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Talk:3194: 16 Part Epoxy

2026-01-17T04:32:41Z

IAmADroid: add comment about stuff that cracks after a few days

Woah, just reloaded it and new comic! Sick... I should probably read it now. [[User:Willintendo|Willintendo]] ([[User talk:Willintendo|talk]]) 20:02, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
:Explain first; read later! [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 10:18, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Paint bucket fill tool strikes again. --[[User:Lycheefoxpup|Lycheefoxpup]] ([[User talk:Lycheefoxpup|talk]]) 20:18, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

TABLES! TABLES! TABLES! WOOOOOO!!!!!! --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBaal44|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBaal44|Converse]]''''' 20:21, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
:Table created. However, I am a teenager and do not work in construction, so the explanations may need some work. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBaal44|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBaal44|Converse]]''''' 20:56, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
::Every item in this table is real. Ask me how I know. [[Special:Contributions/64.201.132.210|64.201.132.210]] 21:34, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
:::How does the placebo work? Does it just kinda mind control you?--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBaal44|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBaal44|Converse]]''''' 21:42, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
:Robert'); DROP TABLE Epoxy;--
:Did it work? [[Special:Contributions/2001:1998:3500:42C:0:0:0:534|2001:1998:3500:42C:0:0:0:534]] 23:27, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Thought for placebo adhesive: Water between two microscope slides. It'll stick real good, but it's not really glue, more... fancy pressure physics. [[Special:Contributions/142.165.161.48|142.165.161.48]] 22:28, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

"Duck" tape, not "duct". Come on Randall, you know better than that. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding|talk]]) 00:08, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:Both spellings are used. One is trademarked. [[Special:Contributions/76.187.17.7|76.187.17.7]] 03:46, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:Read this: https://archive.is/Fq5Js [[User:Viliml|Viliml]] ([[User talk:Viliml|talk]]) 09:36, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
::But "duct" ''screams'' folk etymology. "Duck" sounded unlikely so people though it must be "duct"...but it's a huge leap to think that a tape that some people tended to use for a/c ducts would actually be ''named'' "duct tape". Both the tape and the word "duct" are too general purpose for that. Is it known as that? Yes? Does it make sense though? Not for a second. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding|talk]]) 10:38, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:::To be fair, it is more commonly used for taping ducts than it is used for taping ducks [[Special:Contributions/2A01:CB1C:12EF:7900:953B:FFB2:21E3:47EC|2A01:CB1C:12EF:7900:953B:FFB2:21E3:47EC]] 12:43, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:::Actually, it was originally named duck tape, as it was made using something called "duck fabric." This had etymology unrelated to the animal duck, from a Dutch word "doek." There were some similar tapes seeing some use with that name beforehand, but it became common as during WWII, a kind of it was adopted by the military for sealing ammunition crates, and it's availability led to soldiers widely using it for other purposes. After the war, it was then sold to civilian markets. Common use on air ducts led to it being made in the same gray color, and being labeled "duct tape." Many had forgotten the original name when in the 70's someone decided to call it that again while advertising it with a cartoon duck picture.--[[Special:Contributions/2600:100A:B10C:6B2E:EC47:CF99:9B14:1C81|2600:100A:B10C:6B2E:EC47:CF99:9B14:1C81]] 08:00, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
:::To add on to that point, the most popular use for pipe cleaners (other than elementary school craft projects) is to clean pipes, so it's not ''that'' much of a stretch. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBaal44|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBaal44|Converse]]'''''
:Ducks? Thanks. Oh sorry, wrong webcomic. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:2455:1960:4000:F1E8:367:E9A3:2FC7|2A02:2455:1960:4000:F1E8:367:E9A3:2FC7]] 10:43, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Now I'm wondering what the properties of a powdered bar magnet would even be, if each individual piece continued to be magnetic. [[Special:Contributions/2405:201:E010:1029:2C1E:1669:FA92:85DE|2405:201:E010:1029:2C1E:1669:FA92:85DE]] 00:44, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:A magnetic powder stops being diamagnetic. All the north poles clamp onto a south pole, so the magnetic fields essentially all cancel. You end up with "lump of magnetic powder", not "one big magnet" or "powder you can disperse in a liquid." [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:32, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:: But all the little pieces of magnets are still full magnets with a north and a south pole. Magnetic monopoles have, so far, not been observed in practice. --[[User:Coconut Galaxy|Coconut Galaxy]] ([[User talk:Coconut Galaxy|talk]]) 06:32, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

