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1549: xkcd Phone 3
2015-07-11T02:29:27Z
<p>173.245.54.90: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1549<br />
| date = July 10, 2015<br />
| title = XKCD Phone 3<br />
| image = xkcd_phone_3.png<br />
| titletext = If you're not completely satisfied with the phone after 30 days, we will return you to your home at no cost.<br />
}}<br />
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{{Incomplete|First draft}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This is a follow-up to [[1363: xkcd Phone]] and [[1465: xkcd Phone 2]]. It parodies common smartphone specs by attributing absurd or useless features to a fictional phone.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
!Feature<br />
!Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|'''Ear screen'''<br />
| An overcomplicated term for a speaker, connecting a screen which emits light to send visual information and the portion of a speaker which vibrates to send auditory information. Comparing the two makes a speaker a screen for the ear.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Heartbeat accelerator'''<br />
| A mashup of heartbeat sensor and accelerometer. May be some sort of external pacemaker. If that's the case, it's worrying that it only accelerates, potentially causing a positive feedback (heart attack). It may also be the result of the phone being so exciting or frustrating that it increases its user's heart rate.<br />
|-<br />
|'''MobilePay money clip'''<br />
| While mobile pay is a form of payment involving electronic transfers via cellphone, this model includes a money clip; a way of holding physical bills together, which defeats the purpose of electronic payment. Whether this is a clip that transfers money digitally or the phrase mobile pay is just a marketing tag is unknown. <br />
|-<br />
|'''Siri, or whoever it was we put in here'''<br />
| A joke on intelligent personal assistants. It also jokes that Siri and the like are actual people, trapped inside of phones.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Instead of being on surface only, screen goes all the way through''' <br />
| A reference to surface screens. Possible reference to smartphones with screen display wrapping one or more edges, like Samsung Galaxy Note Edge or Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, or dual-screen smartphones with screen on the back (usually e-ink) like YotaPhone 2, or smartphones with minimal bezel like e.g. Sharp AQUOS Crystal.<br />
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Screen going ''all the way through'' would leave no place for innards of smartphone: processor, battery etc, and unless each layer is designed to be semi-transparent to see the inner '{{w|voxel}}s' the inner displays would be unseeable anyway.<br />
|-<br />
|'''theknot.com partnership: Phone licensed to perform wedding ceremonies and does so at random'''<br />
| [https://www.theknot.com/ theknot.com] is a website that assists in all stages of wedding planning. Due to this partnering, the phone has apparently obtained legal status as a {{w|Justice of the peace}} capable of performing legally valid marriages. It exerts this capability randomly, however, so the phone's owner (or potentially any other unsuspecting bystander) could suddenly find themselves with a new spouse without their knowledge, generally an undesired effect. Whether this would result in unintentional {{w|bigamy}} or if the phone restricts itself to pairing up singles, or even enacts divorce first if necessary, is left unclear.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Fingerprint randomizer'''<br />
| Presumably randomises the user's fingerprint, which may or may not be inconvenient depending on the intent of the user. It is not clear whether the device will change the person's fingerprint into a human-like fingerprint that is randomly selected from all possibilities, or if it completely mangles the fingerprint of the user. Likely a cynical reference to fingerprint scanners, touted as password replacements but so far not very reliable.<br />
|-<br />
|'''USB E (hotswappable)'''<br />
| A USB cable that presumably charges the phone and allows to transfer files like normal, but this kind lets you perform {{w|Hot swapping}} (replacing computer system components without turning the system off) with it, which would be pointless because the USB will not affect the phone if you took the components out, so you can keep it in away. May be a reference to the eSATAp (Power over eSATA) hybrid port that is functioning as a USB and eSATA port at the same time. The Serial ATA bus interface has standardised hot swapping support.<br />
Furthermore, hot swapping of USB-cables has also been a primary design goal of the USB standard since its first inception and is therefore not worth mentioning separately other than for marketing reasons. Hot-swapping of the ''connector itself'' would be novel, but useless.<br />
The most recently released version of the USB standard was {{w|USB-C}}. A hypothetical next version would likely use "D" first, so the "E" is just suggesting being "more advanced" without any substantiation.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Waterproof, but can drown'''<br />
| Perhaps a reference to Siri or the person trapped in the phone drowning, but the phone itself staying functional. This is another human-like function, which the first 2 XKCD Phone comics had.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Foretold by prophecy'''<br />
