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| title    = Oversight
 
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| titletext = I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine.
 
| titletext = I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine.
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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{{w|Fitocracy}} is a web site that turns workouts into a social game by awarding points, badges, levels and all sorts of other {{w|Gamification|gamification}}. [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]], by their judgment, have spent approximately two hours engaged in {{w|sexual activity}}. However, according to this cartoon, Fitocracy does not consider sex to be an activity acceptable for its site, despite the vigorous nature of Cueball and Megan's sexual workout. This could be due to an [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/oversight oversight] (an unintentional error), as the comic is titled, or intentional, as Fitocracy does not consider sex to be an acceptable exercise.
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Stick figures having sex!  Against a wall! Over a couch!  In some sort of high flying sex swing!  {{w|Fitocracy}} is a web site that turns workouts into a social game by awarding points, badges, levels and all sorts of other {{w|Gamification}}. However, according to this cartoon, Fitocracy does not consider sex to be an activity acceptable for its site, despite the high flying nature of Cueball and Megan's sexual workout.
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The title text explains how sites like Fitocracy are so successful. Because human brains, especially the cynical ones, like to game the system whenever they can, they will find easy things to do that also score high. In the case of Fitocracy, these are simple exercises that add up a lot when applied daily. But the creators of Fitocracy (and other such successful sites, like Weight Watchers or Lumosity) know this, and, as {{w|Russian reversal|"in Soviet Russia"}}, the system games you, as shown, to adopt an exercise regimen, or to lose weight, or to get smarter, or whatever else there is.
 
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Sex does raise your breathing rate and heartbeat, but as {{w|sparkpeople}} (a similar site to fitocracy) [http://www.sparkpeople.com/blog/blog.asp?post=you_asked_does_sex_count_as_cardio_how_many_calories_does_it_burn notes], it is not as effective as a session at a gym, as it does not typically use the main muscle groups in their full range of motion and doesn't sustain a raised heartbeat for a sufficient length of time. They consider sex to be less effective as {{w|Cardiovascular fitness|cardio}} than brisk walking, as it burns only about 100-200 cal per hour, which is little raised above a typical resting rate of about 60 cal per hour.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/15/sex-exercise-calories-heart/] (Of course, these statistics exclude several of the sexual activities Megan and Cueball engage in.)
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[Megan and Cueball have sex up against a wall.]
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:[A couple has sex up against a wall.]
  
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:[Megan and Cueball have sex standing in an armchair.]
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:[A couple has sex standing in an armchair.]
  
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:[Megan and Cueball have sex in a swing, swaying above a table with a flower vase on it.]
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:[A couple has sex in a swing, swaying above a table with a flower vase on it.]
  
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:[Fitocracy. The search phrase is "sex" and the site returned "activity not found."]
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:[Screenshot of Fitocracy. In the text field marked "log your workout for today," the user has filled in "sex," and the site has returned the message "activity not found."]
  
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:[Megan and Cueball stand in front of the computer, Megan is at the keyboard, Cueball stands back wearing a towel tied around his waist.]
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:[The couple is standing in front of the computer; one person is at the keyboard, the other standing back wearing a towel.]
 
:Megan: Come on! That was like two hours of cardio!
 
:Megan: Come on! That was like two hours of cardio!
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:Cueball: Hmm, let's see... The part on the dresser was ''kind'' of like skiing...
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:Cueball: Hmm, let's see ... the part on the dresser was KIND of like skiiing ...
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==Trivia==
 
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*Note that the xkcd image server accidentally briefly published  [[Five-Minute Comics: Part 4]] instead of this comic, which was then cached by an xkcd browser, and later added to this site and explained.
 
  
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{{comic discussion}}
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{{comic discussion}}  
  
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
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[[Category:Sex]]
 
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[[Category:Internet]]
 

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