]] in which Cueball tries to propose to 9/11 conspiracy theorists a compromise between their beliefs and what is commonly believed: the government plotted to crash one plane into the towers, while terrorists actually did crash the second plane. The AltText explicitly states: "I believe the truth always lies halfway between the most extreme claims.""
** [[https://xkcd.com/2846/ "Daylight Saving Choice"]] has the apparent resolution between people liking/hating daylight saving time: everyone who likes it should use it, and everyone who hates it shouldn't. Of course, since [[{{Jerkass}} Black Hat]] is the one announcing it, you can assume this solution will cause maximum chaos: if everyone's using their own preference of daylight saving time or not, then that makes coordinating time way harder since nobody can agree on what time is when.
** Played for laughs [[http://xkcd.com/690/
** [[https://xkcd.com/2846/ "Daylight Saving Choice"]] has the apparent resolution between people liking/hating daylight saving time: everyone who likes it should use it, and everyone who hates it shouldn't. Of course, since [[{{Jerkass}} Black Hat]] is the one announcing it, you can assume this solution will cause maximum chaos: if everyone's using their own preference of daylight saving time or not, then that makes coordinating time way harder since nobody can agree on what time is when.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/1025/ Or for a Tumblr.]] (Inverted in the AltText: "Dot Tumblr Dot Com" would ''not'' make AGoodNameForARockBand, due to potential confusion about its website.)
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** [[http://xkcd.com/1025/ Or Megan mentions that raccoons have gotten into her attic and started a "raccoon sex dungeon";]] Cueball responds by stating it would make for a Tumblr.]] good Website/{{Tumblr}} URL, with the subtitle mentioning that doing so has been steadily replacing how often he states that a phrase in question "would be a good name for a band". (Inverted in the AltText: "Dot Tumblr Dot Com" would ''not'' make AGoodNameForARockBand, due to potential confusion about its website.)
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* SchoolGradeHacking: Parodied in the strip [[https://xkcd.com/2385/ Final Exam]]. The students in a cybersecurity class are told that they have all failed and their grades will be stored on the server within the students' reach and only be submitted the next day. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong However, to keep the hacking in check, the game theory courses' grade is based on how close the grade matches 80% of the average score.
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* SchoolGradeHacking: Parodied in the strip [[https://xkcd.com/2385/ Final Exam]]. The Exam]] features the exam proctor informing that all their students in a cybersecurity class are told that they have all failed and failed, then describing how their grades will be failing marks are stored on the server within the students' reach in a within-reach database and only will be submitted the next day. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong However, following morning, as if TemptingFate for them to keep change it themselves. Since the subtitle says this is for a cybersecurity course, the trope is PlayedWith for the implication that hacking in check, the game theory courses' grade is based on how close database to alter grades isn't cheating, but the grade matches 80% of the average score. intended solution.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses:
** One of the biggest practitioners. The strip often bases comics on obscure math, physics, or computer jokes. This has gotten less common over time, and the forums are very useful. You may need to be knowledgeable in ''several'' possibly obscure or complicated fields to completely get some of the earlier ones. For example, computer programing, meteorology, cosmic rays, and tao philosophy. [[http://xkcd.com/378/ Really.]]
** Another example: Hand [[http://xkcd.com/730/ this]] to an electronics technician, and just sit back and watch the laughter.
** One of the biggest practitioners. The strip often bases comics on obscure math, physics, or computer jokes. This has gotten less common over time, and the forums are very useful. You may need to be knowledgeable in ''several'' possibly obscure or complicated fields to completely get some of the earlier ones. For example, computer programing, meteorology, cosmic rays, and tao philosophy. [[http://xkcd.com/378/ Really.]]
** Another example: Hand [[http://xkcd.com/730/ this]] to an electronics technician, and just sit back and watch the laughter.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses:
**ViewersAreGeniuses: One of the biggest practitioners. The strip often bases comics on obscure math, physics, or computer jokes. This has gotten less common over time, and though the forums are and [=ExplainXKCD=] remain very useful. You may need to be knowledgeable in ''several'' possibly obscure or complicated fields to completely get some of the earlier ones. For example, computer programing, meteorology, cosmic rays, and tao philosophy.
