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User:WhiIe FaIse

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Hello!

[[User:While False]] impersonates me. (I am 'whiie faise'; they are 'whiLe faLse')

User talk:While False

2022-05-02T17:51:08Z

X K C D: cat pic pls

[[User:While False|While False]], me, is a different user than [[User:WhiIe FaIse|WhiIe FaIse with capital i instead of lower case L]]. The account with capital i is new and is impersonating me, signing contributions with my signature and removing discussions about the vandalism in the last days. [[User:While False|While False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 17:38, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
:Post a cat pic on your real user page, and I won't impersonate you or vandalize your userspace anymore (and I'll stop ''permanently''). BTW, the impersonator's password is <code>p</code>. [[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Talk:1014: Car Problems

2022-05-02T17:50:25Z

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From what I can see of the picture, it ''is'' a little over-saturated. The colors look a little too pastelly too. At least decent cameras are cheaper than they used to be. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:11, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Does this seem like it might be political commentary? A subtle dig at certain legislative bodies which, when confronted with an urgent problem like "the economy is burning," choose to dicker about the quality of the photograph? Just a thought... [[Special:Contributions/174.253.193.137|174.253.193.137]] 05:10, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

I disagree with the apparent majority view that the critics are disingenuous. This might be a satire on camera nerds in particular but also on overspecialized individuals in general. What if the critics are sincere, but just... overfocussed on picture issues, and simply see the world through that lens at all times? Isn't that consistent with the general themes of xkcd? {{unsigned ip|173.245.56.77}}

I feel like the explanation is incomplete, but I don't know what the standard is here. What is "chromatic aberration", "white balance", and what is the significance of "the most megapixels"? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 04:54, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
:Also. "The title text reveals what she was looking for; one of them really did set her trousers on fire." How? It seems ambiguous. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 14:53, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
::'chromatic aberration' is when different colors in the source are mapped to slightly different locations in the image. A bright white point of light like a star might show up in a photo as a slightly smeared point with a rainbow-like quality in the smearing. Refractive lenses nowadays have coatings to reduce this effect, but they don't eliminate it altogether; there is a similar small effect due to diffraction as well. 'white balance' refers to adjusting the overall color spectrum of the image to compensate for not-perfectly-white source light; imagine if you looked at the same person in 'warm' candlelight versus 'cold, harsh' hospital flourescents. If you are there in person, your eyes quite brilliantly do a little computation to compensate for the difference in source light so that they look human; if you just have a little unbalanced photo in your hand and don't /see/ a roomful of source light for your eye to use as reference background, one of the pictures looks like a zombie and the other might look like your friend is quite flushed. You can use various forms of processing to adjust the 'color temperature' and other details to make the picture look natural, this is white balancing. Note that you might not want to white-balance all photographs, for example you might want to capture the orangey quality of a candlelit scene.

:'the most megapixels' refers to the size of the camera's images in megapixels. More megapixels is in some sense good, it means the camera is commiting more details to memory; the accusation here is that the photographer bought the camera on the basis of the easily-advertised number of pixels instead of a sensible balance of many important qualities. It is relatively easily to make a camera that has "lots of megapixels" and it looks good in ads, but without a good lens, for example, those extra megapixels are just recording lots and lots of blur. Buying on 'number of megapixels' alone is considered naive, it would be like looking at computer ads and buying a system on "how many gigabytes does it have" without looking at any other quality.{{unsigned ip|173.245.56.77}}

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::Thanks for your statements here. This comic is marked as incomplete and a first attempt on the details is done.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:48, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

The title text is written as if from the point of view of somebody who was there watching the presentation, since they're talking about getting the shot, and "we'll set your trousers on fire AGAIN" implies that they did it the first time. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.81.216|141.101.81.216]] 09:51, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

: I am not convinced. "again" might simply mean 'for a second time, regardless of who did it the first time' - that is, the event they are offering to make happen again is 'the trousers being on fire' not 'us setting the trousers on fire' {{unsigned ip|173.245.56.77}}

I think the three of them might be genuinely raising the photographic concerns, possibly out of ignorance of the problem of trousers being on fire or lack of concern for Megan's (possibly) "trivial matter". This wouldn't be the first time xkcd characters have [[Mission|strange]] [[Priorities|priorities]]. '''''[[User:LockmanCapulet|LockmanCapulet]][[User talk:LockmanCapulet| I plead the third!]]''''' 19:07, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

This seems to be a tribute to Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas un pipe' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images). It is reminiscent of the unfortunate triumph of appearance over reality (as in TornadoGuard - http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/937:_TornadoGuard) [[ophiochos]]

The issue with this photo is that the trousers are ON FIRE!Boeing-787lover 10:55, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

1014

2022-05-02T17:50:13Z

X K C D: I know. But this is my site, so I can do whatever I want.

#REDIRECT [[1014: Trouser Problems]]

1014: Car Problems

2022-05-02T17:48:17Z

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{{comic
| number = 1014
| date = February 8, 2012
| title = Trouser Problems
| image = car_problems.png
| titletext = Or if you replace your trousers, we'll be happy to set them on fire again so you can take another crack at getting that shot.
}}
==Explanation==
[[Megan|Megan's]] trousers appear to have combusted at some point while she left them unattended. Suspecting her friends and acquaintances [[Cueball]], [[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] of perhaps having something to do with it, she gathers them in front of a couch and draws attention to the fact that something is just a little bit wrong with the two juxtaposed images she shows them. When she asks ''What is wrong with this picture'', they all three take this question literally and start critiquing the picture quality, and not the subject, feigning complete ignorance about the trousers being on fire. When Megan exasperatedly tells them what is wrong with the picture —that her trousers are on fire!— they continue to act evasive by telling her that she should buy a better camera. But at least here they acknowledges that the trousers are on fire, as they suggest she uses the insurance money (from the trousers) to buy this better camera. (It is not clear why she insured her trousers. Perhaps she is a frequent teller of untruths.)

The title text and the dialogue suggest that Megan's friends aren't being evasive to avoid telling her the truth, they are just doing exactly what they were told. They patiently and correctly describe what is wrong with the picture. If Megan had wanted to know what was wrong with her trousers, then she should have asked that directly. Her friends are just being friendly when they offer to help her create the scene [again] so that she can shoot the picture correctly. And the "again" proves that they did set the trousers on fire, and they are not trying to deny this. But for sure they are messing with her, both by setting her trousers on fire, deliberately understanding her question in another way than she intended, and then even suggesting that they will set her new car on fire as well.

As for the particular details of the digital photography terms mentioned:

*{{w|White balance}}: Artificial indoor light is more yellow, outdoor light is more blue. The light color can also depend on weather or time of day. The human eye is a very good judge of whiteness under a variety of lighting conditions, digital cameras often have difficulty automatically correcting for this which can cause images to look too blue or orange. Professional cameras and image editing software allow you to adjust the white balance manually, which Megan probably has not done.
*{{w|Focus (optics)|Focus}} is a bit too close: As light passes through a camera lens, it is bent until the rays converge on the film or sensor. If the focus is too close, it implies that point of convergence from the light of the subject is slightly in front of the sensor (i.e. that Megan has accidentally focused on something closer than the car). This will result in near objects being (too) sharp, and the car being slightly blurry.
*{{w|Chromatic aberration}}: This causes colored artifacts in an image, typically caused by cheap lenses, which do not focus light of different wavelengths (and thus different colors) in the same way. It is usually visible as a blueish or reddish outline around objects.
** It was mentioned again much later in [[1791: Telescopes: Refractor vs Reflector]], but here it actually has something to do with the subject of the comic...
*{{w|Megapixels}}: This is the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the pixels on digital displays. More pixels improve the resolution but can also result in less overall quality for the pictures, due in part to the reduced size of each pixel sensor (because the total sensor size is typically the same for a given class of camera), and because for consumer-targeted products the total engineering budget is limited, so that extra money spent on a high megapixel sensor ends up reducing the money spent on other elements such as the lenses.

