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===Machine of Death book=== | ===Machine of Death book=== | ||
− | + | This is a reference to "{{w|Machine of Death}}". This book from 2010 is a collection of short stories edited by amongst other {{w|Ryan North}} (of {{w|Dinosaur Comics}}) mentioned here since the idea was based on one of [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=675 his comics]. Since [[Randall Munroe]] wrote one of the stories the reference is very likely, and would be Randall's first [[:Category:Book promotion|book promotion]] in xkcd, but not the last. All the stories are based around a device, the "Machine of Death", that can predict, with 100% accuracy though generally with extreme ambiguity, how people die from a drop of their blood. In many of the stories very unusual deaths are predicted, often in a very literal way, but not so you know when or where you will die. From the [http://machineofdeath.net/ official home page] the entire book can be downloaded for free as a [http://machineofdeath.net/ebook PDF file]. (Randall's story begins on page 421 - or page 218 of the two sided PDF file. It is simply called "?"). In [[1525: Emojic 8 Ball]] the default question is ''How will I die?'' and can then be answered by an ''Emojic 8 Ball'', which would make it a type of Machine of Death. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[There are four panels, each with different headings and explanations of the headings above the panels.] | :[There are four panels, each with different headings and explanations of the headings above the panels.] | ||
− | :[The first three panels | + | :[The first three panels shows two titled text boxes, one above the other, with text inside. This text is formatted with both small and capital letters as opposed to all capital letters in the rest of the comic.] |
:[Heading panel 1:] | :[Heading panel 1:] |