| Likely mocking people on the internet who attempt to predict when Apple will release their next device.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Runs Natively'''<br />
| Usually a description given to ported software, as this statement doesn't make any sense when referring to hardware (notable {{w|Transmeta Crusoe|exceptions}} to the norm are few and far between). When software writers would like to run their apps on multiple platforms, they usually have three choices: re-compile the source code into each platform's codebase (often requiring tweaking to handle practical differences in resources between the systems); use a specially 'pre-portable' code that you can {{w|write once, run anywhere}}, such as Java, but requires a suitable interpreter to be written for each platform (and may still require code tweaks to absorb differences in implementations); create a specific emulator/virtual machine to allow existing code to 'see' the platform it was written for, despite the underlying system.<br />
Only the first option is 'running natively', often the most optimised and thus best-performing option, and is usually qualified such as "Runs <Software Name> natively", for particular packages full compiled upon that platform. It would also make little sense for the OS ''itself'' to be non-native, except when intentionally emulating another system (ideally on a more powerful system that can power past the inefficiencies of conversion and translation).<br />
Or, in this case, it may be that the phone has legs and can literally run.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Wristband'''<br />
| Probably mocking trending smart watches<br />
|-<br />
|'''Wireless discharging'''<br />
| Many modern cellphones feature wireless charging, which uses electromagnetic induction to charge the battery of the device. This model, apparently uses the same technology to discharge the battery; which, of course is something undesired, as one needs the battery's energy to run the phone. May also refer to the standard behavior of the phone's antenna, which communicates wirelessly via EM radio waves, but discharges the battery in doing so. It could also be simply and literally describing the nature of all cell phones, and indeed all battery-powered electronic devices, to gradually use the battery (discharging) when there are no wires attached (wireless), since wireless also means no power cord is plugged in (and assuming the absence or non-use of the aforementioned wireless charging function, which this phone may not even have).<br />
|-<br />
|'''Magnetic stripe'''<br />
| Likely a dig at the NFC (near-field communication) wireless radio modules in many modern phones. NFC allows, among others functions, mobile payment. This magnetic stripe could be a cheap way to imitate payment functionality, but "compatible" with classic credit cards.<br />
Magnetic stripes are a data storage method used by devices such as credit cards and key cards to hold and transfer small amounts of information like key codes. Usually cellphones don't have them as they utilize more robust and protected ways to store and transmit data (such as NFC). The magnetic stripe shown would likely be unusable with current magnetic stripe readers due to the phone's thickness, in contrast to that of regular cards, thus breaking all imagined 'compatibility' arguments.<br />
It would also be very annoying as it seems to block part of the screen.<br />
|-<br />
|'''2 AA batteries (not included)'''<br />
| A phrase usually shown on small low powered electronic devices like remote controllers, and not on cellphones; which use lithium ion batteries and need to be constantly recharged for continuous use.<br />
The apparent thin-ness of the phone (according to the scale as judged by the wristband) would also preclude inserting AA-batteries, unless a protruding battery compartment is hidden out of view on the back of the phone.<br />
Alternatively could mean two Anti-Aircraft (artillery) batteries.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Boneless'''<br />
| Reference to meat or fish products being boneless, i.e. having all the bones removed, making it convenient to cook or eat. Unclear why a phone would be boneless since it is mostly inedible, perhaps a reference to the person trapped inside having their bones removed to make them easier to fit inside, or stating that the phone is flexible. (A possible reference to the iPhone 6's reported problems with its chassis, where it {{w|IPhone 6#Chassis bending|could bend under pressure}})<br />
|}<br />
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The phrase "We made another one®©™" is a reference to how phone companies release new phones very often, and the trademarks that surround the phone itself.<br />
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The title text is a joke on guarantees and customer service. Usually the advertisement says that if the customer is not satisfied with the product, they'll refund the money and take the product back at no additional cost. In this case they guarantee the customer they'll send him/her home without charge; implying they won't fix or refund anything. Or that (due to anticipated but unspecified faults of some kind), the phone's owner will ''need'' help to get back home when things go wrong, and probably be thankful for such assistance, in yet another example of a worryingly non-specific 'reassurance'.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Ear screen<br />
:Heartbeat accelerator<br />
:MobilePay money clip<br />
:Siri, or whoever it was we put in here<br />
:Instead of being on surface only, screen goes all the way through<br />
:theknot.con partnership: Phone licensed to perform wedding ceremonies and does so at random<br />