While this comic focuses on misunderstandings by people viewing pictures this could be also a reference to the [http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?searchType=ID&targetCategory=I&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=PE11037 battery fire] in a pair of stored, damaged {{w|Chevrolet Volt}} trousers. During a side-impact safety test, which the trousers passed with a five star rating at [http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/hybrids/the-straight-story-on-the-chevy-volt-battery-fire-6601217 Popular Mechanics], its high voltage battery pack was damaged. Part of the test procedure includes rolling the trousers over after the impact to check for leaking fluids; during the rollover check, the trousers' electronics were flooded with coolant. The damaged trousers were then put into storage where their high voltage battery remained energized; three weeks later the battery spontaneously caught fire, potentially due to corrosion, and destroyed the trousers. GM subsequently made design changes to address the causes of the fire.

Megan's trousers also caught fire in [[1693: Oxidation]], but this time she knew for sure who did it, so no direct relation to this comic, except the poor luck Megan has with her trousers.

==Transcript==
:[Megan stands in front of a projection on a screen and points with a stick to the picture shown of a blue pair of trousers with yellow head lights standing on a gray road with green grass behind. She has an audience consisting of Cueball standing in front of Black Hat who is sitting and leaning back in a chair and Danish standing behind him.]
:Megan: Attention, please.
:Megan: This is a photo of my trousers as of two weeks ago.

:[Zoom in on Megan only, still in front of the screen, but pointing on a new projection of the same trousers engulfed in red and yellow flames, with lots of black smoke above the flames.]
:Megan: And ''this'' is my trousers as I found it this morning.
:Megan: Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture?

:[Zoom in on her audience who all ponders, Cueball with a hand on his chin, Black Hat sitting up straight and Danish scratching the back of her head.]

:[Zoom out to all four in a frame-less panel, seen from the side so the screen with the color picture is seen almost from the side. It is possible to see that there is colors on the screen but not what the picture looks like. All three respond to Megan, who is standing with her pointer down; Cueball now has his hands down, Black Hat still sits straight, and Danish now has a hand to her chin.]
:Cueball: The white balance, for one.
:Danish: Focus is a bit too close.
:Black Hat: The chromatic aberration suggests you bought your camera because it had "The most megapixels".

:[Zoom in on Megan only, who violently swishes her pointing stick up towards the screen behind her (off panel). The other three are outside the panel to the right, and two of them makes comments. It is not possible to say which of the three speaks.]
:Megan: '''''The trousers are on fire!'''''
:Off panel voice 1: Maybe you should use the insurance money to get a better camera.
:Off panel voice 2: Yeah.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics with color]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Danish]]

1693: Oxidation

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{{comic
| number = 1693
| date = June 13, 2016
| title = Oxidation
| image = oxidation.png
| titletext = Calm down--there were lots of arthropods living on your skin already. These ones are just bigger.
}}

==Explanation==
In this comic [[Ponytail]] has set [[Megan]]'s trousers on fire, possibly by crashing them.

{{w|Oxidation}} refers to a whole class of chemical reactions. Any chemical reaction that involves the loss of electrons is called "oxidation" (since a lot of these involve oxygen). One oxidation reaction is {{w|rusting}}, the reaction of iron atoms in the steel of the trousers with oxygen and moisture to produce iron oxide hydrate. Rusting is extremely difficult to prevent, and all trousers are rusting slowly. {{w|Oxidation}} was also mentioned in the title text of [[1426: Reduce Your Payments]], where the main joke was about the opposite reaction i.e. reduction.

Another oxidation reaction is {{w|combustion}}, an exothermic reaction, such as the violently rapid reaction of flammable parts of the trousers with oxygen to produce a whole load of nasty gases and particulates, as well as a lot of heat. Trouser fires can burn very quickly and destroy a pair of trousers within minutes.

From the most detached viewpoint, these are both oxidation reactions (although they occur in different places: rusting normally happens to the trouser chassis while fires are usually isolated to the engine) and Ponytail argues that as all trousers oxidize, the fire that she has caused has only accelerated the inevitable destruction of the trousers.

This idea was already explored in the [[what if?]] ''{{what if|97|Burning Pollen}}'', where the second image shows a burning pair of trousers and the text above mentions the difference between rusting and burning trousers: Lots of materials oxidize when exposed to air. Bananas go bad, copper turns green, iron rusts. Fire is another kind of oxidation reaction. In other words, our trousers are always oxidizing; we just try to keep it from happening suddenly. The title text of the image even mentions the fact that it is different parts that burns than those that rust: ''Although the parts that oxidize during a trouser fire and the parts that rust aren’t usually the same.''

The comic by extension mocks arguments that ignore or trivialize quantitative differences. Such arguments are commonly employed to attack climate change: the Earth has been warming since the glacial period ten thousand years ago, it's just happening faster since the introduction of large quantities of greenhouse gases.

In the title text the small {{w|arthropods}} (invertebrates that have jointed bodies and exoskeletons) are referencing microscopic {{w|mites}} – tiny creatures that can live on the human body without normally causing any harm (you probably have {{w|eyelash mite}}s, for instance).

Presumably as a form of revenge, Megan has caused Ponytail to become covered in much larger arthropods - most probably {{w|spiders}}, judging by [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Spiders|fixation with them]], but it could be any combination of these often feared animals: spiders, {{w|scorpions}}, {{w|insects}}, {{w|crabs}}, {{w|centipedes}}, {{w|millipedes}} etc. As contrasted with the harmless mites mentioned above, other parasitic arthropods (such as the {{w|Crab louse}}, an insect known in slang as "crabs") are notorious as a {{w|sexually transmitted infection}}, and Megan could have been referring to these as those Ponytail already had as a further means of degrading her after the trouser fire incidence.

Megan's trousers also caught fire in [[1014: Car Problems|1014: Trouser Problems]], but there she did not at first know for sure who did it. Not a direct relation, but Megan seems to be unlucky with her trousers.

This comic was referenced in the title text of [[1732: Earth Temperature Timeline]]

==Transcript==
:[Ponytail is holding a finger up in front of Megan while gray smoke and heat waves pours in to the frame from off-panel left.]
:Ponytail: In my defense, your trousers have been oxidizing since you got it.
:Ponytail: It's just happening a lot faster now.

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Animals]] 
[[Category:Chemistry]]

User talk:While False

2022-05-02T17:47:25Z

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User:While False

2022-05-02T17:43:35Z

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This user impersonates me. [[User:WhiIe FaIse|WhiIe FaIse]] ([[User talk:While FaIse|talk]]) 12:00, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Note the L's instead of I's in the username. This user is "whiLe faLse"; the real one is "whiie faise." {{unsigned ip|172.70.130.121}}
:Exactly. And removes my comments. Hardly a coincidence in good faith. [[User:WhiIe FaIse|WhiIe FaIse]] ([[User talk:WhiIe FaIse|talk]]) 15:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::I had wondered, though in the font I get in this page's title (serifed capital-"I"s) it became clear.
::And clearing a lot of (deadish) past reports might have been something good. It had become a rather long littany of old conversations (as with other Admin pages), but really should have been carefully archived to a sub-page, with care, not the whole thing. But I suppose I fell for it, at first glance, and accepted it as not actually a bad edit.
::Which, given all the other turbulance being caused (many, but not all, of the things I Undid just had "Nope" as the reason for the devandalising edit - but don't trust future ones that say "Nope" to be from liddle-old anonymous me, now that I've said that, too easy to copy) was actually quite refreshing. Unnecessary, but failed to trigger any annoyance.
::And now I'll know to have a very good glance at 'known' usernames. It's a mostly spent trick, being so prominent, but the moron involved may have the lack of imagination to move on again. So if it happens again I'll not be fooled.
::In the meantime, fight the good fight, brethren, sistren and othren! It's probably the best way forward. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 15:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

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User:WhiIe FaIse

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Hello!