So, the 2-poly(etc) seems to me to suggest that instead of being "-vinyl-ethyl-vinyl-ethyly-" polimerisation, with the links between both 'ethyl-like' backbone subcomponents being from opposite ends of the respective subunit carbon-pairing, it'd more likely now be considered as a polymethyl-group with a methyl (or methylene) group as the now unused onward '1-'site, hanging free of the new polychain. I'd have to check the bond-geometries, though to see if it would even work. (Ignoring the obvious problem with the made up name.) [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.208|92.23.2.208]] 01:44, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
: Ph.D. chemist and AI to the rescue - the 2 makes no sense here, and poly-2-vinyl neither, as substitution pattern 2=1 here. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:2455:1960:4000:F1E8:367:E9A3:2FC7|2A02:2455:1960:4000:F1E8:367:E9A3:2FC7]] 10:47, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

I feel like the Polyethylvinylesteracetate is a joke about how polymer names are often long and gibberish-sounding. [[User:Potatocakethrow|Potatocakethrow]] ([[User talk:Potatocakethrow|talk]])

Rosin is also used soldering, which might be relevant to adhesives. Soldering is used to join pipes, among other things. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:32, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

:>"Rosin is also used soldering, ...to join pipes" Plumbing (pipes) soldering more often uses "acid flux" (Zinc Chloride and similar), not rosin which is used in electronics and jewelry. --[[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 05:48, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

While it's less common in glues than other animal products (such as skin, bones, or cheese), blood-based glues are (or historically were) a thing. Citation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/blood-glue
Gorillas would not be a suitable source of this blood, though. {{unsigned ip|178.251.89.99|07:09, 15 January 2026}}

The traditional song "Rosin the Bow" may be less well known than "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", but rosin is in the title. [[Special:Contributions/87.75.47.93|87.75.47.93]] 10:46, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

The main page has been vandalized with pornography {{unsigned ip|65.35.147.191|15:13, 15 January 2026‎ (UTC)}}
:I've asked Kynde to block the vandal but I don't know how long it will take (or if its even possible) --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]]''''' 14:46, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
How would you even squeeze that thing [[User:Yaokuan ITB|Yaokuan ITB]] ([[User talk:Yaokuan ITB|talk]]) 18:09, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:Really hard. [[Special:Contributions/47.141.37.161|47.141.37.161]] 08:16, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

sodium bicarbonate can be used on cyanoacrylate glues as an accelerant and hardener. Pergaps salt can play a similar role in some epoxy mixes? [[Special:Contributions/131.255.152.112|131.255.152.112]] 18:27, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Has anyone else noticed the coloring error on the stuff that cracks after a few days? Some of it is leaking out the back of the syringe in a way that doesn't look intentional. [[Special:Contributions/66.42.178.247|66.42.178.247]] 13:35, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
:Woah, you're so right. That ought'a be put in a trivia section. [[User:Willintendo|Willintendo]] ([[User talk:Willintendo|talk]]) 17:35, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
:It looks like it has some exposure to the surrounding air. If Randall is clever enough he might eventually change it to cracked white to better match the background [[User:IAmADroid|IAmADroid]] ([[User talk:IAmADroid|talk]]) 04:32, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