** [[http://xkcd.com/378/Really.]]
This strip]] has a number of programmers one-upping each other over their choice of text editors, until the last guy boasts that he uses a single butterfly to flap its wings, creating air currents to cause pockets of higher air pressure that direct cosmic rays to flip bits on a hard drive. So, in one strip: computer programming, tao philosophy, meteorology, particle physics, and computer hardware.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2702/ The What If? 2 Gift Guide]] suggests a number of gifts for friends in various science fields. Some of the jokes behind them are obvious enough to a layman, such as the gift for people with an interest in "animals" -- who in their right mind would give a gift-wrapped bobcat as an actual present? -- but others, not so much. The gift suggested for people with an interest in "puzzles" ("two goats and a new car") is a reference to the MontyHallProblem, for example.
** Another example:Hand [[http://xkcd.com/730/ this]] to an electronics technician, Circuit Diagram]] is a really bizarre circuit diagram that includes things like holy water, a tangled mess of resistors, and a gladitorial arena where two wires go in and only one comes out. To an electrician the strip might be a funny kind of nonsense; to anyone who doesn't know how to read circuit diagrams, it's just sit back and watch the laughter.a normal kind of nonsense.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/378/
** [[https://xkcd.com/2702/ The What If? 2 Gift Guide]] suggests a number of gifts for friends in various science fields. Some of the jokes behind them are obvious enough to a layman, such as the gift for people with an interest in "animals" -- who in their right mind would give a gift-wrapped bobcat as an actual present? -- but others, not so much. The gift suggested for people with an interest in "puzzles" ("two goats and a new car") is a reference to the MontyHallProblem, for example.
** Another example:
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** [[http://www.xkcd.com/1551/ 1551]] proposes an unorthodox solution by reclassifying it as "''dwarf Pluto''".
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** In [[http://www.xkcd.com/1551/ 1551]] 1551]], Pluto's features include a "Debate Hole" where "all the people arguing about Pluto's planet status" will go. The AltText proposes an unorthodox solution by reclassifying it as "''dwarf Pluto''".
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* {{Flanderization}}: [[https://xkcd.com/2832/ #2832]] is dedicated to a "typical urban planning opinion progression" regarding car-centric land development as opposed to cycling-centric development. It starts out with various characters having car-centric views and/or inexperience with the topic,[[note]]"I wish there wasn't so much traffic to get into the city. They should put in more lanes",[[/note]] then developing conclusions that car-centricism is self-defeating and unsustainable.[[note]]"Widening roads to speed up traffic makes them more dangerous to walk near, making walking more dangerous and creating more traffic."[[/note]] From that, the progression starts to devolve from reasonable conclusions against car-centricism to car-hating craziness, punctuated with BlackAndWhiteInsanity by [[WithUsOrAgainstUs pitting drivers against everyone else]], patriotic fervor for the bicycle-friendly UsefulNotes/{{Netherlands}} from a person who isn't a native Nederlander, and suggestions for city council to scatter tire spikes onto roads.
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* GrubTub: In one strip [[http://xkcd.com/1092/ Michael Phelps]] shows two people trying to catch Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps by dumping Jello into the pool... which he promptly [[BigEater eats in a short time]].
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* GrubTub: In one strip [[http://xkcd.com/1092/ Michael Phelps]] shows two people trying #1092,]] Megan and Cueball try to catch Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps by dumping Jello into the pool... which pool. According to the AltText, he promptly [[BigEater eats all of it in a short time]].
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* AntiAdvice: According to [[http://xkcd.com/1497/ New Products]], products that are critized by techies achieve great success, and those that are hyped eventually flop.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/2366 Amelia's Farm Fresh Cookies]] shows the back of a box of cookies, but instead of telling a story, it critizes the cookies made by the brand's founder's grandmother.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/2366 Amelia's Farm Fresh Cookies]] shows the back of a box of cookies, but instead of telling a story, it critizes criticizes the cookies made by the brand's founder's grandmother.
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** [[https://xkcd.com/1283/ This strip]] reimagines twentieth-century headlines if they were written to get the most clicks in the internet era, resulting in suck classics as "[[BlackComedy Most Embarrassing Reactions To The Stock Market Crash [gifs[=]=]]]".
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** [[https://xkcd.com/1283/ This strip]] reimagines twentieth-century headlines if they were written to get the most clicks in the internet era, resulting in suck such classics as "[[BlackComedy Most Embarrassing Reactions To The Stock Market Crash [gifs[=]=]]]".
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* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: [[https://xkcd.com/2836/ #2836]] is a {{parody}} of the classic ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'': three ghosts of past, present, and future haunt Cueball to teach him the true meaning of the holiday. But the holiday they are here to teach is UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve, not Christmas. As such, their lesson on the "true meaning of Halloween" is just them floating around his bedside and making various spooky ghost noises.
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* RelationshipLabelingProblems: In "[[https://xkcd.com/355/ Couple]]", Megan and Cueball discuss whether their fling the night before qualifies as a RelationshipUpgrade.