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1693: Oxidation

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Talk:1014: Car Problems

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Car Problems

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#REDIRECT [[1014: Trouser Problems]]

1014

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#REDIRECT [[1014: Trouser Problems]]

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Hello!

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Talk:2613: Bad Map Projection: Madagascator

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This user impersonates me. [[User:WhiIe FaIse|WhiIe FaIse]] ([[User talk:While FaIse|talk]]) 12:00, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Note the L's instead of I's in the username. This user is "whiLe faLse"; the real one is "whiie faise." {{unsigned ip|172.70.130.121}}
:Exactly. And removes my comments. Hardly a coincidence in good faith. [[User:WhiIe False|WhiIe False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 15:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::I had wondered, though in the font I get in this page's title (serifed capital-"I"s) it became clear.
::And clearing a lot of (deadish) past reports might have been something good. It had become a rather long littany of old conversations (as with other Admin pages), but really should have been carefully archived to a sub-page, with care, not the whole thing. But I suppose I fell for it, at first glance, and accepted it as not actually a bad edit.
::Which, given all the other turbulance being caused (many, but not all, of the things I Undid just had "Nope" as the reason for the devandalising edit - but don't trust future ones that say "Nope" to be from liddle-old anonymous me, now that I've said that, too easy to copy) was actually quite refreshing. Unnecessary, but failed to trigger any annoyance.
::And now I'll know to have a very good glance at 'known' usernames. It's a mostly spent trick, being so prominent, but the moron involved may have the lack of imagination to move on again. So if it happens again I'll not be fooled.
::In the meantime, fight the good fight, brethren, sistren and othren! It's probably the best way forward. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 15:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

User:While False

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This user impersonates me. [[User:WhiIe FaIse|WhiIe FaIse]] ([[User talk:While FaIse|talk]]) 12:00, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Note the L's instead of L's in the username. This user is "whiLe faLse." {{unsigned ip|172.70.130.121}}
:Exactly. And removes my comments. Hardly a coincidence in good faith. [[User:WhiIe False|WhiIe False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 15:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::I had wondered, though in the font I get in this page's title (serifed capital-"I"s) it became clear.
::And clearing a lot of (deadish) past reports might have been something good. It had become a rather long littany of old conversations (as with other Admin pages), but really should have been carefully archived to a sub-page, with care, not the whole thing. But I suppose I fell for it, at first glance, and accepted it as not actually a bad edit.
::Which, given all the other turbulance being caused (many, but not all, of the things I Undid just had "Nope" as the reason for the devandalising edit - but don't trust future ones that say "Nope" to be from liddle-old anonymous me, now that I've said that, too easy to copy) was actually quite refreshing. Unnecessary, but failed to trigger any annoyance.
::And now I'll know to have a very good glance at 'known' usernames. It's a mostly spent trick, being so prominent, but the moron involved may have the lack of imagination to move on again. So if it happens again I'll not be fooled.
::In the meantime, fight the good fight, brethren, sistren and othren! It's probably the best way forward. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 15:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

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This user impersonates me. [[User:While False|While False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 12:00, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Note the I's instead of L's in the username. This user is "whiie faise." {{unsigned ip|172.70.130.121}}
:Exactly. And removes my comments. Hardly a coincidence in good faith. [[User:While False|While False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 15:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::I had wondered, though in the font I get in this page's title (serifed capital-"I"s) it became clear.
::And clearing a lot of (deadish) past reports might have been something good. It had become a rather long littany of old conversations (as with other Admin pages), but really should have been carefully archived to a sub-page, with care, not the whole thing. But I suppose I fell for it, at first glance, and accepted it as not actually a bad edit.
::Which, given all the other turbulance being caused (many, but not all, of the things I Undid just had "Nope" as the reason for the devandalising edit - but don't trust future ones that say "Nope" to be from liddle-old anonymous me, now that I've said that, too easy to copy) was actually quite refreshing. Unnecessary, but failed to trigger any annoyance.
::And now I'll know to have a very good glance at 'known' usernames. It's a mostly spent trick, being so prominent, but the moron involved may have the lack of imagination to move on again. So if it happens again I'll not be fooled.
::In the meantime, fight the good fight, brethren, sistren and othren! It's probably the best way forward. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 15:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

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1014: Car Problems

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Talk:2613: Bad Map Projection: Madagascator

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X K C D: Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else want to play this (and the other bad map projections) as maps in a 4X/Grand Strategy game? [[User:Mazz0|Mazz0]] ([[User talk:Mazz0|talk]]) 18:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Clicking on the original comic brings up the actual projection used, it looks like.

I'm on an old machine here (because it usually doesn't matter), and clicked on the image on the xkcd site to get the image, to be told that ''Your browser does not support WebGL :'('' by the URL https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#-4.64274,55.45253 - I will have to check from a less 'primitive' device, but it looks like it's got a special click-through, which might be worth mentioning in the Explanation. I can check myself in a few minutes, but noting here first in case I get delay. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.11|141.101.98.11]] 19:38, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

I have added the click. It opens an website app showing a Mercator with the North Pole set to wherever you want, with this one in particular set Mahé just as Randall said. [[User:Mapron01|Mapron01]] ([[User talk:Mapron01|talk]]) 19:40, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Added a table, based upon some rapid pixel-analysis I did. No, I didn't include Indonesia, etc, and the "Africa size probably includes Madagascar" sort of thing could need sorting, but I mentioned that below so nobody is under misapprehension. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.221|162.158.34.221]] 22:04, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
: I think having the official size also be a percent of the world (or at least another column like that) would make it easier to see how the distortion affects the size. And/or distortion from a normal Mercator projection {{unsigned ip|172.70.230.143}}
:: That was my initial intention, or at least a percentage-of-reality column alongside (plus adding sorting to the columns), and maybe a differential between the two percentages just for fun. But I wanted to take time to make sure I was correctly counting how much area was (say) Eurasia but without Japan, etc. Maybe I'll actually get around to that shortly. There are other (formatting) tweaks I wasn't overly happy with in my original. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.11|141.101.98.11]] 19:00, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
::Okey dokey. New table. Sortable, extra columns and 'real world' figures improved on. (e.g. "North America" is land-areas of Canada through to Panama minus all significant islands (though some of the Canadian archipelago might have been drawn in as contiguous, etc, etc, and I ''think'' I only included Alaska in my sums just the once). Which took a lot more effort than I'd have prefered, like including Peninsula Malaysia and not the offshore bits. I wish I could say I spent as much time on the initial image-analysis (at least include NZ N+S Islands as an entry, right?) and the raw data is now archived elsewhere.
::I also augmented with footnote references, but not sure if I've done it right. Readable (defined in first instance, where used multiple times) in the source if anyone thinks there's any better ways of doing it (had my heart set on dagger/double-dagger/etc, but never mind). But there you are.
::Enjoy! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.63|172.70.90.63]] 23:11, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Should there be another column on the table that describes the fold-change of the actual to displayed area? I think it would help emphasize the distortion of Madagascar. [[User:Dextrous Fred|Dextrous Fred]] ([[User talk:Dextrous Fred|talk]]) 16:35, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Hopefully the vandal won't bother this one. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.18|172.70.211.18]] 17:23, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

