800: Beautiful Dream
| Beautiful Dream |
 Title text: Lucky. In MY dream, all the people who grew up loving The Giving Tree paired up with all the students who had weird dreams after reading The Metamorphosis. That one was more confusing. |
Explanation
The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right is a self-help book by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, originally published in 1995.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists is a non-fiction book written by investigative reporter Neil Strauss as a chronicle of his journey and encounters in the seduction community.
Transcript
- [A person with disheveled hair stretches their arms. A sunburst indicating sleepiness is above their head.]
- <<YAWN>>
- Person: I just woke up [...]
- [The person continues speaking from off panel, to a second person who's sitting at a table with a laptop and cup. They've leaned their elbow on the chair, turning to face the first person.]
- Person: From the most beautiful dream.
- Second person: Which was?
- Person: All the girls who read and follow The Rules and all the guys who swear by the techniques in The Game paired off with each other and left the rest of us alone forever.
- Second person: Mmmmmm...
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I lost the Game. 108.162.215.84 09:47, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- same here!108.162.249.220 01:55, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm seriously surprised. I only discovered it ~4 comics ago. 108.162.238.187 11:59, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
- How have you not gone start to finish by this point? Are you bogosorting the comic??108.162.215.156 21:31, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
- https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/391:_Anti-Mindvirus 172.68.154.88 15:23, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
- Wrong version of "The Game."108.162.216.116 19:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- Me too. I had been winning for several hours!
- Darn, I lost it too! KirbyDude25 (talk) 19:44, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
I do not get this comic explanation at all. Can someone please clarify? What are the subtitles?? WHY DO THE NAMES OF THE BOOKS SEEM COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO ANYTHING AT ALL??? I know a little bit about what The Game is. I do not care about losing it, I just want an adequate explanation. -- 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- The books and the important sentences need more details -- but wikipedia links are common.--Dgbrt (talk) 15:31, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
I added some explanation of the books, but didn't address the discussion of the alt text. 108.162.245.136 02:54, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