Talk:265: Choices: Part 2

2025-11-06T04:09:07Z

IAmADroid: add topic on "original research" mentioned in title text of comic

Created the "Choices: Part 3" page (its a bit of a fail), Please link it to here. [[Special:Contributions/121.54.48.38|121.54.48.38]] 02:11, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Couldn't Megan publish her research somewhere else and then cite herself in wikipedia to get around the "no original research" rule? [[User:IAmADroid|IAmADroid]] ([[User talk:IAmADroid|talk]]) 04:09, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

nakedpictures

2025-08-31T14:56:22Z

IAmADroid: Undo revision 385663 by IAmADroid (talk) im dumb you can just click "Go To Comic" to see it on the main website

{{comic
| title = nakedpictures
| image = comply.png
| lappend = nakedpictures/
| extra = yes
}}

==Explanation==
{{misc page}}

While every other circle says "Comply", only one stands out by saying "No." This may represent one person rebelling against the masses. The meaning of the title is unclear, but {{tvtropes|NonIndicativeName|inaccurate}} and possibly was intended to evoke {{w|clickbait}}.

This is presumably an older comic judging by the older handwriting style, as well as the sierpinski-type nesting which is also present in early comics such as [[95: The Sierpinski Penis Game]] and [[543: Sierpinski Valentine]].

==Transcript==
:[Many circles drawn within an irregular curved shape. All circles contain "COMPLY." in red text within, except for a smaller circle that says "NO."]

{{comic discussion}}

nakedpictures

2025-08-31T14:49:54Z

IAmADroid: Incomplete, source unknown

{{comic
| title = nakedpictures
| image = comply.png
| lappend = nakedpictures/
| extra = yes
}}

==Explanation==
{{misc page}}
{{incomplete|The source of this extra comic is not documented or explained.}}

While every other circle says "Comply", only one stands out by saying "No." This may represent one person rebelling against the masses. The meaning of the title is unclear, but {{tvtropes|NonIndicativeName|inaccurate}} and possibly was intended to evoke {{w|clickbait}}.

This is presumably an older comic judging by the older handwriting style, as well as the sierpinski-type nesting which is also present in early comics such as [[95: The Sierpinski Penis Game]] and [[543: Sierpinski Valentine]].

==Transcript==
:[Many circles drawn within an irregular curved shape. All circles contain "COMPLY." in red text within, except for a smaller circle that says "NO."]

{{comic discussion}}

User:42.book.addict

2024-10-20T05:51:16Z

IAmADroid: Undo revision 353328 by 162.158.39.165 (talk)

{{notice|I will be taking a break to focus on studies and personal health, please be advised that I will be mostly inactive until further notice.}}
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2288: Collector's Edition

2024-10-20T05:43:14Z

IAmADroid: Undo revision 353326 by 162.158.39.165 (talk)

{{comic
| number = 2288
| date = April 3, 2020
| title = Collector's Edition
| image = collectors_edition.png
| titletext = I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives.
}}
{{TOC}}
*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2288|original comic}}.

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Need to upload files of loot}}
This was the tenth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous one was [[2131: Emojidome]] from Monday April 1, 2019. The next became [[2445: Checkbox]] released on Thursday April 1, 2021.

It is a large draggable image that acts as a shared virtual sandbox for users to interact. Chests are "Items" (small and often humorous images) which could be collected from other comics, and then placed in this image by viewers, but today they are no longer dropped. The collection then updated for all viewers in real-time. Multiples of the same item are often seen.

There is a "backpack" at the bottom, similar to backpacks in video games containing items collected by the player. As hinted by the title text, items could be found by visiting different xkcd comics/pages. Randomly, some pages would have a treasure chest which contained the sticker related to the page. The hint would refer to the page which currently had a chest.

