Talk:3215: Solar Warning

2026-03-17T04:05:35Z

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No comments yet, add the first comment! [[Special:Contributions/45.178.1.151|45.178.1.151]] 15:32, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I feel like, the sunglasses in the title text are a reference to the game Minesweeper, in which the iconic sun puts on sunglasses after the minefield has been completely cleared. To start a new game, you click on the sun, the minefield gets reset, the sun takes its sunglasses off and you are facing refreshed "danger". [[Special:Contributions/2A02:3100:B0BF:FE00:383B:CEDD:D49C:6689|2A02:3100:B0BF:FE00:383B:CEDD:D49C:6689]] 16:21, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
: I was thinking only in the context of emoji, but that's actually a really good possibility, too! 16:23, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
:: I forgot to sign my comment. :sadge: [[Special:Contributions/130.76.187.47|130.76.187.47]] 16:24, 4 March 2026, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
: I think Minesweeper is just a "sunglasses smiley", really, but I left that in when (fighting edit-conflicts, which I won't complain about) I added something on past "Sun wearing sunglasses" lore from Randall, plus acouple of the "glasses-pull" memes, various bits of which I've partially linked. And, though Randall doesit (or any other) being ''a sun'' or ''the sun of a different solar system''. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.55|82.132.239.55]] 18:12, 4 March 2026 hi

I'm sure this is referencing the "Jack-O-Lantern"[https://science.nasa.gov/resource/pumpkin-sun/] and "smiley face"[https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31213/] images of the sun that observatories sometimes put out for good press. [[Special:Contributions/64.201.132.210|64.201.132.210]] 16:53, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I feel like, on recent evidence, this is as good as the explanation's going to get - we should just leave it as is. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 17:01, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I've done a stub explanation. My personal interpretation is that Randall is riffing on children's media, in which the sun is stereotypically depicted smiling and/or wearing sunglasses. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] 17:51, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
:I personally think this because other people's proposals have been incredibly niche things (why would Randall reference jack-o-lanterns in March?). --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] 17:52, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I think all three of these (sun with sunglasses, smiling sun, frowning sun) are unicode emojis. And the progression from sun with sunglasses -> smiling sun, and smiling sun -> frowning sun, mirrors the progression from a "watch" to a "warning". I.e. a "thunderstorm watch" is less severe than a "thunderstorm warning". [[Special:Contributions/47.248.235.170|47.248.235.170]] 18:43, 4 March 2026 (UTC)Pat

Not saying this was inspiration, but is anyone reminded of the angry sun that tries to kill you from Super Mario Bros 3? [[Special:Contributions/2600:1702:79CA:3A0F:EA9C:25FF:FEC5:6E95|2600:1702:79CA:3A0F:EA9C:25FF:FEC5:6E95]] 14:04, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Why is this incomplete? {{unsigned ip|216.125.50.226|18:55, 10 March 2026}}
:Because nobody has yet decided to remove the Incomplete template?
:It's 'only' six days old. Some people might not visit daily, and people don't rush in to declare incomplete anything under a week, that's only ''three'' so-called-incomplete comics that maybe someone would agree that this notification still applies to.
:But, truth be told, the Incomplete tag is purely ornemental. Those who might want to edit a comic (''or'' personally think it's 'completely explained') don't tend to rely upon this marker anyway. In the early days of the site, it was a means of marking the mass of basic articles that still needed looking at, but these days it's more a standard marker placed by the 'bot' that finds and records new comics, and has become a place to add a bit of site-humour in replacing the "created by a BOT" bit by some form of humour.
:''If'' you want, you can remove the whole {{template|incomplete}} from any article that has one, but there's no rush and you might want to wait for someone else to do it.
:And, anyway, just because an article is no longer marked Incomplete it doesn't mean that it won't get edited, in part or in whole. In fact, unmarking it ''can'' bring a flurry of additional changes, as people notice it and decide they ''do'' think they can add something to it that was clearly missing...
:Of course, everyone has a completely different idea about what's Complete and Incomplete, anyway, and have different ideas about how to manage it. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253|81.179.199.253]] 20:48, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
::Thank you {{unsigned ip|216.125.50.226|19:13, 11 March 2026}}

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