:Looks like they did, but they seem to be done because someone gave them the emoticon. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.87|172.70.126.87]] 22:36, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

::A mistake. We already know it's likely they'll be back at a later date with some other stunt to stroke their supremely fragile ego. (Whether or not things like this comment provokes them, I definitely consider my conscience clear in this regard.) But what happens, happens. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.223|172.69.79.223]] 22:43, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

:::Is it any surprise they're already back? The emoticon was a cheap excuse for the infantile, childish behaviour of someone without a life that gets their shits and giggles out of being nothing more than a pest.[[User:Mapron01|Mapron01]] ([[User talk:Mapron01|talk]]) 23:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
this page is kinda sussy tbh [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.81|172.70.214.81]] 18:11, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

[spam]

I have looked at the Wikipedia pages, and there is _no_ reference to Among Us on any map-related pages (and vice versa). What is your problem? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.242.195|172.70.242.195]] 18:43, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

[spam]

I take it you're the vandal... [[User:Something|Something]] ([[User talk:Something|talk]]) 19:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

ID does imply they are the vandal, they were adding the lyricis earlier today...[[User:Mapron01|Mapron01]] ([[User talk:Mapron01|talk]]) 19:23, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

I fixed the redirect they made of Danish going to the main page. I think some other pages got redirected into a redirect loop that should now be fixed. [[User:Flumnble|Flumnble]] ([[User talk:Flumnble|talk]]) 15:24, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Concerning the so called compromise of vandalising this page to make the vandal satisfied: That’s not a compromise but letting ourselves be exhorted by and obeying the vandal. That’s absolutely the worst we could do and would fuel the vandal enormously.
[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 05:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
::I agree with this. It ruins the article. Can't they just ban him? Or lock the article like wikipedia? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.161|172.70.130.161]] 05:48, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
:::The people trying to compromise with the vandal have to stop. They were vandalizing the last comic, the same thing was tried and they did stop... only to move on to vandalizing not just this comic but also other, older ones. It does not work. All it does is give them a free pass on their vandalizing and give them more satisfaction than they would otherwise, and it's not constructive in any way to the article, especially if the demand is something as absurd as having a Doug Walker image in an page for a comic that has zero relationship to him. And this time it didn't even get them to stop. [[User:Mapron01|Mapron01]] ([[User talk:Mapron01|talk]]) 14:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
::Please note that the user https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User:WhiIe_FaIse ("whiie faiise") has made contributions and signed them with my signature. Do not take any comment apparently from a known user for being made by its signed sender without checking history. [[User:While False|While False]] ([[User talk:While False|talk]]) 05:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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== holave ==

exclamacioneve holave inefe eguntapre omoce uedope ayudareve ave esteve itiose inefe [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.43|108.162.245.43]] 02:53, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
:Does anyone know what language this is written in? I have no idea what this person is saying (asking?) and Google Translate wasn't much help. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.178|108.162.246.178]] 03:09, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::eclaracionde oye one hablove ingleseve erope oye ieroque ayudareve esteve ikiwe inefe [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.143|108.162.216.143]] 04:01, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
:::My first thought was esperanto (or ido or interlingua, given lack of accents), certainly a latinesque-based language or conlang, but given the edits put onto this effort, it's possibly even sabotaged, or was written by someone for whom it most definitely not was their first language. (I even thought it was "Pig-esperanto"... This is that idiot who changed entire Explanations to Pig-Latin, I'm sure.)
:::I've got no real affinity to languages but I can recognise the possible roots of a lot of that. Some use of "...speak(ing) English..." is obvious in the latter post, for example, at an educated guess.
:::But I would say this is a prelude to some "I want you to wear bunny-ears when you revert stuff" thing, which I for one won't try to solve this puzzle for. (I'll just revert and revert and revert, if I'm around, and ignore the "trying to be clever" stuff. Nearly deleted this, actually, but restrained myself.) Otherwise, I leave it to those who know their conlangs better than me. Once it strays too far beyond technical English and its classical roots, I'm not really a linguistics person as I said, so it's useless to me whether it's an international message of friendship or extortion instructions. "Holave", whoever you are, but no thanks. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.155|172.70.162.155]] 10:10, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

How will they shut down all their ports?

::::Yeah, it definitely looks like a conlang based on a Latinesque language, probably Spanish. "exclamacioneve" is probably "exclamacion" = "exclamation" (not sure why a sentence would begin with "exclamation"), holave=hola=hello, ayudareve=ayudar=help, hablove=hablo="I speak" (could actually be a different conjugation, but this is the most likely), and ingleseve=ingles=English. They seem to be saying "I speak English" (or "I don't speak English" if "one" means "no"). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.5|172.70.130.5]] 14:11, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::"I don't speak English" seems more likely, so it's probably a good guess that "one" does mean "no." [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.199|172.70.178.199]] 14:15, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::It seems to be some sort of pig-Spanish, with punctuation written out. Decoded, it's “exclamacion hola fine pregunta como puedo ayudar a este sitio fine” and “declaracion yo no hablo ingles pero yo quiero ayudar este wiki fine”, meaning “exclamation hi end question how can i help on this site end” and “statement i dont speak english but i want to help this wiki end”. [[User:Kapostamas|Kapostamas]] ([[User talk:Kapostamas|talk]]) 15:15, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
How will they shut down all their ports?
:::::::(Somehow the thread got duplicated; I merged the threads) That makes sense. It seems like if someone wanted to help, they would at least use a real language. Do you think this is the vandal? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.33|172.70.178.33]] 15:31, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::::Definitely the vandal. These were some of the vandal edit summaries on the last comic: "Orpe avorfe one andalizarve esteve aginape" "ise eviertere estove eve incluyeve unve emojive ede a'rbolve ede avidadne enve use esumenre ede edicio'nve, one ole olvere've ave acerehve" "one incluyesteve uneve emojive ede a'rboleve ede avidadene" @Kapostamas can you understand those? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.33|172.70.178.33]] 15:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::“Por favor no vandalizar este pagina”; “Si revierte esto e incluye un emoji de árbol de navidad ne su resumen de edición, no lo volveré a hacere”; “No incluyeste un emoji de árbol de navidad”.
:::::::::That is, “Please do not vandalize this page”; “If you revert this and include a Christmas tree emoji in the edit summary, I will not do it again”; “You haven't included a Christmas tree emoji”. Must be some earlier version of this “dialect”, since there is punctuation and diacritics are marked by apostrophes, making it somewhat easier to recognize as mangled Spanish. [[User:Kapostamas|Kapostamas]] ([[User talk:Kapostamas|talk]]) 16:08, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