-->'''Cueball''': Well, will you be my "it's complicated" on Facebook?
-->'''Cueball''': Well, will you be my "it's complicated" on Facebook?
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* LamePunReaction:
** [[https://xkcd.com/282/ "We are no longer friends"]].
** [[https://xkcd.com/594/ "If I could get up I'd smack you"]].
** [[https://xkcd.com/849/ 849]] includes a pun, and the alt text says if you pull this on the teacher, the class will be moved to another room and you won't be informed.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2312/ #2312]]:
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** [[https://xkcd.com/849/ 849]] includes a pun, and the alt text says if you pull this on the teacher, the class will be moved to another room and you won't be informed.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/599/ As the Apocalypse unfolds around]] him, Cueball's first priority is to get himself the Erdos number of 1.
** [[https://www.xkcd.com/705/ Heroics?]] No, just a [[TheDeterminator sysadmin]] mad that the terrorists cut his connection.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/599/ As the Apocalypse unfolds around]] him, around him and the dead rise from their graves,]] Cueball's first priority is to get himself him and his math department colleagues [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos_number the Erdos Erdős number of 1.
1,]] from the now-reanimated Paul Erdős.
** In [[https://www.xkcd.com/705/Heroics?]] No, just a [[TheDeterminator sysadmin]] mad that the Devotion to Duty,]] terrorists hold up a building, tie up hostages, and cut the communication lines. The resident sysadmin kills everyone in his connection.path, climbs through ventillation ducts, and walks across broken glass... to reconnect the communication lines, ignoring the hostages.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2821/ Path Minimization]] presents the Lifeguard problem: a lifeguard has to reach someone drowning in a body of water and has to figure out the fastest way to get there. In addition to the three normal paths that each intend to minimize time, depending on how fast swimming is compared to running,[[labelnote:ie]] beelining the drowning person (fastest if the lifeguard swims as fast as they run), running to the closest point on the shore to them and then swimming (fastest if swimming is significantly slower than running), or somewhere in between,[[/labelnote]] the comic presents two additional options. One path maximizes time rather than minimizes it, going off the image's border, presumably travelling around the world, and then reconvening from the opposite side of the body of water. The other path moves away from the shore, gets the lifeguard a scoop of ice cream, and then beelines them to the drowning person. The AltText states that getting ice cream for a currently-drowning person is a social obligation for lifeguards.
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** [[https://xkcd.com/2821/ Path Minimization]] presents the Lifeguard problem: a lifeguard has to reach someone drowning in a body of water and has to figure out the fastest way to get there. In addition to the three normal paths that each intend to minimize time, depending on how fast swimming is compared to running,[[labelnote:ie]] beelining the drowning person (fastest if the lifeguard swims as fast as they run), running to the closest point on the shore to them and then swimming (fastest if swimming is significantly slower than running), or somewhere in between,[[/labelnote]] the comic presents two additional options. One path maximizes time rather than minimizes it, going off the image's border, presumably travelling around the world, and then reconvening from the opposite side of the body of water. The other path moves away from the shore, gets the lifeguard a scoop of ice cream, and then beelines them to the drowning person. The AltText states that getting ice cream for a currently-drowning person is a social obligation for lifeguards.
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* SelfImposedChallenge: In a non-video game example, [[http://xkcd.com/724/ This strip]], which shows a Tetris field with a curved bottom, inspired an actual [[http://www.swfme.com/view/1046212 Flash implementation]] of the game. It's pretty unplayable (that's kind of the point) with the usual Tetris goals, but [[http://www.metafilter.com/90888/Theres-also-a-Katamari-level-where-everything-is-just-slightly-bigger-than-you-and-a-Mario-level-with-a-star-just-out-of-reach#3034952 a MeFite]] pointed out the game is actually interesting and reasonably challenging if you try to end the game with as ''few'' pieces as you can.
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* Creator/MichaelBay: Knows the [[http://xkcd.com/748/ worst-case scenario.]]
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* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: [[http://xkcd.com/1052/ New Year's Eve Party]] concerns those fancy novelty glasses shaped like the year number that you'll see during New Year's. Cueball went the extra mile and got laser eye surgery patterned in the same way instead, and is having trouble seeing with it as one might expect.
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* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: [[http://xkcd.com/1052/ com/2718/ New Year's Eve Party]] concerns those fancy novelty glasses shaped like the year number that you'll see during New Year's. Cueball went the extra mile and got laser eye surgery patterned in the same way instead, and is having trouble seeing with it as one might expect.