The sticker images can be seen at <nowiki>h</nowiki>ttps://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot_'''XXX'''.png, where XXX is a number from 001 to 253. Additionally, some images can be found at custom URLs, for example the periodic elements can be found at <nowiki>h</nowiki>ttps://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/element-'''XX'''.png, where XX is the element, and text loot at <nowiki>h</nowiki>ttps://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot-words-'''X'''.png, where X is the sentence.

===Hints===
{| class="wikitable"
!Hint
!Comic
!Unlocked item
!Item image
!Notes
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|Doctors in a row||[[239: Blagofaire]]||Cory Doctorow || [[File:2288_loot_019.png|50px]] || These comics all have the same hint, but only one will have the chest
|-
|Get out the (US) vote||Chapter 5 of What If? (New York Style Time Machine)|| Statue of liberty ||[[File:2288_loot_246.png|75px]]||
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|Find a box of nice stuff on a picture with words like these||[[ 1375: Astronaut Vandalism ]]|| Signpost || [[File:2288_loot_126.png|75px]] ||
|-
|Plug in or find another power source||[[1373: Screenshot]]|| ||[[File:2288_loot_228.png|50px]] or [[File:miniloot-words-dispenser.png|75px]] (maybe incomplete)||
|-
|Sweet dreams, kitty||[[729: Laser Pointer]] (maybe incomplete)|| Cat licking laser point || [[File:2288_loot_090.png|75px]] ||
|-
|What is this hint pointing to? Hell if I know.||[[1052: Every Major's Terrible]]||2 + lightbulb = boat||[[File:2288_loot_185.png|75px]]||
|-
|Somebody set up us the bomb||[[286: All Your Base]]||Exploding rock||[[File:loot_197.png|75px]]||
|-
|Cowabunga||[[1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (maybe incomplete)||Women Science Fiction Authors || [[File:loot_175.png|75px]] || [[197: Ninja Turtles]] also works
|-
|I want to believe||[[2156: Ufo]]||Ufo||[[File:loot_210.png|75px]]||
|-
|Bleeped||[[290]], [[398]], [[430]], [[447]], [[533]], [[549]], [[677]], [[724]] or [[1671]]|| *$@#! ||[[File:loot_044.png|75px]]||Comics that involve swearing
|-
|why waste time say few word when lot word do trick||[[7]], [[111]], [[139]], [[143]], [[179]], [[217]], [[445]], [[470]], [[822]], [[823]], [[1022]], [[1247]], [[1491]], [[1921]], [[1991]], [[2182]] or [[2231]]|| First Annual Award for Excellence in Being Very Smart ||[[File:loot_159.png|75px]]||
|-
|Cooler than electric scooters||[[139]], [[409]], [[577]], [[578]], [[579]], [[580]] or [[581]]||An electric skateboard||[[File:loot_006.png|75px]]||
|-
|Take it from the top||[[1: Barrel - Part 1]] (maybe incomplete)||I am a turtle from [[889: Turtles]] || [[File:loot_095.png|75px]] ||
|-
|I accept the yucca gnocchi, this meal is a success!||[[1713: 50 ccs]] (maybe incomplete)||Man carrying parentheses from [[297: Lisp Cycles]] || [[File:loot_031.png|75px]] ||
|-
|Catch up on the news||[[1699: Local News]] (maybe incomplete)|| || ||
|-
|Participation trophy||[[2288: Collector's Edition]] (maybe incomplete)|| Server rack || [[File:loot_096.png|75px]] ||
|-
|Find an opportunity for a sojourn||[[665]], [[681]], [[695]], [[1091]], [[1504]], [[1613]], [[1663]] or [[2111]]||Opportunity Mars rover from [[2111: Opportunity Rover]]||[[File:loot_161.png|75px]]||
|-
|Tastier than tau day||[[179: e to the pi times i]] (maybe incomplete)||First annual award for excellence in being very smart || [[File:loot_159.png|75px]] || Need to find out the difference between this, and the entry below!
|-
|Tastier than tau day||[[235]], [[396]], [[872]], [[1029]], [[1342]], [[1655]] or [[1967]]|| Pie sign ||[[File:loot_056.png|75px]]|| Published on Pi day
|-
|418 I'm a teapot||[[1866: Russell's Teapot]] (maybe incomplete)||S.S. NASA: Space is Hard || [[File:loot_216.png|75px]] ||