:Fingerprint randomizer<br />
:USB E (hotswappable)<br />
:waterproof, but can drown<br />
:Foretold by prophecy<br />
:Runs Natively<br />
:Wristband<br />
:Wireless discharging<br />
:Magnetic stripe<br />
:2 AA batteries (not included)<br />
:boneless<br />
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:Introducing<br />
:The XKCD phone 3<br />
:we made another one<sup>&reg;&copy;</sup>&trade;<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Smartphones]]</div>
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1122:_Electoral_Precedent&diff=68340
1122: Electoral Precedent
2014-05-30T03:21:56Z
<p>173.245.54.90: Spelling errors: "middel", "loose"</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1122<br />
| date = October 17, 2012<br />
| title = Electoral Precedent<br />
| image = electoral_precedent.png<br />
| titletext = No white guy who's been mentioned on twitter has gone on to win.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
During election season in U.S. presidential elections — and especially in election night coverage — it is common for the media to make comments like the ones set out in the first panel of this comic. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] is demonstrating the problem with making such statements, many of which simply come down to coincidence.<br />
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After the first panel the next 56 panels in this comic refer to each one of the {{w|United_States_presidential_election#Electoral_college_results|56 presidential elections}} in U.S. history before {{w|Barack Obama|Obama's}} re-election in 2012. The panels depict a pre-election commentator noting a quality or condition that has never occurred to a candidate, until one of the candidates in that election broke the streak. In other words, one can always find at least one unique thing about a candidate who has gone on to win (or in some cases, lose) or the circumstances under which they won (or lost) that is unique from all previous winners (or losers). As the years pass on, these 'streaks' become more and more nested and complicated, and then brought by Randall to the point of absurdity by pointing out very trivial things, such as "No Democratic {{w|incumbent}} without combat experience has ever beaten someone whose first name is worth more in {{w|Scrabble}}" (1996).<br />
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The flaw made by pundits while reporting such streaks is that there will always be ''something'' that has never happened before in an election, and they purport to suggest that these things are related to the candidate's win or loss. Randall considers this a logical flaw. A common one is, as noted in several panels, candidates can't win without winning certain states. The question, however, is one of {{w|Correlation does not imply causation|cause or effect}}.<br />
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Given that there have only been 56 elections, there are always going to be things that haven't happened before. If you go out looking for them, you're sure to find some. There is no magic about why these events haven't happened. In most cases, it is merely coincidence.<br />
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In the last two panels two more statements like the previous are given - they were both true before the {{w|United States presidential election, 2012|election in 2012}} on November the 6th. The comic came out in the middle of the campaign on October the 17th. The statements were constructed so that the first predicts that Obama can't win over {{w|Mitt Romney}}, and the second that he cannot lose. As Obama won the election he thus ended the streak ''Democratic incumbents never beat taller challengers'' whereas the other streak is still valid.<br />
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The title text refers to the fact that {{w|Twitter}} was founded in 2006. Obama won in 2008, so it is true that no white person mentioned on Twitter has ever gone on to win the presidency; although certainly some former presidents, all of whom were white, have subsequently been mentioned on Twitter.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:The problem with statements like<br />
:"No <party> candidate has won the election without <state>"<br />
:Or<br />
:"No president has been reelected under <circumstances>"<br />
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:{{w|United States presidential election, 1788-1789|1788}}... No one has been elected president before. ...But Washington was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1792|1792}}... No incumbent has ever been reelected. ...Until Washington.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1796|1796}}... No one without false teeth has become president. ...But Adams did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1800|1800}}... No challenger has beaten an incumbent. ...But Jefferson did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1804|1804}}... No incumbent has beaten a challenger. ...Until Jefferson.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1808|1808}}... No congressman has ever become president. ...Until Madison.