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2017-12-14, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-15, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-15, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2017-12-15, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
The Worldbuilding Forum -- where realities are born.
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2017-12-16, 02:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2017-12-16, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-12-16, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cancer survival rates are measured from date of diagnosis, not from date of "cancer not showing up in the test". The "clear up" time is included in the seven years.
But to be precise, you can't "clear up" cancer. First, because every one of us has cancer cells somewhere in our bodies. Our immune system takes care of them eventually, but a perfectly precise test would always find some. Second, because when a cancer cell isn't killed soon enough and becomes a malignant cancer, there is always the chance that one of the little ****ers managed to escape treatment, and lodged itself somewhere else, and it is now slowly and inexorably growing again somewhere where your immune system can't stop it fast enough. Like with AIDS, the best modern medicine can do is try to ensure you'll die of something else, but at current time, you can never be cured of cancer.
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2018-01-03, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm surprised he didn't use LAX in today's comic to make a joke about lacrosse.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
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2018-01-22, 01:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hah! Today's strip fits quite nicely in the category described by the mouse-over text.
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2018-01-22, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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I specially like that the decline in quality predates the "ms paint era", which I can see someone argue the must have been some other, unidentified issue caused the decay, which only thanks to ms paint and powerpoint was it eventually counteracted.
(You know what they say about lies, damned lies and statistics? Same applies to graphs)
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2018-01-31, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1948
Yes, this does represent a real-world inbox. Go ahead, ask me how I know.Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-03-04, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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https://xkcd.com/1959/
A reminder from The Simpsons of how much time has passed.
And we find out the real reason why none of the characters age: at 11, Bart gets his Hogwarts letter.Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-03-05, 02:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-05, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-05, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-05, 10:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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It could be done. On the other hand, webcomics have come back from long breaks before. Monster's Garden, another comic I follow, abruptly stopped updating in October 2016, with no announcement of a hiatus or the end of the comic. There was no word about it for a year and a half, until it unexpectedly returned in February 2018, with a new page and a redesigned website.
The What Ifs have been halted for almost exactly a year now, It's quite possible that it will come back, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was done for good. Or maybe it will be like Shortpacked, where there is one new page per year (Shortpacked officially "ended" in January 2015, but there has been a new April Fools Day page every year since then).
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2018-03-05, 10:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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I dunno, I get the impression with the What Ifs that Randall is either bored with the whole idea, or he's discovered that collecting them in book form makes mucho loot and doesn't want to give them out free anymore! I guess time will tell which it is.
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2018-03-05, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-07, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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New comic will be coming soon, and the wait is making me tap the table a lot. Or maybe that’s the Cafine. Sometimes I cant really tell.
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2018-03-21, 10:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Can you imagine the trouble Randall went through trying to arrange those tiles?
Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-03-22, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2018-03-23, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Taking the risk of looking dumb.. Is there a deeper meaning to Wednesday's comic I'm missing?
Also.. I guess I really should learn more about this tax thing.. Though thinks are slightly easier in Germany. As long as you don't care about saving money.
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2018-03-23, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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If the basic level is "taxes are different from the other two", then the deeper level is "actually, no they are not". In the end, personal data, the economy and taxes are three poorly understood nebulous concepts that we nevertheless all participate in, whether we want to or not, and ignoring any of the three can have grave consequences. Yes, taxes has a more direct consequence for neglecting it, but not necessarily a worse one than having your identity stolen or (in the US, where they don't get a proper retirement safety net like you do in Germany) risk having no savings or income after your working days are over.
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2018-03-23, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Are taxes really that nebulous? I mean, the finer idea of how much you need to pay and what you can save maybe but... why they are there...? Economy seems most nebulous because it can kind of include everything, if you want..
Also, I was asking about Wednesday, the Domino one..
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2018-04-02, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, there’s a lot hidden in today’s comic.
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2018-04-02, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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https://www.xkcd.com/1975/
This is absolutely hilarious for such a simple single panel image.Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-04-02, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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RSS didn't work well with that...
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2018-04-02, 06:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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I spent way longer than I should have trying to "win" Games/Adventure.EXE. Although I was dissapointed that it still shows up as "exe" even if you got there via /home/usr/games/adventure. What is a Windows executable doing on a Linux system? Especially a text-based adventure game that you probably got by installing it from your default package repository. The answers for 20 Questions were pretty funny though.
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2018-04-03, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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I don't nearly have enough endurance to go through the whole comic, which I admit is a shame but it's funny nonetheless
Sidenote : has anybody an idea why there was no comic for Prof Hawking? I mean, he appeared before and Randall has done multiple comics in memory of recent deaths, so.. I was just wondering. Of course it could have no reason.
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2018-04-03, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams