https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=81.82.255.123&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T06:28:53ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1177:_Time_Robot&diff=287001177: Time Robot2013-02-22T07:45:37Z<p>81.82.255.123: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1177<br />
| date = February 22, 2013<br />
| title = Time Robot<br />
| image = time robot.png<br />
| titletext = NO FATE BUT THE NARRATIVES WE IMPOSE ON LIFE'S RANDOM CHAOS TO DISTRACT OURSELVES FROM OUR EXISTENTIAL PLIGHT<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The title text is a reference to the character 'Death' in Terry Pratchett's diskworld novels. In the diskworld novels his dialogue is always depicted in small caps and he is often caught making sometimes bizarre philosophical statements about life and death.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball runs towards Megan with shotgun in hand.]<br />
:Cueball: I'm from the future!<br />
:Cueball: You're being stalked by an unstoppable robotic assassin!<br />
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:[Close up of Cueball's head.]<br />
:Cueball: Of course, in a sense, we're ''all'' being stalked by an unstoppable robot.<br />
:Cueball: A robot called ''time''.<br />
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:[Cueball looking at a clock.]<br />
:Cueball: I see it in the mirror. I see wrinkles, grey hairs.<br />
:Cueball: I hear its metallic footsteps in the relentless rhythm of the ticking clock.<br />
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:[Cueball reaches out to Megan.]<br />
:Cueball: Anyway, uhh - come with me if you want to live for a while.<br />
:Cueball: You'll still die eventually.<br />
:Cueball: We all will.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]</div>81.82.255.123https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1177:_Time_Robot&diff=286981177: Time Robot2013-02-22T07:43:32Z<p>81.82.255.123: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1177<br />
| date = February 22, 2013<br />
| title = Time Robot<br />
| image = time robot.png<br />
| titletext = NO FATE BUT THE NARRATIVES WE IMPOSE ON LIFE'S RANDOM CHAOS TO DISTRACT OURSELVES FROM OUR EXISTENTIAL PLIGHT<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The title text is a reference to the character 'death' in Terry Pratchett's diskworld novels. His dialogue is always depicted in small caps, and without quotation marks, as several characters state that Death's voice seems to arrive in their heads without actually passing through their ears as sound.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball runs towards Megan with shotgun in hand.]<br />
:Cueball: I'm from the future!<br />
:Cueball: You're being stalked by an unstoppable robotic assassin!<br />
<br />
:[Close up of Cueball's head.]<br />
:Cueball: Of course, in a sense, we're ''all'' being stalked by an unstoppable robot.<br />
:Cueball: A robot called ''time''.<br />
<br />
:[Cueball looking at a clock.]<br />
:Cueball: I see it in the mirror. I see wrinkles, grey hairs.<br />
:Cueball: I hear its metallic footsteps in the relentless rhythm of the ticking clock.<br />
<br />
:[Cueball reaches out to Megan.]<br />
:Cueball: Anyway, uhh - come with me if you want to live for a while.<br />
:Cueball: You'll still die eventually.<br />
:Cueball: We all will.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]</div>81.82.255.123