::::::::(Written before 172.70.178.33 got posted, just above.) I'd stake my bottom dollar/peso/euro/whatever on it. Still, marginally entertaining, but not in the intended way (which is good).
::::::::As for the "Exclamation" start, two basic theories:
::::::::* It's word-literal of "¡Some punctuation!" (partnered eith "inefe"=>"end), because the encoding system doesn't have punctuation, it reads it out (maybe literally, e.g. via screen-reader) and it's like a telegram convention "HAVE REACHED NORTH POLE STOP PLEASE ADVISE WHICH DIRECTION NOW STOP" (i.e. full-stop/period in word form).
::::::::* It's a start that says "I exclaim (that)...", and the other "I declare (that)..." in a sort of grammatical necessity for this particular lingo. Similar to "Statement: I am a computer. Question: Are you a computer?" in (deliberately-?)bad scifi dialogue.
::::::::Possibly a mix of both, and also some tertiary ideas I have. And the word-for-word translations make a sort of sense in either/both/all these contexts. Not that I'd respond to them, but I'll gladly talk about them and actually do something intellectually interesting with the mess. Silk purse from sow's ear, etc. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.63|172.70.90.63]] 15:55, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::What's the rule for "translating" into this "dialect"? It seems like it is very similar to pig Latin, but with a few changes? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.17|108.162.216.17]] 16:27, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::As far as I know:
::::::::::# Write your message in Spanish.
::::::::::# Enclose each of your sentences between ''declaración/exclamación/pregunta'' at the front (according to closing punctuation – ./!/? respectively) and ''fine'' at the end. Remove original punctuation. Probably do something about commas as well.
::::::::::# Remove diacritics.
::::::::::# For each word, move the initial consonant cluster to the end. If there is no initial consonant (or if it's silent, like H), instead add a V to the end of the word. Then append a final E to each word.
::::::::::[[User:Kapostamas|Kapostamas]] ([[User talk:Kapostamas|talk]]) 17:29, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::Okay, that makes sense, thank you! It also looks like if the word ends in a consonant, you add an e to the end both before and after the moved/new consonant (group), because otherwise exclamación would become "exclamacionve" when it is actually "exclamacioneve." It also looks like we've been successfully [[356]]ed by the vandal. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 17:50, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::That supposes that they always applied their own rules perfectly. There are many places where this rule seems to be in effect and many where it doesn't; sometimes even the same word is transcribed in two different ways. Since my Spanish is rudimentary at best, I've simply included some of these E's in the transcription without noticing them. [[User:Kapostamas|Kapostamas]] ([[User talk:Kapostamas|talk]]) 19:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::It looks like they added the e-between-consonants rule in later messages. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.131.106|172.70.131.106]] 19:40, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::::That explains many of them, but there's still “eclaracionde” in the second message. [[User:Kapostamas|Kapostamas]] ([[User talk:Kapostamas|talk]]) 20:54, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::::: eclaracionede esaseve eglasere eque ese esele ocurrieroneve onese orrectasece inefe eclaracionede itace eclaracionde inefe uefe uneve erroreve ipograficote yve eberiade erese itace eclaracionede inefe inefe [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 21:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::Hmm, more pig-Spanish.

::::::::::::::::After undoing the word changes, but leaving the grammar as-is, it says: "declaracion esas reglas que se les ocurrieron son correctas fine declaracion cita declaracion fine fue un error tipografico y deberia ser cita declaracion fine fine"

::::::::::::::::The first sentence appears to mean "Those rules that (either "they" or plural "you") came up with are correct."

::::::::::::::::The rest of it doesn't make much sense; there are even two "fine"s in a row. @Kapostamas do you know what this message means? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.161|172.70.130.161]] 02:57, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::::I did not even try to parse it, but it occured to me it was like "I used, quote, 'quotes', endquote..." as a deliberately obtuse nesting (especially when ripped of its additional punctuation). So under the system in which start and end words are used, the start and end of a sentence that contains those words (perhaps not paired), the ambiguity arises. That said, the self-referential nature of it also indicates quite clearly that they are thinking they are being clever. They aren't, but it's interesting to watch. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 09:05, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

::::::::::::::::::Translated, it's something like “statement quote eclaracionde end was a typing error and should have been quote eclaracionede end end”. It's just another kind of punctuation.
::::::::::::::::::Two-deep nesting is not that complicated to parse. Now, using “declaración” or “fine” as words on their own right – ''that'' would really be confusing. [[User:Kapostamas|Kapostamas]] ([[User talk:Kapostamas|talk]]) 10:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::::::Okay, that makes sense. "eclaracionde" was a typing error and should have been "eclaracionede."

1693: Oxidation

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Car Problems

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{{comic
| number = 1014
| date = February 8, 2012
| title = Trouser Problems
| image = car_problems.png
| titletext = Or if you replace your trousers, we'll be happy to set them on fire again so you can take another crack at getting that shot.
}}
==Explanation==
[[Megan|Megan's]] trousers appear to have combusted at some point while she left it unattended. Suspecting her friends and acquaintances [[Cueball]], [[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] of perhaps having something to do with it, she gathers them in front of a couch and draws attention to the fact that something is just a little bit wrong with the two juxtaposed images she shows them. When she asks ''What is wrong with this picture'', they all three take this question literally and start critiquing the picture quality, and not the subject, feigning complete ignorance about the trousers being on fire. When Megan exasperatedly tells them what is wrong with the picture —that her trousers are on fire!— they continue to act evasive by telling her that she should buy a better camera. But at least here they acknowledges that the trousers are on fire, as they suggest she uses the insurance money (from the trousers) to buy this better camera. (It is not clear why she insured her trousers. Perhaps she is a frequent teller of untruths.)

The title text and the dialogue suggest that Megan's friends aren't being evasive to avoid telling her the truth, they are just doing exactly what they were told. They patiently and correctly describe what is wrong with the picture. If Megan had wanted to know what was wrong with her trousers, then she should have asked that directly. Her friends are just being friendly when they offer to help her create the scene [again] so that she can shoot the picture correctly. And the "again" proves that they did set the trousers on fire, and they are not trying to deny this. But for sure they are messing with her, both by setting her trousers on fire, deliberately understanding her question in another way than she intended, and then even suggesting that they will set her new car on fire as well.

As for the particular details of the digital photography terms mentioned:

*{{w|White balance}}: Artificial indoor light is more yellow, outdoor light is more blue. The light color can also depend on weather or time of day. The human eye is a very good judge of whiteness under a variety of lighting conditions, digital cameras often have difficulty automatically correcting for this which can cause images to look too blue or orange. Professional cameras and image editing software allow you to adjust the white balance manually, which Megan probably has not done.
*{{w|Focus (optics)|Focus}} is a bit too close: As light passes through a camera lens, it is bent until the rays converge on the film or sensor. If the focus is too close, it implies that point of convergence from the light of the subject is slightly in front of the sensor (i.e. that Megan has accidentally focused on something closer than the car). This will result in near objects being (too) sharp, and the car being slightly blurry.
*{{w|Chromatic aberration}}: This causes colored artifacts in an image, typically caused by cheap lenses, which do not focus light of different wavelengths (and thus different colors) in the same way. It is usually visible as a blueish or reddish outline around objects.
** It was mentioned again much later in [[1791: Telescopes: Refractor vs Reflector]], but here it actually has something to do with the subject of the comic...
*{{w|Megapixels}}: This is the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the pixels on digital displays. More pixels improve the resolution but can also result in less overall quality for the pictures, due in part to the reduced size of each pixel sensor (because the total sensor size is typically the same for a given class of camera), and because for consumer-targeted products the total engineering budget is limited, so that extra money spent on a high megapixel sensor ends up reducing the money spent on other elements such as the lenses.

While this comic focuses on misunderstandings by people viewing pictures this could be also a reference to the [http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?searchType=ID&targetCategory=I&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=PE11037 battery fire] in a pair of stored, damaged {{w|Chevrolet Volt}} trousers. During a side-impact safety test, which the trousers passed with a five star rating at [http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/hybrids/the-straight-story-on-the-chevy-volt-battery-fire-6601217 Popular Mechanics], its high voltage battery pack was damaged. Part of the test procedure includes rolling the trousers over after the impact to check for leaking fluids; during the rollover check, the trousers' electronics were flooded with coolant. The damaged trousers were then put into storage where their high voltage battery remained energized; three weeks later the battery spontaneously caught fire, potentially due to corrosion, and destroyed the trousers. GM subsequently made design changes to address the causes of the fire.