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1812|1812}}... No one can win without New York. ...But Madison did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1816|1816}}... No candidate who doesn't wear a wig can get elected. ...Until Monroe was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1820|1820}}... No one who wears pants instead of breeches can be reelected. ...But Monroe was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1824|1824}}... No one has ever won without a popular majority. ...J.Q. Adams did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1828|1828}}... Only people from Massachusetts and Virginia can win. ...Until Jackson did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1832|1832}}... The only presidents who get reelected are Virginians. ...Until Jackson.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1836|1836}}... New Yorkers always lose. ...Until Van Buren.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1840|1840}}... No one over 65 has won the presidency. ...Until Harrison did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1844|1844}}... No one who's lost his home state has won. ...But Polk did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1848|1848}}... The Democrats don't lose when they win Pennsylvania. ...But they did in 1848.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1852|1852}}... New England Democrats can't win. ...Until Pierce did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1856|1856}}... No one can become president without getting married. ...Until Buchanan did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1860|1860}}... No one over 6'3" can get elected. ...Until Lincoln.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1864|1864}}... No one with a beard has been reelected. ...But Lincoln was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1868|1868}}... No one can be president if their parent are alive. ...Until Grant.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1872|1872}}... No one with a beard has been reelected in peacetime. ...Until Grant was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1876|1876}}... No one can win a majority of the popular vote and still lose. ...Tilden did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1880|1880}}... As goes California, so goes the nation. ...Until it went Hancock.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1884|1884}}... Candidates named "James" can't lose. ...Until James Blaine.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1888|1888}}... No sitting president has been beaten since the Civil War. ...Cleveland was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1892|1892}}... No former president has been elected. ...Until Cleveland.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1896|1896}}... Tall midwesterners are unbeatable. ...Bryan wasn't.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1900|1900}}... No Republican shorter than 5'8" has been reelected. ...Until McKinley was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1904|1904}}... No one under 45 has become president. ...Roosevelt did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1908|1908}}... No Republican who hasn't served in the military has won. ...Until Taft.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1912|1912}}... After Lincoln beat the Democrats while sporting a beard with no mustache, the only Democrats who can win have a mustache with no beard. ...Wilson had neither.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1916|1916}}... No Democrat has won without Indiana. ...Wilson did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1920|1920}}... No incumbent senator has won. ...Until Harding.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1924|1924}}... No one with two Cs in their name has become president. ...Until Calvin Coolidge.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1928|1928}}... No one who got ten million votes has lost. ...Until Al Smith.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1932|1932}}... No Democrat has won since women secured the right to vote. ...Until FDR did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1936|1936}}... No President's been reelected with double-digit unemployment. ...Until FDR was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1940|1940}}... No one has won a third term. ...Until FDR did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1944|1944}}... No Democrat has won during wartime. ...Until FDR did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1948|1948}}... Democrats can't win without Alabama. ...Truman did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1952|1952}}... No Republican has won without winning the House or Senate. ...Eisenhower did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1956|1956}}... No Republican has won without Missouri. ...Until Eisenhower.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1960|1960}}... Republicans without facial hair are unbeatable. ...Kennedy beat Nixon.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1964|1964}}... No Democrat has won without Georgia. ...Johnson did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1968|1968}}... No Republican vice president has risen to the Presidency through an election. ...Until Nixon.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1972|1972}}... No wartime candidate has won without Massachusetts. ...Until Nixon did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1976|1976}}... No one who lost New Mexico has won. ...But Carter did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1980|1980}}... No one has been elected President after a divorce. ...Until Reagan was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1984|1984}}... No left-handed president has been reelected. ...Until Reagan was.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1988|1988}}... No Democrat who has won Wisconsin (without being from there) has lost. ...Until Dukakis did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1992|1992}}... No Democrat has won without a majority of the Catholic vote. ...Until Clinton did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 1996|1996}}... No Dem. incumbent without combat experience has beaten someone whose first name is worth more in Scrabble. ...Until Bill beat Bob.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 2000|2000}}... No Republican has won without Vermont. ...Until Bush did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 2004|2004}}... No Republican without combat experience has beaten someone two inches taller. ...Until Bush did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 2008|2008}}... No Democrat can win without Missouri. ...Until Obama did.<br />
:{{w|United States presidential election, 2012|2012}}... Democratic incumbents never beat taller challengers. No nominee whose first name contains a "K" has lost. Which streak will break?<br />
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==Trivia/Errors==<br />
There was an error in the original 1800 panel of the comic, as Jefferson (not Adams) was the first challenger to beat an incumbent, when Jefferson beat then-president Adams in 1800. This was later corrected.<br />
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Also, one of the statements of a streak for the current (2012) elections can be considered wrong: in 1952, the Republican candidate/running mate Eisenhower/Nixon defeated the Democratic alliterative ticket Stevenson/Sparkman (in what can only be described as a landslide). Whether this is an error on Randall's part, or an implicit reflection of his political orientation either way (in the sense that the streak favoring Obama will be broken, or that the streak favoring Romney is already broken before the elections and therefore gives him no chance whatsoever), is unclear.<br />
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It appears the latter was indeed most likely an error on Randall's part, since the comic has been changed and now reads "Democratic incumbents never beat taller challengers" as the streak which would have the Republican ticket as the winners. It should still be checked if this is indeed the case.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Statistics]]<br />
[[Category:Politics]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring John F. Kennedy]]</div>
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1115:_Sky&diff=68338
Talk:1115: Sky
2014-05-30T02:52:44Z
<p>173.245.54.90: /* Add this to the incomplete explanations list */ new section</p>
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<div>As anyone who read [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_%28series%29 Ender's Game] know, "The enemy's gate is down". t must be noted that mentioned gate was in a zero-gravity environment so the usual definition of down being the direction gravitation is pulling us was not applicable. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
The enemy's gate is down.<br />
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Furthermore, the last panel might be a reference to {{w|Nietzsche}}'s quote: "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you". <br />
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Additionally, it might also allude to the law of gravity, as it operates in the realm of {{w|Cartoon physics}}. This interpretation would seem to match the 'perspective inversion' theme of the entire comic.[[Special:Contributions/123.237.156.4|123.237.156.4]] 08:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
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I think the comment about a bottomless hole is misleading but I am not certain. the mass of the walls of the hole as well as surrounding matter would create a definite gravitational force, as would any gases or liquids that fill the hole. There would be a point (or possibly surface or line) depending on the composition and shape of whatever the bottomless hole is in as well as the contents and shape of the hole itself where the net gravitational force is zero, with all areas surrounding this point (surface or line) having gravitational forces pointing in the direction of the point/surface/line, unless the hole is in a body that extends in one direction off into infinity, in which case the mass of the entire system would be continually collapsing into a black hole as the mass of the body is infinite.<br />
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The comic also encapsulates a feeling about the sky. If you lie down in a flat area like the american southwest, all you can see is sky. All you can see is sky. All of the sudden, it feels like one little push could send you flying. You get the feeling that you are laying on a round, small surface, and are enveloped by a huge blue sky. In "Death comes for the Archbishop" There is a one line description of this feeling.<br />
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"The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky! --Death Comes to the Archbishop, Book VII, Ch. 4" [ http://www.en.wikibooks.org/wiki/American_Literature/20th_Century/Willa_Cather link title]<br />
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This comic seeks to describe that feeling of "The earth being the floor of the sky"<br />
