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| + | Hey guys,Sorry to go so long without cionemtmng. I had been away from the Internet throughout Christmas and needed to catch up on some things when I got home.Scott The funny thing is that we didn't go to the candlelight service this year due to problems with the weather.Dan Merry Christmas to you, too.David Thankfully the pews are wide enough that the wax just goes on the floor.Jenny Thanks! I was a little worried that I hadn't pulled that last panel off.Jon Hope you had a Merry Christmas! |
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| − | | date = April 27, 2012
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| − | | title = Emotion
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| − | | titletext = Fortunately, the internet has a virtually inexhaustible supply of code that doesn't work and people who are wrong, which bodes well for a return to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She's doing well.]
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| − | Here's the [http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/06/30/family-illness/ link] referenced in the image text, which is a blog post from 2011 regarding his fiancée's breast cancer.
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| − | == Explanation ==
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| − | This comic shows, in typical [[523: Decline|"graphing everything"]] fashion, what were the sources of [[Randall Munroe]]'s emotions as time passed:
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| − | * Politics became prominent in 2008 due to the upcoming {{w|United States presidential election, 2008|US presidential elections in november 2008}}.
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| − | * "Code not working even though it ''should'' work" is a common frustration in software development, when the developer is convinced to have covered every possible scenario, but their code still does not run as expected, because of some obscure tiny problem which they didn't think of and which often takes much time (and frustration) to find.
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| − | * {{w|Joss Whedon}} is best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series {{w|Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer}} (1997–2003), {{w|Angel (TV series)|Angel}} (1999–2004) and {{w|Firefly (TV series)|Firefly}} (2002), so he's the "cause" of emotions for Randall during the time they were aired.
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| − | * "People being wrong on the internet" is something that can easily annoy and preoccupy an internet-savvy guy like Randall, who knows the things they're (incorrectly) talking about; this was previously dealt with in the comic [[386: Duty Calls]].
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| − | * Eventually, Randall's fiancée's cancer, once diagnosed, monopolizes all of his emotions, wiping out everything else as insignificant in comparison. Only the romance can get back a little bit of room as time passes; there is also an unknown part, which may represent the uncertainty in which Randall finds himself, or the fact that he feels lost at times, due to that cancer and what can happen in the future (as was also described in comic [[931: Lanes]]).
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| − | ==Transcript==
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| − | :[A graph showing the approximate fractional causes of Randall's emotions, with percentages on the Y axis and time on the X axis. "Politics", "Romance", "Code not working even though it *should* work", "people being wrong on the internet", and "other" all vary all throughout the time period from 2006 to midway 2010. There is a wedge of Joss Whedon that tapers out starting from 2006 to around mid 2007. There is a noticeable increase in "Politics" around fall, 2008 that tapers off sharply afterwards and appears again in the second half on 2010, until..
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| − | :Around approximately September 2010, everything else is compressed into a tiny fraction of around 2-3%. The rest is filled with cancer. The tiny wedge of everything does begin to slowly expand to be filled half with romance and half with an area filled with question marks]
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