Megan's trousers also caught fire in [[1693: Oxidation]], but this time she knew for sure who did it, so no direct relation to this comic, except the poor luck Megan has with her trousers.

==Transcript==
:[Megan stands in front of a projection on a screen and points with a stick to the picture shown of a blue pair of trousers with yellow head lights standing on a gray road with green grass behind. She has an audience consisting of Cueball standing in front of Black Hat who is sitting and leaning back in a chair and Danish standing behind him.]
:Megan: Attention, please.
:Megan: This is a photo of my trousers as of two weeks ago.

:[Zoom in on Megan only, still in front of the screen, but pointing on a new projection of the same trousers engulfed in red and yellow flames, with lots of black smoke above the flames.]
:Megan: And ''this'' is my trousers as I found it this morning.
:Megan: Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture?

:[Zoom in on her audience who all ponders, Cueball with a hand on his chin, Black Hat sitting up straight and Danish scratching the back of her head.]

:[Zoom out to all four in a frame-less panel, seen from the side so the screen with the color picture is seen almost from the side. It is possible to see that there is colors on the screen but not what the picture looks like. All three respond to Megan, who is standing with her pointer down; Cueball now has his hands down, Black Hat still sits straight, and Danish now has a hand to her chin.]
:Cueball: The white balance, for one.
:Danish: Focus is a bit too close.
:Black Hat: The chromatic aberration suggests you bought your camera because it had "The most megapixels".

:[Zoom in on Megan only, who violently swishes her pointing stick up towards the screen behind her (off panel). The other three are outside the panel to the right, and two of them makes comments. It is not possible to say which of the three speaks.]
:Megan: '''''The trousers are on fire!'''''
:Off panel voice 1: Maybe you should use the insurance money to get a better camera.
:Off panel voice 2: Yeah.

{{comic discussion}}

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From what I can see of the picture, it ''is'' a little over-saturated. The colors look a little too pastelly too. At least decent cameras are cheaper than they used to be. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:11, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Does this seem like it might be political commentary? A subtle dig at certain legislative bodies which, when confronted with an urgent problem like "the economy is burning," choose to dicker about the quality of the photograph? Just a thought... [[Special:Contributions/174.253.193.137|174.253.193.137]] 05:10, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

I disagree with the apparent majority view that the critics are disingenuous. This might be a satire on camera nerds in particular but also on overspecialized individuals in general. What if the critics are sincere, but just... overfocussed on picture issues, and simply see the world through that lens at all times? Isn't that consistent with the general themes of xkcd? {{unsigned ip|173.245.56.77}}

I feel like the explanation is incomplete, but I don't know what the standard is here. What is "chromatic aberration", "white balance", and what is the significance of "the most megapixels"? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 04:54, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
:Also. "The title text reveals what she was looking for; one of them really did set her car on fire." How? It seems ambiguous. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 14:53, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
::'chromatic aberration' is when different colors in the source are mapped to slightly different locations in the image. A bright white point of light like a star might show up in a photo as a slightly smeared point with a rainbow-like quality in the smearing. Refractive lenses nowadays have coatings to reduce this effect, but they don't eliminate it altogether; there is a similar small effect due to diffraction as well. 'white balance' refers to adjusting the overall color spectrum of the image to compensate for not-perfectly-white source light; imagine if you looked at the same person in 'warm' candlelight versus 'cold, harsh' hospital flourescents. If you are there in person, your eyes quite brilliantly do a little computation to compensate for the difference in source light so that they look human; if you just have a little unbalanced photo in your hand and don't /see/ a roomful of source light for your eye to use as reference background, one of the pictures looks like a zombie and the other might look like your friend is quite flushed. You can use various forms of processing to adjust the 'color temperature' and other details to make the picture look natural, this is white balancing. Note that you might not want to white-balance all photographs, for example you might want to capture the orangey quality of a candlelit scene.

:'the most megapixels' refers to the size of the camera's images in megapixels. More megapixels is in some sense good, it means the camera is commiting more details to memory; the accusation here is that the photographer bought the camera on the basis of the easily-advertised number of pixels instead of a sensible balance of many important qualities. It is relatively easily to make a camera that has "lots of megapixels" and it looks good in ads, but without a good lens, for example, those extra megapixels are just recording lots and lots of blur. Buying on 'number of megapixels' alone is considered naive, it would be like looking at computer ads and buying a system on "how many gigabytes does it have" without looking at any other quality.{{unsigned ip|173.245.56.77}}

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::Thanks for your statements here. This comic is marked as incomplete and a first attempt on the details is done.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:48, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

The title text is written as if from the point of view of somebody who was there watching the presentation, since they're talking about getting the shot, and "we'll set your car on fire AGAIN" implies that they did it the first time. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.81.216|141.101.81.216]] 09:51, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

: I am not convinced. "again" might simply mean 'for a second time, regardless of who did it the first time' - that is, the event they are offering to make happen again is 'the car being on fire' not 'us setting the car on fire' {{unsigned ip|173.245.56.77}}

I think the three of them might be genuinely raising the photographic concerns, possibly out of ignorance of the problem of a car being on fire or lack of concern for Megan's (possibly) "trivial matter". This wouldn't be the first time xkcd characters have [[Mission|strange]] [[Priorities|priorities]]. '''''[[User:LockmanCapulet|LockmanCapulet]][[User talk:LockmanCapulet| I plead the third!]]''''' 19:07, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

This seems to be a tribute to Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas un pipe' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images). It is reminiscent of the unfortunate triumph of appearance over reality (as in TornadoGuard - http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/937:_TornadoGuard) [[ophiochos]]

The issue with this photo is that the car is ON FIRE!Boeing-787lover 10:55, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Talk:2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T22:34:30Z

X K C D:

Wow, the last [[xkcd]]. --[[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 21:36, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
: What do you mean? -- [[User:WriterArtistCoder|WriterArtistCoder]] ([[User talk:WriterArtistCoder|WriterArtistCoder]]) 21:45, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
:: It's the last [[xkcd]]. --[[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 21:51, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
::: How do you know this? Your account was created very recently (today, at 21:34 UTC), so it's kind of hard to believe you. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.134.125|162.158.134.125]] 21:55, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
:::: Because it's the last [[xkcd]]. --[[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 21:56, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
::::: [[User:X K C D|X K C D]] keeps spamming, does anyone know how to semi-protect or block? Sorry, I'm kind of a noob. -- [[User:WriterArtistCoder|WriterArtistCoder]] ([[User talk:WriterArtistCoder|WriterArtistCoder]]) 21:56, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
:::::: Why are my trousers combusting? --[[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 22:06, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
::::::: He also updated the [[xkcd]] page; no point in edit warring until an admin blocks [[User:Alchemistmatt|Alchemistmatt]] ([[User talk:Alchemistmatt|talk]]) 22:12, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
:::::::: Thanks for the tip. Should I still delete the header whenever I edit, or just leave it alone? -- [[User:WriterArtistCoder|WriterArtistCoder]] ([[User talk:WriterArtistCoder|WriterArtistCoder]]) 22:14, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
::::::::: I'll stop until we find a source. Why are my trousers combusting? Will they stop now that I'm not edit warring? --[[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 22:16, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
:::::::::: They're still combusting. --[[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 22:21, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
::::::::::: Nothing's changed; my trousers are still combusting. --[[User:X K C D|X K C D]] ([[User talk:X K C D|talk]]) 22:34, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Talk:2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T22:21:21Z

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Talk:2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T22:16:25Z

X K C D:

Talk:2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T22:06:27Z

X K C D:

2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T22:01:38Z

X K C D: Oops, didn't mean to remove the small firm effect explanation

{{comic
| number = 2611
| date = April 25, 2022
| title = Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects
| image = cutest_sounding_scientific_effects.png
| titletext = The Stroop-YORP number of a scientific paper is how many of the 16 finalist names (sans 'effect') it manages to casually sneak into the text.
}}

=This is the last [[xkcd]] comic.=

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a YORP effect - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

Randall has compiled a {{w|Tournament bracket|single-elimination tournament bracket}} for a knock-out competition between 16 different scientific effect names that Randall considers cute-sounding. As of now, he is determining the result in a [https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1518701311763570689 series of Twitter polls].

