Sex Dice
by Jeff
Image text: You roll for initiative, and ... [roll] ... wow, do you ever take it.
In this comic, there are two different groups playing two different dice games. However, the dice got mixed up. Instead of numbers, the first two are supposed to have another die with actions on them, as seen in the last panel. The "sex" die got mixed in with the kids Dungeons and Dragons set because they did not organize the game cupboard. The four people in the last panel are completely different than the two in the first 3.
The joke in the image text is a play on the word "initiative". In Dungeons and Dragons you roll for initiative for an extra modifier to your roll of the dice. In the image text, they are suggesting that someone accidentally rolled a sex die for initiative. And "take initiative" means to take charge to take command outside of Dungeons and Dragons.
Strip Games
by Jeff
Image text: HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF STRIP GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR?
Agricola is a board game in which you start out as a farmer with a spouse. It is a turn-based game in which you have two possible movements for each character you possess. Sounds enthralling...
Jumanji is the game played in the movie by the same name.
Poohsticks is a game played in the Winnie the Pooh books in which two "players" each drop sticks from a bridge and the first stick to make it to the end wins. Sounds enthralling as a strip competition...
Podracing is the type of racing featured in Star Wars Episode I.
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is a problem in game theory. It is the case that if two prisoners are taken into jail, but kept separate. If both choose to remain silent, they are given 6 months jail time. If they both accuses the other, they both will do 5 years in prison. If one accuses the other while the other stays silent, one goes to jail for 10 years and the other gets away scot free. When it is iterated, it is played over and over again.
Chess by Mail is just what it sounds like... and very slow.
Conway's Game of Life is a zero-player game and played by cells and here are the rules from Wikipedia:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.
G-Spot
by Jeff
Image text: The BBC lead was 'The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.' I couldn't read it with a straight face.
In the comic, the reporters asking about the G-spot article are attending the wrong conference and proceed to make a solar cells researcher very sad.
Natural Parenting
by Jeff
Image text: On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figured it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases.
This comic is saying that sex "comes naturally".
Sampling bias is a non-random sample of participants in a study. In this case, all of the participants were self-selected to be parents. And of course there is a pun in "mother of all sampling biases".
Suggestions
by Jeff
Image text: An hour later: SUGGESTION: LICK HER NIPPLE MORE.
This is a comic in reference to Facebook adding a feature that puts a picture of someone in the top right hand corner of the screen asking you to "Reconnect" with them. This comic takes that feature and extends it to a weirder and creepier level, as if Facebook is spying on you. Which I wouldn't put it past Facebook to do.
Orbitals
by Jeff
Image text: And now someone drunk and hot stumbles in, one thing follows another, and the next roommate to return home sleeps in the hall lounge orbital.
This is a parody on the Pauli exclusion principle of quantum mechanics that states that no two identical fermions (electrons, protons, neutrons, muons) can occupy the same state. In the case of the comic, the state is the dorm room suite. The highest lowest level or state is in this comic is your own bedroom, then next two lower higher states are the next two bedrooms, and the lowest highest state is the couch in the living room. The image text goes on to speculate that the next lowest higher state would be the hall lounge if the living room itself was "occupied" by a romantic pair. The Pauli Sexclusion Principle dictates that no two roommates can occupy the same "state" in the case of sexual activity and it dictates the order of "states" .
The pun on the name is that when one person is barred from their room due to the sexual activity of their roomate, this is known as "sexclusion".
EDIT: Also, I'm not quite sure whether or not the drawings of the couples in the rooms are very crude stick figures...