|-
|26th September, 1983||[[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]]||White dove||[[File:loot_205.png|75px]]||Might also be written "September 26th, 1983". Locale dependent?
|-
|There are 4241 as of Apr 1, 2020||[[1071: Exoplanets]] (maybe incomplete)|| Little girl from [[2264: Satellite]] || [[File:loot_151.png|75px]] ||
|-
|asableiK||[[645: RPS]]|| A reverse Polish hotdog ||[[File:loot_079.png|75px]] || "Kielbasa" backwards, which is "sausage" in Polish
|-
|Critical mass elements||[[235: Kite]] or [[239: Blagofaire]]|| ||[[File:loot_203.png|75px]]||
|-
|Some Februarys are more equal than others||[[390: Nightmares]]? (maybe incomplete)|| Cueball wheelie from [[272: Linux User at Best Buy]] ||[[File:loot_036.png|150px]] || Comic-hint connection largely conjectural; 390 was the first comic published on a leap day.
|-
|Five spice||[[1511: Spice Girl]] or [[1554: Spice Girls]]|| Rock guitarist ||[[File:loot_022.png|150px]]||
|-
|Call the plumber||[[423: Finish Line]]|| Luigi in a green Kart ||[[File:loot_058.png|75px]]||
|-
|Was it a rat I saw?||[[968: Everything]]|| Cueball with a large sack, pulling a wagon || [[File:loot_103.png|150px]] || or [[1503: Squirrel Plan]] for Cueball holding a balloon caught in a ceiling fan.
|-
|Churchill's gonna have to seriously rehydrate||[[346: Diet Coke+Mentos]]|| Bottle of soda ||[[File:loot_045.png|150px]]||
|-
|Keep coming back|| || || ||
|-
|A new model released each year||Triggered by visiting all xkcd phone comics in order|| Phone screaming "Noooo" || [[File:loot_235.png|75px]] ||
|-
|Tea Time||Maybe [[581: The Race: Part 5]]? Need confirmation.||All our tea ||[[File:loot_232.png|75px]]||
|-
|Try pattern-matching! Look for comic 'bout alphabet?||[[1045: Constraints]]||Two Tetris blocks||[[File:loot_092.png|75px]]||
|-
|Where's Hilbert?||[[195: Map of the Internet]] (maybe incomplete)|| Hilbert Curve ||[[File:loot_021.png|75px]]||
|-
|Science fiction fetish||[[1585: Similarities]]|| ||[[File:loot_202.png|75px]]||
|-
|The first one was funnier||[[11: Barrel - Part 2]] (maybe incomplete)||Falling feather / Sign "The uncomfortable truths well" || loot_250.png / loot_067.png ||
|-
|It's up to over 260 million cycles!||[[1941: Dying Gift]]|| Megan on a tire swing ||[[File:loot_127.png|75px]]||
|-
|Sleeping Beauty is the same everywhere though||[[2233: Aurora Meaning]] (maybe incomplete)|| Sleeping Cat ||[[File:loot_163.png|75px]]||
|-
|On the internet, nobody knows you're an arachnid||[[1530: Keyboard Mash]] (maybe incomplete)|| Cobwebbed frame from [[1135: Arachnoneurology]]||[[File:loot_191.png|75px]]||
|-
|Did James Cameron pay for the rice cooker too?||[[1598: Salvage]] (maybe incomplete)||Rice bowl ||[[File:loot_152.png|75px]]||
|-
|Never going to give you up||[[351]], [[389]], [[396]], [[524]], [[573]], [[609]], [[802]], [[1212]], [[1757]] or [[1981]]|| Cueball in car listening to music ||[[File:loot_010.png|75px]]||
|-
|If red touches yellow, that's 24 ohms||[[1604: Snakes]], [[227: Color Codes]]? (maybe incomplete)|| Yoda with an mp3 player from What If ||[[File:loot_247.png|75px]]||
|-
|An enthusiastic but questionable business opportunity||[[1021]], [[1032]], [[1117]], [[1293]], [[1493]], [[1533]], [[1772]], [[1812]], [[1871]], [[1903]], [[1997]], [[2140]], [[2209]] or [[2277]]|| Beret guy with a goat on leash ||[[File:loot_115.png|75px]]||
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|Read the fine manual||[[293]], [[434]], [[456]], [[912]], [[1343]] or [[1692]]|| ||Multiple: loot_106.png, miniloot-words-hair.png, miniloot-words-ominous.png, miniloot-words-eruption.png, miniloot-words-flying.png or miniloot-words-ghost.png (maybe incomplete)||
|-