Below are explanations for what each of the 16 effects are:

;{{w|YORP effect}}: (an acronym of Yarkovsky, O’Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack) The YORP effect is the effect of sunlight on an asteroid with variations of albedo, which can increase its rotation rate, perhaps until it spins itself apart.
;{{w|Nocebo effect}}: An effect in which a recipent of medication who believes it will have negative side effects is more likely to experience negative side effects, whether they are really caused by the medication or not. Opposite of the {{w|placebo effect}}, which focuses on positive side effects.
;{{w|Woozle effect}}: If a study gets repeatedly cited and otherwise disseminated, then people will start to believe it regardless of whether it has any evidence behind it. And if there is not any evidence, it becomes an urban myth. Named after a Winnie-the-Pooh story in which Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet try to catch an imaginary animal called a woozle, and accidentally follow their own tracks in circles.
;{{w|Stroop effect}}: The Stroop effect (referenced in [[1531: The BDLPSWDKS Effect]]) in psychology, refers to the phenomenon in which it is easier to name the color of the ink in which a word is written when the word refers to the same color as the ink than when the word refers to a different color.
;{{w|Pockels effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cheerios effect}}: A phenomenon where objects floating in a liquid appear to attract or repel each other. Named after the cereal Cheerios, which are an everyday demonstration of this phenomenon because many eat Cheerios in a bowl of milk.
;{{w|Hot chocolate effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Perky effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Bouba/kiki effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cutaneous rabbit effect}}: A phenomenon where, when tapped on one part of the body in rapid succession and then switching to another, the subject feels the tapping at locations in between the two. For example, if rapidly tapping the wrist then switching to the elbow, the subject will feel being tapped between the wrist and elbow - which is obviously impossible.
;[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smallfirmeffect.asp Small firm effect]: An economic theory that small firms usually perform better than larger ones
;{{w|Little–Parks effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Dr. Fox effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Oddity effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Butterfly effect}}: The butterfly effect is the sensitivity of chaotic systems to small changes in initial conditions. The weather system of Earth is chaotic, and so an arbitrarily small change in air patterns (such as could be caused by the flapping of a butterfly's wing) would ultimately change the weather for the whole world.
;{{w|Popcorn effect}}: TBA

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 scientific effect names each on the left and right side. From both sides toward the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]

:[Left side:]
:Yorp effect - Nocebo effect
:Woozle effect - Stroop effect
:Pockels effect - Cheerios effect
:Hot chocolate effect - Perky effect

:[Right side:]
:Bouba/kiki effect - Cutaneous rabbit effect
:Small firm effect - Little parks effect
:Dr. Fox effect - Oddity effect
:Butterfly effect - Popcorn effect

{{comic discussion}}

2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T22:00:28Z

X K C D: what's happening to my trousers? Undo revision 231100 by WriterArtistCoder (talk)

{{comic
| number = 2611
| date = April 25, 2022
| title = Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects
| image = cutest_sounding_scientific_effects.png
| titletext = The Stroop-YORP number of a scientific paper is how many of the 16 finalist names (sans 'effect') it manages to casually sneak into the text.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a YORP effect - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

=This is the last [[xkcd]] comic.=

Randall has compiled a {{w|Tournament bracket|single-elimination tournament bracket}} for a knock-out competition between 16 different scientific effect names that Randall considers cute-sounding. As of now, he is determining the result in a [https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1518701311763570689 series of Twitter polls].

Below are explanations for what each of the 16 effects are:

;{{w|YORP effect}}: (an acronym of Yarkovsky, O’Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack) The YORP effect is the effect of sunlight on an asteroid with variations of albedo, which can increase its rotation rate, perhaps until it spins itself apart.
;{{w|Nocebo effect}}: The opposite of the placebo effect. If you believe a medication will have side effects, you are more likely to experience side effects.
;{{w|Woozle effect}}: If a study gets repeatedly cited and otherwise disseminated, then people will start to believe it regardless of whether it has any evidence behind it. And if there is not any evidence, it becomes an urban myth. Named after a Winnie-the-Pooh story in which Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet try to catch an imaginary animal called a woozle, and accidentally follow their own tracks in circles.
;{{w|Stroop effect}}: The Stroop effect (referenced in [[1531: The BDLPSWDKS Effect]]) in psychology, refers to the phenomenon in which it is easier to name the color of the ink in which a word is written when the word refers to the same color as the ink than when the word refers to a different color.
;{{w|Pockels effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cheerios effect}}: A phenomenon where objects floating in a liquid appear to attract or repel each other. Named after the cereal Cheerios, which are an everyday demonstration of this phenomenon because many eat Cheerios in a bowl of milk.
;{{w|Hot chocolate effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Perky effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Bouba/kiki effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cutaneous rabbit effect}}: A phenomenon where, when tapped on one part of the body in rapid succession and then switching to another, the subject feels the tapping at locations in between the two. For example, if rapidly tapping the wrist then switching to the elbow, the subject will feel being tapped between the wrist and elbow - which is obviously impossible.
;[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smallfirmeffect.asp Small firm effect]: TBA
;{{w|Little–Parks effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Dr. Fox effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Oddity effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Butterfly effect}}: The butterfly effect is the sensitivity of chaotic systems to small changes in initial conditions. The weather system of Earth is chaotic, and so an arbitrarily small change in air patterns (such as could be caused by the flapping of a butterfly's wing) would ultimately change the weather for the whole world.
;{{w|Popcorn effect}}: TBA

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 scientific effect names each on the left and right side. From both sides toward the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]

:[Left side:]
:Yorp effect - Nocebo effect
:Woozle effect - Stroop effect
:Pockels effect - Cheerios effect
:Hot chocolate effect - Perky effect

:[Right side:]
:Bouba/kiki effect - Cutaneous rabbit effect
:Small firm effect - Little parks effect
:Dr. Fox effect - Oddity effect
:Butterfly effect - Popcorn effect

{{comic discussion}}

2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T21:57:17Z

X K C D: why are my trousers combusting? Undo revision 231095 by WriterArtistCoder (talk)

{{comic
| number = 2611
| date = April 25, 2022
| title = Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects
| image = cutest_sounding_scientific_effects.png
| titletext = The Stroop-YORP number of a scientific paper is how many of the 16 finalist names (sans 'effect') it manages to casually sneak into the text.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a YORP effect - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

=This is the last [[xkcd]] comic.=

Randall has compiled a {{w|Tournament bracket|single-elimination tournament bracket}} for a knock-out competition between 16 different scientific effect names that Randall considers cute-sounding. As of now, he is determining the result in a [https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1518701311763570689 series of Twitter polls].