--[[Special:Contributions/71.81.151.163|71.81.151.163]] 00:41, 10 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Shouldn't his beret be shown on the ground? [[User:Xyz|Xyz]] ([[User talk:Xyz|talk]]) 19:34, 22 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:[[291|Staples]]. [[User:Squornshellous Beta|Squornshellous Beta]] ([[User talk:Squornshellous Beta|talk]]) 14:53, 28 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Anyone else reminded of the Stone Tower Temple from Majora's Mask? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.63.180|173.245.63.180]] 08:41, 12 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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== Add this to the incomplete explanations list ==<br />
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There's no coverage on the title text. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.90|173.245.54.90]] 02:52, 30 May 2014 (UTC)</div>
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:161:_Accident&diff=67265
Talk:161: Accident
2014-05-14T15:06:36Z
<p>173.245.54.90: whee!</p>
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<div>The issue date of the comic is not given. Can someone add this? [[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) 18:53, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
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http://xkcd.com/851/ - more katamari damacy shenanigans {{unsigned ip|128.237.217.152}}<br />
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In guitar hero you tilt the controler to active star power.<br />
If you did so with steering wheel you would crash. 21:47, 10 January 2014 (UTC) {{unsigned ip|173.245.52.205}}<br />
Any reason for an incomplete? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.144|199.27.128.144]] 06:29, 16 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I have changed the last part about the title text, as it referred to playing the games while driving, rather than listening to the music. Although the idea is that you then think you are playing! I hope my wording makes more sense. I have never played either of the two games, and cannot say if the explanation for driving poorly while listening to guitar hero music makes sense. But if it does, I would say it was OK to remove the incomplete tag now! [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:I have never played guitar hero either, but I believe the game shows a series of objects approaching you to represent the notes. The point is then to "hit" large objects, much like the point of Katamari Damacy is to hit small objects. This makes more sense since otherwise any game music could simply distract you from driving.<br />
:Is there a guitar hero player reading this who could make a final edit?--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.242.8|108.162.242.8]] 00:45, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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After I play a lot of Mario Kart, I feel urges to run over boxes, and to shake the steering wheel on top of speed bumps. - [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.90|173.245.54.90]] 15:06, 14 May 2014 (UTC)</div>
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:887:_Future_Timeline&diff=63070
Talk:887: Future Timeline
2014-03-20T21:01:49Z
<p>173.245.54.90: </p>
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<div>This one slipped under the transcripting radar. I may do it. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 20:52, 17 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Do not talk about radars, just do it. The transcript is done right now, but the explain section still does need a big radar!--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Find the song! I have no idea so far but the repeating phrase "Social security trust fund exhausted" should match a refrain.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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They now have the dogs driving cars... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk Let's not wait for 2053.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.90|173.245.54.90]] 21:01, 20 March 2014 (UTC)</div>
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Talk:886: Craigslist Apartments
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<div>The house with a house inside may be a reference to the tesseracted, 4D house from Robert Heinlein's "-And He Built A Crooked House." {{unsigned ip|173.225.52.131}}<br />
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I would have thought the klein stairs with the intense heat in short bursts may be a reference to a research fusion reactor. 'Net searches seem to suggest there may be connections between plasma behaviour and klein bottle mathematics. {{unsigned ip|108.162.250.5}}<br />
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The Minotaur sounds like a reference to Doctor Who The God Complex. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.201|173.245.52.201]] 05:05, 1 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The closet full of board games which play themselves could be a reference to the movie Jumanji.<br />
Can't remember a tub full of blood from that movie, though, however surely pets won't survive long. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.180|173.245.53.180]] 21:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I explained the third one, but I have no idea about the lack of floor. Because of this and others, I added an 'Incomplete' tag with the appropriate reason. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.206|108.162.212.206]] 03:32, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I believe that the "616" "$1616" is a reference to the number of the beast. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.90|173.245.54.90]] 18:53, 10 March 2014 (UTC)</div>
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