|That thing's undecimodal!||[[1347: t Distribution]] (maybe incomplete)|| Floating tentacled alien ||[[File:loot_209.png|75px]]||
|-
|Actually, it's Myanmar-Shave now||[[491: Twitter]] (maybe incomplete)||Expensive bottle ||[[File:loot_253.png|75px]]||
|-
|You don't have to find all 99||[[121: Balloon]] (maybe incomplete)||Balloon copter ||[[File:loot_002.png|75px]]|| Or [[51: Malaria]] ?
|-
|Going in circles||[[378: Real Programmers]] (maybe incomplete)|| Cueball spinning in desk chair ||[[File:loot_098.png|75px]]||
|-
|Couldn't you try knitting, or maybe stamp collecting?||[[37]], [[53]], [[60]], [[75]], [[79]], [[148]], [[168]], [[174]], [[236]], [[259]], [[287]], [[296]], [[326]], [[331]], [[389]], [[437]], [[451]], [[559]], [[590]], [[605]], [[687]], [[719]], [[733]], [[790]], [[845]], [[966]], [[1004]], [[1119]], [[1145]], [[1169]], [[1208]], [[1278]], [[1304]], [[1329]], [[1340]], [[1355]], [[1405]], [[1480]], [[1546]], [[1598]], [[1677]], [[1697]], [[1705]], [[1788]], [[1795]], [[1960]], [[1995]], [[2032]], [[2123]], [[2208]] or [[2252]]||Phishing License sign||[[File:loot_158.png|75px]]||Mostly comics that include "My hobby:"
|-
|It's the ciiiiircle of HONK||[[537: Ducklings]] or [[1729: Migrating Geese]]||DUCKLOOP'D?||[[File:loot_069.png|75px]]||
|-
|Fool me twice||Maybe [[880: Headache]]? Need confirmation.|| Raptor Attack ||[[File:loot_033.png|75px]]||The second April fools' comic
|-
|oOOOoooo||Maybe [[316: Loud Sex]]? Need confirmation.|| Sleeping cat || ||
|-
|Maybe we can ask for new wishes||[[879: Lamp]]||Genie and his bottle||[[File:loot_004.png|75px]]||If you place the genie last, you get another genie (indefinitely) - Needs verification, this may also just be a bug!
|-
|HACK THE PLANET||[[1337: Hack]] (maybe incomplete)|| Crash and Burn in the pool from the end of ''Hackers'' ||[[File:loot_130.png|75px]]||
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|Monetization haute couteur||[[20]], [[23]], [[55]], [[123]], [[149]], [[150]], [[162]], [[208]], [[231]], [[242]], [[256]], [[273]], [[285]], [[303]], [[327]], [[377]], [[386]], [[420]], [[435]], [[442]], [[482]], [[505]], [[552]], [[556]], [[585]], [[614]], [[627]], [[657]], [[681]], [[688]], [[705]], [[710]], [[802]], [[821]], [[980]], [[1033]], [[1040]], [[1079]], [[1127]], [[1133]], [[1196]], [[1298]] or [[1428]] (maybe false positives)||Two bags of money ||loot_162.png||
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|Maybe writing a script would help||[[1319: Automation]]|| ||miniloot-words-eater.png (maybe incomplete)||
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|Go big to go small||[[1365: Inflation]]|| ||loot_245.png||
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|Are you projecting||[[850]], [[977]], [[1500]], [[1784]], [[1799]], [[2242]] or [[2256]]||Squirrel on a gun||loot_237.png||
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|Do spiders really have six legs||[[8]], [[43]], [[126]], [[427]], [[442]] or [[1110]]|| ||loot_007.png||
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|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?||[[1688: Map Age Guide]]||Cephalopod||loot_071.png||
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|Another rulebook?||[[393: Ultimate Game]]|| Merlin in a chair from [[270: Merlin]] ||loot_037.png||
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|Moooooon||[[482]], [[681]], [[1276]], [[1291]], [[1300]], [[1389]], [[1458]], [[1515]], [[1633]], [[1738]], [[1878]] or [[2258]]|| MOOOOOON ||loot_192.png||
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|Take a flight from LOL to FFS||[[1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations]]|| ||loot_049.png||