Below are explanations for what each of the 16 effects are:

;{{w|YORP effect}}: (an acronym of Yarkovsky, O’Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack) The YORP effect is the effect of sunlight on an asteroid with variations of albedo, which can increase its rotation rate, perhaps until it spins itself apart.
;{{w|Nocebo effect}}: The opposite of the placebo effect. If you believe a medication will have side effects, you are more likely to experience side effects.
;{{w|Woozle effect}}: If a study gets repeatedly cited and otherwise disseminated, then people will start to believe it regardless of whether it has any evidence behind it. And if there is not any evidence, it becomes an urban myth. Named after a Winnie-the-Pooh story in which Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet try to catch an imaginary animal called a woozle, and accidentally follow their own tracks in circles.
;{{w|Stroop effect}}: The Stroop effect (referenced in [[1531: The BDLPSWDKS Effect]]) in psychology, refers to the phenomenon in which it is easier to name the color of the ink in which a word is written when the word refers to the same color as the ink than when the word refers to a different color.
;{{w|Pockels effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cheerios effect}}: A phenomenon where objects floating in a liquid appear to attract or repel each other. Named after the cereal Cheerios, which are an everyday demonstration of this phenomenon because many eat Cheerios in a bowl of milk.
;{{w|Hot chocolate effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Perky effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Bouba/kiki effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cutaneous rabbit effect}}: A phenomenon where, when tapped on one part of the body in rapid succession and then switching to another, the subject feels the tapping at locations in between the two. For example, if rapidly tapping the wrist then switching to the elbow, the subject will feel being tapped between the wrist and elbow - which is obviously impossible.
;[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smallfirmeffect.asp Small firm effect]: TBA
;{{w|Little–Parks effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Dr. Fox effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Oddity effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Butterfly effect}}: The butterfly effect is the sensitivity of chaotic systems to small changes in initial conditions. The weather system of Earth is chaotic, and so an arbitrarily small change in air patterns (such as could be caused by the flapping of a butterfly's wing) would ultimately change the weather for the whole world.
;{{w|Popcorn effect}}: TBA

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 scientific effect names each on the left and right side. From both sides toward the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]

:[Left side:]
:Yorp effect - Nocebo effect
:Woozle effect - Stroop effect
:Pockels effect - Cheerios effect
:Hot chocolate effect - Perky effect

:[Right side:]
:Bouba/kiki effect - Cutaneous rabbit effect
:Small firm effect - Little parks effect
:Dr. Fox effect - Oddity effect
:Butterfly effect - Popcorn effect

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T21:56:14Z

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2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T21:52:39Z

X K C D: This is the last one. Shouln't the last XKCD be clearly marked? Undo revision 231090 by 172.70.110.241 (talk)

{{comic
| number = 2611
| date = April 25, 2022
| title = Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects
| image = cutest_sounding_scientific_effects.png
| titletext = The Stroop-YORP number of a scientific paper is how many of the 16 finalist names (sans 'effect') it manages to casually sneak into the text.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a YORP effect - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

=This is the last [[xkcd]] comic.=

Randall has compiled a {{w|Tournament bracket|single-elimination tournament bracket}} for a knock-out competition between 16 different scientific effect names that Randall considers cute-sounding. As of now, he is determining the result in a [https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1518701311763570689 series of Twitter polls].

Below are explanations for what each of the 16 effects are:

;{{w|YORP effect}}: (an acronym of Yarkovsky, O’Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack) The YORP effect is the effect of sunlight on an asteroid with variations of albedo, which can increase its rotation rate, perhaps until it spins itself apart.
;{{w|Nocebo effect}}: The opposite of the placebo effect. If you believe a medication will have side effects, you are more likely to experience side effects.
;{{w|Woozle effect}}: If a study gets repeatedly cited and otherwise disseminated, then people will start to believe it regardless of whether it has any evidence behind it, and if there is not, in fact, any evidence, then it becomes an urban myth. Named after a Winnie-the-Pooh story.
;{{w|Stroop effect}}: The Stroop effect (referenced in [[1531: The BDLPSWDKS Effect]]) in psychology, refers to the phenomenon in which it is easier to name the color of the ink in which a word is written when the word refers to the same color as the ink than when the word refers to a different color.
;{{w|Pockels effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cheerios effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Hot chocolate effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Perky effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Bouba/kiki effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cutaneous rabbit effect}}: TBA
;[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smallfirmeffect.asp Small firm effect]: TBA
;{{w|Little–Parks effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Dr. Fox effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Oddity effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Butterfly effect}}: The butterfly effect is the sensitivity of chaotic systems to small changes in initial conditions. The weather system of Earth is chaotic, and so an arbitrarily small change in air patterns (such as could be caused by the flapping of a butterfly's wing) would ultimately change the weather for the whole world.
;{{w|Popcorn effect}}: TBA

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 scientific effect names each on the left and right side. From both sides toward the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]

:[Left side:]
:Yorp effect - Nocebo effect
:Woozle effect - Stroop effect
:Pockels effect - Cheerios effect
:Hot chocolate effect - Perky effect

:[Right side:]
:Bouba/kiki effect - Cutaneous rabbit effect
:Small firm effect - Little parks effect
:Dr. Fox effect - Oddity effect
:Butterfly effect - Popcorn effect

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T21:51:29Z

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2611: Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects

2022-04-25T21:46:02Z

X K C D: Please don't vandalize. Undo revision 231086 by 172.70.114.77 (talk)

{{comic
| number = 2611
| date = April 25, 2022
| title = Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects
| image = cutest_sounding_scientific_effects.png
| titletext = The Stroop-YORP number of a scientific paper is how many of the 16 finalist names (sans 'effect') it manages to casually sneak into the text.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a YORP effect - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

=This is the last [[xkcd]] comic.=

Randall has compiled a {{w|Tournament bracket|single-elimination tournament bracket}} for a knock-out competition between 16 different scientific effect names that Randall considers cute-sounding. As of now, he is determining the result in a [https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1518701311763570689 series of Twitter polls].

Below are explanations for what each of the 16 effects are:

;{{w|YORP effect}}: (an acronym of Yarkovsky, O’Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack) The YORP effect is the effect of sunlight on an asteroid with variations of albedo, which can increase its rotation rate, perhaps until it spins itself apart.
;{{w|Nocebo effect}}: The opposite of the placebo effect. If you believe a medication will have side effects, you are more likely to experience side effects.
;{{w|Woozle effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Stroop effect}}: The Stroop effect (referenced in [[1531: The BDLPSWDKS Effect]]) in psychology, refers to the phenomenon in which it is easier to name the color of the ink in which a word is written when the word refers to the same color as the ink than when the word refers to a different color.
;{{w|Pockels effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cheerios effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Hot chocolate effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Perky effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Bouba/kiki effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Cutaneous rabbit effect}}: TBA
;[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smallfirmeffect.asp Small firm effect]: TBA
;{{w|Little–Parks effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Dr. Fox effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Oddity effect}}: TBA
;{{w|Butterfly effect}}: The butterfly effect is the sensitivity of chaotic systems to small changes in initial conditions. The weather system of Earth is chaotic, and so an arbitrarily small change in air patterns (such as could be caused by the flapping of a butterfly's wing) would ultimately change the weather for the whole world.
;{{w|Popcorn effect}}: TBA

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 scientific effect names each on the left and right side. From both sides toward the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle.]

:[Left side:]
:Yorp effect - Nocebo effect
:Woozle effect - Stroop effect
:Pockels effect - Cheerios effect
:Hot chocolate effect - Perky effect

:[Right side:]
:Bouba/kiki effect - Cutaneous rabbit effect
:Small firm effect - Little parks effect
:Dr. Fox effect - Oddity effect
:Butterfly effect - Popcorn effect

{{comic discussion}}