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|Everyone deserves a second chnace||All comics searched, no matches|| || ||The misspelling is intentional. [[745: Dyslexics]] would have been a good fit
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|Community contribution||[[822]], [[823]], [[824]], [[825]], [[826]]|| [Citation Needed] protester from [[285: Wikipedian Protester]] || loot_035.png ||
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|On the other side of the wardrobe||[[665: Prudence]], [[969: Delta-P]] or [[2218: Wardrobe]] (maybe incomplete)||Authentic Reindeer pulling sled from [[1776: Reindeer]] || loot_154.png ||
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|Today's your lucky day||[[1053: Ten Thousand]] (maybe incomplete)|| Ms. Frizzle || loot_105.png ||
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|[This hint has been redacted due to a copyright claim]||[[1005: SOPA]]|| ||loot_038.png||
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|Try a different approach||[[55: Useless]] (maybe incomplete)|| Equals sign ||loot_times.png or loot_div.png (maybe incomplete)||
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|The cake is a lie!||[[606: Cutting Edge]]|| Cake ||loot_144.png||
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|Joanna, fire.||[[322: Pix Plz]]|| Joanna with EMP cannon ||loot_026.png||
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|Everything changes from time to time when the fire nation attacks|| [[965: Elements]] || Symposium || ||
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|90KG x 300M||[[382: Trebuchet]]|| Trebuchet ||loot_041.png||
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|Copyright Enforcement Brigade||[[344: 1337: Part 4]]|| ||loot_046.png||
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|Where Cape Town meets Chukotka||[[1500: Upside-Down Map]]|| Crater ||loot_128.png||
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|Take a ride in a barrel||View all five barrel comics in reverse order ([[31]], [[25]], [[22]], [[11]], [[1]])|| Cueball at the door to the playpen-ball-filled apartment from [[150: Grownups]] || loot_005.png ||
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|Compiling...||[[303: Compiling]]|| ||loot_030.png||
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| || [[2288: Collector's Edition]] || Sheeple eye || loot_109.png ||
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==Trivia==
* This comic is the 2020 April Fools comic and was supposed to be released Wednesday, April 1st, but did not go live until Friday, April 3. (Friday's comic, [[2289: Scenario 4]], was published a day later for a [[2289: Scenario 4#Trivia|very rare Saturday release]].) However, the message below was displayed on the top of the page from Wednesday until the comic finally went live:
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Note: For technical reasons Wednesday's comic will be posted Thursday instead. Apologies for the delay!
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* This is one of the few comics released four days after the previous one. The last time this occurred was [[2224: Software Updates]].
* Placement is limited to 10,000 horizontal units and 5,000 vertical units from the origin. Users received no messages if they try placing something outside the boundary, with a silent fail with the object not being placed.
* Coordinates are relative to the bottom left corner of the canvas. As the default coordinates are (-370,-277) and the origin is in the center, the displayed portion of the canvas can be found to be twice this in magnitude, 740 x 544 units.
* The comic contains 32993 separate images.
* The most common image is loot-30.png, which appears 2576 times.
* The [https://github.com/xkcd/maple source code] for the comic was released on GitHub.

==Transcript==

:[Cueball stands to the left of a vibrating box.]
:[The words "Collector's Edition" are written above him and boxed.]

{{comic discussion}}

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Talk:45: Schrodinger

2024-08-15T03:33:00Z

IAmADroid:

There were no comments until you scrolled down. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.246|108.162.219.246]] 20:21, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
:There were two comments before you scrolled down. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.130|173.245.56.130]] 12:02, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

...shit...--[[User:TheTimeBandit|TheTimeBandit]] ([[User talk:TheTimeBandit|talk]]) 21:20, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

I read it as: The comic is not funny, and thus the curse word is because it's not funny. Does anyone else agree? 01:22, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

This is the BEST for me, so my cat ended up being funny [[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.112|162.158.129.112]] 15:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

I find this funny every time. Is this bad? Have I disproved Schrödinger? [[User:Psychoticpotato|Psychoticpotato]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 19:58, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
: No you just happen to be from a universe where the comic is actually funny. But if we debate about the funniness of the comic then the interference pattern in these comments will collapse and we'll be forced into the funny or unfunny version of the comic. [[User:IAmADroid|IAmADroid]] ([[User talk:IAmADroid|talk]]) 03:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Talk:1146: Honest

2022-06-14T19:32:42Z

IAmADroid: Added debate for finding the "True Cueball"

Ya can't explain this one![[Special:Contributions/176.61.46.230|176.61.46.230]] 11:06, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
:No, other work is getting in the way. Someone else'll do it. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:15, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
:The honesty of this comic makes it pretty self-explanatory. I like it. [[Special:Contributions/76.122.5.96|76.122.5.96]] 12:21, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

That 1-line explanation by anon 69.143.0.147 is ''brilliant''.

Most people, despite looking generally competent, are just barely making it through the day.

Let's be honest, how can one tell which character is Cueball? Personally, I think this character is far too generic to bother anyways. [[Special:Contributions/46.142.60.241|46.142.60.241]] 20:28, 12 December 2012 (UTC) madd
:Cueball is the first "Cueball" to speak in a comic, everyone else is called something else.[[User:Pennpenn|Pennpenn]] ([[User talk:Pennpenn|talk]]) 03:30, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
:: In my mind, Cueball has a quirky or strange personality. In this comic, the second Cueball is the quirky and weird one, so for me, he is the True Cueball. It isn't just me: [https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Multiple_Cueballs there's a category for comics which have multiple Cueballs] which at the time of writing says, "In most of these, one of the Cueballs is clearly the protagonist of the comic, and he will thus be called Cueball in the explanation out of convenience." To me this confirms that the second Cueball is the true Cueball. [[User:IAmADroid|IAmADroid]] ([[User talk:IAmADroid|talk]]) 19:32, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

can't be reference to #overlyhonestmethods since comic came out a month before.

:I made an edit to add a reference to the ADD strip earlier. It is not very good. If someone would clean it up, that would probably be a good thing. This one really does seem to be a reference to those kinds of difficulties. In my defense, I don't understand why anything happens and I'm confused and scared and trying really hard all the time. Also I've been reading xkcd for two days straight. [[User:Singlelinelabyrinth|Singlelinelabyrinth]] ([[User talk:Singlelinelabyrinth|talk]]) 04:40, 26 July 2020 (UTC)